…of a foreign buyout of the Recchi’s company. Tancredi is a complete enigma; the third child is so sketchily drawn that I honestly wasn’t sure whether Gianluca was meant to…
…back over my notes, I found repeated comments about superlative sound by Danilo Carvalho, and miraculous music by Hauschka, otherwise known as Volker Bertelmann, and wondered if FUTURO BEACH had…
…we come to this odd German film, THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT, which, as I have discussed with several people, should have ben titled THE STRANGE LITTLE FAMILY WITH THE NORMAL…
…questionable things in the names of their countries continue to come and intrigue a patient audience. This impressive adaptation of a more recent work is low-key, but nevertheless a fascinating…
…rise of the German totalitarian state and the Holocaust. That conclusion is rather simplistic. Germany has a checkered history of persecution. Take, for example, witchcraft persecutions. Approximately half of all…
…East Germany in the years just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The East German Secret Police keep just about everyone under surveillance, particularly if you are an artist…
…war above that is reducing Berlin to rubble. The sound of Russian artillery is never ending. The Russians outnumber the Germans 10:1. Berlin is sure to fall. Defying the doomsday…
…superb. Some of the dialogue particularly that of the Germans was not subtitled which I found annoying. Several scenes could have been improved with more rigorous editing. 4.5 cats” …
…films detailing the atrocities of the holocaust, AMEN is among the best. This complex French/German/Romanian/US production looks harshly at the Vatican, and the governments of the world with regard to…