Shoah: 25th Anniversary Screening (Part 2)

Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley

A sensation when it was released twenty-five years ago, Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah has long since passed from “mere” documentary (though it is praised as one of the greatest ever made) to attain a far higher rank, that of one of the most important historical works created in the late twentieth century. Cinematically, Shoah stands out for its refusal of […]

Shoah: 25th Anniversary Screening (Part 1)

Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley

A sensation when it was released twenty-five years ago, Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah has long since passed from “mere” documentary (though it is praised as one of the greatest ever made) to attain a far higher rank, that of one of the most important historical works created in the late twentieth century. Cinematically, Shoah stands out for its refusal of […]

Shoah: 25th Anniversary Screening (Part 2)

Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley

A sensation when it was released twenty-five years ago, Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah has long since passed from “mere” documentary (though it is praised as one of the greatest ever made) to attain a far higher rank, that of one of the most important historical works created in the late twentieth century. Cinematically, Shoah stands out for its refusal of […]

Shoah: 25th Anniversary Screening (Part 1)

Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley

A sensation when it was released twenty-five years ago, Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah has long since passed from “mere” documentary (though it is praised as one of the greatest ever made) to attain a far higher rank, that of one of the most important historical works created in the late twentieth century. Cinematically, Shoah stands out for its refusal of […]