Enfant Terrible, Based On The Life Of New Wave Filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbender, Releases In Theaters From May 7 From Dark Star Pictures Enfant Terrible, the biopic of iconic German New Wave director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, commences in select theaters this May – June from Dark Star Pictures. From director Oskar Roehler, and starring Oliver …
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- 5/7/2021
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
Following on the heels (and somewhat novelty) of art-film director biopics Pasolini and Godard Mon Amour comes Enfant Terrible, which spans fifteen years in the life of the notorious Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Breathlessly running through a multitude of his films and strained interpersonal relationships in the span of 134 minutes, the film feels more concerned with hitting the major beats of a Wikipedia page than actually creating a fully formed cinematic character. À la David Fincher’s own highly inert showbiz-tale misfire Mank, one wonders what the specific point of this actually was in the first place.
Spanning from his early days in Munich’s avant-garde theatre to pathetic final moments on earth, the banalization of the great director and monstrous man’s life can’t help feeling like something of an insult. With a life dedicated to cinema, churning out three to five films per year, Fassbinder still found the...
Spanning from his early days in Munich’s avant-garde theatre to pathetic final moments on earth, the banalization of the great director and monstrous man’s life can’t help feeling like something of an insult. With a life dedicated to cinema, churning out three to five films per year, Fassbinder still found the...
- 5/7/2021
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
An official selection of the Cannes That Didn’t Happen, a new biopic exploring the life of one of the most prolific directors of all-time, German New Wave icon Rainer Werner Fassbinder, is now coming to the U.S. starting this week. Directed by Oskar Roehler, the new trailer for Enfant Terrible has now arrived courtesy of Dark Star Pictures.
Starring Oliver Masucci, Hary Prinz, Katja Riemann, and Felix Hellmann, the film explores the drug-fueled, limitlessly creative life of the director. Before his death at the age of 37, Fassbinder had made over 40 films and two TV series, as well as completing nearly 25 plays, and more. The trailer hints at a committed performance by Masucci, in what will hopefully be a compelling rise and fall story that sidesteps biopic cliches.
Watch the new trailer below.
Enfant Terrible opens in Virtual Cinemas on May 7 followed by a VOD and DVD release on...
Starring Oliver Masucci, Hary Prinz, Katja Riemann, and Felix Hellmann, the film explores the drug-fueled, limitlessly creative life of the director. Before his death at the age of 37, Fassbinder had made over 40 films and two TV series, as well as completing nearly 25 plays, and more. The trailer hints at a committed performance by Masucci, in what will hopefully be a compelling rise and fall story that sidesteps biopic cliches.
Watch the new trailer below.
Enfant Terrible opens in Virtual Cinemas on May 7 followed by a VOD and DVD release on...
- 5/3/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Lgbtiq+ film festival comprises 26 features and four world premieres.
BFI Flare: London Lgbtiq+ Film Festival has revealed the programme for its 35th edition, which will take place virtually from March 17-28.
The festival has selected 26 features, which include four world premieres, six international premieres and one European premiere.
Scroll down for full list of titles
Receiving their world premieres are Peeter Rebane’s Firebird, a love story set in the Soviet Air Force during the Cold War; Daniel Sánchez López’s German feature Boy Meets Boy, about two young men who fall for each other over the course of a...
BFI Flare: London Lgbtiq+ Film Festival has revealed the programme for its 35th edition, which will take place virtually from March 17-28.
The festival has selected 26 features, which include four world premieres, six international premieres and one European premiere.
Scroll down for full list of titles
Receiving their world premieres are Peeter Rebane’s Firebird, a love story set in the Soviet Air Force during the Cold War; Daniel Sánchez López’s German feature Boy Meets Boy, about two young men who fall for each other over the course of a...
- 2/23/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Berlin-based Picture Tree International, which is participating in this week’s Ventana Sur, has announced a swathe of deals on its sales slate, including a pact with HBO for U.S. rights on Mexican comedy “Go Youth,” which premiered locally at Morelia Film Festival recently.
Carlos Armella’s movie tells the intertwined stories of four teenagers struggling with the absurdities of life and rebelling against the adult world.
“Enfant Terrible,” selected for Cannes Official Selection this year, has added to previously announced sales with a deal with Encripta for all Latin America. The film, directed by Oskar Roehler, is about the life of German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Deals have been closed for Norwegian romantic comedy “Diana’s Wedding” – Charlotte Blom’s bittersweet tribute to love – with Limelight for Australia and New Zealand, HBO Europe for Eastern Europe, and Ads for Hungary. Pti has received offers for the film from the U.
Carlos Armella’s movie tells the intertwined stories of four teenagers struggling with the absurdities of life and rebelling against the adult world.
“Enfant Terrible,” selected for Cannes Official Selection this year, has added to previously announced sales with a deal with Encripta for all Latin America. The film, directed by Oskar Roehler, is about the life of German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Deals have been closed for Norwegian romantic comedy “Diana’s Wedding” – Charlotte Blom’s bittersweet tribute to love – with Limelight for Australia and New Zealand, HBO Europe for Eastern Europe, and Ads for Hungary. Pti has received offers for the film from the U.
- 12/3/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The festival is underway in Estonia with 80 international guests in town.
When the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia opened last Thursday November 12, festival director Tiina Lokk stood in front of a socially-distanced, fully masked audience at the Coca-Cola Plaza cinema before a gala screening of Oskar Roehler’s Rainer Werner Fassbinder biopic Enfant Terrible.
Images were streamed around the world to accredited guests. For as has become commonplace in 2020, the festival is taking place as a hybrid event this year, with around 80 international guests, down from 1,500 last year.
But on opening night, Lokk admits she was unnerved; after...
When the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia opened last Thursday November 12, festival director Tiina Lokk stood in front of a socially-distanced, fully masked audience at the Coca-Cola Plaza cinema before a gala screening of Oskar Roehler’s Rainer Werner Fassbinder biopic Enfant Terrible.
Images were streamed around the world to accredited guests. For as has become commonplace in 2020, the festival is taking place as a hybrid event this year, with around 80 international guests, down from 1,500 last year.
But on opening night, Lokk admits she was unnerved; after...
- 11/20/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
When the first coronavirus lockdown went into effect in Estonia this spring, the organizers of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival—the leading cinema event in the Baltics, which unspools Nov. 13-29 with a hybrid edition—knew they had ample time to prepare for when and how the curtain would rise this fall. For festival director Tiina Lokk, there was never any doubt that a physical event should go on, even as she realized that “this virus will shift paradigms,” the Black Nights topper tells Variety.
The explosive spread of coronavirus across the globe has been impossible to predict, and Lokk says planning this year’s festival was like “solving a math equation with endless unknown variables on the one hand, and like sitting on a time-bomb on the other.” But as the festival’s industry arm, Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, shifted to a digital edition, and a VOD platform...
The explosive spread of coronavirus across the globe has been impossible to predict, and Lokk says planning this year’s festival was like “solving a math equation with endless unknown variables on the one hand, and like sitting on a time-bomb on the other.” But as the festival’s industry arm, Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, shifted to a digital edition, and a VOD platform...
- 11/10/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Exploring wide-ranging global themes, from poverty, migration, political strife and fascism to art and romance, German sales companies are presenting an eclectic offering of local and international cinematic works at this year’s AFM.
Social dramas and political thrillers reflect both the current zeitgeist and historical parallels of similarly troubled times.
In Marcus Lenz’s “Rival,” a 9-year-old Ukrainian boy travels to Germany to be with his mother, who has been forced to leave her country to work as an undocumented caretaker for an old man.
Producers Gunter Hanfgarn and Andrea Ufer of Berlin-based Hanfgarn & Ufer say they were intrigued by Lenz’s story from the start, noting that it is “set against the backdrop of two problems we see in a lot of Western countries — the nursing crisis and poverty emigration.” Sold internationally by Pluto Film, “Rival” is screening at AFM following its world premiere at this year’s Busan Film Festival.
Social dramas and political thrillers reflect both the current zeitgeist and historical parallels of similarly troubled times.
In Marcus Lenz’s “Rival,” a 9-year-old Ukrainian boy travels to Germany to be with his mother, who has been forced to leave her country to work as an undocumented caretaker for an old man.
