Midsommar!Witchfinder General!The Blood on Satan's Claw!The Wicker Man! '73! And a lil '06 as a treat!No Derrida, though. Gonna have to wait for Derrida.

Nazi, dissident, victim… Josef von Sternberg’s cabaret classic The Blue Angel had three stars: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, and Kurt Gerron. As the Weimar Era ended and the Third Reich began, fate brought them—and all of Germany—to a crossroads. What would they choose, and what choices...

As the 1920s became the 1930s, both the Lang-von Harbou marriage and German democracy itself teetered on the edge of collapse. In this moment of personal and political chaos, the couple made movies—and choices—that would define their legacies. For show notes and other supporting information,...