Posted on June 13, 2022
Das Rheingold is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a Read More
Posted on June 13, 2022
Due partly to the weakness of its Visigothic rulers, partly to its proximity to Africa, the Iberian peninsula was conquered by Berbers and by Arabs belonging to the Umayyad Read More
Posted on June 10, 2022
This program from Films for the Humanities and Sciences examines the life and literary career of the charismatic Argentine writer, as well as the thematic, symbolic, and mythological underpinnings Read More
Posted on June 9, 2022
An Israeli Mossad agent is given the mission to track down and kill an ex-Nazi officer who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends Read More
Posted on June 9, 2022
Because of That War is the first Israeli film to explore the life experience of the Holocaust generation and its own second generation – children born in Israel, who Read More
Posted on June 3, 2022
Un Chien Andalou is a 1929 Franco-Spanish silent surrealist short film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí. It has no plot in the conventional sense of Read More
Posted on June 3, 2022
When a group of African squatters in Paris are threatened with eviction, they find themselves fighting against a bureaucracy that few French citizens understand, let alone immigrants. In desperation, Read More
Posted on June 3, 2022
Seventeen-year-old Madjid (Kader Boukhanef) and his friend, Pat (Rémi Martin), spend their days indulging in petty crime in a neglected Paris housing project. Madjid, the son of Algerian immigrants, Read More
Posted on May 20, 2022
During the night of June 5, 1931, a major fire broke out in Munich’s Glass Palace. Among the inferno’s victims, the entire German Romantic exhibition, including ten major works Read More
Posted on May 20, 2022
Although her most important writings came late in life, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff’s poetry and prose – often compared to Goethe’s – have assured her a place among Germany’s great Read More
