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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 […]

Thomas von Steinaecker goes deep beneath the skin of the much-mythologised German film-maker in his documentary Radical Dreamer

Restoring old films is both difficult and expensive, but well worth the price.

This documentary examines Herzog’s oeuvre and celebrity influence.

Werner Herzog’s mosquito-spattered shooting script for Fitzcarraldo was among the highlights of a recent exhibition at Eye Filmmuseum celebrating the working artist behind the myth.

Werner Herzog’s latest book preserves a lifetime of irreplaceable images. Our Every Man for Himself and God Against All review:

Gallivant is a new kind of British film, a breathless dash around the nation's coasts that outwits the industry, argued this feature from our September 1997 issue.

Ahead of Satyajit Rays 102nd Birth Anniversary on May 2, here are the filmmakers famous friends and encounters. Ray and the violin maestro Yehudi Menuhin were also friends. They had caught up with each other in Bombay. Menuhin had seen a clutch of the master’s films.

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory provides an awe-inspiring, expedited survey of film preservation and the urgency of capturing humankinds visual memories lest we let these precious histories disintegrate.

A quarter of a century since it was released and Little Dieter Needs to Fly is still a thrilling, deeply moving deconstruction of the documentary form.