Leisure Time Features, the independent film distributor based in New York City, has acquired all U.S. rights to “Faust” by Alexander Sokurov. Winner of the 2011 Venice International Film Festival’s ...
Acclaimed Russian director Alexander Sokurov returns to the theme of corrupting power in his new film "Faust," the fourth and final part of a series on the topic but the first to depict a fictional ...
Alexander Sokurov establishes the Grand Guignol tone of his “Faust” from the very start — with an extreme close-up of a corpse’s penis. The ever-searching, overreaching Dr. Faust (Johannes Zeiler) and ...
In the end credits, a note identifies “Faust,” Alexander Sokurov’s brooding, hallucinatory, freehanded adaptation of Johan Wolfgang von Goethe’s great allegorical drama, as the concluding installment ...
“Shame.” “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.” “Carnage.” “Alps.” All of these films have one thing in common. None of them left 2011’s Venice Film Festival with the Golden Lion. They are among the ...
“Faust,” the final installment in Alexander Sokurov’s four-part version of Goethe’s classic tragedy, has won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival. Darren Aranofsky, chairman of ...