Archive for August, 2008
« Previous Entries Next Entries »Wallflower Press – Key Film Reference Books 2004-2008
Monday, August 25th, 2008The Wallflower Press film publications are valuable resource and reference books on the national cinematographies. Herewith reviews on theIan Haydn Smith’s edited International Film Guide (2008), John Cunningham’s Hungarian Cinema – From Coffee House to Multiplex (2004), and Dina Iordanova’s edited The Cinema of the Balkans (2006).
From Filmverlag der Autoren to New German Cinema
Sunday, August 24th, 2008When Dominik Wessely’s documentary Gegenschuss – Aufbruch der Filmemacher (Germany, 2008), a Kinowelt film production, was screened in the middle of the 58th Berlin International Film Festival (7-17 February 2008) as a “Berlinale Special,” it prompted lengthy essays in the press and talkshows on television. Indeed, Reverse Angle – Rebellion of the Filmmakers scored as […]
Die Kinder von Golzow – KINO Film of the Year 2008
Sunday, August 24th, 2008The story of Barbara and Winfried Junge’s Die Kinder von Golzow, the longest running documentary portrait in the history of the cinema, began in August of 1961 right after the erection of the Berlin Wall and fence separating two Germanys. The idea for The Children of Golzow came from Karl Gass at the DEFA Documentary […]
Rubljowka – Russian Tenderloin for Millionaires
Sunday, August 24th, 2008One wonders how Irene Langemann ever got permission to shoot her stunning documentary Rubljowka – Strasse zur Glückseligkeit in the first place! But since the German-Russian filmmaker was born in Siberia, worked in Moscow as an actress and filmmaker before emigrating to Germany in 1990, she knows her way around the Russian ministries. Still, Rublyovka […]
Für den unbekannten Hund – Guild Brotherhood Saga
Sunday, August 24th, 2008For even the best informed cineaste, Für den unbekannten Hund (Germany, 2007) by the brothers Benjamin und Dominik Reding handles an unusual and fascinating theme – the wandering Gesellenbruderschaften (Guild Journeymen Brotherhoods). You notice them at road-crossings, bus-stops, gas-stations, fast-food-counters, just about anywhere on the open roads in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. And you spot […]
20th Filmfest Dresden – Screenings in Berlin 2008
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Filmfest Dresden Preview in Berlin Thanks again to Filmfest Dresden director Robin Malick, Berliners were treated on 1 April 2008 to a preview to the 20th Dresden International Short Film Festival (15-20 April 2008) in the Vertretung des Freistaates Sachsen in Berlin-Mitte, a welcomed opportunity for cineastes and public alike to preview some of the […]
4th Achtung Berlin! – New Berlin Film Award 2008
Thursday, August 21st, 2008The Fourth Achtung Berlin! – New Berlin Film Award (16-22 April 2008) under Hajo Schäfer added on extra screenings to accommodate an overall attendance topping 10,000 at Kino Babylon. Indeed, Achtung Berlin has become an vital showcase of films produced in Berlin and surrounding Land Brandenburg. This year, five juries were summoned to decide on […]
Hungarian director Benedek Fliegauf in goEast-DVD-Edition
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Hungarian director Benedek Fliegauf was honored at the 8th goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film in Wiesbaden with goEast-DVD-Edition. Benedek Fliegauf likes to observe colleagues of his own generation: young people, whose teenager years in Budapest had been changed by the political Wende.
Sergei Parajanov Retrospective at goEast Festival 2008
Thursday, August 21st, 2008The 8th goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Films in Wiesbaden (9-15 April 2008) focused as usual on questions of current national sensibility and historical status. The complementary sidebar paid homage to the Armenian Sergei Parajanov: his masterful Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (USSR, 1964), Sayat Nova (USSR, 1969), The Legend of Suram Fortress […]
18th Tromsö International Film Festival 2008
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Wacken is known the world over – thanks to Sung-Hyung Cho’s oft-awarded documentary Full Metal Village (Germany, 2007) about down-home inhabitants of a Schleswig-Holstein village that annually transforms itself for an August weekend into the capital of the Heavy Metal Scene. At the 18th Tromsö International Film Festival (15-20 January 2008), the world’s northern-most festival […]
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