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A scene from “Incitement,” Yaron Zilberman’s new film about religious nationalist Yigal Amir and his 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Courtesy Greenwich Entertainment
January 29, 2020, 12:08 pm
How to shoot an assassin
In ‘Incitement,’ about the Rabin killing, Yaron Zilberman walks a tightrope in portraying Yigal Amir and ‘the forces that acted upon him’
By George Robinson
Lanzmann’s “Shoah,” from 1985, represented a new paradigm that spoke directly to the basic problem of documenting the murder of six million European Jews. How do you depict an absence?
July 11, 2018, 2:53 pm
Claude Lanzmann and the cinema of memory and absence
Remembering the ‘Shoah’ documentarian and how the lessons of his epic film echo in today’s headlines
By George Robinson
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