Word: holocaust
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...teach the audience lessons: how to live more adventurously, love more expertly, blow things up more noisily. And every now and then, die more beautifully. This holiday season, mortality is much on the minds of ambitious filmmakers. Grim Death will be gargling in dramas about AIDS (Philadelphia), the Nazi Holocaust (Schindler's List), Vietnam (Heaven and Earth) and plain old age (Wrestling Ernest Hemingway). It's apt that the Cardiac Pack is led by My Life, for its writer-director is Bruce Joel Rubin, screenwriter for the postmortem love story Ghost and the death-throe fantasy Jacob's Ladder...
...speech entitled "Life Against Death: Judaism after the Holocaust and the Rebirth of Israel," Greenberg depicted the Jewish faith as representative of humanity's quest for equality...
...past, Greenberg has refused to discuss the presence of a God in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Last night, however, he discussed the change in his pluralist mentality...
...defined the attitudinal chasm separating gays, who think of themselves as a people with a history and culture, and kindly disposed heterosexuals who think of gays as individual mistakes of nature. But in making the family Jewish, he clutters the argument with a lot of dubious parallels to the Holocaust. At the same time, he opts for cliche comedy based on ethnic stereotypes (the Jewish mother force-feeding her son, the father showering his adult children with money) and cheap pop references (Dances with Wolves, The Mary Tyler Moore Show). He probably knows his audience: at a preview, the crowd...
...When at the end Dr. Petiot tries to elude police by jumping through a movie screen again, the film has come full circle. The final scene--showing the "inventory of evidence," the luggage that Petiot's victims had intended to bring to South America--has the feel of a Holocaust documentary. But here the killer has a voice, as he pleads for understanding: "I am a voyager who takes his baggage with...