The phrase “bear witness” is often used to describe the perpetual requirement to expose, affirm, and explain the events of the Holocaust. But how do we continue to meet this need for history and humanity when the witnesses themselves are gone?
This is the question with which French documentarian Christophe Cognet has grappled for much of his career. Cognet’s specific interest is in the art left behind, and therefore carried forward, by victims who would otherwise have been silenced. “From Where They Stood” continues his quest by examining the few photographs that were taken by prisoners in concentration camps and still exist today.
Each segment of the film is dedicated to the photos captured by one person, like Rudolf Cisar, who managed to take around 50 photos at Dachau. Or Georges Angeli, who took 11 clandestine pictures at Buchenwald, or Alberto Errera, who was killed after attempting to escape Auschwitz in...
This is the question with which French documentarian Christophe Cognet has grappled for much of his career. Cognet’s specific interest is in the art left behind, and therefore carried forward, by victims who would otherwise have been silenced. “From Where They Stood” continues his quest by examining the few photographs that were taken by prisoners in concentration camps and still exist today.
Each segment of the film is dedicated to the photos captured by one person, like Rudolf Cisar, who managed to take around 50 photos at Dachau. Or Georges Angeli, who took 11 clandestine pictures at Buchenwald, or Alberto Errera, who was killed after attempting to escape Auschwitz in...
- 7/29/2022
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
Encapsulating humanity’s weighty history and paths toward healing, director Véra Belmont (“Red Kiss”) takes a leap from live-action cinema to animated feature with her latest project, “My Father’s Secrets,” a Holocaust story that tackles generational familial trauma and redemption.
Based on the graphic novel “Second Generation” by Israeli illustrator Michel Kichka, the film is set for its market premiere at the Cannes Marché du Film, with the incentive for international markets of Elliott Gould leading the English voice cast.
“My Father’s Secrets,” set in Belgium, introduces two young brothers, Michel and Charly, who struggle with their father Henri’s reclusive nature surrounding his time at Auschwitz.
Their imaginations get the better of them as their father retreats inward on a personal journey to recoup his life after surviving the tragedies of internment. They hypothesize, snoop and act out in response, causing familial friction.
Sold by Simon Crowe...
Based on the graphic novel “Second Generation” by Israeli illustrator Michel Kichka, the film is set for its market premiere at the Cannes Marché du Film, with the incentive for international markets of Elliott Gould leading the English voice cast.
“My Father’s Secrets,” set in Belgium, introduces two young brothers, Michel and Charly, who struggle with their father Henri’s reclusive nature surrounding his time at Auschwitz.
Their imaginations get the better of them as their father retreats inward on a personal journey to recoup his life after surviving the tragedies of internment. They hypothesize, snoop and act out in response, causing familial friction.
Sold by Simon Crowe...
- 5/18/2022
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
In "Charlotte," the new animated film from directors Eric Warin and Tahir Rana, Keira Knightly voices a Jewish painter coming of age in Germany as World War II breaks out. This is no family movie, but rather one that tackles history and the Holocaust head-on.
Charlotte" premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September of 2021. Since then, among other things, we've seen a Tennessee school board vote unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel, "Maus" — based on his father's real-life experiences as a Holocaust survivor — from its eighth-grade curriculum. We've also seen Russia...
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Charlotte" premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September of 2021. Since then, among other things, we've seen a Tennessee school board vote unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel, "Maus" — based on his father's real-life experiences as a Holocaust survivor — from its eighth-grade curriculum. We've also seen Russia...
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- 3/22/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
Whoopi Goldberg made her return to The View Monday following a two-week suspension.
“Yes, I am back," Goldberg said at the top of the episode.
“We’re going to keep having tough conversations,” Goldberg added.
“And in part, because this is what we’ve been hired to do. And it’s not always pretty, as I said, and it is not always as other people would like to hear."
"But it is an honor to sit at this table and be able to have these conversations, because they are important."
