Leon (Thomas Schubert), the exasperated — and exasperating — young writer at the heart of the superb German drama “Afire,” has a mesmerizingly punchable scowl. It’s a scowl that rarely leaves your ...

Petzold finds himself in Éric Rohmer territory in a quasi-comedy about bed-swapping, forest fires, and the pretensions of fiction writing. Christian Petzold finds himself somewhere between the lands ...

Wincingly well-observed and acidly funny, the German auteur's latest sees a young writer taking out his creative insecurities on everyone in his path — and that's before the fires begin. And then ...

Christian Petzold returns to the Berlinale this year with Afire, the second installment of his elemental trilogy following 2020’s water-inspired Undine and preceding a forthcoming film about earth.

In Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris writes about his time in college, hanging around with stoner film students, watching “grainy black-and-white movies in which ponderous, turtlenecked men ...

The filmmaker trades the capital-H history of “Phoenix” and romantic fantasy of “Undine” for a more subdued — and sometimes surprisingly funny — character study. “Something is wrong,” says tortured ...