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Toy robots conquer the (cinema)-world.

2009-06-29T19:08:00.000-07:00

About 200 million U.S. dollars turnover in just five days - that is the impressive start of the balance action spectacle "Transformers - The Revenge" in the U.S. alone. In Germany, too, defied the oversized toy robot successfully the summer weather.

Los Angeles / Hamburg - No doubt about it:
With "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (German: "Transformers - The Revenge") has the Hollywood blockbuster of the year found. According to industry magazine "Focus on Film" played the action spectacle from director Michael Bay weaker after figures on Wednesday and Thursday on Friday astounding 36.7 million U.S. dollars one. On Saturday, there were 39.5 million reported for the Sunday and the producing studio Paramount initially estimated 36 million U.S. dollars. This would have begun in 4234 cinemas movie already recorded 201.2 million U.S. dollars - that would be the second best five-day results for "The Dark Knight" (2008).

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Place two of the North American film charts Vorwochenspitzenreiter went to "The Proposal" ( "Of course, the bride"). The romantic comedy with Sandra Bullock put on her second week at 18.5 million U.S. dollars (total: 69 million). Placed behind the box-office phenomenon "Hangover" solid again with 17.2 million U.S. dollars (total after three weeks: 183.2 million). Pixar's "Up" began at the weekend again to 13 million U.S. dollars and with over 250 million U.S. dollars so far strongest film of the year. But the Transformers race has just begun. For the fine ensemble film "My Sister's Keeper" ( "When life my sister") by Nick Cassavetes (including Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Jason Patric, Alec Baldwin) was the robot a little too loud roar. The restart began in 2606 cinemas only 12 million U.S. dollars in order.

"Transformers - The Revenge" also admitted from outside the United States: 181.6 million U.S. dollars, the Filmkoloss world order, which is a total release of 384 million U.S. dollars is - almost twice the reported production of 195 million U.S. dollars.

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Also in Germany trumps the "Transformers" and meaningful to end a series of rather tired Movies weeks: While Michael Bay's first robot spectacle two years ago, with 595,859 visitors had been able to continue, last Wednesday launched in 679 cinemas, a significantly better result reach and drew loud "Focus on Film" expected 810,000 spectators in the cinema.

For second place, the long-running wrangle
"Illuminati" and "Night at the Museum 2" with 100,000 spectators, followed by "Hannah Montana - The Movie", which once attracted 75,000 spectators. The top five Decides
"State of Play" with 70,000 visitors. New in the top 20 of the German cinema charts are also "The Countess" with 10,000 visitors (66 copies) and
"Home" with a little more 5000 spectators in 32 cinemas. In total, some 1.5 million people into the cinema.

In Pepita dress on the crash.

2009-06-28T20:18:00.000-07:00

Living on the edge of a motorway stretch unbefahrenen: In Ursula Meier's film "Home" are the characters so unusual as her residence. What begins as Familiengroteske, turns out to be a clever parable on the expulsion from Paradise.

It's like these double images in the puzzle books, which by nine errors differ. Since this is heaven, at first sight, summer blue and bright. And yet we recognize that a few miles away the city and transport their grubby mix colors. Even the silence is so that they are without their counterpart not quite imagine. It is more like a breaking a ceaseless noise than a quiet secluded provenance.

And finally there are those people who, prima facie, a bit trashy and unkempt. In any case, so that in the cinema must always accept the fate they would like in passing along huge dive, until it is small and gray and look completely pathetic. But in her kingdom in "Home" are a peculiar lights on.

And it can still be a lot of mistakes and irritations list, but since one is already in the midst of this wise, amazing, tragicomic, small, big debut work of Swiss director Ursula Meier, to the Jacques Tati and Pasolini recalls. Because it in unexpected moments of being stubborn and in the foreseeable supposedly surprised. Because it is with his characters endureth, when you need it and to the amazement of human states of emergency has kept.

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It is a peculiar luck to unbefahrenen a motorway stretch. A shabby house that is so isolated as the only other movie "Psycho"-real estate. The viewer is literally suspended between a couple of good to himself, lazing or playing werkelnden people. A durchgesessene sofa furniture, deck chairs, grill, hockey sticks and other toys, or are simply distributed over a roadway, which was not finished, and never be finished, and just for the fun of the family occasionally even as a private runway traffic is .

The son with outstretched arms to slide along the barrier up and down. The oldest daughter lies down in bikini in the sun and spins on their ghetto blaster. Your sister makes sensible homework. The mother (Isabelle Huppert) depends on laundry or cleaning the vegetables from the garden under the kitchen window. There is a ping pong table, the Bauruine a swimming pool, which the father (Olivier Gourmet) in these summer holidays finally ready to put. An idiosyncratic property, so perfect in its own way and so tentative at the same time.

Its anarchy is its demonstrative SichselbstgenÃ¼gen, in his indifference to any social connection. Its internal structure, but through a touching KleinbÃ¼rgerlichkeit that draped to the happiness of the fifties recalls.

Mother Martha is blessed here, they do not want to return to the city. Whatever occurred which may be given. If Martha wants to make it wippenden with Pepita-chic dresses, with their children climb over the rails, walk through the adjacent fields and makes a big tree at a picnic. And when Father Michel, craftsmen, in cowboy boots, with gegelten hair, humming from work to his family back and his delicate wife mighty arms around the waist sets, it is clear that the couple, his rockabilly romance preserved. And that only ignoramuses in this untidy, and reverie in his way of life nothing more than recognize Prolltum want, which is probably out of shame and pride, not the rest of civilization away.

If "Home" at night with his protagonists in this monstrous silence at this strange enchanted place listens, understands you, who here plays Idylle. But we also feel, how manic unconditionality its inhabitants are increasingly on their empire einbunkern. The invasion is only a matter of time. And one day, then roll actually the first building on.

HOME (SWITZERLAND, 2008)

Director: Ursula Meier
Screenplay: Ursula Meier, Antoine Jaccoud, Raphaelle Valbrune, Gilles Taurand, Olivier Lorelle
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Oliver Gourmet, Adelaide Leroux,
Production Company: Box Productions, Archipelago, Need Productions
Rental: Arsenal
Duration: 97 minutes
Start: 25 June 2009
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The family verstÃ¶pselt the ears, mauert windows and doors, padded walls, moves into the basement and blink only by an air slot in the outside world. You must be connected to the disaster sentiment in Michael Haneke films think. There is the same wordless, the same cold aggression, the same disturbing unconditionality. The trucks and cars come at some point on the finished motorway angebraust first individually, then in the sheet metal snakes of the holiday traffic jams.

That is the deadlock, which is the image on the film all the time is also keen. Because in that moment the true pathology of the family to endure the self-noise insulation to the arrest of post-modern mobility euphoria. And Ursula Meier is so clever, not a position to win points to emerge.

"Home", among others, the Swiss Film Prize 2009 was awarded Quartz, is not environmentally-conservative fairy tale, not a song on the High utopia to her. It is a very clever sly parable about a modern expulsion from Paradise, and about happiness, which makes it only as manic Weltverleugnung can give. A double screen full of errors and mistakes. And the biggest perhaps denying that a decommissioned highway leg, above all there is to fly her to practice.

A very clever Fox.

2009-06-28T19:14:00.000-07:00

"Fuck Disney!": A serious character roles Megan Fox had not yet, but a large door, their own opinions and a stunning appearance. The 'Transformers' star is Hollywood's new sex symbol, and is applied to, Angelina Jolie's successor to be - as an anti-Everybody's Darling.

Every year in summer, when Hollywood material on battles, and computer effects take over the government, also managed to interview actor smart machines. Last Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman to its current films: word empire dictated the psychological development of their characters into the microphones of reporters. Knowing that there is money printing machines, such as "Terminator" or "Wolverine" course, only goes to show values between which character nuances of staff will be happy pulverisation. The term "Blockbuster has its origin not in vain for flying bombs, the whole blasted blocks.

Ironically, when "Transformers - The Revenge", however, the most expensive, loudest, yes superlativsten spectacle of the season, there are suddenly very different sounds to be heard. "No man does as if it were to make the story - beautifully stupid, who is trying to analyze everything," was, for example in the British cinema leaf "Total Film". Or: "This film is not intended to change your life - and if you do not want to see, then you save your money and stay at home verdammt nochmal".

Birth Name Fox

This refreshingly true words come from Megan Fox to the Anglo-American region is currently a cult of personality, will like him even the Hollywood star factory is not every day experiences. In the weekly cycle adorn the 23-year-old actress title pages of renowned pop culture magazines. Alternatively, the film is a partner of Shia LaBeouf in "Transformers" to replace Angelina Jolie ( "Entertainment Weekly"), or at least to the woman of the year ( "Esquire") explains. Hyperventilierend fans and paparazzi pursuing the status of their six in production or are planning follow-up projects.

A glance at any photo of Fox, whose credible, but very impressive full surname allegedly since her birth in Tennessee in the passport is not necessary to investigate, since they are by Terry Richardson in October 2008 for GQ in bikini with cherry or ice between the voluminous lips photographed, has the industry on their fantasy production than men, as a foxy lady, set.

The presentation of director Michael Bay delivered almost two years ago in the first "Transformers" movie, Fox when he was in tight miniskirt and top free bauch a car engine was inspected - and with this key abgeschmacktesten all stimuli (PS plus Lolita) a moment of cinema history has created the at least the present generation of 16-year-olds will never forget.

In the second part of the Transformers saga, the effect of "shameless" (Bay) with Hot Pants and motorcycle repeated what many reviews to go even critics like it better than exploding robots.

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That everything would be just another example of the degradation of young U.S. actresses and singers for sex objects and symbols, if not Fox himself at every opportunity with confidence and with wonderfully large flap lose distance of such mechanisms. "Acting is a strange profession," she says, "because we are paid for, love and attraction reply. That is ultimately nothing more than a form of prostitution. But I had no idea before I came into this business, how many disturbed persons of the job attracts. Most actors are narcissistic alcoholics or total simpletons and mentally - it was heartbreaking to see how many big stars from me admired nothing better to do had me on as a greasy way to bed to attempt to draw when I personally met. "

Megan hates Disney, loves marijuana

To say that her prominent colleagues in the laundry wanted to go as far Fox will not. And it is certainly not as if they are with hands and feet against the marketing of its exterior fended - recall their appearance in the outrageous slit dress recently at the "Transformers" premiere in Berlin. But because in Hollywood these days just to be able to survive, who made all the joy of storytelling and a strong business sense, they are perfectly positioned as an anti-Everybody's Darling. As a counter-draft to actresses, the "summer dress with crossed legs obediently at David Letterman and sit by their cars to tell the environment, because it gets for cheap applause."

Instead, Fox compensate their frustration over its assigned role PÃ¼ppchen with common sense and sharp tongue. The Disney group attacked them ( "Fuck Disney") because of his rigid moral standards of young stars like Miley Cyrus. The religious right designate them as "engÃ¤rschige, Bible-wedelnde Ms enemies." And the easier drug demonization derided them with the words: "Once marijuana is legalized, I'm the first in the queue for a few joints to buy."

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All views that we must not divide, for their courageous man defense but Fox would like to hug, because such a thing in Hollywood unless you exceed men dare to say, most of Sean Penn or Mickey Rourke. Among young women in Hollywood is holding a foreign word. Not for nothing Ã¤tzte director Steven Soderbergh recently that he is now "more natural images in the porn industry than in mainstream Hollywood" find.

The effect of openness Foxschen may be calculated. But although they have not in any significant character role was to be seen, this newcomer has already been a public profile that makes curious on upcoming films, "in which I actually acting and not just decorative bin.

Even this fall will start "Jennifer's Body" to a script of "Juno" Oscar-winner Diablo Cody. Followed by the Voodoo-Western "Jonah Hex", where heavyweights like Josh Brolin ( "No Country for Old Men") and John Malkovich their partners are. Only two of several projects specifically requested wish, in the comic book culture have their origin and Fox, whose private movie taste with which the target covers only right to dream of all Fanboys will make. The chance, however, by posing the drama back into the background to let Megan Fox has always deserved.

Immigrants for removal from the cinema Walking.

2009-06-25T20:12:00.000-07:00

Sex against immigration! Honor killing! Terror teens! The star cast film "Crossing Over" to the consequences of legal and illegal immigration issue in California. The result? At least as honorable as failed.

It's always nice when Hollywood stars sometimes turn to smaller projects. Something with the right message and not always from the Kommerzeinerlei action blockbusters and romantic comedy. Sometimes even with the Oscar winning success that, as in "LA Crash" by Paul Haggis from the year 2005: glamor Gutmenschen like Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon and Don Cheadle were doing that because in order to set a sign against racism in the everyday Los Angeles.

"LA Crash" seems to be the blueprint to have been for "Crossing Over", Wayne Kramers attempt to address the problems of illegal and legal immigrants in California to be closer. By weaving together episodes and a rather impressive cast of Harrison Ford and Ray Liotta about Ashley Judd, the Panoptikum a social imbalance be extended, committed and with the times.

The Grenzcop Max (Ford) meets in a raid on a Mexican, which must be expelled immediately, but her young son behind, then the Max, from a bad conscience tormented, trying to find. His colleague Hamid (Cliff Curtis), successful and seemingly well integrated policeman with Iranian roots, however, must address issues of honor and family loyalty deal of controversy as its western-based conservative sister and his father starts to escalate. An Australian actress (Alice Eve) tries to get her green card through sex with an unscrupulous officials (Liotta) to erschlafen. His wife (Judd) in turn supervises a Muslim family, which threatens auseinanderzubrechen after the teenage daughter in the terrorist suspect. Then there is a Korean boy (Justin Chon), shortly before his naturalization, but also from a career as a member of a gang. And a British musician (Jim Stuergess), of his Jewish background as a ticket for a residence permit to use tried.

Now is also signed "LA Crash" is not always an excess of subtlety from. But "Crossing Over" is so fixated on stories allerhaarstrÃ¤ubendsten (sex against immigration! Honor killing! Terror Teenies !!!), that sometime in the credibility nagt. The actors provide superior work, but in almost every narrative strand, the fate so cruel to that someday they will no longer remain as a facial expression of shock and deep concern. Only in the history of the Jewish musician is occasionally a little too cheerful, then what the face of misery trappings again may not fit properly.

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Some plot lines - especially Ford - are gripping and suspenseful told, but are undermined by the silly compulsion, that the stories always eventually intersect and influence them.

Is it an aging cop on them, just a lost child and then lost his mother to look for when you incidentally nor clarify any honor from killing him? If it does not exceed 30 in total of 113 minutes of film time arises?

"Crossing Over" has too much content and too little time for all good intentions into a convincing movie bundle.

And good intentions alone, which has never served.

Dual voltage at the Oscar.

2009-06-25T19:08:00.000-07:00

Ten instead of five - twice as many movies as before may be the future hope of the Oscar for best film making. Even animated films and works from abroad have a better chance. Trigger for the new regulations was a mega-blockbuster.

Los Angeles - As heard in the movie: It is a super hero, behind one of the biggest changes to the existing rules of Oscar's - Batman.

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In future, instead of five, ten films equal opportunities on the main price. That did it last in 1943. At the time, won "Casablanca."

"After more than six decades, the Academy will return to its roots, when a larger field for the top prize of the year, struggled," announced the head of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Sid Ganis, on Wednesday before the press in Los Angeles. The result remained the same, however: At the end there will be only a "best film of the year" type.

According to Ganis allow the reform, the future of documentaries, foreign films or animated films should be taken into account: Ten nominations could be "some of the fantastic films to come, often in the other categories appeared" from the race for the top prize but rausgedrÃ¼ckt have been. "

So this year was one of the world's most successful films, 2008, the Batman movie "The Dark Knight" to the annoyance of many fans just nominated as the animated film "Wall-E". As best film was finally shot in India tragicomedy "Slumdog Millionaire."

Ganis admitted that the controversy surrounding "The Dark Knight" at the decision to double the nominations, a role played.

Also, the Oscar organizers on more television viewers in the hope Award. "We know that the people who Oscar Gala turn to their favorites to help - and ten nominations obviously draw more fans than five," said Tom O'Neill of the website theenvelope.com the Los Angeles Times.

The 82nd Academy Awards will be on 7 Awarded in March 2010.

The silence after the thunder flash.

2009-06-24T19:24:00.000-07:00

Terrorist and victim to close: In this provocative as fulminant RAF drama "Shadow World" chasing a young RÃ¤cherin the presumed murderer of her father - and the disastrous German Autumn rampant in the present.

Before the prison jostle the television crews, the last single prisoner of the RAF is released. When a car drives through the gate, stop him immediately after the press, finally, because the ex-terrorists are sitting there, still so many mysteries with rumtrÃ¤gt. Who was it really, at the time the fatal shots at the bank president has?

The media people will refer the matter to this day no longer get answered. When the atrial gelichtet has, namely, the man enters from a side exit, all the excitement is: Volker Widmer (Ulrich Noethen), a former RAF member of the second generation, for 22 years in prison, once again a free man in a small cars, he finally without any journalists clamor from his lawyer in his new life there, a panel on the outskirts of Freiburg.

The silence after lightning flash - it is perhaps the best starting point for a drama about guilt and retribution, to eternal truths lies and last for a movie, the big issue in the smallest possible frame negotiation. In the great initial setting of the RAF-drama "shadow world" looked at the camera control the press or from extreme distance - to the course of the film very close to the ex-terrorists ranzugehen. But as someone who can really come close?

22 years now make up a prison does not soften. Widmer contributes almost a shield from vulgar militancy before him, and old struggle FÃ¤kalsprache terms are used by him to an armored voice melded. In the flat panel arrived, builds the same ex-Knacki still sparse Ikea furniture than Wall around on. The CD shelf as he assigns a grid before the window, the prison is also dismissed a piece certainty.

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Finally, it is still Widmer at war with the world, even if the enemy can no longer designated. The old radicals: The struggle continues, failing him, he just with himself

But that is not necessary. Because in the apartment next door, a young woman eingemietet that it actually has a man apart: Valerie (Franziska Petri) is something like a forgotten history. My father was a gardener at the terrorist cell of Widmer Murdered banker - and arrived at the attack also killed. Now she wants the ex-RAFler personally accountable for. But he was there at all, the fatal shots has competence?

The facts of the situation in the "shadow world" remains ambiguous, and that this film may be on the credit side of. Director Connie Walther makes sense in two seriously with the title: Just as the two protagonists unsettledness not out of the shadows of history into the light of the present finding, it remains the exact sequence of the historical crime in the dark. But precisely because such a paradox, the director brings the issue painfully efficiently into the here and now.

SHADOW WORLD (GERMANY, 2008)

Directed by Connie Walther
Screenplay: Uli Herrmann, Peter-JÃ¼rgen Boock
Connie Walther (Co-authors)
Cast: Franziska Petri, Ulrich Noethen, Uwe Kockisch, Tatja Seibt, Eva Mattes, Christoph Bach, Mehdi Nebbou, Gottfried BreitfuÃŸ
Production: Next Film
Rental: Edition Salzgeber
Duration: 92 minutes
Start: 25 June 2009
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Instead supposedly safe distance from the German Autumn as manageable, completed Chronicle to present
as recently as a major research venture and reconstruction of the "Baader Meinhof Complex" has done, the conflict is rampant in "Shadow World" (Co-Author: Peter-JÃ¼rgen Boock; Screenplay: Uli Herrmann) malign the present: In the figure of the RAF Veterans Widmer can be seen easily bonds to Christian Klar, who recently after 26 years' imprisonment was dismissed. And Valerie child victim is in urgent need of their past certainties similarities to Michael Buback, which is still tormented by the question is, who exactly 30 years ago, his father, the Federal Prosecutor General Siegfried Buback, murdered has.

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How these allusions incorporated into the film, which is likely not appeal, especially in the development of the project, including the former RAF member Peter-JÃ¼rgen Boock has acted not as an absolutely reliable in terms of historical analysis is valid.

But with provocative productions Connie Walther has been experience.
For their TV "12 says: I love you" she said two years ago, the love story between a Stasi officer and a victim of his interrogation. Before broadcasting ran several storm victims associations against her work because it has a trivialisation of the GDR's feared crime and later gave it to right the German Television Award.

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Changing the subject, the same thrust: As in East drama is now the RAF SpÃ¤tfolgenstudie "shadow world" of the matter, as victims and perpetrators equally active characters can be made to somehow act on an equal footing, without the suffering of one and the guilt of the other to be put. Walther find a few strong, disturbing images, such as when the ex-terrorist and RÃ¤cherin smoke pot on the balcony, while below them in the garden the lives of others takes place. Third, the world is them two in the same way - just as is the old man responsible for ensuring that the young woman as well.

In reality, there is between perpetrators and victims silenced. One can not be forced to talk (or talking about things but the only way), the others wait in vain for final truths. The RAF blockbuster "Baader Meinhof Complex" because nothing has changed. By daring narrative order, the prolongation of the conflict in the present triggers Walther director with "shadow world" but in the sense of shame, fear and pain, to stare. Maybe it just needed the silence after lightning flash.

Evil dead children full games.

2009-06-23T20:52:00.000-07:00

Subtle horror, beautifully photographed, the Catalan director Juan Antonio Bayona and his Kinderspuk "The Orphanage" a thriller set up, it showers with modern classics like "The Sixth Sense" can hold.

Unapproachable affects the stately property with a beautiful park on the Gulf of Biscay, the former orphanage, the Good Shepherd. Here are Laura, her husband and eight-year-old SimÃ³n freshly collected, here lived the little Laura a long time until adoptive parents for them and they found their companions left with which they are so fond of playing hide.

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Here now, the young woman with the enormous emotional permeability vulnerable children love and security, together with the bright SimÃ³n. Her terminally ill boy is adopted, it is not white. He was happily at ease in the house on the beach with new friends - friends imagination, which only he can see.

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And Laura will begin their part, foreign Seinsformen darker with Villa in the corridors dÃ¤mmrigen exercise, sometimes they encounter a child with a cloth mask and feels worried. As SimÃ³n big celebration ceremony will disappear and will remain disappeared, his mother is beside herself, her month-long search seems futile. Until finally the Laura wanton, childish ghost in her villa directly confronted. Now, with them hiding the old games, the grim mystery of orphans Horts discover how they can find SimÃ³n.

Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona plunges his ill-fated children dead games in mild, Fahle colors, less disturbed by shock effects than other trappings of the genre, by noise, by mysterious clues, puppets or masks, the props to avoid visual exposure. Slowly, he Lauras psychological erosion, which is surreal in its reality structure, spreads a subtle, cool about the whole horror, beautifully photographed film.

To fall into this atmospheric, specialists from the nightmare of Guillermo del Toro mitproduzierte mystery thriller about separation and VergangenheitsbewÃ¤ltigung to fear of the finality of death and doom, to the elegant Schauerfabeln recent times, to "The Sixth Sense," "The Others" or the classic "The Innocents" of 1961.

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Director: Juan Antonio Bayona. With Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo

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Deep-scale, transcendental psycho horror such as this takes up far more than the general horror genre ungewÃ¼rdigte addition to figures such as movie audiences to the core to durchbeben. Just as the peaceful death over their countless dead also take the opportunity to get what they need. To the things in their past, there remained closed.

Unlike all the others.

2009-06-23T19:10:00.000-07:00

He is dancing breakdance as Hamlet, strippt in Midsummer Night's Dream - and swapped the stage for the first time with the canvas. In Maren Ades film "All the other", the actor Lars Eidinger an impressive film debut as an architect-Sensi Belchen.

Although the weather rather an umbrella would require Lars Eidinger sits with a huge pair of sunglasses in the coffee shop in Berlin-Mitte. Previously he had Incognito such measures had not needed, it says welcome and pushes the accessory on the forehead. But now, when the first movie had begun with him ...

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"All other" Berlin theater actor in cinematic pinnacle catapults. From zero to hundred. And quite rightly so. The "Silver Bear", with film partner Eidingers Birgit Minichmayr deservedly was awarded, it would actually have to give double pack.

"Previously, I have no more than once a week with my agency phoned," says Eidinger. Since its premiere in February at the Berlinale has his agent at least three times daily on the blower. Home and pile up the scripts. On Sunday, the 33-year-old actor, footballer and amateur DJ in Schweriner "Polizeiruf 110" on the side of Fritzi Haberlandt dubious transactions with the Eastern European mafia metal handle. And for the Hessischer Rundfunk, he just Nicolette Krebitz and Devid Striesow, his old buddy study by the Berlin Drama School Ernst Busch, the triangle "relationships".

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His first feature film has Lars Eidinger Nina Haun thanks to Casterin for "All other" director Maren Ade. It is ordinary visitor to the Berlin stage show - he heard there have been ten years to the top ranks. His appearance as a party organizer in Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream", the SchaubÃ¼hne Chief Thomas Meier Easter and choreographer Constanza Macras three years ago as an oblique-sultry Sommerfete staged, is in theater circles as legendary.

Eidinger presented not only a striptease out of every professional GoGo-Boy would turn green with envy. Then he put his penis still devotedly through the mouth opening in a skull mask, let him like a heavy, alcoholic herausrÃ¼sseln tongue and then voiced stylish lofty Shakespearean verses. The youth magazine "Now" the SÃ¼ddeutsche Zeitung, he was specifically in this case give an interview: "As it is, in front of 350 people out."