"They are important to us as a nation and to us more so as a human entity.”
The controversy started following the episode that aired Monday, January 31.
The cast talked about a Tennessee school board’s banning of the graphic novel Maus, with Goldberg saying that “the Holocaust isn’t about race… it’s about man’s inhumanity to man.
“Yes, I am back," Goldberg said at the top of the episode.
“We’re going to keep having tough conversations,” Goldberg added.
“And in part, because this is what we’ve been hired to do. And it’s not always pretty, as I said, and it is not always as other people would like to hear."
"But it is an honor to sit at this table and be able to have these conversations, because they are important."
"They are important to us as a nation and to us more so as a human entity.”
The controversy started following the episode that aired Monday, January 31.
The cast talked about a Tennessee school board’s banning of the graphic novel Maus, with Goldberg saying that “the Holocaust isn’t about race… it’s about man’s inhumanity to man.
- 2/14/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Whoopi Goldberg returned to her co-host seat at ABC’s “The View” on Monday following a two-week-long suspension due to remarks she made on the program last month about the Holocaust that drew backlash.
“Well, hello, hello, hello and welcome to ‘The View.’ And yes, I am back… And I missed you all, too,” Goldberg said to viewers and her co-hosts at the top of Monday’s show. “I’ve got to tell you, there’s something kind of marvelous about being on a show like this, because we are ‘The View’ and this is what we do. And sometimes we don’t do it as delicately as we could… But it’s five minutes to get in important information about topics. And that’s what we try to do every day. And I want to thank everybody who reached out while I was away.”
She continued: “And I’m telling you,...
“Well, hello, hello, hello and welcome to ‘The View.’ And yes, I am back… And I missed you all, too,” Goldberg said to viewers and her co-hosts at the top of Monday’s show. “I’ve got to tell you, there’s something kind of marvelous about being on a show like this, because we are ‘The View’ and this is what we do. And sometimes we don’t do it as delicately as we could… But it’s five minutes to get in important information about topics. And that’s what we try to do every day. And I want to thank everybody who reached out while I was away.”
She continued: “And I’m telling you,...
- 2/14/2022
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
The Tennessee school board that controversially banned Maus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, stood by their decision during a packed school board meeting Thursday.
Librarians, members of the Jewish community and more asked the McMinn County Board of Education to reconsider their unanimous decision to remove Maus from the curriculum. Despite the nationwide uproar following the ban — as well as the criticism from Maus author Art Spiegelman — the school board refused to reconsider, reiterating that the graphic novel was not banned due to its subject matter but...
Librarians, members of the Jewish community and more asked the McMinn County Board of Education to reconsider their unanimous decision to remove Maus from the curriculum. Despite the nationwide uproar following the ban — as well as the criticism from Maus author Art Spiegelman — the school board refused to reconsider, reiterating that the graphic novel was not banned due to its subject matter but...
- 2/12/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
"An American Tail" is not only one of the highest-grossing animated films of all time, but it also serves as Steven Spielberg's entry into the world of animation. After the success of "An American Tail" and director Don Bluth's follow-up "The Land Before Time", Spielberg decided to go all-in on animation — founding the short-lived Amblimation studio and producing hit cartoons including "Tiny Toon Adventures" and "Animaniacs".
But "American Tail's" success nearly led to a lawsuit from the creator of another mouse-centered tail.
Prior to "An American Tail's" release, Art Spiegelman was hard at work crafting his graphic novel masterpiece "Maus." Upon reading the description of "An...
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But "American Tail's" success nearly led to a lawsuit from the creator of another mouse-centered tail.
Prior to "An American Tail's" release, Art Spiegelman was hard at work crafting his graphic novel masterpiece "Maus." Upon reading the description of "An...
