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VIFF Dispatch No. 4: Dreileben
A couple of years ago, U.S. festival and arthouse audiences were riveted by Red Riding Trilogy, a production for Britain’s Channel Four exploring a history of crime, of both the organized and the...
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Seattle Screens: Nina Hoss burns in ‘Barbara’
Barbara, from director Christian Petzold, is a fiercely directed character piece set in rural East Germany long before the fall of The Wall. According to the program notes, it’s 1980 in the GDR, but...
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SIFFtings 2015 – Week Three
A few short takes on SIFF offerings for the third weekend of the biggest, longest film festival in the United States. PHOENIX (Christian Petzold, Germany, 2014; 98 minutes) Fresh from Auschwitz and...
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Film Review: ‘Phoenix’
Ronald Zehrfeld and Nina Hoss Taking most of its plot from Hubert Monteilhet’s 1961 novel Return From the Ashes, the new movie by German filmmaker Christian Petzold feels like something out of that...
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