“Expressionism and Film” finally in print!
Your wait is over! A mere 90 years after its initial publication, my translation of Rudolf Kurtz’s Expressionism and Film is available in English!...
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Oblivious Songbird
Poor Marguerite. She’s a middle-aged baroness in a loveless marriage, living in a lavish country seat outside Paris in 1920. If she were satisfied attending ladies’...
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Why another film based on the diary of Anne Frank? Everybody knows the story. It’s already been made into a well-meaning play and a number of TV movies. Lines of...
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From the Madding Crowd to the Commune
The Commune brings Danish director Thomas Vinterberg home, following his big-budget English language turn in Far From the Madding Crowd. This sensitively acted, loving...
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The Brand New Testament
God’s alive and doing rather poorly in Brussels. The Belgian film academy’s awards are called the “Magrittes,” and tellingly enough, wacky surrealist visionary...
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The Fencer
In 1953, Stalin rules the Soviet Union with an iron fist. A young Estonian resister named Endel Nelis (Märt Avandi) escapes the inquisitive eyes of the Leningrad KGB by...
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