Films tend to reflect our anxieties. So it’s not a coincidence that we’re getting so many Holocaust-themed movies at the same ...

Director Jonathan Glazer’s acclaimed movie “The Zone of Interest” recently won two Oscars — for best international feature film and for sound. Steven Spielberg has declared it to be the best Holocaust ...

Holocaust movies have become such a genre of their own that it is hard for them to find anything new to say. Yet directors ...

The Academy’s tendency to award trophies to Holocaust movies has long been whispered about — and even occasionally joked about by cheeky comedians. In 2009, shortly after Kate Winslet won a Golden ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This tidy didacticism is perhaps in the nature of narrative and its need for a clean arc—and it’s a good reason the deaths of millions should never have become ...

Tragic tellings of the Shoah are all too common. The directors of “The Zone of Interest,” “Origin” and “Occupied City” refuse to let it live in the past. By Esther Zuckerman In the British comedy ...

Decades before he died, so that he would not die there, Steven Kende fled a concentration camp where one of his jobs was “picking up pieces of people.” He hid in bushes from his German guards and ...

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With “The Zone of Interest,” Jonathan Glazer is just the latest director to confront the problem. Credit...Photo illustration by Cristiana Couceiro. Source photographs from Alamy, Getty Images, ...

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