The horror silent film “Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari” by Robert Wiene from 1920 is an important milestone in film history and counts as an essential work of German expressionist film. Before the Second World War, he had a profound stylistic influence on much of German cinema, was the forerunner of the atmospheric light-dark look […]
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Prime Video is finally showing Asif Kapadia’s great British documentary “Diego Maradona” from 2019. The film tells the story of the Argentine football star with a focus on his time in Naples from 1984 to 1991. From the rise to the football god to his dramatic fall. In the 1980s, Maradona’s agent Jorge Cyterszpiler had
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The Polish film “Cold War” (Zimna Wojna) by Pawel Pawlikowski, a very fine historical love drama, is available on Netflix and probably one of the best movies of 2018. After the Second World War, a music director in Poland was commissioned to find talent for a Polish folk music ensemble. He travels the country looking
On Netflix you can now see the award-winning Romanian film “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu” by director Cristi Puiu from 2005. The film belongs to the Romanian New Wave, whose works are sober, realistic and minimalist, usually with a touch of black humour, telling their storiess and usually take place in the late 1980s at
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Jia Zhangke’s 2010 Chinese documentary “I Wish I Knew” (传奇) is an elegant, poetic portrait of the port city of Shanghai. To mark its 10th anniversary, the film was released in the US for the first time in January 2020. People of different ages tell of their personal experiences in the rapidly changing political conditions
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The Japanese low-budget horror comedy “One Cut of the Dead” by Shinichiro Oeda from 2017 is easily the Most Hilarious Shit I’ve seen lately. A film crew makes a small one-cut zombie movie in an old World War II factory building and is attacked by real zombies. Horror for the actors, but the director sees
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The American documentary “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution” by James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham has been released on Netflix. The film tells the story of a group of young people with disabilities who experience appreciation and community in a summer camp in the early 1970s and then, motivated by their experiences, take to the streets
Netflix made some of the most beautiful films from Japanese animation studio Ghibli available in February. In addition to well-known classics such as “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away”, there are also some lesser-known films to watch. One of these films is “The Legend of Princess Kaguya” by Isao Takahata from 2013. Takahata founded the
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The Syrian documentary “For Sama” by Waad al-Kateab is out now in cinemas. The journalist and activist captured her experiences during the Syrian civil war over five years alongside her husband Hamza, who worked as a doctor in one of the last local hospitals with her camera. During this time they also had their daughter
The American documentary “Miles Davis – Birth of the Cool” by Stanley Nelson Jr. is available on Netflix. The film was released in 2019 and paints a versatile portrait of the artist and his important role in jazz music. Many friends and artists have their say in interviews here. Together with archive footage and music
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