Shoah (Previously Owned BLU-RAY)
Condition: All Three Discs In Like New Condition. Book And Slipcase In Very Good Condition.
SHOAH
Over a decade in the making, Claude Lanzmann's nine-hour-plus opus is a monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, as well as other witnesses), employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming Shoah is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait of the ways in which the past is always present, and it is inarguably one of the most important cinematic works of all time.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED THREE-DISC BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New, restored 4K digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • Three additional films by director Claude Lanzmann: A Visitor from the Living (1999, 68 minutes); Sabibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001, 102 minutes); and The Karski Report (2010, 49 minutes) • New conversation between Lanzmann and critic Serge Toubiana • Interview with Lanzmann from 2003 about A Visitor from the Living and Sobibor • New interview with Caroline Champetier, assistant camera person on Shoah, and filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin • Trailer • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones and writings by Lanzmann