For the last 10 years, A24 has been home to movies that wouldn’t have been made anywhere else, as low and mid-budget films are almost obsolete in the mainstream Hollywood landscape. But following their commitment to funding risky visions of outsider filmmakers, the Indie outfit has built a pretty strong brand identity and is now set to join forces with one of the best in the game.
Steven Spielberg, who previously spoke highly of A24’s Oscar-nominated The Zone of Interest, is now teaming up with the indie distributor for an adaptation of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.
Steven Spielberg and A24 Join Forces for The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store Adaptation Steven Spielberg | Source: Wikimedia Commons
Since its publication, James McBride’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store has garnered all kinds of praise, with Barack Obama even naming it among his favorite books of 2023. The story, which follows the lives...
Steven Spielberg, who previously spoke highly of A24’s Oscar-nominated The Zone of Interest, is now teaming up with the indie distributor for an adaptation of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.
Steven Spielberg and A24 Join Forces for The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store Adaptation Steven Spielberg | Source: Wikimedia Commons
Since its publication, James McBride’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store has garnered all kinds of praise, with Barack Obama even naming it among his favorite books of 2023. The story, which follows the lives...
- 5/7/2024
- by Santanu Roy
- FandomWire
Holocaust movies don't come around nearly as often as, say, spy dramas or rom-coms about ugly duckling teens. That's probably because the pressure to get it right is so high – Holocaust movies deal with the absolute worst of humanity, and you can never get away from the fact these were real people.
However, Hollywood's latest Holocaust drama was not only nominated for five Academy Awards, it's now also beaten out thousands of other titles to become the most-watched title across streaming services.
Coming Out At Number One
During the week of April 4 to 11, there were a number of big-ticket movies and shows that became available to stream for the first time. That includes Ewan McGregor's new series A Gentleman in Moscow, the Oscar-winning movie Poor Things, and the new Thomas Ripley series starring Andrew Scott.
It might seem unlikely that an untraditionally structured Holocaust drama could beat out all of these big names,...
However, Hollywood's latest Holocaust drama was not only nominated for five Academy Awards, it's now also beaten out thousands of other titles to become the most-watched title across streaming services.
Coming Out At Number One
During the week of April 4 to 11, there were a number of big-ticket movies and shows that became available to stream for the first time. That includes Ewan McGregor's new series A Gentleman in Moscow, the Oscar-winning movie Poor Things, and the new Thomas Ripley series starring Andrew Scott.
It might seem unlikely that an untraditionally structured Holocaust drama could beat out all of these big names,...
- 4/22/2024
- by louise.everitt@startefacts.com (Louise Everitt)
- STartefacts.com
Exclusive: Coming off his breakout role in Zone of Interest, Christian Friedel has signed with UTA for representation.
Friedel stars as the lead in Jonathan Glazer’s critically acclaimed feature The Zone of Interest, based on the book of the same name by Martin Amis. The film made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023 to remarkable reviews, where it was awarded the coveted Grand Prix and has since received a number of accolades including two Oscars for best sound and best international feature film.
Friedel was recently cast in a significant role in season 3 of the Emmy-winning global phenomenon anthology series The White Lotus. He is set to star alongside Michelle Monaghan, Carrie Coon, Aimee Lou Wood, Jason Isaacs, Parker Posey and Leslie Bibb, among others. Production is currently underway in Thailand.
Friedel’s first theater engagements took him to the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel in Munich, the Munich Kammerspiele,...
Friedel stars as the lead in Jonathan Glazer’s critically acclaimed feature The Zone of Interest, based on the book of the same name by Martin Amis. The film made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023 to remarkable reviews, where it was awarded the coveted Grand Prix and has since received a number of accolades including two Oscars for best sound and best international feature film.
Friedel was recently cast in a significant role in season 3 of the Emmy-winning global phenomenon anthology series The White Lotus. He is set to star alongside Michelle Monaghan, Carrie Coon, Aimee Lou Wood, Jason Isaacs, Parker Posey and Leslie Bibb, among others. Production is currently underway in Thailand.
Friedel’s first theater engagements took him to the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel in Munich, the Munich Kammerspiele,...
- 3/18/2024
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Twenty-six years ago, I had the great fortune to stand on the stage of the Shrine Auditorium and accept the Oscar for best feature documentary during the 70th Academy Awards. It was for the The Long Way Home, a very personal story as it recounted what many of my relatives and hundreds of thousands of Jews endured after the Holocaust, forced to live in Displaced Persons camps while the British government kept them from emigrating to what was soon to become the state of Israel. Others who were trying to make their way to the United States and other places were stymied by strict immigration laws that kept them in the Dp camps, many located in the same Nazi death camps where they had supposedly been “liberated” at World War II’s end. They were the fortunate ones. More than 50 members of my family, including my grandparents and my youngest uncle,...
- 3/13/2024
- by Richard Trank
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Oppenheimer took home the most golden statues — including director Christopher Nolan’s very first Academy Award — at the 2024 Oscars, which was hosted once again by Jimmy Kimmel.
Christopher Nolan’s J. Robert Oppenheimer biopic led the pack with 13 nominations and ultimately won best picture, best director, best actor (Cillian Murphy), best supporting actor (Robert Downey Jr.), best cinematography (Hoyte van Hoytema) and best original score (Ludwig Göransson). It was followed by Poor Things, which won four awards (including best actress for Emma Stone) and was nominated for 11. Killers of the Flower Moon earned 10 noms but left the show empty-handed, while Barbie was nominated for eight Oscars and won best original song for “I’m Just Ken.”
The 96th Oscars were held on Sunday, March 10 at Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. Those who missed the live telecast can stream the ceremony on demand on Hulu.
Many of the Oscar-nominated movies are...
Christopher Nolan’s J. Robert Oppenheimer biopic led the pack with 13 nominations and ultimately won best picture, best director, best actor (Cillian Murphy), best supporting actor (Robert Downey Jr.), best cinematography (Hoyte van Hoytema) and best original score (Ludwig Göransson). It was followed by Poor Things, which won four awards (including best actress for Emma Stone) and was nominated for 11. Killers of the Flower Moon earned 10 noms but left the show empty-handed, while Barbie was nominated for eight Oscars and won best original song for “I’m Just Ken.”
The 96th Oscars were held on Sunday, March 10 at Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. Those who missed the live telecast can stream the ceremony on demand on Hulu.
Many of the Oscar-nominated movies are...
- 3/12/2024
- by Danielle Directo-Meston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The UK-Polish historical drama about Auschwitz concentration camp, ‘The Zone of Interest’, won the Oscar for the Best International Feature Film. Actor Dwayne Johnson and rapper Bad Bunny announced the winning film, which is based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis.
The film was nominated alongside “Io Capitano” (Italy) , “Perfect Days” (Japan), “Society of the Snow” (Spain) and “The Teachers’ Lounge” (Germany).
While accepting the honour, the film’s director Jonathan Glazer thanked everyone and said: “Our film shows what dehumanisation leads.”
Starring German actors Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller as the Nazi commandant Rudolf Hoss and his wife Hedwig, it focuses on the pair as they strive to build a dream life for their family in a home next to the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp.
Last month, ‘The Zone of Interest’ won a BAFTA for the best film not in the English language.
