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BiographyApril 19, 2022
The Many Lives of Billy Wilder
From Galicia to Berlin to Paris and eventually to Hollywood, the prolific director and screenwriter never let go of what proved to be his most formative experience: being in a state of exile.
Noah Isenberg
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November 15, 2017
Bertolt Brecht: Poet of Ill Tidings
In his poetry, Brecht captured a world torn apart by war and depression.
Noah Isenberg
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January 7, 2016
Werner Herzog’s Maniacal Quests
A newly published travel journal shows how walking, like filmmaking, brings us to the naked core of existence.
Noah Isenberg
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FilmJune 3, 2014
The Best Years of Their Lives
Why World War II offered Hollywood directors an escape into reality.
Noah Isenberg
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HistorySeptember 15, 2010
A Matter of Memory: On Ingo Schulze
The unvarnished fiction of One More Story explores Germany's papered-over past.
Noah Isenberg
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BiographyOctober 15, 2008
Walter Benjamin Forever: A Critic’s Coveted Afterlife
Following the quirky, revolutionary life path of one of the most celebrated twentieth-century intellectuals.
Noah Isenberg
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisSeptember 29, 2005
Fighting the Abyss
Although The Aesthetics of Resistance delves into leftist notions of art and class struggle, this account of an anti-Nazi youth group in Germany seems outdated now.
Noah Isenberg
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Covert OpsDecember 14, 2000