Noah Isenberg

Clinging to Hollywood’s Underbelly

The B-movie director Hugo Fregonese—whose career led from Argentina to Hollywood and Europe—was preoccupied with the search for freedom in a violent world.

Voluptuous Panic

Not since Rainer Werner Fassbinder adapted Alfred Döblin’s acclaimed 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz in 1980 has there been as much talk about a German television series set in the Weimar era as there has been this year about Babylon Berlin.

Eavesdropping on Weimar

Perhaps one reason for the instant success of the novel Grand Hotel was the way in which it spoke to the anxieties of Weimar society—and of the world at large—about modern life.