Schindler's List(1993)

Directed by Steven Spielberg, the name is enough. He enjoys immense love and justified appreciation. It’s not just a rumour, but his name transcends to million footfalls to theatres and multiple OTT replays. But this movie is special because as a Jew Spielberg felt the pain of Holocaust and thus this was personal. Spielberg’s paternal grandparents were Jews from Ukraine. I really hope things cool down very soon in…

Reviewed on March 27, 2022

There's a powerful little low-budget effort with Ralph Richardson called "The Silver Fleet" (1943) that illustrates just how difficult it was for those in the occupied territories to continue to do what was right without looking like a collaborator and/or ending up against a wall of Nazi bullets. Well here, Steven Spielberg takes that dangerous occupation and scales it up somewhat as the eponymous Czech…

Reviewed on January 28, 2024

Emotionally powerful and historically very important. This film deals with possibly the hardest topic in human history, and it does it with class, purpose and excellent filmmaking. Liam Neeson is brilliant as Schindler; Fiennes is utterly horrifying as the terrible Goth and all the other character actors hit the mark brilliantly. The decision to make it black and white makes Schindler's List stand-out and feel…

Reviewed on December 19, 2024

I don't know how I feel about this anymore. When it first came out I loved it. I thought it was a great film, but I was 13 and it played on my love for history. Now watching it, it's well done, direction wise I like it. But Mel Brooks did a better job with B&W lighting in Young Frankenstein. I know photography, I know film, and a lot of it I wouldn't have done that way. I wouldn't have done it that way and they are…

Reviewed on May 26, 2025