German Film Festival 2009 This is my fourth year attending the German Film Festival at London’s Curzon Soho. This year I was joined by a German friend (my Brother’s girlfriend Andrea). She picked the films, though they were both films that I would likely have seen if I’d gone on my own. Neither of these films has been passed by the BBFC as yet. Effi Briest Dir: Hermine Huntgeburth...
The theme song for this blog entry is ANALYSE by Subeena http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENSfBPtksuQ Analysis of my own list for BEYOND THE CANON's blog: A.COUNTRIES: 1.ARGENTINA Lo Nuestro no Funciona (2003) .. Iván Wolovik & Nicolás Álvarez 2.BURKINA FASO Sarraounia (1986) .. Med Hondo 3.CANADA Tu as crié: Let me go (1997) .. Anne Claire Poirier 4.CZECHOSLOVAKIA A Case...
Editors who worked with renowned film directors such as Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman and Rainer Werner Fassbinder are giving a series of lectures on that speciality in the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, reported sources from this teaching centre, which this year has an enrolment of 117 students from 28 countries.
German director Werner Herzog has been making movies for 40 years, and at this point in his career, the legend very nearly eclipses the man. Herzog eating his shoe on a bet with Errol Morris, rescuing Joaquin Phoenix from an overturned car, and continuing an on-air interview after getting shot with an air rifle (“It was not a significant bullet”)—these are just some of the real-life...
The extras-rich Criterion Collection version of Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire (1987) is perfectly timed to seize the moment. The subject of the film is dividing lines—between fallible humans and the guardian angels who look after them, the living and the dead, the past and the present, real locations and movie sets, and so on. [...]
The 2008 film Der Baader Meinhof Komplex is only now being distributed in cinemas in the US. Christopher Hitchens reviewed it in August at Vanity Fair: Unlike earlier depictions of the same events by German directors such as Volker Schlöndorff and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Uli Edel’s film interrogates and ultimately indicts (and convicts) the West German [...]
-- Big welcome: Gustavo Dudamel made his debut Saturday as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's new music director to a packed Hollywood Bowl crowd. -- Brain trust: LACMA's Michael Govan has joined an advisory panel for the long-planned Eli and Edythe...
A couple of stories from Der Spiegel - not unrelated. First off: Twenty-four years ago, the curtain never quite raised on the Rainer Werner Fassbinder play "Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod." The Jewish community, flexing its muscles for...
Twenty-four years ago, the curtain never quite raised on the Rainer Werner Fassbinder play Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod. The Jewish community, flexing its muscles for one of the first times since World War II, blasted the piece for being anti-Semitic." This week the piece began its debut run in Germany's Rohr Valley. "And, over two decades later, feelings about the play among Germany's...
Despite protests from Jewish groups, the show did go on at last for a Fassbinder play that some had labeled anti-Semitic. The public gave the Germany premiere a warm reception.