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ORIGINAL: Daniel Kelly

done

I'll Pm you my details

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To write a review of a film such as Shoah seems an impossible task: how to sum up one of the most powerful discourses on film in such a way as to make people realise that this is a documentary of immense consequence, a documentary that is not easy to watch but important to watch, a documentary that not only records the facts but bears witness. We are commanded "Never forget"; this film helps us to fulfil that mandate, reverberating with the viewer long after the movie has ended.  Yes, Holocaust films are plentiful, both fictional and non-, with titles such as The Last Days, Schindler's List and Life Is Beautiful entering the mainstream.  But this is not a film about the Holocaust per se; this is a film about people. It's a meandering, nine-and-a-half-hour film that never shows graphic pictures or delves into the political aspects of what happened in Europe in the 1930s and 40s but talks with survivors, with SS men, with those who witnessed the extermination of 6 million Jews.

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years tracking people down, cajoling them into talking, asking them questions they didn't want to face.  When soldiers refuse to appear on film, Lanzmann sneaks cameras in.  When people are on the verge of breaking down and can't answer any more questions, Lanzmann asks anyway.  He gives names to the victims--driving through a town that was predominantly Jewish before Hitler's time, a local points out which Jews owned what. Lanzmann travels the world, speaking to workers in Poland, survivors in Israel, officers in Germany.  He is not a detached interviewer; his probings are deeply personal.  One man farmed the land upon which Treblinka was built. "Didn't the screams bother you?" Lanzmann asks.  When the farmer seems to brush the issues aside with a smile, Lanzmann's fury is noticeable.  "Didn't all this bother you?" he demands angrily, only to be told, "When my neighbour cuts his thumb, I don't feel hurt."  The responses, the details are difficult to hear but critical nonetheless.  Shoah tells the story of the most horrifying event of the 20th century, not chronologically and not with historical detail, but in an even more important way: person by person.  

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ORIGINAL: sharkboy

Ti, if Apocalypse doesn't whet your appetite, what about this?



Some info:

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To write a review of a film such as Shoah seems an impossible task: how to sum up one of the most powerful discourses on film in such a way as to make people realise that this is a documentary of immense consequence, a documentary that is not easy to watch but important to watch, a documentary that not only records the facts but bears witness. We are commanded "Never forget"; this film helps us to fulfil that mandate, reverberating with the viewer long after the movie has ended.  Yes, Holocaust films are plentiful, both fictional and non-, with titles such as The Last Days, Schindler's List and Life Is Beautiful entering the mainstream.  But this is not a film about the Holocaust per se; this is a film about people. It's a meandering, nine-and-a-half-hour film that never shows graphic pictures or delves into the political aspects of what happened in Europe in the 1930s and 40s but talks with survivors, with SS men, with those who witnessed the extermination of 6 million Jews.

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years tracking people down, cajoling them into talking, asking them questions they didn't want to face.  When soldiers refuse to appear on film, Lanzmann sneaks cameras in.  When people are on the verge of breaking down and can't answer any more questions, Lanzmann asks anyway.  He gives names to the victims--driving through a town that was predominantly Jewish before Hitler's time, a local points out which Jews owned what. Lanzmann travels the world, speaking to workers in Poland, survivors in Israel, officers in Germany.  He is not a detached interviewer; his probings are deeply personal.  One man farmed the land upon which Treblinka was built. "Didn't the screams bother you?" Lanzmann asks.  When the farmer seems to brush the issues aside with a smile, Lanzmann's fury is noticeable.  "Didn't all this bother you?" he demands angrily, only to be told, "When my neighbour cuts his thumb, I don't feel hurt."  The responses, the details are difficult to hear but critical nonetheless.  Shoah tells the story of the most horrifying event of the 20th century, not chronologically and not with historical detail, but in an even more important way: person by person.  

Box set includes 4 DVDs and a 184-page book.  I have hundreds of DVDs in my collection, but this is one of the only ones that truly justify the "essential viewing" description.  In fact, if everyone were made to watch this while at school, BNP membership would be wiped out.

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ORIGINAL: Timon

Sorry, none really appeal/and or I have them.

Single Virgin Mod Candidate 2013

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ORIGINAL: horribleives
To paraphrase the great man himself:

Vad3r won't go anywhere near this.

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ORIGINAL: juanvasquez

Would you consider some of mine for it?

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ORIGINAL: rich

Have spare copies of Police Story 1 & 2 going (R2), I'll throw in a Hong Kong 2 disker of New Police Story with English subs. Any takers for the set? 

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ORIGINAL: vad3r

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ORIGINAL: Timon

Sorry, none really appeal/and or I have them.

How about:

Halloween (original) blu
Pinnochio blu
Assassination Of Jesse James blu
Terminator: SCC Season 1 dvd
Chappelle's Show Season 2 R1 dvd
Total Recall R1 limited Edition Mars Packaging dvd
Drive dvd
My Bloody Valentine 3D dvd
The Crow dvd
A.I dvd
Ran dvd
The Hustler cinema reserve edition steelbook
Platoon definitive edition steelbook
The Day After Tomorow definitive edition steelbook
Once Upon A Time In The West 2 disc dvd
Howl's Moving Castle 2 disc dvd
The Descent 2 disc dvd
Singin' In The Rain 2 disc dvd
and some stand up dvds by Jimmy Carr, Steve Coogan, Michael McIntrye, Lee Evans.


HERE is a link to my feedback on Amazon (been buying and selling for years):

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ORIGINAL: nutteronabus

Updated list with some added titles.

Let the Right One In (Blu-Ray)
Fanboys (Blu-Ray)

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ORIGINAL: juanvasquez

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ORIGINAL: nutteronabus

Updated list with some added titles.

Let the Right One In (Blu-Ray)
Fanboys (Blu-Ray)

Avatar Standard ed and 300 (new and sealed) - both Blu - for these?