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Review: The Baader Meinhof Complex

Terrorism made simple in Uli Edel's Complex
Terrorism made simple in Uli Edel's Complex
By PETER KEOUGH  |  September 10, 2009
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Hot Nazi beach reads

The new wave of Reich books: pop genres, good Germans
Nazis aren't blitzing just the movie screens this year, though — they're also invading the bookstores, with battalions of novels and non-fiction tomes published or upcoming.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  August 18, 2009

Play by Play: June 12, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston theater this week
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  June 11, 2009

Play by Play: June 5, 2009

Plays A to Z
Boston's theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  June 02, 2009

Play by play: May 29, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 27, 2009
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Review: Paris 36

A guilty pleasure of the vintage Parisian variety
Director Christophe Barratier (Les Choristes) co-wrote this nostalgic paean to 1930s Paris and the stage musical.
By PEG ALOI  |  April 07, 2009
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Review: The Kindly Ones

Inside the Reich
Those put off by the soft-pedaling of the SS in the movie adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's The Reader might be wary of Jonathan Littell's memoir of fictional war criminal Maximilien Aue.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  March 11, 2009

On fire

January 16, 2009
It’s rare to read or hear anything in any of the media that’s not in lockstep with the Public Health Commission and the movement it represents.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  February 09, 2009
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Review: The Reader

Tiresome and callow
It's Christmas, and our thoughts turn toward the Third Reich.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  January 09, 2009
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

A stirring glimpse at Europe's darkest hour
The performances never falter, and even James Horner's heavy-handed score can't dim the film's unfathomable, unshakable ending.
By PEG ALOI  |  November 17, 2008
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Ends of the earth

The 20th Boston Jewish Film Festival reaches deep and far
Now in its 20th incarnation, the Boston Jewish Film Festival is almost the oldest three-ring circus of its kind (San Francisco’s annual program got there first by nine years), and in that span we’ve seen the elusive idea of “Jewish film” become an institution.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON  |  November 07, 2008
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Dictator McCain?

Don’t laugh: if the Arizona ‘maverick’ is elected, he’ll complete the job Bush started
The only thing standing in the way of Republican John McCain assuming the powers and prerogatives of a dictator should he be elected president is the vote of a single Supreme Court justice.  
By EDITORIAL  |  October 27, 2008

If words could kill

Diverse City
Those of us who make our living by writing know that words are among the most powerful tools in human society.  
By SHAY STEWART-BOULEY  |  October 16, 2008
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To the Max

The Producers at Theatre by the Sea
The show’s success has to do with more than the Mel Brooks classic being a familiar crowd pleaser.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  August 13, 2008
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Interview: John Cusack sounds off on War, Inc.

Say everything
Most filmgoers recognize John Cusack as a brooding sexy, sometimes sardonic leading man.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  June 11, 2008
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The Singing Revolution

Clumsy yet triumphant
The Tustys’ filmmaking doesn’t quite rise to the subject.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  June 04, 2008
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Concentration

What we can learn from studying "History"
This show has a subtle but relentless energy that emerges slowly.
By KEN GREENLEAF  |  May 28, 2008
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Frill rides

Getting an Indy history lesson on DVD
Looking back on a time when action sequences unfolded without the currently fashionable veil of rapid editing and CGI.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 22, 2008

State of the arts

Letters to the Boston editor, February 29, 2008
Your recent editorial on the Bush administration’s attempt to slash the federal arts budget was excellent, poignant, and keenly well put.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  February 27, 2008

A child of Hitler

Growing up in the Third Reich (a memoir)
This article originally appeared in the February 1, 1983 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By ALFONS HECK  |  January 30, 2008
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Defending the universally loathed

The Phoenix looks with loving eyes at some of the worst people, places, and things in the world — and gives them a big hug
Forsaken entities deserve a second chance.
By PHOENIX STAFF  |  January 14, 2008

Hateful holidays

Diverse city
I’d like to wish you all Bloodless Holidays.
By SHAY STEWART-BOULEY  |  December 12, 2007

Chronicle of a death foretold

Joy Division were rooted in grim finality. Now, through a series of new books, CDs, and films, the band has found new life.
What a difference a death makes.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 24, 2007
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Les jours de gloire

Napoleon’s Empire style at the MFA
“Symbols of Power: Napoleon and the Art of the Empire Style, 1800–1815” looks at the Napoleonic riddle in the mirror of its art.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  October 16, 2007
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The Rape of Europa

Art-love tunnel vision
The filmmakers are assuming that after so much documentation of murder and torture we could stand to consider instead the material and cultural losses.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON  |  September 26, 2007
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Getting spooked

Charles McCarry looks back at the Nazis — and ahead to Bush?
The politics of celebrated spy-novel writer (and one-time deep-cover CIA operative) Charles McCarry aren’t simplistic.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  May 08, 2007
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Deadly art

Sorting out the life and career of Leni Riefenstahl
It’s tempting to see two new biographies of Leni Riefenstahl and assume they’ll push the envelope, and expose the dirt about her personal life.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  April 10, 2007
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Pit bulls

And the Brattle’s WW2 flicks
They’re called “festival films,” movies that resonate with the serious, eager-minded who attend fests but have little chance in the Darwinian world of theatrical release.
By GERALD PEARY  |  March 28, 2007
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Bush's secret army

Meet the American mercenaries of Blackwater, who fight outside of the law and take direction from the radical Christian right
The 9/11 attacks provided a catalyst: an unprecedented justification to forge ahead with a radical agenda molded by a small cadre of neoconservative operatives.
By JEREMY SCAHILL  |  March 21, 2007
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Film among the ruins

Helmut Käutner at the HFA
Helmut Käutner, as an eloquent narrative stylist, is the peer of his contemporaries William Wyler, Frank Borzage, Michael Powell, and Vincente Minnelli.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON  |  February 21, 2007

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