Producers Gunter Hanfgarn and Andrea Ufer of Berlin-based Hanfgarn & Ufer say they were intrigued by Lenz’s story from the start, noting that it is “set against the backdrop of two problems we see in a lot of Western countries — the nursing crisis and poverty emigration.” Sold internationally by Pluto Film, “Rival” is screening at AFM following its world premiere at this year’s Busan Film Festival.
- 11/9/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Films Boutique sells German-French co-production.
Julia von Heinz’s political drama And Tomorrow The Entire World has been selected by an independent jury of experts to represent Germany in the best international feature film category for the 93rd Oscars on April 25, 2021.
The German-French co-production between Seven Elephants, Kings & Queens Filmproduktion, and Haiku Films beat off competition from such films as the Berlinale competition entries Berlin Alexanderplatz and Undine, as well as Oskar Roehler’s Fassbinder biopic Enfant Terrible.
And Tomorrow The Entire World – which is being handled internationally by Films Boutique – received its world premiere in competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival,...
Julia von Heinz’s political drama And Tomorrow The Entire World has been selected by an independent jury of experts to represent Germany in the best international feature film category for the 93rd Oscars on April 25, 2021.
The German-French co-production between Seven Elephants, Kings & Queens Filmproduktion, and Haiku Films beat off competition from such films as the Berlinale competition entries Berlin Alexanderplatz and Undine, as well as Oskar Roehler’s Fassbinder biopic Enfant Terrible.
And Tomorrow The Entire World – which is being handled internationally by Films Boutique – received its world premiere in competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival,...
- 10/28/2020
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
German Films has released a list of ten films that were submitted by German producers for consideration to become the country’s International Feature Oscar contender.
Among the front-runners for selection are likely to be Julia Von Heinz’s And Tomorrow The Entire World, Caroline Link’s When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Burhan Qurbani’s Berlin Alexanderplatz and Christian Petzold’s Undine.
The ten films:
• When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit – Caroline Link (Sommerhaus Filmproduktion)
• Berlin Alexanderplatz – Burhan Qurbani (Sommerhaus Filmproduktion)
• Crescendo #Makemusicnotwar – Dror Zahavi (Ccc-Filmkunst)
• Curveball – Johannes Naber (Bon Voyage Films)
• A Wet Dog – Damir Lukacevic (Carte Blanche International)
• Enfant Terrible – Oskar Roehler (Bavaria Filmproduktion)
• Fritzi – A Revolutionary Tale – Ralf Kukula, Matthias Brun (Balance Film)
• I’Ve Never Been To New York – Philipp Stölzl (Ziegler Film/UFA Fiction)
• Undine – Christian Petzold (Schramm Film Koerner + Weber)
• And Tomorrow The Entire World – Julia von Heinz (Seven Elephant Pictures)
An independent jury will select the German contender,...
Among the front-runners for selection are likely to be Julia Von Heinz’s And Tomorrow The Entire World, Caroline Link’s When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Burhan Qurbani’s Berlin Alexanderplatz and Christian Petzold’s Undine.
The ten films:
• When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit – Caroline Link (Sommerhaus Filmproduktion)
• Berlin Alexanderplatz – Burhan Qurbani (Sommerhaus Filmproduktion)
• Crescendo #Makemusicnotwar – Dror Zahavi (Ccc-Filmkunst)
• Curveball – Johannes Naber (Bon Voyage Films)
• A Wet Dog – Damir Lukacevic (Carte Blanche International)
• Enfant Terrible – Oskar Roehler (Bavaria Filmproduktion)
• Fritzi – A Revolutionary Tale – Ralf Kukula, Matthias Brun (Balance Film)
• I’Ve Never Been To New York – Philipp Stölzl (Ziegler Film/UFA Fiction)
• Undine – Christian Petzold (Schramm Film Koerner + Weber)
• And Tomorrow The Entire World – Julia von Heinz (Seven Elephant Pictures)
An independent jury will select the German contender,...
- 10/16/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
“Enfant Terrible,” which received the Cannes 2020 label, is set to start its international journey with its first distribution deals announced as it joins the international festival circuit. The film, directed by Oskar Roehler, is about the life of German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
The German film, which received its local festival premiere at the Hamburg Film Festival, was released on home turf by Weltkino on Oct. 1. The biopic is set to start its international life with upcoming premieres at the festivals in Ghent (in competition), Istanbul (as a Gala screening) and Seville (in competition).
“Enfant Terrible” opened the German Film Festival in Paris on Oct. 7, and screened in the Masters section of the Moscow Film Festival on Oct. 7, and has received a nomination for the European Film Awards.
Alongside various ongoing and advanced negotiations, sales agent Picture Tree Intl. has announced the film’s first deals, including in the U.
The German film, which received its local festival premiere at the Hamburg Film Festival, was released on home turf by Weltkino on Oct. 1. The biopic is set to start its international life with upcoming premieres at the festivals in Ghent (in competition), Istanbul (as a Gala screening) and Seville (in competition).
“Enfant Terrible” opened the German Film Festival in Paris on Oct. 7, and screened in the Masters section of the Moscow Film Festival on Oct. 7, and has received a nomination for the European Film Awards.
Alongside various ongoing and advanced negotiations, sales agent Picture Tree Intl. has announced the film’s first deals, including in the U.
- 10/9/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The 25th German Cinema Film festival, organised by German Films, opens tomorrow in the French capital. Recipient of the Cannes 2020 Official Selection label, Oskar Roehler’s Enfant terrible revisits via fiction Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s early days as a theatre director, and will open the 25th German Cinema Film Festival tomorrow. The event, taking place until 13 October in Paris, at the Arlequin cinema, is organised by German Films in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, and will feature a selection of 13 feature films representing the diversity of the recent German production. Standing out among the eight other titles in the Panorama programme are six films directed by women: I Was at Home, but... by Angela Schanelec, Maryam Zaree’s Born in Evin (winner of the Lola 2020 award for Best Documentary), Daphne...
Some 14,000 cinema-goers attended physical screenings across hybrid 10-day event.
Nearly 14,000 cinema-goers attended screenings during the 10 days of this year’s Filmfest Hamburg, which came to a close with the German premiere of Chloé Zhao’s Golden Lion winner Nomadland on Sunday October 4.
A total of 13,690 admissions were posted across the Filmfest’s five cinema venues, which corresponds to almost a third of the previous year’s attendance. Festival director Albert Wiederspiel declared himself “very pleased” with this result, since each cinema could only have a maximum seating capacity of 30% and the festival programme had been reduced by almost half of...
Nearly 14,000 cinema-goers attended screenings during the 10 days of this year’s Filmfest Hamburg, which came to a close with the German premiere of Chloé Zhao’s Golden Lion winner Nomadland on Sunday October 4.
A total of 13,690 admissions were posted across the Filmfest’s five cinema venues, which corresponds to almost a third of the previous year’s attendance. Festival director Albert Wiederspiel declared himself “very pleased” with this result, since each cinema could only have a maximum seating capacity of 30% and the festival programme had been reduced by almost half of...
- 10/5/2020
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
This was the original release weekend for ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ before its Covid-induced delay.
France, Wednesday, September 30
French comedy My Cousin by Jan Kounen was the biggest release of the week in France on just under 700 prints for Pathé. Vincent Lindon stars as the uptight chief of a family business empire on a mission to get his wayward cousin, who owns half its shares, to sign off on a mega-deal.
Cannes 2020 label feature animation Josep was the second widest launch on 200 prints for Sophie Dulac Distribution. This was followed by Israeli-French drama The End Of Love by Keren Ben Rafael...
France, Wednesday, September 30
French comedy My Cousin by Jan Kounen was the biggest release of the week in France on just under 700 prints for Pathé. Vincent Lindon stars as the uptight chief of a family business empire on a mission to get his wayward cousin, who owns half its shares, to sign off on a mega-deal.
Cannes 2020 label feature animation Josep was the second widest launch on 200 prints for Sophie Dulac Distribution. This was followed by Israeli-French drama The End Of Love by Keren Ben Rafael...
