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AFIRE Review: Surpassing the Simple Joys of Romantic Comedy
Thomas Schubert, Langston Ubel, Enno Trebs and Paula Beer star in the new film by Christian Petzold.
AFIRE Interview: Paula Beer on Director Christian Petzold, His Methods, and Why It Was Fun to Play Her Character
"I understood his wish for taking all the drama of the world away and trying to introduce this light ambience to the world. But of course it's Christian, so I knew it would dig into a deeper level, not some random light story."
Berlinale 2023 Review: AFIRE, Art and Love Burn in Tragicomedy
Director Christian Petzold's new film stars Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs and Matthias Brandt.
Review: UNDINE Reinvents the Mythical Water Creature Story
Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski star in an alluring tale of romance and betrayal, directed by Christian Petzold.
Interview: Christian Petzold on UNDINE
Melding this fantasy with the tumultuous history of the city of Berlin, Petzold concocts another beautifully written and gorgeously realized film that is at once seductive and thought provoking.
Germany's UNDINE: Water Creature Swims Toward U.S. Theaters
Director Christian Petzold invariably crafts stories into sterling works of cinematic art. Thus, I'm very glad to hear that last year's Undine is heading to select U.S. theaters, courtesy of IFC Films, starting on June 4. In New York, it...
New York 2020 Review: UNDINE, Folklore Gets Fresh Makeover in Beguiling Christian Petzold Romance
Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski star in director Christian Petzold's reinvention of a mythical water creature story that parallels the history of the city of Berlin.
Now on Blu-ray: TRANSIT, Lost Souls in a Troubled Land
Franz Rogowski and Paula Beer star in Christian Petzold's drama, which tells of characters who are out of time.
Review: TRANSIT, Beautifully-told Noir
Director Christian Petzold’s (Phoenix) unique adaptation of the same name brilliantly twists the time and place of World War II events. The decision to depict a war narrative in this way disorients the viewer as there is no exposition to...
Friday One Sheet: TRANSIT
Part near-future science fiction, and (seemingly) a hybrid remake of both Casablanca and The Passenger, Christian Petzold's Transit is a strange beast of a film. The Boland Design Co. offers a gorgeous, green tinted piece of key art that emphases...
Melbourne 2018 Review: TRANSIT Disorients and Compels as Unique Wartime Noir
Director Christian Petzold’s (Phoenix) unique adaptation of the same name brilliantly twists the time and place of World War II events. The decision to depict a War narrative in this way disorients the viewer as there is no exposition to...
Review: PHOENIX, A Noir Revenge Flick
Christian Petzold (Ghosts, Barbara), perhaps one of the most gifted storytellers working in cinema today, strikes gold again with Phoenix, a Hitchcockian, postwar noir revenge flick. Clocking in at a very lean 98 minutes, the film revolves around a concentration camp survivor named...
Film Comment Selects 2015 Review: PHOENIX, A Masterful, Lean Film Noir
Christian Petzold (Ghosts, Barbara), perhaps one of the most gifted storytellers working in cinema today, strikes gold again with Phoenix, a Hitchcockian, postwar noir revenge flick. Clocking in at a very lean 98 minutes, the film revolves around a concentration camp survivor named...
Nothing Is What It Seems In The Trailer For Post-WWII Thriller PHOENIX
For the past 14 years German director Christian Petzold has been steadily building up a reputation as a post-renuifciation master, subverting genre plots and tropes into fascinating and haunting meditations on modern (and the largely still fractured) Germany. But with...
Haunted People, Haunted Places: The Films Of The Berlin School At MoMA
Despite having one of the richest and most influential cinematic histories of any nation, current German cinema's star rarely shines beyond its borders. The films that make the rounds and get the spotlight or any awards attention are the ones...
Review: BARBARA Tears Down the Wall
As a leading figure of Berliner Schule, director Christian Petzold has been portraying 'lost' people in both literal and metaphorical sense: desperate souls cornered into making tough and sometimes wrong decisions brought on by economic hardships in the post-global recession...
"I Don't Think Film Can Give Answers": Nina Hoss Talks BARBARA
In Barbara, her fifth collaboration with director Christian Petzold, Nina Hoss stars as a doctor in East Germany circa 1980, who, after several repeated attempts to escape to the west, is banished to a rural pediatric hospital. Her continued plans of...
'I Envision All These Great Small Movies in the Ruins of Hollywood': Christian Petzold Interview
Christian Petzold's fantastic new film Barbara opens in the US on December 21, after garnering critical acclaim; Petzold won the Best Director award at Berlin International Film Festival this year and the film is the German entry for the Best...
NYFF 2012 Review: BARBARA Tears Down the Wall
As a leading figure of Berliner Schule, director Christian Petzold has been portraying 'lost' people in both literal and metaphorical sense: desperate souls cornered into making tough and sometimes wrong decisions brought on by economic hardships in the post-global recession...
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