Who, however, it concludes that in expressive Eidinger nonchalance about his characters hinweghuscht, wrong. The actor is a perfectionist and precision artists, in the middle full speed and stop suddenly with a single glance can tell 27 stories. Just like in "All other" where Eidinger Minichmayr and from the Italian Vacation heitersten sky out the emotional Super-GAU herbeispielen - just by the way, the other on or to drop him.

Eidinger has thoroughly prepared for his role: From a fellow architect, he settled for a few weeks as an intern in an architectural office infiltrate. "During the lunch break, I have extensively on the city railway station Lehrter gefachsimpelt," he says, grinning. "But I just wanted to not fall for clichÃ©s and an architect with designer glasses and black turtleneck sweater to play."

The effort has paid off: The degree of identification is enormous. Many involved in the production of mid recounts Eidinger, had during the filming of their partners separately. His own wife, opera singer Ulrike Eidinger, noted, however, only critical to almost every sentence of his movie character Chris at least once even heard of him to have.

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Love drama "All other": What I wanted you to say (16.06.2009)

No wonder - but Eidinger counts himself at that generation, the ancient tragedy on the stage rather ironically breaks and the great drama of life in the rather moderate relationship Talk small hacks. "I would be happy if I could say no," admits Eidinger to the question of how he deals with his character Chris identify.

That his view of this generation is free of moralizing Oberlehrerhaftigkeit, but nevertheless critical, has just Eidinger in his directorial debut at the Berlin SchaubÃ¼hne demonstrated. There, he forcibly Schiller's youthful revolutionary drama "The Robbers" quickly into a disco karaoke.

Where the student Karl Moor in Schiller a gang of robbers after Robin Hood and fast model based on border issues of idealism and terrorism lands, dances, the apolitical generation Eidinger nurmehr by eighties hits of Rod Stewart and Queen. "Today it is completely irrelevant whether I am Michael Jackson or the Che Guevara T-shirt wearing," says Eidinger. "Nobody knows what these people really are."

Scarcely had he at the Berlinale film his celebrated debut, he was with his "bandit" production directed to the Munich Junior Festival "young radicals" invited. Where will the pendulum turn, to the stage or screen, is as yet unknown.

In the review stage dances under his Eidinger further Breakdance Danes as Prince Hamlet on the stage, his colleagues bewirft filled with tetra packs and wedged itself headlong into DekovorhÃ¤ngen. Until he suddenly very still remains, in the auditorium looks and the famous Shakespeare line says: "To be or not, that is the question."

Sandra Bullock finished the bachelor party.

2009-06-22T20:14:00.000-07:00

Quite researching her character in "self is the bride" in accordance, with Sandra Bullock has her new comedy at once the head of the U.S. cinema charts conquered. In Germany, however, brought Russell Crowe thriller "State of Play" only swing into cinemas.

Hamburg / Los Angeles - Never before was a Sandra Bullock movie, the first weekend will be as successful as "self is the Bride" (original title: "The Proposal"). With 34.1 million U.S. dollars box office earnings in the U.S. according to "Focus on Film" captured the romantic comedy sovereign leader of the local cinema charts.

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Even the Sandra: Actress Bullock with Ryan Reynolds in the new US-Kino-Hit

Sandra Bullock plays in "Even the bride is a successful editor, in Canada their home to be deported - and suddenly her assistant (Ryan Reynolds," X-Men Origins: Wolverine ") with a carriage to marriage anstiftet.

Only for the second place, however, gave it to the 100-minute bachelor party, "The Hangover". The men remained slapstick but with 26.9 million U.S. dollars as well as highly stable and comes to a total of 152.9 million U.S. dollars. Thus, the film is already more successful than the similar knitted "The Wedding Crasher".

Excellent keeps the Pixar animated film "Up" (German title: "Top") in third place. With a total profit of 224 million U.S. dollars, he is already the second film of the year - surpassed only by Leaders "Star Trek", the currently ranked seven of the charts, and so far has recorded 239.4 million.

With 20.2 million U.S. dollars landed "Year One", the Neanderthal comedy with Jack Black and newcomer Michael Cera ( "Juno"), the second best of the week late. Stark, however, it went downhill for the remake of "The Abduction of Pelham 123" which is in the second week for more than half lost, and only 11.3 million U.S. dollars recordings.

Not much new in the German cinemas

In Germany, meanwhile, new mixed
"State of Play - the state of things", the movie charts this weekend a little. 110,000 visitors made it the new thriller with Russell Crowe ( "Gladiator") and Rachel McAdams ( "Red Eye") as an investigative reporter pair in third place.

For the two blockbusters at the top, the newcomer is no real risk; The long-running
"Illuminati" and "Night at the Museum 2" squabble continues to lead. Winners this week: for the fifth time since Tom Hanks' "Illuminati" (140,000 cinema-goers).

The top five are from
"Terminator - The Redemption" and the Disney fairy tale "Hannah Montana - The Movie" with 105,000 visitors completed. Far off in eighth position is the two Berlinale Winner
"All others". The drama of love Maren Ade ( "The forest for the trees") was, however, only in 40 movie theaters and, at just under 30,000 viewers a respectable average.

Extremely weak, however, started the
"Shopping Center King" Seth Rogen ( "The first time") with just the 5000 spectators, which is just embarrassing for a 20th Enough space.

"The poison of cynicism is spreading."

2009-06-22T19:10:00.000-07:00

As a Hollywood star, he knows what it is, victims of the media - in the thriller "State of Play", he plays a reporter even now, the ethical conflict in hand. In an interview with blogs ONLINE Russell Crowe explains why journalists back to their credibility to do.

blogs ONLINE: Actually, Brad Pitt should be the main role in the journalist thriller "State of Play" take over. How did you finally about to play the part?

Crowe: last summer, when I travel after a long rotation finally back home in Australia was suddenly called by someone at Universal Pictures. This is not some company for me, but according to the joint projects of "Gladiator" to "American Gangster" a studio full of real friends. They explained how they brads rejection stuck in the terminal and pointed me to the earlier films by director Kevin McDonald, whose quality is the best I will not be able to ignore. And, finally sent me the "State of Play" script. Schwupps even flew my vacation planning out the window.

blogs ONLINE: They liked the material immediately, even though you are extremely picky?

Crowe: I follow a principle of youth since the rule: If I have to read a script feel a physical reaction, whether I now get goose bumps or tears fill my eyes, then this is the job that I must accept. I feel compelled - out of respect for the gods of the film. That is and remains the central reason of which I am in this industry: In order to tell stories that touch me emotionally.

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"State of play: Journalists in danger"
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Movie Trailer: "state of play"
Film clip: "It has not killed"
Film clip: "That's My Story"
Film clip: "You have 40 billion reasons to make you ready"

blogs ONLINE: Did you have a special relationship with the figure of the journalist Cal McAffrey after this career as a young man considered himself once had?

Crowe: Not only that - I have in the past 30 years, meeting regularly to journalists and a lot of observations typical material can collect. Personally, I was praised by the press, slating and betrayed, I must find friends and so many must endure dirty attack. My picture of the media is different, you can believe me. Therefore it was important to me, in "State of Play" no heroic figure to play the journalist as iron reconnaissance. But a man who is not in accordance with the ethical rules of living, of which he speaks - as he just a man.

blogs ONLINE: You may not particularly journalists, huh?

Crowe: But! All this took me by my principle never discouraged attitude that the journalism in the core is a classy professional. If it is taken seriously. So when a reporter critical of his work itself is concerned, a first, second and third version of an article written, and tries to at least a certain level of objectivity.

blogs ONLINE: But most reporters take it with the loyalty of your facts do not think so accurately?

PERSONAL

The career of actor Russell Crowe, born in 1964 in New Zealand, began in Australia, where he lived since childhood. One of his first, he had roles in the soap "Neighbors". In the USA, he finally in 1995 in Sam Raimis "Faster than death" at the side of Sharon Stone reputation. The breakthrough came two years later with "LA Confidental", but no later than with Crowe's Oscar-award-winning lead role in the hero-epic "Gladiator."

Crowe: To believe that a journalist always objectivity could be committed, is just bullshit. We all have our faults and preferences - and that's fine. Good journalism is one for me under the umbrella of the creative arts, when this term is not cynical, but purist understands. I expect that an author so personally involved is like a painter or a filmmaker, because only with this attitude is the best work. Nevertheless, I am aware that the circumstances of the occupation of the individual entitlement can dilute reporters. Whether it is pressure of time or spiteful editors who are looking for a liquid lunch routinely at the heart of a story break, so they are better on Page five beside the display for women's underwear fits.

blogs ONLINE: "State of Play" paints a critical picture of commercial thinking in the media industry.

Crowe: If there is a crisis in journalism, then it was conjured up by journalists.

blogs ONLINE: What do you mean?

Crowe: Messages are decades gradually been trivialized. It was admitted that the boundary between fact and entertainment blurred for better conditions or higher rates to reach. You can take any newspaper, regardless of their reputation, and will always find pages on which those responsible know that they deliver nothing but banality. Between articles on the greenhouse effect or policy packages can be found everywhere at the pleasure of the readers are thought to drought and facts about the private lives of prominent contemporaries report. It then runs under "Miscellaneous", perhaps you smiles and questions the reliability of the sources no more. But who cares it is just who or what can be distinguished in the handbag is LeAnn Rimes?

blogs ONLINE: Would you like to provide the reader with an interest in persons of public life deny?

Crowe: Of course not, but are now widespread speculation or facts by Innuendo replaced. It prints quotes from informants around the world without any credibility to, in my industry, this is done daily. And because it is just all over, can use the editors in case of doubt on her defense. But when you deal with these lax truth for athletes or actors can crawl into the leaf, the door open for a similar deal with the President, is not it? The poison of cynicism is spreading. Suddenly, a generation of readers created, the messages can no longer be completely trusted, because they were accustomed to triviality.

blogs ONLINE: What responsibility artist in this climate? They even have some recently with "The man who never lived" a film about the Middle East film that ultimately fictional entertainment, but also to those viewers a picture of the region provided that are not otherwise informed.

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Media thriller "State of Play": The death looks good on him (18.06.2009)

Crowe in the film industry should be aware of all that, between Oslo and Orange County will be internalized, what we show on the screen. No director should be behind the argument of fiction must hide if he is a serious topic. The effect of pictures and dialogues at the Zeitgeist is massive. I myself can only be done at my own career and always try to look, this responsibility. Sometimes it is the end result is not satisfied, in other cases, we actually achieved something.

blogs ONLINE: Can you give an example?

Crowe: Take one of my earlier films, "romper stomper," a true story about neo-Nazis and skinheads in Melbourne. Their motion is then we formally have been killed. The audience felt attracted by a substance which is compatible with adrenaline and drama attracted - but at the end of the story was all the protagonists dead or in jail. The visualized violence was necessary, but they seemed repulsive and invited not to imitate one. This debate must be an industry ever again, which unfortunately often also violence outside a moral context as attractants uses. There is an ongoing discussion, which necessarily involve the question of boundaries of artistic freedom raises. I did not have all the answers. But in the choice of my projects, I try never to forget how powerful the medium, which we ourselves operate.

blogs ONLINE: As a result of the financial crisis is widespread, according to the fear that Hollywood will avoid more serious productions, and more on escapism will. Your opinion?

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Crowe: I think the opposite is the case. Sure, we experience a boom in the event films, in which even the last obscure comic character on canvas size will be inflated. But especially in the wake of the change of government in America is just an encouraging environment in which people learn more about their beliefs, passions and concerns speak. You can feel how rich people have it, with trivial small bites to be fed, whether in the media or in popular culture. I think Hollywood will be strengthened to take account. If not from inner conviction, but then from the economic interest to this audience hungry not finally to lose.

Marketing in leopard panties.

2009-06-19T19:14:00.000-07:00

After "Borat" comes "BrÃ¼no" The advertising campaign for the new fake-documentary from comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is in full swing. The most powerful man in the British Popkukultur sees it as a second, self-focused PR and taboo coordinated.

This was precision work: How to Sacha Baron Cohen recently at the MTV Movie Awards with nearly bare buttocks directly onto the face of Eminem abseil had witnessed really outspoken accuracy. Wonderful, like the hardcore rapper as to air and rang version!

Even if the action, as it turned out, was a staged affair, with the homophobic than verschriene Eminem about himself made fun: What a terrific prelude to major advertising campaign by Cohen's new movie "BrÃ¼no" the world in early July cinemas comes.

No Second commercial understands it, the specific rule violation and the targeted self-marketing as closely coordinated as the British Radikalhumorist.

In his new work, he is now the gay Austrian fashion journalist BrÃ¼no, from his home in the world forth, in bizarre attempts to self-own sexuality and foreign cultures to explore. As in his fake documentary "Borat" Cohen wins in his role as all kinds BrÃ¼no uninitiated originals in front of the camera, which he in his disguise to SelbstentblÃ¶ÃŸung drives: a Investigativrecherche in leopard skin.

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Of course, one wonders how it should go, that Cohen, after a hit like "Borat", the world alone at the box office around 250 million euros has recorded, undetected in his "victim" made up. But even here, he had an excellent plan: In preparation for the film of the comedians set up a total of 29 fake companies to part with expensive Internet presence created, one of which was, for example, German entertainment TV.

For this parallel empire out, he established contacts with prominent and less prominent contemporaries, which he then in Leopardenfellslip panties and latex-clad Alps Fashionista BrÃ¼no lured from the reserve. There is still so much hostility to the gay world, you just need to know where we must go.

For example, to hunt with a group of hillbillies, when mere mention of the word gay the grim shotguns reload. Or in the Midwest, where the gay sheep Betbruder his sexual orientation with Jesus tries to drive off. Or code to former Republican candidate Ron Paul to Texas, after a small hint of BrÃ¼nos strip runs from the room.

About the film may still nothing concrete will be announced. Who it here earlier this week in a press screening wanted to see, had to sign with meetings until shortly before the German cinema release on 8 July to wait.

The course is part of a clever marketing campaign, in which the actor behind the current completely disappears, and the role of PR MTV appearance until nude portrait on the cover of the American men's magazine "GQ" is perfectly orchestrated.

Cohen posing for the magazine with coquettishly BrÃ¼no view - which in turn coquettishly with Jennifer Aniston look-posing (she was a few issues before kleidungslos also on the front page have been lifted). When Cohen times each now gets his fat away. No matter the way, whether personal connection to the satirizes exist. In BrÃ¼no "there is also some extremely angry allusions to the adoption of Addiction Madonna, when Cohen already as Ali G in one of her videos has joined.

Vulnerability of the campaign: praise from gay

Because for the 37-year-olds, since "Borat" perhaps the most influential figure in British pop culture, it is also, for his work by the hugs of his new celebrity friends free. For a small cameo appearance in a Cohen-works would be of some pop star's private jet type. Only once, very briefly, Cohen makes the assembled notables Brit in "BrÃ¼no" for a song applies; the biggest pop star of the gay world is also included.

Thus, because so far from gay circles little criticism, though in "BrÃ¼no" no gay stereotype omitted. The spokesman of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation finds the film is "in many places difficult and even offensive." The chief of the Central Organ queer "Out", however, explicitly praises the radical impulse of the Enlightenment slapstick: "The multiplex audiences but would otherwise never on a two-hour lecture on homophobia in, but exactly what this film offers."

After the waves of protest against "Borat", the film only opened his commercial fame have provided, these words must Cohen, however, genuine concerns. The now-friendly as much at a secret hearing is to film, who actually wants to provoke, but runs the marketing virtuosically playful negative opposite.

Praise from gay? Praise from those who Sacha Baron Cohen caricatured? That is funny as the only weak point in the otherwise perfectly organized publicity campaign to "BrÃ¼no".

Police arbitrariness? Won!.

2009-06-18T20:16:00.000-07:00

Jody comedy Hills Shopping Center King tried the border passage between Tumbes and corrosive slapstick farce. Sometimes even successful.

Both films, the American director Jody Hill has been shot, act of megalomaniac men. And, of modesty, he himself seems not much. For his new book "Shopping Center King" have it from the Scorsese classic "King of Comedy" and "Taxi Driver" inspiration, Hill let the public know.

The death looks good on him.

2009-06-18T19:12:00.000-07:00

Rulers intrigue, reporters investigate - and if such an excellent director Kevin Macdonald at work, is it a great thriller: incredibly gripping, visually brilliant, with a super casual Russell Crowe. And the dying newspaper in another leading role.

It begins with a small Abmurksung Gangsters and fast and elegant metropolitan pictures, a little of the classic conspiracy thrillers such as "French Connection" remember, and actually is "State of Play" a visually brilliant old-fashioned, yet tremendously exciting thriller.

What I wanted you to say.

2009-06-16T21:12:00.000-07:00

So light and flickering was not a German long summer movie anymore. With "All other" is a miracle Maren Ade successful: A drama about love silent quake with a great actress and so true dialogue, that they from their own lives to know believes.

The mouth forms a silent "O", big and round. Another RÃ¶cheln a handle in the cardiac region, making a last look at the loose nearly four years SchÃ¼tzin - then crashes the completed body in the pool.

A highly dramatic death scene for the amusement of a small, musty girl.

At the end of "All other" is Gitti, played by the great Birgit Minichmayr again as lifeless ahead. And it is again not the end - but that of a pair, at least as it was. It will re-locate or separate them. And between these two infantile oneself feign death, this desperate attempt to familiarize himself with important charge, is located, is the everyday game of love, the drama of disenchantment.

The whole film is about nothing else. And it is amazing how safe the director Maren Ade ( "The forest for the trees") in their second feature film must have been that the love and disillusionment as their stinknormale material for a movie last. And what a.

"All other", whose director, actress and equipment (Silke Fischer) with prices (Silver Bear, Femina Film Prize) was considered, the French from the recent German films. A summer of film, light, flickering, heat. Sometimes the gusts swirl beneath the surface of an underlying mood Thermik upwards. Sometimes expresses the heat on the waiting mood. The waiting that a voltage flies, guests are disappearing, the holiday passed. One thinks of Rohmer in this story about people who are quite well off and yet when they themselves are exposed, shaken by a crisis, which has no cause, because this crisis is life itself.

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"All other" - How to love a holiday crisis
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Movie Trailer: "All other"
Film clip: "Find me male?"
Film clip: "I do not want to be like other"
Film clip: "I want you disappear"

Gitti, Press wife at a music label, tomboyish and directly, and Chris (Lars Eidinger), an ambitious architect, lanky and uncertain, in the summer traveling, the holiday house of Chris' parents. The domicile is in Sardinia, has a pool, is not for everyone available on a hill and is still one of many of its kind in bikini Gitti running around, Chris broken in jeans.

Once it lipstick with a light blue eyeshadow and pink lipstick, once he leads her a Schmachttanz before. You cook, you eat, loves it. And at some point one wonders whether it is sufficient for one, as you are, or whether you have something missing. The masculinity, for example. But when Chris, for the first time his arm like a real man of above sets Gittis shoulder, jerks it with her, so strange is that so unusual. What else could be missing? The professional success.

Already we are in the middle of the living. With its compromises, all the carefully-made concepts shattered. With its role-playing for Successful and Creative, for women and men. And in the middle of the Lie: Chris Gitti forgets that his competition design, which he had hoped so much, is kicked out.

Danger and desire.

2009-06-16T20:08:00.000-07:00

A secret service man, a mistress: Two characters, the director Ang Lee in an erotically daring political drama involved. "Danger and desire" is the seventh film of the culture blogs Edition "Great movie moments" - the title says it all.

Even the title of "danger and desire" sounds like crackling eroticism, and actually have the sex scenes the film has become legendary. In China, they fell victim to censorship, which is a curious kind of cultural tourism promoted: Travel agencies organized group tours for Chinese filmmakers and voyeurs into the more liberal Hong Kong, where it ran Ang Lee's Historienmelodram uncut.

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Actor Tony Leung: External finely inside Agony

Pointe: How do sex scenes are not, and until the first notes of the film on top of a huge start. Who after bare skin rected, lured by preliminary reports, there should be quite impatient - and a sham scent.

GREAT MOMENTS CINEMA

Other hand: So a few minutes he might fill that sex is literally the driving force behind the plot. In a costume film perfectionist perfectionist stages of Ang Lee as a moment of loss of control for two controlled perfectionists.

The student Wang Jiazhi, a simple and shy girl who wishes of becoming an actress. In Hong Kong in 1938, during the Japanese occupation of China, they will contact a patriotic amateur theater.

Right soon enough, however, the director of the Agitprop disk is no longer sufficient, and the group will stage a terrorist organization.

The ensemble is designed to Geheimdienstler Mr Yi, a collaborator of the hated Japanese, into a trap and harmless.

The main role receives Wang Jiazhi: She plays a married woman Mak, an equally sophisticated as seductive lady who erschleicht Mr Yis trust - and an affair with him began.

DVD EDITION: BANG BANG BOOM

Great Cinema Moments - Danger and Desire
FSK released from 16
Runtime approx 153 minutes.

Director: Ang Lee with Tony Leung, Chiu Wai

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April 2009 - DVD-Video

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Power to us!.

2009-06-16T19:06:00.000-07:00

When is the film world has become so bourgeois? The cinema is in urgent need of more sex again.

It is the hussy, the bitch, the bitch, which makes it with any drives. She is blond and cheap and too strong geschminkt. You sÃ¤uft and takes drugs, until they pass, and then it rises with the disgusting fat colleagues to bed. This woman knows no bounds. But, one: When Sex keeps them in the bra.

There are only two sex scenes in upcoming movie Jody Hills Shopping Center King "- that is for today's Hollywood has a lot of relationships - but they are so unsexy, that they also may have been omitted. Anna Faris puts the whole movie ran a wonderfully exaggerated performance as a girl to ruin, but the bra makes everything eaten away. Who should you believe it?

The problem is that the viewer is no longer used to it differently. In any outdoor shows, now more than bare-chested on screen, you've got it somewhere so tolerated. Every human activity as Hollywood tries to depict realistic: In the films will be talked, fought, ate, slept and died. But sex? Sex has long since nobody. A flood disaster, the millions of people within minutes extinguishes as in "The Day after Tomorrow"? No problem - age from 12 A penis? At least one bare breast? Never!

Sexuality will disappear, it will be in the movie not even talk about. The theme is the directors and producers have become too dangerous. Anyone who shows a lot, the threat of an age over 18 and thus a too small target audience. Especially in the U.S., customs guard to keep an eye on whether it is in the movie also received family-friendly - otherwise called for a boycott. And always at the stringent standards: more than a bare breast would have been 20 years ago hardly anyone excited, then a lot of talk today of equal pornography. A mood of prudery, fear and caution about the cinema has the desire robbed.

CULTURE blogs 6 / 2009

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More sex please!
The cinema has lost the desire

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That needs to change urgently.

Who in June something like passion on the canvas wants to experience, the only remains Bernardo Bertoluccis 37 years old classic "The Last Tango in Paris" at the end of the month in a couple of German cinema is over,. The film with Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider 1972 was a scandal, as the cinema has hardly seen. A random, anonymous pair, which at every opportunity herfÃ¤llt on each other in brutal and nihilistic passion, and the audience is always close here. The "star" discovered "aggressive, animal sex scenes from an unprecedented immediacy and unrestrained." The phrase "Go, get the butter" before the anal sex scene was one of the most famous movie quotes of all time. The then still active censorship authorities ran storm, the Italian national police seized copies of all the film, Bertolucci in Italy were disqualified from the civil rights for five years he could not even choose.

It was worth it, because was still "The Last Tango in Paris" an incredible success, the endless queues in front of the cinema world and caused nearly 100 million U.S. dollars recordings. Taken with inflation, which today would be about 250 million, as much as a modern blockbuster.

The film proved that cinema can show explicit sexuality, without the porn-corner to land. The legendary American critic Pauline Kael found Bertolucci and Brando had "the face of an entire art form changed," and celebrated the film as a long-awaited breakthrough for the cinema itself.

And what happened to the revolution now? Sex with BH.

So prudish and over-as today was on the canvas as well only in the fifties and early sixties, when Doris Day and Rock Hudson comedies, such as with "bed talk" or "A Pajama for two standards of petty continued.

It was at the beginning of film history, from the silent era to the talkies of the mid-thirties, yet casual movement on the canvas. Haunts in the 1915 Paramount production "Hypocrite" the director Lois Weber over long distances Margaret Edwards as completely and utterly naked truth in the film. Icon Director Cecil B. DeMille made a fun fact, in its spectacular rupture as much sex as possible - be it with Gloria Swanson as a slave in the leopard skin-shirts in a dream sequence in "Male and Female" (1919) or with a wild orgy scene in "The Ten Commandments" (1923). Jean Harlow ( "Before blondes will be warned," 1931) or Mae West ( "I'm no angel", 1933) have their entire careers on the image of the wicked sex bomb, whose transparent dresses and offensive slogans ( "Is that a gun in your pocket, or ...?") with the producers of today for sure would be horrified stare.

The erotic thirst route began in 1934 with the official enactment of the "Production Code" - a comprehensive set of strict ethical guidelines, with which the Federation of American film production companies boycott calls conservative groups wanted to protect and at the same time in an era of strict self-censorship crashed. Any breach breached the code, was published by the Association to a delicate fine required to be allowed to film in many cinemas do not even start.

Heady hangover.

2009-06-15T19:10:00.000-07:00

Against the bachelor slapstick "The Hangover" saw Pixar's latest animation fun "Up" also on the second weekend in succession, no country. In the German cinema charts conquered "Illuminati" the tip back - and referred to the "Terminator" on the defensive.