The film was nominated alongside “Io Capitano” (Italy) , “Perfect Days” (Japan), “Society of the Snow” (Spain) and “The Teachers’ Lounge” (Germany).
While accepting the honour, the film’s director Jonathan Glazer thanked everyone and said: “Our film shows what dehumanisation leads.”
Starring German actors Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller as the Nazi commandant Rudolf Hoss and his wife Hedwig, it focuses on the pair as they strive to build a dream life for their family in a home next to the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp.
Last month, ‘The Zone of Interest’ won a BAFTA for the best film not in the English language.
- 3/11/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
The Zone of Interest, the German-language Holocaust drama directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller, has won the United Kingdom its first-ever Academy Award for best international feature at the Oscars 2024.
In his speech for his Cannes Grand Prix-winner, Glazer linked the film’s subject to the ongoing conflict in Gaza, where the October 7 Hamas terror attacks on Israel have led the Benjamin Netanyahu-led government to launch a ground invasion into Gaza that has now left over 30,0000 Palestinians dead.
“All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present,” Glazer told the audience, who had honored him with a standing ovation upon his win. “Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst.”
Glazer went on to explain how the film, which focuses on the quotidian life of the family of the Nazi commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp against the literal...
In his speech for his Cannes Grand Prix-winner, Glazer linked the film’s subject to the ongoing conflict in Gaza, where the October 7 Hamas terror attacks on Israel have led the Benjamin Netanyahu-led government to launch a ground invasion into Gaza that has now left over 30,0000 Palestinians dead.
“All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present,” Glazer told the audience, who had honored him with a standing ovation upon his win. “Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst.”
Glazer went on to explain how the film, which focuses on the quotidian life of the family of the Nazi commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp against the literal...
- 3/11/2024
- by Kevin Dolak and Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Long-working British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer celebrated his first Academy Award win at the 96th Oscars, taking home the Best International Feature Film prize for “The Zone of Interest.”
The Holocaust drama, starring Christian Friedel and “Anatomy of a Fall” Oscar nominee Sandra Hüller as the German Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss and his sociopathic wife Hedwig, has been steadily wending its way through the awards season since earning the Grand Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Glazer loosely adapts a Martin Amis novel for this searing story about the Höss’ indifference to the Auschwitz horrors happening on the other side of their bucolic garden; the family lives with their three children in an emotionless bubble while Jews are exterminated en masse.
“Zone of Interest” never shows those horrors on screen, instead relying on Johnnie Burn’s Oscar-nominated sound design to convey the horrifying reality as screams and shots and roiling furnaces...
The Holocaust drama, starring Christian Friedel and “Anatomy of a Fall” Oscar nominee Sandra Hüller as the German Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss and his sociopathic wife Hedwig, has been steadily wending its way through the awards season since earning the Grand Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Glazer loosely adapts a Martin Amis novel for this searing story about the Höss’ indifference to the Auschwitz horrors happening on the other side of their bucolic garden; the family lives with their three children in an emotionless bubble while Jews are exterminated en masse.
“Zone of Interest” never shows those horrors on screen, instead relying on Johnnie Burn’s Oscar-nominated sound design to convey the horrifying reality as screams and shots and roiling furnaces...
- 3/11/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Accepting the award for best international film for The Zone of Interest, its director called for an end to the conflict in the Middle East
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Jonathan Glazer, the director of Auschwitz-set film The Zone of Interest, won cheers and applause at the Academy Awards for a speech in which he decried the current conflict in the Middle East.
Glazer took to the stage to accept the Oscar for best international film – the first time Britain has won the prize – for his German-language, Polish-shot adaptation of the Martin Amis novel.
Oscars 2024 live updatesOscars 2024: the full list of winners
Jonathan Glazer, the director of Auschwitz-set film The Zone of Interest, won cheers and applause at the Academy Awards for a speech in which he decried the current conflict in the Middle East.
Glazer took to the stage to accept the Oscar for best international film – the first time Britain has won the prize – for his German-language, Polish-shot adaptation of the Martin Amis novel.
- 3/11/2024
- by Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
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Best Adapted Screenplay Oppenheimer, from left: Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock, Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, 2023. © Universal Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection
Weekly Commentary: Cord Jefferson stands on the brink of potentially making history in the adapted screenplay category with “American Fiction,” potentially becoming only the second...
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Weekly Commentary: Cord Jefferson stands on the brink of potentially making history in the adapted screenplay category with “American Fiction,” potentially becoming only the second...
- 3/7/2024
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
With the final voting complete, the 96th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 10 and air live on ABC at 8:00 p.m. Et/ 5:00 p.m. Pt. We update predictions through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2024 Oscar picks.
The State of the Race
Summer blockbusters “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” are back to vying against each other in this category now that the Academy has switched two-time screenwriter Oscar nominees Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s outrageous based-on-an-unwritten-character scenario from Original back to Adapted.
Also nominated twice for screenwriting, Christopher Nolan painstakingly created a twisty ticking-bomb timeline for “Oppenheimer,” which is adapted from Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s lauded tome “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.” Every word counts as a gamut of real-life characters move in and out of the frame, always centered on the point-of-view of scientist Oppenheimer and...
The State of the Race
Summer blockbusters “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” are back to vying against each other in this category now that the Academy has switched two-time screenwriter Oscar nominees Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s outrageous based-on-an-unwritten-character scenario from Original back to Adapted.
Also nominated twice for screenwriting, Christopher Nolan painstakingly created a twisty ticking-bomb timeline for “Oppenheimer,” which is adapted from Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s lauded tome “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.” Every word counts as a gamut of real-life characters move in and out of the frame, always centered on the point-of-view of scientist Oppenheimer and...
- 3/4/2024
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Jonathan Glazer's Oscar-nominated "The Zone of Interest" is terrifying, and yet, nothing explicitly horrific appears on screen. Using the power of suggestion and ominous sound design, Glazer's film brings us the horrors of the Holocaust without ever actually depicting them. Inspired by a true story, and the novel of the same name by Martin Amis, "The Zone of Interest" follows Rudolf Höss, a Nazi commandant who lives with his family in a beautiful country house.
As it so happens, the idyllic-looking home is right at the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and the atrocities going on beyond those gates are constantly suggested through billowing smoke and off-camera screams and gunfire. It's a chilling, effective film that underscores the banality of evil. Höss and his family are fully aware of the horrors of the concentration camp they're living right up against, and they simply don't care — they go...
As it so happens, the idyllic-looking home is right at the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and the atrocities going on beyond those gates are constantly suggested through billowing smoke and off-camera screams and gunfire. It's a chilling, effective film that underscores the banality of evil. Höss and his family are fully aware of the horrors of the concentration camp they're living right up against, and they simply don't care — they go...
- 3/2/2024
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
Interviews with ‘brutally honest’ voters reveal strong support for Holocaust drama, setting stage for a potential Oscars upset against bookies’ favourite Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest, the Holocaust drama directed by Jonathan Glazer and adapted from the novel by Martin Amis, could pull off a shock upset in the best picture Oscar race and beat Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, as a series of interviews with anonymous Oscar voters appears to indicate a surge of support for the film.
After the voting window for the Academy Awards closed on Tuesday, the intervening period before the results are announced on Sunday week is filled with fevered speculation. Much of the fuel is provided by anonymised interviews with Oscar voters, known as the Brutally Honest Oscar Ballots, in which real-life Academy members talk through how they arrived at their particular choices, and in doing so shed much light on how individual films and...
