David Robb

Writer-director Ramon Zürcher's 'The Sparrow and the Chimney' sees intimacy and isolation as two sides of the same coin.

'Eight Postcards from Utopia' and 'Sleep #2' further solidify Radu Jude’s status as one of our most vital artists.

Pia Marais's 'Transamazonia,' a tale of spiritual and neo-colonial exploitation, is unfocused and unrelentingly somber.

Christoph Hochhäusler's thriller 'Death Will Come' is a conspicuously de-glamorized tale of violent characters on society’s fringes.

Gerhard Gundermann was an East German open cast miner and ‘Liedermacher' who died prematurely in 1998 at the age of forty-three. Although he is known for his controversial involvement with the Stasi in his early career, very little has been written about his art, including the ‘Liedertheater' work he performed with Brigade Feuerstein in the GDR. This article looks at the role of literary intertextuality in the productions of this group between 1978 and 1988. It specifically examines Gundermann's connection with Brigitte Reimann's socially critical novel

Throughout the film, Matthew Rankin succeeds in finding an effective tonal balance between deadpan irony and heartfelt sincerity.

Often blunt and unwieldy, writer-director Mohamed Rasolouf's 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' is nevertheless impactful.

Across 'Blitz,' Steve McQueen's keen painterly eye and impressive showmanship consistently run counter to any ethical agenda.

The film's use of small-town squalor as a blank canvas for artful indulgences often detracts from its purported authenticity.

The bizarre mismatch of form and content throughout Neil Burger's 'Inheritance' mostly saps the film of life.