- 10/2/2020
- by Ben Dalton¬Martin Blaney¬Gabriele Niola¬Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Six further titles include Thomas Vinterberg’s ‘Another Round’.
The European Film Awards has added six final titles to this year’s selection. They are Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round; Oskar Roehler’s Enfant Terrible; Charlene Favier’s Slalom; Francois Ozon’s Summer Of 85; Emmanuel Courcol’s The Big Hit; and Milcho Manchevski’s Willow.
All received a Cannes 2020 label earlier this year, with the exception of Willow, which premiered at last year’s Rome Film Fest.
They join the 32 features announced in August, when the European Film Academy said it would reveal a second wave of “pandemic year” titles,...
The European Film Awards has added six final titles to this year’s selection. They are Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round; Oskar Roehler’s Enfant Terrible; Charlene Favier’s Slalom; Francois Ozon’s Summer Of 85; Emmanuel Courcol’s The Big Hit; and Milcho Manchevski’s Willow.
All received a Cannes 2020 label earlier this year, with the exception of Willow, which premiered at last year’s Rome Film Fest.
They join the 32 features announced in August, when the European Film Academy said it would reveal a second wave of “pandemic year” titles,...
- 10/2/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The festival is showcasing first films by Moritz Bleibtreu, Bjarne Mädel,Fanny Liatard, Jeremy Trouilh and Suzanne Lindon.
The 28th edition of Filmfest Hamburg opened on Thursday evening with the premiere of Oskar Roehler’s tribute to New German Cinema’s iconic director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Enfant Terrible,. It closes on October 3 with this year’s Golden Lion winner Nomadland by Chloé Zhao.
Festival director Albert Wiederspiel, who is celebrating his 17th year in the role, explains how he hopes the festival will help to bring audiences back to cinemas, how the event has adapted to the city’s social...
The 28th edition of Filmfest Hamburg opened on Thursday evening with the premiere of Oskar Roehler’s tribute to New German Cinema’s iconic director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Enfant Terrible,. It closes on October 3 with this year’s Golden Lion winner Nomadland by Chloé Zhao.
Festival director Albert Wiederspiel, who is celebrating his 17th year in the role, explains how he hopes the festival will help to bring audiences back to cinemas, how the event has adapted to the city’s social...
- 9/25/2020
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The festival is showcasing first films by Moritz Bleibtreu, Bjarne Mädel,Fanny Liatard, Jeremy Trouilh and Suzanne Lindon.
The 28th edition of Filmfest Hamburg opened on Thursday evening with the premiere of Oskar Roehler’s tribute to New German Cinema’s iconic director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Enfant Terrible,. It closes on October 3 with this year’s Golden Lion winner Nomadland by Chloé Zhao.
Festival director Albert Wiederspiel, who is celebrating his 17th year in the role, explains how he hopes the festival will help to bring audiences back to cinemas, how the event has adapted to the city’s social...
The 28th edition of Filmfest Hamburg opened on Thursday evening with the premiere of Oskar Roehler’s tribute to New German Cinema’s iconic director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Enfant Terrible,. It closes on October 3 with this year’s Golden Lion winner Nomadland by Chloé Zhao.
Festival director Albert Wiederspiel, who is celebrating his 17th year in the role, explains how he hopes the festival will help to bring audiences back to cinemas, how the event has adapted to the city’s social...
- 9/25/2020
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The festival is showcasing first films by Moritz Bleibtreu, Bjarne Mädel,Fanny Liatard, Jeremy Trouilh and Suzanne Lindon.
The 28th edition of Filmfest Hamburg opened on Thursday evening with the premiere of Oskar Roehler’s tribute to New German Cinema’s iconic director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Enfant Terrible,. It closes on October 3 with this year’s Golden Lion winner Nomadland by Chloé Zhao.
Festival director Albert Wiederspiel, who is celebrating his 17th year in the role, explains how he hopes the festival will help to bring audiences back to cinemas, how the event has adapted to the city’s social...
The 28th edition of Filmfest Hamburg opened on Thursday evening with the premiere of Oskar Roehler’s tribute to New German Cinema’s iconic director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Enfant Terrible,. It closes on October 3 with this year’s Golden Lion winner Nomadland by Chloé Zhao.
Festival director Albert Wiederspiel, who is celebrating his 17th year in the role, explains how he hopes the festival will help to bring audiences back to cinemas, how the event has adapted to the city’s social...
- 9/25/2020
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The German festival opens tonight with the premiere of Oskar Roehler’s Enfant Terrible.
The international premiere of Enfant Terrible, Oskar Roehler’s tribute to the legendary New German Cinema director Rainer Werner Fassbinder kicks off the mostly physical edition of the Filmfest Hamburg in Germany today, September 24.
Enfant Terrible was the only German film to be selected for this year’s Cannes 2020 label and Hamburg is the first time the film will screen in front of a live audience. Weltkino is releasing in German cinemas from October 1.
Roehler will be in town for the opening night of the mostly physical festival.
The international premiere of Enfant Terrible, Oskar Roehler’s tribute to the legendary New German Cinema director Rainer Werner Fassbinder kicks off the mostly physical edition of the Filmfest Hamburg in Germany today, September 24.
Enfant Terrible was the only German film to be selected for this year’s Cannes 2020 label and Hamburg is the first time the film will screen in front of a live audience. Weltkino is releasing in German cinemas from October 1.
Roehler will be in town for the opening night of the mostly physical festival.
- 9/24/2020
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The German festival opens tonight with the premiere of Oskar Roehler’s Enfant Terrible.
The international premiere of Enfant Terrible, Oskar Roehler’s tribute to the legendary New German Cinema director Rainer Werner Fassbinder kicks off the mostly physical edition of the Hamburg Filmfest in Germany today, September 24.
Enfant Terrible was the only German film to be selected for this year’s Cannes 2020 label and Hamburg is the first time the film will screen in front of a live audience. Weltkino is releasing in German cinemas from October 1.
Roehler will be in town for the opening night of the mostly physical festival.
The international premiere of Enfant Terrible, Oskar Roehler’s tribute to the legendary New German Cinema director Rainer Werner Fassbinder kicks off the mostly physical edition of the Hamburg Filmfest in Germany today, September 24.
Enfant Terrible was the only German film to be selected for this year’s Cannes 2020 label and Hamburg is the first time the film will screen in front of a live audience. Weltkino is releasing in German cinemas from October 1.
Roehler will be in town for the opening night of the mostly physical festival.
- 9/24/2020
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Caracas-based Veloz Distribución may be the only Venezuelan company attending Cannes’s Marché du Film this year, but the five-year-old shingle has some impressive film and TV projects in development, including the latest work by celebrated auteur Román Chalbaud.
Headed by actress Elaiza Gil and writer-director Edgar Rocca, Veloz is also in the process of launching VelozStreaming, a new VOD service described as “more of a virtual cinema” and “a little in the spirit of Mubi.” The company is on the lookout for films for the platform as well as for another new Venezuelan streaming service, Click a Cine, established by a group of filmmakers, producers and actors, among them producer Carlos Malavé.
Chalbaud, the iconic Venezuelan filmmaker whose debut feature, “Adolescence of Cain,” premiered in San Sebastian in 1959 alongside Alfred Hitchcock’s “North By Northwest,” is next directing “Violence,” a film about femicide, feminism and political corruption.
Chalbuad, says Rocca,...
Headed by actress Elaiza Gil and writer-director Edgar Rocca, Veloz is also in the process of launching VelozStreaming, a new VOD service described as “more of a virtual cinema” and “a little in the spirit of Mubi.” The company is on the lookout for films for the platform as well as for another new Venezuelan streaming service, Click a Cine, established by a group of filmmakers, producers and actors, among them producer Carlos Malavé.
Chalbaud, the iconic Venezuelan filmmaker whose debut feature, “Adolescence of Cain,” premiered in San Sebastian in 1959 alongside Alfred Hitchcock’s “North By Northwest,” is next directing “Violence,” a film about femicide, feminism and political corruption.
Chalbuad, says Rocca,...
