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Sky History’s documentary series Hitler’s Handmaidens continues with its fourth episode, “Hitler’s Lovers,” airing on June 18, 2024, at 9:00 p.m. The episode explores the complex and often mysterious relationships between Adolf Hitler and a series of women, including his famous partner, Eva Braun. The installment explores Hitler’s history with women, revealing a pattern of […]

Hitler’s Handmaidens: Hitler’s Lovers...

Periodically throughout the animated sci-fi sitcom "Futurama," the couch potato characters will sit in front of their 31st-century TV and take in an episode of "The Scary Door." "The Scary Door" is the future's take on "The Twilight Zone," complete with a Rod Serling-like announcer (played by Maurice Lamarche) explaining the weird ironies about to be witnessed. Naturally, the twist endings in "The Scary Door" go beyond irony and dive headfirst into absurdity. 

In one episode, a gambler dies and awakens in an afterlife casino. He wins once and figures it must be Heaven. He wins twice and figures that it must be Hell; what gambler wants to win every time? But then he realizes that his afterlife casino is actually on a plane ... and there's a monster on the wing of the plane. When he calls someone for help, he realizes that he is also Adolf Hitler. He...

Simone Scafidi’s documentary is an immersive deep dive into the creative process and life of Argento.

Mediawan Rights has unveiled the first trailer for Simone Scafidi’s documentary Dario Argento Panico ahead of the film’s world premiere in Venice Classics on Saturday (September 2).

The film zooms in on titular Italian filmmaker Dario Argento as he finishes writing the script for his last feature in a hotel as a film crew shoots a movie about him.

Produced by UK-based Paguro Film, the documentary has already been sold to horror streamer Shudder for the US, UK, Canada, Latin America, Spain,...

‘Dario Argento Panico’ will premiere in Venice Classics.

Mediawan Rights, the sales arm of European content group Mediawan, has boarded Simone Scafidi’s documentary Dario Argento Panico ahead of the film’s Venice Classics premiere as it continues to ramp up its documentary slate.

The film follows the legendary Italian filmmaker as he finishes the script for his final film in a hotel alongside a crew shooting a movie about him.

It has already been sold to horror streamer Shudder for the US, UK, Canada, Latin America, Spain, Portugal and Australia and to distributor Non-Stop for Scandinavia. It will be released in Italy via Plaion.

“You look as if you’ve seen a ghost!” Meyer Offerman says directly to the camera at one point in Hunters’ Season 2 premiere. And at first, it feels like we have. After all, Meyer, played by Al Pacino, was killed in the Season 1 finale after we learned that the avuncular Nazi-hunter was actually an SS surgeon known as The Wolf.

So what’s with the very alive-and-well Meyer? Prime Video drama’s sophomore — and final — run unfolds in two timelines: the late 1970s, in which Logan Lerman’s Jonah is living in Paris, having offed Meyer and trying to finish...

Plot: After an accident derails their exploits in Europe, The Hunters must band back together to hunt down history’s most infamous Nazi—Adolf Hitler—who’s hiding in South America. Meanwhile, a look to the past reveals Meyer Offerman (Al Pacino) encountering a dangerous threat that could unravel his secret and expose his true identity, with explosive reverberations for our Hunters.

Review: It is rare to see a television series go out on its own terms after such a short time on the air. Despite premiering three years ago, the second season of Hunters was delayed due to Covid-19. After so many years away, the dramatic series about Nazi hunters in the 1970s returns with a vastly different sophomore season which also serves as its last. I enjoyed the first season of this pulpy exploitation thriller, but I loved the second despite it feeling like a wholly different series.

The first teaser for Prime Video's "Hunters" season 2 is here, and if ever there were a time for a series about Nazi hunters in America to make a return, this is that time. Unfortunately for "Hunters" fans, the show's second season will be its last. But it's going out with a bang, pitting Jewish protagonist Jonah Heidelbaum (Logan Lerman) and his fellow vigilantes against the evilest Nazi of them all: Adolph Hitler, played by Udo Kier.

In "Hunters" season 2, Lena Olin is also back as Hitler's wife, Eva Braun, who is alive and well and leading the Fourth Reich with her husband in the U.S. in the 1970s. Also joining the cast this season is Jennifer Jason Leigh as a new top Nazi hunter, which is a good thing since Aldo Raine and the Inglourious Basterds are nowhere to be found in this particular alternate history, and Jonah and...

Hunters is on a mission to take down Adolf Hitler in a newly released teaser for the Prime Video drama’s second and final season, premiering with all episodes on Friday, Jan. 13.

