Cannes: Weinstein Co Acquires Keanu-Reese Sci-Fi Pic … 
RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Up … 
Hot Trailer: ‘The Wolverine’ 
Ric Robertson Taking Paid Summer Hiatus From Movie Academy … 
‘The Big C’ Finale Airs On Showtime Tonight 
Obama Scandals Bring MSNBC 7-Year Low While Fox News Rises 
Season Finale Of CBS’ ‘Mike & Molly’ … 
Ang Lee Departs FX Pilot ‘Tyrant’ 
DreamWorks Eyes January For ‘Glimmer’ And Dylan … 
Warner Bros TV & ‘Smallville’ Co-Creators … 
How Many Times Does Seth MacFarlane Have To Say No To The … 
UPFRONTS 2013: TV Spinoffs’ Almost Perfect Year 
OSCARS: Animated Feature Rule Change 
Cannes: Relativity Sets ‘Hunger Games’ Liam … 
Cannes: Park Chan-wook’s ‘Sympathy For Mr. … 
Cannes: Stanley Weiser To Script ‘Three Graves … 
Yahoo CEO Foresees Big Opportunities To Sell Ads On Tumblr 
Disney, Lucasfilm Animation Prep ‘Star Wars … 
Cannes: Deadline Crashes Palais Forum With Costa Gavras, … 
Hammond On Cannes: Sun Comes Out As Parties, Deals And … 
Kelly Rowland, Paulina Rubio In Talks To Join ‘X … IFC Films has acquired rights to Claude Lanzmann’s nine-and-a-half hour Holocaust
documentary. To celebrate its 25th anniversary, it will be re-released in New York City on December 10 at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and on December 24 at IFC Center. It will be released nationally in 2011. The landmark film features interviews with survivors, bystanders and perpetrators of the Holocaust in 14 countries. It was first released in New York City in 1985 and won several honors, including prizes from the National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, BAFTA, the Cesars and IDA Awards. IFC Entertainment president Jonathan Sehring said, “It is a profound honor to be entrusted with the re-release of Shoah. We believe it is important to keep the legacy of this peerless film alive by bringing it to new audiences, and we will aggressively pursue younger audiences and critics to discover the film for the first time.”
IFC Films Will Re-Release Holocaust Documentary ‘Shoah’
-
Marketplace
News/Opinion Poll
Loading ...Box Office Poll
Loading ...
great film, but don’t take a blind date to this film.
Yeah, it probably difficult to enjoy if you’re blind…
Most people are blind, that’s why they’re going!
As a very young kid I’d watch “The World At War” series and the images from the Holocaust were ghastly. I found it hard to believe human beings could be capable of such evil and then I grew up and realized that not much has changed. The world has been and remains a very dangerous place.
Have you seen images from current day Palestine? Or maybe the Sudan? Or maybe the Congo? Or maybe Shi Lanka? Heads out your asses people!
Hey “Ari” I believe when I stated “the world remains a dangerous place” I was talking about the very things you pointed out but that doesn’t negate the horrors of the concentration camps. Forgive me for attempting to stay on topic. I won’t diminish the suffering of one group to highlight another. All of it is pretty horrific and indicative of man’s wickedness, then and now.
Read much? That’s why ol’ Curt said that not much has changed.
I invested the 9 1/2 hours to view this film over a 2 day period in 1985. Most of you won’t have the time or the stomach because your way too busy doing more important things.
YOU SHOULD…..
Shoah IS a great film. Poignant as it is a visceral gut punch.
This said, I wonder how many times Hollywood is going to keep digging into the Holocaust well. I think people get it — that what happened was apocryphal and that the world should never forget. But seriously, when is enough enough?
I don’t say this to be disrespectful but just to raise the question. I mean if a movie came out every year or so about the genocide of Native Americans or about black slavery in US history, I think people (yes, well-meaning and open-minded folks!) would weary of topics that are every bit as horrible as what happened during the Holocaust.
I agree with what you’re saying. I recently read a history book called Bloodlands about events between Berlin and Moscow between 1933 and 1953. 14 million civilian dead. Then I read The Holocaust Industry by Norman Finkelstein, which has the thesis that North American Jews continually promote the Holocaust so that Israel is above criticism, and that this USA/Israel relationship didn’t exist before 1967 and the Six Days War. One of the weirdest scenes in Finkelstein’s book is when placard waving Holocaust victims picketed in front of the Pierre Hotel in New York a black tie dinner hosted by the World Jewish Congress in August 2000, where Clinton gave a speech. At that point my WASP mind started feel things were getting kind of surreal…
at least you acknowledged you were in over your depth.
