April 27, 2009

Judgment at Nuremberg

Title: Judgment at Nuremberg
Year: 1961
Director: Stanley Kramer
Writer: Abby Mann
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift
Music: Ernest Gold
Distinctions: Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor (Schell); Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Tracy), Best Supporting Actress (Garland), Best Supporting Actor (Clift), Best Cinematography (black-and-white), Best Art Direction/Set Decoration (black-and-white), Best Costume Design (black-and-white) and Best Editing; currently #144 on IMDb's Top 250
Synopsis: an American tribunal for Nazi judges
Length: 186 minutes
How I saw it: on video (rented from Netflix), yesterday
Subjective Rating: 6/10 (Okay).
Objective Rating: 8/10 (points off for pacing and music) c. 3.0/4 (Good).

Interesting, but very, very long. I like how the camera's always moving, especially the fast zooms. I'm a sucker for fast zooms. The music is a silly mess; I can't even figure out what effect it was meant to have.

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