Beautifully shot in gold and red, The Rescuers makes the aftermath of genocide look awfully attractive, and the slow-motion footage of massacre appears positively nostalgic.
Add in silent, Masterpiece Theater–style re-enactments of European life during World War II, and this very serious film sometimes feels like a farce.
Structured around a train journey across Europe, Michael King's documentary follows Rwandan anti-genocide activist Stephanie Nyombayire and English Holocaust historian Sir Martin Gilbert as they visit sites of tragedy and learn about the diplomats who acted against government orders and risked their lives to rescue Jewish families.
Gilbert is clearly in charge. Unlike Nyombayire, he is an E.U. citizen and does not face vis...
Add in silent, Masterpiece Theater–style re-enactments of European life during World War II, and this very serious film sometimes feels like a farce.
Structured around a train journey across Europe, Michael King's documentary follows Rwandan anti-genocide activist Stephanie Nyombayire and English Holocaust historian Sir Martin Gilbert as they visit sites of tragedy and learn about the diplomats who acted against government orders and risked their lives to rescue Jewish families.
Gilbert is clearly in charge. Unlike Nyombayire, he is an E.U. citizen and does not face vis...
- 5/7/2014
- Village Voice
After two weeks of film events and screenings, the 15th Jewish Film Festival bows out in style with Nir Bergman's Intimate Grammar.
The film - which is screening at the Tricycle Cinema on Sunday - follows eleven-year-old Aaron as he hunts for spies and practices Houdini tricks with his friends.
A thoughtful, poetic dreamer, Aaron is secretly fascinated by his sophisticated neighbour Miss Blum, and finds himself at odds with his uneducated parents.
Meanwhile, screening today is Michael King’s The Rescuers. A documentary by the Emmy Award winning filmmaker which traces the journey of Stephanie Nyombayire, a Rwandan anti-genocide activist.
Since beginning on 1 November with Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be The Place, starring Sean Penn, the festival has welcomed an array of Jewish filmmakers and actors including The Other Side directed by Khen Shalem – to name a few.
Furthermore, Chariots of Fire took centre stage at the Tricycle for its 30th anniversary.
The film - which is screening at the Tricycle Cinema on Sunday - follows eleven-year-old Aaron as he hunts for spies and practices Houdini tricks with his friends.
A thoughtful, poetic dreamer, Aaron is secretly fascinated by his sophisticated neighbour Miss Blum, and finds himself at odds with his uneducated parents.
Meanwhile, screening today is Michael King’s The Rescuers. A documentary by the Emmy Award winning filmmaker which traces the journey of Stephanie Nyombayire, a Rwandan anti-genocide activist.
Since beginning on 1 November with Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be The Place, starring Sean Penn, the festival has welcomed an array of Jewish filmmakers and actors including The Other Side directed by Khen Shalem – to name a few.
Furthermore, Chariots of Fire took centre stage at the Tricycle for its 30th anniversary.
- 11/17/2011
- by jennifer.trevorrow@lovefilm.com (Jennifer Trevorrow)
- LOVEFiLM
Menemsha Films, the film distribution company founded by Neil Friedman, has acquired the North American distribution rights to the critically acclaimed documentary The Rescuers from Emmy winning director/producer Michael King and producer Joyce D. Mandell.
The Rescuers is a unique film with a powerful message. In the 20th century, over 100 million people died from genocide. The film traces the compelling journey of Stephanie Nyombayire, a young Rwandan anti-genocide activist who lost 100 members of her family in her country.s genocide in 1994. Traveling across 15 countries and three continents, Nyombayire and Sir Martin Gilbert, the renowned British historian, interview survivors and descendants of 12 non-Jewish diplomats who willingly sacrificed their careers, families, and livelihoods to go against their countries. polices to save tens of thousands of Jews from the unspeakable horrors that awaited them in the Nazi death camps. During the journey, Nyombayire discovers potential solutions for the ongoing genocide in Darfur and elsewhere.
The Rescuers is a unique film with a powerful message. In the 20th century, over 100 million people died from genocide. The film traces the compelling journey of Stephanie Nyombayire, a young Rwandan anti-genocide activist who lost 100 members of her family in her country.s genocide in 1994. Traveling across 15 countries and three continents, Nyombayire and Sir Martin Gilbert, the renowned British historian, interview survivors and descendants of 12 non-Jewish diplomats who willingly sacrificed their careers, families, and livelihoods to go against their countries. polices to save tens of thousands of Jews from the unspeakable horrors that awaited them in the Nazi death camps. During the journey, Nyombayire discovers potential solutions for the ongoing genocide in Darfur and elsewhere.
- 10/6/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In the Oscar documentary feature race, usually 80-90 films qualify for a shot at landing on the doc short list of 15. And when several films tackle similar themes and subjects, doc branch voters tend to pick one favorite. Take director/producer Michael King's Oscar-qualified The Rescuers, which I saw at the Ashland Film Festival, which was just acquired by Neil Friedman's Menemsha Films, which often reps doc award contenders, for North American release in theaters in early 2012. The film follows charismatic Stephanie Nyombayire, a Rwandan anti-genocide activist who lost 100 members of her family in her country’s genocide in 1994. She travels across 15 countries and three continents with Brit historian Sir Martin Gilbert to interview survivors and descendants of 12 non-Jewish diplomats who ...
- 10/6/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
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