Gloomy Sunday: Drama. Starring Erika Marozsan, Joachim Krol, Stefano Dionisi and Ben Becker. Directed by Rolf Schubel. (R. 114 minutes. In German with English subtitles. At Bay Area theaters.) "Gloomy ...

Could a song kill you? It sounds like the premise of a horror film, but for decades, "Gloomy Sunday" has carried exactly that reputation. Written in Hungary in the 1930s, this haunting composition ...

“Gloomy Sunday” is the English title for the German-Hungarian film that translates more aptly as “A Song of Love and Death.” But under either name it is a movie of exceptional visual and dramatic ...

The opening shot of the 1999 German/Hungarian co-production Gloomy Sunday is one that frames the very un-gloomy skyline of Budapest, Hungary, before it takes a slow ride down the cobblestone streets ...

Surely the most unabashedly romantically tragic and melodramatically fanciful Holocaust tragedy to date, Rolf Schubel's "Gloomy Sunday" draws its name from the weepy, grandly melancholy 1933 Hungarian ...

Gloomy Sunday [Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod], directed by Rolf Schübel, written by Schübel and Ruth Toma, based on the novel by Nick Barkow; In America, directed by Jim Sheridan, written by Sheridan, ...

It’s said that music has the power to transform. But what if the transformation is death? Death by suicide? On the latest installment of Global Notes with Morning Shift and Radio M host Tony Sarabia, ...

In 1941 Billie Holiday recorded "Gloomy Sunday," a powerful I song about feeling depressed on Sunday. "Sunday is gloomy," the song begins, "my hours are slumberless / Dearest the shadows I live with ...

SG Wannabe Chae Dong Ha’s suicide sent shockwaves throughout the Kpop world but some people are pointing at an interesting source for the singer’s alleged depression. “Gloomy Sunday” was a song that ...

Illya Darling is a 15-watt musical with one trace of Greek fire—Melina Mercouri. She plays furiously across the footlights to keep audiences from realizing that there is nothing behind them. Flaccidly ...