The series transforms a story that captured something of the experience of war into a familiar melodrama.
The film’s educational impetus is to announce to the world that even picture-perfect Norwegians continue to pay a heavy price for the horrors of WWII.
Dumped unceremoniously into a handful of theaters earlier this year, De Palma’s sexy and savage Passion gets a spectacular Blu-ray transfer from Entertainment One.
Throughout, director Wolfgang Murnberger can’t manage more than a few surface-level ambiguities.
Christian Petzold’s close-to-the-vest approach fits in the context of a narrative that takes place in 1980 East Germany
The film is a symphony of giddy terror where people perpetually hide behind masks, both literal and figurative.
Most compelling in Barbara, Christian Petzold’s latest, is the way the filmmaker adeptly conducts his tides of Cold War paranoia.
The series shares with Sátántangó an interest in dissecting a social environment, uncovering unsavory human truths in the process.
This high-falutin’ Nazi origin story is practically a masterpiece of subtlety in the finger-wagging blowhard Haneke’s canon.
Ever wonder about the ancestors of the murderous jocks in Funny Games?