The Season 1 finale revealed that, in the series’ alternative-history universe, the German dictator and his wife, Eva Braun (aka the Colonel, played by Lena Olin), were alive and well and living in South America. Further, they were in the process of planning a Fourth Reich that would take root in America. German actor Udo Kier (Denmark’s The Kingdom) will play Hitler in Season 2, which also welcomes new...

The Al Pacino-led Hunters will end with Season 2 on Prime Video. Hunters is a fictional story about Nazi hunters who discover hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officials in 1977 New York City. Along with news of its impending end was the release date for the last batch of episodes. Hunters Season 2 will premiere Friday, January 13, 2023, per Variety. Season 1 ended on a major plot twist revealing that Adolf Hitler was actually alive, as was his wife, Eva Braun. In Season 2, Adolf Hitler will be played by Udo Kier (The Kingdom), and Jennifer Jason Leigh (Atypical) joins the cast as a Nazi hunter named Chava Apfelbaum. The Season 1 finale left the fate of Pacino’s Meyer Offerman up in the air, but Season 2 photos shared with Entertainment Weekly reveal he is alive and will return in the new episodes. Meyer’s identity was also a wild finale plot twist, as he revealed he was...

The Prime Video Nazi-hunting drama series "Hunters" ended on a rather explosive cliffhanger in its first season, with the wild revelation that Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun (Lena Olin) were still apparently alive and well in the 1970s. The first season cut to black on that shocking and potentially shark-jumping note over two years ago, and we haven't heard from the team of hunters since.

Luckily, their hiatus is about to come to an end. David Weil's series is set to return for its second season in January, and we'll finally find out what happened after captured Nazi-hunter Joe Mizushima (Louis Ozawa) sat down to break bread at a dinner table that ended up including the infamous dictator, his wife, and a creepy matching set of blonde boys who definitely look like clones. When it does return, German character actor Udo Kier will be playing the role of Hitler.

The Hunters will have to step up their mission to take down Adolf Hitler, because time is running out: The Prime Video series’ upcoming Season 2 also will be its last, EW reports.

The drama’s last episodes will begin streaming on Friday, Jan. 13.

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The Season 1 finale revealed that, in the series’ alternative-history universe, the German dictator and his wife,...

Many people, when faced with the old question of who they’d invite to their dream dinner party, dutifully reel off a list of historical titans, which tends to prompt further, usually unasked questions: Would these undoubtedly interesting and consequential individuals make for great company together? Would they have much to say to each each other? And would it make for a better evening than, say, a gathering of your regular, undistinguished drinking buddies? Ever-experimental Russian formalist Alexander Sokurov drolly hints at the answer in his eccentric new film “Fairytale,” though not exactly in a dinner party context: Most of us aren’t hungry to spend an evening clinking glasses with Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, after all. Still, this brief, dreamlike musing assembles them — along with other daunting dead men of history, from Churchill to Mussolini to Jesus himself — in a kind of misty purgatory where they’re at liberty to converse.

Channel 4 Pre-Buys ‘Hitler: A Life In Pictures’

Channel 4 has pre-bought Hitler: A Life in Pictures, an archival behind-the-scenes doc series exploring the public and private life of Germany’s infamous dictator. Woodcut Media is producing the four-part series and has struck a co-production and finance agreement with distributor Rainmaker Content. The doc features photos and videos from two photographers who dedicated their lives to documenting Hitler – Heinrich Hoffmann and assistant Eva Braun. The archive footage includes 1300 recently digitized, rarely-seen photos taken by Hoffmann and material garnered from Braun’s personal photo collection, along with more than four hours of her home videos mostly filmed at Hitler’s fortified chalet in the Bavarian Alps. “A picture paints a thousand words and the unique images we have procured for this Hitler series speak volumes about the depth of psychological manipulation that led to the rise of the Nazi regime,” said Woodcut Exec Matthew Gordon.

Welcome to this week’s Nxt UK review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have…just for the taste of it…Diet Coke! Ahhhhh!!!!!! It…it…tastes like s—. Okay, wrestling down the half-pipe…of love.

Match #1: Rampage Brown def. Saxon Huxley The following is courtesy of wwe.com:

The unhinged Saxon Huxley matched Rampage Brown’s strength in this battle between two of Nxt UK’s biggest bruisers, who also showed off impressive agility at their size, highlighted by a top-rope clothesline from Huxley to give him the upper hand. But Huxley went to the well one too many times as Brown caught him off the top on his second attempt, planting him with a massive powerslam before hitting his patented gutwrench powerbomb for the hard-fought win.

My Opinion: 2.7 out of 5 – Rampage rampaged like a rampaging rampager that rampages rampagily rampagified…what? It was okay.

Adolf Hitler and his mistress/wife Eva Braun (Photo courtesy Getty Images).

