German auteur Philip Groning ('Into Great Silence') explores abstract concepts such as time in 'My Brother's Name Is Robert and He's an Idiot,' which is about twins who hang out at a gas station over ...

“Into Great Silence” reminds me most directly of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa‘s quixotic near-masterpiece “Colossal Youth,” which played last week at Lincoln Center’s Film Comment Selects series – ...

“Into Great Silence” is a transcendent, transporting experience, a trance movie that casts a major league spell by going deeply into a monastic world that lives largely without words. In the hands of ...

German filmmaker Philip Groning looks at domestic violence. By Boyd van Hoeij Director: Philip Gröning Die Frau des Polizisten is described as a "a simple film" that tells the story of a young family ...

At the end of “Into Great Silence,” a one-of-a-kind documentary tracing the life of a community of Carthusian monks over the course of a year, director Philip Groning wryly but lovingly notes that he ...

We can never know what it would have been like to live in a Catholic monastery in the French Alps in 1084 or 1688, but Into Great Silence gives a fair idea. It's like a documentary filmed in the ...

In 2009, two films were released with the title No Greater Love. One, with shades of Fireproof, is an Evangelical-produced drama about marriage woes and recovery. Forget that one. The one I’m ...