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Margarethe von Trotta remembers the first time she saw it. It was the early Sixties, and this young German woman — still several years from establishing herself as an actor, and a little over a decade away before The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) would induct her into the …

Deutschland 83 debuted on Sundance in 2015, right in the middle of the run of The Americans, a couple of months after the end of that show’s third season. The story of an East German soldier recruited to go undercover in the West German military, it functioned as a tense …

In TV, it’s called a “bottle episode”: a half-hour or hour of an ongoing series that corrals a cast into a single, usually closed-off location and forces the show’s creatives/creators to work within those parameters. The Guilty, Swedish filmmaker Gustav Möller’s feature debut, sticks to a somewhat similar limited set-up. …

Jonah Hill doesn’t appear in a single scene of Mid90s, but you can feel his presence in every scene of this comedy spiked with touching gravity. Making his directing debut with a script he wrote himself, Hill shapes this coming-of-age tale like a European art film (think Francois Truffaut’s 400 …

Conan O’Brien bid farewell do his longtime house band, most members of which have performed alongside the late-night host for 25 years, on Thursday’s Conan, which also marked the host’s final TBS episode in its standard hour-long format. “There is one change on the horizon that makes me quite sad,” …

Here in the States, the populace worships the Kardashians. In the U.K., there’s nothing like a Dame. In a sane world, there’s no contest. So do have tea with the Dames: Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins and Joan Plowright. Director Roger Michell (Notting Hill) has had the good sense …

We’ve seen the face of evil. It belongs to Henry Deaver. Sort of. Castle Rock‘s first season finale — “Romans” — is a tale of two Henrys. There’s “our Henry,” played by André Holland: a beleaguered lawyer haunted by his unexplained disappearance as a teenager. And there’s “alt-Henry,” aka The …

Samantha Bee and her Full Frontal team trolled Sean Spicer in increasingly ridiculous ways during the former White House Press Secretary’s recent book tour. In July, Spicer began to cash in on his brief stint in President Donald Trump’s administration with the release of a new book, The Briefing. As …

Star Trek producers revealed Saturday that Patrick Stewart will reprise the role ofStar Trek: The Next Generation captain Jean-Luc Picard on the franchise’s new series. The actor is also set to serve as executive producer on the series, which will air – like Star Trek Discovery – on CBS’ video-on-demand …

A “lost” screenplay co-written by Stanley Kubrick in 1956 has been unearthed. Burning Secret, penned by Kubrick and novelist Calder Willingham, was adapted from a 1913 novella by Viennese author Stefan Zweig. It was originally planned as Kubrick’s next film following his noir classicThe Killing. However, Kubrick and Willingham instead …