Percy Adlon is up to old tricks in this delightful, witty, artistically vigorous and occasionally loony fantasia about Vienna's cultural elite 100 years ago. By Kirk Honeycutt Mahler on the Couch, ...

Rather than depicting the lives of his subjects in the humdrum manner of most biopics, British director Ken Russell used the full arsenal of cinematic techniques to comment on the great composers in ...

“Bagdad Cafe’s” director Percy Adlon has teamed up with his son Felix and wife Eleonore to develop “Mahler auf der Couch,” a psychological drama about the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler’s life. Set ...

Histrionic bordering on hysterical, “Mahler on the Couch” reduces one of 20th-century music’s greatest figures to a dithering cuckold, his marriage to a feeble feminist allegory, and Sigmund Freud to ...

Late Austrian composer Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony – touted as ‘a great hymn to the glory of all creation’ – is brought to life in this film with choreography, lighting and sets by well-known ...

This imagining of the real-life marriage of Gustav Mahler (Johannes Silberschneider) and his tempestuous wife Alma Schindler Mahler (Barbara Romaner) is a sensory feast of art, sex and celebrity in ...

How lucky that Gustav Mahler and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart never moved in the same social circle (though they both took Vienna by storm, Mozart preceded Mahler by about a century) — it’s likely they ...