For Claude Lanzmann: 1925-2018
Florence Jacobowitz | May 2020 Claude Lanzmann had many accomplishments worth remembering. He was a decorated resistance fighter, philosopher, friend and colleague of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, editor of Les Temps Modernes, writer, journalist and filmmaker. Although his career as a filmmaker begins with Pourquoi Israël (1973), it is Shoah (1985) and the satellite films that followed using footage shot at the time he was preparing Shoah that make Lanzmann one of the most important filmmakers of the post-war period. Shoah is a work of art perfectly suited to Lanzma...
Source: cineaction.ca