I named Jürgen Vogel 2003’s best supporting actor as Arthur, the supportive brother in Margarethe von Trotta’s Rosenstrasse. In Matthias Glasner’s Der Freie Wille, Vogel claims a bigger role, as thirtysomething Theo Stoer, a rapist presumably rehabilitated after nine years of psychiatric detention, who concludes he is doomed to behave violently against women—“It is inside […]
Daily Archives: June 24, 2008
Overrated though it may be, The Third Man is not without interest. Its plot suggests that Americans are perfectly capable of exploiting any situation for the sake of profit. Harry Lime (Orson Welles, who wrote his own big speech, and whose filmmaking style Carol Reed more or less adopts), who may or may not be […]
Dennis Grunes 