With eerie relevance, this week also happens to mark the start of the BAMPFA series Iranian Cinema: From Aesthetics to Politics (Sat/7-April 23), so you have an opportunity to familiarize yourself ...

Carmen Maura, Paul McCartney, and Jessica Chastain star in new releases, reviewed below, this week. Also on tap: films at ...

The German auteur’s recent book presents a strange, idiosyncratic vision of the concept of “truth,” one that defines how he ...

How hard-boiled language lessons from Adrienne, the motorcycle-riding author of a series of 1970s language books, turned a homebody into an explorer. By Mary Bergman “The whole world comes to ...

The opening line of L.P. Hartley's seminal coming-of-age novel The Go-Between reads, "The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there." That sentiment resonates throughout writer and ...

German cinema has produced some incredible anti-war films, from three adaptations of All Quiet on the Western Front to The Devil’s General. Another classic is Bernhard Wicki’s Die Brücke (aka The ...

In Olivia Laing’s arresting new “The Silver Book” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), their eighth book and second novel, historical fiction, and much else, is turned on its head. Its historical side is a ...

His first feature-length movie, in 1971, was called his country’s “Stonewall moment,” for jump-starting a gay-rights movement. He became a leading voice of it. By Clay Risen Rosa von Praunheim, an ...

Does it hold up? That’s a question that often is asked about pop culture from the past. Sometimes, it is a question of what still flies with the modern audience. It’s not all about potentially ...

Barco, the cinema projection company, is expanding its premium HDR by Barco format in Germany. Starting in November, the company will install the Barco HDR format at select Cineplex Germany locations ...

From art museums to gorgeous parks and gardens, these are some of the best places to visit in Munich. Surrounded by impressive architecture dating back to the Bavarian monarchy, I love wandering the ...

The reforms are designed to allow more international productions, and talent, to compete for Germany’s top film honor, the Lolas. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief A film with at least 50 ...