Alfred Hitchcock

Out of the ashes of the Holocaust, a haunting tribute to ‘Vertigo’

With his latest film, “Phoenix,” German auteur Christian Petzold tells a heartbreaking story of love, loss and mistaken identity.

By Curt Schleier July 26, 2015 2:44 pm

70 years on, Hitchcock Holocaust doc finds an audience

The film draws heavily on the footage taken at the camps by combat and newsreel cameramen in the days and weeks after liberation.

May 19, 2015 3:08 pm

Tonight! New Film Tells the Real Story Behind Hitchcock’s Holocaust Footage

For the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, there can be no better commemoration than Night Will Fall, a new documentary airing tonight on HBO. Masterfully directed by Andre Singer, Night Will Fall is the story of a story. In 1945, the British Army Film Unit commissioned producer Sydney Bernstein to make a documentary from […]

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