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  • For Oscar Day--My Thoughts on "The Reader"

    02/22/2009 6:17:53 AM PST · by Shellybenoit · 9 replies · 464+ views
    Yidwithlid ^ | 2/22/09 | David G. Marwell
    A lot of ink -- and gigabytes -- have been devoted to Steven Daldry's film, The Reader, which is up for a number of Oscars, including Best Picture. Much of what has been written is full of praise, while some is seething in its criticism. Perhaps the most vehement example of the latter is the Slate article by Ron Rosenbaum, which accuses The Reader of Holocaust revisionism because, he alleges, it means to "exculpate Nazi-era Germans from knowing complicity in the Final Solution." Perhaps I saw a different film, but the one I saw had nothing in it to justify...
  • Kate Winslet's Oscar chances hit by The Reader Nazi accusation

    02/15/2009 12:40:40 PM PST · by EveningStar · 34 replies · 1,593+ views
    The Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | February 15, 2009 | Tim Shipman
    Kate Winslet's chances of Oscar glory are being hit by an orchestrated campaign to dismiss her film The Reader as an apologia for Nazi Germany.