Vimeo is an amazing video service for original creative work, but its also a company with real human employees. Newly restored, it has a fine appearance and doesnt attempt to fix a few flawed german news film clips that were always so. Night and fog is a 1956 french documentary short film. The film stars simon yam and zhang jingchu who play the couple. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the holocaust, night and fog nuit et brouillard contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage. This is fitting, as this is how the film starts, as mr machan tom houseman regales a group of captivated local children with a tale of death and mysterious fog that befell the clipper ship elizabeth dane and her crew 100 years ago on that very night. The history of nazi germanys death camps of the final solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
Rent night and fog 1955 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Nuit et brouillard is a 1956 french documentary short film. A look at alan resnais masterwork night and fog, a half hour film that looks at the aftermath of world war 2 and the nazi war crimes that came from the nazi ideology that built before the war. The film was originally released in france as nuit et brouillard. Required viewing for anyone interested in history, politics, sociology, philosophy, law, ethics, or has an interest in the. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Alain resnaiss night and fog nuit et brouillard, 1955 is a 31minute film about the nazi concentration camps that has been called the greatest documentary film every made indeed, francois truffaut called it simply the greatest film ever made 1. Barely 30 minutes in length, the short film comprises a current for 1955 tour of the various concentration camps intercut with archival video from them.
Nuit et brouillard night and fog 1955 rotten tomatoes. The fog is a 2005 american supernatural horror film directed by rupert wainwright and starring tom welling, selma blair, and maggie grace. Alain resnais night and fog nuit et brouillard runs barely over 30 minutes, yet it manages to pack a lifetime of horrors into its halfhour length. Alain resnaiss brilliant and disturbing documentary of the nazi concentration camps. The opposition is reinforced by the rhythm of the editing. In fact it would be through night and fog that many viewers first learned, as film critic serge daney put it, that the worst had only just taken place. The fog is one of many films that forever embedded the power of cinema in my impressionable, adolescent brain. Framed as a documentary, the film is an unsettling view of life inside the nazi concentration. In the fog is a coproduction with the netherlands, and were reminded of harry mulischs uncompromisingly spiky novel the assault the film version of which won a. It is the second and final volume of ann huis tin shui wai series, the. This means that one color shot lasts on average as long as five blackand. Everything you need to know about night and fog movie. Stream onlinesign up required full watch night and fog free movie online night and fog 1955 documentary history war indie foreign.
On or about december 24, 2009 the film was in development status. It must have seemed like an inspired idea to make a horror movie in which clouds of fog would be the menace, but the idea just doesnt work out in the fog, john carpenters first thriller since halloween. Directed by alain resnais 1955 france ten years after the liberation of the nazi concentration camps, filmmaker alain resnais documented the abandoned. Night and fog represents the peak of director alain resnais activities as a short subject filmmaker. Hear classic music from night and fog, 1955, directed by alain resnais, with michel bouquet, at tcm.
The source material occasionally turned a bit soft or indistinct, but not frequently. It stars adrienne barbeau, jamie lee curtis, tom atkins, janet leigh and hal holbrook. Directed by alain resnais, it was made ten years after the liberation of. Like a master conductor, director alain resnais hiroshima, mon amour, last year at marienbad weaves contemporary images of the abandoned camp at auschwitz with newsreel footage of the atrocities that. Resnais juxtaposes the quiet countryside with hell and death and creates the feeling of historys worst nightmare. It tells the story of a strange, glowing fog that sweeps over a small coastal town in california, bringing with it the vengeful ghosts of mariners who were killed. The oscarnominated documentarian discusses resnaiss filmmade in 1955, ten years after the liberation of the nazi concentration campswhich was one of the first to confront the devastation of the holocaust. Sylvie lindepergs full history of the film, titled simply night and fog, tells us, the average length of a color shot is just under twenty seconds, and of a blackandwhite shot, fourandahalf seconds. But doesnt there appear something excessive about a 300plus page book on a film that runs to only 32. The documentary film from french director resnais set ten years after the second world. This is night and fog by umschoolofcommunication on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. The fog was released into theaters on february 8th, 1980. The campfire scene early on is perfectly attuned to this notion, so as the number of scare scenes sprawled in the film. Interweaving wartime footage with haunting images of.