Hamburg / Los Angeles - From hangover no trace: the zotige Men's comedy "The Hangover" is also on the second weekend as a surprise to the U.S. treasury proved. According to "Focus on Film", the film became bachelor party at astonishing 33.4 million U.S. dollars and has thus already in week two, the 100-million threshold is exceeded (105.4 million).

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A number of comedians, "The Hangover" intoxicated cinema walkers

"The Hangover" is reminiscent of "The Wedding Crasher" from 2005, which is not only a similar sense of humor was rough, but just like "The Hangover" in spite of R-rating early successes celebrated. The Owen Wilson comedy then came to a total box office earnings of 210 million U.S. dollars.

For the animated film "Up" (German title: "Top") passed it on the third weekend with 30.5 million U.S. dollars again only for second place. With a total profit of 187.2 million U.S. dollars is the colorful Pixar rookie but already the dritterfolgreichste movie of the year 2009 - and already more successful than its predecessor, "Wall-E" at the same time a year ago.

The best boot in the U.S. presented "The abduction of Pelham 123" with Denzel Washington and John Travolta in the leading roles out. With 25 million U.S. dollars is enough for the remake of the Walter Mathau-thriller from the year 1974 but only for the third place - but still better than last Denzel Washington thriller "DÃ©jÃ Vu," with 20.6 million U.S. dollars prior to the start three years was significantly weaker.

Ben Stiller and his awakening to life comrades Museum followed in fourth place. The sequel "Night at the Museum 2" played on the weekend solid 9.6 million U.S. dollars and are positioned so that just before the latest string of U.S. comedian Will Ferrell and his dinosaur adventure comedy "The almost-forgotten world," with 9.1 million U.S. dollars.

A disappointing launch had Eddie Murphy's new comedy "Imagine That - The power of imagination", which with 5.7 million U.S. dollars on the first weekend start in the top five clearly missed.

German battle for pole position

In the German cinema charts is again a change at the top, where: With nearly 250,000 visitors, the film adaptation of Dan Brown novel
"Illuminati" in their fifth week the number one back, making it the fourth time on the first rank. In his first adventure as the cinema conspiracy theorist Robert Langdon, "The Da Vinci Code - Da Vinci Code" had Tom Hanks 2006 even seven times the charts above.

Rather bleak was the second weekend for the fourth part of the Terminator saga,
"Terminator: Salvation." The 180 million U.S. dollars expensive action-spectacle with "Batman" Christian Bale was in the first week attracted 600,000 moviegoers in week two gave it to only 245,000 and a second place just ahead of "Night at the Museum 2" with 240,000 visitors.

A place was then Disney's flagship teen Miley Cyrus, whose children cinema romance "Hannah Montana - The Movie" finds, however, with 200,000 visitors satisfactory to fourth place. Matthew McConaugheys "The Womanizer - The Night of the ex-girlfriends" concluded with 100,000 viewers from the top five.

The best newcomer is with just 90,000 visitors to sixth place away - for a genre film like Sam Raimis satanic horror strip
"Drag Me to Hell", however, at the German box office were not at all bad.

Death on the island.

2009-06-11T20:12:00.000-07:00

In the film "Small Crimes" longs a policeman on a sleepy island after nasty cases - indeed up to a corpse turns up. Nearly every islander has an absurd explanation for the death. And the audience? Has fun.

A happier start date would be for this film can hardly indicate: Surrounded by low pressure regions, the Germans mourn the early summer after all want a bit of sun, but it's far and wide not in sight. Except in the cinema in "Small Crimes".

What the small, lovable Greek film offers the viewer, to a short anderthalbstÃ¼ndigen same: fun, sea, something adventurous, bright landscapes, nice people. And because the holidays only a few of the great depth and interest in social relationships, there are also "small crimes" not much. The second feature of the Cypriots in London, grew up Chistos Georgiou has the sun in the heart, and a glance out the window enough to say: Thank you!

In the center of events, the young policeman Leonidas (Aris Servetalis) - which is just very little happening there, because Leonidas is bored to death on his sleepy island on which it is no more than take a Rotfahrer to admonish or a couple of nudists to warn applies. After Athens he would, but then it just comes with relationships. And because he has not, he is annoying the islanders with his constant tendency to over correct, which it did not take particularly seriously, but somehow love.

And then suddenly there is but a corpse: The old Zacharias has fallen from the cliff. Or was he pushed around? Leonidas created to preserve the dead in a Eistruhe and immediately plunges into the investigation. The people shake their heads, but for the Inselcop is any suspicion. Did the neighbor Zacharias with the water gun into the abyss gepustet because it is against their house has wall gepinkelt? Has the Mayor their fingers in the game? Or his former lover? Or even the U.S. Secret Service?

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The short, absurd scenes where Leonidas imagine what really happened might be among the best in "small crimes". A little unwieldy, the film only if it seriously tries to establish a love story between the hero and the pretty island princess and television presenter Angeliki (Viki Papadopoulou) to construct. But mostly govern carefree cheerfulness, and mild slapstick unaufgesetzte warmth that you desire in the cinema more often.

"Small Crimes" is not the great masterpiece, the Oscar for best foreign film could win. But the perfect movie for the summer, that's it.

Especially when it rains.

On a visit in the blood bank.

2009-06-11T19:10:00.000-07:00

What a mess! And how much fun it makes! Using "Drag Me To Hell 'return specialist Horror Sam Raimi back to his roots - and precisely presents a young hero-Bankerin as an amusing-bloody horror shocker.

Back to jelly - it could drag Me To Hell "about writing. Because Sam Raimis furious comeback as a horror director also presents the return of the slime knallbunten: The sprays in this film have become ghost train in different shapes and colors through the area and is representative of the unscrupulous pleasures on terror since Raimis own epoch-making "Evil Dead" trilogy .

The first part was 1981, the debut of filmmaker from Michigan and was here under the title "Dance of the Devil" famous, notorious - and seized a long time. Today, however, the plastics and Elast-shocker to accidentally conjured up demons as an innovative classic.

Similar qualities as policyholders then the chain saws swinging supermarket clerks Ash, the hero of "Dance of the Devil", has now also Raimis heroine Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) show. In "Drag Me To Hell", she gives in to QuÃ¤lgeister natural.

In order to impress their superiors, denied the bank employees from Los Angeles to the impoverished Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver) an additional payment period for which the pensioner neglected the loss of their house does. Instead of the hoped for promotion, but gets Christine Ganush a curse missed, the term "Bad Bank" a whole new significance.

Because post is Christine goal satanic attacks, and while her skeptical academics friend Clay (Justin Long), nor in their perception of doubt, the spiritualist consulted Rham Jas (Dileep Rao) an unsatisfactory explanation for the visitations parat: Christine is the victim of the curse-Lamia that they are literally within three days will send to hell.

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Between increasingly violent attacks from a shadow world, the monstrous nosebleeds about nasty worms up to the last piece of cake possessed, the young woman must decide how far they really want to go to their fate yet to escape.

Unlike Christine, the audience before the election, whether it prefers to be crying or laughing. Since the proposed pace anyway no time to think about it, makes one doubt the best case, both. So impressed next to the pleasurable play with the expectations especially the dynamics: "Drag Me To Hell" is pure cinema, pure doctrine of light, shadow and movement.

DRAG ME TO HELL (USA 2009)

Director: Sam Raimi
Screenplay: Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi
Cast: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Dileep Rao
Production: Robert G. Tapert, Grant Curtis
Distributor: Universal
Duration: 99 minutes
Start: 11 June 2009
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This return of the unleashed camera - led by Peter Deming, who has "Evil Dead II" photographed - the rapid push-pull zoom, and the dizzy steep-angle one has waited a long time: Over the past decades, the former wunderkind unbraked Drauflos of gesture-emancipates his early works, turned around with "A Simple Plan" (1998), a melancholy thriller and finally transformed as a Marvel comic book enthusiast "Spider Man" into a globally successful screen heroes.

As a producer he always connected entertainment genre: Together with partner Robert Tapert he durable TV trivialities ( "Xena: Warrior Princess"), participated in the trend of U.S. remakes of Japanese horror films ( "The Grudge") and manufactures simple horror tale ( " Boogeyman ").

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And now just the HÃ¶llenritt of Homo oeconomicus, which again makes Ernst with the insight that pain and slapstick, jokes and horror together. While on the canvas loose teeth sailing through the air, mucus Couleur any body and even cute kittens are not spared, it is therefore complete happiness in the room: In a predictable movie summer full of blockbuster sequels is "Drag Me To Hell 'the unexpected Original a refreshing Pesthauch for the American horror cinema.

Leg dich nicht in with BeyoncÃ©!.

2009-06-10T19:12:00.000-07:00

Black can always seduce white women, is a racist stereotype. The thriller "Obsessed" revolves around the idea. Therefore, BeyoncÃ© her husband against a white Stalkerin defend. Looks like African-American feminism has come to?

Star cast, America's success at box office - but this film takes an dramaturgical bankrupt. And that not only because it somehow knows. "Obsessed" which combines the central motifs of two classics of mainstream cinema, and serves their resentments.

Giggling with Kiffer.

2009-06-09T21:30:00.000-07:00

Action? Is' Bang Bang Boom "is only incidental. The German pothead comedy lives of his characters - pseudo tough bloke and hot Ruhrpott bees, all beside the track, but for all lovers. Part six of the culture blogs Edition "Great movie moments."

What is actually from the German film pothead now? Shortly before and after the turn of the millennium saw something like this, as the genre berge much creative potential, an assumption that on closer examination, however, made just two films generated: "Lammbock" from 2001 is the one that amusing, rather innocuous story of a messenger service for very special pizzas in WÃ¼rzburg. "Bang Bang Boom" by Peter Thorwarth from 1999 is the other - and better.

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It is correct to the point: The somewhat overly cozy cannabis friend Keek (Oliver Korittke) lives quite well from a previous plunder bank robbery in contemplative Unna, which is quite a problem, because the money is for the most part already verjubelt and is in prison is already MitrÃ¤uber Kalle (Ralf Richter) is pleased to receive its share, at least 90 percent. Money must be so ago, as soon as possible. And since Keek an entire squad halbseidener up zugedrÃ¶hnter figures to his circle of friends and acquaintances counts, with beautiful names such as swallowing, rat, or even Andy, will somehow work.

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Kalle Although much earlier than planned before the door, after he in prison a Porno has seen in which his wife Manuela an impressive guest appearance has lain, which makes it the rash outbreak has moved. But the plot here is just fine anyway minor matter, because this film lives on his colorful, lovable characters - pseudo tough bloke and hot Ruhrpott bees, all a bit beside the track, some are just stupid, but for lovers of all.

Sometimes the jokes come arg zotig sometime and we no longer know quite what is actually one of whom wants why. But "Boom Bang Bang" has so much heart, that such trifles do not continue to be significant, and a sense of rhythm and tempo, which is a German film rarely comes under.

FragwÃ¼rdig may occur some of the soundtrack, which to a large extent by the H-Blockx contributed was a popular rock band back then inexplicably from Munster. If you come across as well forget it. Anyway, the H-Blockx - which is actually from where now?

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Held at the head is not enough.

2009-06-09T20:14:00.000-07:00

So much hero was not long: Director Steven Soderbergh seems the audience in his Biopic "Che" a strict and serious revolutionary, who simply could not ironic in our mag fit fractional time. A beard has its Commandante therefore still a long way.

There was once a revolution. None of peaceful worship, Monday demos and BegrÃ¼ÃŸungsgeld. But a full filth, disease and death. Your compaÃ±eros Berets wore black caps and greasy. You zauselten in their VollbÃ¤rten and drove over the thick sideburns. And after a day in the jungle or street war ignited it at a fat Havana.

On their day they read books, write speeches or taught less educated colleagues. There were guys who should not make compromises. Not the outfit, not the fight, and certainly not on land reforms. Guys, the favorites of the toppled dictator Fulgencio Batista from the bottom of my heart and cursed on the world has left some.

Long ago. And now he is suddenly in survival size before us, the "Che", played by Benicio del Toro in Steven Soderbergh's two-Biopic, whose first part this week in the cinemas starts.

The asthma patients, which is in the subtropical forest voranschiebt panting, against nothing other than fight the spastic cough reflex, which heat their own exhaustion. At night it can be by a fellow from the mucus of the lungs knocking. Or the doctor who, despite all the revolutionary zeal a loving wonderment about the world and its inhabitants has not lost.

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For example, if a woman in the Cuban bush for days due to treatment, only to him, Ernesto Guevara, to confess that they had no complaints. But with a wish: It would have never in life seen a real doctor. Finally, the cool and charismatic speaker, the pseudo-documentary black-and-white sequences at the United Nations in 1964 and Fidel rule reforms, and to defend the lies of imperialism censures.

These scenes are among the most touching of the entire first part. And then there are other, wonderfully fragile moments, also in black and white: Guevara in the mask before the TV interview. No, he would not be geschminkt. As he watched as his interlocutor, the skin shiny satin finishing let the Maskenbildnerin he beckons again to himself. "A little bit of powder, perhaps." Or how he pflichteifrigen Translated almost lovingly into the barriers of their own importance and then would continue with the chef about food chats. This has a nice relaxed so that you the whole film would have wished.

"CHE" (USA, 2008)

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Screenplay: Peter Buchman
Cast: Benicio del Toro, Julia Ormond, Oscar Isaac, Rodrigo Santoro
Producer: Laura Bickford, Benicio del Toro
Rental: Central Film
Running time: 134 minutes (Part 2 runs 131 minutes)
Start: 11 June 2009 (Part 2 from 23 July)

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Steven Soderbergh is a wise and prudent director. One of which you can accept that he and his intellectually material always at eye height. Nevertheless, a non-so simple in the head, his audience why he is now with a total of 260-minute, unbroken serious epic about the revolutionary hero comes.

So much heroism will never quite fit in with the mail and pop-prefixes paved retreat into the private sphere, after the collapse of communism in the east left helpless in the West has left behind. Since then, could the sixties and seventies, born only to a diffuse discomfort in the culture of their parents, on the New Economy Poppertum or at some Finanzdarwinismus the banker; "I want to love and no revolution / I want love / Everything else I had already" , sang "The bride haut ins Auge" in 1995.

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The cinema has always opposed the revolution as a triumphal-dramatic form maintained, as long as they are colorful characters demographic aging. Films about heroes, from Spartacus to Gladiator, from Gandhi to Malcolm X provided ample material for Biopics. However, it is noticeable that in recent years the Vitae filmed several music legends such as Ray Charles or Johnny Cash have removed this trend. And in the aftermath of the assassination of the 11th September, when we no longer knew where to be - ideologically and ever. Somehow we know is probably still not.

And now suddenly comes this "Che". This is perhaps the most provocative Soderbergh to venture: the anachronism with which it provides us with a disciplined, intelligent and brave resistance fighters before the eyes sets. A Che, the revolutionary in its severity is so different than the pretty, young daredevils (Gael Garcia Bernal) in "The Motorcycle Diaries" by Walter Salles.

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But who to these smiling, spun, slightly stubborn, saufenden, dancing, kind Ernesto white, the other may be new, "Che" in the cinema perhaps better endure. Especially in the passages where the Che image of the film with the famous on the screen prints, house walls and T-shirts to cover coming. Precisely when the aloofness of the icon to look over Del Toros distanced, monitor expression shifts.

"El pueblo unido jamÃ¡s serÃ¡ vencido ..." - Whether one is now in Icelandic WG-voiced kitchens?

But still hangover at Pixar.

2009-06-09T19:10:00.000-07:00

Soaring sudden end: According to estimates from the weekend was Pixar's animated film "Up" the top position of the American movie charts asserted, but the absolute figures reveal the massive men comedy "Hangover" moved with a considerable turnover over.

Hamburg / Los Angeles - At the end of the weekend, the U.S. studios, their estimates on the box office results of their films - some estimate it conservatively, some beat on the strings.

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Warner Bros. had on Sunday evening, and the modest sales of the newly launched bachelor party comedy "Hangover" with 43.3 million U.S. dollars given. The displaced from Disney-Pixar film "Up" with 44.2 million U.S. dollars given - and would thus place the tip of the North American film charts defended.
Even online blogs reported on the usually reliable figures.

On Monday, however, as all sales were actually counted, it turned out: "The Hangover" was recorded much more than initially projected: With 45 million U.S. dollars pulls the movie through a chaotic MÃ¤nnertrip to Las Vegas to an enchanting Pixar animated film to pass the number one . A remarkable result for a startup film without big stars and an R-rating, the young viewers outside leaves. And a successful coup by Warner Bros which - intentionally or not - to the detriment of their massive film have miscalculated. In the battle for the box-office crown, the very rare. "Hangover" is running on 23 July in Germany, "Up" in September.

"Up" remains on top.

2009-06-08T19:10:00.000-07:00

Pixar in flight: The animated film about a sprightly pensioner and his balloon trip will remain in the U.S. cinemas Leaders - and held Will Ferrell comedy star in chess. German cinema-goers range between Illuminati, teen stars and terminators.

Hamburg / Los Angeles - Only 35 percent of its sales start loving lost Pixar animated film "Up" at the weekend in the U.S. - and was, according to "Focus on Film" with 44.2 million U.S. dollars undisputed box office number one box-office charts.

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It was the competition did not even small: The bachelor party comedy "The Hangover" had no stars and because of extreme Zotigkeit an R rating, but on Friday in the daily reports of cinemas ahead. Ultimately it was not enough to Pixar to come from the throne: 43.3 million U.S. dollars of the men played fun by director Todd Phillips ( "Starsky & Hutch") in 3269 cinemas On.

At number three landed Brad Silberling comedy adventure "Land of the Lost" (German: "The almost forgotten world"). In 3521 cinema starts, put the spectacle with star comedian Will Ferrell, but only to around 19.5 million U.S. dollars - the first true flop movie of the summer in the U.S.. "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" ( "Night at the Museum 2") follows to rank four with 14.6 million U.S. dollars on the third weekend.
"Star Trek" decide the top five with 8.4 million U.S. dollars on the fifth weekend (total: 222.8 million U.S. dollars - and thus the most successful movie of the year in the U.S.).

"My Life in Ruins," a romantic comedy with "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" star Nia Vardalos, launched with 3.2 million U.S. dollars turnover and slipped it just barely in the Top Ten: ninth place.

In Germany, meanwhile, dominate those terminators, in the U.S. are not so successful as was initially expected. And here is also noticeable that
a Terminator movie without Arnold Schwarzenegger is no longer quite as attractive. While crowds since the early start on Wednesday about 600,000 viewers in 180 million U.S. dollars expensive
Action spectacle "Terminator: Salvation" with Christian Bale, but the third part of the Saga, then still with Schwarzenegger, was a solid million visitors started in German cinemas.

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"Illuminati" their campaign through cinemas continued. The Dan Brown adaptation was the weekend as the first title of the current year the global box office barrier of 400 million U.S. dollars and drew in Germany alone again to 330,000 visitors (total: 3.5 million).

The third in the league front-runner is already on the last Monday launched Teenie spectacle "Hannah Montana - the movie." The singing, sounding cinema vehicle for U.S. superstar Miley Cyrus was from Thursday to Sunday in 508 cinemas to 320,000 visitors, but has since Monday already about 500.000 fans lured into the cinema.

"Night at the Museum 2" adheres to rank four and could, with 320,000 spectators almost identical numbers as presented on Vorwochenende. Fifth place went to the romantic comedy "The Womanizer - The Night of the ex-girlfriends," the once 120,000 visitors gathered in the cinema. No more rebooting made it into the top 20 A total of two million tickets, a slight increase over the last few weeks.

David Carradine is dead

2009-06-04T20:10:00.000-07:00

As a fighting monk in the TV series "Kung Fu", he came in the seventies to fame, with Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill", he celebrated a late comeback. Now is the actor David Carradine in Bangkok was found dead.

Bangkok - His name is not only with the art of acting, but always with the masterful art of shock linked to: David Carradine became famous in the television series "Kung Fu", his great comeback he experienced in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" -- He played in both Far Eastern-trained fighters.

Now, the American actor in Bangkok was found dead. The 72-year-old is either on Wednesday evening or Thursday morning has died, said a spokesman for the U.S. embassy in the Thai capital.

With regard to family Carradine would begin no further details known. The BBC reports, referring to Thai police sources, the actor was in his hotel room with a rope around his neck had been found.

Whether it is a suicide or an accident, it still seems unclear. According to a report in the Bangkok newspaper "The Nation", the local police, however, currently out of a suicide.

Actor Carradine came from a family. His father was a famous Western actor John Carradine. Even his brothers Bruce, Keith and Robert are actors.

David, however, was not immediately available for occupation - he was so famous he once, first, some youth penalties collected. He studied music in San Francisco, went to the army and eventually met on Broadway. By mid-twenties he made the jump into the television business. 1964 he played in his first feature film with the Western "Taggart".

David Carradine became famous in the seventies through the role of Kwai Chang Caine in the television series "Kung Fu". It is about the adventures of a Shaolin monk in the Wild-West. Later, he was, inter alia, in Ingmar Bergmann film "a '" to see and to "This land is my land", Hal Ashbys filming the life of Woody Guthrie. In the eighties Carradine appeared in the television series "torches in the storm" on. There, he played the unscrupulous plantation owner Justin LaMotte.

Then the actor fell into the shallows of the movie business and worked in productions with increasing, where no place of honor in the history of film response should be: So "The Gallows Birds", "On the hunt for the treasure of Dos Santos' or 'fear at midnight."

His big comeback as he celebrated a few years ago with a grand appearance in Quentin Tarantino's two-part "Kill Bill". It is about the Aussteigerin from a gang of killers (Uma Thurman), shortly before her wedding by her former comrades down in a brutal and criminal action will be seriously injured. After four years of coma, she awakens and begins a campaign of revenge. In the title role Carradine was the boss of the gang and especially brilliant in the finale of the second part.

Carradine was to last well in the business: On 25 June 2009, the prison comedy "Big Stan" in the German cinemas. It Carradine plays a martial arts expert. In February at the Berlinale ran the teen comedy "My Suicide" and the detective film "Absolute Evil", both with Carradine in a supporting role.

According to his manager remained Carradine to filming for the movie "stretch" in Bangkok on.

Corpses on the roadside.

2009-06-04T19:06:00.000-07:00

A Japanese woman travels in the footsteps of their dead parents through Allgaeu: After a triumphant train through the global festival scene is the ambitious cinematic drama "The red dot" in the cinema.

The feature debut of a Japanese graduate of the Munich Film Academy, with modest resources mainly in Bavaria and rotated by a small dedicated lending now called "The red dot" in the cinema - and it sounds ever to supersympathisch.

According to the world responded enthusiastically to various film festivals. Producer Martin Blanke Meyer: "Everywhere there was great audience reaction, for example, in Cairo, in Goa, in Gothenburg. There was a lot of tears, because the end of the film is very touching." In the courtyard, the home of the German and especially film art scene in Munich, won the factory in October 2008 the prize, and Wolfgang Hoebel festival fell in his report on blogs ONLINE over the moon: "The denial of drama can be great art."

It seems therefore a must, at least for visitors and notorious film fans leaden Selbstbeblogsung. To all others, but get the warning: This film background with speed - at the center of a Beziehungstaifuns in which "it is always quiet and clear" is (O-Ton director Marie Miyayama), is the victim of a traffic accident and a boy, his Vaterknatsch with Motorradraserei compensated - comes on the Kriechspur therefore. Or, as Wolfgang Hoebel lectures: "The strengths of German films are often just the sheer atmospheric and in the denial of Action." In plain English: In this "gem for the soul" ( "Cinema") is a very dry bread durchgekaut. This is called then like "strictly formal" because after cinema's luminaries such as Ozu or Bresson or Dreyer tastes.

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The contents of hire begins with the sentence: "The young Japanese Aki Onodera is disturbed by dreams, from the long-buried memories of her early childhood up." Sounds not bad, because it captures so well all sorts of exciting Gruselgarn. After Anfangsthrill happened but not much. The cute Japanese woman gets, given the pre-business career and the relationship to an uncongenial SchnÃ¶sel the yuppie crisis and travels into the AllgÃ¤u (Miyayama: "The outer path Akis is also a way to their innermost, reaching areas of the collective subconscious of all people. ") to on a map with a red dot marked at once the father, mother and brother in a car accident died. It gets them in a common destiny of said motorcycle speeder, which is also his cross in the form of a brittle wood craftsmen father has to bear. The Japanese turn on roadside corpses lie there. Which in turn are a devout fragile Japanese ritual farewell ceremony dedicated.

For this constellation coined Wolfgang Hoebel hr past the grenade expression "an almost Kleistsche coincidence of fate." Unfortunately, now daily soaps and private broadcaster TV Games Kleistsche some coincidence abgeschaut, so that this conflict here in spite of industrial art as VerbrÃ¤mung now commonplace artistic confection lost. Since then reconciles the whole supersympathische look around no more.

Pixar takes off - with pensioners and balloons.

2009-06-02T21:16:00.000-07:00

Animated films always go, even in 3D: Pixar's "Up", the touching of a pensioner balloon travel to South America, keen on Whit weekend American moviegoers. Germany held the "Illuminati" loyalty.

Hamburg / Los Angeles - A retired, his house to a colorful balloon bouquet depends a daring trip to South America is taking - this geriatric Sehnsuchtsplot be a mass audience? Sure, if it is from Pixar Animation Studios comes also das "Up" (German title: "Top", starting on 24 September), already caused a sensation when he was a few weeks ago that opened the Cannes film festival, now He almost triumphal entry into the U.S. cinemas.

