Anna Hepp meets with renowned German director Edgar Reitz in one of Germany’s most famous cinemas: the Lichtburg in Essen. Read More »
The Swedish Torpedo / Den svenska torpeden (2024)
Summer of 1939. The outbreak of war in Europe is drawing ever closer, but Sally Bauer cannot tear herself Read More »
The Mass Is Ended (1985) Nanni Moretti
The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Read More »
Compelled (1960) Ramsey Herrington, Beth Rogan
An ex-convict who’s built a respectable post-prison life for himself as an engineer Read More »
Suzaki Paradise Red Light (1956) Yûzô Kawashima
A couple stand indecisively on a bridge in Asakusa. Tsutae and Yoshiji have lost confidence Read More »
The Purple Gang (1959) Frank McDonald
A teen-age rat pack of the Detroit slums, the Purple Gang, headed by psychotic William Joseph “Honeyboy” Willard Read More »
The Peony Pavilion (1995) Kuo-fu Chen
A teenager called Li Li, always got the same dream. In the dream, she falls in love with a scholar. Read More »
Time for Dying (1969) Budd Boetticher
In Silver City, naive farm boy Cass and newcomer saloon girl Nellie Read More »
This Side of the Law (1950) Richard L. Bare
David Cummings, a vagrant, is bailed out of prison by Philip Cagle, an lawyer, who hires him to impersonate Read More »
Passage / Pasáz (1997) Juraj Herz
Michal Forman, a successful business manager, gets stuck in a traffic jam. Read More »