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To mark the release of The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, out now, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on Blu-ray.

The goalkeeper Josef Bloch (Arthur Brauss) is sent off after committing a foul during an away game. Losing his bearings, he wanders aimlessly through the unfamiliar town, spends the night with the box-office attendant of a movie theatre and commits a crime. But instead of turning himself in or fleeing, Bloch goes to his ex-girlfriend’s place in the country and passively waits for the police to catch him.

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A murderous footballer’s journey is the focus of this majestic meditation on madness, misogyny and the American dream

Wim Wenders’s debut movie from 1972, now on rerelease, is a fantastically strange, lugubrious existential crime noir based on the novel by Peter Handke (with whom Wenders co-wrote the screenplay). It is now sadly stuck with the clumsiest and most tin-eared translated title imaginable, terrible compared with The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty, which was what Handke’s book was generally called for English-speaking audiences. It is a bit of an ironic time for this film to reappear here, of course. The English no longer have any fear of penalties.

The scene is a football match in Vienna, where the goalkeeper for the visiting side is shown impassively standing in the goalmouth watching the action at the other end. He has the faintly Kafkaesque name of Joseph Bloch (played by...

Very few movements in film history have been as rewarding, and yet as undervalued among film fans, as that of the New German Cinema. With names like Rainer Werner Fassbinder now beginning to be muttered in broad collections of film fans, the world of German filmmaking that came to light in the late 1960s has birthed some of the greatest auteurs of its generation, even a handful that are still turning out some of their best work. Most notably filmmakers like Werner Herzog have transitioned from this movement into worlds that they themselves have broken the ground on.

Same could be said for one Wim Wenders.

Best known for masterpieces like Wings Of Desire and Paris, Texas, the filmmaker is to this day pushing the boundaries of what cinema can do. With 3D films like Pina and his startlingly poignant Salt Of The Earth, Wenders has had a more than productive career spanning 5 decades,...

Stars: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Michel Simon, Wolfgang Preiss, Albert Rémy, Charles Millot, Richard Münch, Jacques Marin, Paul Bonifas, Jean Bouchaud, Donald O’Brien, Jean-Pierre Zola, Arthur Brauss | Written by Franklin Coen, Frank Davis | Directed by John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn (uncredited)

What is more precious, art or human life? Your first reaction is probably to say human life and that would be the most logical answer, but for cultural worth the answer may not be so easy. During World War 2 precious works of art were stolen and still to this day are found and become big news. Arrow Academy’s latest Burt Lancaster release The Train creates a story loosely based on real life events, looking at the protection of French masterpieces, and the human cost of war.

In 1944 during the last gasps of Germany’s occupation of France, art lover and fanatical Nazi Colonel...

A Kansas City rabbi and the grandson of a prominent Jewish leader were among the five people killed in a synagogue attack in Jerusalem on Tuesday. The Associated Press reports that two Palestinians armed with knives and a gun attacked worshipers during their morning prayers, and were subsequently shot and killed by police. According to the ABC News, three of the people killed in the attacks were Americans; the fourth was a British national, and a hospital spokeswoman later announced the fifth, a police officer, died of wounds from the attack, CNN reports. Kalman Levine, originally from Kansas City, Missouri,...

A Kansas City rabbi and the grandson of a prominent Jewish leader were among the five people killed in a synagogue attack in Jerusalem on Tuesday. The Associated Press reports that two Palestinians armed with knives and a gun attacked worshipers during their morning prayers, and were subsequently shot and killed by police. According to the ABC News, three of the people killed in the attacks were Americans; the fourth was a British national, and a hospital spokeswoman later announced the fifth, a police officer, died of wounds from the attack, CNN reports. Kalman Levine, originally from Kansas City, Missouri,...

James Coburn and Maximilian Schell star as Wehrmacht officers battling each other in this slow-moving second world war film

Cross of Iron (1977)

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Entertainment grade: C+

History grade: B+

The German invasion of the Soviet Union during the second world war began in 1941. By 1943, troops were in retreat, and the tide of the war had begun to turn against Adolf Hitler.

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Troops of the Wehrmacht 17th Army have retreated across the Taman peninsula to the Kuban bridgehead. Indestructible platoon leader Sergeant Steiner (James Coburn) is stuck serving under Captain Stransky (Maximilian Schell), an oily Prussian aristocrat who has transferred to the Eastern front with the explicit intention of winning the distinction of the Iron Cross. Steiner couldn't give a hoot for Iron Crosses, and he actively dislikes oily Prussian aristocrats. These characters are fictional, though some sources suggest Steiner may have been inspired by real-life Feldwebel (Sergeant) Johann Schwerdfeger.

At Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, Chairman Warren Buffett got away answering only softball questions and barely touching David Sokol's alleged insider trading. Allan Dodds Frank reports.

Damage control does not get any better than this.

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Warren Buffett exposed himself to questions at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska Saturday without getting dinged by the marshmallows tossed at him by three reporters and shareholders for nearly six hours.

The zinger that never came was: "What other insider trading do you suspect David Sokol might have done?" in his 11 years at Berkshire Hathaway before resigning.

Sokol, of course, is the 54-year-old executive anointed by Buffett as a brilliant possible successor who instead exited unceremoniously March 28, two weeks after Berkshire Hathaway bought Lubrizol Corp. for $9.1 billion.

While acting as Berkshire's point man on the acquisition of the chemical manufacturer, Sokol placed...