- 6/26/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
German cinema looks set for an exciting year with forthcoming works that include a high-profile Cannes selection celebrating one of Germany’s most iconic filmmakers, an expressionistic thriller set in 1920s Vienna, a tale of Nazi seduction and a new Thomas Mann adaptation.
The Covid-19 pandemic dashed the excitement of a splashy Cannes premiere for Oskar Roehler’s “Enfant Terrible,” part of the festival’s Official Selection, but the film is nevertheless certain to generate buzz with its portrayal of legendary filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and his turbulent film career that spanned 1969 to 1982.
In making the film, Roehler found inspiration in Fassbinder’s own work.
“We didn’t want to do your standard biopic,” says producer Markus Zimmer, managing director of Bavaria Filmproduktion. “I think we did come very close to what Fassbinder would have made out of his own life. We tried to be in line with the artistic...
The Covid-19 pandemic dashed the excitement of a splashy Cannes premiere for Oskar Roehler’s “Enfant Terrible,” part of the festival’s Official Selection, but the film is nevertheless certain to generate buzz with its portrayal of legendary filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and his turbulent film career that spanned 1969 to 1982.
In making the film, Roehler found inspiration in Fassbinder’s own work.
“We didn’t want to do your standard biopic,” says producer Markus Zimmer, managing director of Bavaria Filmproduktion. “I think we did come very close to what Fassbinder would have made out of his own life. We tried to be in line with the artistic...
- 6/24/2020
- by Shalini Dore
- Variety Film + TV
The Cannes Marché du Film, along with a sales initiative led by Hollywood agencies, is hosting the first major virtual market since the start of pandemic, starting on June 23. Distributors and sales agents are looking forward to it: the turn-up for the online Cannes Marché du Film is significant with more than 7,000 accredited participants as of mid-June.
“As nobody can leave their house, a virtual market is the next best thing. It’s a valid and worthwhile effort … people need something to initiate interactions. If this virtual market can help in some way to stimulate business that’s a great thing,” says Dylan Leiner at Sony Pictures Classics.
Here’s a look at some key titles for sale:
“Balestra”
Director: Nicole Dorsey
Producers: Pierre Even
A disgraced competitive fencer (Tessa Thompson) is aiming for her Olympic comeback. She receives a prototype device allowing her to extend her training into her...
“As nobody can leave their house, a virtual market is the next best thing. It’s a valid and worthwhile effort … people need something to initiate interactions. If this virtual market can help in some way to stimulate business that’s a great thing,” says Dylan Leiner at Sony Pictures Classics.
Here’s a look at some key titles for sale:
“Balestra”
Director: Nicole Dorsey
Producers: Pierre Even
A disgraced competitive fencer (Tessa Thompson) is aiming for her Olympic comeback. She receives a prototype device allowing her to extend her training into her...
- 6/23/2020
- by Carole Horst
- Variety Film + TV
Bavaria Filmproduktion, whose latest film, Oskar Roehler’s “Enfant Terrible,” is part of Cannes’ Official Selection this year, is next producing projects from acclaimed filmmaker Hans Steinbichler (“The Diary of Anne Frank”) and writer-director duo Felix Fuchssteiner and Katharina Schöde, makers of the hugely popular “Ruby Red” fantasy-adventure trilogy.
Steinbichler is directing an adaptation of writer-actor Robert Seethaler’s bestseller “A Whole Life,” which spans a solitary man’s life in a remote Alpine valley. Bavaria Filmproduktion, the feature film unit of German entertainment giant Bavaria Film, is partnering on the project with Vienna-based Epo-Film, co-producer of Sky Deutschland’s murder-mystery series “Pagan Peak.”
“A Whole Life” reunites Steinbichler and Seethaler, who wrote the screenplay for the filmmaker’s 2008 drama “My Mother, My Bride and I.”
Seethaler’s works also include “The Tobacconist,” which served as the basis of Nikolaus Leytner’s 2018 release starring the late Bruno Ganz.
Bavaria Filmproduktion...
Steinbichler is directing an adaptation of writer-actor Robert Seethaler’s bestseller “A Whole Life,” which spans a solitary man’s life in a remote Alpine valley. Bavaria Filmproduktion, the feature film unit of German entertainment giant Bavaria Film, is partnering on the project with Vienna-based Epo-Film, co-producer of Sky Deutschland’s murder-mystery series “Pagan Peak.”
“A Whole Life” reunites Steinbichler and Seethaler, who wrote the screenplay for the filmmaker’s 2008 drama “My Mother, My Bride and I.”
Seethaler’s works also include “The Tobacconist,” which served as the basis of Nikolaus Leytner’s 2018 release starring the late Bruno Ganz.
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- 6/19/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
2020 has seen the cancellation of many film festivals around the world due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Even though Cannes, one of the most prestigious festivals, won’t be going ahead they have compiled 2020’s Official Selection.
Comprising of 56 films that would have been selected to play at this year’s festival, the selection is made up of features from filmmakers that have been selected at least before, newcomers, documentary’s and animations.
Amongst the line-up is Steve McQueen’s ‘Lovers Rock’ and ‘Mangrove’ which McQueen has dedicated to George Floyd.
“I dedicate these films to George Floyd and all the other black people that have been murdered, seen or unseen, because of who they are, in the U.S., U.K. and elsewhere,” said McQueen. “‘If you are the big tree, we are the small axe.’ Black Lives Matter.”
Others amongst the line-up include Wes Anderson’s highly anticipated ‘The French Dispatch,...
Comprising of 56 films that would have been selected to play at this year’s festival, the selection is made up of features from filmmakers that have been selected at least before, newcomers, documentary’s and animations.
Amongst the line-up is Steve McQueen’s ‘Lovers Rock’ and ‘Mangrove’ which McQueen has dedicated to George Floyd.
“I dedicate these films to George Floyd and all the other black people that have been murdered, seen or unseen, because of who they are, in the U.S., U.K. and elsewhere,” said McQueen. “‘If you are the big tree, we are the small axe.’ Black Lives Matter.”
Others amongst the line-up include Wes Anderson’s highly anticipated ‘The French Dispatch,...
- 6/4/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The selection includes films from Wes Anderson, Naomi Kawase and two Steve McQueen projects.
The Cannes Film Festival has announced its special 2020 Official Selection.
Festival President Pierre Lescure and General Delegate Thierry Frémaux revealed the line-up at a press conference in Paris, held without journalists this year.
With the 2020 physical festival cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, Official Selection titles will be “supported” by Cannes as they screen in autumn festivals and beyond.
The 56-strong line-up includes Wes Anderson’s French Dispatch; two Steve McQueen projects - Mangrove and Lovers Rock; Maïwenn’s DNA; Naomi Kawase’s True Mothers; Thomas Vinterberg...
The Cannes Film Festival has announced its special 2020 Official Selection.
Festival President Pierre Lescure and General Delegate Thierry Frémaux revealed the line-up at a press conference in Paris, held without journalists this year.
With the 2020 physical festival cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, Official Selection titles will be “supported” by Cannes as they screen in autumn festivals and beyond.
The 56-strong line-up includes Wes Anderson’s French Dispatch; two Steve McQueen projects - Mangrove and Lovers Rock; Maïwenn’s DNA; Naomi Kawase’s True Mothers; Thomas Vinterberg...
- 6/3/2020
- by 1101184¦Orlando Parfitt¦38¦
- ScreenDaily
Summer of 85The Festival de Cannes has announced 56 films selected for their 2020 Festival, scheduled to have taken place between May 12—23 and cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.Films with the official Cannes 2020 label set for a theatrical release before spring 2021 will receive additional support from the Festival when theaters reopen. Films that were predicted to play at the festival and not included in the Cannes 2020 Official Selection—including Leos Carax's Annette, Mia Hansen-Løve's Bergman Island, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria—may premiere elsewhere, while, as previously announced, Paul Verhoeven's Benedetta has delayed its premiere to summer 2021.Official SELECTIONThe French Dispatch (Wes Anderson)Passion Simple (Danielle Arbid)Josep (Aurel)Au Crépuscule (Sharunas Bartas)Les hommes (Lucas Belvaux)Rouge (Farid Bentoumi)Here We Are (Nir Bergman)Teddy (Ludovic & Zoran Boukherma)Un triomphe (Emmanuel Courcol)9 jours à Raqqa (Xavier de Lauzanne)Soul (Pete Docter)Vaurien (Peter Dourountzis)Slalom (Charlène Favier)The Real...
