The Year 1906 in Film: The Debuts of Éclair, Feuillade, Bosetti and Finland
A review of significant events in the year 1906 in film and profiles of the principle players behind them. Includes a YouTube playlist of nearly 20 hours.
Category: German Cinema
o.k. (1970)
Film review by Dan Willard. An early film by Michael Verhoeven, director of The Nasty Girl (1990), based on a real event that took place during the Vietnam War.
The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)
Film review by Dan Willard. Fritz Lang’s final film is perhaps the nadir of his career. It suffers from poorly written dialogue and an incoherent plot.
Cyankali (1930)
Review of ‘Cyankali’ (1930), a German silent/early sound film that dramatizes the plight of impoverished women who must seek the aid of illegal abortionists in Germany’s Weimar Republic.
