Maximilian Schell’s 1973 investigation of West Germany’s relationship with its Nazi past wishes away the American cultural trappings that inform the better-known works of his New German Cinema peers. It’s the sort of failure from which cults are made, says Brad Stevens.
Games, traps and crises of identity and mortality loom large amongst the best conceptual science fiction on offer in this year’s London showcase, reports Anton Bitel.
William Fowler and William Raban pay tribute to modernist master of both flicker film and drone music, who brought an effortlessly human charm and idiosyncrasy to bear in his live art.
Michael Brooke on one of Czech cinema’s most prodigious talents and uncompromising nonconformists, whose career was derailed by the post-1968 repression of the Prague Spring.
The late, great movie production designer reflects on his most indelible set constructions, from Dr. No to Dr. Strangelove, in these excerpts from a 2012 interview with Ian Christie.