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Summary: Curious? Get this!
Review: I'm doing my morning 'web surfing after watching my new copy (part of it) of Short Cinema Journal 1:2 "Dreams." So far I much prefer the third of the series, "Authority." I'm only writing this because no one has reviewed it here yet. Vol 1:3 has a good mix of subjects and approachs to their material. The menu system and extra features are sometimes tricky to utilize - I'm not sure if my first generation player is capable of getting to some of the information, but the main thing is that these are some fascinating, and sometimes fun short films worth seeing. Buy it or rent it, but see this edition of SCJ!
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Summary: Question without answer!
Review: Is the man reedamable after watching these horrible evidences?
Alan Resnais filmed the most harrowing and brutal document about the wrecks of the Concentration Camps after the WW2. His camera explores without mercy every little detail in all the crudeness you can imagine. Not recommended for squeamish or sensible spectators.
More than a film, a powerful historic document. Don't miss it.
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Summary: A DVD magazine of award winning short films
Review: Jam packed with great content including Alain Resnais' Night and Fog - a harrowing holocaust documentary from 1958, SHORT 1:3 also features films from Australia, Mexico, Holland and the U.S. Over 2 hours of great content + multi-angle, alternate audio tracks, interactive menus, full motion production notes. Many of our subscribers have told us that SHORT is the best reason to own a DVD player. END
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Summary: Affecting, but somewhat disappointing as well
Review: Let me start by saying that this documentary will have an effect on the viewer. I would not recommend it to young children or those that are hyper-sensitive to photos of the results of atrocities. There are a number of photos that are a bit shocking to see. For someone who is not familiar with the Holocaust, this film will be an eye opener. However, it's not the documentary that my father remembers. I am wondering if there is a different version of the documentary out there? From conversations with my father, this film - in comparison to the one he viewed - almost sugar coats the camps and what happened in them, using film shot by the S.S. guards that almost seems innocuous in comparison to reality. The version my father remembers contains more S.S. film clips, including one of a train coming into the station, and continuing through the entire sorting process, up to and into the gas chambers. I am interested in locating this film in order to further my own studies of this horrible period in our history. My father saw a version that was in German, not French. Perhaps someone out there can help me locate the other version, if it exists?
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Summary: haunting
Review: my history teacher said he was going to show us a movie about the holocaust, and i was just expecting general info, since it's a 9th grade class, but i was wrong. this movie has terrifying images and movies. this was scarier than anything i had ever seen because its REAL. you won't know how horrible the halocaust is if you dont see this movie.
the narrarator's main point was who should we blame this on? can we place all of the blame on the german soilders? it also brought up the possibility of this happeneing again. if you want to see how terrible the holocaust was, see this movie. its great but just a warning, the haunting images stay in your head forever
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Summary: A Tragic Account & Brilliant Documentary...
Review: Night and Fog is a short documentary that depicts Nazi concentration camps in a brutal manner that will not leave anyone untouched. However, this is Resnais' intention as he shows the contrasts between inhumane treatment of prisoners in the death camps during the World War II and the peaceful ruins of former death camps after the war. Night and Fog leaves the audience with a cinematic experience that depicts the horror from within concentration camps that should never be forgotten in order prevent reoccurrences of similar events in the future. This cinematic experience is brilliant (if one could use such a word with such a tragedy) as a historic account for what happened in the many death camps around Europe during World War II.
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Summary: brilliant and moving
Review: Not to be missed. This should be required viewing for everyone. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. My god, let's hope not. Brilliant mix of post war camp footage & stunning, horrific footage taken when the camps were liberated.
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Summary: I'm still speechless
Review: One of my professors showed us this film as part of his history lecture today, and all the images and realities. The images are so haunting, you hear about the events of the holocaust, and you learn somewhat about it in high school, but when you see this film and the pictures of wait happened, you just cant believe it. this is the first time ive been truely speechless after viewing a movie, and for one that is only 1/2 hour long, that truely is an accomplishment.
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Summary: Powerful Documentary
Review: Resnais' Night and Fog is an example of the pure power of image. There is no comfort zone of actors and special effects between the viewer and the movie, it is all real. Life as it truly happened, in all its horrific reality. Although uncomfortable to watch, it is essential. The power of the documentary has been neglected over the past few years by the mainstream. The public wishes to suspend reality when viewing movies, not be confronted by it. Hopefully more directors will take a cue from Resnais and provide us with cinematic mirrors by which to judge ourselves.
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Summary: a very powerful and important film, especially now
Review: Several reviewers have already spoken of the powerful impact of this film as a document of the terrible atrocities of the Holocaust. What is perhaps most remarkable about this film (and that most reviews here have not remarked upon) is that it does not aim to reconstruct a past that is impossible to imagine, but to document the traces this past has left behind for the present, and to suggest that this unimaginable past is nevertheless not so far off. However difficult it may be to imagine being involved in such events (whether as victim or perpetrator) it is nevertheless true that those who were involved are not so very different than ourselves.
The events at Abu Ghraib should remind that people we would otherwise think of as decent, upstanding, citizens are capable of horrible and repulsive actions. That the events in Abu Ghraib did not reach the scale of the events documented in this film seems to be a matter of degree and organization, but not a difference in kind. The film is perhaps more relevant and powerful today than ever.
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