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Thursday, May 26th, 2011At the 8th Max Ophüls Prize Festival in 1987, the Interfilm Jury under president Dorothea Moritz awarded its prize to Karl-Heinz Lotz’s Young People In The City. Ron Holloway reviewed the film in KINO 24/25 (1986/87). Winner of the Interfilm Jury award at the Max-Ophüls-Prize festival in Saarbrücken (together with a Purse Award of DM […]
Wolfgang Petersen turns 70
Thursday, May 26th, 2011As a way of marking Wolfgang Petersen’s 70th birthday this spring, KINO – German Film offers extracts of an interview Ron Holloway conducted with the Emden-born director in spring 1984 to discuss the making of The Neverending Story. Sitting with Petersen in a suite of West Berlin’s Hotel Kempinski, Ron described him as the “German director […]
Roundup of April Festivals – from Nyon to Berlin
Thursday, May 26th, 2011Visions du Réel, Nyon (CH) With the new artistic director Luciano Barisone at the helm this year, Nyon’s Visions du Réel documentary film festival (April 7-13) had a greater clarity with three international competitions for feature documentaries, medium-length and short films. German films were among the prize-winners including Sebastian Mez’s Ein Brief aus Deutschland which […]
Alexey Balabanov’s A Stoker wins goEast’s Golden Lily
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011Russian director Alexey Balabanov’s A Stoker (Kochegar) was the top winner at this year’s goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film in Wiesbaden. Thirteen is unlikely for some, but not for Balabanov’s 13th feature which received the festival’s main prize, the € 10,000 Golden Lily, as well as the international film critics’ FIPRESCI Prize. Balabanov had […]
Alex Leo Şerban (1959 – 2011)
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011Whilst attending this year’s goEast festival, the sad news reached us that the Romanian film critic Alex Leo Şerban had passed away on April 8th at the age of 51 after battling with cancer. Şerban was a well known and popular figure on the international festival circuit , regularly attending the festivals in Berlin, Cannes, […]
Vincent Wants To Sea wins gold at German Film Awards
Monday, April 11th, 2011Ralf Huettner’s Vincent Wants To Sea (Vincent will Meer) picked up the Golden Lola for Best Feature Film at this year’s German Film Awards in Berlin. The feelgood comedy about a young man with Tourette’s syndrome, which had been written by actor Florian David Fitz, also attracted the Lola for Best Leading Actor for Fitz who is now […]
Music documentaries at Warsaw Film Festival
Saturday, February 12th, 2011The extensive selection of documentaries unspooling at last year’s Warsaw Film Festival included several features devoted to music, be it one specific genre, artist, band or music scene. Most of them, however, steered away from a traditional approach to offer glimpses into music history of the past, present or possible future. The term of “taqwacore” seems like it […]
DOK Leipzig 2010 – Window on the World
Friday, January 14th, 2011Festival director Claas Danielsen was able to welcome the master director Patricio Guzman from Chile to the opening of the 53rd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (18.-24.10.2010) with his astounding essay from the Atacama Desert , Nostalgia de la luz (Nostalgia For The Light), which was enthusiastically received by the audience. The […]
Polanski’s The Ghost Writer dominates at the 2010 European Film Awards
Friday, December 10th, 2010As Tallinn’s Black Nights Film Festival started winding down, all eyes turned to the 23rd European Film Awards which held in the Estonian capital to bringing the good and the great of European cinema together for their annual celebration of filmmakers from Portugal to Finland, and Ireland to Israel. This year’s edition will go down […]
My Joy and The Poll Diaries triumph in Tallinn
Friday, December 10th, 2010The historical Estonian capital of Tallinn should be on everybody’s list of destinations for any time of the year, but in the weeks up to Christmas, the medieval old town is particularly attractive with its Christmas markets and the whiff of mulled wine in the air. For the past 14 years, another good reason to visit […]
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