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- 2/8/2022
- by Collier Jennings
- Slash Film
In January of 2022, in Tennessee, the McMinn County Board of Education voted unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel "Maus" from its eighth-grade curriculum. Citing foul language, the school board questioned whether or not the book's depiction of the Holocaust -- an account given to the author by his father Vladek, who survived -- was appropriate for 13-year-olds. The Board also wondered if there was a more genteel -- my word -- approach to the World War II Holocaust, positing that there are other works of historical fiction that would be more educational and perhaps less harrowing. The ban immediately attracted...
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- 2/4/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
On the January 31, 2022 episode of ABC's "The View," the hosts were discussing the recent decision by a Tennessee school district to ban Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning serialized nonfiction graphic novel "Maus." Spiegelman wrote "Maus" by interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and survivor of the Holocaust, depicting Jews as mice, Germans as cats, Poles as pigs, Americans as dogs, the English as fish, the French as frogs, and the Swedish as deer. The district banned the book on grounds of "inappropriate language and nudity," an absurd claim to make regarding a...
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- 2/2/2022
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Whoopi Goldberg’s co-hosts on “The View” had nothing to say about her two-week suspension Wednesday. Or if they did, they held their tongues.
Goldberg was suspended from the show on Tuesday night, a day after she caused controversy by saying the Holocaust “isn’t about race.” In announcing the suspension, ABC News president Kim Godwin said she asked Goldberg “to take time to reflect.”
On Wednesday, “The View” panel did not take time to reflect on Whoopi’s suspension — or her two apologies.
Host Joy Behar opened the show with a brief mention of the suspension before moving on.
“You saw the news,” Behar said. “Whoopi’s out for the next two weeks. Ok.” And that was that.
In contrast, as Goldberg dug her heels in Monday about the Holocaust, her co-hosts took pains to get clarification and point out that the Nazis did in fact believe that Aryans were “the master race.
Goldberg was suspended from the show on Tuesday night, a day after she caused controversy by saying the Holocaust “isn’t about race.” In announcing the suspension, ABC News president Kim Godwin said she asked Goldberg “to take time to reflect.”
On Wednesday, “The View” panel did not take time to reflect on Whoopi’s suspension — or her two apologies.
Host Joy Behar opened the show with a brief mention of the suspension before moving on.
“You saw the news,” Behar said. “Whoopi’s out for the next two weeks. Ok.” And that was that.
In contrast, as Goldberg dug her heels in Monday about the Holocaust, her co-hosts took pains to get clarification and point out that the Nazis did in fact believe that Aryans were “the master race.
- 2/2/2022
- by Jeremy Bailey
- The Wrap
Whoop Goldberg’s “The View” co-hosts Joy Behar, Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin remained silent on the Wednesday, Feb. 2, episode of the ABC daytime talk show regarding Goldberg’s two-week suspension. ABC News president Kim Godwin announced in the evening of Tuesday, Feb., 1 that Goldberg would be suspended from “The View” following Goldberg’s remarks that the Holocaust was “not about race.” Behar started the Wednesday morning episode of “The View” by reiterating that Goldberg would be off the show for two weeks, then the hosts moved on to the “Hot Topics” segment.
“You all saw the news,” Behar said. “Whoopi will be back here in two weeks.”
According to a report from The Daily Beast, a source close to “The View” says “most of [Goldberg’s] co-hosts are furious with the network” for suspending Goldberg after she made numerous apologies about her Holocaust remarks. Ana Navarro, a regular co-host on “The View...
“You all saw the news,” Behar said. “Whoopi will be back here in two weeks.”
According to a report from The Daily Beast, a source close to “The View” says “most of [Goldberg’s] co-hosts are furious with the network” for suspending Goldberg after she made numerous apologies about her Holocaust remarks. Ana Navarro, a regular co-host on “The View...
- 2/2/2022
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Just hours after ABC News announced Whoopi Goldberg’s two-week suspension from The View, her fellow co-hosts addressed the controversy live on the air… sort of.
Joy Behar opened Wednesday’s broadcast by saying, “You all saw the news. Whoopi will be back in two weeks,” before moving on to Hot Topics (as if that isn’t a hot topic worth discussing).
