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"Charles Chaplin’s Third Reich spoof predates Roberto Benigni’s "Life is Beautiful" and Taika Waititi’s "Jojo Rabbit" by decades and is notable for the fact it was released while Hitler was still waging his campaign across Europe. Chaplin himself ..." Permalink

"The plot and meaning/significance of this novel are ancillary to the language it installs, and the feeling it instills in the reader are matched by nothing else I have read. Its genre is something similar to what I like to call a philosophy by pro..." Permalink

"Released six years before England’s draconian laws against homosexuality were officially overturned, director Basil Dearden’s damning social critique was very controversial for its sympathetic portrayal of gay men as the true victims of the story...." Permalink

"The Director is a historical novel that some may say is reminiscent of our times. G.W. Pabst, a renowned European filmmaker, relocates to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he is pressured into making a film he views as artistically beneath him. Disill..." Permalink

"This surprisingly engaging biographical fiction focuses on an unlikely subject, the Austrian film director G.W. Pabst. Early in his career Pabst was considered a peer of the more famous German Expressionists Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau, but the app..." Permalink