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German movies of the 1970s will forever be linked with the New German Cinema movement, the auteur directors — led by the likes of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorff — who shook the country out of its postwar stupor. “Papa’s Kino ist tot” (‘Papa’s cinema’s is dead’) was their motto, and they held radical new visions of what movies could do.

But alongside this art house wave, ’70s Germany also was a breeding ground for a cruder, more commercial strain of cinema, one that took inspiration from sexploitation and spaghetti Westerns, biker films and grindhouse horror and grafted it onto the zeitgeist-y themes of political upheaval and sexual liberation. The Berlinale pays tribute to this seldom-seen oeuvre of German genre cinema in its 2025 retrospective, which features 15 titles — cult classics and curios from both East and West Germany — that prove that German film could also be “wild,...

Mia Goth has established herself as one of modern cinema's "Scream Queens." Having starred in acclaimed horror films like Infinity Pool, 2018's Suspiria, and director Ti West's X trilogy (which ended with the 2024 film MaXXXine), Goth now guarantees an audience in whatever film she appears. However, A Cure for Wellness, in which Mia had a leading role, hasn't gotten the recognition it deserves since it premiered in 2016.

Directed by Gore Verbinski, A Cure for Wellness follows Dane DeHaan's Lockhart as he tries to bring his boss back from a wellness center in the Swiss Alps, where he uncovers a dark conspiracy revolving around Goth's mysterious character, Hannah. It's an unnerving blend of Gothic mystery and psychological horror, and the talent behind the film and its tribute to classic horror, particularly Universal's monster movies, make it a must-see for committed horror fans.

Mia Goth's A Cure For Wellness...

Everyone lies in the World War I series “Davos 1917.” Mostly because they have to.

“You have war, you have the elite coming together in this one place. You have to watch your step and tread carefully. Everything could be a trap,” says Jan-Eric Mack, who directed alongside Christian Theede and Anca Miruna Lazarescu.

The show focuses on a young nurse Johanna who finds herself surrounded by spies in the Swiss resort town. Desperate to reunite with her illegitimate daughter, she discovers she has a talent for espionage, too.

“I think she always had these skills. She just couldn’t show them in the house she grew up in,” says lead actor Dominique Devenport, also known for “Sisi.”

“She has always been different. And then, suddenly, she gets an opportunity to develop talents she didn’t even know she had. That’s why it’s happening so quickly, in a way.

Thanks to science fiction, we all have a basic grip on the theory of the multiverse: the idea that there are innumerable parallel worlds in which the chances and choices of the past – the roads not taken, whether by ourselves or the dinosaurs – have split off into alternative stories, endlessly bifurcating into other pasts, other futures that must be peopled, most provocatively, with other versions of ourselves. It is an idea that has proved rich pickings for comic-book adventures, where peril can come from any available universe and there is always a chance of confronting a doppelganger, but German director Timm Kröger has returned to the theory – which dates back to the 1950s – to explore how mysterious, sinister and terrifyingly vast a proposal it really is. This is a theory of everything where everything – that familiar word – is infinite. Where nothing, in fact, is ever going to be “everything.”

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Edward Berger's Academy Award-winning film "All Quiet on the Western Front," based on the celebrated novel by Erich Maria Remarque, is as dour, bleak, and emotionally devastating as its source material. Following a young man named Paul Bäumer into the trenches of WWI, "All Quiet" is a litany of desperation, death, mud, and horror, meant to show the true Hellish nature of war. The young Paul is battered into the ground on day one, and rarely manages to stagger to his feet again. He is hungry, filthy, and constantly exposed to violence. Nothing is real but pain now.

As Paul, actor Felix Kammerer made his feature film debut. Prior to "All Quiet," the Austrian actor attended the performing arts-centered Ernst Busch Academy in Berlin, and would go on to be a repertory player at the celebrated Burgtheater in his native Vienna. It was here that Sabrina Zwacht saw Kammerer perform for the first time.

Romanian animator Anca Damian’s psychedelic, musical take on the Robinson Crusoe’s story, “The Island,” will be accompanied by an Ar exhibition inviting the audience to further explore its colorful universe, Variety has learned. A board-game based on her seventh feature has also been developed, mirroring its protagonists’ search for paradise in the film.

Set to bow at Rotterdam Film Festival, “The Island” was produced by Aparte Film, with Best Friend Forever handling international sales.

Despite referencing his most famous creation, Damian doesn’t care for Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel, she says. “It was written a long time ago and it has no meaning now. It’s awful. The way Robinson Crusoe thinks that he is saving the so-called ‘savage’… The whole thing is unacceptable.”

The project – her first since 2019’s “Marona’s Fantastic Tale” – was inspired by a concert performed by Ada Milea and Alexander Balanescu, itself based...

Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Anders Edström and C.W. Winters's The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) is exclusively showing on Mubi in the U.S. starting December 5, 2021 in the series Mubi Spotlight.“Thanks to Hesiod for providing the title, Works and Days, and to my sister Rosemary for pointing it out to me.” —Bernadette Mayer in her author’s note for Works & Days (2016) The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) is an eight-hour film that takes us through five seasons of a farmer’s life in a Japanese village so small it doesn’t seem to have a proper name. Anders Edström and C.W. Winters’ second collaborative film is arranged in four parts with three intermissions. The first three sections are each prefaced with a Japanese death poem followed by ten minute intervals...

COLOGNE, Germany -- Franz Seitz, the German writer and producer of the Oscar and Palme d'Or winner The Tin Drum, has died. He was 85. Seitz passed away Jan. 19 at his home in Munich, but his death was only made public by his son Tuesday. In his career, which spanned 40 years, Seitz -- known as "Buba" to distinguish him from his father, director Franz Seitz -- produced more than 40 feature films. They included two adaptations of novels by German Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus, which he also wrote and directed, and The Magic Mountain (both in 1982).

COLOGNE, Germany -- Franz Seitz, the German director, writer and producer of the Oscar and Palme d'Or winner The Tin Drum, has died. He was 85. Seitz passed away Jan. 19 at his home in Munich, but his death was only made public by his son Tuesday. In his career, which spanned 40 years, Seitz -- known as "Buba" to distinguish him from his father, director Franz Seitz -- produced more than 40 feature films. They included two adaptations of novels by German Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus, which he also wrote and directed, and The Magic Mountain (both in 1982).