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By | January 01, 0001

TV trilogy from three German directors
Taking a cue from Kieslowski's Three Colors by way of the British Red Riding series, this TV trilogy from three German directors of the Berlin School starts out with a creepy aura of dread and mystery and ends with contrived and unsatisfying resolutions.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 10, 2012

By | January 01, 0001

The films of Sergio Leone at the HFA

The good, the bad, and the brilliant
He's best known for his westerns, which traditionally are sagas about how civilization begins, how ruthless and cynical men rip it out of the throat of the wilderness. But the end of civilization is what really fascinated Sergio Leone, and the poison within that undoes every would-be paradise.
By PETER KEOUGH | November 08, 2011

By | January 01, 0001

HFA visualizes the 'American Punk' rebellion

We film econo
"We are going to do everything ourselves, because we know better than them what we want," explains teenage grrrl-punk Nicky Marotta to a politician's shy daughter, Pamela Pearl, in the seminal 1980 punk film Times Square .
By LIZ PELLY | September 02, 2011

Review: Aurora

Deepening the mystery
Long after such an insight might do any good, Viorel, the mopey, truculent antihero of this second film in Cristi Puiu's "Six Stories from the Outskirts of Bucharest" observes that the justice system does not comprehend the complexity of his relationship to his wife.
By PETER KEOUGH | August 23, 2011

By | January 01, 0001