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3D scene from the film "Up" Pixar can even look cool pensioners

68.2 million U.S. dollars set up "according to" Focus on Film "at the Whit weekend and so had the third best start of a Pixar movie ever - behind" Finding Nemo "and" The Incredibles ", but" Wall-E ", the last year with 63.1 million U.S. dollars was started. Even for the recently revived 3D genre marked "up" a peak, because of the 3766 total of U.S. cinemas, where the movie started, 1534 had on 3D technology, at least up to four U.S. dollars Admission higher costs.

On rank two of the North American film charts landed the comedy "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" (German: "Night at the Museum 2"), another family film pfingsttauglicher in the face of the Pixar-offs, however, a decrease of 53 percent his previous sales had suffered, on the second weekend but still 25.5 million U.S. dollars recordings. After ten days the museum fun with Ben Stiller with 105.3 million U.S. dollars already implemented.

Third place went to "Spider-Man" director Sam Raimi and his return to pure horror. "Drag Me to Hell" started in 2508 cinemas with 16.6 million U.S. dollars turnover, a decent but not outstanding result for a genre film.

"Terminator: Slavation" was also on the second weekend luckless U.S.: The Prequel to the "Terminator" saga suffered sales slump by 62 percent and played on Pentecost only 16.1 million U.S. dollars one. That is 90.7 million U.S. dollars in eleven days - too little for a franchise-product of this magnitude - in fourth place. J.J. Abrams'
"Star Trek" relaunch, however, enjoys great popularity continues: On the fifth weekend playing the new Enterprise crew again 12.8 million U.S. dollars and is the first film in the U.S.-year charts of the 200-million-dollar threshold is.

No competition for "Illuminati"

In Germany you have to the new "Terminator" still waiting for a few days, so until now the most successful movie of the year will remain the number one:
"Illuminati" is according to "Focus on Film" shortly before the three million visitors hurdle to jump over and drew on Whit weekend alone approximately 450,000 viewers in the cinema - despite the summer weather. Dan Brown films are going well in Germany, the previous film, "The Da Vinci Code - Da Vinci Code", was after the third weekend already 4.2 million cinema-goers gathered.

In second place is tummelt Ben Stiller in "Night at the Museum 2" - and drew on his second weekend 330,000 visitors. Follows in third place with "The Womanizer - The Night of the ex-girlfriends" (original title: "The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past") the first restart of the weekend. With an opulent 320 copies, the romantic comedy with Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner, however, only some 160,000 viewers. "Star Trek" defends with 80,000 visitors and took fourth place so that the one-million-visitor mark. The comedy "17 Again" with 70,000 spectators formed the bottom of the top five.

The newly launched
Film by Jim Jarmusch, "The Limits of Control", was only slightly more than 20,000 spectators attract.

Anatomy of a genre.

2009-06-02T20:14:00.000-07:00

The Canadian director David Cronenberg pushes film genres like at the top. His grandiose demi-epic "Deadly Promise - Eastern Promises" is a gangster film, as a playful parody begins to be serious to be bitter.

There are many Russians in this movie, but they will be played by a German (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a Frenchman (Vincent Cassel), an American (Viggo Mortensen) or Poland (Jerzy Skolimowski). Nevertheless, David Cronenberg film "Deadly Promise - Eastern Promises" is not a false promise, but a thrilling gangster epic. The director brilliantly synthesized as a violent art world that she is already almost real effect.

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The London midwife Anna (Naomi Watts) has in her life already seen a lot of blood, but now they must learn that the man is human meat grinder. When they are the legacy of a deceased drug addict cares - a small baby and a diary - she with the Russian mafia to each other: a godfather (Mueller-Stahl), his son (Cassel) and his chauffeur (Mortensen). The three have so many skeletons in the cupboard that it occasionally in the fridge, store them.

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Director: David Cronenberg. With Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Naomi Watts

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If the frozen dead, a chauffeur with a hair dryer again thaw, dissolves the shiver, the first trigger this scene, but in joke on. The horror in this film produces the grotesque, for Cronenberg, this is a logical and entirely organic process: just as the baby at the beginning of the film comes to the world, in the end lead to murder, manslaughter and destruction leads. And Cronenberg always looks exactly the way, no matter whether it is the blood of a pregnant mother or that of a freshly murdered act.

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The Canadian Cronenberg, the great internist in world cinema, in his films like the inside of the human body returns to the outside, even from a brutal knife fight in a steam bath murderous slapstick. He is pushing the clichÃ©s of the gangster film to the limit to parody - and then suddenly revert back to the bitter Ernst. So Cronenberg shows the viewer in "Fatal promises" the anatomy of a genre - the living, pulsating violently object.

LandsermÃ¤rchen in machinery.

2009-06-02T19:10:00.000-07:00

The "Terminator" saga, which was three long films compelling science fiction. Now it is scrapped: director MCG has EndzeitmÃ¤r into a dull, weak material transforms battle - despite superstar Christian Bale.

Perhaps the new "Terminator" just scrapping the definition of Hollywood: The fourth part of the EndzeitmÃ¤r is the final varnish, but the scrap tire remnants of the once compelling science fiction will be bellowing through staging and fair campaign, but still can capitalize when "Terminator : The Redemption "at this Thursday in German cinemas starts.

"The film industry is at the end."

2009-05-29T19:08:00.000-07:00

His new film "The Limits of Control", the audience "as a trip" experience, says the New York filmmaker Jim Jarmusch. In blogs ONLINE interview, he speaks about the power of small things, the passage of Lee Marvin and the future of the cinema industry in the Internet Age.

blogs ONLINE: Mr. Jarmusch, your new film "The Limits of Control" tells the story of a man with no name, played by Isaach de Bankole, which deals with secret orders from Madrid to Seville on the width of Andalusia moves. Why do you refuse so stubbornly to the beauty of the area to celebrate?

Jarmusch: My hero is rather the dark side of the road. It draws him to calm, clear places beyond the crowds. The very opposite to me, because I do not like it, tourist venues abzufilmen. Picturesque Designs come from me.

blogs ONLINE: When her hero from the Madrid airport with a taxi in the city driving, point subjective preferences in what he sees through the windscreen. But the images are crude, and sometimes the sun shines directly into the lens.

Jarmusch: The first images of Spain to provide the viewer the feeling that on a trip to be. That is why I have all our recordings for this scene, and only the selected failed. The audience is the new world altogether with eyes to see the hero and feel the impressions of him on a pile.

blogs ONLINE: How do you travel itself? Take every place you visit automatically as a possible movie theater right?

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Jarmusch: Not necessarily. When I travel and come to a place that I have never had, I just drauflos. I've never had a set route. If I saw something of what interested me, I look at it myself. Then I go on until something attracts my attention. I like it, the orientation to lose. I then feel that I am from reality into the realm of the imagination to move and discover what these places can be done.

blogs ONLINE: You do not have the map here?

Jarmusch: Yeah, but I suppose they just got on hand. It goes against my nature, and plans to forge them. Unfortunately, in our society, especially in the workplace, not entirely avoided. We have "The Limits of Control" but it turned that we were ready at any time, be incorporated into the plot, what we found on the roadside.

blogs ONLINE: Just before you have another eingefleischter New York shot in Spain: Woody Allen. What makes the country for filmmakers so attractive?

Jarmusch: I wanted this film outside the U.S. must make. If I were not here in New York I think and I feel quite differently. And I always wanted to shoot in Seville, a city, sometimes even magical effect. Unlike Woody Allen Barcelona came to me no question, so I also like the city. The hero should be from Madrid to the south burst into a harsh, archaic world

blogs ONLINE: Again and again let the eye of the camera in your movie everyday objects on a long rest. What do you like it in these still lifes?

Jarmusch: I love the poems of Pablo Neruda on ordinary things, like the ode to his socks. We tend to the little things in life to be underestimated. It is the task of art, their true importance to recognize and appreciate. The film is very quiet, a still life is on the other. The narrative pace that fits the character, which entirely rests in itself. So it must be the hero gives the rhythm, he is the clock

blogs ONLINE: Isaach de Bankole moves incredibly precise and elegant.

Jarmusch: With the precision of a robot and with the grace of a cat. Each step that he makes, it must show how well he is in his body feels, how balanced and this man is sovereign. His clothes seem to cling to him like a second skin. From top to toe, he is one incarnation of self-control. But in the end he prefers to dress and casual dresses. He skins, and suddenly comes a very different nature to light.

blogs ONLINE: Can the gear the character of a people?

Jarmusch: Yeah, just look at how Lee Marvin in the thriller "Point Blank" by John Boorman moves because you feel every step of his determination and his air of subdued anger laborious.

blogs ONLINE: De Bankole face recalls in "The Limits of Control" to that of Marvin. Could he a member of the "Sons of Lee Marvin" to an exclusive circle, which you many years ago, together with Tom Waits have established? Inclusion criterion is great physical resemblance to the late 1987 Star.

Naked in the desert sand.

2009-05-28T19:06:00.000-07:00

1970 Michelangelo Antonioni tried with "Zabriskie Point", the revolutionary spirit of the times to capture on film - and reaped the worst trashing his career. Rightly so? The new edition of the DVD offers an opportunity to revise history.

For most big films of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni master is the Cineastenwelt today agreed: "The Night" (1961) "? Setting standards." The Red Desert "(1964)? Beguiling." Blow up "(1966)? Unsurpassed .

Well, and then there's "Zabriskie Point" of 1970. Critics legend and Antonioni fan Roger Ebert summed it as follows: "What a silly and stupid movie!"

The majority of other critics, particularly in the U.S., saw it was similar. Antonioni, the project, a film about the student movement and its revolutionary motives to turn confused with anti-American views and konsumkritischem directly against the wall, says the tenor. Wanted to see the whole thing will not, thus the tradition of MGM studio-financed film also has a wicked Kassenflop.

Today enjoys "Zabriskie Point" at least among hardcore Antinionisten a status as a cult film and misunderstood classic. That could make it to the orgy scene is legendary, in which dozens of sudden and unexpected love couples more or less naked through the desert sand roll. Or at the spectacular, apocalyptic finale, in which only a luxury villa on several occasions and from multiple perspectives in the air will be chased, and then all kinds of modern consumer goods from TVs to a fridge to an explosion in slow market.

An excellent cast and a brilliant plot, it is rather not. With Mark and Daria Halprin Freshette Antonioni undertook two laymen from the protest scene, which, apart from good looks, acting talent any abging. And the script, except in the Antonioni still four other people herumgedoktert have presented rather vague ideas of a revolutionary phase as a serious portrait of the times, the plot is lost in the Nowhere: A young student (Freshette) moves in with a protest event a weapon, which he might kill a policeman. He steals a small plane and escapes into the Californian desert, where he was a random passing Secretary (Halprin) know who shares his ideals, and he then broadly about his half-baked ideas can be revolutionary. A critical attitude to the film seem both to the culture of protest as well as the consumption of terror preserve what comes out, but it is indefinable mishmash-ideologies.

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The dialogues are wooden in their simplicity, sometimes at the limit of endurance. Nevertheless, of course, no way of cinema lovers in "Zabriskie Point" over. Because what Michelangelo Antonioni in this absurd rocks in Death Valley for images created, which today nobody dares more. Between Fieberwahn-hippie fantasy and romance, he illustrated a sick world is on the brink of collapse, every motive and more intense than all the simple dialogues together. Plus a psychedelic soundtrack to the perfect noise, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, Rolling Stones. At best it makes it so comfortable as possible, and can easily fall into this experience, perhaps more of a cinematic trip is from an ordinary film.

Over the past year, "Zabriskie Point" in a one-cable movie ever edition on DVD, the TV format, with truncated image edges, which is nothing other than a brutal crime against the arts. The new edition offers a deserved 16:9-format, so that the images of its entire splendor can flourish.

And if it does not do otherwise: just the sound off.

"Zabriskie Point" (Warner), now on DVD.

"Cannibal of Rotenburg" must go to the cinema.

2009-05-26T20:14:00.000-07:00

If in doubt, for the freedom of art - and against the feelings of the cannibals. Thus the ruling of the Federal Court on the controversial film adaptation of the story of the "Cannibal of Rotenburg" together - the U.S. film "Rohtenburg" may thus run in Germany.

Hamburg / Karlsruhe - Everything has been obvious, as German moviegoers would come soon in the dubious pleasure of a very realistic horror film. Because of the Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) ruled on Tuesday in Karlsruhe that the spectacular criminal case to the "Cannibal of Rotenburg"-like feature here now but may be - and lifted so that a ruling of the Oberlandesgericht (OLG) Frankfurt am Main on.

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Meiwes applicants: Must be compatible with his personality right behind

This failed as the "cannibal of Rotenburg" had become aware of Armin Meiwes and his lawsuit against the U.S. film "Rohtenburg". At the end of a year-long dispute is thus a victory for the production company, U.S. firm Atlantic Streamline German Marco Weber.

The BGH argued that the Basic Law guarantees freedom of art and freedom over the film rights of personality of the murderer is Meiwes. Although the film could be the plaintiff as a person a considerable burden, because he is indeed on the way again strong emotional appeal in memory. After weighing between its rights and the arts and film personality, the freedom must be right, but behind.

In Rohtenburg "whose movie to life imprisonment sentenced Meiwes in 2006 with a temporary injunction had prevented plays an actor Thomas Kretschmann cannibals.

Template for the film is one of the most spectacular criminal cases of recent times: On 10 March, the then 41-year-old Meiwes from Hesse Rotenburg a 43-year-old Berlin engineer on whose request entmannt and stabbed. Later he cut the corpse, and portions they ate the meat, and his deeds, he filmed with a video camera. Meiwes was because of his deed in May 2006 before the Landgericht Frankfurt am Main to life in prison.

In October 2008 was already a Meiwes Verfassungsbeschwerde in Karlsruhe failed: he had against his conviction for murder sued because life imprisonment is not "schuldangemessen" was. The Karlsruhe judges saw differently.

Meiwes may be "the earliest after 15 years" from prison to be. A specific gravity of the debt, the release from prison after 15 years of rule, was - contrary to the public prosecutor demanded - but not been identified.

Where's the class struggle here?.

2009-05-26T19:10:00.000-07:00

Anti-capitalism with a sledgehammer in Hans Weingartner's "The Edukators" has the viewer through vulgÃ¤rmarxistische KÃ¼chengesprÃ¤che and T-shirt prose fight - and is rewarded with gloating. Part four of the culture blogs Edition "Great movie moments."

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Cast BrÃ¼hl, Erceg and Jentsch (lr) in "The Edukators": Fun with guerrilla Arrangements

It was a movie quote of a special kind: Just before Christmas Break 2008 thieves stole the alleged fraudster Bernie Madoff billion a valuable copper statue - to the shady U.S. Jongleur returned shortly thereafter. At the precious piece was a message to "the swindler Bernie" attached: "Give stolen property to its rightful owners back." Signed: "The Educators".

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Great Cinema Moments - The Edukators
FSK released from 12
Runtime approx 126 minutes.

Director: Hans Weingartner; With Daniel BrÃ¼hl, Stipe Erceg and Julia Jentsch

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April 2009 - DVD-Video

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Under this title - translated: "The Edukators" - ran in the U.S. in the German film "The Edukators" by Hans Weingartner's 2004. The plant served the burglars apparently as a blueprint. And in fact the robbers pistol fits the face of staggering economic crisis and banks almost better in the present than in the year in which they came into the cinemas.

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The plot: The two Friends Jan (Daniel BrÃ¼hl) and Peter (Stipe Erceg) break into the night from his villa, to where the furniture upside down. At the crime scene they left messages such as "The Edukators" or "You have too much money." The fun with the guerrillas as long as arrangements go well, until the friends into the house once owned a manager, the Jule (Julia Jentsch), Peter's girlfriend, just under 100,000 euros owed. The homeowner (outstanding: Burghart KlauÃŸner) surprised the avenger gets pulled one on and is klapprigen VW bus on a remote mountain cabin Austrian abducted. Here it comes, as it probably should be: Jule falls in love with Jan, and the capitalist kidnapped turns out to be old-'68.

The whole thing is not necessarily refined composed, and his anti-roasted Weingartner message to the viewer even with the sledge hammer on. But who are the vulgÃ¤rmarxistischen kitchen table discussions and the romantic revolution T-shirt prose fights are rewarded, because the vision of this self-made movie generated from imagined gloating.

Today's viewers inevitably thinks of contemporary large-scale fraudsters like Bernie Madoff, and before the inner eye appear a few other representatives of the financial industry to which you secretly a similar transformation of their wishes Penthouses: PorzellanfigÃ¼rchen in the loo, the stereo in the fridge, the swanky furniture into a pyramid aufgetÃ¼rmt. The Edukators, how true.

Blech gehabt!.

2009-05-25T19:10:00.000-07:00

The metal monster from "Terminator" had the See: Am American U.S. Office continued through a museum keeper. In German cinemas haunts the "Illuminati" at the top of the charts.

Is that a pacifist impulse of the U.S. public been? On the weekend of Memorial Day in any event, the holiday in honor of the American Civil War dead, had the "Terminator" to the detriment, even if it is in addition entitled "Salvation" promised.

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Although started in 3530 cinemas, documented the negative utopia of the final battle martial tins with the humans in a box office earnings of 43 million U.S. dollars (from Friday to Sunday) only in second place.

Leaders of the Box Office, the post-modern slapstick "Night at the Museum 2" with Ben Stiller as a celebrity (53.5 million U.S. dollars).

In the third place rushing
"Star Trek" crew tight on the 200-million-dollar mark. This weekend were 21.9 million new, JJ Abrams' movie version of the elegant television myth Enterprise has already recorded 183.6 million U.S. dollars.

Fourth place goes to the conspiratorial Vatican:
"Illuminati" raffte 21.4 million U.S. dollars in the ring bag, the newcomer "Dance Flick, an edifying story about young people and how their dance career saves, decide the top five with 11.1 million U.S. dollars.

Also in Germany, the popcorn version of church criticism well: "Illuminati" statement, despite its sunny weather on the second weekend 710,000 visitors.

Here: "Night at the Museum 2" (500,000 cinema-goers), "Star Trek" (125,000 visitors), the teen comedy "17 Again" (110,000 viewers) and the bottom of the Top Five: the Metzelfilm "My Bloody Valentine", the bloodthirsty Genre fans in 3D can enjoy (40,000 visitors).

Constitution Party in Berlin, the summer sun - the moving pictures prompted 1.9 million people still in the dark cave dream of cinema to come.

Palme d'Or for Haneke, best lead actor Waltz.

2009-05-24T21:46:00.000-07:00

Double success for Austria: The film "White Band" by director Michael Haneke was at the Cannes Film Festival with the Golden Palm award. For best actor Christoph Waltz was chosen - for his role in the Tarantino film "Inglourious Basterds".

Cannes - Grand Prize for Christoph Waltz: The Austrian born actor was at the Cannes Film Festival for best leading actor award.
In the film "Inglourious Basterds" the U.S. director Quentin Tarantino to play the 52-year-old Waltz, a Nazi officer. The second main role in the film is Brad Pitt.

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Christoph Waltz: Award for role as a Nazi officer

The Studio Babelsberg Waltz immediately congratulated on his success. "His eloquent and impressive staging mimic its role is high drama - he dominates the film, be it in French, English, German or Italian, if necessary," said the studio executive Christoph Fisser on Sunday evening.

The film "White Band" by Austrian director Michael Haneke, with the main prize of the contest awards - the Golden Palm. In the film playing, amongst others, the German actor Ulrich Tukur, Susanne Lothar, Burghart KlauÃŸner and Josef Bierbichler with. The story takes place in a German village shortly before the First World War.

The Grand Jury Prize went to the Frenchman Jacques Audiard for the prison drama "A prophet." The best female actress rejoiced Frenchwoman Charlotte Gainsbourg on the assessment of their role in "Antichrist" by Lars von Trier.

Flagellation of lust.

2009-05-24T19:08:00.000-07:00

Violence on the screen, sex-thoughts on the Croisette: The Cannes Film Festival began on a high level, but towards the end of the competition went to air. The films have been longer - but not better. For the prices there are a handful of favorites.

A container that summarizes several liters of water, no cups, but a bucket. A building which has several floors, is not a cottage but a house. If an image, which over two and a half hours on the screen moves, even a movie? Is it more than that? Or even less? This question could be this year towards the end of the festival stating that the works in competition has been getting longer.

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Red Carpet at Cannes: A mediocre Vintage Festival

Quentin Tarantino took almost 160 minutes for "Inglourious Basterds", Xavier Giannoli 150 for "Ã l'origine" Michael Haneke 144 for "The white band, Gaspar NoÃ©, finally defeated 165 for" Enter the Void ". FranÃ§ois Truffaut once said, a director who entertain his audience, whether as a lover, which is more concerned about the pleasure of his partner than to take care of his own. In this sense, we, the audience loved the calm directors: Length does not count.

But the pressure to find a movie on this festival to present is so great that more and more directors, only to deliver work in progress. One can, of course, for a form of democratization hold. Finally, the Festivali as to test audience, which has influenced the final product. After the screening of "Inglourious Basterds" about outbid the critics with virtually cut proposals that have never tummelten so many self-cutter on the Croisette.

However, it is not the task of criticism, the work of artists to make. Anyone who visited a car exhibition, also expects there to drive models to get presents. When the engine of a car stutters, it would be very strange from the manufacturer, if the trade that would clamp, in the solution of the problem to help. No, we really expect in Cannes more than films that hardly come by the office, often do not get the curve and countless figures such as fuel consumption for their stories.

At the beginning of the festival, we wrote: "Never the directors moved their characters so close to the soul." At the end we must say: Completely true, but rarely before they penetrated deeper into the meat.
Since drilled Charlotte Gainsbourg in Lars von Trier's horror film "Antichrist" of her husband Willem Dafoe embodied a hole in the leg, pushed Brad Pitt as one of Diane Krueger played Nazi diva in "Inglourious Basterds" exactly at the same point the finger pleasurably in a Wundkanal.

That the man of the people is meat grinder, showed the Philippine Brillante Mendoza, in technical circles of Phillies-shine, "referred to in his new book" Kinatay ". It killed a woman, to Peter Hacke processed and sold in kilograms. As blood is delicious, made the South Koreans Park Chan-wook in "Thirst" clear: Because sucking vampires in a comatose hospital patients over the needles lifeblood from the veins, as if they were soft drinks with straws nuckeln.

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While the desire to celebrate meat was the lust scourged as never before. For the smallest excitation suggests the vampire in "Thirst" on his penis, out fear, the control over itself to lose. In "Antichrist" haut Gainsbourg as an extra edge and the band turned her husband's wife with a piece of wood so hard to erect the sex part, that it ejakuliert blood. Outside of competition, like in the movie market, there was suffering all sorts of brush to see: In the Australian film "The Horseman" A man tries to enlighten his daughter's death by their tormentors with an air pump and hook it to GemÃ¤cht.

So what can be seen makes no joy, certainly not in the sexualized atmosphere of Cannes. Because the density of beautiful women who like to show what they have, during the festival anywhere in the world, bigger than here, it seems that the Croisette in the male perception soon only of secondary sexual characteristics to exist. In other words: You think the whole day to sex. Because women also think about other things and there are some annoying constraints (film screenings, press conferences, etc.) that prevails in the ever-crowded Croisette soon driving a huge traffic jam.

The shoot will take place in the dissipation cinema: the hero must do what is denied us, that is pure erotic escapism. In the films, which run in Cannes, there are so many sex scenes than to make it here on the streets will not be rioting. And now this: genital attacks everywhere you looked. When Lars von Trier cuts even the heroine - the original, with a pair of scissors, in close-up! In the cinema hall was a dangerously charged atmosphere unausgelebter desires, but there were just in the directors Marco Bellochio (with "Vincere") and Gaspar NoÃ© and saved the festival with numerous, extensive Rammelstein scenes.

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2009 was a mediocre vintage Cannes, which began strongly, but towards the end severely receded. One of the best films, also known as the favorites for the Palme d'Or shall include Jane Campion love drama "Bright Star" and Jacques Audiard prison film "Un prophets." Even Michael Haneke Portrait of a repressive German town before the First World War is highly traded. Katie Jarvis, the road away from the main actress undertook the Teeangerdramas "Fish Tank", could be awarded as an actress. Maybe Christoph Waltz in the role of a Nazi Offziers in "Inglourious Basterds" as best male lead actor opportunities. A special prize should in any case to go Charlotte Gainsbourg: The Order of the Wounded sacrificially representation in the services of a depressive author filmmaker.

Saberi receives special award at Cannes.

2009-05-24T02:02:00.000-07:00

The Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi is on the Cannes Film Festival awards. Together with Bahman Ghobadi, she wrote the screenplay for a film about the underground music scene in Tehran - where it is the beginning of the year for alleged espionage was sentenced.

Cannes - A film on which the recent imprisonment of an Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi dismissed as a co-author was involved, is on Saturday in a competition of the Cannes Film Festival awards. The "No One Knows About Persian Cats" won in the festival program "Un Certain Regard" a Special Jury Prize. The film is about the Tehran's underground music scene and the risk of Iranian musicians, censored or imprisoned them.

Saberi has the script together with its partner, Bahman Ghobadi, who has also directed. The 32-year-old reporter, both the Iranian and American citizenship, was the end of January in Tehran were arrested and accused of spying to eight years in prison. After the transformation of the ruling in a two-year suspended sentence she was released. She returned on Friday after a several-stop in Vienna in the U.S..

