There are plenty of films dealing with dark themes in the illustrious filmography of Steven Spielberg. Prior to his success with Saving Private Ryan, Amistad, or Bridge of Spies, the Ohio-born filmmaker, 77, addressed a subject that was more personal to him.
Spielberg helmed the epic historical drama Schindler’s List in the same year (1993), when he broke box office records with Jurassic Park. Adapted from the 1982 novel Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally, the former relates the terrifying true story of German industrialist Oskar Schindler, who employed thousands of Jews during World War II to keep them safe from the Nazi party’s persecution.
Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List
Starring Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley, the film was a box office hit that won Best Picture at the Academy Awards and gave Spielberg his first Best Director Oscar. However, it is also acknowledged for having introduced the Holocaust to a larger public.
Spielberg helmed the epic historical drama Schindler’s List in the same year (1993), when he broke box office records with Jurassic Park. Adapted from the 1982 novel Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally, the former relates the terrifying true story of German industrialist Oskar Schindler, who employed thousands of Jews during World War II to keep them safe from the Nazi party’s persecution.
Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List
Starring Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley, the film was a box office hit that won Best Picture at the Academy Awards and gave Spielberg his first Best Director Oscar. However, it is also acknowledged for having introduced the Holocaust to a larger public.
- 4/3/2024
- by Siddhika Prajapati
- FandomWire
There were movies about the Holocaust long before "Schindler's List." Superb movies. George Stevens' "The Diary of Anne Frank," Stanley Kramer's "Judgment at Nuremberg," Alan J. Pakula's "Sophie's Choice," and Paul Mazursky's "Enemies, a Love Story" (to name but a few) grappled with this staggeringly evil, carefully coordinated campaign of genocide so that moviegoers could, hopefully, comprehend how ordinary people could become bigoted, bloodthirsty monsters. The answers weren't comforting, but we couldn't move forward as a species without them.
Aside from the "how," there was another agonizing question that needed to be answered, one that was not as easy to dramatize: why didn't more people step up to stop this?
It doesn't take a great deal of research to realize that most good people were paralyzed by a mixture of cowardice and self-preservation. And while it is vital that we keep hammering home this observation for future generations,...
Aside from the "how," there was another agonizing question that needed to be answered, one that was not as easy to dramatize: why didn't more people step up to stop this?
It doesn't take a great deal of research to realize that most good people were paralyzed by a mixture of cowardice and self-preservation. And while it is vital that we keep hammering home this observation for future generations,...
- 3/5/2024
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
World-renowned director Steven Spielberg was at the height of his career when he made the Oscar-winning film "Schindler's List," but he wasn't the only filmmaker who was interested in adapting the novel of the same name for the silver screen. The acclaimed director Billy Wilder, an auteur of classic Hollywood cinema who penned and directed such renowned films as "The Apartment" and "Sunset Boulevard," was also vying for the rights to turn this story into a movie. However, by the time Thomas Keneally's evocative historical novel was published in 1993, Wilder's career was already winding down.
For a long time, Wilder enjoyed one of the most prosperous careers in Hollywood. His Oscar-nominated 1944 film "Double Indemnity" is considered the signal film of noir cinema and the model of the femme fatale trope. After Wilder's smashing success "Sunset Boulevard" earned three Oscars in 1951, he quickly went on to release several star vehicles...
For a long time, Wilder enjoyed one of the most prosperous careers in Hollywood. His Oscar-nominated 1944 film "Double Indemnity" is considered the signal film of noir cinema and the model of the femme fatale trope. After Wilder's smashing success "Sunset Boulevard" earned three Oscars in 1951, he quickly went on to release several star vehicles...
- 3/4/2024
- by Shae Sennett
- Slash Film
Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" was the rare animal that was a huge critical darling, a major awards contender, and a massive blockbuster. "Schindler's List" was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, winning seven, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Worldwide, the film grossed over $322 million, a huge amount for a prestige picture. The fact that Spielberg also made "Jurassic Park" that same year only makes the achievement that much more impressive.
"Schindler's List" tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a wealthy Czech industrialist who, during World War II, employed as many Jewish workers as he could in his factories with the explicit purpose of saving them from concentration camps. He had to remain friendly with the Nazi party to keep his factories running and became increasingly distraught at what was happening to Europe's Jewish population. By the end of the film, Schindler breaks down, realizing that his wealth...
"Schindler's List" tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a wealthy Czech industrialist who, during World War II, employed as many Jewish workers as he could in his factories with the explicit purpose of saving them from concentration camps. He had to remain friendly with the Nazi party to keep his factories running and became increasingly distraught at what was happening to Europe's Jewish population. By the end of the film, Schindler breaks down, realizing that his wealth...
- 2/22/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Before Steven Spielberg committed to doing Schindler’s List, Martin Scorsese had ties to the project for quite some time. Although Spielberg would eventually direct the classic feature, Scorsese still had some influence over the movie.
How Martin Scorsese helped Steven Spielberg with ‘Schindler’s List’ Steven Spielberg | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Schindler’s List wasn’t developed overnight. Spielberg was made aware of the book the film was based on shortly after E.T.’s release. It was supposed to be the filmmaker’s following film, but Schindler’s List took 10 years to hit theaters. This was partially because Spielberg didn’t have enough confidence in his abilities to translate Thomas Keneally’s book.
“I hadn’t made what I’d call my first ‘adult’ film, and I was terrified of Schindler’s List being my first, because what if I wasn’t mature enough? I was certain I wasn’t ready to...
How Martin Scorsese helped Steven Spielberg with ‘Schindler’s List’ Steven Spielberg | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Schindler’s List wasn’t developed overnight. Spielberg was made aware of the book the film was based on shortly after E.T.’s release. It was supposed to be the filmmaker’s following film, but Schindler’s List took 10 years to hit theaters. This was partially because Spielberg didn’t have enough confidence in his abilities to translate Thomas Keneally’s book.
“I hadn’t made what I’d call my first ‘adult’ film, and I was terrified of Schindler’s List being my first, because what if I wasn’t mature enough? I was certain I wasn’t ready to...
- 2/22/2024
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
When you work in Hollywood, but can't write or direct or act or do anything that requires a practical skill ... well, you're either an executive or an agent. This means you probably make more money than most of your clients or the genuinely talented people you employ. This, you'd think, would be enough to get you through the night. But these are (mostly) awful people with awfully large egos. They don't just want money. They want credit for having played (they believe) a vital part in the creation of art. So they exaggerate their role to anyone who will listen (hopefully a credulous reporter). And when that's not enough, sometimes they just flat-out lie.
Erstwhile superagent Michael Ovitz played this mendacious game better than anyone.
As the chairman of Creative Artists Agency in the 1980s and '90s, Ovitz was the most feared/desired man in Hollywood. His client list...
Erstwhile superagent Michael Ovitz played this mendacious game better than anyone.