Get a clue.
first of all this is a re-release of an existing movie.
So it’s not going back to the well.
The Holocaust is on a different scale than slavery (which still exists in the Middle East). It happened in the 20th Century, in the cradle of Western Civilization, and on a massive scale. The impact is still part of daily history. I think we can expect many more films on this topic.
Oh man, don’t EVEN start talking about Slavery period in this nation. Or even having a discourse about Reperations (not saying they should or shouldn’t be given, but just a discourse). People would come out of the woodworks to trash and stomp out anything that they feel their ‘taxpayers dollars” would fund.
“Apocryphal” doesn’t mean what you seem to think it means.
You’re absolutely right. Where’s the American slavery pics/documentaries every year? What about the Armenian genocide? Chinese internment camps?
Over 500 nations of American Indians were wiped out, continue to suffer and are far from being recognized as equals. Where are their documentaries every year?? Where is their plight championed? I honestly can’t remember when we had the last Cherokee Secretary of State?
I am Choctaw, and yes, slaves and American Indians most definitely deserve to be heard, but that doesn’t mean the Jews should shut up about the holocaust. Ever.
I thought the Jesus Christ story had been done to death, but Mel Gibson showed there is still a market for that.
Bobby,
This film is different. There is not a single picture of a dead Jew, of the pits showing hundreds of bodies being covered in lime, nor of men women and children kneeling next to a pit where the Nazis are shooting them and pushing them in.
The entire film consists of interviews. Interviews with survivors, like the barber in Tel Aviv who speaks of having had to shave the heads of his wife and children just before they were pushed into the gas chambers. Lanzman’s film teaches and moves not by the kind of sensationalism Hollywood is known for, but by virtue of the horror spoken of quietly and calmly – often through tears – of those who survived it.
I watched it when it first came out and recorded it. Unfortunately, I recorded it on Betamax, and later was unable to find a machine to play it on. So I am glad that it will come out in DVD eventually, so that I may once again have a copy to share with friends, family, and anyone else who may have grown up only hearing about the Holocaust briefly in a high school history class, or mentioned in a book. The films that have been produced since SHOAH, such as Schindler’s List, just don’t have the impact of Lanzman’s film.
If you care, if what happened back then has any meaning for you or you have the least curiosity about how it affected individual lives, you will benefit from seeing this. I hope you do.
To Bobby The Saint:
This is a 25th Anniversary RE-ISSUE. It is not “digging into the Holocaust Well” Shoah is 25 years old, and I don’t know how old you are but in 1985, there were not a lot of films (fictional or otherwise) about the Holocaust. Now of course, 25 years laters, sure there’s been a flood of books and films, but this was a staggering achievement at the time.
I wonder what you mean by “enough is enough” I guess it may seem like there’s a new “Holocaust movie” every year, but no, there’s not. Maybe it’s just a thing with you.
For the record, I think there should be more films about Native Americans and slavery. Certainly it would contribute more to this nation’s edification than the millionth romantic comedy or the ten billionth buddy cop film.
This is good, but I am waiting for Steven Spielberg’s new movie about Palestinian suffering. I heard the tentative title is “Dr Baruch Goldstein’s List”.
the tragedy of Palestinian suffering is that Arab countries have kept them in refugee camps for 60+ years, never allowing them to become citizens of Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, etc.
It’s not Spielberg’s story to tell.
It has a really depressing and overcast feel to it so I watched “Triumph of the Will” to cheer me up. Now that is a classic film.
Bobby… you are my hero. Very, very eloquently put. And courageous. You might want to check your car for any ticking devices under the trunk.
There are things in this series that will make you vomit, keep that in mind before you watch it. One thing I remember well from one episode is an interview with a railway engineer. He explained how it was common practice for the Nazi’s to keep the engineers well supplied with alcoholic drinks, the theory being that it’s easier to transport hundreds of people to their death if you’r too trashed to give a shit.
What a fab movie for a holiday season re-release. Who knows, maybe it will join the ranks of “White Christmas”, “Miracle on 34th Street” and “It’s a Wonderful Life” as a holiday classic :p
I saw the documentary, Shoah, when it first came out in 1985. If one looks at it from a historical point of view; no social statements, politics, etc., it is a five star historical document, one which we can all learn from. aj
Is there a DVD re-release of the initial New Yorker video of Shoah available for purchase–now or soon?