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Watch Behar (barely...
Joy Behar opened Wednesday’s broadcast by saying, “You all saw the news. Whoopi will be back in two weeks,” before moving on to Hot Topics (as if that isn’t a hot topic worth discussing).
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- 2/2/2022
- by Andy Swift
- TVLine.com
Update (2/2): According to The Daily Beast, Whoopi Goldberg’s co-hosts at The View are upset about the two week suspension she received after remarks about the Holocaust. Sources said Goldberg’s colleagues Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar are furious about the decision, while Ana Navarro, a frequent guest host on the talk show, said, “I love Whoopi Goldberg. I love The View. This was an incredibly unfortunate incident. Whoopi is a lifelong ally to the Jewish community. She is not an antisemite. Period. I am sad. And I have nothing else to say.
- 2/2/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Whoopi Goldberg has been served a two-week suspension from the ABC talk show The View after widespread backlash to her controversial comments about the Holocaust. ABC News president Kim Godwin confirmed the suspension on Tuesday night, writing in a statement, “Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments. While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments.” pic.twitter.com/UlX5jT8lOg — ABC News PR (@ABCNewsPR) February 2, 2022 The controversy arose after Monday’s episode of the daytime talk show during a discussion about a Tennessee school board’s pulling of the Holocaust graphic novel Maus. “Let’s be truthful about it because [the] Holocaust isn’t about race,” Goldberg said at the time. “It’s not about race. It’s about man’s inhumanity to man.” Goldberg’s remarks received immediate criticism from viewers,...
- 2/2/2022
- TV Insider
Whoopi Goldberg is taking an immediate leave of absence from The View in light of her controversial comments about the Holocaust.
ABC News president Kim Godwin confirmed the news of the suspension Tuesday.
“Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments," the statement reads.
"While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments."
"The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities.”
The daytime talk show will proceed with regular hosts Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, and guest co-host Tara Setmayer.
The controversy started in Monday's episode of the series. The cast talked about a Tennessee school board’s banning of the graphic novel Maus, with Goldberg saying that “the Holocaust isn’t about race… it’s about man’s inhumanity to man.
ABC News president Kim Godwin confirmed the news of the suspension Tuesday.
“Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments," the statement reads.
"While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments."
"The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities.”
The daytime talk show will proceed with regular hosts Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, and guest co-host Tara Setmayer.
The controversy started in Monday's episode of the series. The cast talked about a Tennessee school board’s banning of the graphic novel Maus, with Goldberg saying that “the Holocaust isn’t about race… it’s about man’s inhumanity to man.
- 2/2/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from the show for two weeks, effective immediately, according to a statement late Tuesday from ABC News President Kim Godwin.
“Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments. While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments. The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities,” wrote Godwin.
pic.twitter.com/UlX5jT8lOg
— ABC News PR (@ABCNewsPR) February 2, 2022
Deadline has also obtained a longer memo Godwin sent to staff, in which she calls the View co-host’s comments “misinformed, upsetting and hurtful.” Godwin affirmed that “words matter and we must be cognizant of the impact our words have,” before appending the shorter statement that was tweeted out tonight. The full text of the ABC...
“Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments. While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments. The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities,” wrote Godwin.
pic.twitter.com/UlX5jT8lOg
— ABC News PR (@ABCNewsPR) February 2, 2022
Deadline has also obtained a longer memo Godwin sent to staff, in which she calls the View co-host’s comments “misinformed, upsetting and hurtful.” Godwin affirmed that “words matter and we must be cognizant of the impact our words have,” before appending the shorter statement that was tweeted out tonight. The full text of the ABC...
- 2/2/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from ABC’s The View for two weeks in light of her controversial comments about the Holocaust.
ABC News president Kim Godwin confirmed the suspension on Tuesday and released a statement: “Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments. While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments. The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities.”
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ABC News president Kim Godwin confirmed the suspension on Tuesday and released a statement: “Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments. While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments. The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities.”
