Take “Casablanca,” remove all the fun parts, and set it in the present day. It’s not such an odd idea. In Christian Petzold’s “Transit,” it feels eerily natural, and that’s both horrifying and ...

Take “Casablanca,” remove all the fun parts, and set it in the present day. It’s not such an odd idea. In Christian Petzold’s “Transit,” it feels eerily natural, and that’s both horrifying and ...

A struggle for the rights to Maysles' final documentary has prevented the film from being released in theaters — until now. Albert Maysles never got to watch his last film with an audience, passing ...

German auteur Christian Petzold takes a big, possibly divisive risk with this modern-dress Holocaust drama — but the payoff is wrenching. There are those who treat melodrama as a dirty word, but no ...

For some reason, the directors of live performances of classic plays or operas are allowed the freedom to stage their works outside of their stated time period – we don't blanch when a Shakespeare ...

German director Christian Petzold's latest work is adapted from a WWII novel – but the refugee story is set in a timeless context. The cinematic experiment brings the past into dialogue with the ...

WBEZ Film Contributor and director at Facets Chicago Milos Stehlik interviews the world’s great filmmakers on Worldview. Today, he talks with German filmmaker, screenwriter and director Christian ...

Christian Petzold's film updates a classic tale of wartime secrecy to draw eerie historical parallels. Simultaneously breezy and brutal, Transit is elusive neo-noir, a tale of lost hearts and minds.

Albert Maysles’ lovely last film, “In Transit,” takes him on a three-day cross-country train ride from Chicago to Seattle aboard the Empire Builder. Along the way, something in the nature of the train ...

Tony Kaye‘s first film this decade is “Detachment” — and his follow-up is called “Attachment.” Though they’re not part of the same story, the two projects are related, the director told The Playlist. ...