5 Nazi movies: Joseph Goebbels’ ‘Third Reich’ cinema – a crucial and extremely popular propaganda tool – promoted the White Nationalist German ethos in a variety of cinematic genres.
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The Doll (movie 1919) review: Ernst Lubitsch satire features incredibly inventive production design. Ossi Oswalda (‘the German Mary Pickford’) and Hermann Thimig stars.
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Die Nibelungen: Siegfried and Kriemhild’s Revenge (movie 1924) review: Semi-historical Fritz Lang epic fantasy is a cinematic masterpiece. Paul Richter stars.
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Luise Rainer Dead: At 104 years old first Two-Time Oscar Winner in the acting categories was oldest surviving Academy Award recipient.
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Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (movie 2013) review: Lars von Trier shows once again his cinematic genius in this starkly funny effort. Shia LaBeouf and Stacy Martin star.
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Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 with Isabelle Adjani and Klaus Kinski. ‘Nosferatu the Vampyre’ 1979: Werner Herzog German-language version screening Werner Herzog’s stylish 1979 horror drama Nosferatu the Vampyre will have …
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Kurt Maetzig. Remembering pioneer East German filmmaker Kurt Maetzig Kurt Maetzig, one of East Germany’s pioneering filmmakers, died on Aug. 8 at his home in the village of Wildkuhl, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, …
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Veteran German actor Heinz Bennent died on Oct. 12. He was 90. The Aachen-born (July 18, 1921) Heinz Bennent never became an international name despite several important roles in international …
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The Love of Jeanne Ney with Uno Henning and Edith Jehanne. G.W. Pabst’s The Love of Jeanne Ney / Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney is a real mystery. And I mean …
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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days with Julia Jentsch and Fabian Hinrichs. Directed with clenched fists by Berlin Film Festival winner Marc Rothemund, who seems to have been at least partly …
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La Habanera with Zarah Leander and Ferdinand Marian. First, I have to state that I watched Douglas Sirk’s La Habanera, not knowing what to expect. All I knew was the …
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German Film Awards: The White Ribbon. The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke’s depiction of rural Germany on the eve of World War I – and how the cute (if dangerous) little …
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Super 8½ (movie 1994) review: Underground Bruce La Bruce feature is a subversive, self-indulgently chaotic Citizen Kane + Fellini + explicit gay sex mélange.
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Camino with Carmen Elias: Controversial Opus Dei drama. Goya Award winners Written and directed by Javier Fesser, the controversial drama Camino – described by Screen Daily‘s Lee Marshall as a …
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Jan Troell and Harriet Andersson Swedish Oscars Honor + anti-capitalist German terrorists and the largely forgotten Oskar Schindler of Nanking.
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Somebody Save Me: Gay conversion therapy film Save Me. Save Me is the tale of a couple of troubled gay men (Chad Allen, Robert Gant) who find salvation (of an …
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Stage, film, and television actor Ulrich Mühe, winner of last year’s Best Actor European Film Award, died at age 54 on July 22 at his home in Walbeck, in the …
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This evening, Friday, June 29, Turner Classic Movies will screen three creepies: The Unholy Three (1925), West of Zanzibar (1928), and Vampyr – Der Traum des Allan Grey / The …
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Monica Bleibtrau is this year’s German Oscar winner. German Oscar winners The 2007 German Film Academy’s Lola Award nominees were announced on March 16. The 57th German Film Academy’s Lola …
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Katharine Hepburn Oscars exhibition + crowd-pleasing indie tops Producers Guild of America Awards as veteran Monica Bleibtreu co-wins Best Actress.
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Pola Negri in Madame Dubarry / Passion with Emil Jannings. New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (website) is currently presenting “Pola Negri: Life Is a Dream,” a week-long retrospective on …
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Marc-André Grondin in C.R.A.Z.Y. C.R.A.Z.Y. movie tops Genie Awards “I’m touched. This has been something – a crazy experience,” remarked C.R.A.Z.Y. filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée upon accepting the Academy of Canadian …
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Berlin Film Festival winners include a South African musical based on Bizet’s Carmen and a kinky Taiwanese sex tale.
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Régis Wargnier’s ‘missing link’ movie Man to Man – about science and racism – will open the Berlin Film Festival. Kristin Scott Thomas stars.
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European Film Awards: Culture clash movies dominated this year’s EFAs, while Pedro Almodóvar was the biggest loser and Liv Ullmann got the longest ovation.
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (movie 2013) review: Lars von Trier delivers sequel that is more daring and philosophical. Charlotte Gainsbourg and Stellan Skarsgård star.
The Loves of Pharaoh (movie 1922) review: Future Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings chews the scenery in this disappointing Ernst Lubitsch epic. Dagny Servaes and Harry Liedtke costar.
Til Schweiger and Sima Bürgin in the Bernd Eichinger-produced Der bewegte Mann / Maybe…Maybe Not Producer-director-screenwriter Bernd Eichinger died of a heart attack yesterday while having dinner with family and …
Monica Bleibtreu in Four Minutes with Hannah Herzsprung. Monica Bleibtreu, a respected stage, film, and television actress, and mother of Moritz Bleibtreu, died at age 65 on May 14 in …
Woyzeck (movie 1979) review: Werner Herzog’s ‘minor’ period psychological drama is superior to most acclaimed Hollywood fare. Klaus Kinski and Eva Mattes star.
Lady Chatterley with Marina Hands. Perhaps there’s hope for this evening’s Oscar ceremony. On Saturday, I watched (most of) the French Academy of Film Arts and Sciences’ 32nd César du …
Downfall (2004) review: Bruno Ganz Is an unhinged Hitler and Corinna Harfouch is a coolly deranged Magda Goebbels in German WWII drama.