An Interview with Edward Zwick

This interview was originally published on InterfaithFamily.com on Jan. 16, 2009.

For a review of Defiance, see Unheralded Heroes of the Holocaust.

Edward Zwick is Jewish, but that is hardly a litmus test for what projects he takes.

"It informs who I am psychically, characterologically, morally, ethically, spiritually," the 56-year-old director says. "It is a strong influence, but it is by no means a solitary influence."

The Unheralded Heroes of the Holocaust

This review was originally published on InterfaithFamily.com on Jan. 16, 2009.

Also see my interview with Edward Zwick.

Is there any purer pleasure in war film than watching Nazis get shot?

Devoted to the thematic orthodoxy that "war is hell," modern war films offer few guiltless pleasures. What joys there are are usually small: comrades from different social strata bonding during a break from battle, soldiers finding some foodstuff that would barely qualify as a delicacy in peacetime, the hero returning from the front with his arms and legs intact.