tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post5659353183546781634..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: Claude Lanzmann, Still CreativeYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-69100664157669005302010-07-15T06:17:59.306+03:002010-07-15T06:17:59.306+03:00I think its the greatest documentary ever filmed o...I think its the greatest documentary ever filmed on the "Shoah." And at the end of it, you are filled with questions. When Lanzmann was asked, "why," he correctly observed there is no "why." It is evil on a scale we're barely equipped to imagine or to understand. All those Jewish lives snuffed out each represent a world in miniature. How do we recover them? Mere words, even the images many decades later fail us.NormanFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03365459073293643108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-82293132900371306972010-07-13T16:00:23.820+03:002010-07-13T16:00:23.820+03:00Yaacov,
I presume you mean superficiality, oversi...Yaacov,<br /><br />I presume you mean superficiality, oversimplification, or slick presentation? If so that's too bad, though a shame to phrase it as a throwaway slur against a whole country.<br /><br />Thanks for replying and for your valuable blog. My apology for misspelling your name earlier. To explain it as the result of being dulled by tiredness is not to excuse.Paul Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-80919470548723527752010-07-13T11:24:56.856+03:002010-07-13T11:24:56.856+03:00Shorthand for what he means: Shoah versus Schindle...Shorthand for what he means: Shoah versus Schindler's List. On that level there's no doubt he's right.Yaacovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-72946157685943712392010-07-13T06:28:16.326+03:002010-07-13T06:28:16.326+03:00Question for Yaakov: What's your reaction to L...Question for Yaakov: What's your reaction to Lanzmann's judgment of Yad Vashem, and what does he mean by its "Americanization"?Paul Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-24578265603597436912010-07-12T18:48:08.083+03:002010-07-12T18:48:08.083+03:00I used to pass by Professor Karski in his later ye...I used to pass by Professor Karski in his later years, when he was at Georgetown University and I was a grad student. He had a lean, thoughtful, searching face. I always thought, there walks a great man.<br /><br />LisaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-16610487319832070512010-07-12T16:35:59.526+03:002010-07-12T16:35:59.526+03:00He's definitely an interesting character. And ...He's definitely an interesting character. And at a certain level, after screening hundreds of holocaust-related films for Vancouver's Jewish film festival, I agree with much of what he says. After all those films, the two that stand out most in my mind are Lanzmann's own 'Sobibór, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures' and 'Photographer' (1998), a brilliant documentary by Polish filmmaker Dariusz Jabłoński. <br /><br />It's harder than most people realize to escape Holocaust infotainment. Remind me to tell you a funny story about the time I saw X-Men.Morey Altmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15886157582583010411noreply@blogger.com