The 62nd Cannes International Film Festival is on Sunday with the awarding of the Golden Palm at the end.

The whole life is a memory game.

2009-05-21T20:30:00.000-07:00

What is really happening? And what mere fantasy? In his new film is the Canadian Atom Egoyan the fragility of human memory. 'Simon's Secret "is so quiet as captivating drama, the terror and consolation from the memory recounts.

Self-challenging art or convulsions? Atom Egoyan's The cinema has always polarized critics and audiences as either excited or frustrated. Over the years, the films of the Canadian, in 1960 as the son of an Armenian family who was born in Cairo, while some have accused of PrÃ¤tentiÃ¶sen eingehandelt. Equally vehement, however, it is Egoyan's approach to defending the representations on the screen repeatedly questioned, and so complex, often fascinating observations about the fleeting nature of identity and memory come.

The same goes for "Simons secrecy" in which Egoyan specifiable themes of his earlier films return to them in the light of a changing media world and new life to light.

At the beginning there is a tragedy, which - as so often in intimate Egoyan's attempt orders - from the painful past into the present stands. The young Simon (Devon Bostick) from Toronto, describes the teaching of French in shaken classmates and teacher Sabine (ArsinÃ©e Khanjian), like his father was once a bomb attack on an Israeli passenger plane was planning: He wanted Simons unsuspecting, pregnant mother with high explosives in luggage in the death of chic and only because the perfidious crimes by the security check at the airport was thwarted, she survived and was able to bring Simon to the world.

The shocking lecture not missed its effect and becomes the subject of heated discussions on the Internet. Even Simon himself sits stoically in front of his webcam and participates in the chat room meetings, the ever-widening circles. Its apparent, however, taken a double faÃ§ade: the story of the father as unscrupulous terrorists Simon has an old newspaper report on loan and with the help of Sabine as part of his biography staged.

And the true fate of his parents Sami (Noam Jenkins) and Rachel (Rachel Blanchard), which many years ago in a car accident, died, moved the closed boys far more than its exterior suggests Enclosed.

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Film clip: "Has he even thought of me?"
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Film clip: "Everybody's talking about it"

Terrorism, xenophobia, and the digital FamilientragÃ¶dien accelerated dissolution of the collective memory - would be Egoyan's film strÃ¤flicherweise on mere motives down would be a pretty sensational descriptor clusters emerged. The silent drama touchiert Although all of these complexes, but entspinnt but an entirely different, peculiar history.

Based on the bizarre fiction, Simon increasingly as a legitimate explanation for the loss never understood the parents' serving the people in his life suffering from repressed hit. This concerns in particular his uncle Tom (Scott Speedman), the nephew alone groÃŸzieht itself as a driver of a towing vehicle and will between grief for the sister and anger at the despotic, aufgerieben father is deceased. The masterful head of the family itself exists only as a digital image on Simon's cell phone camera, but the hate of his grandfather against the unwanted son Sami hallen continued steadfastly in the replay.

Remains the enigmatic teacher Sabine from the Middle East, which not only pedagogical interest combines with Simon. Not only transported to the biographical bluff their student, she also calls out the taciturn Tom: disguised as a traditional Muslim burka along is she suddenly in front Toms, and forces him to the supposedly menacing stranger to react. Why Sabine, played by Egoyan's wife and actress ArsinÃ©e Khanjian tribe, in this masquerade in the lives of others einklinkt, however, is another mystery.

SIMONS SECRECY (CANADA 2008)

Director: Atom Egoyan
Screenplay: Atom Egoyan
Cast: ArsinÃ©e Khanjian, Devon Bostick, Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard, Kenneth Welsh
Producer: Atom Egoyan, Simone Urdl, Jennifer Weiss
Distributor: X-Verleih
Running time: 100 minutes
Start: 21 May 2009

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So it remains to conclude an elaborate memory cards hidden life, the most rigorous yet sensitive structuralist of the Canadian cinemas here is spreading. The hypnotic puzzle differing perceptions and truths of "Family Viewing" (1987) on "The Adjuster" (1991) and "Exotica" (1994) to "The Sweet Hereafter" (1997) a quality of Egoyan's films have remained impressive.

Although reached "Simons secret" do not have all the time intensity of the narrative and aesthetic result of the precursors, but in view of Egoyan's younger, oddly meandering cinema stories like "Where The Truth Lies", he has a brilliant reflection of the young filmmaker at heart strengths.

The last, for Egoyan comforting surprise twist in this family conflict between individual memory and collective memory to prejudge, of course, forbids this. Instead, as an indication only of the original unevenly more appropriate title "Adoration" mentioned. Indeed, last but not least is the difference between worship, which is also always Transfiguration and distortion in itself, and love. And their secret, it needs in a seemingly only medially ascertainable world more than ever, the immediacy of the heart.

Singing to the grave.

2009-05-21T19:06:00.000-07:00

Who likes melancholy, will love this film. A forgotten group of old tango musicians in Buenos Aires wants to know it again. Director German Kral, she accompanied at their attempt, after the future.

True artists, they say, are interested in fame and money only in second place, because they are really happy only when they can live their art.

Painfully slow roller Nazi.

2009-05-20T21:56:00.000-07:00

Marauding soldiers scalp Nazis in occupied France. So far, so ludicrous and so typical Quentin Tarantino. Quite fieberte the Cannes film "Inglourious Basterds" opposite - and had, after the premiere of the work to feel tough, blood drying zugeschaut it.

Rarely seen so many men on the podium a news conference in Cannes, so much sweat as this Wednesday. Immediately after the initial screening of Quentin Tarantino's hotly anticipated film "Inglourious Basterds" was the director and his team to the journalists.

Mike Myers, the film in a cool British General plays, shone the forehead before the first question. Daniel BrÃ¼hl, Tarantino as the dashing Nazi occupation has opened the collar of his shirt and pulled the tie down to a bit of freshness to give. And the director himself looked as if he straight for two hours through the rainforest gejoggt.

Only one does not sweat.

He was, however, not on the podium, but in front of it, at the feet of the director. That was the producer Harvey Weinstein, the many previous films as Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" or "Kill Bill" and awarded it a very rich and very powerful has become. In summer it is now also "Inglourious Basterds" in the United States bring to the cinema.

Motionless, with a glance of the worst villains could lead them to focus on the body to entleiben, he stared at his director. In the words flowed so uncontrollably from the mouth as the water from the pores, but he always laughed hysterically.

You could have the impression Weinstein wanted nothing less than the scalp of Tarantino.

Why he looked so gloomy? One can only speculate.

Maybe it was because Tarantino on the podium cheerfully told that he could deal with all characters in the film identify consequently with Hitler (played by Martin Wuttke) and Goebbels (Sylvester Groth), in "Inglourious Basterds" by a group of American German soldiers and defectors at a film premiere in Paris are to be killed.

Or it was because the director just a few months after filming concluded had delivered a film that had so many lengths, as if it were the first Rohschnittfassung?

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Because "Inglourious Basterds" is to be seen as if the blood when you watch it dry.

The first dialog scene lasts about 20 minutes. A Nazi officer (Christoph Waltz) examined in 1941 in the middle of a farm in France to identify Jews. He screwed together his pen, as he would put together a weapon, he drinks a glass of full enjoyment of milk, said long and wide, so what he does, and contributes highly complicated his views on fighting against rats. After about 15 minutes the camera pans down and discovered hidden under the floorboards people. But before they briefly Garben shredded by machine gun will get none of them has a face.

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Tarantino begins with total standstill - and then takes the pace out slowly. Without any sense of timing, he rolled his story beaten 160 minutes long on the canvas. He tells of a French Jewish woman (MÃ©lanie Laurent) who escapes the Nazis and then a cinema in Paris takes over, by a British special agent who previously has written film reviews, and a German sniper who is a great admirer of the director GW Pabst is. The whole world is cinephile, and it is not surprising that at the end of a huge explosion in a cinema Hitler, Goebbels and cohorts hinwegrafft.

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The cinema redeemed the world from the Nazis - that's a nice retrospective utopia. At the same time, but complete nonsense. Only in a grotesque exaggeration of this story could well serve a useful purpose. But Tarantino can never decide whether he would prefer not to be taken seriously.

Brad Pitt must be the leader of the "Basterds" is still more violent than grimassieren recently in "Burn After Reading"; Laurent, it plays the heroine of the Resistance with psychological realism. In this little movie fits together. If Weinstein with Tarantino again at the cutting table sets, there is much to do.

And with a fine scalpel, is it not done his.

Gray Dot in love noise.

2009-05-19T20:12:00.000-07:00

Only like an amusing summer comedy, then melancholy - and more authentic: "Cloud 9", Andreas Dresen's moving drama about loving relationships in retirement. Part three of the culture blogs Edition "Great movie moments.

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Once "Cloud 9" in May 2008 in Cannes celebrated its world premiere, was the work of Andreas Dresen's reputation away: the seniors sex movie. That was clear in a story about a woman receives the 70, despite the many happy years of marriage to another, nearly 80-year-old man in love with her right in the first five minutes film has a very passionate sex.

The camera remains unvoyeuristisch in Halbtotalen, but it shows the act without any shame, in a brightly lit room, and the two protagonists have obviously enjoy it.

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It is not the last love scene in "Cloud 9", because the fresh love Inge (Ursula Werner), apart from her affair with Karl (Horst Westphal) is also still an active sex life with her husband, Werner (Horst Rehberg), with which they are the last 30 years is. Elated and nimbly follows the film's heroine initially flourishing in their happiness, it is amusing and loose, like in a summer comedy. By Inge also need to admit that it is a major human terribly hurt - and finds that they can not change.

Almost imperceptibly, the tone shifts, and so is a charming romance slowly a melancholic relationship drama, and Andreas Dresen staged with so much quiet subtlety, with so much understanding of the inner workings of his characters that you barely notice as a spectator. Probably also because you do not want to remember, because until then they are an all grown fond whether Inge, or Karl Werner.

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Naked people over fifty shows the movie never really, certainly not having sex. It was supposed taboo Dresen's just not as a scandal but as quite natural, even logical event is created. The audience remembers immediately: Since love has two, of course, have sex, why not?

The camera schÃ¶nt not and does not look away, she observed the events as a normal thing in the world. The Sensational is just how authentic this love story is told. Also you get in the cinema today probably only just be seen in Dresen.

A woman cleans itself out with blood.

2009-05-19T19:08:00.000-07:00

Amoklauf, suicide, fatal matrimonial: The Fair-perfidious comedy "Sunshine Cleaning" removes a valiant Putzsoldatin the remnants unsavory human disasters - and then tries to sort out her chaotic life.

Oscar should stop at the other knee to lick. The school, the Oscars mother is quoted as saying not loud words like perversion or abnormal behavior. He speaks only of God's help with a corrected indiscipline, of educational neglect and similarly impudent verklausulierten the catalog of the political correctness of such cases being made, even if it slips behind the headmaster of the boys affection (played by Jason Spevack) probably know nothing else may be just that: perversion nauseous.

Rose (Amy Adams), Oscar's mother, is not a stupid woman. You recognize immediately, to whom she has to hold, and takes her child out of STOCKSTEIFE facility. Money for a more liberal private school is needed, where hopefully no one bothers to Oscars quirks.

High time then, to try his luck in this country that has everything all the promises. Rose takes a heart, breathes through and founded a company operating in the same macabre way as logical flip side to all dreams of happiness fits: A cleaning company that focuses on the cleaning services, cleaning and disinfection of unsavory crime scenes of all possible crimes want to specialize.

And because there is hardly a euphemistic language than American English is, in the man dead "bodies" called hearse "ambulance", and the message is a disaster with the words "We have a situation here!" brings, it is also near a Putzunternehmen by Rose as the "Sunshine Cleaning" to baptize.

Rose Lorkowski, proud founder of start-up company that now radiates to bet on their invention with the ball round the sun on their nameplate. And not because they are too highly mobile has dreams of a brighter life in the dusty Albuquerque, New Mexico. But because it has a pragmatic intrepid who are always on themselves could.

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Her mother forgot Rose and her sister sometime in suff and then died by his own hand. Father Joe (Alan Arkin) is a hearty good, but unreliable guy, even with the jump 70 years to becoming an adult has not yet done. Roses missing ex retires as relief for single, triple burdened mother also. On the promises of her married lover, who does not think his marriage to end, they can not give. And whether their pampige sister Norah (Emily Blunt) on the seriousness of life in Roses companies created, it is first.

In "Sunshine Cleaning," of the title after the surprise success of "Little Miss Sunshine" and reminiscent of the same production team comes depends the livelihood of the lucky one on Fair-perfidious way with the ghastly failure of the others.

Because what Rose and Norah as wegzufeudeln have saddest are the remnants of human life, which you can imagine. This blood, brain and other body parts. After running amok father of a family after suicide or a last matrimonial.

But no matter what Schmodder behind the next door hides. At the end of the film radiates with its heroic sisters as the sunshine logo. He lit them formally the way to self-overcoming - and its actresses Amy Adams and Emily Blunt after Hollywood.

Because if you this independent film by director Cristine Jeffs accused of something, it is next to his harmlessness perhaps the transparency with which his protagonists to the challenges and they can grow for a potential career oriented.

The best works, "Sunshine Cleaning" when he's own wonder at the unusual jobs once forgotten. If he is not in the garbage stochert, but in the monstrous solitude behind all this neglect and to dare, from grotesque detail to a large whole pan, to dream of individual prosperity and the promise of happiness of a country for all - and the madness behind blunt.

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Indeed, the thing with the "pursuit of happiness" to back off, come to stop with her sisters Putzmittelkanistern, protective suits and gloves. Actually, this is of course to Be Crazy. But the brave Putzsoldatinnen Rose and Norah have decided, not in debt and nervous breakdowns to set, but with your own life and the prospect of better times davonzukommen - for now.

Before then perhaps others left behind a pile of dirt.

"Illuminati" captivated moviegoers.

2009-05-18T20:16:00.000-07:00

At a Vatican thriller movie walking you do not seem to convert - this demonstrates the success of "Illuminati": both Germany and in America was the Dan Brown adaptation clear box-office leader.

It growls and bangs at the Box Office: Pyromane rogue who complained about the Vatican hermachen; cosmic heroes, the extraterrestrial fight battles; mutants who want to claw the world - that is the way to success in the films of the season.

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"Illuminati". Tom Hanks plays the character Robert Langdon specialists, from the fiery Menetekeln dark conspiracy plans reads.

48 million U.S. dollars came to the start of the film together - much less than the first part, the "Da Vinci Code - Da Vinci Code", 2006, with the incredible 77 million U.S. dollars was started shakedown results.

Afterwards gebeamt American moviegoers have the
"Star Trek" movie series by Inventor JJ Abrams ( "Lost," "Alias"). On the second weekend played WeltraummÃ¤r to Kirk, Spock and Sulu additional 43 million U.S. dollars one.

It followed a confrontation the hairy mutants with various counterparts in
"X-Men Origins: Wolverine" (14.8 million U.S. dollars), the romantic comedy "The Womanizer - the night of ex-girlfriends" (6.9 million U.S. dollars) and an infusion of the sexist film classic "A disastrous affair."

This is the strip, however, "Obsessed". In the main role of the pop star BeyoncÃ© Knowles defensive wife, the husband and family against a rival libidinÃ¶s lost must defend.

Germany also believes in the Vatican and Tom Hanks and what a genre-craftsmen, such as director Ron Howard can make from them. "Illuminati", launched in 804 cinemas, came to around one million visitors.

Second place for the Schlitzohr and his teammates Spock from "Star Trek" (200,000 visitors), followed by the Teen Schmonzetten "17 Again" (160,000 cinema-goers), "Wolverine" (85,000 visitors) and the Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire" (on the ninth weekend still 40.000 spectators).

Overall, these were 1.9 million cinema-goers - despite
Grand Prix and great weather.

If two skins.

2009-05-18T19:12:00.000-07:00

Without scandalous sex scenes it's not always so at the Cannes film festival - but this time is also much more blood to do so. The Dane Lars von Trier creates a shock effect with his new film "Antichrist" - a nightmarish journey into the dark heart of a marriage.

This is thus to be found when Lars von Trier in a film director is really bad thing. In an interview with the Danish Film Institute, said the director, his new film is something like a pressure valve had. He had it gone so bad that he just had something to do, otherwise he would have been for many months in bed and the wall located angestarrt.

Now one would perhaps not know exactly what von Trier minds of demons when he was in poor condition, but is likely to plunge many of the motives, it piesacken, involuntarily in "Antichrist" again. Images, in which he was last in his youth had moved, had been processed, said the 53-year-olds in Cannes is a regular guest - and thanks to its radical nature films, always a bit of excitement for good.

Thus, "Antichrist" as the shocker of the festival announced, and according to blood was also the numerous journalists on Sunday evening at the first press screening. In the end, it was betrayed, it was even the most hardened too much: When the film briefly before closing again in an epilogue einschwenkt, moaned some tortured to - probably not because the movie he was so bad, but because Lars von Trier with bloody horror film material and unvarnished sex scenes creates the viewer emotionally touching. And that is sometimes strenuous.

The film tells the story of a couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg), that a tragic accident, loses his child. The Small freed from his race grid, as the parents - in the same room - ecstatic to have sex - and falls from the window of the apartment. In order to heal the pain, the two therapeutic trip to their summer house "Eden", a hut in the midst of vast forests, where the parent with the kids had their best time. The man is a psychoanalyst and starts, seemingly unaffected by the death of his son, his wife with questions about torture.

"I have my experience with cognitive therapy," says Lars von Trier in the interview, which is also in the press release for the film is printed, "it seems about to go yourself if you are afraid of a cliff herunterzufallen yourself on this very cliff Skip to let the fear of defeat. Obviously it is a very successful form of therapy, but of course it always depends on how high the cliff is. "

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His male protagonists called Trier times like an idiot, which does not have a clue and nothing `ll. Hardly surprising then, that the situation in the lonely forest hut escalates. The therapeutic sessions bring evil and madness in the woman to light, and what should serve to heal, becomes nightmarish exorcism of evil ends. While acorns as dead boll on the roof of the building drum, is inside a destructive spiral of sex and violence in motion at the end of which is a blood ejakulierenden penis, hand trimmed labia and a quite literal interpretation of the continuing phrase "Klotz the leg "there.

Motifs from nature as the Church of Satan to dive here, and the woman, who in their studies with witch burnings employed, consider themselves to be fundamentally corrupted and responsible for the death of her own child. Rare was the distrust of women, in Lars von Trier a recurring theme, distinctive, rare, perhaps most recently in "Breaking The Waves", was also despair at the seemingly impossible coexistence of man and woman is greater.

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Von Trier's new film is an extremely schwerverdauliches but terrific and very bildgewaltiges masterpiece (camera of "Slumdog Millionaire" Cinematograf Anthony Dod Mantle), which is a good chance at the Palme d'Or should have, even if the applause of journalists with the balance boos continued. But this is part of the ballet to be balanced and aversion, in Cannes for the annual ritual belongs.

Free love, rotten life.

2009-05-17T20:40:00.000-07:00

Who needs big stars, if there are good films: On the first festival weekend, the competition in Cannes with Ang Lee's Woodstock loving homage and Jacques Audiard prison drama right to ride.

Yeah, they are still the stars: Brad Pitt, for example, is expected no later than Wednesday. And Willem Dafoe will be on Monday, together director Lars von Trier now the shocker skandalumwobenen "Antichrist" imagine.

A few were already there but also, above all the charming film partners Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci, the "Ne Te Retourne Pas" - you are not turning around - by director Marina de Van play. The trio, which is on the red carpet in red robes presented, experienced at the time of their work, however, a complete disaster: The audience jaulte against terror, and even the French criticism, domestic productions like kindly treated, said it was an "illogical flop" .

Evening then celebrated ex-boss jury Ang Lee's return to Cannes, in the competition by his new movie "Taking Woodstock" presented a lovingly told story about the circumstances surrounding the legendary rock festivals, which in August 40 years ago in Bethel, in the U.S. State of New York, the culmination of the hippie movement marked. Lee's film, a truly vibrant comedy about his profound dramas of "Brokeback Mountain" and "Lust, Caution" is not the festival's musical highlights after, but describes the basis of the story of Elliot Tiber, like Woodstock after Bethel was and how it lasting impact on life there.

1969 Tiber tried desperately, and in the run-down guest deficiency suffering Hotel El Monaco "his stubborn Jewish immigrant parents back in full swing to bring. As chairman of the local industry chamber he sat at exactly the right place, at the festival organizer Michael Lang, who just returned from the adjacent Wallkill herauskomplimentiert was an event with permission only. The local dairy farmer Max Yasgur, he persuaded his country for the three day festival missions, to the ultimately more than half a million people from all over the country flocked.

"You have 500,000 this respect," said director Lee at the press conference in Cannes, "because there were indeed, as announced, three days full of peace and music. There was no violence, and I do not think such a thing still possible today would be. "

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Lee's admiration for the event, which he as a 14-year-olds in Taiwan has only seen media reports, durchwirkt every minute of the film, with the split-screen settings and grainy images of the famous documentary by Michael Wadleigh honor proves. Almost casually, and with a lot of sense for the comical moments of the clash of hippies relaxed with the conservative country dwellers Lee proves a historical moment of his reverence in which the word freedom was not a phrase, but could apply to everything on the sexual orientation, on the wearing of clothing - or to organize a free concert.

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Because in marijuana intoxication, so the movie tells it, the faselt - U.S. comedian Demetri Martin beautifully awkward-jammed embodied - Elliot, yes, finally, that music should be free also, just like everything else. To slight detuning of the really keen on commercial success Heads Festival held his small Freiheitssermon even before the assembled press, so that Woodstock only thanks to a rush for the most drug-free and-out spectacle of all time. At least according to this legend.

Stand-up comedian Demetri Martin is a further discovery of the festival. As Elliot Tiber aka mountain pond he is in "Taking Woodstock" his own personal liberation, not only his first acid trip, but beyond his homosexual coming-out has. Martin, a mixture of optically young Dustin Hoffman and Adam Sandler plays the role of his innocence from the land with the proper restraint and very pleasant Laconia.

So Who needs big stars on the Croisette, where he introduced new talents like Demetri Martin, Katie Jarvis ( "Fish Tank") or Tahar Rahim during their first attempts in the spotlight may be experiencing? Well, not that Miss Jarvis was able to travel to Cannes, still weighs heavily, but, as Martin and the Maghreb Rahim actor at the weekend to draw attention to their good performance on the big screen enjoyed, it was heart warming.

Tahar Rahim Convinced prison as King

Rahim plays the main role in the new film by French filmmaker Jacques Audiard, in "Un prophets" the story of an illiterate street boy told the prison to a large number will be gangster. Sounds not only once more exciting, because prison dramas are plentiful, but Audiard creates it, mainly thanks Tahar Rahim, who in almost every scene, is an atmospheric density to generate the audience much as 150 minutes long and captures next to a single fate of even the French authorities of corruption and decline of the classic mafia in favor of a global Muslim community anmahnt gangsters.

The young Malik, the first denomination to belong not feel and do not even read and write can learn to start his six-year prison soon, with whom it is better not invest. The prison is managed by a group of Corsican Mobster controls whose weiÃŸhaariger Boss Luciani (Niels Arestrup) the young Arabs for a murder contract hires. In return, the new inmate to the protection of the Corsicans enjoy. Malik tries to get by the Corsicans method to teach pre-murder - is somehow a razor blade hidden in the mouth. What ends so that it now only eat yogurt. There are such details, which develop a force, as even a quick cut prison-action Ã la "Prison Break" does not develop.

Audiard is time for the development of its main character, shows how ridiculous Malik from lapdog to Lucianis and brutal self mausert player to read and teaches business processes - and ultimately all, Corsicans, Italians and Arabs against each ausspielt. Who does not care about what happens in its prisons, it must not be surprised if they ever larger monsters hervorkriechen, this implicit message of the film there was the highest so far applause and cheering in the press screening - home or not.

With Lee and Audiard films are so different that they may be, has the competition in Cannes correct momentum. A real disappointment was not there yet, even in the past year because of his brutal kakophonen and loud street noises in "Serbis" so hated Filipino Brillante Mendoza showed in his new film "Kinatay" formally quite civilized.

The story, however, is as ruthless as much this year in Cannes: shows how thoroughly corrupt police in Manila, a young girl mercilessly hacked and distributed components along the roadside.

Ang Lee was right: in Woodstock would be such a thing does not happen.

"I've always been very arrogant".

2009-05-15T20:12:00.000-07:00

As a Jedi Knight, he embodied the goodness, in "Illuminati", he plays one God man. In blogs ONLINE interview, he explains Hollywood star Ewan McGregor, why religious figures irritate him, he is nothing with God can begin - and what a motorcycle tour for life teaches.

blogs ONLINE: In the Dan Brown adaptation "Illuminati" play the right hand of the Pope. Are you religious? After all, you come from the Catholic Scotland.

McGregor: No, not at all. My grandparents were not religious, my parents are not, in my whole family played no role in the faith. Even more disturbing was my first contact with religion. One summer, I must have been 13, my parents sent me into a Christian adventure camp. One evening she grabbed me and were quite intrusive and wanted to know if I have Jesus in my heart would accept. Well, I was a teenager, I knew not what I wanted, so I took it all very seriously, began to blubber and finally said: Yes, yes, I accept Jesus in my heart! Then I was five or six weeks, very religious, read the Bible and so on.

blogs ONLINE: And then?

