Schindler's List (DVD)

Judged by traditional Hollywood criteria, Schindler's List gets everything wrong. It's over 3 hours long, is shot entirely in black and white, has a depressing theme and is directed by someone with only a limited track record on "issue" films. I guess the fact it went on to win multiple awards, pack out cinemas and endures as a powerful piece of film-making shows what Studio Execs know. Schindler's List tells the moving story of the Polish Jews during World War II and how some of them, under the protection of German capitalist Oskar Schindler, managed to survive the ghettos and concentration camps. Directed by Steven Spielberg, this is ...  Read the complete review

Steven Spielberg tends to be a heavy-handed director who attempts to manipulate his audience as much as possible, and often doesn't credit them the intelligence they deserve. It's easy to get away with this when your film is a blockbuster, but when your story is about Oskar Schindler and the Schindler Jews then it?s a very different ball game. Thankfully with 'Schindler's List' Spielberg dispenses with a great deal of this and tells the story in an intelligent yet straight-forward fashion. He has still been accused of trying to manipulate emotions by some critics - yet the examples they give are the ones that, according to the DVD extras, are based ...  Read the complete review

Spielberg's authentic adaption of Thomas Keneally's Booker Prize winning novel 'Schindler's Arc' a moving, stark and often distrubing but captivating film details the heroism of Oskar Schindler ( Liam Neeson)a german industrialist whom became dedicated to saving jews from their fate with the nazis. Upon his arrival in Crakow Poland in 1939 he aimed to exploit the cheap and readily available jewish labour from the warsaw ghetto which he did, amongst them the highly regarded jewish book-keeper(Ben Kingsley)However Schindler soon realised the horrors happening within the ghetto and beyond, to the jews and targeted his energies in bribing and ...  Read the complete review

***Schindler's List (1993)*** I watched this again the other night when it was on Sky. Even though I have seen it before and I know what is coming, I still find it a very powerful and thought provoking film. I think most certainly for young adults it is essential viewing. One day there will be no one left with first hand accounts of the type of atrocities that occurred and so it is a poignant reminder, so that we don't forget... ***Brief Synopsis*** This film is an adaptation of the book by Thomas Keneally. It tells the story of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) who set up a factory in Poland, staffed with Jews, as a way to make money out ...  Read the complete review

We had fish and chips for tea last night. We felt somewhat belittled by the level of culinary quality on the final of Masterchef that we thought takeaway was the best bet. Having stuffed ourselves, I thought I'd watch a nice, short and fun film. So, God only knows why I chose Schindler's List! It's over 3 hours long, stark and disturbing, and brings you completely down to earth, making you thank your lucky stars for what you've got. In 1994, this was received with rapturous praise for its honesty and bleak dealings with the treatment of Jews by the Nazis in World War 2. The film starts us off with some raising classical music as we see a candle burning in full ...  Read the complete review