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- 2/2/2022
- by Dave Nemetz
- TVLine.com
Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from “The View” for two weeks after facing wide criticism for her remarks that the Holocaust was “not about race.”
Goldberg’s suspension was announced in a statement released by ABC News public relations on Tuesday night.
“Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments,” reads a statement attributed to Kim Godwin, president at ABC News. “While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments. The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities.”
pic.twitter.com/UlX5jT8lOg
— ABC News PR (@ABCNewsPR) February 2, 2022
Goldberg’s comments on “The View” reached the highest level of decision makers at Disney, Variety can confirm. According to sources, Peter Rice, the chairman of Disney General Entertainment Content, was consulted on the public fallout for Goldberg.
Goldberg’s suspension was announced in a statement released by ABC News public relations on Tuesday night.
“Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments,” reads a statement attributed to Kim Godwin, president at ABC News. “While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments. The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities.”
pic.twitter.com/UlX5jT8lOg
— ABC News PR (@ABCNewsPR) February 2, 2022
Goldberg’s comments on “The View” reached the highest level of decision makers at Disney, Variety can confirm. According to sources, Peter Rice, the chairman of Disney General Entertainment Content, was consulted on the public fallout for Goldberg.
- 2/2/2022
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Whoopi Goldberg is speaking out about comments she made on Monday, January 31’s episode of The View. In a discussion about a Tennessee school board’s pulling of the Holocaust graphic novel Maus, the co-host misstated that the historical event “wasn’t about race.” At the top of Tuesday’s episode, she began by apologizing for her incorrect remarks, telling viewers, “I said something that I feel a responsibility for not leaving unexamined, because my words upset so many people, which was never my intention. And I understand why now and for that I am deeply, deeply grateful because the information I got was really helpful and helped me understand some different things.” She continued, “And while discussing how a Tennessee school board unanimously voted to remove a graphic novel about the Holocaust, I said that the Holocaust wasn’t about race and it was instead about man’s inhumanity to man.
- 2/1/2022
- TV Insider
Updated, 8:42 Am: Whoopi Goldberg apologized again on The View this morning for her comments that the Holocaust was “not about race.” Saying that she “misspoke” Monday, Goldberg said on-air today that the Holocaust “is indeed about race, because Hitler and the Nazis considered the Jews to be an inferior race. Now, words matter — and mine are no exception. I regret my comments, and I stand corrected. I also stand with the Jewish people.”
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, was on the talk show Tuesday morning. “There is no question that the Holocaust was about race,” he told Goldberg and her co-hosts. “That is how the Nazis saw it as they sought the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people across continents, across countries, with deliberate and ruthless cruelty.”
He said The View should consider adding a Jewish host to replace Meghan McCain, who left the show last year.
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, was on the talk show Tuesday morning. “There is no question that the Holocaust was about race,” he told Goldberg and her co-hosts. “That is how the Nazis saw it as they sought the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people across continents, across countries, with deliberate and ruthless cruelty.”
He said The View should consider adding a Jewish host to replace Meghan McCain, who left the show last year.
- 2/1/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Whoopi Golberg apologized on Tuesday’s “The View” for her comments on Monday’s show about the Holocaust, saying she now believes “it is indeed about race.”
“So yesterday on our show, I misspoke,” Goldberg said at the top of Tuesday’s show. “And I tweeted about it last night but I kind of what you to hear it from me directly. I said something that I feel a responsibility for not leaving unexamined, because my words upset so many people, which was never my intention. And I understand why now and for that I am deeply, deeply grateful because the information I got was really helpful and helped me understand some different things. And while discussing how a Tennessee school board unanimously voted to remove a graphic novel about the Holocaust, I said that the Holocaust wasn’t about race and it was instead about man’s inhumanity to man.
