Volker Schlondorff's Cinema: Adaptation, Politics, and the "Movie-Appropriate"
Dialog International (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
There are a few novels I make of point of re-reading every ten years or so: Buddenbrooks, One Hundred Years of Solitude, All the King's Men (the greatest American political novel) and Die Blechtrommel. I am re-reading Die Blechtrommel now,...
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
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 [...]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Film Festivals: Schlondorff, Sanders will receive lifetime achievement kudos -- Cinematography fest Plus Camerimage will honor German helmer Volker Schlondorff and director-writer Terry Sanders at its 17th annual edition, Nov. 28-Dec. 5 in Lodz, Poland.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Blu-Ray Review: Volker Schlöndorff's 1975 drama, part of the StudioCanal Collection, is an impassioned protest against the erosion of civil liberties by the activities of the press and actions of the secret police.
Movie Talk (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
For years, the cognoscenti have agreed on two things about Marcel Proust’s epic 2,500-page, seven-volume semi-autobiographical novel A la recherché du temps perdu – it’s the greatest novel ever written and it’s un-filmable. Over the decades, the challenge of putting Proust on screen has tempted and frustrated an impressively high-calibre list of filmmakers. Luchino Visconti...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Attending a ceremony at the spot just north of Gdansk (Danzig) where hostilities broke out in Europe seventy years ago, Polish president Lech Kaczynski said this : “Westerplatte is a symbol, a symbol of the heroic fight of the weaker against the stronger… It is proof of patriotism and an unbreakable spirit. Glory to the heroes of those days, glory to the heroes of Westerplatte, glory...
Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Death of a Salesman (1985) Director: Volker Schlöndorff By Marilyn Ferdinand My father, born in 1926, grew up during the Great Depression. He was drafted into the Navy during World War II and served on a repair ship in...
Michael Church (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
I never heard the Cypriot pianist Nicolas Economou, killed aged 40 in a car crash in 1993, but I’d heard about him. Friedrich Durrenmatt, Maximilian Schell, Arthur Miller, and Volker Schlondorff were among his (for a musician unexpected) friends; Martha Argerich, with whom he played chamber music, described him as a creature of outstanding intelligence, with a spirit at once warm, fastidious,...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
International News: Film adapted from Garcia Marquez novel -- Danish auteur Henning Carlsen has linked up with Mexico's Memorias del Sabio Producciones for a big-screen adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short novel "Memoria de mis putas tristes."
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 06/06/2009
Despite the bad news that Criterion's planned Blu-rays of Jean-Luc Godard' Contempt [ Le mépris ] and Akira Kurosawa's Ran were scrapped due to the loss of rights, Optimum Releasing in the UK has both, plus a bunch of other exciting titles, set for a Blu-ray release in September. The other titles include: David Lynch's The Elephant Man , Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad [ L'année...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 04/22/2009
DVD Video Review: Gary Couzens has reviewed The Handmaid's Tale, an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, released in the UK by Optimum. This review is dedicated to the memory of Natasha Richardson (1963-2009).
Only The Cinema (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Volker Schlöndorff's first feature Young Törless is a scathing, uncompromising parable, not only for its most obvious reference point, World World II era Germany, but for the moral acquiescence of people everywhere when confronted with violence, brutality and unspeakable cruelty. At a boys' boarding school in the country, the military discipline and regimen of the schedule is matched only...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Kino! at Thirty: New Cinema from Germany, the Museum's 30th annual survey of recent German cinema, from April 22 through 30, 2009. Over the last three decades, MoMA has celebrated new cinema from Germany with an annual presentation of
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 03/30/2009
Paris, March 30 (AP): Oscar-winning composer Maurice Jarre ' who wrote the haunting Lara's Theme from Doctor Zhivago and dozens of other film scores ' has died, a French musicians' guild said today. He was 84.
Jahsonic (Free subscription) | 03/30/2009
Volker Schlöndorff @70 Young Törless Volker Schlöndorff (born in Wiesbaden, Germany on March 31 1939) is a German filmmaker generally categorized in the New German Cinema movement. New German cinema is a period in German cinema which lasted from the late 1960s into the 1980s. It saw the emergence of a new generation of directors. Working with low [...]
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