McGregor: Then, I found out that a boy in my school, consisting of a really ultrareligiÃ¶sen family, his father was beaten up was. Because I thought, bugger it!

blogs ONLINE: Secretly you must promise but metaphysics. The Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, you are in "Star Wars" game, is indeed nothing other than a priest.

McGregor: Religious people to play is just very interesting, because it is so incredibly self-confident are. I am in many aspects of life rather uncertain. This makes it very exciting to be in such a rigid belief hineinzuversetzen world.
And of course it's great, and before Tom Hanks added that he finds in the eye and to look with deep voice asking: "Do you believe in God?", As I have it in "Illuminati" was allowed to do.

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Ewan McGregor is one of the best-known British actor. From art-house audience was perceived in 1971 the first Scottish-born in 1994, when he was in Danny Boyle movie debut "Shallow Grave - Little murder among friends" plays. This was followed by films like "Brassed Off" and 1999, finally, the role that made him a star: Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars - Episode I". This was followed by other roles in blockbusters like "The Island". McGregor is a passionate biker and the documentary "Long Way Down" on his Motorradrreise produce to Cape Town.

blogs ONLINE: To make a faithless people to play, you must this feeling of self-assurance and strength somewhere hernehmen. What, you back?

McGregor: As an actor you worked a lot with their own imagination and ultimately takes everything back to what you experienced. I am no one who reads messages every day. But I am warring with what happens, whether it be here in Berlin or in Darfur. I walk with eyes wide open through life and love the music I hear, or just the movie, I just shoot. Or my motorcycle rides, which I much notice of reality, much more than usual in my life actor.

blogs ONLINE: You are with her boyfriend Danny Boorman around half the world, only you both and their motorcycles - throughout Europe, Russia, Alaska, Canada and the U.S. - and talking about a film. Why this tour oxen?

McGregor: It was the first really big challenge that I present myself as a grown man too. From London to New York, on a motorbike! But it was above all a fantastic lesson for life, because it was easy to make.

blogs ONLINE: Simple? That you must explain.

McGregor: Well, you just tear one mile after the other and do not think big about the future. You know, I did last year in New York Shakespeare played the Iago from "Othello". Before it goes to the samples, I usually learn my part completely out. So I began: week long to learn, learn, learn. Sometime shortly before I was a nervous breakdown! Five acts, three hours theater, all of this text - I would never manage! Until then we started to rehearse and I realized that we are always just one scene after another make. Pieces for scrap. Like on our trip. Kilometers before us was important - nothing else.

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blogs ONLINE: The critics were very enthusiastic about your presentation of the intriguers Jago. In particular, they praised how much humanity you have made the villains. Can you not even really the bad guy rauslassen?

McGregor: I can not just play bad people, I do not know what that is. Even if someone is doing terrible things, they are based on a motif that a faith that the person for the important and vital. When Iago I viewed the source of his jealousy, his fear and hatred will be incredible. And if you have wondered where all this comes, then it can no longer play as a baddie, then we must also see in him pathetic. He is trapped in his own terrible chaos. And I have tried to depict.

blogs ONLINE: You play for the theater, have a family, go on tour, donate a lot of money for Unicef and even have success in Hollywood. You can actually buy the action figure. What drives you still on?

McGregor: I have no goals. I am always very arrogant and self-aware of what my work is concerned. I like the acting and always try to become better. Maybe I was driving to yet more experience as an actor to collect.

blogs ONLINE: When did you last learned something?

McGregor: I just turn on Sylt with Roman Polanski, and I found it very pleasant, with a director to work is actually directed by, so the actors instructions there. The make is not so many. That I can grow. And better.

The interview was conducted by Andreas Borcholte

Families in stress test.

2009-05-15T19:10:00.000-07:00

Well, it embarked. But otherwise is not yet much to be felt at the festival in Cannes. In the films, however, a crisis is quite beautiful: New Works by Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Campion and Andrea Arnold show families in a state of emergency.

It would be so beautiful The young Americans Bennie Tetrocino (Alden Ehrenreich) travels to Buenos Aires to meet his long lost brother again. Finally, after a long search, he found it and is first of its kind Argentine wife Miranda (Maribel VerdÃº) in an apartment of the writer verkrachten added. However, Angelo's brother (Vincent Gallo), who in his new identity called Tetro, met him with open indignation and not enthusiastic that just healed the wounds of his old life to start again.

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Scene from "Fish Tank" by Andrea Arnold: Good old English-style social drama

And yet one thinks involuntarily to only ahnenden vanities in extensive creative Coppola clan, when the father of the two brothers, a world-renowned conductor, in a flashback to aspiring authors Angelo says: "There is only room for a genius in this family ". As do all the longings, fractures and misunderstandings on the family relationship strain, if gigantic egos collide.

A propos Ego: Coppola himself, in Cannes 30 years ago with "Apocalypse Now" won the Palme d'Or and since the big family is one of the festival, was a little offended when you "Tetro" in the competition wanted to show out of competition. So he initially threatened to order his film not on the Croisette to show. That alone caused plenty of discontent in Festival-chief Thierry Fremaux - then even more foamed than Coppola, "Tetro" parallel to the film series "Quinzaine de RÃ©alisateurs" was adopted on Thursday with the prestigious factory opened.

Has changed the whole Tweaking worth? Board game-like, some ludicrous to driftend linked Coppola in "Tetro" great tragedy with Greek tragedy - and waits at the end with a film that has both form and aesthetic surprise. Since forgives you between then and now that story and forwards like a few twists, the arg predictable.

Is the predictable - in this case unsatisfactory - end in the new film of the New Zealand director Jane Campion in 1993 with "The Piano" won the Palme d'Or. Their historical drama "Bright Star" tells the story of the nearly three-year affair between the English poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and the young seamstress Fanny Brawn (Abbie Cornish), and Keats' death at the age of 25 years died from tuberculosis.

Now, a film about the great, tragic love of the greatest poet of the English literature course, even something Schwelgendes have. Think man. Campion, however, also wrote the Drehuch, tells her in the early 19th Century playing history not just as a gradually emerging, and then flare up violently

Love Story, but as always, sets much value on nuances and social observations.

Transcending power of poetry

Because ultimately the tragedy of unfulfilled love between Keats and Fanny lies in the conventions of the Victorian period, allowing the indigent poet prohibit Fannie hands to stop, so the two times their affair can meet only in secret.

Slowly and concentrated Campion describes the transformation of Fannie patents on the self-conscious fashion designer, whose creations like a colorful bird of paradise among the acts covered in tones of the dresses held other women in the rural vicinity of London. When she Keats to a society to know, like they did not the poet, and too little productive, and to suspect faulenzerisch it appears the writing industry. As Keats says to her that he hoped an even better poet to be, she replied saucy: Hope is all well and good, but often do not lead to results.

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It is the irony in this austere and beautiful colors, faded pictures telling story that Fannie at the end when they return to the seriously ill from the Keats Sommerfrische in Italy waits on nothing more than just the hope is back. They - and the transcending power of poetry - ultimately overcomes everything, says Campion film, social constraints, such as family conflicts. How comforting and how sad at the same time.

Whether the Fraternization hoping to late Bennie in "Tetro" or on the redemption of their great love waiting Fannie in "Bright Star", it is the unfulfilled desires and longings, the film festival this initial shape. In Lou Yes gay drama "Spring Fever" seekers even exceed the sexual taboos in order to bring human warmth. And the priestly vampire in Park Chan-wook hilarious horror parody "Bakjwi" ( "Thirst"), also in competition to see, is lonely, because he is the only blood-sucker is, but has qualms about his lover also to make undead. When he finally does it, controls the crude but imaginative story of "Oldboy" director on a long ill-fated end.

Indelicate British Slang

And that is also familiar with the British filmmaker Andrea Arnold, which three years ago in Cannes with her debut "Red Road" for attention and now with "Fish Tank" in the competitive returns. In a dreary suburb somewhere in Essex plays her story of 15-year-old Mia (phantastisch: amateur actress Katie Jarvis), which desperately tries to desert from their homes with small, annoying sister and single mother to escape.

From family cohesion can no longer be a question. Even with the rare niceties are fiercest in the indelicate vulgar British slang pariert. Only when her mother a new friend home brings, it seems to give hope: Connor (Michael Fassbender) takes care of almost lovingly about the two daughters Mia and advises on its still awkward hip-hop dance attempts to professionalize.

Prompt the minors with the handsome guy sex on the sofa and stretches so that not only their own mom still youthful-looking friend, but triggers a chain of events that - according to good old English-style social drama - everything is coming down the creek. One British critic wrote about "Fish Tank": "You know that the Cannes Festival has begun, if the first person to a living room carpet urinates.

That was meant as praise, and r

so he really has, because the festival films are just the fact that the camera is not escapist illusions, but on the harsh reality set. The incidentally held on Friday also at the sun Croisette collection: It was raining the morning genaus so pathetic and permanently as in a beautifully hopeless Film Festival.

Drama, Baby!.

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FranÃ§ois Ozon's new film "Ricky" starts as a gray social drama, it becomes absurd comedy and ends as a dreamy, melancholy tale. Does not fit together? Oh doch.

It is a shame that so many journalists after the premiere of "Ricky" on the thought this year's Berlinale, the mystery of the film to be betrayed. Most viewers will now know what to expect when they buy the ticket - which they still view movie on a beautiful evening, the experience of a stunning movie of the recent surprises but were robbed. Yes, the baby, which is in "Ricky", has a secret, but what it is, at least will not reveal here.

Not that this film may have fallen each. Even the Berlinale audience was deeply divided - a camp for the whole thing was silly, banal and boring, the other for brilliant, poetic and exciting.

The French director Francois Ozon, well known for Over satire ( "8 Women", "sitcom") or complicated melodramas ( "5x2", "The time is") it makes the viewers also not easy.

Quite unexpectedly, he "Ricky" as triste, gray social drama begin, so no joy in life knows: A single parent factory worker (Alexandra Lamy) with a small daughter (Melusine Mayance) tries to degenerate in the suburban apartment block on the rounds to come can be from new colleagues (Sergi Lopez) pregnant, tried with him as a new family and throws him out, as she believes that he abused the baby.

Oh dear. That is the kind of substance with which the Belgian Dardenne brothers ( "The Child", "Lornas Schweigen") regularly distribute a bad mood (and deservedly cinema all possible prizes); Ozone does it first so he had all the forbidden things, which otherwise he may as well: cool distance rather emotional rollercoaster, a world in gray instead of color.

Drastically - phantastisch

The changes abruptly with the incredible twist that the film after not even half-way takes. When the baby as a very special child, we will also "Ricky" as a special film.

From the sadness will be a study on the bord, fantastic comedy alive and divorced, but still everything seems to be good for the victimized heroine. Better if it had itself can not imagine, unless it is actually all just before. Ozone irritates the fantastic from up to the farce, always bordering on silliness, and turns his film towards the end in a melancholic, dark fairy tale.

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Where even rubber dolls have a soul.

2009-05-14T20:12:00.000-07:00

The festival boss showed courage to take risks - and was rewarded: the opening of the Cannes Film Festival proved to be so sad how easy animated film "Up" as a hit. And then? Deeply human film about witchcraft, soul hike - and Sexpuppen.

Have courage to take risks proved the festival chief Thierry Fremaux and his decision to launch Disney's new animated film "Top" to show. It is a pensioner a flight with one's own house, which he and thousands of balloons into the air can rise. It is hardly conceivable a film of his reviewers have so many puns for slating impose. How about "No air in Cannes", " 'top' crashed 'or' dreams burst on the Croisette?

So ran the opening many young ladies, which sometimes looked a little air, mile at the festival and distributed and balloons bearing the words "Up" to the passers-by. That was nice and happy children, but somehow had the discreet charm of Europe campaign. The balloon is finally nothing else as steeply in the level to rise, a film raises far more serious from. And was not Disney's shares have fallen recently, after analysts cast doubt on the prospects of success of "Top" had expressed?

Now is "top" of the launch ramp Cannes were fired. It can also take him high. Because the film is good. To show how good he is, we make with the puns on until no one is left: The Pixar production "top" heavy treated issues such as age, loneliness and death very seriously and yet with so slight, that it never feels as ballast. Even if the film is sometimes so sad that it almost hurts, he moves the audience never down. He keeps it in a miraculous state of limbo between heaven and earth, sadness and happiness, laughter and tears.

The director and scriptwriter Pete Docter ( "Monsters, WG") tells in "top" of the 78-year-old balloon seller Carl, a lifetime of dreams together with his wife Ellie after a trip to South America. But after Ellie's death, as their common home is threatened by demolition and around skyscrapers shoot into the air, he rafft on. And the only way to your destination of dreams leads: to the top. But an eight-year old scout named Russell has established itself as a stowaway with flying into the house smuggled.

At the beginning is "up" like a 3D remake of Doris DÃ¶rries melodrama "cherry blossoms". In minutes of the film durchmisst the decades of love, hopes, disappointments,

Dreams that are always at the real danger of being dashed. To grow in this extremely laconic and yet deeply touching sequence assembly was the genre of animated film, perhaps never before, then begins a great adventure with huge, colorful birds, talking dogs and a bad guy who looks like Kirk Douglas.

It succeeds in the film, which confirmed with the world view of an old man, while children with curious eyes to view. "Top" is a wise mind, a young heart, and also fits like no other film in the troubled times: "It is just a house," says the balloon seller at the end when he finally give up his beloved home needs. But as easy as in "Top" can not disconnect any of his possessions. In Sam Raimis horror film "Drag Me to Hell", one week at Cannes will be running to avenge an old woman who must admit their house, their rates because they no longer can afford, bitter: You bewitched them responsible for the bank employees.

To this question, it will be in Cannes, so go: What remains of the people left when their earthly possession must leave behind? The best, says Pete Docter in "Top", the worst, says Sam Raimi in "Drag Me to Hell". According to the information content of the films, the directors then move their characters in this year very closely on the soul.

While the retired Carl in "top" with his late wife looking Council, but receives no response, the French director Gaspar NoÃ©, the idea of life after death, literally, in his competition entry "Enter the Void" is the hero shot, but his irrlichtert spirit continues through the life of his sister.

Marina De Vans film "Ne te retourne pas" augurs a soul migration between the bodies of Sophie Marceau and Monica Belucci. From a rubber doll, which contains a specific sense of life and awareness, says even the Japanese Kore-Eda Hirokazu in "Air dolls."

What makes us human, he wants to know. Is it the breath, we will be breathed into the air to us out? Questions about questions. The rooms in Cannes will be so full as ever. The films, but were probably never soulful.

Carnage left to leave.

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Even in skandaltrunkenen horror cinema of the seventies is Wes Craven brutal debut "The Last House On The Left" an exceptional position. Now dishes of the old masters, a remake of the legendary battle on record - and thus provides a rather unpleasant aftertaste.

The seventies are considered to be a decade of global crises and social conflicts, a time of disillusionment and radicalization antiauthoritarian simultaneous protest. In short, it was the perfect decade for a new, provocative and disturbing horror movie: Mostly independent and cheaply produced films, which hitherto unknown consequence? or deliberate boldness?

the aesthetic as moral standards of their genre injured, moved and re-defined.

Later, some of the former Tabubrecher a stylish building canonized classics, such as Tobe Hooper paradigmatic shocker "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974), or the ruthless capitalism critique, "Dawn of the Dead" (1979) by George A. Romero. And it is significant that these two examples now exist Remakes: As told our decade not sufficiently frightening stories are continually screen horrors of the past exhumed him and often in a sinister combination of the idea of poverty and economic calculus revived.

Because the sonorous title of the seventies thanks to their promise Ã¼berdauernden reputation secure success at the box office, which is why Hollywood Wiederholungswahn now "The Last House On The Left" seized.

The directorial debut of horror Wes Craven Doyens of the 1972 notes, however, even in the context of the scandals are not truly poor Seventies Exploitationkinos an exceptional position. First, because the history Craven film genre to this day as the explicit Fanal Grausam and hopelessness exhibited.

On the other hand, because so many people quote him without him ever to have seen: Precisely because of the fact that censorship decisions and seizures the movie in several countries, including Germany, maimed or in fact did disappear, has "The Last House on the Left "the aura of the forbidden and dangerous preserved.

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All the more bizarre the situation where now the Neuverfilmung by director Dennis Iliadis remake of a work as advertised, which is not here to see the most potential viewers by hearsay is known.

Before it comes to the latest version can go, the film must be historical myths surrounding the original questioned. In the U.S. there is the possibility, because an official since 2002, largely reconstructed version of the film is available: With a minimal budget of $ 90,000 tried the author and the director Wes Craven and producer Sean S. Cunningham (who later with the Slasher "Friday the 13th" made box office), a lurid film possible for the "Second Bill", the cheap car Beiprogramm the small cinemas and cinemas, to realize.

Ingmar Bergmann's strict guilt and expiation drama "The Virgin Spring" (1960) was the model for the speculative plot around the two teenagers Mari Collingwood (Sandra Cassel) and Phyllis Stone (Lucy Grantham) from rural Connecticut, whose trip to New York came to an abrupt end: They are the violent criminals Krug Stillo (David Hess) kidnapped, who with his accomplices Weasel (Fred Lincoln), Sadie (Jeramie Rain) and his unstable son Junior (Marc Sheffler) is on the run.

Termination of the maintenance contract

After several verbal and physical attacks leaves the group with their hostages in a forest, not knowing they are near Maris parents house. There, they humiliate and rape the girls before they Phyllis, and a little later, Mari kill. As the car engine fails, search pitcher and his chosen companion shelter at Maris parents. When Collingwood by random fate of her daughter learn to practice self-justice the perpetrators and are speechless at the end in the ruins of their existence.

It is hard to describe Shown without even entering the market Schreier jargon of that campaign to expire. The attracted an audience to the cinema, which is suddenly overwhelmed saw naturalistic depictions of violence, a semi-documentary camera and hopeless suffering of the victims of forcing the audience to make its own, per se, voyeuristic position into question. Even today, impressed this unilateral termination of the maintenance contract with the audience, as well as clairvoyance, with the brutal Craven

Revenge of the parents as well as ultimately nihilistic and self-directed, such as the appalling crimes of the two girls: The violence in this film is devastating in every way.

THE LAST HOUSE THE LEFT ONE (USA 2009)

Director: Dennis Iliadis
Screenplay: Carl Ellsworth, Adam Alleca, Mark Haslett
Cast: Tony Goldwyn, Monica Potter, Spencer Treat Clark, Aaron Paul, Sara Paxton, Riki Lindhome, Garret Dillahunt, Martha MacIsaac, Joshua Cox
Production: Wes Craven, Marianne Maddalena, Sean S. Cunningham, Rogue Pictures
Distributor: Universal
Running time: 100 minutes
Start: 14 May 2009

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Away from this genuine, although hardly encouraging bursting of the film quality of logical errors, has a mildly bumpy rhythm and remains in its unpolished imbalance psychedelic soundtrack, including a malignant opposition. Wes Craven called it in retrospect quite aptly a "black sheep movie": A black sheep in the system of American genre cinema, which would have to be alone can break the rules and truly wehzutun.

How can the film as an expression of angry despair of the Vietnam war, whether just as agonizing death of innocence and the end of the hippie idealism. Craven himself spoke just a few years ago from a dark place, which he then had to visit on which he never wants to be.

The statement is, unfortunately, probably not, because finally, Craven and Cunningham produced the remake. Likewise, the familiar plot structure and builds an effective matter, but forgotten horror film worthy of the new school. Some role names - for example, Phyllis is now Page - and the setting were changed slightly, but otherwise follows the revision of the original story - but with crucial differences.

-Horror remake left to leave

Where the original form and content through breaks insecure, are routinely off voltage moments and the usual viewing satisfaction. This is particularly true for scenes of violence which are now tested for the audience are easily goutierbar and no potential for a serious discussion of the Displayable offer.

The full Sinnentleertheit of the task, however, revealed at the end, when the indissoluble, moral-ethical dilemma of 1972, a triumphant plea for defensive nuclear family is different. The bloody happy ending legitimized precisely those forms of violence, which Craven movie so painful denounced, and thus the whole approach to absurdity.

It remains only to note that there are now two movies with the title "The Last House on the Left" is a shameful exploitation works from the seventies, in the lurid break with conventions of a accident, yet compelling truth arrived. And a streamlined plagiarism, although terror and alleged transgression, but only the familiar, familiar reactionary solutions. The latter can be safely left the cold.

Film Festival to start with stars and cartoon.

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The 62nd Cannes Film Festival are open. To start the first animated film was shown at the gala guests put on 3D glasses needed. Overall, in the coming days, several thousand films - the jury is hoping for food for thought.

The 62nd Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday evening the first time with a film in 3D projection begun. After the official welcome and presentation of the jury, it was for the gala guests in tuxedo and evening dress "glasses on."

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The launch of the largest film festivals in the world shown Animationsfilm "Up" from the studio Disney / Pixar was his only three-dimensional stimulus with the appropriate corrective unfold. The opening film runs out of competition in the competition for the Palme d'Or, on 24 May is to be awarded.

20 films competing this year for the Palme d'Or. These are also films from previous winners such as palm-Quentin Tarantino, Ken Loach, Jane Campion and Lars von Trier. The only production in the German competition, the drama "White Band", the Austrian Michael Haneke with actors such as Ulrich Tukur and Susanne Lothar in Germany turned. In the other series of the official selection, in addition to programs and on the international film market, a total of several thousand new works shown.

President of the jury this year is the French actress Isabelle Huppert. She said before the opening programmatically: "We are not here to judge films on. We are here to movies to love." She hoped that the works "not only emotionally touching, but also to stimulate thought."

Among the stars, which this year are expected in Cannes include Brad Pitt, PenÃ©lope Cruz, the German Til Schweiger, and the pop singer Mariah Carey. The American director Martin Scorsese Presents the Cannes Classics series, his countryman and colleague, Francis Ford Coppola opened the by-number "of the Quinzaine RÃ©alisateurs" with his playing in Argentina, family drama "Tetro."

With the gay cowboys.

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On a few keywords to be reduced, for a film can be a curse and blessing. Ang Lee's magnificent drama "Brokeback Mountain" has not harmed the film "with the gay cowboys' to be. Part two of the culture blogs Edition "Great movie moments."

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If a film icon of the cinema history, then are often one or two keywords and everyone knows what is meant. With the dinosaurs? "Jurassic Park". The southern-epic? "Gone With the Wind." With the gay cowboys? "Brokeback Mountain". Hard to say if there is a blessing for this great love story of two men facing a fleeting summer common forbidden happiness for a lifetime will mean the world - because it shows what a cultural significance for Ang Lee's with prices just so overwhelmed Film within a very short time has reached. Or a curse, because "Brokeback Mountain" is so much more than just the gay cowboy movie.

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Director: Ang Lee; With Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal

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134 minutes takes Ang Lee, at first in the 1997 "New Yorker" published short story by Annie Proulx on the screen to capture, which seems too much for a story that takes place in less than half an hour of reading. But Lee is not a man of hectic, it will cost every moment that takes every setting to the world of Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar to the last detail to create this simple boys from the land - for eternity embodied by Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger - where the camera over the decades until the end is devastating. One would miss no time. This film tells the story with so much strength and passion of the tragedy of unfulfilled love, that even the toughest guys in the cinema chairs her tears are not so easily wegblinzeln could.

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Has three Oscars "Brokeback Mountain" at the awards in 2006, for best adapted screenplay, for best film and best director. That it to the horror of most observers is not the prize for best film was, and instead "LA Crash" by Paul Haggis won, may be up today as a scandal and, perhaps as evidence that the old, gray men of the Academy itself was rather not too much with a film about loving two men addressed liked.

Comforting, perhaps, just that "Brokeback Mountain" the foundation could have, for the period in which the times should be different. But even without the major Oscar movie that has millions of visitors worldwide in cinemas brought to tears and nearly 180 million U.S. dollars recorded, until everybody knew, yes exactly, that's just the movie with the gay cowboys.

The fact that Jack and Ennis actually sheep and cows do not care - what the heck.

Bombige conversion.

2009-05-12T19:10:00.000-07:00

As the hot seat for the Holy: In his second Dan Brown adaptation lead director Howard concentrated his hero with pyrotechnics on the path of enlightenment. The Esoterik blockbuster "Illuminati" is pious than the template Bestsellers deserved.

At the end of the church will embrace yet the science: "It has the sky," belobigt the old bones from the Vatican to young researchers.

And because the actor Armin Mueller-Stahl's Strauss Cardinal with the same authoritarian, German stained RÃ¶cheln equipped, as it is by the former Cardinal Ratzinger knows, getting the final of the esoterics riots "Illuminati" then indeed a clergy-friendly note: As if the pontiff here even spoken.

Captain Kirk makes checkout.

2009-05-11T19:10:00.000-07:00

From the moth box to the Stars: The new, rejuvenated "Star Trek" by director JJ Crew Abrams was well received by the German and American audiences - and in the USA had the best start of a movie from the sci-fi series.

Los Angeles / Hamburg - The best start of the year managed
"Star Trek" but then not, but that would be maybe a bit much to ask was. The cult still revered, but in recent years arg betulich become franchised around the starship Enterprise was from
Director J.J. Abrams extremely rejuvenated and with a
new crew provide cool, but the prejudice against science fiction in general, and the universe Trekkies in particular weighed heavily in the mass audience.