The Zone of Interest, the Holocaust drama directed by Jonathan Glazer and adapted from the novel by Martin Amis, could pull off a shock upset in the best picture Oscar race and beat Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, as a series of interviews with anonymous Oscar voters appears to indicate a surge of support for the film.
After the voting window for the Academy Awards closed on Tuesday, the intervening period before the results are announced on Sunday week is filled with fevered speculation. Much of the fuel is provided by anonymised interviews with Oscar voters, known as the Brutally Honest Oscar Ballots, in which real-life Academy members talk through how they arrived at their particular choices, and in doing so shed much light on how individual films and...
- 3/1/2024
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Los Angeles, Feb 19 (Ians) Indian actress Deepika Padukone presented the honour of Best Film not in English language to Jonathan Glazer for ‘The Zone of Interest’ at the BAFTA Awards.
The actress looked every inch gorgeous as she took the spotlight dressed in a silver shimmery sequined saree with a matching blouse by ace couturier Sabyasachi at the event.
‘The Zone of Interest’ was contending alongside films such as “20 Days in Mariupol”, “Anatomy of a Fall”, “Past Lives” and “Society of the Snow”.
This is not the first time Deepika has taken the center stage for an international award event.
Just last year, she was seen at the Oscars, when she introduced the song ‘Nattu Nattu’ from the movie ‘Rrr’.
Talking about ‘The Zone of Interest’, it is a UK-Polish historical drama about Auschwitz concentration camp.
The film is based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis.
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The actress looked every inch gorgeous as she took the spotlight dressed in a silver shimmery sequined saree with a matching blouse by ace couturier Sabyasachi at the event.
‘The Zone of Interest’ was contending alongside films such as “20 Days in Mariupol”, “Anatomy of a Fall”, “Past Lives” and “Society of the Snow”.
This is not the first time Deepika has taken the center stage for an international award event.
Just last year, she was seen at the Oscars, when she introduced the song ‘Nattu Nattu’ from the movie ‘Rrr’.
Talking about ‘The Zone of Interest’, it is a UK-Polish historical drama about Auschwitz concentration camp.
The film is based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis.
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- 2/18/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
London, Feb 18 (Ians) The UK-Polish historical drama about Auschwitz concentration camp, ‘The Zone of Interest’, based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis, has won the BAFTA for the best film not in the English language, reports BBC.
Directed by Jonathan Glazer, the film, which has also been nominated for Oscars, focuses on the family of the camp commandant, Rudolf Höss, his wife Hedwig and their five children living a regular life next door to the chamber of horrors.
Hoss ran Auschwitz between 1940 and 1943, and used poisonous insecticide Zyklon B to gas prisoners. An estimated 1.1 million were murdered at Auschwitz, one million of whom were Jews. Yet, just metres away, his family enjoyed their spacious house, plentiful food and manicured garden — separated from the camp by a concrete wall, notes BBC.
Glazer, who made the film near the site in Auschwitz, chose to hint at the terrible events inside the camp.
Directed by Jonathan Glazer, the film, which has also been nominated for Oscars, focuses on the family of the camp commandant, Rudolf Höss, his wife Hedwig and their five children living a regular life next door to the chamber of horrors.
Hoss ran Auschwitz between 1940 and 1943, and used poisonous insecticide Zyklon B to gas prisoners. An estimated 1.1 million were murdered at Auschwitz, one million of whom were Jews. Yet, just metres away, his family enjoyed their spacious house, plentiful food and manicured garden — separated from the camp by a concrete wall, notes BBC.
Glazer, who made the film near the site in Auschwitz, chose to hint at the terrible events inside the camp.
- 2/18/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Sandra Hüller is having a great award season this year with two of her films receiving a total of ten nominations, including a Best Actress nomination for her. While Hüller earned her nomination for Anatomy of a Fall, she also played the lead in the historical drama, The Zone of Interest, which is also up for nominations. She revealed that she almost missed the news of her nomination due to a situation with the garbage disposal at her home.
Sandra Hüller in Anatomy of a Fall
Hüller played a writer, Sandra Voyter, trying to prove her innocence in her husband’s death in Justine Triet’s French legal drama, Anatomy of a Fall. She played Hedwig Höss, wife of the German Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss, in Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama, The Zone of Interest.
Sandra Hüller Almost Missed Her Nomination News Due To A Garbage Disposal Situation
Sandra Hüller in Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Sandra Hüller in Anatomy of a Fall
Hüller played a writer, Sandra Voyter, trying to prove her innocence in her husband’s death in Justine Triet’s French legal drama, Anatomy of a Fall. She played Hedwig Höss, wife of the German Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss, in Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama, The Zone of Interest.
Sandra Hüller Almost Missed Her Nomination News Due To A Garbage Disposal Situation
Sandra Hüller in Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- 2/16/2024
- by Hashim Asraff
- FandomWire
Jonathan Glazer is set to introduce his widely acclaimed, Oscar-nominated and deeply devastating Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest” at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum on Thursday (Feb. 15).
In undoubtedly the most important premiere in “The Zone of Interest’s” global rollout, the Polish premiere sees the British director return to Auschwitz, where he shot elements of the movie and where the real-life story is set. Following the screening, Glazer will take part in a discussion with museum director Piotr Cywiński, producer Jim Wilson, producer Ewa Puszczyńska and production designer Chris Oddy.
The film — which bowed in Cannes and won the Grand Prix — centers on the family life of Rudolf Höss, the architect and commandant of Auschwitz, where more than 1.1 million people were murdered by the Nazis during WWII, juxtaposing the blissful domestic existence he enjoys alongside his wife against the backdrop of one of history’s darkest chapters. Christian Friedel...
In undoubtedly the most important premiere in “The Zone of Interest’s” global rollout, the Polish premiere sees the British director return to Auschwitz, where he shot elements of the movie and where the real-life story is set. Following the screening, Glazer will take part in a discussion with museum director Piotr Cywiński, producer Jim Wilson, producer Ewa Puszczyńska and production designer Chris Oddy.
The film — which bowed in Cannes and won the Grand Prix — centers on the family life of Rudolf Höss, the architect and commandant of Auschwitz, where more than 1.1 million people were murdered by the Nazis during WWII, juxtaposing the blissful domestic existence he enjoys alongside his wife against the backdrop of one of history’s darkest chapters. Christian Friedel...
- 2/15/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
The Zone of Interest.Watching The Zone of Interest (2023) is an act of endurance. The latest film by British director Jonathan Glazer depicts the lives of the commanding officer at Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), his wife, Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), and their children, with most of the action set within and around their idyllic home. Viewers must face the intolerable sight of the house existing right alongside the concentration camp, with the camp’s roofs hovering above the adjoining perimeter fence. On the camera’s side of this divide, the children swim and Hedwig attends to her garden. Unlike most films about the Holocaust, representations of the Nazi regime’s victims are only occasionally in the foreground, yet—through distant screams, the flicker of flames, alarm sounds, and splatters of blood—the atrocity is present. Meanwhile, the film’s focus is on those who enact this atrocity: how they eat together,...
