Tag Archives: Christian Petzold

Winter 2026 Season at Carbon Arc Cinema

As regular FITI readers will know, I am a programmer and longtime volunteer at Carbon Arc Cinema here in Halifax. Over the past year as a community we've grown exponentially, showing films over four (sometimes even five) nights a week, a robust mix of independent, international, Canadian and documentary film. The films come so thick… Read More

Undine review — A somewhat larger mermaid

Written and Directed by Christian Petzold | 91 min | Carbon Arc Cinema Here's a genuine puzzle of a film, one that sets off as a straight ahead romantic melodrama, more the type I'd expect to see in French movies than German, but then reveals itself to be something entirely different, a fantastic parable. The… Read More

Carbon Arc Reviews: The Second Mother, When Marnie Was There, Phoenix, The Wolfpack, A Poem Is A Naked Person, The New Girlfriend, Tangerine, Court, Dough, Jimmy’s Hall, The Russian Woodpecker

This fall I've been part of the talented crew who program films and help out at Carbon Arc screenings taking place at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History. Here are my thoughts on each of the films we screened. (Carbon Arc Cinema returns in the first week of February, 2016.) The Second Mother Written… Read More