I’ve always been drawn to films that impose limits on themselves, either stylistically or narratively. Alexander Sokurov‘s Russian Ark is so exhilarating precisely because it has no edits at all. Part ...

In “Das Boot,” Wolfgang Petersen’s direction is inseparable from Jost Vacano’s groundbreaking camerawork. Together, they create a submarine film so viscerally effective that you occasionally find ...

Comprehensive classic piece that looks at the process of creating the movie, told with a strong, well-constructed narrative that plays almost as a movie itself, a detailed retelling of how the movie ...

Not really the thing for landlubbers: the series “Das Boot” is a brutally honest portrayal of the unrelenting horrors of the Second World War. Where Wolfgang Petersen’s cinematic milestone of the same ...

The Hollywood Reporter review: Hulu's international series 'Das Boot' featuring Lizzy Caplan, Vicky Krieps and Vincent Kartheiser picks up where the acclaimed film left off. By Tim Goodman It might ...

The American moviegoing public has never been especially enthusiastic about foreign-language films, but every now and then, a subtitled movie does cross over from the arthouse to the mainstream. The ...

The 1981 film Das Boot became an unlikely hit because Wolfgang Petersen did a great job showing how claustrophobic life in a submarine, especially when it’s constantly under threat, can be. About ten ...