- 2/10/2024
- MUBI
It’s an old canard in the movie business: Never underestimate a Holocaust movie when it comes to Oscar attention. From Hungary’s Best Foreign Language winner “Son of Saul” (2016) and Oscar-winners “Judgment at Nuremberg” (1961), “Cabaret” (1973), “Sophie’s Choice” (1983), and “The Pianist” (2004) to Steven Spielberg’s Best Picture winner “Schindler’s List” (1994), many Holocaust subjects, especially shorts and documentary features, have won Oscars. Documentaries like “Anne Frank Remembered” won for 1995, “The Long Way Home” for 1997, “The Last Days” for 1998, and “Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport” for 2000, and more recently, the nonfiction short “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life” won for 2014 — just one week after its subject, Alice Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, passed away.
This season’s most decorated Holocaust film, “The Zone of Interest” (Metascore: 91) has multiple Oscar advantages. First, the film, which British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer adapted from the Martin Amis novel of the same name,...
This season’s most decorated Holocaust film, “The Zone of Interest” (Metascore: 91) has multiple Oscar advantages. First, the film, which British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer adapted from the Martin Amis novel of the same name,...
- 2/8/2024
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Only the constant pall of smoke, and a dread-inducing soundscape, tell of the horrors beyond the wall as the idyllic life of the commandant of the death camp and his family rolls by in Glazer’s Oscar-nominated film
Before you read on, a word of caution. There are some films – many of them – that impress on a first viewing but which start to trickle away, like a handful of sand, the moment you leave the cinema. Then there are others, far fewer in number, that strike like a lightning bolt on a first watch and stay with you, scarring themselves into your psyche and subtly but permanently shifting your movie-viewing paradigm on its axis. Jonathan Glazer’s masterful and chilling The Zone of Interest fell into the second group for me. I left it shaken and stricken; it stayed with me, stubbornly, over the months that followed.
As most film fans will agree,...
Before you read on, a word of caution. There are some films – many of them – that impress on a first viewing but which start to trickle away, like a handful of sand, the moment you leave the cinema. Then there are others, far fewer in number, that strike like a lightning bolt on a first watch and stay with you, scarring themselves into your psyche and subtly but permanently shifting your movie-viewing paradigm on its axis. Jonathan Glazer’s masterful and chilling The Zone of Interest fell into the second group for me. I left it shaken and stricken; it stayed with me, stubbornly, over the months that followed.
As most film fans will agree,...
- 2/4/2024
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
The German actors play Hedwig and Rudolf Höss in Jonathan Glazer’s brilliant new film about the Auschwitz commandant and his wife. They discuss the challenging shoot, ancestral guilt – and what persuaded them to take on the roles in the first place
Can you put a face to the banality of evil? How about two? On a bright London morning, Sandra Hüller and Christian Friedel are back from having their picture taken. The German actors are here to discuss The Zone of Interest, the film they have made with the director Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin), loosely inspired by Martin Amis’s 2014 novel of the same name. But for a moment, we talk instead about Friedel’s liking for porridge; how Hüller, by contrast, doesn’t eat this early. And they smile and pause, aware of what comes next.
In The Zone of Interest, Hüller and Friedel play a couple...
Can you put a face to the banality of evil? How about two? On a bright London morning, Sandra Hüller and Christian Friedel are back from having their picture taken. The German actors are here to discuss The Zone of Interest, the film they have made with the director Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin), loosely inspired by Martin Amis’s 2014 novel of the same name. But for a moment, we talk instead about Friedel’s liking for porridge; how Hüller, by contrast, doesn’t eat this early. And they smile and pause, aware of what comes next.
In The Zone of Interest, Hüller and Friedel play a couple...
- 1/19/2024
- by Danny Leigh
- The Guardian - Film News
This afternoon the full list of nominations for the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards were announced in London, with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things leading the nominees.
Jonathan Glazer’s adaptation of Martin Amis’s The Zone of Interest received nine nominations, the same as Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Other notable films we’ll be looking out for on the night include Andrew Haigh’s brilliant and touching film All of Us Strangers, and the enthralling Anatomy of a Fall.
British films are well represented with Rye Lane, Scrapper and How to Have Sex among the nominees.
The 77th annual British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards will be held on Sunday, the 18th of February. We’ll see you there.
Full List of 2024 BAFTA Nominations
Best Film
Anatomy Of A Fall Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion
The Holdovers Mark Johnson
Killers Of The Flower Moon Dan Friedkin,...
Jonathan Glazer’s adaptation of Martin Amis’s The Zone of Interest received nine nominations, the same as Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Other notable films we’ll be looking out for on the night include Andrew Haigh’s brilliant and touching film All of Us Strangers, and the enthralling Anatomy of a Fall.
British films are well represented with Rye Lane, Scrapper and How to Have Sex among the nominees.
The 77th annual British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards will be held on Sunday, the 18th of February. We’ll see you there.
Full List of 2024 BAFTA Nominations
Best Film
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- 1/18/2024
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A prequel television series to classic crime drama Sexy Beast will stream on Paramount+. Here’s the trailer…
Writer and director Jonathan Glazer is currently enjoying a plaudits for his Holocaust drama The Zone Of Interest. Based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis, it follows Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hess and his wife as they try to build a life living next door to the concentration camp.
Chosen as the British entry for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, the film is due to be released in UK cinemas on the 2nd February.
Astonishingly, Glazer has only made four feature films in his career thus far – Sexy Beast in 2000, Birth in 2004, Under The Skin in 2013 and Zone Of Interest. Sexy Beast continues to have notable impact too, staying in the cultural conversation long after it was released. The film followed Ray Winstone as Gary ‘Gal’ Dove, a criminal...
Writer and director Jonathan Glazer is currently enjoying a plaudits for his Holocaust drama The Zone Of Interest. Based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis, it follows Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hess and his wife as they try to build a life living next door to the concentration camp.
Chosen as the British entry for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, the film is due to be released in UK cinemas on the 2nd February.
Astonishingly, Glazer has only made four feature films in his career thus far – Sexy Beast in 2000, Birth in 2004, Under The Skin in 2013 and Zone Of Interest. Sexy Beast continues to have notable impact too, staying in the cultural conversation long after it was released. The film followed Ray Winstone as Gary ‘Gal’ Dove, a criminal...
- 1/10/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
How, given the weight of history, and the history of all the other films on the subject, can you make a new film about the Holocaust?
That was the central challenge facing British writer-director Jonathan Glazer and the creative team behind A24’s The Zone of Interest.
“When Jon and I started, back in 2014, to talk about this, about making a film on this subject, we of course knew Schindler’s List and Son of Saul and everything in between,” says Zone producer James Wilson. “And our conversations were all about, ‘What new is there to say about the Holocaust?’ Except that it was evil, which everyone knows and which felt like a straw target.”
Glazer had been “circling around” the idea of doing a Holocaust film for years. “But because the subject is so vast and because of the sensitivities involved, I felt I first needed to educate myself in a deeper way,...
That was the central challenge facing British writer-director Jonathan Glazer and the creative team behind A24’s The Zone of Interest.
“When Jon and I started, back in 2014, to talk about this, about making a film on this subject, we of course knew Schindler’s List and Son of Saul and everything in between,” says Zone producer James Wilson. “And our conversations were all about, ‘What new is there to say about the Holocaust?’ Except that it was evil, which everyone knows and which felt like a straw target.”
