The fall brings a better class of films with it, and particularly so this year with a handful of major directors, like Damien Chazelle, Barry Jenkins and Steve McQueen, checking in with their follow-up releases after such acclaimed efforts as La La Land, Moonlight and 12 Years a Slave. And any season that features a newly completed film by the late Orson Welles has to be … [Read more...]
‘Denial’: An easy victory over evil thought
It was merely 16 years ago that the existence of the Holocaust was put on trial in England. Wait, what? It sounds preposterous, but it happened: David Irving, a British World War II historian turned Holocaust denier, filed a high-profile libel suit against Penguin Books and American scholar Deborah Lipstadt, who called Irving what he was in her 1993 book Denying the … [Read more...]