As the chairman of Creative Artists Agency in the 1980s and '90s, Ovitz was the most feared/desired man in Hollywood. His client list...
- 2/21/2024
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
“Schindler’s List was never a cure for antisemitism,” emphasizes Steven Spielberg. “It was a reminder of the symptoms of it.”
These days, tragically, antisemitism is all over the headlines: Neo-Nazis chanting “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville. The Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. The Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel that claimed the lives of some 1,200 Jews, the largest slaughter since the Holocaust. Not to mention a former and possibly future American president using Hitler-like language at his Nuremberg-esque rallies, referring to immigrants as “vermin” who are “poisoning the blood” of America.
Liam Neeson and Steven Spielberg were photographed Jan. 5 at Quixote Studios West Hollywood.
All of which is why, 30 years after Spielberg won best picture and best director for his movie about Oskar Schindler, the German businessman who saved 1,200 Jews from the Nazis during World War II, THR is revisiting his film with an oral history...
These days, tragically, antisemitism is all over the headlines: Neo-Nazis chanting “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville. The Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. The Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel that claimed the lives of some 1,200 Jews, the largest slaughter since the Holocaust. Not to mention a former and possibly future American president using Hitler-like language at his Nuremberg-esque rallies, referring to immigrants as “vermin” who are “poisoning the blood” of America.
Liam Neeson and Steven Spielberg were photographed Jan. 5 at Quixote Studios West Hollywood.
All of which is why, 30 years after Spielberg won best picture and best director for his movie about Oskar Schindler, the German businessman who saved 1,200 Jews from the Nazis during World War II, THR is revisiting his film with an oral history...
- 2/21/2024
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The original copy of Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley-starrer ‘Schindler’s list’, which bagged seven Oscar honours, is on sale again for $1.8 million. The copy is hitting the market again following a price cut.The rare historical relic is currently on sale for $1.8 million through memorabilia company Moments in Time via a collector who obtained the list from the family of Itzhak Stern, Schindler’s accountant and right-hand man.
Over the years, the list has been up for sale a few times with its asking price always over $2M the highest being $2.5M though it’s never had any takers, reports tmz.com.
The collector hopes the lowered price is more affordable with the site gushing over the opportunity to “acquire an item of truly incredible magnitude.”
This list, dated April 18, 1945, is the penultimate list of a total of 7 coming in at 14 pages long and listing 801 names. It’s also...
Over the years, the list has been up for sale a few times with its asking price always over $2M the highest being $2.5M though it’s never had any takers, reports tmz.com.
The collector hopes the lowered price is more affordable with the site gushing over the opportunity to “acquire an item of truly incredible magnitude.”
This list, dated April 18, 1945, is the penultimate list of a total of 7 coming in at 14 pages long and listing 801 names. It’s also...
- 12/27/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Steven Spielberg had tackled serious subjects before, but none of his previous work had the power and artistic vision of “Schindler’s List,” which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Based on the book by Thomas Keneally, “Schindler’s List” relates the true story of Nazi party member and war profiteer Oskar Schindler, who ended up saving 1,000 Jews from the Nazi death camps during World War II. Shot in black-and-white-save for a little girl wearig red coat- ‘Schindler’s List” is often a difficult watch, but it’s message of “Never Forget” is particularly relevant today with the rise of anti-Semitism and the white power movement. The epic stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ben Kingsley as the Jewish manager of Schindler’s factor and Ralph Fiennes, terrifying as a ruthless Nazi commandant Amon Goth.
The reviews were laudatory and despite its length — 3 hours 15 minutes — “Schindler’s List” made over $322 million worldwide. Nominated for 12 Oscars...
The reviews were laudatory and despite its length — 3 hours 15 minutes — “Schindler’s List” made over $322 million worldwide. Nominated for 12 Oscars...
- 12/18/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
A third take on the Cape Fear story is happening, with a true crime focus to it. More on the TV project here.
It’s a relatively well known piece of film trivia that when it came to the 1991 remake of the film Cape Fear, it was a project that Steven Spielberg was originally developing to direct.
Around the same time, however, Martin Scorsese was planning to make a film based on Thomas Keneally’s book, Schindler’s Ark. The two would trade projects, Spielberg renaming the latter to Schindler’s List. He’d also remain a producer on Scorsese’s Cape Fear, but took his family-friendly name off the credits.
Now, there’s none of that. We’ve got Spielberg, we’ve got Scorsese, and they’re both executive producing a surprise TV take on the Cape Fear story.
Nick Antosca, of The Ant fame, is the one doing...
It’s a relatively well known piece of film trivia that when it came to the 1991 remake of the film Cape Fear, it was a project that Steven Spielberg was originally developing to direct.
Around the same time, however, Martin Scorsese was planning to make a film based on Thomas Keneally’s book, Schindler’s Ark. The two would trade projects, Spielberg renaming the latter to Schindler’s List. He’d also remain a producer on Scorsese’s Cape Fear, but took his family-friendly name off the credits.
Now, there’s none of that. We’ve got Spielberg, we’ve got Scorsese, and they’re both executive producing a surprise TV take on the Cape Fear story.
Nick Antosca, of The Ant fame, is the one doing...
- 11/22/2023
- by Simon Brew
- Film Stories
Anthony Hopkins recently played an elderly Jewish man who fled persecution as a child in James Gray’s Armageddon Time. He continues in this vein somewhat with One Life, this time playing British Jew Nicholas Winton, an actual historical figure, who in his youth helped child refugees flee Czechoslovakia during World War II. In some ways, it’s one of Hopkins’ best performances from the last few years, beautifully underplayed, eschewing mannerisms or silly accents. It’s just a shame the film itself, directed by James Hawes, with a script by Lucinda Coxon and Nick Drake, is a bit worthy and diagrammatic. Still, that won’t stop it from traveling far to festivals and probably finding distribution as fare appealing to older viewers, especially in the U.K., where many seniors may remember the moment on TV show That’s Life! in 1988 that made Winton famous.
The film’s title is inspired by a Hebrew proverb,...
The film’s title is inspired by a Hebrew proverb,...
- 9/11/2023
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Christopher Nolan directed the epic biographical thriller movie ‘Oppenheimer’ which is adapted from Martin J. Sherwin and Kai Bird’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of 2005.
The plot follows the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer focusing on his early studies and his direction of the Manhattan Project including his fall from grace caused by the 1954 security hearing.
Cillian Murphy portrayed Oppenheimer in the movie. Oppenheimer was released in the United States on July 21, 2023.
Following is a list of other biographical films that you might be interested in.
Also Read: Top 10 Films Like Today We’ll Talk About That Day.
Top 10 Films Like Oppenheimer. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)- The New York Times
Martin Scorsese directed this American epic biographical black comedy crime movie that is adapted from the same named 2007 memoir of former American stockbroker, and financial criminal Jordan Belfort.
