“Life is a cabaret, old chum.” Oh wait, wrong show. Or is it? Taking on Percy and Eleonore Adlon’s 1987 movie “Bagdad Cafe,” Emma Rice’s music-filled, uber-quirky production boasts everything from ...

German filmmaker Percy Adlon had an unexpected success in America with his 1985 ”Sugarbaby,” the comic story of an unhappy, overweight Munich woman whose mad love for a handsome subway conductor ...

In Germany, the title ”Out of Rosenheim” is funny; it`s a wordplay on ”Out of Africa.” But few Americans get the joke, so German filmmaker Percy Adlon changed the title of his first American comedy to ...

HIGH DESERT EATS: The Bagdad Café doesn’t look like much. It’s a shacky, rundown place on Old Route 66, in the dusty high desert about 20 miles east of Barstow. The tumble-down motel next door is ...

When he saw Bagdad Cafe, an offbeat comedy set at an isolated truck stop in the California desert, Morton B. Lachman thought, “natural television comedy series,” he said this week. The movie centered ...

At the Bagdad Cafe, the real breakfast/lunch/dinner rush begins at 2. In the morning. As soon as the Castro and SoMa bars and clubs close -- boom -- the place fills up with all kinds of interesting ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. It’s not been that long since I reviewed Percy Adlon’s 1987 film Bagdad Cafe, so I’ll mostly just direct your attention to the ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. There are lots of good reasons to see German director Percy Adlon’s Bagdad Café (1987), but right now two of these reasons seem ...

Dianne de Guzman is the regional editor for Eater’s Northern California/Pacific Northwest sites, writing about restaurant and bar trends, upcoming openings, and pop-ups for the San Francisco Bay Area, ...

“Life is a cabaret, old chum.” Oh wait, wrong show. Or is it? Taking on Percy and Eleonore Adlon’s 1987 movie “Bagdad Cafe,” Emma Rice’s music-filled, uber-quirky production boasts everything from ...