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Jahrhunderte war die Tollwut für viele Menschen das personifizierte Böse - am 6. Juli 1885 gelang es dem französischen Wissenschaftler Louis Pasteur erstmals erfolgreich ein Mittel gegen den Ausbruch der Krankheit einzusetzen. 

Schnell hatte Propagandaminister Goebbels das Potenzial des jungen Mediums Rundfunk erkannt: "Der Rundfunk gehört uns, niemandem sonst. Und den Rundfunk werden wir in den Dienst unserer Idee stellen, und keine andere Idee soll hier zu Wort kommen." 

Von der Kritik kontrovers diskutiert, bleibt die Faszination der Leser für Hermann Hesse bis heute ungebrochen: Der Autor wird am 2. Juli 1877 im Schwarzwald-Städtchen Calw geboren. 

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Wesley Morris has served as critic at large at The New York Times since 2015, covering film, politics, and pop culture. He joins this week to discuss this year’s Academy Award nominations.  At the top, we discuss the omission of Greta Gerwig from the Best Director category (6:07) ... Show More

C’est un véritable défi que tente de relever ces jours-ci le réalisateur canadien Denis Villeneuve : proposer une adaptation réussie au cinéma de “Dune”, le roman de science-fiction le plus vendu de l’Histoire. Depuis la parution du livre en 1965, premier opus d’une saga galactiq ... Show More

A front-runner for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, Chloé Zhao's 'Nomadland' arrived on Hulu this weekend. Chris Ryan joins Sean and Amanda to discuss one of the year's most powerful films (0:30). Then, the trio head back to 1984 for a throwback movie draft, selecting their fa ... Show More

We're less than a week away from the official start of awards season: Golden Globe nominations. Amanda and Sean share their best guesses in the major categories and defend the honor of Martin Scorsese's 'The Irishman' (4:00). Then, resident 'Frozen' fan Jason Gallagher joins to b ... Show More

With Christopher Nolan now an Oscar-winner, this particular episode of Film Stories begins by zipping back to 2017, when he had a his first serious drive-by of the Academy Awards. That'd be with Dunkirk, the first time he told a true story on film. It took him a long time to be i ... Show More

C'est l'un des plus grands films de guerre de l'histoire du 7e art. "Il faut sauver le soldat Ryan" de Steven Spielberg est sorti en 1998. Une plongée au cœur du débarquement en Normandie en 1944, où des soldats américains ont pour mission de retrouver un soldat dont les trois fr ... Show More

The impact of Pulp Fiction's success in the mid-1990s meant that ensemble films based on scripts from relatively inexperienced writer/directors were on the radar of Hollywood. Step forward James Mangold's Cop Land, which was a quick beneficiary. After an attempt to get John Travo ... Show More