Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Holland, whose previous credits include the German drama Europa, Europa and the kiddie-pleaser The Secret Garden, was smart to choose a tight, simple story that allows for a few idiosyncratic touches but matches more closely with her essential narrative conservatism. Recently guilty of filling her films with too many climaxes, the director shows considerable discipline in building the tension between her characters until the drama reaches a critical mass...
Most famous for Europa, Europa, an almost-unclassifiable German historical drama-cum-comic-childhood-memoir, Holland has also directed films ranging from Olivier, Olivier, a French psychological thriller, to Fever, a pro-revolutionary Polish drama, and even found time for the 1994 English-language children's movie The Secret Garden...
Wenders, a German director, filmed The End of Violence on American soil with American actors. (Perhaps he suggesting that there's more "violence" here than in Europe? Let's hope not.) The movie is set in Hollywood, but away from all recognizable landmarks. Movie producer Mike Max (Bill Pullman) and his wife, Paige (Andie MacDowell), live in a house that seems to be located on the edge of the world. The water in their swimming pool laps over its edge and into the Pacific Ocean. Mike spends his mornings teleconferencing with his secretary and barking into a cellular phone while...
...comes in large part from the national pride established over the centuries during which the British Empire was bringing the blessings of parliamentary democracy and overcooked vegetables to vast areas of the world--a pride leading naturally to the assumption that even though the royal family may be essentially German in origin, the currency should be purely English...
Dominican Minister of Higher Education Alejandrina German and the presidents of five of the Dominican Republic's 35 universities-Abraham Hazoury, Roberto Berges, Franklin Holguin, Edylberto Cabral and Radhames Mejia-were among the featured guests...