- 6/3/2020
- MUBI
A bit earlier today, in lieu of the actual fest, the Cannes Film Festival announced what their Official Selections would have been. Of course, these movies won’t actually be playing at Cannes, but they will be showing at other festivals around the world over the next handful of months. It would have been an interesting crop of titles, all lumped together in the south of France, and this afternoon, we’re going to take a look at a few of them, as the lineup is being rolled out. Some of the highlights here seem to include Ammonite (starring Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet), Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, Pixar’s Soul, and a pair of new works from Steve McQueen (Lover’s Rock as well as Mangrove). There’s also films like Viggo Mortensen’s directorial debut Falling, which played at the Sundance Film Festival, plus much more.
- 6/3/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
The show is going on for the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, even though by now in a normal year we would have known which film would succeed Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” as the new Palme d’Or winner. The original 2020 festival was scheduled to run May 12-23 but was canceled in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Cannes is living on this year as festival president Pierre Lescure and general delegate Thierry Frémaux are announcing the 56 films that made the cut for the 2020 Official Selection. Selected films will be branded with an official Cannes 2020 label that they can take to additional festivals later this year and use when they open in theaters.
The Official Selection at Cannes usually includes the following sections: Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, Special Screenings, and Midnight Screenings. The Palme d’Or contenders premiere in the Competition category. Last year’s Cannes Competition section...
The Official Selection at Cannes usually includes the following sections: Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, Special Screenings, and Midnight Screenings. The Palme d’Or contenders premiere in the Competition category. Last year’s Cannes Competition section...
- 6/3/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Cannes Film Festival will not take place this year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but the official selection has still been unveiled. While no distinct sections were revealed, Thierry Frémaux and Pierre Lescure took the stage of an empty theater to share the 50-plus films that were accepted to screen at the festival. While those Cannes world premieres will not happen in person or digitally, these films will be able to show the prestigious laurels as they head to other festivals this fall and beyond–except Venice Film Festival, who have said they will not be part of their event.
“This Selection is here, and it’s a beautiful one,” Frémaux said. “Even though movie theatres have been shut for three months – for the first time since the invention of film screening by the Lumière Brothers on December 28, 1895 – this Selection reflects that cinema is more alive than ever. It remains unique,...
“This Selection is here, and it’s a beautiful one,” Frémaux said. “Even though movie theatres have been shut for three months – for the first time since the invention of film screening by the Lumière Brothers on December 28, 1895 – this Selection reflects that cinema is more alive than ever. It remains unique,...
- 6/3/2020
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Pixar’s “Soul,” Wes Anderson’s star-packed “The French Dispatch” and Steve McQueen’s “Mangrove” and Lover’s Rock” are among the 56 movies which will receive a Cannes 2020 label as part of the festival’s eclectic Official Selection.
Also included in this year’s lineup, are Cannes regulars such as Francois Ozon’s anticipated “Summer 85,” Naomi Kawase’s “True Mothers” and Maiwenn’s “DNA.”
The other celebrated filmmakers who will receive the Cannes 2020 label are Jonathan Nossiter with “Last Words,” Im Sang-soo with “Event” and Thomas Vinterberg with “Another Round.” As many other titles on this year’s lineup, these films were initially tipped for the festival before it canceled its physical edition in April and sticked with the French Riviera-set fest for various reasons, ranging from loyalty to distribution/marketing strategy. For instance, “Summer 85,” which marks Ozon’s follow up to his Berlin Golden Bear winning “By The Grace of God,...
Also included in this year’s lineup, are Cannes regulars such as Francois Ozon’s anticipated “Summer 85,” Naomi Kawase’s “True Mothers” and Maiwenn’s “DNA.”
The other celebrated filmmakers who will receive the Cannes 2020 label are Jonathan Nossiter with “Last Words,” Im Sang-soo with “Event” and Thomas Vinterberg with “Another Round.” As many other titles on this year’s lineup, these films were initially tipped for the festival before it canceled its physical edition in April and sticked with the French Riviera-set fest for various reasons, ranging from loyalty to distribution/marketing strategy. For instance, “Summer 85,” which marks Ozon’s follow up to his Berlin Golden Bear winning “By The Grace of God,...
- 6/3/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Born 74 years ago this week, German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder redefined the definition of prolific. Before his death at the age of 37, he had made over 40 films and two TV series, as well as completing nearly 25 plays, and more. The director is now getting the biopic treatment with a new film titled Enfant Terrible from Oskar Roehler. With Oliver Masucci (Look Who’s Back) playing the director, the first trailer has now landed via ScreenDaily ahead of a release in Germany this fall.
“Bavaria Filmproduktion is proud to present two of the greatest German film icons in one film: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, whose work remains influential to filmmakers all over the world, and Oskar Roehler, one of the most inventive film and writing talents this country has ever produced,” said Markus Zimmer at Bavaria Filmproduktion. “Enfant Terrible is both an homage to and an analysis of a manic film director, visually...
“Bavaria Filmproduktion is proud to present two of the greatest German film icons in one film: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, whose work remains influential to filmmakers all over the world, and Oskar Roehler, one of the most inventive film and writing talents this country has ever produced,” said Markus Zimmer at Bavaria Filmproduktion. “Enfant Terrible is both an homage to and an analysis of a manic film director, visually...
- 6/3/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
For many cinephiles, Rainer Werner Fassbinder is a name that elicits a lot of excitement. The German filmmaker was only really active for a bit more than a decade, mostly in the ‘70s, but over that time, he was nothing short of prolific, with more than 40 feature films, as well as a number of TV series and shorts. And it’s that busy, tumultuous time period that is given the spotlight in the upcoming film, “Enfant Terrible.”
Read More: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Long-Lost Epic “Eight Hours Don’t Make A Day” Trailer
As seen in the new trailer for “Enfant Terrible,” Oskar Roehler’s film follows the life and career of Fassbinder, primarily focusing on that time in the ‘70s when the filmmaker’s life completely revolved around film and his quest to be considered one of the greatest directors to ever live.
Continue reading ‘Enfant Terrible’ Trailer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder...
Read More: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Long-Lost Epic “Eight Hours Don’t Make A Day” Trailer
As seen in the new trailer for “Enfant Terrible,” Oskar Roehler’s film follows the life and career of Fassbinder, primarily focusing on that time in the ‘70s when the filmmaker’s life completely revolved around film and his quest to be considered one of the greatest directors to ever live.
Continue reading ‘Enfant Terrible’ Trailer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder...
- 6/1/2020
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Film about late, legendary German director had Cannes 2020 hopes.
Picture Tree International has acquired international sales rights to Oskar Roehler’s biopic Enfant Terrible capturing the tumultuous life and career of late iconic German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
The legendary filmmaker, who died of a drugs overdose at the age of 37 in June 1982, would have turned 75 on Sunday (May 31). Berlin-based Picture Tree has released an English-language subtitled trailer to coincide with its sales acquisition and to mark the event.
“The film isn’t due out in German cinemas until October but with the producers and German distributor Weltkino, we wanted to commemorate this special date,...
Picture Tree International has acquired international sales rights to Oskar Roehler’s biopic Enfant Terrible capturing the tumultuous life and career of late iconic German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
The legendary filmmaker, who died of a drugs overdose at the age of 37 in June 1982, would have turned 75 on Sunday (May 31). Berlin-based Picture Tree has released an English-language subtitled trailer to coincide with its sales acquisition and to mark the event.
“The film isn’t due out in German cinemas until October but with the producers and German distributor Weltkino, we wanted to commemorate this special date,...
- 6/1/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Film about late, legendary German director had Cannes 2020 hopes.
Picture Tree International has acquired international sales rights to Oskar Roehler’s biopic Enfant Terrible capturing the tumultuous life and career of late iconic German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
The legendary filmmaker, who died of a drugs overdose at the age of 37 in June 1982, would have turned 75 on Sunday (May 31). Berlin-based Picture Tree has released an English-language subtitled trailer to coincide with its sales acquisition and to mark the event.
