How we deal with cruelty is at the root of "Land of Mine," one of last year's Academy Award nominees for Best Foreign Language Film from Denmark (it lost to Iran's "The Salesman"), recently released on DVD (Sony).
If someone were to ask you what or who is the center of your world, how would you answer? This question is at the heart of the new German-language "Center of My World" DVD just released from TLA.
James Fanizza's romantic drama "Sebastian," on DVD courtesy of lesbian-owned Wolfe Video, poses the question, What do you do when your soulmate turns out to be your cousin's boyfriend?
"From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses" documents the history of German cinema beginning in 1919, the year after the first World War ended, until 1933, when Hitler rose to power.
In director Lindsay Anderson's sublime "The Whales of August," screen legends Bette Davis and Lillian Gish are playing themselves, two old ladies near the end of their lives.