BURDEN OF DREAMS — 4K RESTORATION
If the metaphor of pulling a steam ship over a mountain sounds like a Sisyphean effort, you are in the…
New German Cinema
NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE — SHOCKTOBER!
Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Cult Film, FIVE STARS, Horror, Literary Adaptation, New German Cinema, sex, SHOCKTOBER!, Video Essay, Women's Cinema
Werner Herzog’s inspired homage to F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent film is an appropriately chilling telling of the Gothic tale derived…
NEKROMANTIK 2 — SHOCKTOBER!
BDSM, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Cult Film, Exploitation, FOUR STARS, German Cinema, Horror, Magical Realism, New German Cinema, Political Satire, sex, Sexploitation, SHOCKTOBER!, Social Satire, Transgressive Cinema, Women's Cinema
In the brainwash of modern ideologies it seems apropos that Jörg Buttgereit’s follow-up to his banned 1987 horror film “Nekromantik”…
MOTHER KUSTERS GOES TO HEAVEN
Although the version of “Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven” currently being shown on FilmStruck does a fake-you-out move by spelling…
THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT — THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Brecht meets Douglas Sirk and Joseph Mankiewicz (“All About Eve”) in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s delectable adaptation of his five-act stageplay,…
PARIS, TEXAS — THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Criterion Collection, FIVE STARS, New German Cinema, Video Essay, Women's Cinema
Written by Sam Shepherd, and adapted by L.M. Kit Carson, the linear story for “Paris, Texas” contains the hallmarks of…
ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL — THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Criterion Collection, FIVE STARS, New German Cinema, Political Satire, sex, Video Essay, Women's Cinema
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a prodigy, the most prolific member of the New German Cinema movement, which made its mark…
PINA — THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Art Film, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Criterion Collection, Dance, Documentary, FIVE STARS, Music, New German Cinema, Video Essay, Women's Cinema
Wenders puts state-of-the-art 3D technology to ideal usage in capturing the dynamic vibrancy of transformative dance numbers that reveal the…
CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS
Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Documentary, FIVE STARS, Independent Cinema, New German Cinema, Video Essay
Entering the Chauvet Cave with Werner Herzog is analogous to going on a profound tour of art and history with…
AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD — CLASSIC FILM PICK
Constructed on conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro’s doomed expedition in search of El Dorado, Werner Herzog’s landmark picture opens with a five-minute…
NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE — CLASSIC FILM PICK
Capsules Blog, FIVE STARS, Horror, Literary Adaptation, New German Cinema, sex, SHOCKTOBER!, Video Essay
Werner Herzog’s inspired homage to F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent film is an appropriately chilling telling of the Gothic tale derived…
PALERMO SHOOTING — CANNES 2008
There would have been more boos at the film’s Cannes premiere, but many in the audience were asleep. Cole Smithey.
RESCUE DAWN
Werner Herzog’s sensational narrative version of the story he told in his acclaimed 1997 documentary “Little Dieter Needs to Fly,”…
DON’T COME KNOCKING — CANNES 2005
Cannes Film Festival, Capsules Blog, Drama, New German Cinema, TWO STARS, Video Essay, Women's Cinema
Written by Sam Shepard, directed by Wim Wenders, and starring Jessica Lange “Don’t Come Knocking” has the trappings of a…
COLE SMITHEY’S CLASSIC CINEMA