Eq Media Group is putting the finishing touches to two factual series about Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany commissioned by A+E Networks’ channels in the UK and Europe.

Sbs also acquired Hitler’s Secret Sex Life and How the Nazis Lost the War, which international distributor Abacus Media Rights is pitching to buyers at the virtual MIPCOM.

Produced by Jacki Munro, the first, four-part series examines the rumours, theories and disputed historical accounts of the Nazi dictator’s sexual psychology, which ranged from incest and stalking women as a youth to masochism, sadism and murder.

Each episode contains archive material and interviews with historians, psychologists and sociologists.

The second, produced by Justin Holdforth, focusses on the poor decision-making, hubris and badly executed plans that belied the myth of the Nazi war machine and doomed them to failure.

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Amazon Prime's Hunters concludes with some truly wild twists. Let's break them down here.

The following contains Major Spoilers for Hunters season 1.

Hunters is not a perfect TV show. Through its 10-episode first season, the series struggled mightily with tone - never quite able to figure out whether it wanted to be a hokey grind house thriller or a sober examination of the soul-decaying ruination of revenge.

The finale, titled “Eilu v’ Eilu” very much picks the former grind house option and it’s all the better for it. This final hour is so utterly ridiculous and insane that the mind reels as to where to even begin breaking it down. Do we start with Al Pacino being revealed to have been a Nazi using Face/Off technology or the fact that Hitler and Eva Braun are alive and well in Argentina with a cadre of little Adolf clones?...

Back in the early 1970s I was crazy about Depression-Era Warner Bros. movies, that weren’t being shown on TV or anywhere else. In that climate of deprivation, a documentary that used movie film clips from the period felt extremely fresh and new. Philippe Mora’s picture sees 1930s America through the movies, through music, and the evasions of official newsreels. Franklin Delano Roosevelt preaches prosperity while James Cagney slugs his way through the decade as a smart-tongued everyman — in a dozen different roles. This was a new kind of documentary info-tainment formula: applying old film footage to new purposes.

Brother Can You Spare a Dime

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1975 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 106 min.

Street Date October 1, 2019 / 24.95

Film Editor: Jeremy Thomas

Research by Michael Barlow, Jennifer E. Ryan, Susan Winslow

Produced by Sanford Lieberson, David Puttnam

Directed by Philippe Mora

Philippe Mora was an accomplished artist and documentary...

The Man in the High Castle hits us with moments of tragedy and stirrings of hope in a perfect lead in to the season finale.

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This review contains spoilers for The Man in the High Castle.

The Man in the High Castle Season 3 Episode 9

The Man in the High Castle has made an art of the slow burn, but season 3 has dropped small but powerful surprises into the incremental progress of the story to keep us completely riveted and never complacent. Whether it’s the subtle but deliberate way Smith investigates the whereabouts of High Castle or the casual and confident manner in which Juliana talks about infiltrating the Lackawanna mines, each story unfolds with careful exactness so that when something dire or shocking happens, such as the unexpected end for Frank, it hits with the impact of an unheard avalanche. Penultimate episodes of most successful shows each season are typically exciting setups,...

I'm working my way through all the films about Hitler's last days. Downfall seemed set to be the definitive version, but now it's been reduced to a meme. Still, it's a largely accurate, powerful account, with a very strong performance from Bruno Ganz.In Bologna's Cinematheque I watch Pabst's The Last Act which, aided by the scorching summer weather, packed auditorium and inadequate air conditioning, really felt like spending ten days in a bunker under heavy shelling. The film introduces a fictional anti-war general played by Oscar Werner in a bit of "We're not all bad" special pleading but it gets a lot right.Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) is notorious for getting a lot wrong: not facts, which are scrupulously attested to and signed off on right at the start by a historian and an actual witness, but the filmmaking and the casting. I don't know who you ought...

It’s 1930s America as seen in the movies, through music, and the evasions of newsreels. Franklin Delano Roosevelt preaches prosperity while James Cagney slugs out the decade as a smart-tongued everyman — in a dozen different roles. Director Philippe Mora investigates what was then a new kind of revisionist info-tainment formula: applying old film footage to new purposes.

Brother Can You Spare a Dime

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1975 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 106 min. / Street Date ?, 2017 / available through The Sprocket Vault / 14.99 (also available in Blu-ray)

Film Editor: Jeremy Thomas

Research by Michael Barlow, Jennifer E. Ryan, Susan Winslow

Produced by Sanford Lieberson, David Puttnam

Directed by Philippe Mora

Years before he was briefly sidetracked into sequels for The Howling, Philippe Mora was an accomplished artist and documentary filmmaker. Backed by producers Sanford Lieberson and David Puttnam, his 1974 documentary Swastika pulled a controversial switch on the usual historical fare about...