Glazer had been “circling around” the idea of doing a Holocaust film for years. “But because the subject is so vast and because of the sensitivities involved, I felt I first needed to educate myself in a deeper way,...
- 1/8/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Ahead of this weekend’s Golden Globes, where it’s set to contend for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Picture – Non-English Language, and Best Original Score, Jonathan Glazer’s acclaimed Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest has been set for a special screening at the United Nations in New York on January 5, marking a first for studio A24.
The screening, organized by A24 with support of the UK and Polish Missions, will host Un Ambassadors, journalists, student groups, and more. The hope, particularly in light of current events, is to bring even more attention to the film considered the most searingly resonant examination of The Holocaust in recent memory, and one of the most significant works of this century.
The Zone of Interest is loosely based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis, though not a direct adaptation of the source material. Examining the human capacity for committing atrocities, the...
The screening, organized by A24 with support of the UK and Polish Missions, will host Un Ambassadors, journalists, student groups, and more. The hope, particularly in light of current events, is to bring even more attention to the film considered the most searingly resonant examination of The Holocaust in recent memory, and one of the most significant works of this century.
The Zone of Interest is loosely based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis, though not a direct adaptation of the source material. Examining the human capacity for committing atrocities, the...
- 1/4/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
“Poor Things,” “Oppenheimer,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “American Fiction,” “All of Us Strangers,” and “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” all received Best Adapted Screenplay bids from the Critics Choice Awards thus giving their Oscar hopes in this category a timely boost. Some of them were lauded even further at the Golden Globes, which nominated “Poor Things,” “Oppenheimer,” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” alongside “Barbie,” “Past Lives,” and “Anatomy of Fall” in a combined Best Screenplay category.
So, those are the preferences of those two awards groups. But what about the tastes of the academy? Well, below is a chart detailing the last 10 Oscar winners for Best Adapted Screenplay. We’re going to break this down to see what the academy likes and try to apply the findings to this year’s race.
As you can see, novels are the academy’s favorite source material, accounting for...
So, those are the preferences of those two awards groups. But what about the tastes of the academy? Well, below is a chart detailing the last 10 Oscar winners for Best Adapted Screenplay. We’re going to break this down to see what the academy likes and try to apply the findings to this year’s race.
As you can see, novels are the academy’s favorite source material, accounting for...
- 12/27/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
With the 2024 Oscars shortlists for 10 categories arriving in late December, one key element to look out for is the international contenders with the legs to make it into categories past Best International Feature Film. This time last year, Netflix’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” established itself as a possible Best Picture nominee with multiple craft mentions, and by the March ceremony, the Edward Berger film collected the majority of Academy Awards given to below-the-line artisans.
This year, lightning may strike twice, as established Hollywood filmmaker J.A. Bayona’s “Society of the Snow” (Netflix), Spain’s official submission for Best International Feature Film, landed on four shortlists. A last-minute premiere at the Venice Film Festival, the moving retelling of the harrowing story of how the Uruguayan rugby team survived a plane crash in the Andes in 1972 has been building momentum as a must-watch among voters this holiday season.
Still...
This year, lightning may strike twice, as established Hollywood filmmaker J.A. Bayona’s “Society of the Snow” (Netflix), Spain’s official submission for Best International Feature Film, landed on four shortlists. A last-minute premiere at the Venice Film Festival, the moving retelling of the harrowing story of how the Uruguayan rugby team survived a plane crash in the Andes in 1972 has been building momentum as a must-watch among voters this holiday season.
Still...
- 12/21/2023
- by Marcus Jones and Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
How do you embody pure evil? While the discussion swirls regarding precisely how much Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest is meant to humanize the Nazis, by the film’s final moments, there’s no mistaking the director’s point in showing the physical distress on one’s body enacting daily atrocities. Christian Friedel, who plays commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp Rudolph Höss, was up for the difficult task of portraying this seething wickedness while attempting to keep control of his relationship with his wife (Sandra Hüller) and family connection intact.
With the Cannes winner expanding in theaters, I spoke with Friedel about why Glazer didn’t want him to read the Martin Amis novel in preparation, looking to The Act of Killing as inspiration, the physicality of his performance, and what he’s gleaned from multiple viewings of the film.
The Film Stage: I know you worked...
With the Cannes winner expanding in theaters, I spoke with Friedel about why Glazer didn’t want him to read the Martin Amis novel in preparation, looking to The Act of Killing as inspiration, the physicality of his performance, and what he’s gleaned from multiple viewings of the film.
The Film Stage: I know you worked...
- 12/21/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The recent adaptation of Martin Amis’s ‘The Zone of Interest’ has opened the door to a realm of storytelling that is as daring as it is necessary. This narrative, set against the harrowing backdrop of Auschwitz, challenges the industry to confront the darkest chapters of human history and to tell stories that resonate with emotional truth, regardless of their complexity or discomfort. Understanding the significance of adaptation Based loosely upon the Martin Amis novel, ‘The Zone of Interest’ adaptation takes place in a seemingly ordinary household just outside the fences of Auschwitz. This juxtaposition of domesticity and genocide offers a...
- 12/19/2023
- by Steve Delikson
- TVovermind.com
In the comments section of last year’s Best Movie Posters of the Year I got a nice shoutout from an unexpected and most welcome source: the Alhambra Cinema in Keswick, in England’s Lake District. Built in 1913, the Alhambra is apparently the sixth oldest continuously-running cinema in the UK. I’ve been writing introductions to these annual Movie Poster of the Year roundups for fifteen years and so I am quite happy to cede the floor this year to the good folks at the Alhambra, because who better to talk about movie poster design than the people who run one of the cinemas that rely on it?Excellent choices and all great posters. For our cinema in the Lake District, the five quads we have outside make a big difference. When a poster is truly impactful, it definitely draws people in (I would only have added “The Duke” and...
- 12/15/2023
- MUBI
Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller bravely take on the terrible challenge of being German actors playing Nazis in Jonathan Glazer’s unsparing Holocaust film “The Zone of Interest.” It’s a task each turned over quite a lot in their minds before agreeing to play Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss and his sociopathic wife Hedwig, who lived with their children in a hardly oblivious bucolic bubble next to the Auschwitz concentration camp at the start of World War II.
“We talked about, in a very intense way, the subject matter, about the fact that, to play these two characters documentary-style, is this right? Is this good? How can you do that?,” Friedel told IndieWire in a Zoom interview from the New York offices of A24, which releases the film this week in select theaters.
Friedel, who is warm and chipper in conversation but totally devoid of emotion onscreen as Höss, is...
“We talked about, in a very intense way, the subject matter, about the fact that, to play these two characters documentary-style, is this right? Is this good? How can you do that?,” Friedel told IndieWire in a Zoom interview from the New York offices of A24, which releases the film this week in select theaters.
Friedel, who is warm and chipper in conversation but totally devoid of emotion onscreen as Höss, is...
- 12/13/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
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When it comes to entertainment, the holiday season means an endless procession of specials and familiar movies. But for all the holiday favorites, there’s no shortage of new streaming releases to catch this December. Theaters, meantime, are also filled with prestigious movies. Here are some of this month’s most promising offerings, from Eileen, starring Anne Hathaway, to Wonka, starring Timothée Chalamet. (Plus: Check out our favorite...