The plot chronicles Belfort’s career of being a stockbroker in New...
The plot follows the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer focusing on his early studies and his direction of the Manhattan Project including his fall from grace caused by the 1954 security hearing.
Cillian Murphy portrayed Oppenheimer in the movie. Oppenheimer was released in the United States on July 21, 2023.
Following is a list of other biographical films that you might be interested in.
Also Read: Top 10 Films Like Today We’ll Talk About That Day.
Top 10 Films Like Oppenheimer. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)- The New York Times
Martin Scorsese directed this American epic biographical black comedy crime movie that is adapted from the same named 2007 memoir of former American stockbroker, and financial criminal Jordan Belfort.
The plot chronicles Belfort’s career of being a stockbroker in New...
- 8/9/2023
- by Suvechchha Saha
- https://dailyresearchplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/new-sam
The Steven Spielberg movie Schindler’s List is largely seen as one of Spielberg’s most iconic works. But the film also took an emotional toll on the director, and he strongly considered leaving filming behind after doing the project.
Steven Spielberg almost quit directing after making ‘Schindler’s List’ Steven Spielberg | Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan/Getty Images
When Spielberg set out to direct Schindler’s List, he immediately felt the film would be special. The movie was a critical hit, earning Spielberg his first Best Director Oscar. It was also a commercial success which, given its subject matter, was a bit of a surprise at that time. Spielberg, however, didn’t feel that Schindler’s List’s impact was limited to just cinema.
“I still feel that Schindler’s List is the film that has made the most amount of material change in the world,” he once told The Hollywood Reporter. “When I...
Steven Spielberg almost quit directing after making ‘Schindler’s List’ Steven Spielberg | Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan/Getty Images
When Spielberg set out to direct Schindler’s List, he immediately felt the film would be special. The movie was a critical hit, earning Spielberg his first Best Director Oscar. It was also a commercial success which, given its subject matter, was a bit of a surprise at that time. Spielberg, however, didn’t feel that Schindler’s List’s impact was limited to just cinema.
“I still feel that Schindler’s List is the film that has made the most amount of material change in the world,” he once told The Hollywood Reporter. “When I...
- 5/6/2023
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Schindler's Ark, the factory where German Nazi Party member, industrialist, and profiteer Oskar Schindler sheltered 1,200 Jews from extermination, is quietly falling into ruin. Situated around 30 miles north of Brno in the Czech Republic, the historic buildings nestle beside a bend in the Svitava river, arranged around a small square less than 50 meters across. Schindler's office, where he spent most nights so he could keep an eye on the guards, sits next to the SS barracks, which, in turn, neighbors the Jewish quarters.
I spent a day there helping a filmmaker friend capture some footage of an event celebrating the tentative return of textile production to the site, for the first time since it was seized by the Nazis at the beginning of World War II. The owners, the Jewish Loew-Beer family, fled to England for safety. Now over 80 years later, one of their descendants, Daniel Loew-Beer, plans to restore the...
I spent a day there helping a filmmaker friend capture some footage of an event celebrating the tentative return of textile production to the site, for the first time since it was seized by the Nazis at the beginning of World War II. The owners, the Jewish Loew-Beer family, fled to England for safety. Now over 80 years later, one of their descendants, Daniel Loew-Beer, plans to restore the...
- 9/18/2022
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
Some would say "Schindler's List" is Liam Neeson's best movie. It's not a knock against any of Neeson's other movies; it's just to say that "Schindler's List" is one of the 20th century's greatest films, and it's rather hard to top that. On the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American movies of all time, only seven titles ranked ahead of "Schindler's List." And only one of them, "Raging Bull," was made after 1978 — the year Neeson made his feature-film debut in another literary adaptation, "Pilgrim's Progress."
Directed by Steven Spielberg, "Schindler's List" was based on the book "Schindler's Ark" by Thomas Keneally, and...
The post Liam Neeson Doesn't Think Very Highly Of His Schindler's List Performance appeared first on /Film.
Directed by Steven Spielberg, "Schindler's List" was based on the book "Schindler's Ark" by Thomas Keneally, and...
The post Liam Neeson Doesn't Think Very Highly Of His Schindler's List Performance appeared first on /Film.
- 5/13/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
The woman who drew up Oskar Schindler’s lists and helped save hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust in World War II has died aged 107.
Mimi Reinhardt was Schindler’s secretary and drew up the lists of Jewish workers in the Polish city of Krakow to work in the factory of her German industrialist boss.
This was a highly risky enterprise but is estimated to have saved approximately 1,300 Jewish workers from deportation and almost certain death in Nazi concentration camps.
Reinhardt’s granddaughter Nina wrote in a message to relatives: “My grandmother, so dear and so unique, passed away at the age of 107. Rest in peace.”
The Guardian reports that, after the end of the war, Reinhardt lived in New York before moving to Israel in 2007 to live with her son. She spent her last years at a nursing home north of Tel Aviv.
When Schindler died in 1974, he was...
Mimi Reinhardt was Schindler’s secretary and drew up the lists of Jewish workers in the Polish city of Krakow to work in the factory of her German industrialist boss.
This was a highly risky enterprise but is estimated to have saved approximately 1,300 Jewish workers from deportation and almost certain death in Nazi concentration camps.
Reinhardt’s granddaughter Nina wrote in a message to relatives: “My grandmother, so dear and so unique, passed away at the age of 107. Rest in peace.”
The Guardian reports that, after the end of the war, Reinhardt lived in New York before moving to Israel in 2007 to live with her son. She spent her last years at a nursing home north of Tel Aviv.
When Schindler died in 1974, he was...
- 4/9/2022
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
Oliwia Dabrowska was about 3 years old when she became an indelible part of cinema history in Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning classic Schindler’s List. As the little girl in the red coat walking through the Krakow Ghetto untouched as its residents are being “liquidated” by German troops, she was not only the only color in the otherwise black-and-white film, she also symbolized much of the film’s complicated dance between hope and hopelessness, violence and compassion, guilt and innocence.
Schindler’s List was, of course, the story of a Nazi party member who helped thousands of Jews escape death, a situation not dissimilar to current news stories about Ukrainian civilians being assassinated en masse by Russian troops. And like the hero of that film Dabrowska, now 32 and living in Poland, is taking action to help civilians attempting to flee the war.
On March 9, the former actress shared an artist’s rendering of...
Schindler’s List was, of course, the story of a Nazi party member who helped thousands of Jews escape death, a situation not dissimilar to current news stories about Ukrainian civilians being assassinated en masse by Russian troops. And like the hero of that film Dabrowska, now 32 and living in Poland, is taking action to help civilians attempting to flee the war.
On March 9, the former actress shared an artist’s rendering of...
