A period drama from 1981 about Nazi-era Germany speaks to our times, and that is both a testament to its brilliance and a sad statement. Hungarian director Istvan Szabo’s study of the tricky ...

István Szabó, Academy Award-winning director of the 1981 film Mephisto, comes to Bates College to give a lecture titled Close-up: The Art of Film at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, in the Keck Classroom (G52) ...

Hungarian director Istvan Szabo’s Mephisto (1981) is one of the definitive accounts of the links between art and politics. The movie is set in Nazi-era Germany and traces the rise of an actor and ...

When you study the long, infuriating, and infuriatingly long careers of the Third Reich’s major creative figures, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the public doesn’t give a shit about art. The ...