A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the crown. The intricate assassination plan ended up setting off a ...
Scottish post-punk crossover stars Franz Ferdinand played Orlando for the first time in over 20 years Wednesday night and the packed house was ready for it. First up, young post-everything openers ...
“Franz is a writer who doesn’t like to talk,” says Franz Kafka’s agent in this playful and oddly endearing biopic of the enigmatic Czech author, who died in 1924 aged just 40. Kafka’s output was slim ...
Swirling events from across the Czech writer's life into a prismatic study of his creative frustration and uncontrolled legacy, this ambitious film makes a show of shunning convention but has nothing ...
Poland has selected Agnieszka Holland’s Franz Kafka biopic Franz as its candidate for the Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy awards. News of the selection follows in the wake of the ...
Premiering at TIFF, the 'Green Border' director's non-chronological feature views the Czech-German-Jewish writer's life as if through a crystal prism. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic Given ...
Berlin and Lyon-based sales outfit Films Boutique has announced sales for Agnieszka Holland‘s Kafka biopic “Franz” to additional territories following its world premiere Friday at the Toronto Film ...
The biopic is such a staid genre that any attempt at doing something unique with its form is cause for excitement, if not outright celebration. Franz is that sort of daring endeavor, investigating the ...
TIFF: The Czech literary giant deserves more than this rote, ludicrous hagiography. But these pages are nothing more than solid replicas. They are superficial offerings to a shallow hagiography, an ...
The Houston Symphony and its supporters are remembering the joy, creativity and enthusiasm that former Associate Conductor Robert Franz, who died this week, brought to concert performances. Franz, 57, ...
Some people are unforgettable. Conductor Robert Franz was one of them. He died of cancer this week, and the world lost a passionate lover of classical music who always found a way to share it with ...
Langdon Storer Franz, affectionately known as Don, passed away peacefully on August 28, 2025, at Pardee Hospital in Hendersonville, NC. Born on April 7, 1937, in Garden City, NY, Don lived a ...