A few years back, I was talking to the “Czar of Noir” Eddie Muller. Eddie is the man behind Noir City, a film noir festival held every year at the Castro Theatre here in San Francisco.1 Always on the lookout for new and undiscovered examples of this genre, he asked me if I could recommend …
Tag: Doris Weikow
Snow White
As discussed elsewhere on this blog, fairytale films were the closest thing to a cash cow the East German film industry had to offer. Beloved by East and West Germans alike and often featuring stories in which the poor and generous triumph over the rich and greedy, the fairytale films faced fewer hurdles when they …