Volker Schlondorff
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Charles Aznavour: from derided ‘Aznovoice’ to French treasure
- Europe
- October 3, 2018
Following Charles Aznavour’s death on Monday at the age of 94, French politicians are calling for a state funeral for this son of Armenian immigrants.(...)

Return to Montauk review: A cold but classy concoction
- Film
- October 6, 2017, 05:00
The latest film from the great Volker Schlöndorff – director of The Tin Drum and The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum – looks very much as a novelist had(...)

Volker Schlöndorff on Angela Merkel: What you see is what you get
- Europe
- September 25, 2017, 01:00
When Angela Merkel watched anxiously for results in Sunday’s federal election, one of her closest friends wasn’t there to hold her hand. Film directo(...)

The best films from this year’s Galway Film Fleadh
- Film
- July 17, 2017, 09:59
There was a time when you could take the temperature of the nation by glancing at the tight handful of Irish features premiering at the Galway Film Fl(...)

Colm Tóibín, novice screenwriter
- Film
- July 23, 2016, 05:00
It takes less than three hours to drive from Brooklyn to the fishing port of Montauk, on the far tip of Long Island. But for Colm Tóibín it has been a(...)