Tag: West Germany

• Torn Curtain (1966)

  September 23, 2020

  1960s, Drama, Political, Thriller

  It’s interesting exploring the titles in a director’s career that don’t get as much celebration, particularly the later period films by a marketed auteur like Alfred Hitchcock. I remember mainly reading about Torn Curtain (1966) from a book about Paul Newman my Mum owned and in Scorsese On Scorsese where the farmhouse sequence is cited… Read.

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  Kings Of The Road (1976)

  June 21, 2020

  1970s, Arthouse Cinema, Drama, German Cinema, New Wave, Road Movie

  I’d long wanted to see Wim Wenders’ Kings of the Road (1976; Im Lauf der Zeit, “in the course of time” is the translated title). All I knew about it was that it was three hours long, filmed in black and white, and shot in Germany (West Germany at the time), and involved cinemas. It… Read.