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 ...

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired North American rights for German director Christian Petzold’s new film Afire, following its award-winning world premiere in competition at the Berlin Film ...

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 ...