Tag: Nina Hoss
Foreign Tongue (Langue étrangère) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Tongues Untied: Love Lies Easy in Burger’s Cross Culture Coming of Age Drama
There’s a lot going on in Claire Burger’s third film, Foreign Tongue...
2022 Indie Spirits Awards Noms: The Cathedral, Palm Trees and Power Lines, Murina & Aftersun Are Glowing
Everything Everywhere All At Once, Tár, Women Talking and Bones and All are the heavyweight indies that will be properly feted the day before...
2022 Gotham Awards Noms: Todd Field’s Tár Takes Centerstage, Aftersun Gets Love Blisters
Aftersun is the tops of the noms garnering Breakthrough Performer, Breakthrough Director, Outstanding Lead Performance and Best Feature. The noms are out and we...
Tár | Review
Notes on a Scandal: Blanchett Swallows Berlin in Exceptional Psychological Drama from Field
It’s been sixteen years since Todd Field’s last film, the arduous Academy...
Winter Girl: Chiara Mastroianni & Nina Hoss Get Schooled in Claire Burger’s “Langue étrangère”
Party Girl (2014) and C'est ça l'amour (2018) filmmaker Claire Burger has been slowly mounting her next feature a Franco-German portrait of youth and...
Sisterly Love: Vanessa Filho Builds Mistrust with Nina Hoss & Vanessa Paradis in Gender-Bending Thriller “Trespassers”
She has just wrapped her sophomore project Le Consentement this past June and Vanessa Filho has already set her gaze on an intriguing-sounding fact-based story...
The Contractor | Review
Harper Does It Better: Saleh Taps Pine for Pluralistic Espionage
“It’s much easier to kill, but it’s harder to survive,” is the most useful line...
The Audition | Review
A History of Violins: Hoss at a Loss in Weisse’s Careful Character Study
Actor Ina Weisse returns to the director’s chair for the first time...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #81. Schwesterlein – Stéphanie Chuat & Véronique Reymond
Schwesterlein
It’s been ten years since the narrative debut of Swiss directing duo Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, 2010’s The Little Bedroom (though they’ve worked...
Pelican Blood | 2019 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Mother May I Sleep with Martyr?: Gebbe Dresses in Distress with Maternal Drama
It’s always lamentable to find a charismatic actor stymied by a poorly...
Return to Montauk | 2017 Berlin International Film Festival Review
The Past is Present: Schlondorff Explores Romantic Regrets in Mismated Adaptation
A key figure in the New German Wave from the mid-60s through the 1970’s,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 93. Volker Schlondorff’s Return to Montauk
Return to Montauk
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Writer: Volker Schlondorff, Colm Toibin
It’s impossible to discuss the German New Wave of the 1970s without mentioning Volker Schlondorff, perhaps...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #96. Volker Schlöndorff’s Montauk Revisited
Montauk Revisited
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Writers: Volker Schlöndorff, Colm Toibin
New Wave German auteur Volker Schlondorff (The Tin Drum, 1979) is at work on another project, Montauk...
Phoenix | Review
Return From the Ashes: Petzold’s Compelling Resurrection of WWII Aftermath
At the head of the cinematic movement referred to as the Berlin School of filmmaking...
Video Interview: Christian Petzold (Phoenix)
I sat down with Christian Petzold after the premiere of his new film Phoenix at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. We discussed his...
Video Interview: Nina Hoss (Christian Petzold’s Phoenix)
I sat down with Nina Hoss after the premiere of her new film Phoenix at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Her sixth collaboration...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #7. Christian Petzold’s Phoenix
Phoenix
Director: Christian Petzold
Writer: Christian Petzold
Producers: Schramm Film Koerner & Weber
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Uwe Preuss
One of the best...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #28. Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man
A Most Wanted Man
Director: Anton Corbijn
Writer(s): Andrew Bovell
Producer(s): Andrea Calderwood, Simon Cornwell, Stephen Cornwell, Gail Egan, Solveig Fina, Malte Grunert, Helge Sasse
U.S. Distributor: Rights...
