Denial

Review by Pamela Zoslov

“I don't see any reason to be tasteful about Auschwitz. It's baloney. It's a legend...more women died on the back seat of Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than ever died in a gas chamber in Auschwitz.”

With incendiary words like these, in a 1991 speech before far-rightists and neo-Nazis, David Irving established himself as one of the world's best-known Holocaust deniers. The author of nearly 30 books, British self-styled historian Irving has made a career of claiming that Hitler knew nothing about the slaughter of six million Jews, that the Final Solution did not occur on a large scale, and that “there is not one shred of evidence” that Jews were gassed at Auschwitz.

Mr. Turner

Review by Milan Paurich

MR. TURNER isn’t the most ingratiating movie Mike Leigh has ever directed. In that sense, it’s a lot like the curmudgeonly true-life figure, 19th century British landscape painter J.M.W. Turner, who gives the film its title. It’s as far removed from the chronicles of contemporary middle-class life Leigh normally specializes in (LIFE IS SWEET, ANOTHER YEAR, SECRETS AND LIES) as a movie can be. Yet, like Leigh’s equally splendid Gilbert and Sullivan biopic, 1999’s TOPSY TURVY, it’s another Leigh masterwork.