Swindler's List among the best movies

Rating: 10/10 (12 March 2004)

Schindler's List (I affectionately call it "Swindler's List" sometimes) has great acting in a great semi-fact-based story. Liam Neeson's acting was "Oskar" nominated, but Ralph Fiennes was super as Goeth, and Kingsley was excellent as well.
Some great cinematography too - the candle smoke cutting to the train smoke, for one (somewhat like TE Lawrence blowing out the match then cut to desert sunrise, or "2001" bone to spaceship cut) and any of dozens of other haunting images.
Schindlers's List has some excellent dialog. Some examples are when Schindler talks to Goethe about "power", or Stern talking about the list being "absolute good", or Schindler crying because he could have saved more people by giving away his Nazi pin or other personal items.
Sentimental? Maybe. Many Spielberg movies are too sappy for me, but this was not. Gloss over low-lights of Schindler himself? Probably. Doesn't really matter, though.
Not many "better" movies out there.