- 4/7/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Claudia Karvan embarks on a literary adventure to explore the stories that have shaped the nation’s identity in Books That Made Us – a three-part documentary from Blackfella Films premiering on November 23 at 8.30pm on ABC TV and ABC iview.
In the series, Karvan meets Richard Flanagan, Alexis Wright, Helen Garner, Tim Winton, David Malouf, Kate Grenville, Christos Tsiolkas, Thomas Keneally, Liane Moriarty, Trent Dalton, Kim Scott, and Melissa Lucashenko. She discovers the stories behind the stories, the workings of the writers’ imaginations and their motivation to write novels that have been shaped by Australia and, in turn, shaped the country.
Series producer and writer is Jacob Hickey, with producer Darren Dale. The ABC executive producer is Kalita Corrigan.
Developed and produced in association with the ABC, production funding from Screen Australia and produced with the assistance of Film Victoria.
The post ‘Books That Made Us’ (Trailer) appeared first on If Magazine.
In the series, Karvan meets Richard Flanagan, Alexis Wright, Helen Garner, Tim Winton, David Malouf, Kate Grenville, Christos Tsiolkas, Thomas Keneally, Liane Moriarty, Trent Dalton, Kim Scott, and Melissa Lucashenko. She discovers the stories behind the stories, the workings of the writers’ imaginations and their motivation to write novels that have been shaped by Australia and, in turn, shaped the country.
Series producer and writer is Jacob Hickey, with producer Darren Dale. The ABC executive producer is Kalita Corrigan.
Developed and produced in association with the ABC, production funding from Screen Australia and produced with the assistance of Film Victoria.
The post ‘Books That Made Us’ (Trailer) appeared first on If Magazine.
- 10/28/2021
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Nan A. Talese, President, Publisher and Editorial Director of her eponymous Doubleday imprint, will retire at the end of the year, bringing an end to one of publishing’s most celebrated careers that also included stints at Random House, Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin.
Since starting her Nan A. Talese imprint at Doubleday in 1990, Talese, who is married to author Gay Talese, has published a list of prominent authors including Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Adam Haslett, Alex Kotlowitz, Pat Conroy, Thomas Keneally, Mia Farrow, Jim Crace, Valerie Martin, Peter Ackroyd, Mary Morris, Louis Begley, Jennifer Egan, Mark Richard, Judy Collins, Barry Unsworth, Antonia Fraser, Thomas Cahill, Janet Wallach, and George Plimpton.
Talese’s successor was not announced.
After beginning her career at Vogue, Talese joined Random House in 1959 as a copy editor, then became the first woman to hold the position of literary editor. In that role, she worked with such writers as A.
Since starting her Nan A. Talese imprint at Doubleday in 1990, Talese, who is married to author Gay Talese, has published a list of prominent authors including Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Adam Haslett, Alex Kotlowitz, Pat Conroy, Thomas Keneally, Mia Farrow, Jim Crace, Valerie Martin, Peter Ackroyd, Mary Morris, Louis Begley, Jennifer Egan, Mark Richard, Judy Collins, Barry Unsworth, Antonia Fraser, Thomas Cahill, Janet Wallach, and George Plimpton.
Talese’s successor was not announced.
After beginning her career at Vogue, Talese joined Random House in 1959 as a copy editor, then became the first woman to hold the position of literary editor. In that role, she worked with such writers as A.
- 7/8/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Juraj Herz, the great Czech filmmaker who died Monday, is best known for 1969's The Cremator, and had a long association with black comedy, horror, and dark fantasy. His work deserves to be better known: certainly The Night Overtakes Me deserves to be seen in something better than the fuzzy off-air recording I was able to see.Like many of his peers, Herz had a shaky relationship with the government censors under communist rule, and had been formally banned from making films in the mid-eighties. Then he heard that a project was in the pipeline dealing with the communist teacher Jožka Jabůrková, who perished in Ravensbrück. Herz had been trying for years to make a film about this notorious Nazi concentration camp, on account of his own imprisonment there as a child of ten. His original desire had been to make a kind of black comedy: whenever he got together with fellow survivors,...
- 4/12/2018
- MUBI
Claire Ferguson’s valuable addition to documentaries about the Nazi death camps focuses on the testimonies of robust, pain-racked survivors
Claire Ferguson’s documentary is a powerful, valuable addition to the Holocaust testimony genre, established 30 years ago by Claude Lanzmann. The film’s witnesses are now in their 90s, but in many cases extremely unfrail, almost as if kept in a kind of pain-racked vigour and electrified by the agony of memory, and by their determination to survive, to bear witness, to enforce a personal triumph over the forces of evil.
Llion Roberts, the film’s producer, interviews many survivors and each has a quietly devastating story to tell. Perhaps the most striking is the Pole Ed Mosberg, who was sent to the Kraków-Płaszów and Mauthausen camps, and who today gives lectures there in replica camp uniform. He is a taut, fierce, wiry figure, someone for whom the past is,...
Claire Ferguson’s documentary is a powerful, valuable addition to the Holocaust testimony genre, established 30 years ago by Claude Lanzmann. The film’s witnesses are now in their 90s, but in many cases extremely unfrail, almost as if kept in a kind of pain-racked vigour and electrified by the agony of memory, and by their determination to survive, to bear witness, to enforce a personal triumph over the forces of evil.
Llion Roberts, the film’s producer, interviews many survivors and each has a quietly devastating story to tell. Perhaps the most striking is the Pole Ed Mosberg, who was sent to the Kraków-Płaszów and Mauthausen camps, and who today gives lectures there in replica camp uniform. He is a taut, fierce, wiry figure, someone for whom the past is,...
- 6/15/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Simon Brew Apr 3, 2017
Why the writers credited on a movie are rarely the only ones who put the screenplay together....
The Wizard Of Oz, since its initial release in 1939, has richly deserved its long-cemented status as an all-time classic. A regular resident in the IMDb top 250 films of all time, and a part of many people’s DVD collection, it’s a film that I’d wager more and more people fall in love with each year. Long may that continue.
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Lots of brilliant people were involved in bringing The Wizard Of Oz to the big screen. Some terrific writers, too, who came up with a quotable and cherished script. The film’s screenplay is credited to Noel Langley,...
Why the writers credited on a movie are rarely the only ones who put the screenplay together....
The Wizard Of Oz, since its initial release in 1939, has richly deserved its long-cemented status as an all-time classic. A regular resident in the IMDb top 250 films of all time, and a part of many people’s DVD collection, it’s a film that I’d wager more and more people fall in love with each year. Long may that continue.
See related Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Ciro Nieli & Brandon Auman 10 ways we didn’t get kicked off the set of Tmnt Out Of The Shadows Tmnt season 3: 5 great episodes (with cake)
Lots of brilliant people were involved in bringing The Wizard Of Oz to the big screen. Some terrific writers, too, who came up with a quotable and cherished script. The film’s screenplay is credited to Noel Langley,...