With bland emotional manipulation, Garry Marshall’s follow-up to Valentine’s Day is as funny as a fire in an asbestos factory neighbouring a children’s hospital

“Hey! What are you doing for Mother’s Day?” says no normal human being ever. But they do in this film, the third in an escalatingly creepy series of sentimental “day”-themed ensemble romcoms from director Garry Marshall, following Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve. The next in the series could be Hitler’s Birthday with Jennifer Aniston as Eva Braun, Kate Hudson as Leni Riefenstahl and Julia Roberts as Rommel. It couldn’t be as offensive and reactionary as this skin-crawlingly smug film set in upscale Atlanta, Georgia: the white part of town, evidently, with one south Asian guy permitted to have a halfway important speaking role, on condition that he is the subject of racist gags and that his...

The Russian Ark director is plotting a return to the subject of war.

Alexsandr Sokurov will return to the subject of Second World War for his next film, which he will begin production on in 2016.

“It will be Second World War again,” he confirmed to Screen in Doha, where the Venice Golden Lion winner delivered a Qumra masterclass.

“Probably it will be a comedy,” Sokurov disclosed via a translator. “It will be based on the materials of Second World War.”

The colourful and outspoken Russian film-maker, who wouldn’t be drawn on any further details about the project, feels that Germany must do more to look at its past.

“I have to say that no serious research has been conducted within Germany on this period of Hitler. Second World War is much more complicated than it is presented now. Not all the countries were fighting Nazi Germany as furiously as Russia did.”

Sokurov has a history...

The Russian Ark director is plotting a return to the subject of war.

Alexsandr Sokurov will return to the subject of World War 2 for his next film, which he will begin production on in 2016.

“It will be World War 2 again,” he confirmed to Screen in Doha, where the Venice Golden Lion winner delivered a Qumra masterclass.

“Probably it will be a comedy,” Sokurov disclosed via a translator. “It will be based on the materials of World War 2.”

The colourful and outspoken Russian film-maker, who wouldn’t be drawn on any further details about the project, feels that Germany must do more to look at its past.

“I have to say that no serious research has been conducted within Germany on this period of Hitler. World War 2 is much more complicated than it is presented now. Not all the countries were fighting Nazi Germany as furiously as Russia did.”

Sokurov has a history of reappraising the lives of world...

Celeb shock photographer Tyler Shields brought Adolf Hitler back to life for a photo shoot just so he could kill the leader of the Nazi party … twice. Shields recreated famous images of dead presidents in the past, so his take on the moment Hitler put a bullet to his head back in '45 isn't really a far stretch. Shields tells us it took him 2 years just to find the right guy to play the Fuhrer...

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Part I. Denazifying Leni

After World War II, Leni Riefenstahl couldn’t escape the Fuhrer’s shadow. Arrested first by American, then French troops, her property and money seized, she endured interrogations about her ties to the regime. Riefenstahl argued she’d been coerced into making propaganda and wasn’t aware of Nazi atrocities. The image stuck: three denazification tribunals acquitted her (one cautiously branding her a “fellow traveler”), and Riefenstahl began the road to rehabilitation.

More diligent investigators challenged her self-portrait. In 1946, American journalist Budd Schulberg interviewed Riefenstahl for the Saturday Evening Post. Riefenstahl claimed she didn’t know about Nazi concentration camps. Later, asked why she made Triumph of the Will, Riefenstahl claimed Joseph Goebbels threatened her with a concentration camp. Disgusted with Riefenstahl’s self-serving contradictions, Schulberg labeled her a “Nazi Pin-Up Girl.”

Then the German tabloid Revue published a damning article in...

'Downfall' movie: Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler 'Downfall' movie: Overlong and overwrought World War II drama lifted by several memorable performances Oliver Hirschbiegel's German box office hit Downfall / Der Untergang is a generally engrossing psychological-historical drama whose emotional charge is diluted by excessive length, an overabundance of characters, and a tendency to emphasize the more obvious aspects of the narrative. Several key performances – including Bruno Ganz's now iconic Adolf Hitler – help to lift Downfall above the level of myriad other World War II movies. Nazi Germany literally goes under In Downfall, which by the end of 2004 had been seen by more than 4.5 million German moviegoers, Nazi Germany is about to lose the war. In his underground bunker, Adolf Hitler (Bruno Ganz) grows increasingly out of touch with reality as he sees his dream of Deutschland über alles go kaput. Some of those under his command are equally incapable of thinking coherently.