“So yesterday on our show, I misspoke,” Goldberg said at the top of Tuesday’s show. “And I tweeted about it last night but I kind of what you to hear it from me directly. I said something that I feel a responsibility for not leaving unexamined, because my words upset so many people, which was never my intention. And I understand why now and for that I am deeply, deeply grateful because the information I got was really helpful and helped me understand some different things. And while discussing how a Tennessee school board unanimously voted to remove a graphic novel about the Holocaust, I said that the Holocaust wasn’t about race and it was instead about man’s inhumanity to man.
- 2/1/2022
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
Whoopi Goldberg has issued an apology after saying the Holocaust was "not about race" during a discussion on The View. During the Jan. 31 episode, the daytime show's co-hosts analyzed the recent decision made by a Tennessee school board to remove Maus, an award-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, from an eighth-grade language arts curriculum. Amid the discussion, Goldberg said that the Holocaust was "not about race" adding that "it's about man's inhumanity to man." Following her comments, Goldberg faced backlash online for her commentary on the subject matter, and later that evening, she shared a statement to social...
- 2/1/2022
- E! Online
Whoopi Goldberg has offered an apology after facing criticism from the Anti-Defamation League, the U.S. Holocaust Museum and other Jewish organizations for her remarks on the latest episode of “The View,” in which she stated that the Holocaust was “not about race.”
“On today’s show, I said the Holocaust ‘is not about race, but about man’s inhumanity to man.’ I should have said it is about both,” Goldberg wrote in a statement shared on her social media. “The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver. I’m sorry for the hurt I have caused.”
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— Whoopi Goldberg (@WhoopiGoldberg) February 1, 2022
Earlier on Monday, Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, responded to “The View” co-hosts comments on Twitter, calling her remarks “dangerous.”
“The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systemic annihilation of the Jewish people — who they...
“On today’s show, I said the Holocaust ‘is not about race, but about man’s inhumanity to man.’ I should have said it is about both,” Goldberg wrote in a statement shared on her social media. “The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver. I’m sorry for the hurt I have caused.”
pic.twitter.com/KUpdyhQnho
— Whoopi Goldberg (@WhoopiGoldberg) February 1, 2022
Earlier on Monday, Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, responded to “The View” co-hosts comments on Twitter, calling her remarks “dangerous.”
“The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systemic annihilation of the Jewish people — who they...
- 2/1/2022
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Whoopi Goldberg apologized Monday night for comments she made on “The View” earlier in the day about the Holocaust, saying she was sorry “for the hurt I have caused.”
Goldberg had drawn wide criticism for the remarks she made during the show panel’s “Hot Topics” discussion, as the hosts began discussing the banning of the graphic novel “Maus,” which tells the story of author Art Spiegelman’s father and his experience in German concentration camps, with Jews depicted as mice and Nazis as cats.
“Let’s be truthful about it — because the Holocaust isn’t about race. No. It’s not about race,” she said. “It’s about man’s inhumanity to man. That’s what it’s about.”
By mid-evening, Goldberg had apologized in a brief statement posted to Twitter.
pic.twitter.com/KUpdyhQnho
— Whoopi Goldberg (@WhoopiGoldberg) February 1, 2022
You can watch the full discussion from Monday’s show in the video above.
Goldberg had drawn wide criticism for the remarks she made during the show panel’s “Hot Topics” discussion, as the hosts began discussing the banning of the graphic novel “Maus,” which tells the story of author Art Spiegelman’s father and his experience in German concentration camps, with Jews depicted as mice and Nazis as cats.
“Let’s be truthful about it — because the Holocaust isn’t about race. No. It’s not about race,” she said. “It’s about man’s inhumanity to man. That’s what it’s about.”
By mid-evening, Goldberg had apologized in a brief statement posted to Twitter.
pic.twitter.com/KUpdyhQnho
— Whoopi Goldberg (@WhoopiGoldberg) February 1, 2022
You can watch the full discussion from Monday’s show in the video above.
