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Not since G.W. Pabst's 1956 effort, 'Letste Akt' (The Last Act) has a German film attempted to tackle the subject of their most famous leader, Adolf Hitler. Breaking a long-standing taboo, the director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, has made a film that has sparked much debate in Germany and the rest of the world. Downfall features an .. Read more

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  Youth Without Youth

  • 12 Dec 2007

  "Sometimes I ask myself if I will ever finish my life's work. " There is an extraordinary moment just a few minutes into Francis Coppola's first film in a decade. Dominic Matei (Tim Roth), an old man, is crossing a downtown street in Bucharest when he's struck by lightning. The force from the blow lifts him up off the road and into the air. When he comes to, he's in a hospital bed, covered head to toe in bandages. The doctors are amazed he's still alive. But they've many more surprises in... Read more

  

  The Reader

  • 29 Dec 2008

  Why are Anglo-Americans making films about Germany’s collective shame over the Holocaust? And why now? No doubt it’s entirely coincidental that The Reader comes hot on the heels of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and just a few weeks before Tom Cruise plays a sympathetic German officer in Valkyrie. At a pinch we could throw in Defiance too (released next week), another WWII story, this time about Jewish resistance – such as it was. I have a feeling that the international... Read more

  

  Brokeback dominates London awards

  • 09 Feb 2006

  Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain has continued its relentless domination of the pre-Oscar award ceremonies by scooping two of the top gongs at the 26th London Critics' Circle Film awards (ALFS). The film, which is in the hunt for eight Academy Awards, was named film of the year with Lee himself earning the best director honour. Introducing the film, ALFS chairman William Russell said: "Brokeback Mountain has all the ingredients of a classic love story, except that the lovers are two young... Read more

  

  War Movies

  • 18 Aug 2009

  In Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino has declared war, and you can be sure that he means it. Now, we like a good anti-war film as well as the next guy: Schindler’s List, The Thin Red Line, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Deer Hunter… These are classics for a reason. But let’s be honest, sometimes it’s more fun to curl up with a real war movie: a gung-ho, lock-and-load, no-holds-barred action film. It’s this kind of movie that Tarantino has made, squarely... Read more

  

  The Invasion

  • 09 Oct 2007

  The body snatchers are back for another earth invasion (if memory serves, they've already infiltrated our ranks successfully three times in films by Don Siegel in 1956, Philip Kaufman in 1978, and Abel Ferrara in 1993). This time they've hitched a ride on a NASA space shuttle. Safely landed, they spread as a germ during the exchange of fluids. That might not sound terribly efficient, but humanoid converts are ready to speed things along by vomiting into the soup and such, and soon infected... Read more

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