Time can be an unsparing villain or an angelic savior in Christian Petzold’s films. In his enigmatic period-piece “Phoenix” (2014),…
Browsing: Germany
Ulrich Köhler knows what we’re expecting. Spending any amount of time out in the world or inside a movie theater…
The too-early whispers from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival had a then-unheralded Mascha Schilinski in the frontrunner position for the…
With many dramatic films about the Nazi Holocaust (“Schindler’s List,” “The Pianist”), perhaps it takes a documentary to do its…
I imagine it must be a real challenge creating a vampire movie. It’s a subgenre that can be explored and…
Continuing my 100 Year Project, I found an Austrian silent horror picture from 1924. “Orlacs Hände” or “The Hands of…
Silence reigns for so much of Angela Schanelec’s bold, brooding and stealthily uplifting “Music” that the title itself starts to…
As of late, we’ve seen a growing interest among filmmakers and artists to integrate video chats and Skype or Zoom…
Wim Wenders’ “Anselm” is a striking visual feat, aiming to be both a history lesson and extended primer on the…
“All Quiet on the Western Front” opens on an obliterated battlefield somewhere in the European countryside with smooth camerawork that…