Shoah #663 USED Safdie Brothers Lincoln Center Q&A with Larry

Lincoln Center Q&A with Larry Cohen

Although probably best remembered for the controversial and groundbreaking dramas Scum

Trailer commentary: short appreciation by A History of Violence screenwriter Josh Olson

and directed by the iconic Meng Hua Ho (BLACK MAGIC/ MIGHTY PEKING MAN) this is an oddball outing even by the estoric standards of 88 Films and our immortal Asian film line

or the simple impulse of survival — that remains

Shoah #663 USED Safdie Brothers Lincoln Center Q&A with LarryOver a decade in the making, Claude Lanzmanns nine hour plus opus is a monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Lanzmann instead focuses on first person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, as well as other witnesses), employing a circular, free associative method in assembling them. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming Shoah is not a film about