A Steady Diet of Film

FilmLight is almost one year old! If we were a real child we'd probably be slightly jaundiced though still deeply loved by our family & friends. We would promise to do better, but we also don't want to lie.



Tonight I attended the opening of the Berlin & Beyond film festival at the beautiful Castro Theatre (next week: the Roller Disco triple feature!) to see Sophie Scholl: Final Days.



Final Days is a beautifully wrought film closely following four days in 1945 when three memebers of the White Roses, an anti-Hitler student movement in Munich, were caught distributing leaflets criticizing the Nazi party's control of Germany as well as Hitler's military strategies. After a 5 minute trial they were promptly executed (by guillotine!) The story has been pieced together by newly released Nazi documentation and letters written by Sophie Scholl's cellmates and is Germany's official Academy Award submission for Best Foreign Film.




And Ingmar Bergman's Virgin Spring is at long last available on dvd (Criterion Collection no less, snap). Maybe those of you with stronger stomaches can see it and tell me all about it.

posted by Erin @ Friday, January 13, 2006