When it comes to entertainment, the holiday season means an endless procession of specials and familiar movies. But for all the holiday favorites, there’s no shortage of new streaming releases to catch this December. Theaters, meantime, are also filled with prestigious movies. Here are some of this month’s most promising offerings, from Eileen, starring Anne Hathaway, to Wonka, starring Timothée Chalamet. (Plus: Check out our favorite...
- 12/8/2023
- by Keith Phipps
- Rollingstone.com
The Zone of Interest may depict Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) with creeping inference, but director Jonathan Glazer is straighter about his subject than Martin Amis, who wrote the novel upon which this film is based. Whereas Amis fictionalised Höss as ‘Paul Doll’ and placed him in a love triangle that never happened, Glazer depicts the commandant and his wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) closer to how they really were — banal functionaries.
Rudolf and Hedwig live with their five children in a house on the edge of Auschwitz concentration camp. Frau Höss takes great pride in her home and especially her garden, cultivating vegetables and flowers in pots, beds and trellises. Hedwig seems unbothered by the walls and barracks that tower over her petty domain and she shows little concern for the hum of distress that emanates from the camp, even the screams and gunshots. Rudolf is unmoved, too, coasting...
Rudolf and Hedwig live with their five children in a house on the edge of Auschwitz concentration camp. Frau Höss takes great pride in her home and especially her garden, cultivating vegetables and flowers in pots, beds and trellises. Hedwig seems unbothered by the walls and barracks that tower over her petty domain and she shows little concern for the hum of distress that emanates from the camp, even the screams and gunshots. Rudolf is unmoved, too, coasting...
- 12/6/2023
- by Jack Hawkins
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone Of Interest is arriving in cinemas imminently. You can see the final trailer for the film here.
While we expected nothing less, we’ve been hearing some interesting things about Jonathan Glazer’s soon-to-release holocaust drama, The Zone Of Interest.
Glazer’s last film, Under The Skin, was released almost a decade ago. Despite featuring a bona fide movie star in the form of Scarlett Johansson, the film was unconventional in almost every way. It famously was both booed and cheered at its Cannes debut, and we imagine that as something of a provocateur, Mr Glazer was probably delighted by that response.
Under The Skin was even made unconventionally, using hidden cameras and using people off the street who at some points didn’t even know they were ‘acting’ in a major A24 production. From what we’re hearing,The Zone Of Interest seems to...
While we expected nothing less, we’ve been hearing some interesting things about Jonathan Glazer’s soon-to-release holocaust drama, The Zone Of Interest.
Glazer’s last film, Under The Skin, was released almost a decade ago. Despite featuring a bona fide movie star in the form of Scarlett Johansson, the film was unconventional in almost every way. It famously was both booed and cheered at its Cannes debut, and we imagine that as something of a provocateur, Mr Glazer was probably delighted by that response.
Under The Skin was even made unconventionally, using hidden cameras and using people off the street who at some points didn’t even know they were ‘acting’ in a major A24 production. From what we’re hearing,The Zone Of Interest seems to...
- 12/6/2023
- by Dan Cooper
- Film Stories
Jonathan Majors Career Timeline In A Glimpse(Photo Credit –IMDb)
Jonathan Majors has gained much recognition for his role as Kang the Conqueror in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He started his career on the small screen and is now associated with one of the highest-grossing studios. However, his professional life has taken a hit with the assault charges against him, and the trial is underway; let us look at his career timeline from When We Rise to Creed III and Loki 2.
The actor was born in California and studied at Duncanville High School. He was so inspired by Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, especially by Heath Ledger’s Joker, that he joined the theatres. He then went to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts to get his bachelor’s degree and earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama in 2016.
Jonathan...
Jonathan Majors has gained much recognition for his role as Kang the Conqueror in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He started his career on the small screen and is now associated with one of the highest-grossing studios. However, his professional life has taken a hit with the assault charges against him, and the trial is underway; let us look at his career timeline from When We Rise to Creed III and Loki 2.
The actor was born in California and studied at Duncanville High School. He was so inspired by Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, especially by Heath Ledger’s Joker, that he joined the theatres. He then went to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts to get his bachelor’s degree and earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama in 2016.
Jonathan...
- 12/5/2023
- by Esita Mallik
- KoiMoi
Ten years after Jonathan Glazer debuted Under the Skin, he’s now reteamed with A24 for the chilling Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest. Based on Martin Amis’s Auschwitz-set novel, the film features Toni Erdmann star Sandra Hüller and Christian Friedel as we witness their daily activities outside the concentration camp. Shot by Łukasz Żal with Mica Levi reuniting to score, A24 has now unveiled the second trailer and new poster ahead of a December 15 release.
Rory O’Connor said in his review, “Ten years after Under the Skin, the brilliant, elusive Johnathan Glazer returns with one of the most haunting films of this or any year. It’s adapted from Martin Amis’ acidic 2014 novel, though to call this an adaptation would be like saying a thunderstorm adapts the wind. Just as he did with Under the Skin, Glazer takes but a sliver of the source text and lets...
Rory O’Connor said in his review, “Ten years after Under the Skin, the brilliant, elusive Johnathan Glazer returns with one of the most haunting films of this or any year. It’s adapted from Martin Amis’ acidic 2014 novel, though to call this an adaptation would be like saying a thunderstorm adapts the wind. Just as he did with Under the Skin, Glazer takes but a sliver of the source text and lets...
- 12/5/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
“We’re making Big Brother in the Nazi House,” Polish cinematographer Łukasz Żal said director Jonathan Glazer told him when they started plotting their haunting and experimental Holocaust drama The Zone Of Interest.
The pic, written and directed by Glazer, is based on the novel by the late Martin Amis and follows Rudolf Höss, head Commandant of Auschwitz, and his wife Hedwig. The couple leads an idyllic life in a handsome villa, cavorting with their numerous children at a nearby lake and in their pool and a large garden that abuts the wall of the concentration camp. There’s no real plot or arc to the narrative. Instead, the film offers up the horrifying reality of the family’s life for the audience to inspect.
Led by years of research in collaboration with the Auschwitz museum, the production recreated the Höss house and shot the picture with what Żal described as complete objectivity.
The pic, written and directed by Glazer, is based on the novel by the late Martin Amis and follows Rudolf Höss, head Commandant of Auschwitz, and his wife Hedwig. The couple leads an idyllic life in a handsome villa, cavorting with their numerous children at a nearby lake and in their pool and a large garden that abuts the wall of the concentration camp. There’s no real plot or arc to the narrative. Instead, the film offers up the horrifying reality of the family’s life for the audience to inspect.
Led by years of research in collaboration with the Auschwitz museum, the production recreated the Höss house and shot the picture with what Żal described as complete objectivity.
- 11/15/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
To work on The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s harrowing Holocaust drama about the domestic life of an Auschwitz commandant and his family, Polish cinematographer Lukasz Zal had to “forget everything I was taught” about making “beautiful images.”
Glazer’s film, loosely adapted from the 2014 novel of the same name by Martin Amis, follows the seemingly mundane activities of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, played by Christian Friedl and Sandra Hüller, as they strive to build a dream life for their family in their house and garden next to the camp. The smooth, stunning monochrome aesthetic Zal perfected on his (Oscar-nominated) lensing of Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida and Cold War would not do for Glazer’s story, which aimed to evoke the banality of evil by refusing to show Höss and Hedwig as anything but what they were: Ordinary, even boring, people who carried out unspeakable evil.
