"Shoah, Part 1" (1985), a conversation

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa sink into the first half of what might be the “greatest” horror story ever made.

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Referenced media:

• “Parks & Recreation” (Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, 2009-2015)
• “To Be or Not to Be” (Alan Johnson, 1983)
• “To Be or Not to Be” (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
• “The Twilight Zone” (Rod Serling, 1959-1964), Season 3, Episode 9: “Deaths-Head Revisited” (Rod Serling, 1961)
• “Sophie’s Choice” (Alan J. Pakula, 1982)
• “Schindler’s List” (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
• “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, 1975)
• “Twilight Zone: The Movie” (John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, and George Miller, 1983)
• “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
• “Son of Saul” (László Nemes, 2015)
• “A Clockwork Orange” (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
• “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS” (Don Edmonds, 1975)
• “The Night Porter” (Liliana Cavani, 1974)
• “Night and Fog” (Alain Resnais, 1956)
• “John Wick” (Chad Stahelski, 2014)
• “Mad God” (Phil Tippett, 2021)
• “Boyhood” (Richard Linklater, 2014)
• “Evolution of a Filipino Family” (Lav Diaz, 2004)
• “Back to the Future” (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
• “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” (Tim Burton, 1985)
• “Cocoon (Ron Howard, 1985)
• “Commando” (Mark L Lester, 1985)
• “Agnes of God” (Norman Jewison, 1985)
• “Kiss of the Spider Woman” (Héctor Babenco, 1985)
• “After Hours” (Martin Scorsese, 1985)

 Audio quotation:

• “Parks & Recreation” theme song (Gaby Moreno and Vincent Jones, 2009)
• “Parks & Recreation” (Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, 2009-2015), Season 5, Episode 16: “Bailout” (Joe Mande, 2013)
• “Shoah” (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)