Albert Camus’ The Stranger remains one of the most enduring works of modern literature. Consistently ranked among the greatest novels of the 20th century, it has been translated into more than 75 languages and continues to resonate with readers from the Beat...
Mental illness. Movies tend to handle it one of two ways — it’s either a major problem, leading to crisis and drama. Or it’s somehow something funny, leading to laughter and comedy. Rarely anything in between. But in his debut feature FANTASY LIFE,...
We’re going out on a limb and saying it plainly: Christian Petzold is one of the finest and most consistently compelling filmmakers working in film today. While his first five features never received U.S. theatrical release, he broke through to American arthouse...
According to Wikipedia, a shtetl is the Yiddish term for the small towns across Eastern Europe where many Ashkenazi Jewish communities lived before the Holocaust. But for those of us born after the Shoah, the word carries something almost mystical. It...
