C What’s Good: What to watch on the Criterion Channel for August 2019
C What’s Good is the monthly follow-up piece to our C What’s On round-up of the Criterion Channel’s monthly programming. Leaping off of the hard ...
Tag: German
Trailers
Trailer for Tilman Singer’s Luz channels vintage Cronenberg, Argento, and Zulawski
Tilman Singer’s debut film Luz has gotten a lot of hype in the last year or so among some horror circles. This student ...
Reviews
Review: Luz
When a film leans heavily into a retro aesthetic, I sometimes wonder how much is homage and how much of it is an ...
Reviews
Review: Toni Erdmann
There’s no way Toni Erdmann could ever live up to its hype. Reviews from Cannes and the Toronto International Film Festival touted the ...
Reviews
Review: Nothing Bad Can Happen
The German title of Nothing Bad Can Happen is “Tore Dances,” something I knew from the beginning thanks to the multiple attempts I have made ...
Teaser trailer for restoration of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is impressive
If you haven’t seen the 1920 classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, you need to fix that immediately. Conveniently, it’s out of copyright, ...
Trailers
Blood Glacier looks gory, has the best title ever
BLOOD GLACIER. Guys. This movie’s called Blood Glacier. I can’t believe this exists and can’t believe it hasn’t already existed. In Blood Glacier, ...
Reviews
SXSW Review: Wetlands
Wetlands came out of Sundance with plenty of buzz for being shocking for its disturbing sexual content and brazen display of sexual acts. It ...