Maggie Smith is returning to the London stage for the first time in 12 years. The legendary actress will star in A German Life, a new play by Christopher Hampton at the Bridge Theatre. The story is drawn from the life of Brunhilde Pomsel, a one-time personal secretary to Joseph Goebbels. Smith, alone on stage, plays Pomsel. Directed by Jonathan Kent, A German Life begins previews on April 6 with a five-week run opening April 12. Pomsel’s life spanned the 20th century. She struggled to make ends meet in Berlin during the 1930s, her many employers including a Jewish insurance broker, the German Broadcasting Corporation and, eventually, Goebbels. A German Life is drawn from the testimony Pomsel gave when she finally broke her silence to a group of Austrian filmmakers, and from their documentary A German Life. Smith will be seen on screen...
- 2/13/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Alongside several ostensibly historical retrospectives at Vienna are a few contemporary ones—that is, retrospectives of relatively newly active filmmakers, and in this specific case, of the Hong Kong genre master Soi Cheang, who has only been working for a decade but has already carved out a place for his uniquely tenacious, desperate cinema. With Cheang brought to my attention by a Film Comment column by Olaf Müller several years ago, fortuitiously timed with one of the director's first Us screenings at the New York Asian Film Festival, the relatively easy availability of his films on DVD, and his increased exposure due to an alliance with Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai's Milkyway production company—which produced Cheang's last film, Accident, and where Cheang briefly served as Ad to To and Wai—I hope the Vienna retro will only increase the exposure of a decidedly brilliant but "low art" talent.
- 10/28/2011
- MUBI
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