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Kirk actor Chris Pine in "Star Trek" franchise from the ice free

All the more astonishing that "Star Trek" on the last Friday in U.S. cinemas started, according to industry magazine "Focus on Film" by Sunday evening recordings 76.5 million U.S. dollars - as much as yet no "Star Trek" movie earlier in the American cinemas. Apparently it's Abrams, of its reputation as a producer of cult series such as "Alias" and "Lost" earned, managed to include a completely new audience for the veteran Sternensaga to conquer. And the end of the triumph at the box office is likely not over yet, because in this case, word of mouth plays a big role: the more people with good thoughts come from the film, the more movie-goers, with "Star Trek" nothing else to do want to have, could have a look at the film is still a chance.

The best start of the year, but still
"X-Men Origins: Wolverine" in the previous week. The comic book adaptation lost much of its expected sales launch a 68 per cent, but remained with 27 million U.S. dollars at the weekend in second place sound - despite the "Star Trek" Competition in a similar genre. After ten days, the mutant spectacle with Hugh Jackman in the U.S. alone already recorded 129.6 million U.S. dollars.

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The week started in the romantic comedy "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (" The Womanizer - The Night of the ex-girlfriends ") landed with 10.4 million U.S. dollars to rank three. The Stalking-thriller" Obsessed "is followed in fourth place with 6, 6 million U.S. dollars - in total, the surprisingly successful movie starring BeyoncÃ© Knowles and Ali Larter after the third weekend already implemented 56.2 million U.S. dollars, much for a relatively small production. fifth went to "17 Again" with 4.4 million U.S. dollars. The newly launched comedy crooks "Next Day Air" with rapper Mos Def in 1138 film was only four million U.S. dollars in sales - enough only for the sixth place.

Even in Germany, fans and curious people flocked in droves to the new "Star Trek" movie, quite as successful as in the United States was the Abrams adventure but not here. Similar to "Wolverine" in the previous week saw themselves as "Focus on Film" roughly 400,000 visitors to the movie - a solid but not outstanding result. However, we must turn the good weather for books, the cinema at the weekend brought a turnover decline. Only around one million tickets have been resolved, 200,000 fewer than in the previous week.

Second place went to "Wolverine" on the second weekend clearly losing popularity, and only attracted nearly 160,000 viewers. This placed the long-running
"Slumdog Millionaire" and Tony Gilroys espionage thriller
"Duplicity - Common Secret Thing" with 55,000 visitors. "Crank 2: High Voltage" decided the German top five with 35,000 KinogÃ¤ngern.

Cineastes instead of terrorists.

2009-05-09T19:06:00.000-07:00

The city of Jenin is considered to be stronghold of the Palestinian terror. Ironically, there wants a Schwabe a cinema open. It is a symbol of humanity and normality show - and emblematic of the local Kulturintifada.

At the destination of his dreams, he must first put on a breathing mask. Asbestos on the ceiling, pigeon droppings on the floor, the stench is biting. But Mark's cousin is going to rise across over rubble and broken chair and spreads his arms out. "Is not this a great place for a cinema?", He mumbled through the mask.

From Red Light District to cream situation.

2009-05-07T21:14:00.000-07:00

Top locations instead Eckkneipen, lounge bars instead Rotlichtspelunken: "Empire St. Pauli" documents how the lifestyle industry at the expense of the old inhabitants of an entire neighborhood over - a bitter Agitprop film city against political cynicism.

Yellow curtains, Resopaltische, pennants and Zierteller on the walls. The air is for cutting. Pensioners, and toothless Transen drinkers make Polonaise and swirl beer tubers. Light garlands holzvertÃ¤felten dangle from ceilings.

In Tippel Inn celebrated the last evening. "There's only the demolition once" Fidele johlt the housewife with the top shirt. One of the last of St. Pauli Eckkneipen a new building must be soft, after the municipal housing company building the ensemble has to neglect. "We will be expelled, Hermann," says the lady with Mopfrisur to their weiÃŸhaarigen companion.

Five years is the farewell party of her Tippel Inn. A film about the Hamburger Kiez have them back to life. "Empire St. Pauli" is the documentation, the change in the world famous district narrates. The district, which like no other in Germany for cheap fun, is to expensive plaster. Rotlichtspelunken make lounge bars competition, instead of booze coma, there's the three-course lunch for 24 euros. In funkelnagelneuen office and residential block on the grounds of the former brewery Bavaria cavort agencies and homeowners to the wild Kiez only know from hearsay.

"I've heard earlier was a little alternative here," says the young man in a black slim-fit shirt, because of the harbor panorama hergezogen is. When grapefruit prosecco cocktail extols the developer of the project "Design Ready concept" of the proposed Marco Polo Towers on: "Here you can find his desires of individuality, freedom, luxury and flexibility to meet." Top Locations, Hotspots and cream layers - marketing-speech is recovered between geiler Mile and River Elbe. In the hop, where previously the prostitutes were sitting in the windows are now condominiums for 250,000 to 350,000 euros for sale.

"With 'Star Trek' was the bar low".

2009-05-07T20:10:00.000-07:00

He created a cult series like "Lost" and "Alias," now he dusted the science fiction classic "Star Trek" for the cinema. In blogs ONLINE interview, director JJ Abrams about the weakness of earlier films Enterprise, sensitive fans - and the advice of his mentor Steven Spielberg.

blogs ONLINE: Mr. Abrams, after ten films and five TV series was the vast expanse of the "Star Trek" universe as explored, and the brand as a commercial dead What attracted you to restart?

Abrams: The honest answer is: Because there was never a "Star Trek" movie was how I presented it to me and would like to view. I am not the work of my predecessors devalue. I have eternal respect for Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the original series. But the material still has so much untapped potential! A Bond movie I would have never shot, because the 007-series classic so many years, I guarantee that nothing better could add. With "Star Trek" was the bar lower. However, I was never a serious fan or Trekker.

blogs ONLINE: Is it not more Trekkies?

Abrams: Tell not too loud - the hard fans hate it when they trivialized! One of them also counted as an expert on the inner circle of people who helped me in developing the concept helped chronologically backwards to travel and the beginnings of the characters to light. This decision was the key: We had thus narrative carte blanche and an organic integration into the mythology evolved over decades. I believe that the chances are very good, old and new viewers for "Star Trek" to inspire.

blogs ONLINE: You said in an interview that the optimism in science fiction cinema cool again want to do. What do you mean?

Abrams: We have in genre cinema for years just cynical movies about pre-or postapokalyptische seen worlds, all somber in tone. No question: Some were brilliant and incredibly successful. But I wanted to avoid this route and to me the original series, which is based on a pioneering spirit. Explorers are not cynics. You are at the heart fortschrittsglÃ¤ubig and optimistic.

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Film clip: "Good luck"

blogs ONLINE: Optimistic is your approach a film with no stars to rotate.

Abrams: I have been at "Lost" and "Alias" very good experiences with this, unknown actor to fill the audience became darlings have developed. Of course the risk is greater, a film on the shoulders of relative newcomers to attend. But I am firmly of the quality of our crew convinced - and the real star is already the spaceship Enterprise.

blogs ONLINE: In the casting phase, you have expressed a desire to Russell Crowe as a baddie to fill.

Abrams: I admire Russell's work, and sometimes my enthusiasm with me through. We discussed the role, but he had to consider that "Star Trek" on the way to the Russell Crowe movie would be - and quite right. Now we have Eric Bana, also an acting heavyweight. However, under a mask, which is so good that it is not even Steven Spielberg has recognized. He asked after his presentation, who this actor was interesting. They have both "Munich" with one another shot!

blogs ONLINE: Many films burst event today before special effects and stun the audience with a review values. Should we do so?

Abrams: No, no man today is more of a huge explosion or a spaceship herumflitzenden impressed if he is not about the characters in this space provides. That was my mandate: First, the characters, then the visual orientation. Our "Star Trek" a Kirk and Spock movie about the difficult beginning of a friendship - and incidentally a science-fiction epic. We also have over a thousand elements with computer settings. But they are the garnish, not the meat of the film.

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Kirk, Spock & Co: Star Trek - all at the beginning

blogs ONLINE: How do you find your next movies still time for your current series "Lost" and "Fringe"?

Abrams: I did with "Lost" have nothing more to do and know the show is in the hands of extremely talented colleagues. With "Fringe" I occasionally help a little with plot ideas. But my focus is and will now focus on filmmaking addressed.

blogs ONLINE: In the movie seem a weakness for series to have substance. Where is this preference?

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Abrams: I am fascinated as Filmfan characters to which you have an extended period of time builds a relationship of trust. As a director it irritates me the most, tried to break formulas and those spectators by surprise, which is already one million movies and knows every twist guessed. Sub-conscious is in me seems to be the fan of "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" by. I loved it as a youth, these figures for new adventures and to accompany their changes to be amazed. Take only the transformation of Luke Skywalker in the course of three films! That would be in two hours time narrative impossible. Even George Lucas and Steven Spielberg could be derived from their love of the series inspired by her youth.

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Jeffrey Jacob "J. J." Abrams, 1966 born, was his first feature film with the same Star-Power in the back twist: Tom Cruise himself to be the TV producer, writer and director for "Mission: Impossible 3" (2006) have hired only after a number of consequences of the Abrams - Series "Alias" hellauf was thrilled.

Also for the cult series "Lost" and "Fringe" drew the self-confessed "Star Wars" - and "Star Trek" - Fan responsibility. Abrams' reinvention of "Star Trek" is the eleventh movie in the series, based on the sci-fi series based on the 1966 to 1969 for the U.S. television was produced. Abrams already announced, including another film with the new Enterprise crew to be available.

blogs ONLINE: What you hear, you have a close relationship with Spielberg.

Abrams: He's over the years into a real friend and mentor, has become, not bad times is when I him with e-mails full of questions about his work Bombardier. His class makes me ready to go! He shakes on the set spontaneously scenes from the sleeve in which it is the smallest area while filming five settings - and you have yourself as a professional no idea where the cameras are hidden. The complexity of his film language is someone who is solely and sanded with six-syllable words parliert.

blogs ONLINE: Can they influence your work on the example of "Star Trek" explain?

Abrams: First of all, I am sitting here without him. I wanted to "Star Trek" originally produced. Only when my wife and shortly afterwards Steven read the script and declared mentally for me, if I do a cool story would not be staged, was a light on me. Later Steven saw a rough and sent a couple of pages of detailed notes. Time he found a sequence of twenty seconds too long, then again, he suggested changes in the sequence before cutting. Any comment that was marginally, but overall his ideas helped the film to a better rhythm. Because of course, his arguments were impressive - in addition to him we are all apprentices in the film company (laughs).

blogs ONLINE: As a producer of your own movies, you are also with the economic aspects of the industry well. What does the global crisis for Hollywood?

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Abrams: There is everything to the test. Every budget, every Gage, everyone's status. This caution is already leading to a steep increase of cooperation of the major studios. Super Expensive films are now widely supported by several partners gestemmt. Then they have to share in their profits, but reduce the risk of flops. But compared to other industries, the film business is quite healthy. The audience figures in the U.S. speak a clear language: The people stream in each stage, such as economic decline reinforced the cinema, where she also distraction besides the feeling of inspiration and hope are looking for.

blogs ONLINE: Finally something else: How did you actually the "South Park" parody of the film "Cloverfield" dropped in the monster of the film by a giant hamster has been replaced?

Abrams: From the best satirist in the U.S. television perceived to be in Hollywood as a modern knighthood! I have tears of laughter, how clever they are loose on the camera in "Cloverfield" have fun. The best part: You have not reason and ground, but were almost lovingly. And from the "South Park" boy a tiny bit more to be respected, is notoriously less likely than an Oscar win.

Gutmensch unwilling.

2009-05-07T19:08:00.000-07:00

A Palestinian man leaves the bodies of his dead son's donation - to patients in Israel, irrespective of their religion. A feel-good story? No way: The documentary "The Heart of Jenin" is not easy.

Ahmed Khatib was twelve years old when he was shot. The boy from the autonomous Palestinian town of Jenin was with a machine gun on the plastic, which looked so real that it was Israeli soldiers held for a terrorist. A terrible mistake, bitter and tragic, just as it can happen in a permanent state of war.

Ahmed's father Ismael, the bodies of his son to donate. Heart, kidney, liver and lungs, in six patients in Israel, the case in late 2005 for a large media interest ensured. A baby has not survived the transplant, two of the recipients remained anonymous - the other three children Ismael Khatib with a film crew visited: the Bedouin's son Mohammed, the small Samah, which belongs to the Druze, and Menuha from an Orthodox Jewish family in Jerusalem.

On this Thursday, the resulting documentary "The Heart of Jenin" to the directors from Israel, Lior Geller and Marcus Vetter from Germany to the cinema, and most spectators are expected to have a moving feel-good story expect the story of a noble man of his grief back in place in order to do something good, irrespective of political and religious boundaries.

And partly it is so simple but it makes the film not. The first scenes are anything but heart warming: There are pictures of the dead Ahmed, from the morgue of the Israeli hospital in an ambulance and brought to his parents in the West Bank will be driven. They rallied in addition to the crying family immediately a crowd of people around the corpse, it shall wind up in a Palestinian flag and carries it through the city. "Raise high the martyrs," calls the angry mob. And: "Each death is avenged by 100".

Even the father, at the center of the film, is not just a sacred gentleman. It was an act of humanity was, he says, "with politics has nothing to do". But later he says, his humanity is to be understood as resistance. "Do you think it has fallen to the Israelis what I have done?" He says.

He calls himself a former resistance fighter, says that he and Molotov cocktails and stones thrown in jail several times landed. Before the donation, he has to a chief of the Al-Aqsa Brigades, demanded whether he really should make, including the mufti of Jenin had his approval.

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Ismael Khatib believes in no reconciliation, just as the devout Jew Jakoov Levinson, the daughter of Ahmed got a kidney. He is eternally grateful that his child should live, but for Palestinians it will remain a threat. "Those crazy Arabs are trying constantly kill us," he says into the camera, and the meeting of the two men is so subliminally unentspannt and hostile that no one can take seriously, the two camps could ever find each other.

There are no heroes in "The Heart of Jenin, just people trying to get the right to do so. Whether this is cause for hope for peace there can be only one viewer to interpret for themselves. That makes this film worth seeing.

Icy objects of desire.

2009-05-05T20:14:00.000-07:00

Some movies require decades to return to the classics to be, for some it is quite fast: For the DVD Collection "Great movie moments", the culture blogs coming 50 classics selected. We make every week a new film in the series before. Today: the nature documentary "Our World".

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If tomorrow the world goes down, we still shoot a movie about it - under this motto, the Briton Alastair Fothergill and his colleagues from the Natural History Unit of the BBC in 2007, the costliest and most expensive so far nature documentary ever completed.

"Our Earth" is an epic journey around the world in just 90 minutes from the North to the South Pole - with many stops on all continents and very telecharger gene Stars: humpback whales, sharks, elephants, lions, polar bears and birds of paradise.

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That sounds easier than it is. Animal documentaries bring the people they make to their limits. I know that since I director in April 2007 Fothergill and his team at work could watch, when filming on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, only 1200 kilometers from the North Pole. For three days we explored snowmobiles on the bitter cold desert along the 78th Latitude, always on the lookout for polar bears. Supposedly there are still around Spitzbergen 5000 copies, one fifth of the total population.

In principle, polar bears here come from all sides; in doubt accelerate faster than a snowmobile. "Sometimes they just want to play," said Fothergill. But that's really nobody in the wilderness is eaten, or starved erfriert, escorted us to the Bears being two local leaders in the Arctic, armed with pepper spray and heavy turrets.

Climate change, the underlying theme throughout the film, was also felt on Spitsbergen, but differently than I thought: The weather changed every ten minutes. Sun, fog and snow storms alternated succession. With snow drifting blurred sky, horizon and ground in the Arctic into a single gray wall. With a little luck, you will still recognize the taillights in front of a moving snowmobile. A polar bear could be directly behind a herhecheln without being noticed him immediately.

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Not all locals in the Arctic are so unpredictable. We observed reindeer, seals and an Arctic fox, for Central European city dwellers a sensation. Fothergill & Co. But that did not even packed up their cameras. Polar bears, the objects of desire, settled in this expedition does not look - animal film everyday.

Never mind. In the finished film, there is enough to see polar bears. The most spectacular scene - a polar bear who swims - Alastair Fothergill even turned itself helicopter.

The best pajama party in space.

2009-05-05T19:10:00.000-07:00

Beamer, phaser, Warpgeschwindigkeit: Can all these classics of the "Star Trek" universe once more interesting and timely to make? Director J.J. Abrams has succeeded - his film version of the Sci-Fi myth is sexy, exciting, fast and - scandal! - Spock gives even a lover.

As always a distant future also looks like the pub brawl left us. For example, at least director JJ Abrams, in his with plenty of inflated expectations' Star Trek 'Prequel a futuristic beer glut quite the showplace jetztzeitiger Keilerei makes.

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All and powerful: The new old Enterprise spaceship in "Star Trek"

In the center of the wrangling shares a young man particularly strong, and his peculiar body language when fistfight allows only one conclusion: This must be James Tiberius Kirk, captain of the legendary spaceship Enterprise and Ur-hero of almost five decades, six TV series and now eleven films comprehensive science-fiction franchise company.

Alone, the sultry rioters did not know his happiness, and finally with a new cast is the history of the classic series from 1966 told. Instead of the merry Fossil William Shatner is about young actor Chris Pine in Kirk neat boots, and even more impressed with his physical play in this scene. Perfect Pine plays the little ticks and Manierismen after Shatner, whose Captain always tangible arguments to have been: The Kirk is dead, long live the Kirk.

Oil, egg, salt and stir. "

2009-05-04T20:12:00.000-07:00

Looks like silence? With the exhibition "Silences" is trying the French cinema legend Marin Karmitz as an art curator - and designed with a jukebox, a beach scene and a glass igloo is disappointing confusion.

Misleading is the title. "Silences" - silent, still on top in the plural, promises the show, and already here is a hidden confusion. Because in truth it whimpered between the works, characters in the half whisper, whisper number combinations speakers, videos, sound spread from a U.S. pop music jukebox drips. Does not even a siren?

The tour through the narrow, artificial maze reinforced the acoustic confusion. The environment acts as a menacing, urban environment, between the four, five meter high panels are narrow gorges, usually dipped in aseptic white. The scenery almost reminiscent of the expressionist films of the twenties, the path between the works, such as a switch between total, Halbtotale and sudden Naheinstellung.

No coincidence: The exhibition is the brainchild of Marin Karmitz, 70, of his professional biography began as a cameraman, shot short films and later as a producer, distributors and cinema owners reÃ¼ssierte. His chain of MK2, with rights to more than 400 international titles, is one of the most successful in France. In 2005, Karmitz the management to his son - and almost simultaneously came the vision of an exhibition.

"I wanted to establish connections between film, video, literature, painting, music and visual art," says Karmitz, with this idea of the cross when the former Director of the Strasbourg Museum of Modern Art in "surprisingly positive response" was - long before the beginning of the year by President Nicolas Sarkozy to the General Delegate of the newly created Council for artistic creation "was appointed.

The ground floor of the building floor, next to the historic city of Casemates received Karmitz an area of 580 square meters - and completely free hand for the selection of works by 15 modern artists. "I have a rare degree of trust and generosity increases," says Karmitz. Especially as the city of Strasbourg, the project looked without skepticism. "We have here a man free hands, neither artist is still a painter, not a critic, not even a collector," says the Director General of the municipal museums Joelle Pijaudier-Cabot on the experiment.

Also by the film producer (Kieslowski's color trilogy) to the museum curator changed Paris, it was a "decision is not without risk", even if the man cinema in 1966 with a film about a piece of Beckett's attempts to film and video stage language to unite . Still standing Karmitz, later with a short, play movies and protest domestic and international prices finally into specialized manufacturing moved in front of an unusual problem: "Where is the substance crystallizes what works choose what era of presence at the center? What story? me before I arrived as a director without a script, "says Karmitz in Strasbourg," and only to the extent where I gathered the works, was also the match, cross-conception. "

"It's like mayonnaise"

Is characterized by the attempt to artists in relationship to. "It is a reflection of some artists, the beginning of the seventies began to seek the silence through the screen - to words, sentences, scraps of language. I have chosen people who overcame the silence with film, video, sound installations. "

"Silences", Karmitz and built by the architect Patrick Bouchain, starts with a lock, in the letters from plush (Annette Messager) the word "Ciineeemaa" form and in the vanishing point to a scare piece ( "One Laughing at the Red Ball") Juan Munoz lead. Then the visitor emerges into the half. Between open chambers, rooms, boxes - small refuges for the productions of the works: "One space per Oeuvre, a specific volume, Karmitz comes from the film, it was quite natural for him to work in the right light," says Bouchain.

The visitor encounters among others on the leisure of an American nightmare beach staging (Martial Raysse, 1962/2007), to a Glasiglu by Mario Merz (1969/1991), passed an almost appear as an emergency exit door (Robert Gober, "Door with Light Bulb ", 1992). Then he loses in the "Labyrinth" by Ilya Kabakov and Emilie - a maze in the maze ( "My Mother's Album", 1990) - and suddenly sees himself surrounded with Christian Boltanski's masked figures, disturbed passers between the rows, the short sentence Tatters murmur. Will be dismissed with the frontal view of Georg Baselitz ' "Three heads with snail" (1966) - a disturbing, provocative finale.

The result is a cohabitation of various works between time and space in a territory "(Karmitz), which is not immediately opens.

"Yes, it takes a little time to access to find, but it will work Marins bridge," says Christian Boltanski. "It's like mayonnaise - oil, egg, salt and stir it takes to succeed in the sauce?"

"Silences," in the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art "until 23 August, 26 October 2009 until 10 Januaar 2010 in the Berardo Museum in Lisbon.

Clawed Wolverine, the box office.

2009-05-04T19:08:00.000-07:00

Good cut: The action-packed comic filming "Wolverine" with Hugh Jackman had the best start so far this year at the U.S. box office. In Germany, too, opted for the spectators krallenbewehrten mutants. This was after seeing Julia Roberts.

Los Angeles / Hamburg - real fans look no unfinished pirated copy on the computer to real fans go to the cinema. This summary could be starting from the furious draw the comic adaptation "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" at the weekend in the U.S. and Germany.

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Scene from "Wolverine" (with Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber): impressive start to the summer season

87 million U.S. dollars played
Action movie with Hugh Jackman in the lead last weekend in American cinemas in 4099 - and made the Marvel production according to "Focus on Film" to the film's most successful start of the year. In Germany around 400,000 spectators wanted the background to the claws with metal reinforced mutants see Logan.

Of course, one could speculate whether "Wolverine" an even better start would result, if this is the one month before the published start movie piracy on the Internet did not exist. But just as well can only speculate how many Americans at the weekend, the multiplex cinema for fear of the swine flu virus have shunned - and sales also pushed down.

Overall, one can at 20th Century Fox and Marvel very satisfied: "Wolverine" cut better than the first two "X-Men" films between 2000 and 2003, only the third part of the series, "The Last Stand", played 2006 on a four-day weekend 122.9 million U.S. dollars is only slightly more than the latest offshoot of the franchise.

The runners-up the American charts landed the romantic comedy "The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" ( "The Womanizer - The Night of the ex-girlfriends"). The movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner put 15.3 million U.S. dollars in 3175 to movie theaters.

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Vorwochenspitzenreiter "Obsessed" landed with 12.2 million U.S. dollars revenue in third place (after ten days of total sales: 47 million U.S. dollars).

In fourth place, the comedy "17 Again" with Teen Star Zac Efron to 6.3 million U.S. dollars, while the hitherto strongest American film of the cinema year, slowly but surely from the leading group passed: "Monsters vs.. Aliens" played on Rank five have yet to times 5.8 million U.S. dollars and has a turnover reached 182.4 million U.S. dollars.

In German cinemas made "Wolverine" also caused a sensation, but had sunny weather with which to fight. With 400,000 spectators said in 691 cinemas remained the "X-Men" episode clearly behind "X-Men: The Last Stand" (680,372 visitors) and "X-Men 2" (893,412 visitors) back.

Besides the sun, there was little competition: Tony
Gilroys thriller "Duplicity - Common Secret Thing" came despite largely good reviews and star cast with Julia Roberts and Clive Owen with a modest 80,000 spectators in 272 cinemas only in second place.

It landed long-running "Slumdog Millionaire", at its seventh weekend in German cinema, not only placed third, but even with 75,000 KinogÃ¤ngern back to viewers, respectively (total: 1.5 million visitors).

Reboot "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" has started strong with 75,000 viewers in 311 cinemas. "Crank 2: High Voltage" occupied with 70,000 spectators five. "Phantom pain", the new comedy with Til Schweiger, came in 141 cinemas only 25,000 visitors. The slight increase in ticket revenue to 1.2 million benefited especially "Wolverine".

Actor Fred Delmare is dead

2009-05-04T00:02:00.000-07:00

He was one of the most popular actor in the GDR, played in classics like "Naked among wolves." Last Delmare Fred stood in the ARD series "In all friendship" as a grandfather Frederick in front of the camera. Now died the 87-year-old died as a result of pneumonia.

Leipzig - It was a hard life, despite the success. "Happily, I am in no way," was the sober conclusion by Fred Delmare on his 80th Birthday 2002nd

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Delmare was 1922 in the Thuringian town of Sonneberg, in the suburb of Cottage Steinach as Werner Vorndran born. Already as a youth he participated in stage performances with a farmer, and later refined his acting as an external student of the drama school of the renowned Berliner Hebbel-Theater.