Philippe Mora has made so many films, from historical to hysterical. The first time I heard of him was with his film “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” in 1975, which he wrote and directed. Produced by Sandy Lieberman and David Puttnam and edited by Jeremy Thomas, it was already his eighth film. His life story and his family’s life stories are so incredible that they are hard to believe, but you know they are true. Even his great aunt Charlotte Morawski, one of the few women ever to attend university at the time, wrote a dissertation in 1915 in Breslau, Germany on Nietzsche and his relationship with a Jewish woman named Rees. This dissertation was recently brought to Philippe by the widow of the director Sam Fuller…(!)

Philippe is one of the most consistently eclectic directors of the '70s and ‘80s. His work has ranged from the controversial Nazi documentary “Swastika" — banned in Israel and Germany for its use of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun's home movies — to the outlaw biopic "Mad Dog Morgan " starring Dennis Hopper, to superhero spoof "The Return of Captain Invincible" featuring Alan Arkin.

And now, ‘Three Days in Auschwitz -The Film” is a couple days from finishing the campaign on Indiegogo. He says, " We are looking great on the Indiedgogo Flexible Funding option. We are deeply grateful to all who have funded. Those who have not please have a look at this, and if you can, please kick us up a notch!"

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/three-days-in-auschwitz-a-film

Philippe explains the origin of this film:

"My mother Mirka Mora was scheduled to be transported from Paris to Auschwitz via Pithiviers in 1942. She escaped by one day. Many in my family did not escape. I've spent decades wondering why did this catastrophe happen? There are still no definitive answers. In the light of all current knowledge this film asks why once more. This current examination started in Poland in 2010.

The barbaric events in Paris last week underline that violent depravity is still with us. The medieval notions that fuelled Auschwitz are sadly and dangerously still present. Please be kind enough to continue to support the completion of this artistic but factual film, by spreading the link amongst contacts you feel may be sympathetic, and/or interested in the history of racism and bigotry. To those of you who have already contributed, again my heartfelt thanks. Rest assured the film will be completed."

To support the film visit Here...

The Oldenburg International Film Festival, an indie fest billed as “Germany's Sundance” will honor Australian cult director Philippe Mora this year with a retrospective of his life's work. One of the most consistently eclectic of the 70s and 80s, Mora's work has ranged form controversial Nazi documentary Swastika – banned in Israel and Germany for its use of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun's home movies – to outlaw-biopic Mad Dog Morgan starring Dennis Hopper to superhero spoof The Return of Captain Invincible featuring Alan Arkin. Mora will attend the 21st Oldenburg festival and will receive the fest's German Independence

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London, Jun 20: A Nazi-obsessed man, who even named his son Adolf Hitler, now wants to call his daughter Eva Braun.

Heath Campbell has revealed that his partner is pregnant.

His fiance Bethanie Rose Zito said that if the child is a girl they will be naming her Eva Braun but if it is a boy she is thinking of naming him Rommel, the Sun reported.

Braun was Hitler's long-time girlfriend, who married him just 40 hours before they both committed suicide in Berlin in 1945 and Erwin Rommel was a high ranking German general during World War II - later accused in a plot to overthrow the German dictator. (Ani)...

A cerebral film based on a memoir by Hitler's private secretary lifts the lid on Feathers McGraw's role in the Führer's overthrow

Downfall (2004)

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel

Entertainment grade: A–

History grade: A–

On 20 April 1945, as the second world war drew to its conclusion, Soviet forces began to shell the centre of Berlin.

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The film is bookended by documentary footage of the splendidly named Traudl Humps, Adolf Hitler's private secretary from 1942-45. In 1947, she wrote a memoir. It was published in 2002 under her less thrilling married name, Traudl Junge. The film draws extensively on the book, especially for the relationship between Hitler (Bruno Ganz, in the performance of a lifetime) and his girlfriend, Eva Braun (Juliane Köhler). Junge paints Eva as a needy, delusional figure – dancing around her old living room "in a desperate frenzy, like a woman who has already felt the faint breath of death". Another eyewitness,...

"I'll see you in another life when we are both cats." –Tom Cruise, 'Vanilla Sky'

Greetings from the apocalypse! You might think that this particular Mad Max would enjoy watching Tom Cruise fight evil robots in a future nuclear-blasted wasteland, but Nope! "Oblivion" is a dud, though that doesn't mean we can't make it through the next few days as long as we stick together and don't cross the Dmz. Smoke 'em if ya got 'em, troops, we're goin' in …

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Xenu's own Tom Cruise returns to comfortable sci-fi territory this week with "Oblivion," which I will henceforth refer to as "The Matrix Redressed." Cruise is the only living boy in post-apocalyptic New York, where he and a stuffy British chick (Andrea Riseborough, natch) maintain giant water vacuums when they're not having PG-13 swimming pool sex … that is, until the mysterious Olga Kurylenko arrives from outer space.

