Claude Lanzmann’s agonizing epic Shoah (1985) remains, in critic Roger Ebert’s phrase, “one of the noblest films ever made” and, beyond all doubt, one of the greatest non-fiction works committed to ...

Shoah, a Hebrew word, eludes easy definition. It has bedeviled translators, who have wrestled its multitudes into grim English stand-ins such as "catastrophe" or "calamity" or "annihilation." But no ...

This year, Berlin’s honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement goes to French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, justly celebrated for his monumental documentary “Shoah” (1985), an investigative memorial ...

Ten years after IFC Films theatrically re-released the epic documentary, SHOAH arrives on demand platforms in the United States & Canada in March 2021. Check out this new trailer: FC Films announced ...

THR is pleased to exclusively premiere the trailer for the latest film directed by Claude Lanzmann, the revered 87-year-old French documentary filmmaker. By Scott Feinberg Shoah director Claude ...

It is not given to most filmmakers to change the world, but French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, who died Thursday at age 92, did it not once but twice. And with the same film. That would be 1985’s ...

Seventy years ago, in the middle of World War II, a couple of hundred miles north of Toulouse, Claude Lanzmann was a high school student — and an assimilated French Jew. Every day he faced the risk of ...

Lanzmann, who died Thursday at age 92, fought in the French resistance, studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, worked as a journalist, and made one of the most important films about the Holocaust. Claude ...

Legendary nonfiction filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, who is featured in a new HBO documentary, opens up about his landmark achievement, his bond with Steven Spielberg and his thoughts on the latest foreign ...

This year, Berlin’s honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement goes to French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, justly celebrated for his monumental documentary “Shoah” (1985), an investigative memorial ...