{"id":87,"date":"2006-08-29T16:42:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T20:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/87"},"modified":"2007-05-30T23:25:32","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T03:25:32","slug":"night-and-fog-1955-alain-resnais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/87","title":{"rendered":"Night and Fog (1955, Alain Resnais)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More straightforward and less poetic than it usually gets credit for, pretty much a straight half-hour documentary about the holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>More educational, more heartbreaking, more shocking, more horrible and a far better movie than any of the 60-minute PBS documentaries I&#8217;ve seen on the subject, any two-hour fictionalized concentration-camp movie, any three-plus-hour Steven Spielberg feature.<\/p>\n<p>The poetic parts are mostly at the start and end, and in the juxtaposition between the 50&#8217;s color film and the 30&#8217;s-40&#8217;s b\/w stock footage.  Must be hard to craft an artistic film against this sort of imagery.  Jean Cayrol (Muriel ou Le temps d&#8217;un retour) wrote the commentary and Chris Marker was assistant director.<\/p>\n<p>Katy, if I seemed a little depressed on Sunday night, this is why.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/nightandfog1.jpg\" alt=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/nightandfog2.jpg\" alt=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More straightforward and less poetic than it usually gets credit for, pretty much a straight half-hour documentary about the holocaust. More educational, more heartbreaking, more shocking, more horrible and a far better movie than any of the 60-minute PBS documentaries I&#8217;ve seen on the subject, any two-hour fictionalized concentration-camp movie, any three-plus-hour Steven Spielberg feature. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,7,13,34,122,131,21,37],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-alain-resnais","tag-chris-marker","tag-criterion","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-memory","tag-shorts","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}