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Monday, February 13th, 2012Google the word »mustang« and the search engine produces an emotional account of a sleek, well engineered and stylish vehicle with a highly coveted hood emblem showing a racing steed, similar to the Mercedes-Benz star … Now add the word »Horse« and the list of sad refrains and government bureaucracy litters the page. Our civilization […]
Cannes 64
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011This article has been published in three parts in German language (1, 2 & 3) on KINO – German Film online and has been published in the print issue of KINO – German Film No. 101 in October 2011. In 2007, Ron Holloway wrote about Cannes: »By all counts, the 60th Festival de Cannes (16-27 […]
»Lauter Geschenke« – Radu Gabrea’s First Medias Central European Film Festival (MECEFF)
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011In the early 60’s during my first visit to Warsaw, I saw a wonderful performance that I will never ever forget in the Jewish Theatre under the direction of Ida Kaminska. It was the melancholic comedy with music Goldfaden’s Traum. And now the hour-long documentary Goldfaden’s Legacy (2004) by festival director Radu Gabrea was showing […]
Michael Nyman in Progress – a documentary by Silvia Beck
Monday, November 14th, 2011Another subtitle for this film could be Filmmaker in Progress: from the start of the documentary, we see British composer Michael Nyman ready with a camera to take pictures, whether in London, Poland or on tour throughout the world. Probably best known around the world for his film compositions, Nyman wrote his first film score in 1967 for […]
Co-productions with Germany among the winners in Adana
Friday, October 7th, 2011Two Turkish films co-produced with German partners were among the winners at this year’s 18th International Golden Boll Film Festival (Sept 17-25) in Turkey’s fourth largest city Adana. The top award for Best Film with a purse of 350,000 Turkish Lira went to Onur Ünlü’s The Extremely Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His Family. The […]
“Lauter Geschenke.” Zur Premiere von MECEFF – Medias Central European Film Festival
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011In den frühen 60er Jahren sah ich bei meinem ersten Besuch in Warschau eine wunderbare Aufführung im Jüdischen Theater unter der Leitung von Ida Kaminska, die ich nie, nie vergessen werde! Es war das melancholische Lustspiel mit Musik Goldfaden’s Traum. Und jetzt beim MECEFF vom 5. bis 11. September 2011 in Rumänien steht der knapp […]
Gabriela Dumitrescu On Choreographing Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011Gabriela Dumitrescu holds a BA in dance from the London Contemporary Dance School in London After graduating from LCDS, Gabriela worked as a dancer, very soon beginning to choreograph her first pieces. She moved to Berlin and began working as assistant director for a number of theater and opera directors at the Staatsoper Unter den […]
Film Forum Zadar 2011
Monday, September 19th, 2011It’s a year ago now since Sergei Stanojkovski and his team first introduced a new event to the international festival landscape with the launching of the Film Forum Zadar in the historical port on the Adriatic an hour up the coast from Split in Northern Dalmatia. The second edition of the Film Forum was held […]
Strong German presence at 64th Festival del Film Locarno
Friday, September 2nd, 2011German cinema was well represented at this year’s Locarno Film Festival (August 3-13) which was Frenchman Olivier Père’s second outing as artistic director. Three German co-productions – Tawfik Abul Wael’s Last Days In Jerusalem, Julia Loktev’s The Loneliest Planet and Mia Hansen-Love’s Goodbye First Love – were invited to screen in the festival’s International Competition […]
Opening New Horizons in Wroclaw
Friday, August 19th, 2011Just over five hours by EuroCity train from Berlin, the Polish city of Wroclaw was host again in July for the 11th edition of the New Horizons International Film Festival which sold more than 110,000 tickets in its eleven days. As founder Roman Gutek said in his introduction to this year’s catalogue, “from the beginning, […]
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