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| The Guardian - Culture: Film | | | | The Champion of Auschwitz review – Polish boxer fights to live in sturdy drama | | by Leslie Felperin Sep 1, 2021 | | Dramatising the true story of Teddi Pietrzykowski, an internee who fought to entertain the guards, this is a solid, occasionally sentimental tale This cleanly hewn drama from Poland, surely destined to be Poland’s submission for the Academy Awards, tells the true story of Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, AKA “Teddi”, a (non-Jewish) Polish bantamweight boxer who was one of the earliest prisoners at Auschwitz. There have actually been a couple of other films about Pietrzykowski over the years, which might explain why writer-director Maciej Barczewski, making an impressive debut here, doesn’t go into a lot of detail about how Teddi fought Nazis at the start of the war during the siege of Warsaw in 1939. Instead, a few slow-motion flashbacks are deemed sufficient to ground the story while the film settles down to the grim business of following Teddi as he tries to survive the camp by getting assigned to a work detail. Inevitably, a lot of this work involves disposing of the dead, and trying not to listen to the screams as Jews deemed too weak for work assignments are herded into the gas chamber on their arrival at the camp. Continue reading... | | | | | No Time to Die: does a new trailer mean 007 is finally ready for action? | | by Stuart Heritage Sep 1, 2021 | | A third official trailer for the Bond film in two years promises action, suspense, intrigue … and that’s just over whether the release date will change again A new No Time to Die trailer was released yesterday, which can only mean one thing: Covid cases are about to surge and we’ll be back in lockdown in a fortnight. Because that’s No Time to Die’s thing, isn’t it? Its release date was originally supposed to be in April 2020, but then there was a lockdown and it got shelved. So the date was changed to November 2020, but then there was another lockdown and it got shelved again. No Time to Die is currently slated for release on 30 September. Logic dictates that we probably shouldn’t hold our breath. Continue reading... | | | | | 'A horn blew when human remains were found': Wim Wenders' six hours in the hell of Ground Zero | | by Phil Hoad Sep 1, 2021 | | After 9/11 the director felt haunted by the twin towers attack. As his epic photographs of Ground Zero go on show for the atrocity’s anniversary, he remembers the horrors of that day – and considers its legacy As a boy growing up in the rubble and ruins of postwar West Germany, Wim Wenders would often dream of falling towers. So at the age of 56, when he watched the twin towers of the World Trade Center blaze and then plummet into the streets of New York, the impact hit him hard. “It started to haunt me badly,” he says. “I mean, I saw everything live on TV like everybody else. All of mankind was badly shaken. But I kept dreaming of being stuck in collapsing towers. I wanted to somehow exorcise these things. And I figured if I could go to New York and see for myself, that would help.” That was how Wenders came to be at Ground Zero in the aftermath of the attacks and took the five large-format photographs now showing at the Imperial War Museum in London as part of its 9/11: Twenty Years On exhibition. They are extraordinary works, capturing great horizontal and vertical swathes of this steel-and-concrete apocalypse, with cranes, diggers and firefighters standing out in heroically bright colours. Shattered pillars jut out from piles of warped girders in a hellish crucible of chaos and destruction. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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