The Shadowless Tower
Zhang Lu’s ‘The Shadowless Tower’ is gentle, impressionistic story set in historic old Beijing is a rambling account of complicated family ties and individual loneliness.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Feb 20, 2023 | Berlin, Berlin 2023, Festivals, Spotlight |
Zhang Lu’s ‘The Shadowless Tower’ is gentle, impressionistic story set in historic old Beijing is a rambling account of complicated family ties and individual loneliness.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Feb 19, 2023 | Berlin, Berlin 2023, Festivals, Spotlight |
Margarethe von Trotta’s deeply perceptive study of Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann, played by a dazzling Vicky Krieps, portrays the great writer’s struggle to combine freedom and commitment.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Feb 18, 2023 | Berlin, Berlin 2023, Featured |
Actor and activist Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman codirect a diary-like travelogue through war-torn Ukraine, highlighted by three brief interviews with Pres. Volodymyr Zelensky.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Feb 17, 2023 | Berlin, Berlin 2023, Festivals, Spotlight |
The backstory to the creation of the world’s once-most-popular smartphone is much wackier than can be imagined, as evidenced in Matt Johnson’s good-humored rise-and-fall business chronicle.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Feb 16, 2023 | Berlin, Berlin 2023, Festivals |
Iranian director Sepideh Farsi opens a revelatory and very chilling window on a city under siege by a foreign power in her powerful, animated coming-of-ager, ‘The Siren’.
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