Seattle Screens: Nina Hoss burns in ‘Barbara’
Barbara, from director Christian Petzold, is a fiercely directed character piece set in rural East Germany long before the fall of The Wall. According to the program notes, it’s 1980 in the GDR, but...
View ArticleVideophiled: Angelina Jolie is ‘Maleficent’ and Philip Seymour Hoffman is ‘A...
Maleficent (Disney, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital, VOD) does sort of a “Wicked” number on the story of Sleeping Beauty’s evil sorceress, casting her as the tragic figure of a dark fantasy (but not too dark for...
View ArticleSIFFtings 2015 – Week Three
A few short takes on SIFF offerings for the third weekend of the biggest, longest film festival in the United States. PHOENIX (Christian Petzold, Germany, 2014; 98 minutes) Fresh from Auschwitz and...
View ArticleFilm Review: ‘Phoenix’
Taking most of its plot from Hubert Monteilhet’s 1961 novel Return From the Ashes, the new movie by German filmmaker Christian Petzold feels like something out of that era. With its contrived plot and...
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Seattle Screens: Nina Hoss burns in ‘Barbara’
Barbara, from director Christian Petzold, is a fiercely directed character piece set in rural East Germany long before the fall of The Wall. According to the program notes, it’s 1980 in the GDR, but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Videophiled: Angelina Jolie is ‘Maleficent’ and Philip Seymour Hoffman is ‘A...
Maleficent (Disney, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital, VOD) does sort of a “Wicked” number on the story of Sleeping Beauty’s evil sorceress, casting her as the tragic figure of a dark fantasy (but not too dark for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SIFFtings 2015 – Week Three
A few short takes on SIFF offerings for the third weekend of the biggest, longest film festival in the United States. PHOENIX (Christian Petzold, Germany, 2014; 98 minutes) Fresh from Auschwitz and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: ‘Phoenix’
Ronald Zehrfeld and Nina Hoss Taking most of its plot from Hubert Monteilhet’s 1961 novel Return From the Ashes, the new movie by German filmmaker Christian Petzold feels like something out of that...
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