Tag: August Diehl
The Ice Tower (La Tour de Glace) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Hearts of Glass: Hadžihalilović Casts a Wintry Spell
A chilly scene of winter unfolds in La Tour de Glace (The Ice Tower) at a glacial...
Sidonie au Japon | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Second Chance Romance: Girard Haunts Huppert in Erstwhile Ghost Story
Isabelle Huppert conjoins two of her most recent recurring cinematic themes with Sidonie in Japan,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #133. Elise Girard’s Sidonie In Japan
Sidonie In Japan
We can add this France-Japan title to the under-the-radar items featuring the great Isabelle Huppert. Production on Elise Girard's third feature Sidonie...
Monster Dash: No Escaping Serebrennikov’s “The Disappearance” for August Diehl
A long-gestating project that was perhaps put on hold while Kirill Serebrennikov was fighting to not have to rot in a Russian jail, production...
Ghost Writers: Production Begins on Elise Girard’s “Sidonie au Japon” with Isabelle Huppert
The continuously busy Isabelle Huppert has booked her next flight. She'll be heading to Sidonie au Japon -- French filmmaker Élise Girard's third feature...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life
After spending a whole bunch of time in post (sadly actors Michael Nyqvist and Bruno Ganz will have never had the chance to see their performances), Terrence Malick...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #30. Radegund – Terrence Malick
Radegund
Leave it to Terrence Malick to leave us interminably wondering when and where his next completed film will surface, and his latest, the German...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #49. Terrence Malick’s Radegund
Radegund
American auteur Terrence Malick makes our foreign films list with the German produced Radegund, which documents the exploits of conscientious objector Franz Jagerstatter (August...
Come What May (2015) | Blu-ray Review
Beneath its swells of emotion and somewhat bitter but diminished remonstrance on the horrors of war, French director Christian Carion’s fourth film, Come What...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 94. Raoul Peck’s The Eyes of Karl Marx
The Young Karl Marx
Director: Raoul Peck
Writer: Pascal Bonitzer
Haitian director Raoul Peck, currently enjoying considerable awards buzz for his 2016 documentary on James Baldwin, I...
Confession of a Child of the Century | Blu-Ray Review
In 2012, French director Sylvie Verheyde mounted an ambitious, English language adaptation of Alfred de Musset’s controversial 1836 autobiographical novel Confession of a Child...