- 2/1/2022
- by Jeremy Bailey
- The Wrap
Whoopi Goldberg drew wide criticism Monday after saying on “The View” that the holocaust had nothing to do with race.
During the show panel’s “Hot Topics” discussion, the women began discussing the banning of the graphic novel “Maus,” which tells the story of author Art Spiegelman’s father and his experience in German concentration camps, with Jews depicted as mice and Nazis as cats.
But as the women got deeper into why “Maus” was banned, Whoopi made a bold claim.
“Let’s be truthful about it, because the Holocaust isn’t about race. No. It’s not about race,” she said. “It’s about man’s inhumanity to man. That’s what it’s about.”
As her co-hosts tried to get clarification on what she meant, and point out that the Nazis did in fact believe that Aryans were “the master race,” Whoopi doubled down. You can watch the...
During the show panel’s “Hot Topics” discussion, the women began discussing the banning of the graphic novel “Maus,” which tells the story of author Art Spiegelman’s father and his experience in German concentration camps, with Jews depicted as mice and Nazis as cats.
But as the women got deeper into why “Maus” was banned, Whoopi made a bold claim.
“Let’s be truthful about it, because the Holocaust isn’t about race. No. It’s not about race,” she said. “It’s about man’s inhumanity to man. That’s what it’s about.”
As her co-hosts tried to get clarification on what she meant, and point out that the Nazis did in fact believe that Aryans were “the master race,” Whoopi doubled down. You can watch the...
- 1/31/2022
- by Andi Ortiz
- The Wrap
Following news that a Tennessee school board unanimously voted to ban the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus — a memoir about the Holocaust — the book’s author Art Spiegelman appeared on CNN to express his disappointment and “bafflement” about the situation.
“I moved past total bafflement to trying to be tolerant of people who may possibly not be Nazis, maybe,” Spiegelman said, adding that — upon reading the minutes of the McMinn County Board of Education meeting — he was surprised Maus was banned more for language than for its content. “Dammit I...
“I moved past total bafflement to trying to be tolerant of people who may possibly not be Nazis, maybe,” Spiegelman said, adding that — upon reading the minutes of the McMinn County Board of Education meeting — he was surprised Maus was banned more for language than for its content. “Dammit I...
- 1/27/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
“The Maus” director Yayo Herrero is preparing a second feature, “Los Quinquis,” a standout at this year’s edition of Madrid’s Ecam film school Incubator program, which he will take to this year’s San Sebastian Festival to pitch in the Meet Them! section for projects.
Apart from its inclusion at Ecam’s Incubator, the film took part in a writing lab organized by Spain’s Sgae authors’ collection society. Herrero himself attended February’s Berlinale Talents.
Himself a twin, Herrero’s project turns on Adan and Lois, twin brothers living on the outskirts of Madrid who share everything. Raised in The Red Tower, a building for rehoused residents controlled by East European organized crime groups, the boys must rely on one another to escapea seemingly endless cycle of crime and poverty.
Herrero discussed the project with Variety ahead of this year’s Meet Me!
In “The Maus,” one...
Apart from its inclusion at Ecam’s Incubator, the film took part in a writing lab organized by Spain’s Sgae authors’ collection society. Herrero himself attended February’s Berlinale Talents.
Himself a twin, Herrero’s project turns on Adan and Lois, twin brothers living on the outskirts of Madrid who share everything. Raised in The Red Tower, a building for rehoused residents controlled by East European organized crime groups, the boys must rely on one another to escapea seemingly endless cycle of crime and poverty.
Herrero discussed the project with Variety ahead of this year’s Meet Me!
In “The Maus,” one...
- 9/20/2020
- by Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
Barcelona – “20,000 Species of Bees,” “Something Like Happiness” and “Los quinquis” are among five feature projects that will be put through development at the Ecam Madrid Film School’s pioneering Incubator program.
The Incubator forms part of The Screen, a program at the Ecam Madrid Film School, which is aimed at fostering links between on-the-rise Spain-based talent and Europe’s film and TV industries.