One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the holocaust, night and fog contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps with haunting wartime footage. All images are details from iphone photos taken of the film playing from the criterion bluray. Alain resnais interview on night and fog nuit et brouillard 1955 duration. Based on a murder case that happened in tin shui wai in 2004, the film attempts to raise awareness of some issues related to new immigrants in hong kong. Directed by alain resnais, it was made ten years after the liberation of german concentration camps. Night and fog is a 1956 french historical documentary short film. Night and fog english subtitled ten years after the liberation of the nazi concentration camps, filmmaker alain resnais documented the abandoned grounds of auschwitz. Filmed in 1955 at several concentration camps in poland, the film combines new color and black and white footage with black and white newsreels, footage shot by the victorious allies, and stills, to tell the story not only of the camps, but to portray the horror of mans brutal inhumanity. John carpenter, a known conjurer of fright and respected genre figurehead, refers to his 1980 shocker the fog as a childrens film. The documentary film from french director resnais set ten years after the second world war depicts the problems of auschwitz with shocking images from the concentration camps. The story of night and fog is based on a real murdersuicide case in 2004 and draws a picture of hong kong, which is viewed by mainland chinese as a city of hope, in a way that couldnt be more dismal and depressing.
The fog is encouraging because it contains another demonstration of carpenters considerable directing talents. Directed by alain resnais, it was made ten years after the. Required viewing for anyone interested in history, politics, sociology. Ten years after the liberation of the nazi concentration camps, filmmaker alain resnais documented the abandoned grounds of auschwitz. Night and fog with music of fred vogels to show why back to normandy. The movie freaked me out when i was a kid, and that experience is probably one of the reasons why i currently write for classichorror. The atrocities of nazi germanys concentration camps of the final solution are documented in this documentary film. Night and fog represents the peak of director alain resnais activities as a shortsubject filmmaker. In 1956, just a few years after the holocaust came to an end, director alain resnais released the documentary nuit et brouillard meaning night and fog. Film analysis of night and fog by alain resnais 887 words 4 pages.
Hong kongs disadvantaged underclass has become a popular topic in recent years, and with the economy such as it is, ann huis newest, night and fog, couldnt have more relevancy if it tried. He picked the wrong story, i think, but he directs it with a flourish. With michel bouquet, reinhard heydrich, heinrich himmler, adolf hitler. The movies made with style and energy, but it needs a better villain. Actual footage of nazi atrocities is edited into a surreal journey of horror. With night and fog, resnais investigates the cyclical nature of mans violence toward man and presents. And that story isnt the only strange thing to be heard that night. Unknownusers submitted by lindsey h on 02052001 16. With night and fog, resnais investigates the cyclical nature of mans violence toward man and presents the unsettling suggestion that such horrors could come again. This was the first of john carpenters eight films that would span almost the entire decade of the 80s where he would direct one every year with the exception of 1985 and 1989, cementing his status as one of the genres most.
The fog is the latest movie from the hollywood chopshop mentality of taking halfwitted horror movie plots, cleaning them up to pg standards. The fog is a 1980 american supernatural horror film directed by john carpenter, who also cowrote the screenplay and created the music for the film. I fantasmi di quegli antichi marinai tornano trasportati dalla nebbia per vendicarsi. Blame it on burnt out synapses, if you will, but i cannot recall if i saw this film. Certainly the idea of making a film about such a horror must have been a daunting prospect to a person of resnaiss integrity, and when he. Tutti film completi trovati su youtube buona visione. When it comes to holocaust documentaries, there is simply no further word than alain resnaiss night and fog. A look at the night and fog behindthescenes crew and production team. It is a remake of john carpenters 1980 film of the same name and was produced by carpenter and debra hill who cowrote the original film.
Hailed as one of the worlds greatest documentaries, night and fog is the definitive film on nazi concentration camps and a devastating record of mans inhumanity to man. A mere decade had passed since the end of the war, and the french public was unprepared to confront the horrors shown in the filmlet alone the possibility of french complicity. New transfer with restored image and sound and improved subtitle translation. Directed by alain resnais, it was made ten years after the liberation of german concentrati. The drama that unfolds in the film is mainly carried. The documentary features the abandoned grounds of auschwitz and majdanek. There have been numerous books about the making of a film. The film is presented in both color and black and white, and is narrated in french by michael bouquet. The picture seemed surprisingly strong given the age and genre of the production. The criterion collections bluray of night and fog is an exemplary disc of a film that in other hands might be desired viewing for the wrong reasons. The films narrative follows a strange fog that sweeps in over an island town in the coast of oregon.
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