Die unbezähmbare Leni Peickert

Nov 25, 2015 — Akira Kurosawa's 1952 film about one man’s mortality offers a study in postwar Japan, Kurosawa vs. Ozu, and the realization that knowing how to die requires learning how to be alive.

May 25, 2012 — The following article by the filmmaker himself originally appeared in the German newspaper Die Filmwoche on May 20, 1931.

Apr 19, 2011 — Acclaimed Portugese director João Pedro Rodrigues has made three features: O Fantasma (2000), Two Drifters (2005), and To Die Like a Man (2009).

Jan 5, 2004 — “Sometimes I think of my death,” Kurosawa has written: “I think of ceasing to be . . . and it is from these thoughts that Ikiru came.” The story of a man who knows he is going to die, the...

Nov 11, 2002 — Continued from Anatomy of a Love Festival - Part One The real turn-on, though, was the music—twenty-two hours of it, divided into solid chunks that usually ran more than thirty minutes. Friday night was the epitome of what San Francisco...

The actor talks about her favorite scenes in Beau travail and Punch-Drunk Love, admires Nicole Kidman’s performance in To Die For, and shares her desire to dance with Bob Fosse.

The actor and star of Babygirl expresses his love for the films of Lino Brocka, praises his costar Nicole Kidman’s performance in To Die For, and talks about being influenced by such filmmakers as Mike Leigh and Harmony Korine.

The singer shares her love for The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and its decadent drama, praises Nicole Kidman’s hilariously psychotic performance in To Die For, and talks about the intimate dream state of Brand upon the Brain!

Oct 31, 2025 — A packed batch this week, from die-hards by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Jacques Tourneur to new films by Kathryn Bigelow and Radu Jude.

Jun 25, 2015 — German director Bernhard Wicki proved his uncommon cinematic skill with his heartbreaking tale of teen soldiers sent off to die near the end of World War II.