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Jul 21, 2016 · Short as it is, Night and Fog has major contradictions that might be advanced as criticisms but might also explain its extraordinary power. Its impetus had come from history and politics, a drive to record the evils of Nazism, and the film is determined to anchor the camps in that historical reality.
- Night and Fog Alain Resnais
Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration...
- Peter Cowie
The composer is credited with scoring eleven films for...
- Night and Fog Alain Resnais
Directed by Alain Resnais, it was made ten years after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. The title is taken from the Nacht und Nebel (German for "Night and Fog") program of abductions and disappearances decreed by Nazi Germany.
Dec 8, 2023 · Read our review of "Night and Fog," the 1956 documentary by Alain Resnais, which remains one of the most powerful and poignant meditations on the Holocaust. Discover how this short film's stark imagery and narration create a timeless reminder of the atrocities of war.
Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek in Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard), one of the first cinematic reflections on the Holocaust.
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Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek in Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard), one of the first cinematic reflections on the Holocaust. Juxtaposing the stillness of the abandoned camps’ empty buildings with haunting wartime footage, Resnais in...
The Criterion Collection reissues Alain Resnais’ short film Night and Fogon Blu-ray, presenting the film in the aspect ratio of 1.37:1 on this dual-layer disc. This new 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation comes from a new 4K restoration scanned from the original negative. This upgrade is a bit of a surprise for me: originally a budget release o...
The lossless French PCM 1.0 mono track sounds a bit cleaner and sharper in comparison to the DVD, though it’s a quiet, reflective film, so doesn’t show off in any way. Still, the music is sharp and clean, never coming off edgy, and the restoration work has been pretty thorough. The previous DVD came with an isolated score track, but that track is m...
The previous DVD was a budget release (only $14.95 MSRP) with only one significant feature. Criterion has priced this edition at the standard $39.95, which I admittedly question (again, the film is only 32-minutes long), but at least they offer a few more supplements. They do carry over the previous edition’s short 5-minute audio excerpt taken from...
I do question the standard price point for a 32-minute film, but Criterion at least offers a couple of hours’ worth of special features that manage to add a good amount of value to it. Taking that into account and then the new restoration, which vastly improves over the previous DVD, and the release still comes with a strong recommendation. BUY AT:
The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside. One of the most vivid depictions of the horrors of Nazi Concentration Camps.
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Jun 23, 2003 · Night and Fog looks forward, in Resnais’ career, to other films that would obsess over memory and forgetfulness, such as Hiroshima mon amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), Muriel (1963), and Providence (1977).
