Claude Lanzmann, the French director behind Holocaust documentary Shoah, has died in Paris at the age of 92.
A source on Thursday confirmed a report on his death by French newspaper Le Monde.
Released in 1985, Shoah won the New York Film Critics Circle award for best non-fiction film and the BAFTA award for best documentary. Considered one of the greatest films ever made about the Holocaust, the filmmaker was honored at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival with a lifetime achievement honor, the Berlinale Golden Bear.
His other documentaries include Tsahal (1994), about the Israel Defense Forces, The Last of the Unjust (2013),...
A source on Thursday confirmed a report on his death by French newspaper Le Monde.
Released in 1985, Shoah won the New York Film Critics Circle award for best non-fiction film and the BAFTA award for best documentary. Considered one of the greatest films ever made about the Holocaust, the filmmaker was honored at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival with a lifetime achievement honor, the Berlinale Golden Bear.
His other documentaries include Tsahal (1994), about the Israel Defense Forces, The Last of the Unjust (2013),...
The Four Sisters: The Hippocratic OathIn a review of Claude Lanzmann’s memoir, Adam Shatz observes that “self-flattery is characteristically Lanzmannian.” This sort of self-regard often manifests itself in interviews that the filmmaker grants to journalists and proved grating indeed in Napalm, a Lanzmann documentary screened as a “Special Presentation” at Cannes in 2017. During a recent trip to North Korea enshrined in Napalm—which offers a cursory look at the historical roots of the hermit kingdom’s totalitarian impulses—Lanzmann emerges as considerably more preoccupied with celebrating his youthful dalliance with a North Korean nurse during an earlier visit in the 1950s as a member of a leftist delegation. With Lanzmann, however, it’s often necessary to swallow a little of his self-aggrandizement in order to appreciate his genuine accomplishments. Contradictions abound inasmuch as his best work, such as the magisterial Shoah, is both formally audacious and historically focused while a minor work like Tsahal,...
- 11/14/2017
- MUBI
Claude Lanzmann
Claude Lanzmann, French documentary film maker and producer, will be awarded the Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival.
The award ceremony will be inaugurated with the screening of Lanzmann’s film Sobibor, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures, while some of his other films will be screened as part of the Homage section.
The films are: Pourquoi Israël (Israel, Why), a restored and digitized version of Shoah, Tsahal, Un vivant qui passe (A Visitor from the Living) and Le rapport Karski (The Karski Repor).
“Claude Lanzmann is one of the great documentarists. With his depictions of inhumanity and violence, of anti-semitism and its consequences, he created a new kind of cinematic and ethical exploration. We feel honoured to honour him,” Dieter Kosslick, director of Berlinale said.
Lanzmann made his first documentary, Pourquoi Israël, in 1973 on the necessity of Israel’s founding from the Jewish perspective.
Claude Lanzmann, French documentary film maker and producer, will be awarded the Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival.
The award ceremony will be inaugurated with the screening of Lanzmann’s film Sobibor, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures, while some of his other films will be screened as part of the Homage section.
The films are: Pourquoi Israël (Israel, Why), a restored and digitized version of Shoah, Tsahal, Un vivant qui passe (A Visitor from the Living) and Le rapport Karski (The Karski Repor).
“Claude Lanzmann is one of the great documentarists. With his depictions of inhumanity and violence, of anti-semitism and its consequences, he created a new kind of cinematic and ethical exploration. We feel honoured to honour him,” Dieter Kosslick, director of Berlinale said.
Lanzmann made his first documentary, Pourquoi Israël, in 1973 on the necessity of Israel’s founding from the Jewish perspective.
- 11/30/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
He lived a remarkable life: a French resistance fighter, a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre and lover of Simone de Beauvoir. Yet he is best known for his epic film, Shoah, the definitive oral record of those who survived the Holocaust. Now, aged 87, he tells his own extraordinary story
One evening – we are not given a date, but it must be the early 1960s – the great French philosopher, essayist, novelist and pioneer of feminism Simone de Beauvoir was, as so often, at the theatre. But this was a stranger night than most. On De Beauvoir's left sat her lifelong companion and erstwhile lover, the greatest philosopher of his generation and founder of existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre. To her right was her current lover, the writer, former resistance fighter and film director Claude Lanzmann. And on stage: Lanzmann's sister Évelyne, a foremost actress of the day, playing the lead role in Sartre's play Huis Clos.
One evening – we are not given a date, but it must be the early 1960s – the great French philosopher, essayist, novelist and pioneer of feminism Simone de Beauvoir was, as so often, at the theatre. But this was a stranger night than most. On De Beauvoir's left sat her lifelong companion and erstwhile lover, the greatest philosopher of his generation and founder of existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre. To her right was her current lover, the writer, former resistance fighter and film director Claude Lanzmann. And on stage: Lanzmann's sister Évelyne, a foremost actress of the day, playing the lead role in Sartre's play Huis Clos.
- 3/5/2012
- by Ed Vulliamy
- The Guardian - Film News
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