Obituaries
Wolfgang Petersen dies; filmmaker rose to fame with ‘Das Boot,’ ‘The Perfect Storm.’
Aug. 16, 2022
Movies
From the fantastic to the action-packed, Petersen, who died Friday at age 81, left a legacy of eminently bingeable movies. Here are several to watch now.
“Shattered” (selected theaters) takes us into the perplexed mind of a partial amnesiac (Tom Berenger), who in the wake of a near-fatal car crash can tell you the name of the San Francisco landmark building in which he works but has no personal memories whatsoever.
Oct. 11, 1991
On the same Culver City soundstage where Judy Garland once skipped down a yellow brick road hoping to find some help in getting home, German director Wolfgang Petersen is now creating another adventure about a person who gets lost in a strange new world.
June 17, 1990
Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot (Channel 13 Sunday at 8 p.m.) is such a tense and stunning World War II adventure, set aboard a German U-boat on a dangerous mission, that its anti-war sentiments become all the stronger when we’re deliberately reminded at the finish that we’ve been rooting for the Germans.
Jan. 27, 1991
A post-”Ishtar” Warren Beatty has been telling the press that he’s serious about working more often.
Nov. 15, 1987
With Clint Eastwood starring as a veteran Secret Service agent in Wolfgang Petersen’s crisply entertaining 1993 movie, the key question is who gets to play the implacable assassin sworn to drop the President.
July 10, 1994
With Clint Eastwood (pictured) starring as a veteran Secret Service agent in Wolfgang Petersen’s crisply entertaining 1993 movie, the key question is, ‘Who gets to play the implacable assassin sworn to drop the President?’
Sept. 10, 1995
Wolfgang Petersen’s The Neverending Story (Channel 13 Sunday at 6 p.m.) is a shimmering, glorious adventure, a beguiling enchantment with a revolutionary message: The most important world is the inner one.
Nov. 12, 1989
Autos
The Petersen Automotive Museum will be home for the next year to the most comprehensive gathering of historic Porsche cars ever assembled outside Germany.
Feb. 2, 2018