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Director David Anker's " Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust " is an outstanding documentary chronicling the changing view taken by Hollywood when dealing with the Nazis and the Holocaust. ... Full Article
This ambitious documentary provides not only a survey of Hollywood films about the Holocaust, but also a history of the Holocaust itself, and of the main cultural currents that characterized pre- and postwar America. ... Full Article
Filmgoers have had their pick of movies about the Third Reich this season. There's "The Reader," with Kate Winslet as a former camp guard; Tom Cruise's "Valkyrie"; and "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas," about an SS officer. ... Full Article
Hollywood and the Holocaust
independent.co.uk –
2008-11-30
When Tom Cruise dons his eye patch and steps into the world's multiplexes on Boxing Day as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg in the much-anticipated biopic Valkyrie, he will be leading an attack. ... Full Article
In an era when many no longer feel comfortable passing judgment on good and evil - what's considered traditional in one culture is an abomination to another - the Holocaust remains "the standard by which we judge what we call... ... Full Article
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
boston.com –
2008-01-02
"The place from which you remember an event shapes the nature of what you remember," says historian Michael Berenbaum, one of the wiser talking heads in the documentary clip-show "Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust." ... Full Article
Events for Friday in New York
nydailynews.com –
2007-12-28
Friday, December 28th 2007, 4:00 AM The IFC Center presents a special screening of "Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and The Holocaust." After the 60 minute documentary, creator Daniel Anker answers questions from the audience. ... Full Article
Imaginary Witness is the most dispassionate account of the Holocaust in the last 20 years that's because director Daniel Anker recognizes how the gruesomeness of concentration camps have become engrained in pop culture's collective unconscious, making efforts like the shrill... ... Full Article
How do you depict the unfathomable? Can tragedy be re-created without cheapening it? These are the familiar questions passed between interviewees in Imaginary Witness , a survey of how American cinema has historically interpreted Nazi atrocity. ... Full Article
Anker's history divides itself into four distinct phases. The first reveals Hollywood's reluctance to critique the rise of Nazism during the 1930s, even though the majority of its powerful moguls were Jewish. ... Full Article
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