Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. The “Baader-Meinhof phenomenon,” also known as the “frequency illusion,” occurs ...

MUNICH — This year’s German contender for the best foreign-language film Oscar may have been intended, like the 2007 Oscar winner “The Lives of Others,” to help Germans come to terms with their recent ...

Sorry I missed reviewing “The Baader Meinhof Complex” when it opened last week (now playing at Landmark’s Hillcrest Cinemas) but to talk about it in relationship to a film that just opened, “Flame and ...

How our brains latch onto things when they're brought to our attentionKey TakeawaysThe Baader-Meinhof phenomenon makes you think you see things more often after you first notice them.Selective ...

Before the final moment, he turned on his record player. The album was Eric Clapton's There's One In Every Crowd, the Seventies classic that became known for its interpretation of the negro spiritual ...

Last year we featured a trailer for a German film called Der Baader Meinhof Komplex. It later went on to become nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar even though it still hasn't ...

This week's cinema is notable mainly for offerings of jaw-dropping stupidity. The honourable exception is The Baader Meinhof Complex, an ambitious attempt by director Uli Edel and producer Bernd ...

Among Hollywood’s money men, German film producer Bernd Eichinger is known as the guy who signs the checks for big budget crowd-pleasers like Resident Evil and The Fantastic Four. In Germany, he’s ...

One of the finest films seen at this year’s Santa Barbara International Film Festival, The Baader Meinhof Complex is doubly exotic, as one of the boldest German films of late and as an insight into ...

An explosive performance by Johanna Wokalek gives some relief to an otherwise long and humdrum series of characters, blow-'em-ups and prison locations in German terrorist drama "The Baader Meinhof ...