An awards-season interview with 'Franz' fillmaker Agnieszka Holland about her Oscar-contending Franz Kafka biopic, ...

Agnieszka Holland is one of the more seasoned directors vying for this year’s Best International Feature Oscar. But then, she’s always been ahead of the curve: two years before Titanic, she cast a ...

German actor Idan Weiss says one of the keys to his critically praised portrayal of Franz Kafka in Agnieszka Holland’s “Franz” was locking in on the iconic writer’s sensitivity.

The biopic is such a staid genre that any attempt at doing something unique with its form is cause for excitement, if not outright celebration. Franz is that sort of daring endeavor, investigating the ...

Star Idan Weiss shared during a trailer premiere event at the Karlovy Vary festival that Kafka "was in my body for a long time," while executive producer Mike Downey highlighted Kafka's "rock star ...

Premiering at TIFF, the 'Green Border' director's non-chronological feature views the Czech-German-Jewish writer's life as if through a crystal prism. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic In ...

It's all about that tempo switch. 'Take Me Out', the signature hit of Scottish band Franz Ferdinand, possesses one of the all-time great song introductions. "So if you're lonely," frontman Alex ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The studio behind Pathologic comes out with an unsettling game about virtual companionship. The studio behind ...

One hundred years ago, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire and his wife were assassinated by a gunman during a drive through Sarajevo. One month later, Austria-Hungary declared war ...

Way back in the Mesozoic Era of the Internet, which was approximately 2009, maintaining your status as an Internet Socialite required a deft understanding of a multi-faceted messaging ecosystem. You ...

On November 30, 1916, with World War I still raging, the people of Vienna poured into the streets to pay their last respects to Franz Josef I, who had been their emperor for 68 years. His death ended ...