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Margarethe Von Trotta

Disaster Is My Muse: Hannah Arendt and the Art of Spiegelman at the Jewish Film Festival

Regina Weinreich | Posted 03.28.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Adolf Eichmann, Castaways, The Jewish Film Festival, Tomasz Wisnieski, Clara Kuperberg, The Art of Spiegelman, Janet McTeer, Slawomir Grunberg, Art Spiegelman, Hannah Arendt, Margarethe Von Trotta, Pamela Katz, Joelle Oosterlinck, Barbara Sukowa, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

Even in the age of terrorism, the terror of the last century's Holocaust has not lost its hold on the artistic imagination. As the victims of the Shoah are remembered at the United Nations and in synagogues worldwide, films continue to shed light on that darkest hour of the twentieth century.

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Through Hildegard's Eyes: Margarethe von Trotta on Vision

Dan Lybarger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, Dan Lybarger, German New Wave, Hildegard Von Bingen, Vision: From the Life of Hildegard Von Bingen, Volker Schlöndorf, Vertigo, Film Forum, Margarethe Von Trotta, Film, Barbara Sukowa, Arts News
Dan Lybarger

German writer-director Margarethe von Trotta started directing movies in the 1970s, at a time when few women were behind the cameras. This week, von Trotta explained how much we still have to learn from a woman who lived centuries ago.

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Toronto's Celebration of Women Filmmakers

Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Abby Cornish, Women Filmmakers, Margarethe Von Trotta, Fanny Brawne and John Keats, Jane Campion, Bright Star, Entertainment News
Erica Abeel

My favorite from women filmmakers so far is Campion's Bright Star, a cinematic tone poem about the love between poet John Keats and girl next door Fanny Brawne.

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