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 ...

There are those who treat melodrama as a dirty word, but no working filmmaker gives it a cleaner, crisper reputation than German auteur Christian Petzold, whose extraordinary anti-historical ...

Music Box Films has obtained the U.S. rights to Transit, a Christian Petzold directed feature which has its world premiere at this year’s Berlin Film Festival and will head to TIFF next month before ...

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 ...

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 ...

This movie is brilliant. It also leaves you with the perfectly appropriate feeling of being furious that it exists at all. Oscar Grant was the unarmed 22-year-old black man shot to death by a transit ...