After nearly 50 years of movies about suffering and Nazi brutality, the Jews are finally, apparently, winning the Holocaust. With “Inglourious Basterds,” the Jews of the cinematic Holocaust have at last thrust aside moral or philosophical victories for a good old-fashioned ass-kicking. This development has been some time in coming. Quentin Tarantino’s latest phantasmagoria comes…
“Waltz with Bashir” may be the favorite for winning the Oscar in the Foreign Language Film category, but back home in Israel, the film’s director, Ari Folman, is being slammed from both sides of the political map. First, it was the right-wing pundits who argued that the film — criticizing Israel’s actions in the 1982…
In the days after Ron Rosenbaum on Slate derided “The Reader” as “The Worst Holocaust Film Ever Made,” and “a film whose essential metaphorical thrust is to exculpate Nazi-era Germans from knowing complicity in the Final Solution,” a campaign is underway to keep Oscar judges from voting for the film, which is nominated in the…
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