Night and Fog
5,826
Documentary
This lyrical and graphic documentary--one of the first cinematic reflections on the Holocaust's horror--has deeply affected film's treatment of the Holocaust ever since, including Spielberg's "Schindler's List". Documentarian Alain Resnais contrasts 1955 footage of abandoned concentration camps' quiet, empty buildings with black-and-white footage shot there in 1944; the film's overwhelming resonance comes in its allowing the haunting ... [+]
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United States | The New Yorker | "[It] fuses present-tense scenes and archival images, evoking the Holocaust, and the politics that led to it" | POS |
United States | Chicago Reader | "Only half an hour long, this is the greatest film ever made about the concentration camps." | POS |
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