Glazer’s film, loosely adapted from the 2014 novel of the same name by Martin Amis, follows the seemingly mundane activities of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, played by Christian Friedl and Sandra Hüller, as they strive to build a dream life for their family in their house and garden next to the camp. The smooth, stunning monochrome aesthetic Zal perfected on his (Oscar-nominated) lensing of Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida and Cold War would not do for Glazer’s story, which aimed to evoke the banality of evil by refusing to show Höss and Hedwig as anything but what they were: Ordinary, even boring, people who carried out unspeakable evil.
- 11/15/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jonathan Glazer’s brilliant Cannes Grand Prix winner (and a highlight in the Main Slate of the 61st New York Film Festival), The Zone of Interest (UK Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film), starring Sandra Hüller (of Justine Triet’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anatomy Of A Fall) and Christian Friedel (of the Babylon Berlin series) took the best of Martin Amis’s novel and left all exaggerations aside. It is unmistakably a masterpiece and one of the best films in the 2020s so far. The excellent score by Mica Levi prepares us from the get-go. The noise in each viewer’s mind will fill in images, the information you know or surmise. The disquieting sound design is by Johnnie Burn, who also did Glazer’s Under The Skin and is a longtime Yorgos Lanthimos collaborator, including this year’s Poor Things.
The power of...
The power of...
- 10/27/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
‘The Zone Of Interest’ Teaser Trailer
We have the first trailer for Jonathan Glazer’s Cannes-winning Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest. Written and directed by Glazer, based on the novel by the late Martin Amis, the film stars Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller, with a score by Oscar-nominated musician Mica Levi and cinematography by Łukasz Żal (Cold War). Story follows Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, and his wife Hedwig, who strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp. The film is produced by James Wilson and Ewa Puszczyńska. Executive producers are Reno Antoniades, Len Blavatnik, Danny Cohen, Tessa Ross, Ollie Madden, Daniel Battsek, and David Kimbangi. It was co-financed by A24, Film4, Access Entertainment and the Polish Film Institute. Check out the trailer here.
BBC Studios And Nippon TV Team On Gameshow
BBC Studios and...
We have the first trailer for Jonathan Glazer’s Cannes-winning Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest. Written and directed by Glazer, based on the novel by the late Martin Amis, the film stars Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller, with a score by Oscar-nominated musician Mica Levi and cinematography by Łukasz Żal (Cold War). Story follows Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, and his wife Hedwig, who strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp. The film is produced by James Wilson and Ewa Puszczyńska. Executive producers are Reno Antoniades, Len Blavatnik, Danny Cohen, Tessa Ross, Ollie Madden, Daniel Battsek, and David Kimbangi. It was co-financed by A24, Film4, Access Entertainment and the Polish Film Institute. Check out the trailer here.
BBC Studios And Nippon TV Team On Gameshow
BBC Studios and...
- 10/18/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
A24 has unveiled the ominous first trailer for The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s new picture about Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz. Watch the clip below.
Written and directed by Glazer based on the novel by Martin Amis, The Zone of Interest doesn’t portray the horrors of the Holocaust outright. Instead, it focuses on the reality of the era: that human beings committed those atrocities, and all the while, they were building families of their own. As such, the film centers on Höss (Christian Friedel) — the SS officer who introduced Zyklon B into gas chambers — and his wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), who “strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.” The film was shot on location in Poland and Germany from 2021 to 2022.
The trailer doesn’t reveal much outside of that description. We see vignettes of the...
Written and directed by Glazer based on the novel by Martin Amis, The Zone of Interest doesn’t portray the horrors of the Holocaust outright. Instead, it focuses on the reality of the era: that human beings committed those atrocities, and all the while, they were building families of their own. As such, the film centers on Höss (Christian Friedel) — the SS officer who introduced Zyklon B into gas chambers — and his wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), who “strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.” The film was shot on location in Poland and Germany from 2021 to 2022.
The trailer doesn’t reveal much outside of that description. We see vignettes of the...
- 10/17/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Film News
]A24 has dropped the spare and ultra-lowkey official trailer for the harrowing Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest” from writer-director Jonathan Glazer (loosely adapted from the novel by Martin Amis) that premieres in limited release on December 15. The film tells the real-life story of Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), the commandant of the Auschwitz death camp during World War II, and his wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), focusing on the mundane household and career concerns that preoccupy them in building their dream life together while they knowingly commit genocide on the other side of their garden wall. Watch the trailer above.
The film has generated much positive buzz since premiering in May at the Cannes Film Festival, where “Zone of Interest,” where it won the Grand Jury Prize, and also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and this month’s New York Film Festival. David Ehrlich wrote in his IndieWire review,...
The film has generated much positive buzz since premiering in May at the Cannes Film Festival, where “Zone of Interest,” where it won the Grand Jury Prize, and also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and this month’s New York Film Festival. David Ehrlich wrote in his IndieWire review,...
- 10/17/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Ten years after Jonathan Glazer debuted Under the Skin, he’s now reteamed with A24 for the chilling Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest. Based on Martin Amis’s Auschwitz-set novel, the film features Toni Erdmann star Sandra Hüller and Christian Friedel as we witness their daily activities outside the concentration camp. Shot by Łukasz Żal with Mica Levi reuniting to score, A24 has now unveiled the first trailer ahead of a December 15 release.
Rory O’Connor said in his review, “Ten years after Under the Skin, the brilliant, elusive Johnathan Glazer returns with one of the most haunting films of this or any year. It’s adapted from Martin Amis’ acidic 2014 novel, though to call this an adaptation would be like saying a thunderstorm adapts the wind. Just as he did with Under the Skin, Glazer takes but a sliver of the source text and lets his imagination––perhaps his nightmares––take over.
Rory O’Connor said in his review, “Ten years after Under the Skin, the brilliant, elusive Johnathan Glazer returns with one of the most haunting films of this or any year. It’s adapted from Martin Amis’ acidic 2014 novel, though to call this an adaptation would be like saying a thunderstorm adapts the wind. Just as he did with Under the Skin, Glazer takes but a sliver of the source text and lets his imagination––perhaps his nightmares––take over.
- 10/17/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
We present our interviews from the The Zone of Interest Lff Premiere. Written and directed by Jonathan Glazer and based on the novel by the late Martin Amis, the film stars Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Johann Karthaus, Nele Ahrensmeier, Lilli Falk and Medusa Knopf.
Colin Hart and Ethan Hart were on the red carpet, here are their interviews.
The Zone of Interest Lff Premiere Interviews
Plot:
Loosely based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Martin Amis, the film centers on Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife as they strive to build a dream life next to the camp.
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Colin Hart and Ethan Hart were on the red carpet, here are their interviews.
The Zone of Interest Lff Premiere Interviews
Plot:
Loosely based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Martin Amis, the film centers on Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife as they strive to build a dream life next to the camp.
The post The Zone of Interest Lff Premiere Interviews: Christian Friedel & Sandra Hüller on Jonathan Glazer’s new film appeared first on HeyUGuys.
- 10/12/2023
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
“The events of the last couple of days have been quite difficult for everybody,” said filmmaker Jonathan Glazer as his film about a Nazi commander at Auschwitz screened Sunday at the New York Film Festival.
