Adult Films from Germany
The recent appearance in local theaters of Christian Petzold‘s 2014 Phoenix is a timely reminder of a fine and under appreciated …
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WW I: Coming Home from the Eastern Front
Almost everything we westerners know about WW I has to do with the Western Front, the British, the French, the …
Night Train to Lisbon — A Movie of Resistance and Memory
It’s always mildly astonishing to me how different people respond so differently to a movie or a novel. What one …
Downfall: The Last 10 Days of Hitler’s Reich
I remember being interested in seeing Downfall, the 2004 movie by Oliver Hirschbiegel when it came to theaters, and somehow getting the idea …
Katyn: A Film
I was just on the cusp of realizing that “foreign” films existed and were a real alternative to what 1950s …
The Edge of Heaven: A Film
The Edge of Heaven is a fine, too little seen, film from Turkey and Germany, a tale of sorrow and …
The Reader: A Film, and Questions Unanswered
The Reader, a film by Stephen Daldry, screenplay by David Hare, Produced by Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack So Kate …