“The film isn’t due out in German cinemas until October but with the producers and German distributor Weltkino, we wanted to commemorate this special date,...
Picture Tree International has acquired international sales rights to Oskar Roehler’s biopic Enfant Terrible capturing the tumultuous life and career of late iconic German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
The legendary filmmaker, who died of a drugs overdose at the age of 37 in June 1982, would have turned 75 on Sunday (May 31). Berlin-based Picture Tree has released an English-language subtitled trailer to coincide with its sales acquisition and to mark the event.
“The film isn’t due out in German cinemas until October but with the producers and German distributor Weltkino, we wanted to commemorate this special date,...
- 6/1/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Enfant Terrible
Oskar Roehler is one of Germany’s most well-traveled directors, so his desire to mount a portrayal of Rainer Werner Fassbinder in his latest feature Enfant Terrible isn’t surprising. Produced by Markus Zimmer through Bavaria Filmproduktion, Roehler taps Oliver Masucci (who played Hitler in the adaptation of Look Who’s Back) to play Fassbinder. His supporting cast consists of Katja Riemann, Hary Prinz, Anton Rattinger, Felix Hellmann, Erdal Yildiz, Jochen Schropp, Sunnyi Melles and Isolde Barth. Roehler premiered his 2004 title Agnes and His Brothers in the Horizons sidebar in Venice and competed in Sundance’s World Dramatic competition in 2009 with Lulu and Jimi.…...
Oskar Roehler is one of Germany’s most well-traveled directors, so his desire to mount a portrayal of Rainer Werner Fassbinder in his latest feature Enfant Terrible isn’t surprising. Produced by Markus Zimmer through Bavaria Filmproduktion, Roehler taps Oliver Masucci (who played Hitler in the adaptation of Look Who’s Back) to play Fassbinder. His supporting cast consists of Katja Riemann, Hary Prinz, Anton Rattinger, Felix Hellmann, Erdal Yildiz, Jochen Schropp, Sunnyi Melles and Isolde Barth. Roehler premiered his 2004 title Agnes and His Brothers in the Horizons sidebar in Venice and competed in Sundance’s World Dramatic competition in 2009 with Lulu and Jimi.…...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Oliver Masucci, best known for playing Adolf Hitler in Look Who’s Back, will portray the legendary German filmmaker. Best known for his film No Place to Go, which won the Dutch Film Critics' Award at the 2001 International Film Festival Rotterdam as well as the Golden German Film Award in 2000, but also for titles such as Suck My Dick and Agnes and his Brothers, German director Oskar Roehler has now taken on the challenge of making a film about Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Aiming to interpret the life and impact of this cinematic legend in an artistically innovative form, Roehler’s Enfant Terrible will star Oliver Masucci in the lead role, an actor best known for portraying Adolf Hitler in the film adaptation of the satirical novel Look Who’s Back and for playing a part in the Netflix Original series Dark. The cast of the ambitious upcoming film also includes Katja.
- 10/23/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Historical romance, literary adaptations, arthouse drama, star-studded comedies, children’s pics, animated fare and a high-profile documentary are among the many German films and co-productions on offer at this year’s Cannes Film Market.
Unspooling as part of the festival are Wim Wenders’ “Pope Francis: A Man of His Word,” repped by Focus Features and bowing in Special Screenings; “In My Room,” Ulrich Koehler’s story of a man who suddenly realizes everyone around him has disappeared, which world premieres in Un Certain Regard; and, in Intl. Critics’ Week sidebar, Anja Kofmel’s Swiss co-production “Chris the Swiss,” a partially animated documentary from Urban Distribution that investigates the mysterious death of a young Swiss journalist during the Yugoslav wars.
On the market side, one historical niche that is proving particularly successful is that of the turn-of-the-century artist.
Picture Tree Intl. is following its 2016 hit “Egon Schiele — Death and the Maiden,...
Unspooling as part of the festival are Wim Wenders’ “Pope Francis: A Man of His Word,” repped by Focus Features and bowing in Special Screenings; “In My Room,” Ulrich Koehler’s story of a man who suddenly realizes everyone around him has disappeared, which world premieres in Un Certain Regard; and, in Intl. Critics’ Week sidebar, Anja Kofmel’s Swiss co-production “Chris the Swiss,” a partially animated documentary from Urban Distribution that investigates the mysterious death of a young Swiss journalist during the Yugoslav wars.
On the market side, one historical niche that is proving particularly successful is that of the turn-of-the-century artist.
Picture Tree Intl. is following its 2016 hit “Egon Schiele — Death and the Maiden,...
- 5/12/2018
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Plenty of films considered politically beyond the pale have been locked up, for reasons good and bad. A German filmmaker born decades after WW2 offers a documentary about the controversy over ‘sensitive’ Nazi films, the propaganda features that encouraged racial hatred and offered lies to support the Third Reich’s oppressive policies. We can easily visualize American neo-Nazis cheering the messages in these pictures. What’s the verdict? Let them loose or destroy them?
Forbidden Films: The Hidden Legacy of Nazi Film
DVD
Zeitgeist Films / Kino Lorber
2014 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 94 min. / Verboten Filme: das verdrängte erbe des Nazi-kinos / Street Date May 15, 2018 / available through /
Starring: Götz Aly, Stefan Drössler, Jörg Friess, Jörg Jannings, Egbert Koppe, Johanna Leibeneiner, Sylvie Lindeperg, Oskar Roehler, Rainer Rotehr, Sonja M. Schulz, Margaretha Von Trotta, Ernst Szebedits, Christiane Von Wahlert, Moshe Zimmerman.
Cinematography: Isabelle Casez, Aline László, Ludolph Weyer
Film Editor: Annette Muff
Additional Music: Björn Wiese
Produced by Amelie Latscha,...
Forbidden Films: The Hidden Legacy of Nazi Film
DVD
Zeitgeist Films / Kino Lorber
2014 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 94 min. / Verboten Filme: das verdrängte erbe des Nazi-kinos / Street Date May 15, 2018 / available through /
Starring: Götz Aly, Stefan Drössler, Jörg Friess, Jörg Jannings, Egbert Koppe, Johanna Leibeneiner, Sylvie Lindeperg, Oskar Roehler, Rainer Rotehr, Sonja M. Schulz, Margaretha Von Trotta, Ernst Szebedits, Christiane Von Wahlert, Moshe Zimmerman.
Cinematography: Isabelle Casez, Aline László, Ludolph Weyer
Film Editor: Annette Muff
Additional Music: Björn Wiese
Produced by Amelie Latscha,...
- 5/8/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Current Berlin director Dieter Kosslick will step down next year.
Torsten Neumann, co-founder and director of the Oldenburg International Film Festival since 1994, has become the latest name to be connected with the ongoing quest for a successor to Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick from May 2019.
Neumann, who is currently planning the 25th anniversary edition of his festival for this September, has hosted such international guests as Nicolas Cage, Mira Sorvino, Jim McBride, Matthew Modine, Alexandre Rockwell and Lou Diamond Phillips as well as leading lights from the local German industry – from Nicolette Krebitz through Jürgen Vogel and Oskar Roehler to Corinna Harfouch...
Torsten Neumann, co-founder and director of the Oldenburg International Film Festival since 1994, has become the latest name to be connected with the ongoing quest for a successor to Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick from May 2019.
Neumann, who is currently planning the 25th anniversary edition of his festival for this September, has hosted such international guests as Nicolas Cage, Mira Sorvino, Jim McBride, Matthew Modine, Alexandre Rockwell and Lou Diamond Phillips as well as leading lights from the local German industry – from Nicolette Krebitz through Jürgen Vogel and Oskar Roehler to Corinna Harfouch...
- 5/2/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Punk Berlin 1982 will become the first German feature to have a global release on digital platforms.
X Filme Creative Pool is to join forces with the Goethe Institute, alleskino.de and Under The Milky Way to launch its production of Oskar Roehler’s Punk Berlin 1982 (Tod den Hippies!! Es lebe der Punk) next month as the first German feature film to have a global release on digital platforms.
