Revolutionary playwright Bertolt Brecht gets the standard-issue TV biopic treatment in this two-parter saved only by 'Reds'-style interviews. Buried within Heinrich Breloer’s superficial and plodding ...

On Tuesday, I was having lunch with two friends and we came suddenly to talk about “The Life of Others,” the amazing film put together by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck that received this year’s ...

The time could hardly be more auspicious for a restored version of Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World?, the 1932 echt Weimar early talkie directed by Slatan Dudow from a script co-written by Bertolt ...

New York filmmaker Zoe Beloff appears for a live Q&A following a screening of her films Glass House and A Model Family in a Model Home, based respectively on the unrealized Hollywood film scenarios of ...

Revolutionary playwright Bertolt Brecht gets the standard-issue TV biopic treatment in this two-parter saved only by 'Reds'-style interviews. Buried within Heinrich Breloer’s superficial and plodding ...

Buried within Heinrich Breloer’s superficial and plodding two-part TV movie about Bertolt Brecht are old and new interviews with the playwright’s collaborators that hold a fascination light years away ...

Director Heinrich Breloer mixes drama with documentary in 'Brecht,' his marathon TV biopic of radical playwright and leftist icon Bertolt Brecht. By Stephen Dalton Bertolt Brecht was lucky there was ...