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The Edge of Heaven (Auf der Anderen Seite) DVD Review

Cross-Cultural Melodrama about Turkish Immigrants' Adjustment to Germany Comes to DVD In 2004, Fatih Akin's Head-On brilliantly brought to light the challenges faced by Turks trying to assimilate into German culture. Now Akin...

Taking European politics to the 'Edge'

In just a couple of movies, 34-year-old Fatih Akin has become the most exciting of Europe's young directors, reinvigorating the melodrama with a furious kind of identity politics. Like "Head-On," his 2004 wrecking-ball...

The Edge of Heaven

The Outtakes: A blog on film The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite) Cast Baki Davrak, Hanna Schygulla, Nurgul Yesilcay, Patrycia Ziolkowska, Tuncel Kurtiz For all the usual reasons, an old man visits a prostitute: 50...

Reverse Angle: Rebellion of the Filmmakers (Gegenschuss – aufbruch der filmemacher)

Gegenschuss – aufbruch der filmemacher (Documentary -- (German, English, French dialogue) A revelatory if leisurely look at a fascinating period in recent German film history, Laurens Straub's "Reverse Angle" charts the...

'The Edge of Heaven' soars above 'Crash'-style cliches

By Robert Horton Herald Movie Critic The movie structure of films such as "Crash" and "Babel" has become, sadly, something of a cliche in recent years: the multi-character design about lives criss-crossing in unexpected ways. I...

Movie reviews: 'The Edge of Heaven' spellbinding; 'Hell Ride' laughably bad

Don't waste your time with 'Hell Ride' when your time would be better spent with 'The Edge of Heaven' By Colin Covert, Star Tribune THE EDGE OF HEAVEN 3 1/2 out of four stars. Theaters: Block E, Brooklyn Center "Hell Ride"...

'Edge' is a heaven on earth

The jigsaw-puzzle, time-hopping storytelling of movies from Pulp Fiction to 21 Grams becomes a movie version of a lyric, musical round in The Edge of Heaven , Fatih Akin's superb film about the eternal pull of family. Since...

On Movies: The reality of the 'American Teen' in Indiana

When Nanette Burstein was in high school - a prep school in Buffalo - she spent a year abroad, living with a family in Spain. She was a proper little preppy when she quit the States. She had a pink Mohawk and a new view on life...

Chapter by chapter, a devastating drama unfolds

There are so many big things going on in Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven - love, death, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, even some taut political thriller stuff - that it's easy to imagine the film imploding from the...

Marquez on the marquee

A festival exclusively of films based on Marquez’s works will be held on July 27 It is sometimes said that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most popular Malayalam novelist. The Nobel-prize winning author from Columbia has had...

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