- 3/30/2017
- Den of Geek
Paul Bullock Dec 15, 2016
From Raiders Of The Lost Ark through to Always - we take a look through the work of Steven Spielberg in the 1980s...
When we look back on Steven Spielberg's career, we'll likely think of his 1980s output as his defining era. Spielberg ruled the 80s, releasing 22 movies as a producer and a further seven as director (eight if you include Kick The Can in the ill-fated Twilight Zone: The Movie). It remains his most active period (though if all goes to plan, he'll surpass it when 2019's Indiana Jones 5 marks his eighth film of this decade). Put simply, Spielberg is the 80s, and recent criticisms that he's lost his magic, exacerbated after the box office struggles of The Bfg, really represent a frustration that he's no longer the film-maker we fell in love with when we were growing up.
See related The Big Bang Theory...
From Raiders Of The Lost Ark through to Always - we take a look through the work of Steven Spielberg in the 1980s...
When we look back on Steven Spielberg's career, we'll likely think of his 1980s output as his defining era. Spielberg ruled the 80s, releasing 22 movies as a producer and a further seven as director (eight if you include Kick The Can in the ill-fated Twilight Zone: The Movie). It remains his most active period (though if all goes to plan, he'll surpass it when 2019's Indiana Jones 5 marks his eighth film of this decade). Put simply, Spielberg is the 80s, and recent criticisms that he's lost his magic, exacerbated after the box office struggles of The Bfg, really represent a frustration that he's no longer the film-maker we fell in love with when we were growing up.
See related The Big Bang Theory...
- 12/10/2016
- Den of Geek
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.Trailer for Yuen Woo-ping's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon SequelBest known as an action coordinator, Yuen Woo-ping also has an extensive and often very good career as a director. Having previously choreographed the martial arts of Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, he has been bumped up to the director's chair for the film's sequel, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny.The Coen Brothers' Hail Caesar! Opens Berlinale 2016The Coens' much-anticipated Hollywood kidnapping caper will open the Berlin International Film Festival next February.70mm, The Hateful Eight and The Weinstein CompanyDeadline Hollywood has a fascinating article on just what exactly The Weinstein Company did to make sure Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight could screen around the Us in 70mm. Among many interesting factoids is the note that The Weinstein...
- 12/9/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.Trailer for Yuen Woo-ping's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon SequelBest known as an action coordinator, Yuen Woo-ping also has an extensive and often very good career as a director. Having previously choreographed the martial arts of Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, he has been bumped up to the director's chair for the film's sequel, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny.The Coen Brothers' Hail Caesar! Opens Berlinale 2016The Coens' much-anticipated Hollywood kidnapping caper will open the Berlin International Film Festival next February.70mm, The Hateful Eight and The Weinstein CompanyDeadline Hollywood has a fascinating article on just what exactly The Weinstein Company did to make sure Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight could screen around the Us in 70mm. Among many interesting factoids is the note that The Weinstein...
- 12/9/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Quentin Tarantino is set host a live Q and A in Sydney before screening his two favourite Australian "Western-ish" films.
The newly established People.s Republic of Movies, will hold an exclusive one-night-only double bill of Australian cinema plus a live Q&A hosted by Oscar Award-winning writer/director, Tarantino, at The Star, Sydney on January 15.
Tarantino, who is in Australia promoting The Hateful Eight, will host the evening the evening which pays homage to Australian cinema.
Tarantino has chosen to show The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) and the wild Dennis Hopper outlaw classic, Mad Dog Morgan (1976).
The films will be screened in 35mm format, sourced from the National Film and Sound Archive.
Tarantino will be joined by award winning director Fred Schepisi (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Six Degrees of Separation) and globally acclaimed writer Thomas Keneally (Schindler.s List) plus a few surprises.
P.R.O.M founder and curator,...
The newly established People.s Republic of Movies, will hold an exclusive one-night-only double bill of Australian cinema plus a live Q&A hosted by Oscar Award-winning writer/director, Tarantino, at The Star, Sydney on January 15.
Tarantino, who is in Australia promoting The Hateful Eight, will host the evening the evening which pays homage to Australian cinema.
Tarantino has chosen to show The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) and the wild Dennis Hopper outlaw classic, Mad Dog Morgan (1976).
The films will be screened in 35mm format, sourced from the National Film and Sound Archive.
Tarantino will be joined by award winning director Fred Schepisi (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Six Degrees of Separation) and globally acclaimed writer Thomas Keneally (Schindler.s List) plus a few surprises.
P.R.O.M founder and curator,...
- 12/4/2015
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Fred Schepisi is attached to direct Andorra, an adaptation of American author Peter Cameron.s thriller/dark comic novel.
The protagonist is Alexander Fox, a 40-year-old Yank who ends up in the tiny nation of Andorra where he befriends an Australian couple who had moved there. Complications arise when Fox falls in love with the wife and a dead body is found floating in the harbour.
Jamie Bialkower.s Melbourne-based Jump Street Films optioned the novel in 2013 and he subsequently teamed up with Lizzette Atkins. Unicorn Films, who produced Sue Brooks. Looking for Grace. He wrote the screenplay with Cameron.
James Ivory and Natalie Miller are the executive producers. Miller.s Sharmill Films and Jump Street Films will distribute in Australia.
Bialkower tells If that filming is due to start in Europe in the first half of next year, probably in either Italy or the Czech Republic. He plans to partner with a European producer,...
The protagonist is Alexander Fox, a 40-year-old Yank who ends up in the tiny nation of Andorra where he befriends an Australian couple who had moved there. Complications arise when Fox falls in love with the wife and a dead body is found floating in the harbour.
Jamie Bialkower.s Melbourne-based Jump Street Films optioned the novel in 2013 and he subsequently teamed up with Lizzette Atkins. Unicorn Films, who produced Sue Brooks. Looking for Grace. He wrote the screenplay with Cameron.
James Ivory and Natalie Miller are the executive producers. Miller.s Sharmill Films and Jump Street Films will distribute in Australia.
Bialkower tells If that filming is due to start in Europe in the first half of next year, probably in either Italy or the Czech Republic. He plans to partner with a European producer,...
- 8/13/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Many moviegoers consider the world of film as a reprieve from their current existing realities. This is rather interesting because in looking to escape the everyday realities for a fantasized slice of reality in cinema might seem quite redundant for some folks. However, the realities that are portrayed on the big screen are varied so whatever life experiences are depicted we may not have quite lived that particular episode therefore making it intriguing and fresh for our entertaining curiosities.
Films, when capturing a fragrance of reality through triumph and tragedy, are usually armed with a special messaging about the human condition through sacrifice, self-discovery, suffering and of course social awareness. In It’s About the Message: The Top 10 Oscar-winning Socially Aware Films we will take a look at Academy Award-winning movies that dared to examine the spirit about being socially aware–through inspiration and insidiousness (or both simultaneously)–and put...
