13 Minutes (aka Elser) movie review: the ultimate what-if
This intense dramatization of the true story of a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in 1939 is an unpleasant experience but a provocative one.
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Diana review: princess of whines
Transforms the beloved “People’s Princess” into a drippy, unappealing rom-com heroine, sort of like Bridget Jones with bodyguards.
Diana trailer: from the director of Downfall (really)
I’ll watch Naomi Watts and Naveen Andrews in anything, though this does look a bit like a TV melodrama.
question of the day: Is Naomi Watts the right choice to play Princess Diana?
If you don’t care for Watts in the role, whom would you cast?
Five Minutes of Heaven (review)
After a disastrous foray into Hollywood, German director Oliver Hirschbiegel returns to the realms of uneasy morality he explored in his portrait of Bunker Hitler in *Downfall*…
Downfall (Der Untergang) movie review
Berlin has been reduced to rubble, the Russians are overrunning the city, 10-year-old kids are fighting alongside soldiers in the streets, and a once-proud citizenry has been completely demoralized. The reaction from the nation’s leadership: “The German people chose their fate,” Joseph Goebbels says with a shrug — after all, they elected the man who … more…
