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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012This year’s Berlinale retrospective sounds promising: The Red Dream Factory. What it is actually about is easy to explain – the most productive and avant-garde years in Soviet film history and its relation to the Weimar Republic – yet hard to describe. The word ›factory‹ relates to the common notion used in the early years […]
Hail the American Mustang!
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 […]
“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 […]
Voices from Vologda
Monday, August 1st, 2011The Moscow International Film Festival had just come to a close when another cinema event – Vologda Independent Cinema from European Screens Festival (VOICES) – opened its doors on July 5th for the second year in a town half-way between the Russian Federation capital and St Petersburg. Part of the UNESCO’s world heritage list, Vologda […]
Boost for Closer Collaboration in Cinema Between Germany and Russia
Monday, July 25th, 2011A year before the Germany-Russia Year of Culture begins and relations between the two countries in the field of cinema have received a major boost in the past few weeks. A start was made at the Moscow Business Square during this year’s Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) when three German film funds – the German […]
TIFF Turns 10 – Cluj’s Transsilvania International Film Festival reaches its first decade
Monday, June 27th, 2011When KINO – German Film’s Ron and Dorothea Holloway attended the first edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in 2002 with Ron as the first jury president, the fledgling event presented a total of 45 films in just two venues. Ten years later, the festival – running from 3-12 June – has expanded into […]
64 Cannes (Teil 1)
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011Prelude: Report by Ron Holloway aus dem Jahre 2007, 60. Festival in Cannes “By all counts, the 60th Festival de Cannes (16-27 May 2007) will go down as one of the best in its distinguished history as the queen of international film festivals. Delegue Artistique Thierry Fremaux achieved a remarkable balance in the Competition, mixing […]
Berlinale 61 by Dorothea Holloway
Thursday, May 26th, 2011See also for German version of this post. An opening with political gravitas. Before he introduced the International Jury, Dieter Kosslick brought an empty chair on to the stage with a sign bearing the name of Jafar Panahi. The Iranian filmmaker, whose Offside was shown at the Berlinale in 2006 when it was awarded a […]
Wim Wenders on his 3D homage to Pina Bausch
Thursday, May 26th, 2011This year’s Berlinale presented the world premiere of Wim Wenders’ new film Pina in an Out-of-Competition screening. KINO – German Film spoke with the director about making Pina. What were the greatest challenges for you working in 3D? Wim Wenders: The thing was: nobody could really tell me much about it. The few people who […]
Tevfik Baser turns 60
Thursday, May 26th, 2011Turkish-German filmmaker Tevfik Baser celebrated his 60th birthday at the beginning of this year. Here is a review by Ron Holloway of Baser’s second feature film Abschied von falschen Paradies (Farewell from a False Paradise) which first appeared in KINO – German Film 33 from 1989. A moving performance by Turkish actress Zuhal Olcay as […]
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