The great thing about anthology horror is that a single film can contain both good and bad efforts. The appealing thing about it is that it panders to horror fans with a short attention span that don’t always want to sit through a single story line for 90 minutes. The other advantage to anthology horror films is that if you don’t like a particular segment, you know it will be over in a matter of minutes. With The ABCs of Death making its debut via VOD and a theatrical release planned for March 8th, we’ve opted to take a stroll down memory lane and bring you our picks for some of the most memorable segments in anthology horror cinema.

The Diary of Anne Frankenstein (Chillerama) This drive in movie throwback film is a great example of an anthology horror film that has both good and bad wrapped up in the same package.

Eva Braun was the most intimate chronicler of the Nazi regime, capturing Hitler's private life with her cine-camera. But it was only the obsession of artist Lutz Becker that brought her films to light. Robert McCrum and Taylor Downing uncover the story of the footage that shocked the world

Lutz Becker was born in Berlin, he says, "during the anno diabolo, 1941. Mine was the generation that was sent into a dark pit." Meeting this survivor of the Third Reich, now in his 70s and living in Bayswater, London, it's hard to suppress the thought that Becker, a distinguished artist and film historian, has conducted most of his life in a circle of hell.

Becker's childhood passed in the fetid, terrifying atmosphere of Berlin's air-raid shelters as the Allied raids intensified and the city was reduced to burning rubble. He recalls the radio announcements – "Achtung, achtung, ende ende, über Deutschland sinfe bender.

Actress Kristina Klebe (Lynda Van der Klok in Rob Zombie's Halloween; Eva Braun in the Chillerama segment "The Diary of Anne Frankenstein") is now lending her considerable talents to a charitable cause, and you can help out.

Currently up for auction is a custom 30-second outgoing voicemail message from Kristina! Have "Lynda" tell your incoming callers to "bring me a beer!" Maybe she'll even do it in German. Either way, you'll have a movie star greeting your callers. All proceeds from the auction will be going to assist local La women struggling with breast cancer via the Busted Foundation and The Horror Starlets.

Note: The message recorded will be at Kristina's discretion, but options can be discussed.

Check out the auction on eBay here!

Beyond bidding, how can you help? A modest (and tax-deductible donation) would be most appreciated. Just visit The Horror Starlets donation page to help us reach...

Composer James Bennett, who brought musical wit and a lyrical touch to his work in film and theater, died in New York this week of a heart attack.

He was classically trained on piano and later was a member of the Bmi Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, an innovative New York City program known for training composers, lyricists and librettists. His work in theater includes collaborations with Charles Horne on the scores for the Off-Broadway shows Eva Braun and Dogs.

Though Jim composed music for only two feature films — Todd Haynes’ Poison and my film Swoon — he brought a remarkable musical sophistication and depth of emotion to his work. He worked as both composer and conductor and somehow managed to record lush, heartbreaking scores with a handful of musicians and the very few dollars we gave him. His music for my short Geoffrey Beene 30 and for Haynes’ Dottie Gets Spanked...

Catherine Tate is to star in new Sky Arts comedy 'Psychobitches'. The comedienne will take on the dual roles of Adolf Hitler's girlfriend Eva Braun and French singer Edith Piaf in the programme which is part of the channel's Playhouse Presents series. The 30 minute comedy, puts history's most famous women into the psychiatrist's chair and shines a spotlight on their psychoses and obsessions. Starring Rebecca Front as the therapist, the programme will also feature Sharon Horgan as Jane Austen and Frieda Kahlo, Katy Brand as Joan of Arc and George Eliot, Sheila Reid as Mother Theresa, Samantha Spiro as Mary Whitehouse and...

Above: Das Magische Band.

For the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Oberhausen Manifesto, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen seems to have deployed an expected reminder and canonization: a retrospective. But the reality is far from this conventionality. Instead, the festival has activated a series, sequence and near-simultaneity of films programmed by Ralph Eue and Olaf Möller called Mavericks, Mouvements, Manifestos that form a complex, varied and nuanced international constellation of absolutely necessary, engaged and reactive short films from the 1950s-1960s. It is not a look back, as most retrospectives inevitably are, but a bracing engagement with a reality, both historic and contemporary, that proves to be still absolutely crucial to our understanding of the world and its cinema.

The opening ceremony of the festival capped an endless series of introductions—which included an unexpected but moving reminder of and plea about the economic ghettoization of cultural...

While New Yorkers have plenty of opportunity to see classic films on the big screen, you'll be hard pressed to find a lineup as front to back awesome as the Film Society Of Lincoln Center's "15 For 15: Celebrating Rialto Pictures."

