February 19, 2007
Sight & Sound. March 07.
"What I was actually filming was the collapse - the 'fall' - of an increasingly ineffective and impotent protest movement," Peter Whitehead tells Paul Cronin. "As a group, the anti-war activists were fragmenting, crossing some kind of threshold, tipping over into something more radical. The breakdown of legal protest and the shift to calculated political anarchy were just around the corner." Cronin revisits The Fall and Whitehead's abandonment of filmmaking soon after its completion.
Amy Taubin meets Steven Soderbergh to ask him about The Good German, but not before placing this new film within the context of an iconoclastic career, a "filmmaking tear that rivals the speed records of Godard in the 1960s and Fassbinder in the 1970s," a "marathon within the belly of the beast."
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