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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010German cinema scored a double triumph at this year’s Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF, June 17 – 26) when feature debutant Johannes Naber’s immigration drama The Albanian (Der Albaner) picked up the Special Jury Prize and the “Silver St. George” for Best ActorSfor lead actor Nik Xhelilaj.
Naber’s screenplay, which he wrote with co-authors Christoph Silber [...]
goEast turns 10
Monday, May 17th, 2010Time flies when you are organizing a film festival, but it still seems remarkable that Wiesbaden’s goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film should have already been celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
Immigration, Islam and Berlin – Shahada and Neukoelln Unlimited at the 60th Berlinale
Monday, May 17th, 2010One of the themes dealt with by a number of films at this year’s 60th Berlinale was the lives of Muslims in today’s society. Two of these portrayed Muslims in today’s Berlin – each for themselves, but very much interrelated – one fictional (Shahada), one real (Neukölln Unlimited).
From Tragedy to Comedy … and Back Again. German films at the 9th Tribeca Film Festival
Monday, May 17th, 2010Just like the city itself, the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City has become hot spot for discoveries, especially for emerging filmmakers and documentaries. Now in its 9th year, the 2010 edition featured a substantial German contingent with four feature-length films and one short, each screening in important sections of the festival.
Berlinale Church Service, on February 14 2010
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Berlin’s Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis Church on Breitscheidplatz opposite the Zoo Palast Cinema will host a special church service for Berlinale visitors on Sunday, February 14, at 10.00.
The service will also pay homage to the late film critic Ron Holloway, including a reading from Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians by his widow Dorothea Moritz. The local [...]
Requiem for Ron
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010Friends and colleagues gathered at the Arsenal-Kino at Potsdamer Platz last Sunday (January 24) to remember the life and work of Ron Holloway.
The idea for the Requiem for Ronald Holloway had come from two close friends of Ron and Dorothea Holloway, Andreas Dobers, board member of X Verleih AG, and Wilhelm Faber, special programme [...]
Ron Holloway 1933 - 2009
Thursday, December 17th, 2009The international film festival circuit will not be the same following the sad news that the veteran film historian, critic and filmmaker Ron Holloway has died in Berlin at the age of 76.
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Politika, Belgrade
Der Tagesspiegel
DIE WELT
Berliner Zeitung
Screendaily
The Hollywood Reporter
Variety
Movingpictures Magazine
WACC Global
Indian Television.
wallwritings.wordpress.com
Drama Filmfestival
www.dinaview.com
dobanevinosti.blogspot.com
http://www.vdfk.de/
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries
SIGNIS – World Catholic Association for Communication
www.guenter-reisch.de
www.simesite.net
www.dok-leipzig.de
VDFK Honorary Award for Ron Holloway
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009The Honorary Award of the German Film Critics’ Association (VDFK) goes this year to the film journalist, film historian and documentary filmmaker Ron Holloway. Hailing from Chicago, he came to Europe four decades ago and began working as a critic for such trade papers as Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Moving Pictures.
Musikstadt Berlin 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008For musicians and music-lovers Berlin is truly a mecca. The city has three operas on the Spree. No, four – I almost forgot the Neuköllner Oper! Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle, and Kent Nagano are splendid attractions. Here, the Berliner Philharmonic and the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin celebrate world-wide triumphs. Also, the Konzerthaus Berlin on [...]
Musikstadt Leipzig 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008Beyond doubt, the secret “music city” in Germany is Leipzig. Here, the Gewandhaus Orchestra makes its home under Intendant/director Prof. Andreas Schulz. Its Kapellmeister is Ricardo Chailly, the “honorary conductor” is the world famous Kurt Mazur. Further, it was at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften (Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Neurological Research) that [...]
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