The series honors the reknowned arthouse distribution shingle founded in 1997 that has brought some of the best known (and previously unknown) classics of cinema to American audiences. And the selection here by programmers Scott Foundas, Eric Di Bernardo and Adrienne Halpern represents the breadth and scope of the films Rialto has put their stamp on, ranging from the French New Wave ("Breathless") to film noir ("Rififi") to comedy ("Billy Liar") and more. There is something here for everybody and with the series kicking off tonight, we've got a special prize for some lucky readers.

Courtesy of Film Society Of Lincoln Center, we've got a copy of the excellent Rialto DVD...

Saying he was "sick of the elections," Jon Stewart turned to international news on Thursday night's "Daily Show."

Stewart examined the revelations from Bashar al-Assad's email hacking, which leaked over 3000 emails from the Syrian dictator and his wife Asma. "Finally, an email hack of someone who actually deserves to have their email hacked," Stewart joked.

Assad has brutally quelled a citizen uprising in Syria for the past year, and as Stewart noted, the leaked emails could finally reveal his secret tactics and weaknesses.

Or, as it turns out, the emails could reveal that he downloads music from iTunes, listens to Chris Brown and his wife is a big fan of the Harry Potter movies.

Stewart was perplexed by the strange glimpse into Assad's life:

"This guy massacres his own people with impunity, but makes sure he purchases his music legally? 'I'll taunt Nato and the world community, but even I won't f**k with Apple.

Saying he was "sick of the elections," Jon Stewart turned to international news on Thursday night's "Daily Show."

Stewart examined the revelations from Bashar al-Assad's email hacking, which leaked over 3000 emails from the Syrian dictator and his wife Asma. "Finally, an email hack of someone who actually deserves to have their email hacked," Stewart joked.

Assad has brutally quelled a citizen uprising in Syria for the past year, and as Stewart noted, the leaked emails could finally reveal his secret tactics and weaknesses.

Or, as it turns out, the emails could reveal that he downloads music from iTunes, listens to Chris Brown and his wife is a big fan of the Harry Potter movies.

Stewart was perplexed by the strange glimpse into Assad's life:

"This guy massacres his own people with impunity, but makes sure he purchases his music legally? 'I'll taunt Nato and the world community, but even I won't f**k with Apple.

The great New Wave film-maker François Truffaut would have been 80 today. As he's honoured with a Google doodle, Xan Brooks salutes one of cinema's most sorely missed

Apologies to Bob Marley, Ronald Reagan, Eva Braun, and all the other dead luminaries who celebrated their birthdays on February 6. Today, it transpires, is not their time. Instead, the world's biggest internet search engine has opted to honour the 80th anniversary of the late François Truffaut via the medium of the Google doodle. When Sibelius made his crack about no one ever erecting a statue to a critic, he clearly reckoned without the rise of the Google doodle.

Arguably the foremost of the New Wave film-makers, Truffaut was also the first to go: killed by a brain tumour at the age of 52 after a life spent in perpetual motion. In his teens he had been the juvenile tearaway and in his 20s a crusading film critic,...

It’s the last night for the Kaufman Drive-In and a quartet of rare horror and exploitation movies are on the bill. Directed and written by Adam Rifkin, Adam Green, Tim Sullivan and Joe Lynch, Chillerama is an ode to a bygone era where you could pile all of your friends into a car and catch a bunch of movies cheaper than you can probably watch a single movie now.

I am not the biggest fan of horror-comedies, because so few of them get it right in my eyes. And yes, horror and humor can go wonderfully together, but it’s a very delicate balance. This movie however is more of a lowbrow comedy with a lot of body fluids thrown around… a lot. Anthology movies are always a hard sell, and Chillerama doesn’t do the genre any major favors.

The film’s opening is in black and white.

The Queen of Pop once turned down the opportunity to portray the leading lady of Camelot.

According to an upcoming memoir by RoseMarie Terenzio, former friend and publicist of the late John F. Kennedy Jr., the political scion and publisher of George Magazine wanted Madonna to pose as his mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, on the cover of the summer of 1996's Women in Politics issue.

"I think we should dress Madonna up as my mother," Terenzio remembers Kennedy saying in "Fairy Tale Interrupted" (via the NY Post). "Wouldn't that be a riot?"

Kennedy continued with the suggestion despite Terenzio's protests, proposing that they "have her in a pillbox hat, sitting on a stack of books."

Beyond using a controversial pop icon to play a beloved First Lady, the move would have created a "media sh*tstorm," Terenzio warned, because of Kennedy and Madonna's rumored past fling. In 2007, a biography of...

by Jesse Miller, MoreHorror.com

It’s closing night at Kaufman Drive-In, a small drive-in theatre, and to send things off with a bang, owner Cecil B. Kaufman (Richard Riehle) has planned one last nasty little marathon for his loyal patrons.

