Review: Voight Stars As 'Tannhaeuser'
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Deborah Voigt lost the weight and kept the voice.
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There&#39;s a popular misconception that it&#39;s impossible to like a movie without any likable characters. Nonsense. The truth, as usual, is a bit more subtle: It&#39;s impossible to like a movie without any empathetic characters. You don&#39;t have to ...
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Germans struggled to digest a powerful new film about Adolf Hitler that opened in cinemas on Thursday amid a raging debate about whether the dictator can be portrayed as anything less than the world's greatest ...
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Our critic chooses his favorite movies for the year--and finds they tend to blur the line between fiction and reality.
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It may have a captivating title, but this film has little else going for it.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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The best you can say about this movie is that it's somewhat more enjoyable than its predecessor.
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The Berlin Film Festival opened on Thursday with a tear-jerking historical epic starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Joseph Fiennes that drew some boos and sharp criticism it failed to make a strong statement against racism.
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When the Denver International Film Festival, which starts tonight, announced a salute to the New German Cinema movement, I must admit to a vague panic.
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The Hitler of the film is almost a heroic figure who refuses to flee or capitulate. A new film about Hitler&#39;s last days is a conventional human drama that is dividing German opinion, writes Mark Landler.
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With âDescent,â first-time feature filmmaker Talia Lugacy explores the psychic aftershocks of a rape. The movie is hard to watch but essential to see.
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Christopher Breen  takes us on a tour of Apple TV that begins with downloading the software update and ends with the big questionââHowâs it look?â To which Breen responds, âDarned good.â After renting Live Free or Die Hard. Breen reports that â the picture is great on my 42-inch Panasonic plasma display. With a digital audio cable connected to my AV receiver the movie caused the receiverâs 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio light to glow and the resulting sound was bigger than anything Iâve heard come out of the box previously.â
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Itâs no disgrace that âAlmost an Evening,â the new bill of bite-size plays by Ethan Coen, lives up to the modesty of its title.
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&quot;Birth&quot; should have been good. It had all the elements: Spooky scenario, seamless direction, stellar cast. We were ready for it to be good; we wanted it to be good.
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Puneet's characterisation and his appeal make Bindaas a compulsory double viewing for his fans. Good fights and music are the major attractions in this film which offers an age old story and haphazard script. Hansika's beauty rocks in the film.
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Ladder 49: Drama. Starring Joaquin Phoenix and John Travolta. Directed by Jay Russell. (PG-13. 125 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.).
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A film about former French President  Francois Mitterrand and another about a German resistance  fighter executed by the Nazis highlight a trend for filmmakers  to use biographies to tell larger stories.