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Olaf Möller

Of Human Bondage

By Olaf Möller
September 5, 2019
Though known for science fiction, Piotr Szulkin increasingly described the way we live now and the persistence of the powers that be

Festivals: Venice 2017

By Olaf Möller
March 12, 2018
Young lions: the International Critics’ Week section offered stronger work than what was in competition

Festivals: Venice

By Olaf Möller
December 22, 2016
Punishing the faithless: religion and politics loomed large at the Lido this year

Festivals: Berlin

By Olaf Möller
April 29, 2016
Signs of life: a new Lav Diaz film led the charge at this year's edition

History Men

By Olaf Möller
November 4, 2015
Venice’s old guard kept the International Art-House whippersnappers at bay

Lost Horizons

By Olaf Möller
April 23, 2015
At Berlin this year, you could feel the push and pull between idealism and disillusionment

Harsh Realities

By Olaf Möller
October 30, 2014
Venice’s boldest filmmakers tackled hard truths—and didn’t flinch

Review: Beloved Sisters

By Olaf Möller
October 30, 2014
(Dominik Graf, Germany/Austria, 2014)

As Time Goes By

By Olaf Möller
April 29, 2014
The Berlinale’s standouts looked back into the past and watched the years pass

Apocalypse Rising

By Olaf Möller
April 23, 2014
Is there light at the end of the tunnel for Austrian director Michael Glawogger?

Festivals: Rome

By Olaf Möller
December 10, 2013
Springtime in November: the resurgent fest was, generally, a celebration of cinema in all its diversity and genius

A Tale of Two Festivals

By Olaf Möller
October 28, 2013
Venice’s programming worked in practice but not in theory

Mental Cases

By Olaf Möller
April 29, 2013
The disturbed, the depressed, and the demented were at large in Berlin this year

Festivals: dOCUMENTA (13), or, The Longest Presence

By Olaf Möller
September 19, 2012
The infinite, intimate worlds of video art on display in Kassel (and Kabul)

Chris Marker: Ghost World

By Olaf Möller
July 30, 2012
Japan through the looking glass

Festivals: Berlin 2012

By Olaf Möller
May 3, 2012
The festival makes a cautious comeback after taking a beating

Unnofficial History: Li Ying

By Olaf Möller
July 2, 2011
Straddling cultures and cinematic modes, Chinese filmmaker Li Ying has stirred up a hornet’s nest of Japanese nationalism

A Specter Called Knowledge

By Olaf Möller
June 1, 2011
Venice International Film Festival 2003

Olaf’s World: Nigerian Videofilm Culture

By Olaf Möller
June 1, 2011
A homegrown hybrid cinema of outrageous schlock from Africa's most populous nation

Online Exclusive: The Necessity of Jesus

By Olaf Möller
June 1, 2011
Paolo Benvenuti beat Mel Gibson to it: The Kiss of Judas (Il bacio di Giuda) is one of cinema's most intriguing interpretations of the Nazerene