The marathon in question is Chillerama, a nasty little collection of some lost and forgotten horror films that are only now seeing the light day.

First up on the line-up is “Wadzilla”, both a throwback and a spoof of the 50’s monster flick.

Written & Directed by Adam Rifkin (Detroit Rock City, Bone Chillers), Wadzilla tells the story of mild mannered businessman Miles Munson (Rifkin), who, after undertaking an experimental drug to raise his sperm count, discovers that the drug has dire side effects and that his sperm has mutated into something quite sinister.

Wadzilla captures that charm of the 50’s monster film perfectly – from the look and feel of...

The utimate midnight movie Chillerama hits store shelves today on Blu-ray and DVD. From Image Entertainment, Chillerama is a horror anthology featuring four unique films from four talented up-and-coming directors. Each film takes a different classic monster movie era and spins it on its head — including a ’50s Atomic Monster movie about a giant killer sperm (Wadzilla), a ’60s beach movie about a hairy monster in leather bondage (I Was A Teenage Wearbear), a ’30s German monster movie starring Hitler and Eva Braun (The Diary Of Anne Frankenstein) and a gruesome ’70s-’80s zombie flick (Zom-b-movie).

The Blu-ray is unrated and will include special features such as Deleted Scenes, Making-Of Videos, Director Interviews and Video Commentary from the four directors, Adam Green, Adam Rifkin, Joe Lynch and Tim Sullivan. StarPulse sat down with the filmmakers and talked to them about the movie.

Check out several highlights from the interview below:...

Actress Kristina Klebe, who first grabbed horror fans’ attention with her turn as Lynda in Rob Zombie’s Halloween, takes part in a very different sort of horror “remake” as part of the ensemble of Chillerama. She plays Eva Braun to Joel David Moore’s comical Hitler in “The Diary of Anne Frankenstein,” a role she discussed with Fango.

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Actress Kristina Klebe, who first grabbed horror fans’ attention with her turn as Lynda in Rob Zombie’s Halloween, takes part in a very different sort of horror “remake” as part of the ensemble of Chillerama. She plays Eva Braun to Joel David Moore’s comical Hitler in “The Diary of Anne Frankenstein,” a role she discussed with Fango.

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Just when you thought it was safe to go outside again. Just when you thought the Chillerama nightmare was a thing of the past, the freakshow rears its ugly head once again! In a very special, one-night only event, the cast and crew of Chillerama will be signing copies of the Blu-ray/DVD at Dark Delicacies Bookstore in Burbank on November 29th. Oh the humanity...

This is a rare opportunity to grab some great signatures from a diverse group of stars. Scheduled to appear are Chillerama directors Adam Green and Joe Lynch; some of the film's stars including the legendary Kane Hodder, Ray Wise, Lin Shaye (perhaps the most underrated funnywoman in Hollywood! Kingpin, There's Something About Mary ... she's amazing!), Kristina Klebe, and Anton Troy; and composer Bear McCreary. Looks like a great line-up and a great time. Check out the details below.

From the Press Release

What: Join Chillerama directors Adam Green (Hatchet,...

Here’s one for all our readers in the L.A. area: The stars and filmmakers behind Chillerama, the Ultimate Midnight Movie,will be making a public appearance to sign Blu-ray and DVD copies of the film Tuesday, November 29th at legendary Burbank bookstore, Dark Delicacies.

Those in attendance include directors Adam Green (Hatchet, Frozen), Joe Lynch (Wrong Turn 2, Knights Of Badassdom), horror film legend Kane Hodder (Friday The 13th Parts VII-x, Hatchet 1 & 2) film stars Ray Wise (X-men First Class, Reaper), Lin Shaye (Insidious, 2001 Maniacs), Kristina “Eva Braun” Klebe, “Werebear” Anton Troy and composter Bear McCreary.

If you have yet to see this gruesome anthology, due yourself a favor and check out the trailer below:

The signing takes place Tuesday, November 29th at Dark Delicacies Bookstore. Don’t miss it!

While Chillerama is the amalgamation of four different films from directors Adam Green, Joe Lynch, Adam Rifkin and Tim Sullivan, once you hear the title to Green's contribution, you know that you're in for some really inappropriate B-movie madness!  Playing third in the anthology flick is "The Diary Of Anne Frankenstein", which stars Joel David Moore as a gibbering Hitler, Kristina Klebe as Eva Braun and Kane Hodder as the Frankenstein monster in what is sure to be one of the films comedic highlights. We caught up with Adam just as he was wrapping production on his new show Holliston (premiering here on FEARnet!) to talk about how he got roped into the craziness of the Chillerama circus! FEARnet:...