The Pope, The Führer, A Secret Shame

So many movies about the Holocaust, so few moviegoers lining up to see them. My guess is that the human ostriches who avoided The Grey Zone , Max and The Pianist will also avoid Amen and Blind Spot-Hitler’s Secretary , the same way hawks hankering for a war with Iraq are running in the opposite Read More

Reviewing the Holocaust: Painful Reminders of Horror

Constantin Costa-Gavras’ Amen , from a screenplay by Mr. Costa-Gavras and Jean-Claude Grumberg, adapted from the play The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth, has come crashing into the new year as one of several cinematic reconsiderations of Hitler’s Nazi Holocaust, spawned, it seems, by the virulent plague of anti-Semitism afflicting not only the German people, but Read More