- When a franchise has reached a certain point, it has to decide whether to reinvent itself or start all over again. The latter is exactly the case with The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, thirty years after Lang’s original. The usual line is to say that it is not up to Lang’s original, but that might make us miss something. Ex…
- Inspired by the explosive sex-for-sale scandal that rocked Manhattan in 1984, the infamous Sydney Biddle Barrows, a driven young socialite, opens an exclusive escort service catering to the wealthy and affluent. From Sydney's rise to become a million-dollar, modern-day madam to her notorious plummet into bankruptcy and…
- Celebrated novelist Daisy Lowendahl (Bergen) has just killed off a wildly popular character in a best-selling series of books and, after suffering a hushed-up nervous breakdown, plans to confront one of her fears by spending a night alone - without her devoted husband, Robbie (Michael Murphy) - at their remote beach ho…
- Ludwig II, the king of Bavaria, his famous castles and the mysterious circumstances of his death, have inspired a lot of filmmakers throudhout all times.Rolf Raffé's Das Schweigen am Starnbergersee focusses on the conflict between the king and his family.
- Gilles Perret has always associated the name "Walter" and the word "resistance." Even before knowing what the latter meant, Gilles knew that his neighbor had been sent to a concentration camp called Dachau. Through this story of Walter Bassan, a former resistance fighter and concentration camp inter…
