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Afire | Review

Pleasure to Burn: Petzold Stokes the Flames in Diffident Drama A fragile male ego finds itself dismantled in Afire (Roter Himmel), the second chapter...

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...

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...

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2026 Cannes: Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard Selected for Cannes Premiere (!?)

There was no mention this morning for a film...

2026 Cannes: Mysius, Kreutzer, Harari, Grisebach, Herry, Bourgeois-Taquet Among New Faces in the Palme d’Or Comp

A competition section of (currently) twenty-one features with, according...

2026 Cannes: Nicolas Winding Refn, Quentin Dupieux & Bertrand Mandico on the Croisette

The Out of Competition, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Premiere and...