Tag: Franz Rogowski
2024 European Film Awards: Jacques Audiard’s ‘Emilia Pérez’ Scoops Up Four Awards
Except perhaps Souleymane's Story's Abou Sangare biking away with the European Actor award (beating out Conclave's Ralph Fiennes) there were no surprises at last...
Bird | Review
Dole Days: Arnold Flutters About with Strange Bedfellows
There’s certainly a definable emotional core in Andrea Arnold’s fifth narrative feature, Bird, but the ideas and...
Disco Boy | Review
Mal Travaille: Abbruzzese Finds the Rhythm of the Night in Hypnotic Debut
“E’en hell hath its peculiar laws,” remarked Faust in Goethe’s eternal classic, the...
2024 Lumières Awards: Anatomy Of A Fall, The Animal Kingdom, Last Summer & Disco Boy Land Noms
Naturally, all focus and the most nominations would go to Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall (it leads in six categories) but this did...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Michôd’s Wizards!
Could David Michôd be returning to the fest where he launched Animal Kingdom back in 2010? Now that 2023 has come and gone, it's...
2023 Gotham Awards: All of Us Strangers Leads Noms, but it’s a “Past Lives” vs. “A Thousand and One” Event
In what is an increasingly convoluted ceremony (remember that each category is determined by a mere five individuals), All of Us Strangers takes the...
Lubo | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Children of a Lesser God: Diritti Highlights Swiss War Crimes in Prolonged Drama
The actual history being explored in Giorgio Diritti’s three-hour drama Lubo is...
Snow Queen: Marion Cotillard Toplines Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s “La Tour de glace”
ARTE France Cinéma have thrown their support behind a quintet of projects and among them we find Lucile Hadzihalilovic re-teaming with Marion Cotillard for...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #31. Ira Sachs’ Passages
Passages
A project we thought might drop in '22 is leading the gem offerings from the beginning of '23 instead. American indie filmmaker Ira Sachs...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #67. David Michôd’s Wizards!
Wizards!
In his short, quartet feature film filmography David Michôd has given us a garden variety. His fifth feature in Wizards! is no different. Wizards!...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #89. Giacomo Abbruzzese’s Disco Boy
Disco Boy
A project that received backing in the shape of a Cinefondation residency and an Arte Development Prize at the Arcs Film Festival's Village...
Great Freedom | Review
Laws of Attraction: Rogowski Shines Bright in Recuperative Queer Prison Drama
Although there’s nary an upside down pink triangle in sight, Austria’s Sebastian Meise cultivates...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #63. Ira Sachs’ Passages
Passages
Entering his third decade in filmmaking, Ira Sachs (The Delta, Forty Shades of Blue, Keep the Lights On, Love Is Strange) has moved into...
Undine | Review
Till Human Voices Wake Us: Petzold Gets Mythologically Romantic
A classical figure of mythology and beyond, the Undine (or Siren), a water nymph creature who’s...
I Was at Home, But…. | Review
The Play’s the Thing: Schanelec Shines with Striking Dynamic on Artifice vs. Authenticity
Words pour out of us, as the main character vocalizes in one...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #4. Undine – Christian Petzold
Undine
Produced by Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber.
Directed by Christian Petzold
Written by Christian Petzold
Starring: Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Jacob...
Here’s Lookin’ at You, Visa: Petzold Posits New Fascism on Classic WWII Novel Transit | Blu-ray Review
Christian Petzold, the shining star of Germany’s Berlin School, unveiled his most provocative narrative reclamation yet with 2018’s Transit, adapted from Anna Segher’s 1942...
Transit | Review
Those Who Leave: Petzold Collapses Past and Present with Holocaust Redux
Switching things up considerably compared to his previous offerings, German auteur Christian Petzold makes...
Interview: Christian Petzold – Transit
If we think more broadly about the possibilities for narrative cinema in the age of “post-cinema” we can certainly make a case in point...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #14. I Was At Home, But (Ich war zuhause, aber) – Angela Schanelec
I Was At Home, But (Ich war zuhause, aber)
German art-house auteur Angela Schanelec will be set to unveil her ninth feature, the intriguingly titled,...
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...
Interview: Thomas Stuber – In the Aisle | 2018 Berlin Intl. Film Festival
Continuing with some of his lost souls interests found in his award-winning TIFF debut A Heavy Heart (2015), Thomas Stuber's sophomore feature film focuses on characters who...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #8. Christian Petzold’s Transit
Transit
The most internationally recognized member of the Berlin School of filmmakers, Christian Petzold and his frequent collaborator, Nina Hoss, have presented some of contemporary...
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...
Happy End | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Sunshine of Their Love: Haneke Dishes Up Black Comedy with a Dollop of Self-Loathing
Happy families are all the same in a Michael Haneke...
Victoria | Blu-ray Review
Earning about as much praise as criticism (including tying for the Silver Berlin Bear in 2015) is actor/director Sebastian Schipper’s fourth feature, Victoria, the...