Tips from Chip

Head-On is a German film, but it’s about the second generation of Turkish immigrants to that country and how they are caught between the ol...

Despite the year and the title, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul has nothing to do with Muhammad Ali (in case you were wondering.)  It’s a German fi...

After the triumph that was 1928’s The Last Command, which helped garner Emil Jannings the first Best Actor Oscar in history, he and directo...

Years ago I was in a store and came across The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on a bargain DVD.  It cost me next to nothing so I bought it even th...

I first became aware of the film The Adventures of Prince Achmed after I saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 on DVD in 2011.  O...

The best way to start my Submarine Movies category is with by far the best submarine film ever made – Das Boot.   I consider it not only t...

Europa Europa is a German film that tells the sort of true story of Salomon Perel, a Jewish teen who hid his religion from the Nazis durin...

Fritz Lang’s 1931 film M is a landmark in movie history.   While he directed other films that are classics (most notably 1927’s Metropolis)...

Downfall is a German film based on two books that recounted the last days of Adolph Hitler – Inside Hitler’s Bunker: The Last Days of the Th...

Wings of Desire is a German film that was shot just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.   It touched a nerve first with its German audience,...

This movie was the first big budget, feature length science fiction movie.   How big was the budget?   Factoring in inflation it was roughly...