Schindlers list - is it as good as the reviews ?

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Anonymous wrote:Most of it. There’s still lots of elements of cheesiness in film making despite it being a Holocaust pic.

This.
Polanski’s The Pianist and even Life Is Beautiful are much better (they cover the same subject). Just rewatched it after seeing it when it first came out.

Life is Beautiful is far too unrealistic.

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Schindler's List is a good film, but it's a Spielberg film, for good and ill.

Other good films about the Holocaust include:
1945 (Hungarian)
Au revoir les enfants (French)
Conspiracy (HBO, mostly British cast)
Denial
Ida (Polish)
In Darkness (Polish)
Judgment at Nuremberg
Son of Saul (Hungarian)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italian)
The People vs. Fritz Bauer (German)
Jacob the Liar (East German)

I would add Europa Europa to this list.

I forgot about Europa Europa-- such a great movie.

I would add:
Playing for time
Au Revoir les Enfants
The Lady at No. 6
Diary of Anne Frank

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Anonymous wrote:This will sound terrible but is there a colourized version? I just can't commit that time to a black and white movie. It's like strapping on a poultice when I know antibiotics exist.

Seriously?

+1. I am not sure how else to respond to the first PP. It's one of the techniques of the film.

Most people don't know this but they actually didn't have color film when Schindler's List was made. I've heard a colorized version will be released for the anniversary edition soon.

What do you mean they didn't have color film? They didn't *use* color film, but it existed. The film was made in 1994, FFS.

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Anonymous wrote:This will sound terrible but is there a colourized version? I just can't commit that time to a black and white movie. It's like strapping on a poultice when I know antibiotics exist.

Seriously?

+1. I am not sure how else to respond to the first PP. It's one of the techniques of the film.

Most people don't know this but they actually didn't have color film when Schindler's List was made. I've heard a colorized version will be released for the anniversary edition soon.

What do you mean they didn't have color film? They didn't *use* color film, but it existed. The film was made in 1994, FFS.

She means the actual paper copy of the list.

Not the movie

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Come and see

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Anonymous wrote:I remember watching it as a matinee when it came out. I never cried fully during the movie but I was tearing the entire time. It truly affected me .

Similar. Saw it in the theater when it first came out. Just saw it once so many years ago and it definitely left a mark.

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Anonymous wrote:This will sound terrible but is there a colourized version? I just can't commit that time to a black and white movie. It's like strapping on a poultice when I know antibiotics exist.

Seriously?

+1. I am not sure how else to respond to the first PP. It's one of the techniques of the film.

Most people don't know this but they actually didn't have color film when Schindler's List was made. I've heard a colorized version will be released for the anniversary edition soon.

What do you mean they didn't have color film? They didn't *use* color film, but it existed. The film was made in 1994, FFS.

She means the actual paper copy of the list.

Not the movie

There were color films in 1944 but Schindler specifically ordered that the list be typed up in black and white so that'd it'd look more dramatic whenever someone made a movie about him.

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Anonymous wrote:Most of it. There’s still lots of elements of cheesiness in film making despite it being a Holocaust pic.

This.
Polanski’s The Pianist and even Life Is Beautiful are much better (they cover the same subject). Just rewatched it after seeing it when it first came out.

Life is Beautiful is far too unrealistic.

+1
Schindler's List is a good film, but it's a Spielberg film, for good and ill.

Other good films about the Holocaust include:
1945 (Hungarian)
Au revoir les enfants (French)
Conspiracy (HBO, mostly British cast)
Denial
Ida (Polish)
In Darkness (Polish)
Judgment at Nuremberg
Son of Saul (Hungarian)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italian)
The People vs. Fritz Bauer (German)
Jacob the Liar (East German)

I would add Europa Europa to this list.

I forgot about Europa Europa-- such a great movie.

I would add:
Playing for time
Au Revoir les Enfants
The Lady at No. 6
Diary of Anne Frank

Playing for time. I saw that when I was a little girl - I never forgot it.

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I went to see it when it came out, but spent the whole movie making out with me girlfriend.

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I actually think Sophie's Choice is among the most powerful Holocaust films, partly because it also depicts how the events affected people even after the war.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to see it when it came out, but spent the whole movie making out with me girlfriend.

You were making out during Schindler's List??? ah what a great episode.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen schindlers list ?
Worth a watch ?

It is worth a watch. To answer the question in the subject line, like most Spielberg movies it is somewhat overrated.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen schindlers list ?
Worth a watch ?

It is excellent. But very hard to watch. Bring some tissues.

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This image and symbolic meaning in the film.

And an indication of a poor directorial choice—this is the prime example of cheese.

NP, agree to disagree. I did not think that was cheesy. Somebody mentioned Life Is Beautiful, which I thought was just a terrible movie - super cheesy. I was only able to watch a few scenes from it (I illegally downloaded it thinking it would be good and quickly realized it sucked). The main character looks like he's only missing makeup to be a clown, and so much of the music and script seems like something a child would write. For better or worse, Schindler's List is probably the best holocaust film there is. Unless you want to get into straight up horror or intentional fictional accounts like Inglorious Basterds or OverLord or something like that.

Never saw life is beautiful, but the pink coat is something that belongs in a hallmark movie.

To each his own. (NP.) I thought that was an especially haunting part to the movie.

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I remember seeing it in a packed theater and when it ended you could not hear a sound, not even breathing.

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Anonymous wrote:I remember seeing it in a packed theater and when it ended you could not hear a sound, not even breathing.

Ditto. It was like someone had sucked all the air out of the room and out of everyone’s lungs as well. We walked out of the theatre and still ... not a sound.