Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful is the drama every comic probably wishes he had made. In this life-affirming Italian "concentration-camp comedy," Benigni uses the Holocaust as a backdrop for telling a heartfelt story about a father who protects his son from the gas chambers by the use of the only weapons at his command: his quick imagination, outlandish buffoonery, and scrappy determination.

"...every comic probably wishes he had made. This Italian "concentration-camp comedy" believes that the powers of humor and joy..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Served the King of England

The new film from Czech New Wave hero Jirí Menzel presents a whimsical version of 20th century European history.

"...from the homes of Jews sent off to Nazi concentration camps; never mind that the hotel he works for..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Academy Award-Nominated Live-Action Shorts 2009

Good things come in small packages.

"...Jochen Alexander Freydank’s film and an unfortunate euphemism for concentration camps. The short also includes a reference to Ionesco’s..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Rape of Europa

During WWII, works of art were moved, hidden, and plundered on a vast and often institutional scale, and this film documents the shaky process of reclamation.

"...art and be exterminating millions of people in nearby concentration camps – I couldn’t understand it then, and I..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Letters at 3AM

We share a collective amnesia about the 1950 U.S. law that permitted the concentration camp internment of known Communists and others "liable to become subversives"

"...refused again to disclose the purpose of five prison camps authorized by Congress for handling subversives. ... As many..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Labyrinth of Lies

German postwar drama looks at national psyche scarred by the Nazi era

"...whose attempts to prosecute soldiers stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp led to the 1963-65 Frankfurt Auschwitz trials...."

Oct. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

A Fake Disease That Saved Real Lives in Syndrome K

New documentary reveals a secret history of Italian resistance

"...a fake disease and saving many Roman Jews from concentration camps...."

Aug. 15, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Anne Frank Remembered

"...childhood friends, a cousin, neighbors, some survivors of the concentration camps who recall the Franks. Their recollections fill in..."

April 19, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Counterfeiters

Winner of this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Film, this brisk Austrian film uncovers the moral choices faced by WWII concentration-camp victims selected to work on the Nazi effort to create bogus currency.

"...he is busted for counterfeiting and sent to a concentration camp, where he bears the mark of a habitual..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Final Account

How growing up in the Third Reich warped generations

"...Waffen-SS, and women who managed the books at the concentration camp at Dachau. And as these stories intertwine, they..."

May 21, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

'Creativity in the Face of Death: The Contemporary Resonance of Terezín'

UT symposium honors and ponders art created in the Nazi concentration camp

"...Austin Oct. 3-11. Its focus is the notorious Nazi concentration camp in Czechoslovakia that was promoted as a model..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lee

Underwhelming biopic of the underappreciated war photographer Lee Miller

"...can imagine – including field hospitals, a liberated Paris, concentration camps, and inside Hitler’s private bath – and drink..."

Sept. 27, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dara of Jasenovac

A forgotten corner of the Holocaust revisited

"...the Holocaust, when Serbs and Roma were butchered in concentration camps of the Jasenovac complex...."

Feb. 26, 2021 Movie Review

The AggreGAYtor: June 25

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...Alright Texas homophobes, off to the concentration camps for you...."

June 25, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

Sarah's Key

Two parallel stories from different eras intertwine and inform each other in this film based on Tatiana de Rosnay’s best-selling novel.

"...Katrina) before shipping them off to Auschwitz and other concentration camps. Before the police knocked on her family’s door,..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Children of Men

Children of Men brims with cinematic gusto, but the plot raises more questions than it answers.

"...streets, and immigrants are rounded up and placed in concentration camps. Although the story's action occurs in England, we..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rosenstrasse

Von Trotta puts a human face on 1943's Rosenstrasse uprising, one of the few public, and moreover, successful citizen protests against the power of the Nazi regime.

"...were gathered there to presumably await transfer to the concentration camps. Most of the detainees were men, and thus..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Marius and Jeannette

"...who sometimes tells stories of her days in the concentration camps and sometimes has companionable sex with her old..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Scanlines

"...beg forgiveness. Anton, who is a survivor of the concentration camps, has become a prominent Frankfurt businessman. He runs..."

June 23, 1995 Arts Feature

Letters at 3AM

Black Helicopters

"...another fantasy that I wish were more far-fetched: that concentration camps are being built to corral dissidents. It has..."

May 12, 1995 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two: I Am Trump, You Are Trump

The dangerous cancer of a charismatic populist demagogue leader

"...predictions has always seemed just annoying. FEMA is preparing concentration camps, the president is going to cancel the elections,..."

June 3, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Deportation Camps in the Works: Concentration camps across the USA? It..."

Dec. 20, 2024 News Feature

Delving Deeper Into the Archive of a Dark Time

Doc Nights: Shoah: The Unseen Interviews

"...any historical archival footage, the now-familiar images of death camps, or the mass graves scattered throughout the Polish countryside,..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Letters at 3AM: Auschwitz Up the Block

To retain our humanity, we remember the unthinkable

"...drift of the narration. Families had been put into "concentration camps" (that repeated phrase stuck); this and that gruesome..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Ice

The first of Vladimir Sorokin's novels to be translated into English; the author will be at BookPeople on Saturday

"...1 million armed SS administering to a network of concentration camps...."

April 27, 2007 Books Review by Shawn Badgley

Triumph of the Yellow Kid

Comics are art, Spiegelman notes in his panel-busting history lesson

"...Holocaust and its aftermath, of surviving the Nazi death camps and being the child of a survivor, of family..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Out and About

13th Annual Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival

"...is mostly gay men) who were sent to Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The title is a..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Xmas Bazaars, Xmas Movies, Xbox Parties, and More Recommended Events

Get your weekdays planned out

"...of misery and cruelty. She is found everywhere: wars, concentration camps, tortures, assassinations.”   – Brant Bingamon Last Holiday..."

Dec. 13, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

aGLIFF President Todd Hogan and Spotlighting Filmmaker Fernando Andrés Reflect on Identity

PRISM 37 highlights the poignantly human and relatable

"...was the symbol that gay men wore in the concentration camps back in Nazi Germany. But fewer people know..."

Aug. 21, 2024 Screens Post by Cy White

How Pickle Envy Is Turning Fermentation Into an Act of Resistance

Brining for justice

"...migrant detention centers along the border reminded her of concentration camps...."

Jan. 5, 2024 Food Feature by Andrew Turner

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