The film will be available worldwide in German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese subtitles on the iTunes, Google, Sony, Amazon, Vudu and Microsoft online VoD platforms as well as via the Goethe Institute’s website and libraries.
Commenting about this new distribution channel and marketing model, X Filme producer Stefan Arndt pointed out that “everybody is talking about how the industry should adapt to the ever-changing challenges of digitisation while the international distribution of German films is becoming increasingly difficult”.
“As a result, we are taking...
X Filme Creative Pool is to join forces with the Goethe Institute, alleskino.de and Under The Milky Way to launch its production of Oskar Roehler’s Punk Berlin 1982 (Tod den Hippies!! Es lebe der Punk) next month as the first German feature film to have a global release on digital platforms.
The film will be available worldwide in German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese subtitles on the iTunes, Google, Sony, Amazon, Vudu and Microsoft online VoD platforms as well as via the Goethe Institute’s website and libraries.
Commenting about this new distribution channel and marketing model, X Filme producer Stefan Arndt pointed out that “everybody is talking about how the industry should adapt to the ever-changing challenges of digitisation while the international distribution of German films is becoming increasingly difficult”.
“As a result, we are taking...
- 2/14/2016
- by [email protected] (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Sales agent Wide House is to be reunited with German filmmaker Rüdiger Suchsland on his next documentary Hitler’s Hollywood for delivery next year.
Wide House’s Anais Clanet confirmed at this week’s Dok Leipzig that she will be handling sales on Suchland’s new project after selling his first documentary, From Caligari To Hitler [pictured], which premiered at Venice 2014 in the Classics sidebar.
Speaking to ScreenDaily in Leipzig, Suchsland revealed that his second collaboration with the Berlin-based Looks Film & TV and Wiesbaden’s Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation has already received backing from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, HessenInvestFilm, and broadcasters Zdf/Arte.
“Hollywood was always something that the Nazis wanted to emulate,” he explained with reference to the film’s title.
“Speeches and documents provide evidence that there was a clear plan by the Nazis, and particularly Goebbels and Hitler, to establish a kind of alternative Hollywood, to copy Hollywood’s international success and to use it for Nazi...
Wide House’s Anais Clanet confirmed at this week’s Dok Leipzig that she will be handling sales on Suchland’s new project after selling his first documentary, From Caligari To Hitler [pictured], which premiered at Venice 2014 in the Classics sidebar.
Speaking to ScreenDaily in Leipzig, Suchsland revealed that his second collaboration with the Berlin-based Looks Film & TV and Wiesbaden’s Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation has already received backing from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, HessenInvestFilm, and broadcasters Zdf/Arte.
“Hollywood was always something that the Nazis wanted to emulate,” he explained with reference to the film’s title.
“Speeches and documents provide evidence that there was a clear plan by the Nazis, and particularly Goebbels and Hitler, to establish a kind of alternative Hollywood, to copy Hollywood’s international success and to use it for Nazi...
- 10/30/2015
- by [email protected] (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Citizenfour, The Cut and Quatsch to screen at Berlinale; Critics’ Week Berlin to be launched
The German Film Critics Association (Vdfk) has joined forces with the Heinrich Böll Foundation to launch a Critics’ Week Berlin as “a hub for everyone who connects intellectual reflection with the sensual pleasure of watching films”.
Inspired by the examples of Cannes, Venice and Locarno, the first edition’s selection of 10 features is based on two concepts: “stirring, daring, surprising cinema and a potential for cultural and critical discussion.”
The initiative is not part of the Berlinale, although members of the Vdfk board had spoken with festival director Dieter Kosslick about the idea of a critics’ week in the past.
Two titles already confirmed are the world premiere of Bernard Émond’s Le Journal d’un vieil homme (The Diary of an Old Man), adapted from the Chekhov novella A Dreary Story, and Johnnie To’s romantic comedy Don’t Go Breaking...
The German Film Critics Association (Vdfk) has joined forces with the Heinrich Böll Foundation to launch a Critics’ Week Berlin as “a hub for everyone who connects intellectual reflection with the sensual pleasure of watching films”.
Inspired by the examples of Cannes, Venice and Locarno, the first edition’s selection of 10 features is based on two concepts: “stirring, daring, surprising cinema and a potential for cultural and critical discussion.”
The initiative is not part of the Berlinale, although members of the Vdfk board had spoken with festival director Dieter Kosslick about the idea of a critics’ week in the past.
Two titles already confirmed are the world premiere of Bernard Émond’s Le Journal d’un vieil homme (The Diary of an Old Man), adapted from the Chekhov novella A Dreary Story, and Johnnie To’s romantic comedy Don’t Go Breaking...
- 1/13/2015
- by [email protected] (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
They didn’t make our final Top 100 cut, but here is a list of foreign film titles that are on our radar for 2015. We being with…
200. Remember – Dir. Atom Egoyan
199. Suffragette – Dir. Sarah Gavron
198. Kills on Wheels – Dir. Attila Till
197. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend – Dir. Yuen Woo-ping
196. The Go-Between – Dir. Pete Travis
195. Peur de Rien Dir. Danielle Arbid
194. Regular Boy – Dir. Michele Civetta
193. Flaskepost – Dir. Nikolaj Arcel
192. The Lady in the Van – Dir. Nicolas Hytner
191. Zoom – Dir. Pedro Morelli
190. Away from the Sea – Dir. Imanol Uribe
189. Tulip Fever – Dir. Justin Chadwick
188. Ulrike’s Brain – Dir. Bruce La Bruce
187. Tsunami – Dir. Jacques Deschamps
186. And Your Sister? – Dir. Marion Vernoux
185. There Was Las Vegas – Dir. Alexandre Castas
184. Prejudice – Dir. Antoine Cuypers
183. Stepne – Dir. Maryna Vroda
182. Irreplaceable – Dir. Olivier Masset-Depasse
181. Histoire de Judas Iscariot – Dir. Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche
180. The First, the Last – Dir. Bouli Lanners
179. Selection Officielle – Dir. Jacques Richard
178. Desierto – Dir.
200. Remember – Dir. Atom Egoyan
199. Suffragette – Dir. Sarah Gavron
198. Kills on Wheels – Dir. Attila Till
197. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend – Dir. Yuen Woo-ping
196. The Go-Between – Dir. Pete Travis
195. Peur de Rien Dir. Danielle Arbid
194. Regular Boy – Dir. Michele Civetta
193. Flaskepost – Dir. Nikolaj Arcel
192. The Lady in the Van – Dir. Nicolas Hytner
191. Zoom – Dir. Pedro Morelli
190. Away from the Sea – Dir. Imanol Uribe
189. Tulip Fever – Dir. Justin Chadwick
188. Ulrike’s Brain – Dir. Bruce La Bruce
187. Tsunami – Dir. Jacques Deschamps
186. And Your Sister? – Dir. Marion Vernoux
185. There Was Las Vegas – Dir. Alexandre Castas
184. Prejudice – Dir. Antoine Cuypers
183. Stepne – Dir. Maryna Vroda
182. Irreplaceable – Dir. Olivier Masset-Depasse
181. Histoire de Judas Iscariot – Dir. Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche
180. The First, the Last – Dir. Bouli Lanners
179. Selection Officielle – Dir. Jacques Richard
178. Desierto – Dir.
- 1/5/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Dutch writer-director Feike Santbergen and actors Lisa Smit and Jelmer Ouwerkerk are in Toronto for the world premiere of their 18-minute short "The Last Day Of Summer," which was selected for the Short Cuts International Competition at Tiff. The film premiered Sunday, September 7th at the Scotiabank Theatre.
In "The Last Day of Summer" three friends are spending a quiet day at the beach when one of them is called with tragic news. “While making the film we examined what happens in those first few moments, when care and the inability to cope, connect with each other; the result is intensely portrayed by the actors, the selection for Toronto a fantastic reward,” says Santbergen.
For Lisa Smit (20) it is the second time one of her movies is screened at Tiff. The first time she played a co-starring role in "Lena," by Belgian director Christophe van Rompaey, which had its world premiere at the Festival in 2011. Lisa also recently starred in the German drama " Sources of Life"(Quellen des Lebens) by director Oskar Roehler, in a role for which she was praised in Germany by the Süddeutsche Zeitung and in the Us by the Hollywood Reporter, who labeled her and co-star Leonard Scheicher's performance as 'something of a miracle'.
