Over the past three decades, the German cine-essayist Hartmut Bitomsky has staked out a position at once lofty and material—making coolly detached documentaries that address subjects like the history ...

Alexander Kluge and Hartmut Bitomsky discuss the film Staub (Dust). Dust is called “matter in the wrong place.” In fact, dust is an irresistible state of dissolution at the beginning and end of all ...

War culture has become blithely easy to deride in eras of conflict as well as peacetime, but surely documentarian Hartmut Bitomsky’s new film, B-52, might have had more of a sting in its tail prior to ...

“The Cold War is over, the weapons still remain,” the voices of a man and woman intertwine in German filmmaker Hartmut Bitomsky’s documentary essay “B-52,” a photographically impressive though ...

The most atypical documentary of Venice Film Festival has just been presented on the Lido : Staub, by German director Hartmut Bitomsky, is a complete departure from traditional genres in non-fiction, ...

Beloved actor Alan Arkin has died at the age of 89. His sons, Adam, Matthew and Anthony confirmed the news in a joint statement this morning: "Our father was a ...