Highbrow Lowbrow – Volker Schlöndorff Special

We’ve had a break and now Dan Slattery and I are back with a new episode of our Highbrow Lowbrow podcast. In this episode we look at two films directed by acclaimed German director Volker Schlöndorff.

Dan’s choice is Schlöndorff’s unfairly maligned adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale. The novel and the recent television adaptation have been justly garlanded, but the film is also well worth a look. My pick is a film that barely received a theatrical release. The Ogre is a World War Two epic that few people have seen, and yet it features one of John Malkovich’s finest performances.

Enjoy the show and let us know your thoughts. You can listen to the episode here.

One of the finest and most overlooked war movies – The Ogre.