BFI 52nd London Film Festival – Opening night… and the pick of the rest
The Times BFI London Film Festival opens tonight with the world premiere of Frost/Nixon, Ron Howard’s screen version of Peter Morgan’s hit play. Over the past few weeks I’ve been dashing hither and...
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Selected as Germany’s entry for next year’s Oscars, The Baader-Meinhof Complex has already created quite a stir in its home country. It’s easy to see why. The film tackles a highly sensitive period in...
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After all the pre-release fuss over Tom Cruise playing a German hero, how does the famous Scientologist and sofa jumper’s movie about the soldier who tried to blow up Hitler in 1944 measure up? Is...
View ArticleOut on DVD | The Baader-Meinhof Complex
Set at a time when terrorists in Europe were more likely to be motivated by a study of Das Kapital than the Koran, The Baader-Meinhof Complex is a gripping but dispassionate account of the violent...
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