Claude Chabrol’s New Wave drama Les Cousins re-visits the age old stereotypes
of the bad boy versus the nice guy. The world cinema film was made about a year
after Chabrol’s debut, Le Beau Serge, winning the Golden Bea…Read More...
At 925 minutes, Edgar Reitz’s Heimat: A Chronicle Of Germany stands as one of
the most ambitious television productions ever made. This fifteen-and-a-half hour
monolith was filmed over two years with a huge cast and covers…Read More...
Austrian actor Karl Markovics, who is best known for starring as Salomon
Sorowitsch in Stefan Ruzowitzky’s film The Counterfeiters, has recently
written and directed his first film, Breathing. This sombre ye…Read More...
With the recent few years of economic and social unrest and upheaval, and the
rise and rise in popularity of the critical documentary, the time seems pretty
good for a new look at the Marxist manifesto. In this fresh at…Read More...
This obscure 1986 film from Ken Loach sees a DVD release as the director’s
latest film, The Spirit Of ’45, hits cinemas. With a mix of German and English
dialogue and starring a German musician in his first and only…Read More...
We Are The Night is a German vampire thriller directed and co-written by Dennis
Gansel, who gained international success with his 2008 feature and Nazi parable
The Wave, about a social experiment in a contemporary German h…Read More...
Joseph Kessel and Jean-Pierre Melville were both members of the French resistance
during the Nazi occupation of France. It shaped the men they became, and sure
enough when Kessel released his novel L’Armée Des Ombre…Read More...
Greek auteur Theo Angelopoulos died in January 2012. Sadly, this meant that the
filmmaker never got the opportunity to complete his latest film trilogy.
Following opener The Weeping Meadow, The Dust Of Time is the s…Read More...
When it comes to the enjoyment of a documentary, more often than not it’s the
subjects the viewer knows little about that produce the most fulfilment. There is
an intrigue into the unknown, and a lust for knowledge in docu…Read More...
When the Nazi parents of five children are arrested by Allied Forces in 1945,
eldest daughter Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) must relinquish her childhood as she
negotiates almost 1,000 miles of travelling across Germany wit…Read More...
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