Films, when capturing a fragrance of reality through triumph and tragedy, are usually armed with a special messaging about the human condition through sacrifice, self-discovery, suffering and of course social awareness. In It’s About the Message: The Top 10 Oscar-winning Socially Aware Films we will take a look at Academy Award-winning movies that dared to examine the spirit about being socially aware–through inspiration and insidiousness (or both simultaneously)–and put...
- 6/14/2014
- by Frank Ochieng
- SoundOnSight
Off-Broadway's award-winning Irish Repertory Theatre presents the world premiere production of the new musical Transport. With a book by world-renowned Australian author Thomas Keneally Schindler's List, the acclaimed book on which the Oscar-winning film is based and music and lyrics by Larry Kirwan founder of the iconic New York City band Black 47, Transport follows the uneasy ocean voyage of Irish women who were sentenced and then exiled to the relatively uninhabited south coast of Australia in the mid-19th Century. Transport has direction and set design by three-time Tony Award-winning director and designer Tony Walton, and choreography by Barry McNabb Irish Rep's Finian's Rainbow, Streets Of New York. Transport will be performed February 7ththrough April 6th, 2014 on the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage of the Irish Repertory Theatre 132 West 22nd Street. The Press Opening is scheduled forFebruary 16th.The cast met the press yesterday and you can check out a...
- 1/8/2014
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
"Schindler's List" already looked like an instant classic the moment it was released 20 years ago this week (on December 15, 1993). Shot in timeless black-and-white, Steven Spielberg's based-in-fact account of Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who saved 1,200 Jews from the Polish city of Krakow during the Holocaust by putting them on his factory payroll, became a landmark film, becoming the definitive depiction of the Holocaust for many viewers around the world. It also made a star out of Ralph Fiennes, an A-lister out of Liam Neeson, and an Oscar-winner out of Spielberg, who proved once and for all that he was not just a director of kiddie fantasies.
Two decades have done nothing but burnish the film's reputation as an artistic masterpiece and educational tool. Still, even though everyone's seen it, there's plenty you probably don't know about how it got made, from the project's birth in a Beverly Hills luggage store,...
Two decades have done nothing but burnish the film's reputation as an artistic masterpiece and educational tool. Still, even though everyone's seen it, there's plenty you probably don't know about how it got made, from the project's birth in a Beverly Hills luggage store,...
- 12/15/2013
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Off-Broadway's award-winning Irish Repertory Theatre just announced the world premiere production of the new musical Transport. With book and lyrics by world-renowned Australian author Thomas Keneally Schindler's List, the acclaimed book on which the Oscar-winning film is based and music by Larry Kirwan founder of the iconic New York City band Black 47, Transport follows the uneasy ocean voyage of Irish women who were sentenced and then exiled to the relatively uninhabited south coast of Australia in the mid-19th Century. Transport has direction and set design by three-time Tony Award-winning director and designer Tony Walton, and choreography by Barry McNabb Irish Rep's Finian's Rainbow, Streets Of New York. Transport will be performed February 7ththrough April 6th, 2014 on the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage of the Irish Repertory Theatre 132 West 22nd Street. The Press Opening is scheduled forFebruary 16th.
- 12/3/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Schindler's List was unprecedented in showing a fresh generation of film-goers how the Second World War brought forth both a capacity for evil, but also for conscience, comradeship and heroism.
Since Thomas Keneally's book and later Steven Spielberg's film caused such ripples across the world, historians have always been at pains to let us know that, however dashing the deeds of Oskar Schindler in Krakow during the time of the city's occupation by the Nazis, he was by no means alone in putting his life on the line for the sake of others.
Luca Zingaretti (from Montalbano) plays Georgio Perlasca, in this true-life story of wartime courage
Now, on DVD for the first time, is the story of another hero - this time Italian, whose story, like Schindler's, took the best part of 40 years to come to light.
Georgio Perlasca was a businessman who, like Schindler, found himself...
Since Thomas Keneally's book and later Steven Spielberg's film caused such ripples across the world, historians have always been at pains to let us know that, however dashing the deeds of Oskar Schindler in Krakow during the time of the city's occupation by the Nazis, he was by no means alone in putting his life on the line for the sake of others.
Luca Zingaretti (from Montalbano) plays Georgio Perlasca, in this true-life story of wartime courage
Now, on DVD for the first time, is the story of another hero - this time Italian, whose story, like Schindler's, took the best part of 40 years to come to light.
Georgio Perlasca was a businessman who, like Schindler, found himself...
- 4/10/2013
- by The Huffington Post UK
- Huffington Post
Actor who played Holocaust victim revealed she was horrified when she viewed the film as an 11-year-old, against Steven Spielberg's advice
The celebrated "red coat girl" from Schindler's List, Polish actor Oliwia Dabrowska, has revealed she was left traumatised after breaking a promise to director Steven Spielberg not to watch the film until she was 18.
Dabrowska, aged three when she filmed a key role in Spielberg's landmark 1993 Holocaust drama, adapted from Thomas Keneally's novel, said she was "horrified" when she watched the film when she was 11. "It was too horrible. I could not understand much, but I was sure that I didn't want to watch ever again in my life." She also said she "really regretted" not paying attention to the director's suggestion that she "grow up into the film", and not watch it until she was older.
"I was ashamed of being in the movie and really...
The celebrated "red coat girl" from Schindler's List, Polish actor Oliwia Dabrowska, has revealed she was left traumatised after breaking a promise to director Steven Spielberg not to watch the film until she was 18.
Dabrowska, aged three when she filmed a key role in Spielberg's landmark 1993 Holocaust drama, adapted from Thomas Keneally's novel, said she was "horrified" when she watched the film when she was 11. "It was too horrible. I could not understand much, but I was sure that I didn't want to watch ever again in my life." She also said she "really regretted" not paying attention to the director's suggestion that she "grow up into the film", and not watch it until she was older.
"I was ashamed of being in the movie and really...
- 3/5/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Actor who played Holocaust victim revealed she was horrified when she viewed the film as an 11-year-old, against Steven Spielberg's advice
The celebrated "red coat girl" from Schindler's List, Polish actor Oliwia Dabrowska, has revealed she was left traumatised after breaking a promise to director Steven Spielberg not to watch the film until she was 18.
Dabrowska, aged three when she filmed a key role in Spielberg's landmark 1993 Holocaust drama, adapted from Thomas Keneally's novel, said she was "horrified" when she watched the film when she was 11. "It was too horrible. I could not understand much, but I was sure that I didn't want to watch ever again in my life." She also said she "really regretted" not paying attention to the director's suggestion that she "grow up into the film", and not watch it until she was older.
