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Karl Bartos is experiencing a renaissance of sorts in the 21st century—even though the prolific German musician has been actively releasing music for the last 50 years. A member of the classic Kraftwerk lineup, Bartos was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2021. The English version of his autobiography, The Sound […]

Berlin is a city for cinephiles, but it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the choice of kinos, festivals and screenings. Here's our guide to the guides: Podcasts, zines and blogs by film-lovers, for film-lovers.

To mark a new BFI Southbank season celebrating the films of silent-era diva ‘Die Asta’, we share this feature – first published in S&S Autumn 1973 – which heralds Nielsen as of one of the world’s first and greatest film stars

Dietrich as Lola Lola. "The Blue Angel" will always have a place in film history as the movie that brought Marlene Dietrich to international stardom. At the time it was made, at the birth of the sound era in 1929, it was seen as a vehicle for Emil Jannings, the German actor who had just won the first Academy Award for best actor (for both "The Last Command" and "The Way of All Flesh") after starring in such silent landmarks as "The Last Laugh" and "Faust." Dietrichs overnight stardom inspired d...