Glazers

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freePlaywright and screenwriter Tony Kushner has spoken out in support of director Jonathan Glazer who is facing backlash over his Oscars acceptance speech.Kushner, who has won Pulitzer and Tony awards for his play Angels in America, said on the Haaretz Podcast released Wednesday that he identified with Glazer’s speech and described it as “really sort of unimpeachable, irrefutable…

The playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner has come to the defence of director Jonathan Glazer, whose speech at the Oscars nearly a fortnight ago continues to polarise opinion.Picking up his award for best foreign language film on 10 March, Glazer related his film, The Zone of Interest, to current events in the Middle East.He said he hoped his movie, which shows the domestic lives of Rudolph and Hedwig Höss just outside the walls of Auschwitz, where he was camp commandant, “shows where dehumanisation leads, at its…

Tony Kushner has come out in support of Jonathan Glazer‘s Oscars acceptance speech, describing the British directer’s comments at the ceremony as an “unimpeachable irrefutable statement.” Speaking on the Haaretz Podcast which was released Wednesday, Kushner, a four-time Academy Award nominated screenwriter, was asked about his feelings about a number of topics related to the Israel-Gaza conflict and was directly about Glazer’s speech which has been attacked by some Jewish figures in Hollywood and was…

The director of “The Zone of Interest”, Jonathan Glazer, who won Best International Feature at the Oscars has angered many jews with this acceptance speech. During his note of thanks he connected the film’s theme of dehumanisation to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. Director Jonathan Glazer wins the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for "The Zone of Interest" of United Kingdom during the Oscars show at the 96th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 10, 2024. REUTERS/Mike…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeWill & Grace star Debra Messing and Hostel director Eli Roth are among the 450 Jewish creatives and Hollywood executives who have signed an open letter denouncing director Jonathan Glazer for the speech he gave at this year’s Oscars.Glazer was accepting the Oscar for Best International Film for The Zone of Interest, his movie about an Auschwitz commandant and his wife who try to…

László Nemes, the director of acclaimed film Son of Saul, has criticised The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars acceptance speech.Speaking at the ceremony on Sunday, Glazer said he and his producer, James Wilson, “stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people, whether the victims of October 7 in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza.”Glazer’s words have met with both applause and opprobrium, including…

With the conflict in Gaza looming large over Sunday’s Oscars ceremony and sparking a pro-Palestinian protest outside the venue, director Jonathan Glazer gave the evening’s most politically charged speech on the subject when he took the stage to accept the international film award for his Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest.” Glazer, who is Jewish, directly linked his film’s chilling depiction of a Nazi commandant’s family blithely living just outside the walls of Auschwitz to the current crisis unfolding in Israel…

Before you read on, a word of caution. There are some films – many of them – that impress on a first viewing but which start to trickle away, like a handful of sand, the moment you leave the cinema. Then there are others, far fewer in number, that strike like a lightning bolt on a first watch and stay with you, scarring themselves into your psyche and subtly but permanently shifting your movie-viewing paradigm on its axis. Jonathan Glazer’s masterful and chilling The Zone of Interest fell into the second group for me. I…