'Ostend' Bids Adieu to a Literary World Before WWII
'Ostend' is a beautiful recreation of a literary circle’s last gasp before World War II.
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'Ostend' is a beautiful recreation of a literary circle’s last gasp before World War II.
Affable volunteers, retirees of the model-railroad-enthusiast type, deliver their best chestnuts when you approach one of the transplanted structures that make up the village. Some of the big names of American business and technology are represented: there is a Wright Brothers bicycle shop, an Edison lab, a Heinz ketchup house.
The vibrant world of 1920s Central Europe, in sharp focus. Visual ars review by Juliette Bretan
From Galicia to Berlin to Paris and eventually to Hollywood, the prolific director and screenwriter never let go of what proved to be his most formative experience: being in a state of exile.
The filmmaker’s life spanned nearly the entire 1900s and was inevitably “roughed up” and shaped by the critical events of that turbulent and traumatic century.