“I want to make movies that have an international appeal,” says Smit, who has been acting since age 10 and is already a star in her native Holland. “I look for movies that explore human conflict among real people, and also translate that conflict into the characters themselves,” says Smit.
At Tiff the filmmakers are working hard to promote the short film, but also looking ahead. Together with American producer Sophie Kohn, they are busy putting together the finances for Santbergen's feature film debut, "Life is a Start," which they hope will go into production next year. The film will be shot mainly on a rural island in Greece and will be produced by Kohn, directed by Santbergen, while Smit will play a starring role.
"Life is a Start" is about a young woman suffering from a nervous breakdown who travels alone to a remote Greek island. Like "The Last Day of Summer," it is about overcoming mental agony through connecting to others.
Santbergen, Kohn and Smit are excited to continue their adventures at Tiff, and hope to be back in the future.
In "The Last Day of Summer" three friends are spending a quiet day at the beach when one of them is called with tragic news. “While making the film we examined what happens in those first few moments, when care and the inability to cope, connect with each other; the result is intensely portrayed by the actors, the selection for Toronto a fantastic reward,” says Santbergen.
For Lisa Smit (20) it is the second time one of her movies is screened at Tiff. The first time she played a co-starring role in "Lena," by Belgian director Christophe van Rompaey, which had its world premiere at the Festival in 2011. Lisa also recently starred in the German drama " Sources of Life"(Quellen des Lebens) by director Oskar Roehler, in a role for which she was praised in Germany by the Süddeutsche Zeitung and in the Us by the Hollywood Reporter, who labeled her and co-star Leonard Scheicher's performance as 'something of a miracle'.
“I want to make movies that have an international appeal,” says Smit, who has been acting since age 10 and is already a star in her native Holland. “I look for movies that explore human conflict among real people, and also translate that conflict into the characters themselves,” says Smit.
At Tiff the filmmakers are working hard to promote the short film, but also looking ahead. Together with American producer Sophie Kohn, they are busy putting together the finances for Santbergen's feature film debut, "Life is a Start," which they hope will go into production next year. The film will be shot mainly on a rural island in Greece and will be produced by Kohn, directed by Santbergen, while Smit will play a starring role.
"Life is a Start" is about a young woman suffering from a nervous breakdown who travels alone to a remote Greek island. Like "The Last Day of Summer," it is about overcoming mental agony through connecting to others.
Santbergen, Kohn and Smit are excited to continue their adventures at Tiff, and hope to be back in the future.
- 9/9/2014
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo (L’écume des jours) was a surprise no-show in Cannes this year (his film debuted theatrically in France the previous month) but the stage is set for an opening gala opening ceremony for the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Among the slew of titles that were announced today, at the top of must see list we find Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England making its world premiere in the Main Competition category, a pic we thought would end up showing on the Croisette. Another item we had short-listed for a Cannes showing but will be shown in the Spa village backdrop, we have János Szasz’s The Notebook, and making it’s international debut after a stellar Tribeca debut, Lance Edmands’ Bluebird will compete against a pack that also includes hometown favorite Jan Hřebejk and his his psychological thriller Honeymoon. In the Docu...
- 6/4/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England is to receive its first screening at the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival as one of the 14 titles in Competition.
The psychedelic horror film, set during the English Civil War in the mid-17th century, will screen at the festival in the Czech Republic on July 4.
As previously reported, it will be the first UK film to be released simultaneously in cinemas, on DVD, free TV and VoD. This will take place on July 5.
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The main section of Karlovy Vary will include a further six world and seven international premieres, with new films from six returning directors – two of whom have already won Crystal Globes for Best Film at the festival in recent years.
Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze, who won at Kviff in 2005 with My Nikifor, will compete for the third time with the story of Papusza, the first Roma...
The psychedelic horror film, set during the English Civil War in the mid-17th century, will screen at the festival in the Czech Republic on July 4.
As previously reported, it will be the first UK film to be released simultaneously in cinemas, on DVD, free TV and VoD. This will take place on July 5.
Scroll down for full line-up
The main section of Karlovy Vary will include a further six world and seven international premieres, with new films from six returning directors – two of whom have already won Crystal Globes for Best Film at the festival in recent years.
Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze, who won at Kviff in 2005 with My Nikifor, will compete for the third time with the story of Papusza, the first Roma...
- 6/4/2013
- by [email protected] (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The nominations for Germany's Oscars, or "The Lolas" have been announced. Barbara, which didn't excite Oscar voters this past season, won the Lola last year. Which film will it be this year for Germany? Cloud Atlas won the most nominations, nine, which is quite a haul for a non German picture. But ⅓ of Cloud Atlas's directing body is named Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) so it's German enough.
Germany's Best Pictures this year. Will we see any at Oscar next year?
Best Picture
Cloud Atlas (Lana Wachowski & Andy Wachowski & Tom Tykver) Hannah Arendt (Margarethe von Trotta) Lore (Cate Shortland, Australia's Oscar Submission) Oh Boy (Jan Ole-Gerster) Quellen Des Lebens (Oskar Roehler) The Wall (Julian Roman Polsler)
Oscar submission chatter after the jump...
Germany's Best Pictures this year. Will we see any at Oscar next year?
Best Picture
Cloud Atlas (Lana Wachowski & Andy Wachowski & Tom Tykver) Hannah Arendt (Margarethe von Trotta) Lore (Cate Shortland, Australia's Oscar Submission) Oh Boy (Jan Ole-Gerster) Quellen Des Lebens (Oskar Roehler) The Wall (Julian Roman Polsler)
Oscar submission chatter after the jump...
- 3/25/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The Berlin International Film Festival is celebrating its opening today, on February 7, 2013 at 7.30 pm. After a few words of greeting from Minister of State for Cultural and Media Affairs Bernd Neumann and Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit, the Festival will be officially opened by Jury President Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong, China) and Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick. The International Jury – whose other members are Susanne Bier (Denmark), Andreas Dresen (Germany), Ellen Kuras (USA), Shirin Neshat (Iran), Tim Robbins (USA) and Athina Rachel Tsangari (Greece) – will also be introduced during the gala. Anke Engelke will again host the evening. This year’s music will be provided by Ulrich Tukur & Die Rhythmus Boys. 3sat will be broadcasting the opening live. Ziyi Zhang in Yi dai zong shi (The Grandmaster) by Wong Kar Wai Following the gala, Wong Kar Wai’s epic martial-arts drama The Grandmaster will have its international premiere. The director and his leading actors,...
- 2/7/2013
- by [email protected] (Hollywood News Team)
- Hollywoodnews.com
The use of Can's music in Norwegian Wood confirms the krautrock pioneers have always made sounds fit for cinema
He hardly needs to give up his day job, but Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood seems to have a pretty good alternative career lined up as a film composer. After his dissonant, overpowering strings on There Will Be Blood, he does sterling work on this week's excellent Norwegian Wood, adding to the Japanese teen gloom with sheets of orchestral noise and tender acoustic guitar melodies. But what caught my attention on the soundtrack was the welcome reappearance of Can, whose music not only fits the late-60s setting, but also reminds us how much Radiohead are indebted to the trailblazing krautrockers. They've made no secret of it, even covering Can's The Thief, but listening to The King of Limbs' precision clattering, jazzy guitars, slightly slurred vocals and unorthodox song structures,...
He hardly needs to give up his day job, but Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood seems to have a pretty good alternative career lined up as a film composer. After his dissonant, overpowering strings on There Will Be Blood, he does sterling work on this week's excellent Norwegian Wood, adding to the Japanese teen gloom with sheets of orchestral noise and tender acoustic guitar melodies. But what caught my attention on the soundtrack was the welcome reappearance of Can, whose music not only fits the late-60s setting, but also reminds us how much Radiohead are indebted to the trailblazing krautrockers. They've made no secret of it, even covering Can's The Thief, but listening to The King of Limbs' precision clattering, jazzy guitars, slightly slurred vocals and unorthodox song structures,...
- 3/11/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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