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The Oscars || BY Karen Nicoletti || 02 22 2012 10:20 AM

Oscar Roundtable: Meet This Year's Best Foreign-Language Feature Nominees

Oscar Roundtable: Meet This Year's Best Foreign-Language Feature Nominees

Happy Oscar week! Time for another one of Movieline's virtual awards roundtables, this time featuring nominated filmmakers behind this year's contenders for Best Foreign-Language Feature. Meet our distinguished panel:
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Review || BY Michelle Orange || 02 09 2012 2:00 PM

REVIEW: In Darkness Takes the Holocaust Underground — to Dull, Didactic Effect

REVIEW: In Darkness Takes the Holocaust Underground — to Dull, Didactic Effect

Based on a true story out of World War II-era Lvov, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine), In Darkness seeks to distinguish itself from the painfully distended genre of Holocaust movies with relentless “you are there” realism. It’s not quite Smell-o-vision, but the idea seems to be to try and make the experience of the 12 Polish Jews who hid in a sewer for 14 months as uncomfortable for the audience as it was for them.
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