Family Matters: Glasner’s Sprawling Portrait of Chaotic Dysfunction
Exemplifying Tolstoy’s famous Anna Karenina quote on ‘every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,’ German...
Bachmann & Frisch
Veteran German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta puts her focus on a feminist author who wrote on women's issues in the post-war period...
The Burglar
Director: Hagar Ben Asher
Writer: Hagar Ben Asher
Actress turned director Hagar Ben Asher’s first film, The Slut (2011) premiered at Cannes and went onto...
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...
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...
Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.