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Claude Lanzmann

December 2023

  • Auschwitz, in Claude Lanzmann’s 1985 film Shoah.

    ‘It will always be less hellish than the reality’: why cinema keeps returning to the Holocaust

    Three new films attempt to address the Holocaust. But can cinema ever hope to adequately confront humanity’s darkest chapter?

August 2019

  • Philosophers Sartre, De Beauvoir, and Director Lanzmann Dining<br>Nobel Prize winner and existentialist author Jean-Paul Sartre (C) dining in a Paris restaurant with writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir (R) and filmmaker Claude Lanzmann (L). At the same time as their meeting, King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden was presenting the coveted Nobel Prize awards to the winners for chemistry, physics and medicine. Sartre, however, rejected his award for “objective and personal reasons.”

    Book of the day
    Becoming Beauvoir by Kate Kirkpatrick review – philosopher and pioneer

    The latest biography shines a spotlight on De Beauvoir’s views on the family and abortion, as well as her contrary relationship with feminism

July 2018

  • Claude Lanzmann at home in Paris, a tiny apartment crammed with cuttings, magazines and files. His book 'The Patagonian Hare' has just been translated from the French by Frank Wynne.

    Claude Lanzmann: the man who told the story of Shoah

  • The film director Claude Lanzmann’s interviews about the Final Solution were shocking and compelling.

    Claude Lanzmann obituary

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Claude Lanzmann: a superstar intellectual of impeccable integrity and rigour

    Peter Bradshaw
  • FILES-FRANCE-CINEMA-LANZMANN<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 11, 2016 French writer, journalist and movie producer Claude Lanzmann poses in Paris on February 11, 2016. Lanzmann, 92-years-old, died on July 5, 2018, according to his publishers. / AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGETJOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images

    Shoah director Claude Lanzmann dies aged 92

May 2017

  • Claude Lanzmann in Pyongyang for his documentary Napalm.

    Why I bluffed my way into North Korea: Claude Lanzmann on his Pyongyang lover

  • Writer Neil Gaiman, cast members Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning and costume designer Sandy Powell at the screening of the film How To Talk to Girls at Parties

    Cannes 2017 day five: Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, Dustin Hoffman – in pictures

  • Napalm film still

    Napalm review – Claude Lanzmann's gripping account of erotic encounter in North Korea

  • Sofia Coppola’s new film is a civil-war set drama starring Colin Farrell

    Cannes festival to right past wrongs with women directors to the fore

April 2017

  • Okja film still

    Cannes film festival 2017: full list of films

    The official selection has been announced for the 70th Cannes film festival in May 2017. Here are all the titles screening

January 2016

  • Jihadi fighters in Mali

    Jihadi film that sparked censorship row in France released with 18 certificate

    Directors of documentary Salafistes say their aim was to show reality of life under extremists in Africa and Middle East, but some saw it as propaganda

December 2015

  • Shoah 1985 Réal. : Claude Lanzmann COLLECTION CHRISTOPHEL © CLAUDE LANZMAN

    The long read
    The day Israel saw Shoah

    The long read: On a June day in 1986, an audience gathered in Jerusalem for the country’s first screening of Claude Lanzmann’s epic Holocaust documentary. The story of that day, never before told, is the story of how the Shoah continues to reverberate through Israeli life

January 2015

  • The Last of the Unjust

    The Last of the Unjust review – doc about a divisive Holocaust survivor

    Claude Lanzmann’s fascinating interview with the only Jewish ‘elder’ who negotiated with Adolf Eichmann is a subtle study in survivor non-guilt, writes Peter Bradshaw

November 2013

  • GRIZZLY MAN

    Top 10...
    Top 10 documentaries

    Cinema, as Jean-Luc Godard wrote, is truth 24 times a second. Documentaries both prove and disprove the point; but the truth is their strongest weapon. Here, Guardian and Observer critics pick the 10 best

May 2013

  • Lanzmann, left, with Benjamin Murmelstein in 1975, in a still from The Last of the Unjust

    Claude Lanzmann returns to the Holocaust

    Claude Lanzmann's new film focuses on a figure too complex and controversial for his seminal Holocaust documentary, Shoah – the Jewish Council president who collaborated with the Nazis. Agnès Poirier talks to the director about coming to admire a pariah

March 2012

  • Claude Lanzmann: bearing witness

  • Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann

    Claude Lanzmann: the man who stood witness for the world

June 2011

  • Claude Lanzmann, a French writer and documentary filmmaker, in New York.

    Claude Lanzmann on why Holocaust documentary Shoah still matters

    Claude Lanzmann's Holocaust documentary, Shoah, was meant to be an 'incarnation of the truth'. His new film responds to a threat to that truth, he tells Stuart Jeffries

April 2011

  • Bernard Henri-Levy

    French intellectuals feud over Libya campaign

    Film-maker Claude Lanzmann turns against philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, who urged Sarkozy to intervene in Libya
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