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The celebrated "red coat girl" from Schindler's List, Polish actor Oliwia Dabrowska, has revealed she was left traumatised after breaking a promise to director Steven Spielberg not to watch the film until she was 18.
Dabrowska, aged three when she filmed a key role in Spielberg's landmark 1993 Holocaust drama, adapted from Thomas Keneally's novel, said she was "horrified" when she watched the film when she was 11. "It was too horrible. I could not understand much, but I was sure that I didn't want to watch ever again in my life." She also said she "really regretted" not paying attention to the director's suggestion that she "grow up into the film", and not watch it until she was older.
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- 3/4/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
History is far more than facts and figures, especially since the text books tend to get watered down by committee or skew to a particular point of view. Instead, history is really the stories of mankind. Who did what, and what drove them to commit those acts? Every era has its known heroes and as historians do their work, it’s also clear there are the lesser known players whose efforts remain equally valuable and their stories worthy of being told. Few events have spawned more tales of heroism than perhaps World War II. We know of the Axis and Allied generals who made bold moves to change the tide of the conflict and of the American scientists who raced their German counterparts to split the atom and harness their power. Since the 1970s or so, more and more stories have been discovered and told, many about those who endured...
- 3/3/2013
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
There’s something for everyone in next week’s Blu-Ray releases: Wreck-It Ralph will tickle your gaming bone, The Intouchables brings a bit of comedy to its drama, and one my favorite films of the nineties finally gets a Blu-Ray release.
Ready for the latest Blu-Ray releases? Then read on.
Wreck-It Ralph
Starring: John C. Reilly, Alan Tudyk, Jane Lynch, Ed O’Neill, Jack McBrayer, and Sarah Silverman.
Director: Rich Moore
A 3D computer-animated family film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The film was well-received by critics and viewers alike, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Plot: Wreck-It Ralph longs to be as beloved as his game’s perfect Good Guy, Fix-It Felix. Problem is, nobody loves a Bad Guy. But they do love heroes… so when a modern, first-person shooter game arrives featuring tough-as-nails Sergeant Calhoun,...
Ready for the latest Blu-Ray releases? Then read on.
Wreck-It Ralph
Starring: John C. Reilly, Alan Tudyk, Jane Lynch, Ed O’Neill, Jack McBrayer, and Sarah Silverman.
Director: Rich Moore
A 3D computer-animated family film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The film was well-received by critics and viewers alike, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Plot: Wreck-It Ralph longs to be as beloved as his game’s perfect Good Guy, Fix-It Felix. Problem is, nobody loves a Bad Guy. But they do love heroes… so when a modern, first-person shooter game arrives featuring tough-as-nails Sergeant Calhoun,...
- 3/1/2013
- by C.P. Howells
- We Got This Covered
The number of Australian film projects that are adaptations . that is, based on an existing novel, short story, stage play, musical or some other creative work . is declining, according to Screen Australia. Only 38 of the 200 Australian films produced between 1999 and 2008 were adaptations . compare that 19 per cent figure to the 1920s, when one-third of all Australian films were based on existing works.
And compare that figure to the current rate of adaptation in the Us where 50 per cent of all films are adaptations, and they account for 60-70 per cent of the box office take each year.
Why are adaptations important? The Australian Film Television and Radio school.s head of screenwriting, Ross Grayson Bell, believes these sorts of projects are vital for Australian producers. "Adaptations get better funding, and they do better at the box office," he says.
But Bell is concerned that the Australian film industry hasn't made the...
And compare that figure to the current rate of adaptation in the Us where 50 per cent of all films are adaptations, and they account for 60-70 per cent of the box office take each year.
Why are adaptations important? The Australian Film Television and Radio school.s head of screenwriting, Ross Grayson Bell, believes these sorts of projects are vital for Australian producers. "Adaptations get better funding, and they do better at the box office," he says.
But Bell is concerned that the Australian film industry hasn't made the...
- 2/26/2013
- by Anthony Fordham
- IF.com.au
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 5, 2013
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $34.98
Studio: Universal Studios
Liam Neeson is Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List.
Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Holocaust war drama Schindler’s List, Spielberg’s most extraordinary and meaningful creations and without a doubt one of the most historically significant commercial films ever made, marks its 20th anniversary with a Limited Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack and single DVD that each include a Digital Copy and UltraViolet functions.
Adapted from the novel by Thomas Keneally, Spielberg’s film tells the true story of the Austrian-Hungary industrialist Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson, The Grey). A one-time member of the Nazi party, the Catholic Schindler risks his career and life, and ultimately goes bankrupt, to employ 1,100 Jews in his crockery factory during the Holocaust—and save their lives.
Filmed entirely in black-and-white on location in Poland, the film co-stars Ben Kingsley (Hugo) as Schindler’s Jewish accountant...
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $34.98
Studio: Universal Studios
Liam Neeson is Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List.
Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Holocaust war drama Schindler’s List, Spielberg’s most extraordinary and meaningful creations and without a doubt one of the most historically significant commercial films ever made, marks its 20th anniversary with a Limited Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack and single DVD that each include a Digital Copy and UltraViolet functions.
Adapted from the novel by Thomas Keneally, Spielberg’s film tells the true story of the Austrian-Hungary industrialist Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson, The Grey). A one-time member of the Nazi party, the Catholic Schindler risks his career and life, and ultimately goes bankrupt, to employ 1,100 Jews in his crockery factory during the Holocaust—and save their lives.
Filmed entirely in black-and-white on location in Poland, the film co-stars Ben Kingsley (Hugo) as Schindler’s Jewish accountant...
- 1/16/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
2013 marks the 20th Anniversary of Steven Spielberg's Oscar winning film Schindler's List, and Universal is acknowledging the milestone by giving the film a Blu-ray release with a 20th Anniversary Limited Edition. Set to arrive in March, the Blu-ray Combo Pack will include the film on Blu-ray and DVD as well a digital copy and UltraViolet. Directed by Spielberg, the 1993 black-and-white drama is based on Thomas Keneally's novel Schindler's Ark and stars Liam Neeson as the title character Oskar Schindler, a Catholic man and member of the Nazi party who puts his life and career on the line by employing 1,100 Jews in his factory during the Holocaust. Also among the cast are Ben Kingsley, playing Schindler's accountant, and Ralph Fiennes, who played a cruel Nazi commander. Here's the trailer for the Blu-ray. For its Blu-ray release, the film has been "meticulously restored from the original film negative in pristine high definition,...
- 1/15/2013
- cinemablend.com
Lindsay
McLennan
A new series of live talks backed by veteran Nine and Seven journalist Patrick Lindsay is looking for a sponsor.
The format, which targets 40-somethings, is based on five 20-minute speaker sessions with novelists, broadcasters and journalists that will run as a national series.
Called Topic Talks, the project is the brainchild of Lindsay and Colin McLennan, entertainment entrepreneur and father of News Corp Evp Hamish McLennan.
