Christian Petzold: The State We Are In, the largest U.S. retrospective to date of the acclaimed German director, begins November 30! 🇩🇪 Featuring his shorts, features, and rarely seen television work alongside a selection of films that have influenced him, Petzold will appear in person at the series, which extends through December 13. A founding member of the loose movement known as the Berlin School, Christian Petzold makes films that are like no one else’s. At once intricately engaged with the real world and steeped in cinema history, his works radically reimagine such genres as film noir, thriller, melodrama, and the spy drama, offering narrative mysteries, enigmatic protagonists immersed in even more enigmatic circumstances, an incomparable sense of atmosphere and style, and surprising links between Germany’s turbulent past and its fragile present. The expanse of his career to date—including several inventive films made for television—affirms his status as one of contemporary cinema’s premier directors, and the Film Society is honored to host Petzold in person for this retrospective. See the full schedule at filmlinc.org/petzold
The Film Comment Podcast: Families on Film
This time it’s personal: with Hirokazu Kore-eda’s immensely moving Shoplifters opening in theaters, the Film Comment Podcast looks at films about that fragile thing known as family.