Writer-director Werner Herzog’s 1970 black and white comedy drama Even Dwarfs Started Small [Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen] tells the story of a group of dwarfs at a correctional facility who start a riot and […]
Writer-director Werner Herzog’s 1984 Where the Green Ants Dream [Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen] is a disappointing film from Herzog about Australian Aborigines clashing with uranium miners over rights to their land that they believe […]
Writer-director Werner Herzog’s 1974 historical biographical drama The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser [Jeder für Sich und Gott gegen Alle] tells the real-life mystery of a weird young man called Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S, ideal) who […]
Writer/ producer/ director Charles Marquis Warren’s boring 1969 Western film Charro! is one of the real low spots of Elvis Presley’s career. Elvis plays Jess Wade, a one-time outlaw who is set up as the […]
Director Christine Edzard’s rich 1987 film Little Dorrit is a deservedly praised, huge-canvas two-part film of Charles Dickens’s romantic drama/ social satire about good Samaritan Arthur Clennam (Derek Jacobi), who returns to England after 20 […]
Writer/ producer/ director Werner Herzog’s offbeat 1977 comedy drama of cultural dislocation Stroszek has alcoholic ex-con Bruno Stroszek (Bruno S) moving from Berlin with his elderly eccentric neighbour friend Scheitz (Clemens Scheitz) and down on […]
Co-writer/ director/ star Jiri Menzel’s 1968 Czech film Capricious Summer [Rozmarné léto] delivers a diverting, well-characterised, sadness-tinged comedy mistily and delicately set in the past. Menzel plays the tightrope balancer Arnostek and Jana Drchalová [Jana […]
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