‘Zone of Interest,’ Glazer’s first appearance on the NYFF main slate, played after the worst assault on Israel in decades. Rocket and ground attacks from Gaza over the weekend have killed some 700 Israelis. Retaliation has resulted in over 400 Palestinian casualties so far. Israel has declared war against Hamas.
The Zone of Interest, which won the Cannes Grand Prix Award then screened at Telluride and Toronto,” is about “a subject that I’ve been drawn to and thinking about for many years, actually, before I read the book,” said Glazer at a Q&a following the screening — referring to the book by the late Martin Amis on which the film is loosely based.
‘Zone of Interest,’ Glazer’s first appearance on the NYFF main slate, played after the worst assault on Israel in decades. Rocket and ground attacks from Gaza over the weekend have killed some 700 Israelis. Retaliation has resulted in over 400 Palestinian casualties so far. Israel has declared war against Hamas.
The Zone of Interest, which won the Cannes Grand Prix Award then screened at Telluride and Toronto,” is about “a subject that I’ve been drawn to and thinking about for many years, actually, before I read the book,” said Glazer at a Q&a following the screening — referring to the book by the late Martin Amis on which the film is loosely based.
- 10/8/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
With the early fall festivals Venice, Telluride, and Toronto in the rear view, we have now screened (most) of the key players in the upcoming Oscar race. We will catch up with some key films at the New York Film Festival, though, which is selling tickets fast to such buzzy titles as the September 29 opener, Todd Haynes’ Cannes premiere “May December” (Netflix), starring Best Actress Oscar-winners Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, which could use a fresh boost; Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein marital drama “Maestro” (Netflix), costarring Cooper and Carey Mulligan; Garth Davis’ dystopian “Foe” (Amazon), starring Irish actors Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan with American accents (sort of); and the October 15 closer, Michael Mann’s Venice biopic “Ferrari” (Neon), starring Oscar nominee Adam Driver and winner Penelope Cruz (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona”).
But until then, here’s how the fall festival Oscar contenders played out, ahead of NYFF and such...
But until then, here’s how the fall festival Oscar contenders played out, ahead of NYFF and such...
- 9/28/2023
- by Anne Thompson and Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
Though the Holocaust had no one architect, Rudolf Höss remains singularly responsible for the speed and efficiency of the atrocities committed at Auschwitz, later emulated at the other Nazi death camps, thanks to his approval of the use of the deadly Zyklon B gas. And for his efforts at the first Auschwitz camp in Oświęcim, Poland, he was rewarded by being made commandant of death camp administration throughout the Nazi-occupied lands. This is the monster on full display in Jonathan Glazer’s adaptation of Martin Amis’s The Zone of Interest.
While the novel’s protagonist is named Paul Doll, Glazer chose to name Christian Friedel’s character Rudolf Höss. This immediately point to Glazer’s interest in bringing in the weight of a well-recorded historical character living in a specific place and time: the Höss household next to Auschwitz I in Oświęcim from 1943 to 1944. Much of the film follows...
While the novel’s protagonist is named Paul Doll, Glazer chose to name Christian Friedel’s character Rudolf Höss. This immediately point to Glazer’s interest in bringing in the weight of a well-recorded historical character living in a specific place and time: the Höss household next to Auschwitz I in Oświęcim from 1943 to 1944. Much of the film follows...
- 9/27/2023
- by Zach Lewis
- Slant Magazine
Jeremy Thomas with Anne-Katrin Titze on his next mission, Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of Jonathan Coe’s Mr. Wilder and Me to be directed by Stephen Frears and starring Christoph Waltz as Billy Wilder: “We’ve got all the locations in Corfu and Paris where the drama is set. Now I’m looking for eight million dollars more …”
In the first instalment with producer extraordinaire Jeremy Thomas we discuss his work and admiration for Nicolas Roeg, Wim Wenders, and Matteo Garrone.
Jeremy Thomas with Glenn Kenny and Michael Almereyda at the Posteritati Gallery reception Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Karel Reisz’s Everybody Wins (written by Arthur Miller) came to Jeremy’s mind; the connection between Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor (winning nine Oscars), Paul Bowles and The Sheltering Sky; Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast) plus Glazer’s Martin Amis adaption of The Zone Of Interest (a Main Slate selection of...
In the first instalment with producer extraordinaire Jeremy Thomas we discuss his work and admiration for Nicolas Roeg, Wim Wenders, and Matteo Garrone.
Jeremy Thomas with Glenn Kenny and Michael Almereyda at the Posteritati Gallery reception Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Karel Reisz’s Everybody Wins (written by Arthur Miller) came to Jeremy’s mind; the connection between Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor (winning nine Oscars), Paul Bowles and The Sheltering Sky; Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast) plus Glazer’s Martin Amis adaption of The Zone Of Interest (a Main Slate selection of...
- 9/23/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” has been selected by the United Kingdom as their Oscar submission in the Best International Feature Film category. The tense Holocaust drama, which follows a German officer and his family who live on the outskirts of Auschwitz, is “Under the Skin” director Jonathan Glazer’s first film in 10 years.
The category is open to non-English language films made by countries other than the U.S., making the U.K. eligible to submit films that are not in English. It has submitted 20 films since 1991, with two of Welsh-language entries — 1993’s “Hedd Wyn” and 1999’s “Solomon and Gaenor” — landing nominations. No film from the U.K. has ever won in the category. Also, “Zone” is the first-ever German-language submission for the U.K. for the International Feature Film.
The unsettling “Zone” won the Grand Prix and the Fipresci prize at Cannes, and was shot in...
The category is open to non-English language films made by countries other than the U.S., making the U.K. eligible to submit films that are not in English. It has submitted 20 films since 1991, with two of Welsh-language entries — 1993’s “Hedd Wyn” and 1999’s “Solomon and Gaenor” — landing nominations. No film from the U.K. has ever won in the category. Also, “Zone” is the first-ever German-language submission for the U.K. for the International Feature Film.
The unsettling “Zone” won the Grand Prix and the Fipresci prize at Cannes, and was shot in...
- 9/21/2023
- by Jason Clark
- The Wrap
Jonathan Glazer’s Cannes-winning Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest has been selected as the UK’s entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2024 Oscars.
The film was selected by BAFTA, the organization appointed by the American Academy to choose the UK’s submission. To be eligible, a British film must be predominantly non-English language and released theatrically between 1 December 2022 and 31 October 2023. The Zone Of Interest was shot on location in Poland with largely German and Polish dialogue.
Written and directed by Glazer, based on the novel by the late Martin Amis, the film stars Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller, with a score by Oscar-nominated musician Mica Levi and cinematography by Łukasz Żal (Cold War).
Story follows Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, and his wife Hedwig, who strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
The film was selected by BAFTA, the organization appointed by the American Academy to choose the UK’s submission. To be eligible, a British film must be predominantly non-English language and released theatrically between 1 December 2022 and 31 October 2023. The Zone Of Interest was shot on location in Poland with largely German and Polish dialogue.
Written and directed by Glazer, based on the novel by the late Martin Amis, the film stars Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller, with a score by Oscar-nominated musician Mica Levi and cinematography by Łukasz Żal (Cold War).
Story follows Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, and his wife Hedwig, who strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
- 9/21/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
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