Sorry I missed reviewing “The Baader Meinhof Complex” when it opened last week (now playing at Landmark’s Hillcrest Cinemas) but to talk about it in relationship to a film that just opened, “Flame and ...
An explosive performance by Johanna Wokalek gives some relief to an otherwise long and humdrum series of characters, blow-'em-ups and prison locations in German terrorist drama "The Baader Meinhof ...
LIKE THE NAME of the West German radical terrorist organization whose tale it tells, “The Baader Meinhof Complex” is a fascinating hybrid of a film. Even though its purpose couldn’t be more serious, ...
The subject of the fascinating Oscar-nominated German film “The Baader Meinhof Complex” is the Red Army Faction — also known as the Baader Meinhof Gang — a real-life left-wing terrorist organization ...
Last year we featured a trailer for a German film called Der Baader Meinhof Komplex. It later went on to become nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar even though it still hasn't ...
To the columnist’s obligation to provide a 10-best list of 2009 films, I punt by offering just one. It is “The Baader Meinhof Complex.” The movie lingers because, to me, it is only incidentally about ...
For such an earnest song, Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” sounds weirdly sardonic and cutting as it plays over the closing credits of The Baader Meinhof Complex. By the end of the 150-minute drama ...
In his review of “The Baader Meinhof Complex,” Anthony Lane turns up a fascinating historical nugget that indeed reveals much about the Red Army Faction terrorists who are the movie’s subjects: Once ...
One of the finest films seen at this year’s Santa Barbara International Film Festival, The Baader Meinhof Complex is doubly exotic, as one of the boldest German films of late and as an insight into ...
Bernd Eichinger, who wrote and produced Downfall, is the force behind the film version of another German trauma,The Baader Meinhof Complex. Founded by self-described urban guerrillas Andreas Baader, ...
It’s two decades after the end of World War II, and West Germany is in turmoil. As elsewhere, charges of American imperialism are a flashpoint for student protests: Between the Vietnam War, America’s ...
MUNICH — This year’s German contender for the best foreign-language film Oscar may have been intended, like the 2007 Oscar winner “The Lives of Others,” to help Germans come to terms with their recent ...