Produced by Gariza Films, “20,000 Species of Bees ” marks the debut feature of Estibaliz Urresola. It weighs in with the logline: “What would you do if your six-year-old son says he is a she?”
“It’s not just a movie about transgender children,” Urresola said, adding: “It is a story about our inner lives and how they interplay with the world outside; about the boundaries between these two worlds— and also about violence committed in family, even in the name of love.”
Director-producer Lara Izagirre directed Basque homecoming drama “An Autumn Without Berlin.
The Incubator forms part of The Screen, a program at the Ecam Madrid Film School, which is aimed at fostering links between on-the-rise Spain-based talent and Europe’s film and TV industries.
Produced by Gariza Films, “20,000 Species of Bees ” marks the debut feature of Estibaliz Urresola. It weighs in with the logline: “What would you do if your six-year-old son says he is a she?”
“It’s not just a movie about transgender children,” Urresola said, adding: “It is a story about our inner lives and how they interplay with the world outside; about the boundaries between these two worlds— and also about violence committed in family, even in the name of love.”
Director-producer Lara Izagirre directed Basque homecoming drama “An Autumn Without Berlin.
- 2/19/2020
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
After playing Sitges and Fantastic Fast this past fall, we now have the official trailer for Yayo Herrero’s The Maus, starring August Wittgenstein, Alma Terzic, and Ella Jazz. In the Serbian film, “Alex and Selma are a couple in love who travels to the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina. When their car runs aground in the middle of the […]...
- 10/25/2017
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
This year, Fantastic Fest turned 13, a number that felt apt if you’ve been following the news. Most conversations started like this:
“How are you?”
“How are you?”
Exhale. Hug. Repeat.
Eventually, people got around to talking about the films. Even those were emotional.
Tortured Souls
In past years, bringing context into the Alamo Drafthouse theater meant deciding not to chomp chips and queso during a hushed thriller. This time, audiences welled up watching Carla Guigino confront a lifetime of abuse as the emotionally and physically handcuffed wife in Stephen King’s “Gerald’s Game,” a Lifetime movie-looking low budget adaptation whose blockbuster impact at the Fest might not translate to people at home when it premieres on Netflix. (Guigino, however, is terrific in a dual-of-sorts role as the manacled victim and her empowered subconscious.)
Read More:Fantastic Fest Under Fire: Why America’s Preeminent Genre Festival Needs Its Fans...
“How are you?”
“How are you?”
Exhale. Hug. Repeat.
Eventually, people got around to talking about the films. Even those were emotional.
Tortured Souls
In past years, bringing context into the Alamo Drafthouse theater meant deciding not to chomp chips and queso during a hushed thriller. This time, audiences welled up watching Carla Guigino confront a lifetime of abuse as the emotionally and physically handcuffed wife in Stephen King’s “Gerald’s Game,” a Lifetime movie-looking low budget adaptation whose blockbuster impact at the Fest might not translate to people at home when it premieres on Netflix. (Guigino, however, is terrific in a dual-of-sorts role as the manacled victim and her empowered subconscious.)
Read More:Fantastic Fest Under Fire: Why America’s Preeminent Genre Festival Needs Its Fans...
- 9/29/2017
- by Amy Nicholson
- Indiewire
A captivity thriller set in the long shadow of the mid-1990s Bosnian war, Yayo Herrero's Maus places an injured Bosnian woman in the custody of two mysterious Serbian men and correctly expects things not to go well. The assured feature debut of writer/director Yayo Herrero, it introduces just enough hints of the supernatural and the transgressively political to inspire post-screening conversations — some of which will conclude that the ingredients don't quite add up. Few will argue, though, with the effectiveness of its trapped-in-the-woods tension and the potency of its simmering ethnic hatred.
Lovers Alex (August Wittgenstein) and Selma (Alma Terzic)...
Lovers Alex (August Wittgenstein) and Selma (Alma Terzic)...
- 9/25/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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