The duo are planning to hold 100 events across the country within the format’s first year.
“We are out to ‘own’ the intelligent, live presentations of topics and issues affecting us all,” McLennan told Mumbrella. “We believe that many people feel they are slipping off the pace as technology races away from them. We want to provide a forum where they can reconnect to fascinating people with intriguing ideas and have fun as they do it.”
The first series of events...
McLennan
A new series of live talks backed by veteran Nine and Seven journalist Patrick Lindsay is looking for a sponsor.
The format, which targets 40-somethings, is based on five 20-minute speaker sessions with novelists, broadcasters and journalists that will run as a national series.
Called Topic Talks, the project is the brainchild of Lindsay and Colin McLennan, entertainment entrepreneur and father of News Corp Evp Hamish McLennan.
The duo are planning to hold 100 events across the country within the format’s first year.
“We are out to ‘own’ the intelligent, live presentations of topics and issues affecting us all,” McLennan told Mumbrella. “We believe that many people feel they are slipping off the pace as technology races away from them. We want to provide a forum where they can reconnect to fascinating people with intriguing ideas and have fun as they do it.”
The first series of events...
- 3/23/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
Director Steven Spielberg struggled to balance his work and home lives while filming his Oscar-winning Holocaust movie Schindler's List, because he had to work on Jurassic Park at the same time.
The filmmaker, who is of Jewish heritage, felt compelled to make the film after reading Thomas Keneally's 1982 book about German businessman Oskar Schindler, who helped save more than a thousand Polish-Jewish refugees from genocide during World War II.
Spielberg put off making the harrowing film for a decade, insisting he "wasn't ready, emotionally", but finally felt pushed to start work on it in the early '90s, despite trying to finish off animation on his Jurassic Park blockbuster.
He tells The Sunday Times Magazine, "Well, I wouldn't have normally wanted to do that. But I had put Schindler's List off for a number of years, and I was suddenly seized with a real sense that I needed to make the picture. And I was working on Jurassic Park already.
"It was very difficult emotionally for me, as when I came back from filming, I just wanted to be with my family. I didn't want to be with a T-Rex. But I felt like it was a small price to pay."...
The filmmaker, who is of Jewish heritage, felt compelled to make the film after reading Thomas Keneally's 1982 book about German businessman Oskar Schindler, who helped save more than a thousand Polish-Jewish refugees from genocide during World War II.
Spielberg put off making the harrowing film for a decade, insisting he "wasn't ready, emotionally", but finally felt pushed to start work on it in the early '90s, despite trying to finish off animation on his Jurassic Park blockbuster.
He tells The Sunday Times Magazine, "Well, I wouldn't have normally wanted to do that. But I had put Schindler's List off for a number of years, and I was suddenly seized with a real sense that I needed to make the picture. And I was working on Jurassic Park already.
"It was very difficult emotionally for me, as when I came back from filming, I just wanted to be with my family. I didn't want to be with a T-Rex. But I felt like it was a small price to pay."...
- 11/28/2011
- WENN
Academy Award-winning screenwriter Steven Zaillian will receive the Writers Guild of America, West’s 2011 Laurel Award for Screen, honoring lifetime achievement in outstanding writing for motion pictures.
The award will be presented at the 2011 Writers Guild Awards West Coast ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 5, in Hollywood.
“Steven Zaillian’s best scripts not only function as intelligent, thought-provoking works that uplift and inspire audiences, but often, as in the case of his screenplays such as ‘Schindler’s List,’ they act as witness to crucial chapters in our collective history. His impressive body of work provides a benchmark that all screenwriters aspire to,” said Wgaw president John Wells in a statement.
The four-time WGA Award nominee is perhaps best known for his screenplay “Schindler’s List,” based on the novel by Thomas Keneally. In 1994, Zaillian received an Academy Award for his screen adaptation of the film, which went on to garner multiple awards that year.
The award will be presented at the 2011 Writers Guild Awards West Coast ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 5, in Hollywood.
“Steven Zaillian’s best scripts not only function as intelligent, thought-provoking works that uplift and inspire audiences, but often, as in the case of his screenplays such as ‘Schindler’s List,’ they act as witness to crucial chapters in our collective history. His impressive body of work provides a benchmark that all screenwriters aspire to,” said Wgaw president John Wells in a statement.
The four-time WGA Award nominee is perhaps best known for his screenplay “Schindler’s List,” based on the novel by Thomas Keneally. In 1994, Zaillian received an Academy Award for his screen adaptation of the film, which went on to garner multiple awards that year.
- 1/19/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Hollywoodnews.com: Academy Award-winning screenwriter Steven Zaillian will receive the Writers Guild of America, West’s 2011 Laurel Award for Screen, honoring lifetime achievement in outstanding writing for motion pictures, to be presented at the 2011 Writers Guild Awards West Coast ceremony on Saturday, February 5, 2011, in Hollywood.
“Steven Zaillian’s best scripts not only function as intelligent, thought-provoking works that uplift and inspire audiences, but often, as in the case of his screenplays such as Schindler’s List, they act as witness to crucial chapters in our collective history. His impressive body of work provides a benchmark that all screenwriters aspire to,” said Wgaw President John Wells.
Zaillian is perhaps best known for his screenplay for the acclaimed Holocaust drama Schindler’s List, based on the novel by Thomas Keneally. In 1994, Zaillian received an Academy Award for his screen adaptation of Schindler’s List, as the film went on to garner multiple awards that year,...
“Steven Zaillian’s best scripts not only function as intelligent, thought-provoking works that uplift and inspire audiences, but often, as in the case of his screenplays such as Schindler’s List, they act as witness to crucial chapters in our collective history. His impressive body of work provides a benchmark that all screenwriters aspire to,” said Wgaw President John Wells.
Zaillian is perhaps best known for his screenplay for the acclaimed Holocaust drama Schindler’s List, based on the novel by Thomas Keneally. In 1994, Zaillian received an Academy Award for his screen adaptation of Schindler’s List, as the film went on to garner multiple awards that year,...
- 1/19/2011
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Like Lucas, much of Spielberg’s work references the TV shows and movies he saw as a youngster, but where Lucas had spent several years in the intellectual hothouse of USC’s film program, Spielberg had, in essence, gone straight from watching TV to making TV. Though he had ambitions of wanting to do “serious” film work, he was not the aspiring anti-establishment maverick – as Lucas initially was – trying to find a way to work outside the system, but rather proved to be very much at home within the Hollywood system. That system provided Spielberg the opportunity – at the Universal shop – to learn and perfect his craft through years of directing episodes for major networks series like Marcus Welby, M.D. and Columbo, as well as the experience of working with the studio’s veteran craftsman. He graduated to made-for-tv movies and gained his first major acclaim for Duel (1971), an...
- 1/17/2011
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
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