The breakthrough on the big screen he made in "The vicious circle," a film about the Reichstag fire process. Delmare played the arsonist Marinus van der Lubbe. In the 60-years he was Delmare victim of political censorship. In "Do not Think I heule" about a society against lethargy and hypocrisy rebellious student he played Brigadier. The strip has been described as "antisozialistisch" branded and disappeared into the archives of the DEFA. When he was in January 1990 will finally be, was it as "masterpiece of critical realism 'is celebrated.

Delmare career includes more than 100 television and movie roles. From 1999 until early 2006, he was as Friedrich Steinbach in successful hospital-series "In all friendship" to see.

When his most important films he 'nude among wolves "in which he played Buchenwald prisoner, and" Everybody dies for himself alone. " In the cult film "The Legend of Paul and Paula" he mimes thwarted lovers. After German reunification was seen Fred Delmare also in the "Lime Street", "Cast off for MS KÃ¶nigstein" or the pensioner comedy "Matulla and bush."

The comedy was his favorite genre. He gives his characters in the severe "light form" cleverness, sometimes even a portion BauernschlÃ¤ue.

Hard fate

Private but had just 1.60 of a lot of great actors cope. Four marriages fell apart. 1980 Fred Delmare escaped to the West's daughter Felicitas life. 1993 erstach Nici his youngest son his former girlfriend. Doctors diagnosed in 2000 with its fifth wife Renate, breast cancer, died in October 2001, his 41-year old son Tino from liver cancer.

His last role in the medical series also offered him warmth. Delmare felt the team as a Rotary family, and described the work as beautiful. On 7 November 2005 was the door for him, his colleagues, giving him a touching farewell with red roses and Hildegard Knef "For you to be red roses's raining."

Then vanished in the Thuringian increasingly born out of the public. After Alzheimer's disease when he was diagnosed, lived in 1922 when Werner was born Vorndran Mime withdrawn in a nursing home. Already in his 85th Birthday he lived in silence. Now is the little big actor dead He died on 1 May in a Leipzig hospital from the effects of pneumonia.

From the witty mourning.

2009-05-02T19:08:00.000-07:00

A traumatic loss, a farewell replaced by Monika Treut's new film "Ghosted" Grief makes working with the tools of cinema. And is a wide visual journey into a foreign culture to their own soul life to explore.

"While working, I have often reminds Silvia Brugnera," says Monika Treut. Filmmaker igniting the second cigarette and looks at the question mark of a hair between their fingers.

Woman Unpretty.

2009-04-30T20:14:00.000-07:00

Thus, Julia Roberts has not yet seen: SC, dull, dull. They should in Tony Gilroys spy comedy "Duplicity" a seductive agent present. The film is confused they do not. And her co-star Clive Owen will remain pale.

So he should be: the film with the great chemistry between Julia Roberts and Clive Owen. The romance, which it loosely with Screwball comedies of the forties can hold. The thriller, with its complex narrative form the essence of paranoia to the point but a trick system itself of miscalculations.

Cinema on speed.

2009-04-30T19:10:00.000-07:00

Chronic revised? So sometimes in the cinema seat eingepennt? For all movie fans, where the current 100-minute-long works: This is the perfect festival. In the Oberhausen Short Film Festival demonstrate the most creative directors in the world, how to quickly come to the point.

Are long-feature films in the YouTube age is still appropriate? If even comic adaptations of two and a half hours running time, as recently unexpectedly unsuccessful Zack Snyder "Watchmen" epic, then something is wrong in any case. In the cinema is often nothing less than 100 minutes, and one wonders sometimes why he must, if one half of it anyway before boredom verschlÃ¤ft louder.

In the 55th International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen you can now re-convince them that things can be different, shorter, above all, and certainly not worse. Not only in recent years, the festival in the Ruhr region is one of the largest and most important short film forums in the world, and each year is here again to prove that it is just as serious art and entertainment form is as in the mainstream cinema Lang that you get to see anywhere.

In five competitions (International, Germany, NRW, youth films and music videos) are available in Oberhausen Lichtburg 134 films from 36 countries to see - not just talented young directors, for a film no longer interested in financing. Even accomplished artists are represented, such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul ( "Tropical Malady") from Thailand and the Chinese Jia Zhang-Ke, which stands for "Still Life" in 2006 the Golden Lion in Venice won. Has attracted perhaps the two of this topic "Unreal Asia", according to organizers of the "post-colonial heritage of Southeast Asia" is trying to set apart, which of course is everything and nothing can be read, but it sounds very nice.

Interesting could be the first time in the program represented "Open Screening", where directors, for the five contests were rejected (it was above 5700 entries), but still able to present their works - if they are willing to personally present their works and time logged on. 30 films will be shown and for each director who does not appear, there is now a post RÃ¼cker ready.

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A not so happy signal may be that international competition for the five films have been selected, the 30 minutes are what the term "short" to his limits. Who really has something to tell, it can do even faster. Is only recently - on YouTube of course - a one-minute version of Quentin Tarantino
"Kill Bill" films emerged, made by a few British film students.

Four hours is reduced to one minute. And everything was there.

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Short Film Festival. Oberhausen. 30.4.-5.5.

Taming of the recalcitrant.

2009-04-29T19:14:00.000-07:00

Mutant - unrecognized: In the comic adaptation "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" director Gavin Hood wants an exciting story about mistreated minorities and force the animal Triebe tell. Unfortunately, he fails to the laws of the action genre.

"Always, you're sick," says Victor reproachful glance lurking and with his younger playmates Logan, who is feverish in bed. The patzt back: "When you were as old as I do, you were constantly sick." Soon, the two boys find that it connects more than competition and camaraderie. They are brothers in blood and used in a genetic abnormality, which they superhuman strength, invulnerability and fearsome claws awards - which they immediately used to patricide.

This very beautiful, in color-held showers fairytale scene opened the latest comic book adaptation from the House of Marvel. It tells the story of the initiation very hairy, very unwirschen X-Men member Wolverine, in this opening sequence, the 1854 in the Canadian forests play a very anxious child is named Logan.

Problem Jackman

What makes a man when he discovers that he is a freak of nature is a beast of bony outgrowths from the hands go, which is solely to kill suck? One hears the older brother, is reflected in the bushes and learn the craft properly. In a time jump-assembly you can see Victor and Logan prÃ¼gelnd invulnerable and shooting as mercenaries in the American Civil War, both world wars and finally, in Vietnam, where the uniformed Freaks auffliegen and a dubious Colonel asked, together with other mutants in covert special operations participate.

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"X-Men Origins: Wolverine", which this week in German and American cinema, will certainly a good chance of a box office success to be. First, because Wolverine because of his ambivalent nature, one of the most popular characters of the Marvel Universe. On the other hand, because he is now, for the fourth time by the Australian carrier and sympathy sex symbol embodies is Hugh Jackman, the irascible mutants become quite charming and very physical stresses exist.

That is but one part of the problem: For the really incredible story that screenwriter David Benioff on the basis of the comic story "Weapon X" has written an impact both as a film actor also much too smooth. The dilemma is obvious: If the story is an oppressed, abused outsider to tell who on behalf of his creatures dignity against a powerful, inhuman apparatus auflehnt? Or will you make with a fund at the teen audience successful blockbusters, eschews the substantive depths?

A good director could succeed in the synthesis. But the South African Gavin Hood shows no hands for so delicate operations. His hard Township drama "Tsotsi" was in 2005 Oscar as best foreign language film won. Since then waits on Hoods major breakthrough in Hollywood. With the politically complex, but dramaturgically misplaced torture thriller "Rendition" haute Hood ever wrong. And now he had his qualities as an action film entitled precisely because when a fan of many states already difficult undertaking to prove.

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The surface is "Wolverine" of course, a solid Hollywood product full of suspense and review values. But there are also many missed opportunities. Far too schematically, the escalation stages ignited it comes to a break between Victor and Logan, who did not state instrumentalize want. Wounded and driven by a sinister agenda that brings Victor, which is now called Sabretooth, Logan's girlfriend around, then who, blinded by anger and despair, but even for the "Weapon X" project of dubious Colonel Stryker can recruit. The predator becomes the guinea pig. But by no means tamed.

Anti-hero as a noble Wilder

Logan's skeleton with the extra-super-refined metal Adamantium, making him invincible for mutant weapon make. The procedure not only turns his hand back from jumping into bone claws razor sharp metal blades, it will be him becoming instrument that is relevant to earlier emotional ties and conflicts no longer remembers. However, before his memory erased, it can be fresh GestÃ¤hlte escape and revenge campaign start.

Ironically, the anti-hero Wolverine, the Marvel for the first time in the trauma of Vietnam shaped seventies and appeared in the comics as often unpredictable, aggressive misanthrope drawn, must be as upright savior occur. This leaves a number of promising designs on the trail: The conflict, to possess superhuman powers, but they only use to kill them. The purpose and love-hate relationship between brothers who grow up without a father and a leading figure, who, at least for Victor, the Colonel takes over.

X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE (USA 2008)

Director: Gavin Hood
Screenplay: David Benioff
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston,
Ryan Reynolds, Dominic Monaghan, Lynn Collins, Will.i.am
Production: Marvel Enterprises, Seed Productions, Twentieth Century-Fox
Distributor: Fox
Running time: 106 minutes
Start: 30 April 2009

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And ultimately lost the motive of a paranoia-driven into the perverse state, a military Mengele tolerate in their midst, with physical or mental abilities equipped mutants for experimental purposes interned and mutilated. There is much in it in this idea of a fear-driven state, the control of gene technology, morality and ethics loses. Is played in "Wolverine" Unfortunately not.

"You wanted but the animal in me," Logan encounters once more unleashed by gefletschte teeth out. But unfortunately nobody dares the filmmaker, let alone lead actor and co-producer Hugh Jackman, the whole psycho-sociopaths and energy of the tormented creature to unleash. What remains is the clichÃ© of noble savages, the love and the human spark of self-discovery, where other, weaker, the lure of violence succumb. The fault in this sense Sabretooth's brother, furious played by Liev Schreiber, is by far the more interesting character - even in the stocky shape he remembers much more of the ugly, the raccoon family's Wolverine in the Anglo-Saxon called Wolverine.

Perhaps Gavin Hood would have to prepare for an almost 30 year old movie to be a very similar story with less, but unevenly effective means narrates. The parallels are astonishing: there is the evil colonel, a creature out of control, and there are the abused and traumatized veteran who has his place in society does not find because it is only the perfect murder weapon has been trained.

The speech is of course from the first part of the "Rambo" series. Title hero Sylvester Stallone was needed only a brooding glance, and a knife with blood groove to the whole abyss of its primeval instincts reduced character present. Effectively sparkling Adamantium claws were just as disturbed.

Man in Black.

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His humor is crude, his figures are like woodcut, critics accuse him subliminal racism: Nevertheless, the black American movie mogul Tyler Perry is one of the best-kept secrets in Hollywood - and produces a box office hit after another.

African-American actors like Will Smith, Forest Whitaker and Eddie Murphy for the Hollywood cinema long indispensable. We have got used to both police officers as pirates, as President Penner may have black faces. But what about the power behind the scenes? Who knows a black studio boss? Or has even heard of Tyler Perry?

To bite into a crisis.

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Marginally vampires were announced, now conquered a new monster, the screens: The Wolf Man whets the mouth in the service of global entertainment. The fit: In the crisis that gets the audience howling.

Zombies, mummies and mutants: The pop culture is full of monsters, depending on the cultural situation of screens and monitors will be revived. Especially is Stephenie Meyer's teen-grosbeak highly popular: adapted for the cinema, the first volume of their "Twilight" series was a box office hit.

Enemy of the state point 16

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Auteur films have made it difficult in the current German cinema charts: The great "Public Enemy No.1" only reached the 16th Place. Well ran precisely those works whose target is in the sunny weather at the grill sausages had anticipated. In the U.S., BeyoncÃ© Knowles triumphs.

A warm sunny spring weekend like the operations of breweries and BBQ sausage factories to boost the German cinemas remained correspondingly empty: Overall, this country only 800,000 tickets sold - by far the weakest weekends of the year. And it ran the best films, whose core audience is more likely in view of the weather on a charcoal fire had suspected: men who are rude to the canvas like.

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Because the number one movie charts remained, as the service industry "blickpunkt: movie" reports "Crank 2 High Voltage". The testosterone-fated action film with Jason Statham

was also the only film of the weekend on a six visitor mark, as in this case, you probably have to say, crack: 110,000 viewers. Overall, "Crank 2" is already more than 500,000 visitors, making it after ten days already more successful than part one, only on DVD really ran well, and thus laid the foundation for the good numbers from Part Two presented.

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Slumdog Millionaire "was the film in the Top Ten, the best kept. On the sixth weekend, he first came in second place and still to 75,000 spectators, followed by" Fast & Furious - New Model. Genuine Parts ", an extremely hemdsÃ¤rmeligen pre-implementation of the scrapping, after 70,000 visitors have attended the weekend is now a total of 1.7 million viewers has found. The good-natured comedy-dÃ©bil" cop shop "with 55,000 KinogÃ¤ngern landed in fourth place,"
Knowing with Nicolas Cage decides the top 5 with little more than 50,000 visitors.

Best newcomer was "witness Wanted", which with 50,000 spectators in 269 cinemas occupied the sixth rank. "
Unfaltering - Defiance with Daniel Craig was behind with 35,000 visitors in 256 cinemas on place seven. A poor start saw "
Public Enemy No.. 1 - Murder Instinct ", which in 127 cinemas simply could attract 13,000 spectators - Seat 16 for the public enemy number one. It placed itself"
C'est la vie ", which in 56 cinemas had 11,000 visitors.

In the U.S., the thriller "Obsessed" with the pop superstar BeyoncÃ© Knowles in the lead role in a much better audience than the studio and played predicts 28.5 million U.S. dollars. The strong "A disastrous affair" from the Eighties-like film cost only 20 million U.S. dollars, and Sony will bring a significant profit

In second place landed Vorwochenspitzenreiter "17 Again". The teen comedy with the girls swarm Afron Zac came with a minus of 51 percent to 11.7 million U.S. dollars
. At number three: the "Fight Club" variant "Fighting".

A dwarf fruit is grown.

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Life is not a honey Schlecker: Black and white are in the southern film "The Bee Guardian" unreconciled opposite. But the line between well-made and well-intentioned is very narrow in the drama - ripe with brilliant acting performances.

Lily Owens has had enough: Desperate shatters the 14-year-olds, the inventory of a shed, and she only listens to, when the exhaustion of their anger is the fire. It is a symbolic blow Lilys liberation, in the southern states of the early sixties, her dramatic Selbstwerdung experienced.

Right in many ways is "The Bee Guardian" a story of upheavals and the revolt against the conditions: The movie adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd 2002 bestseller "The Secret Life of Bees" folded the coming-of-age of the white teenager with the fight Lily African-American population by the political and social equality.

And for actress Dakota Fanning, as Lily in her first real role of brilliant young people, highlighted the prominent film by Gina Pryce-Bythewood emancipation from the successful image of the top-heavy child stars.

They have been impressed at the side of stars such as Sean Penn ( "I Am Sam"), Robert De Niro ( "Hide and Seek"), or Tom Cruise ( "War of the Worlds") as an early adult, age-wise yes HÃ¤nfling in traumatic situations interpreted the now 15-year-old Fanning with the immediate intensity of the feeling of turmoil and torments of a lonely girl.

For Lily, with her father T. Ray (Paul Bettany) on a abgewirtschafteten orchard in South Carolina is alive, feels since early childhood guilt for the tragic death of her mother: If a dispute between the parents was once a gun in hands, Lilys, and the fatal shot resonates to this day in their memories after blurry.

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Their careworn father punishes daughter since alternatively with great indifference or cruelty small, so the black assistant Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson) Lilys is only confidante. When Rosaleen tries to get as WÃ¤hlerin to register, it will be by local racists attacked and seriously injured. Fearing further attacks, the girlfriend gets Lily shortdecided from the hospital and together they flee from home. Lilys only clue is the picture of a black Virgin Mary from the estate of her mother.

The image carries the inscription unequal pair in the town of Tiburon, Lily and actually find there the origin of the icon: The original version of the Black Madonna is in the house of the three Boatwright sisters who operate a thriving beekeeping. Maternal August Boatwright (Queen Latifah), the two outliers, which in their tender sister May (Sophie Okonedo) is pleased with the civil rights skeptical June Boatwright (Alicia Keys), but initially rejected.

Among the equally self-confident as Afro-American Rosaleen increasingly flourishing, while Lily is based on skin color and origin in the Boatwright household formed initially as a foreign body feels.

Only gradually it takes confidence to open in the daily production of honey compared to August and the patient with the daring young blacks Zachary (Tristan Wild's) even their first kiss. But the reality in 1964, the ubiquitous racism gets Lily as well as her angry father. In order to be truly free, must be Lily of the painful past and learn what secrets their deceased mother with Tiburon and the Boatwright sisters connects.

The black sisterhood

The line between well-made and only when well intentioned is important with such a charged narrative will naturally narrow. Some people say, who in his life, only one American novel reads, it should be Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" grab. The author Sue Monk Kidd has surely read Twain, and even on top of Henry David Thoreau, the Bible and edifying literature of all kinds Perhaps some metaphors work so aggressively to fit interpersonal conflict all too easily into the similitude term and follow a dramatic twists equal moral lessons.

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Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Screenplay: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Hilarie Burton, Queen Latifah
Production Company: Donner 'Company, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Overbrook Entertainment
Distributor: Fox
Running time: 110 minutes
Start: 23 April 2009

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Even Queen Latifah intuitive Imkerin exudes so much wisdom in the sunlit landscape that the film in some scenes is threatening to a social critique without the sting, and with his magical realism, similar to sticky-sweet as honey to the sumptuous advised.

But fortunately this is not Goldilocks and the three bears problem solving: Davor keep the film in addition to his considerable faith, not least, the acting performances. By Paul Bettanys broken although widowers would like to see a lot more, but to get a great Jennifer Hudson, the defiant Rosaleen lends an unwavering stance, and Alicia Keys as a proto-feminist heroine enough opportunity to shine.

Heart formation in honey

Dakota Fanning in her turn, provides a virtuoso display the special quality of this educational book: In a clever reversal of popular stereotypes, it is neglected here, finally, the White Trash Girl Lily, by the encounter with liberal and enlightened African Americans needed his heart is education.

Fanning, formerly of the fruit of the dwarf Method Acting, successfully jump into the incomparably more complex specialist roles brilliantly puberty. The concern that Hollywood's favorite problem child like so many minor stars will not miss the connection, anyway seems unfounded: Currently it is for the continuation of the successful Vampirrromanze "Twilight" in front of the camera. Dakota Fanning And if it as an undead adolescent plays, then sounds like another lovely challenge in a dream career from trauma.

Night of the outsider.

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The jury lifted its opposition to the tastes of audiences and critics: The moderately successful war drama "John Rabe" acknowledged from the German Film Awards. Even small gems such as "Cloud 9" was excellent - a few favorites went empty-handed.

Krisengeraune and conflicts have to gala events traditionally no place. Especially not when it comes to such a goal-oriented and subtle glamor worked as the event with a total of 2845 million euro spiked German Film Prize. The award was presented on Friday evening in Berlin's Palais am Funkturm forgiven and a time lag from 22:15 clock in the ZDF broadcast.

In this respect, the word crisis frotzelnd especially in the texts of the presenter Barbara SchÃ¶neberger before, for the second time the ceremony was champion. Time it announced half-ironically, the crisis was now so well received during the film ( "Instead of having two Til Schweiger could only afford one knight") and beat the price Stifter, State Minister Bernd Neumann, a scrapping of Cinema system works. Your idea: film-makers could their nine year old film and scrapped for 2.5 million euros cash.

Then she announced, given the economic crisis is "supposedly so cold film industry has become a family, it is getting closer together." As evidence had the actor Michael Gwisdek excuse of the Pointe's sake to a self-made pasta salad for the buffet had brought.

The jury decided differently than the audience and critics

An exciting as last year, when Til Schweiger for his commercially successful, the Academy did not consider comedy "KeinOhrHasen" sulked, there was not this time. Line of the first celebrated by Bully Herbig belobigten 85-year-old honor laureate Vicco von BÃ¼low alias Loriot and thanked after the approximately 1000 members of the German Film Academy for fame and new funding.

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The jury had many-- if it's a form of swarm intelligence to act? - Indeed, diplomatic, mostly defensible decisions.

Two of the King's trophies, best film and best male lead, went dutifully to the already highly pre-World War II drama favorites "John Rabe" and his
Hero Ulrich Tukur - those of the criticism is not beloved by audiences and largely spurned 15-million-euro large-scale production, which is still running in cinemas. The Lolas for scenes and costume, there's still the same on top.

But the followers of the art-house cinemas could be happy: So, the Andreas Dresen earned his first directing award for seniors Wacker-Love Story "Cloud 9". And Ursula Werner whose protagonist was the best actress award.

Ã–zgÃ¼r Yildirim, director and first author of the furious Hamburger gangster ballad "Chiko", won for best screenplay. It also justified the honor Andreas Schmidt for his supporting role as a leader in the adaptation of the bestselling "Meat is my vegetables" and the camera for the trophy mountain epic "North Wall".

Large productions went empty-handed

A little overlooked had only the makers of "The Baader Meinhof Complex" feel, Stefan Aust and Bernd Eichinger. Your RAF action despite several nominations went empty-handed. The self-confessed Academy decrying filmmaker and author Christian Petzold (nominated with "Jerichow") on the other hand, already knows: For him there was nothing like last year to pick.

Caroline Link's "In the winter one year" was still for the music and generally excellent with silver, and a Sophie Rois took up the prize for best supporting actress in "The Architect" opposite.

What the evergreen question of the entertainment value of such a performance review, it must be the artistic director - this year, Hans-Christoph Blumenberg - a certified, the pundits appear to have been successfully gebrieft to be brief. However, their comments also seldom original or moving.

Ulrich Tukur, who unctuousness Ernst sought to refuse, delivered with his monologue about "the culinary world of Southeast China" in general and in particular Froschkutteln already one of the more daring and dynamic contributions. Detlev Buck conjured quite amusing, a "solidarity" of the directors, and Andreas Schmidt thanked Rudi VÃ¶ller for the inspiration for his movie hairstyle.

Moving speech of a thalidomide victim

On disturbing was undoubtedly the acceptance speech of thalidomide-damaged Niko von Glasow, which stands for "Nobody's Perfect" was the documentary prize. Marked as yet even in the context of the highly controversial TV two-parter "thalidomide" happened, he was the owner of the family pharmaceutical company GrÃ¼nenthal, it pointed out that these have much money, and asked: "Why do not we give her something like this from? "

Otherwise purred routinely from the parade. Even the thought SchÃ¶neberger degree, moved only once, the wardrobe in order, in golden sashes wound, the same trophy to sing: "I am the peculiar Lola."

Only at the end it became clear that the crisis may also be in the context of the German film complex between TV, art and commerce will be more than just coquettishness: The three producers of "John Rabe" taken one after another, the word for their winning film, thanked the detail ZDF Officer - and barmten: "Go to the cinema, the film is still running, he's needed, we need it."

But since announcing SchÃ¶neberger even at that party still be made. With Michael Gwisdek noodle salad.

Tukur and Werner as the best actor award.

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Great success for "John Rabe: The war drama was at the German Film Prize for best film award, including lead actor Ulrich Tukur was excellent. For best actress Ursula Werner was for her performance in the elderly sex-tragedy "Cloud 9" is selected.

Berlin - Ulrich Tukur sat at the German Film Awards with his portrayal of "John Rabe" in the same historical drama against Josef Bierbichler ( "In the winter one year") and Denis Moschitto ( "Chiko") by. "John Rabe", a war drama from director Florian Gallenberger, was also the best film of the year.

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Tukur plays a hamburger is a merchant, shortly before the Second World War, over 200,000 Chinese people before the air raids of the Japanese and so protected the lives saved. Tukur thanked before some 1,500 guests at the Palais under Funkturm especially for his wife, who before had a Chinese meal protected.

Werner won as best actress nominees are also against Anna Maria MÃ¼he in "November Child" and Johanna Wokalek in "Der Baader Meinhof Komplex". The 65-year-old Werner is embodied in Andreas Dresen's drama "Cloud 9" a 60-year-old woman who after 30 years of their marriage erupts and newly in love. "That to me is an overwhelming moment," said Werner. A little later was the team of "Cloud 9" rejoice again: Dresen was for his film as the best director award.

As a best supporting actor were Sophie Rois ( "The Architect") and Andreas Schmidt ( "Meat is my vegetables") award.

As the best children's and youth film was "What counts at the end" by director Julia von Heinz honored. In the category Best camera / image design Kolja Brandt won for "north face", the best scene Tu Ju Hua for "John Rabe" and the best costume Lisy Christl also for "John Rabe."

Humorist Vicco von BÃ¼low alias Loriot was at the gala with the Honorary Award for outstanding contributions to the German film awards and received by the guests standing ovations. In view of the Lola statue he thanked for the award "in the form of immaculate beauty, as in the arms of a 85-year-olds are seldom encountered."

The prize is awarded in 15 categories, with 2845 million euro of the highest cultural award in Germany.

Fancy German Heavy Stuff.

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Whether "Cloud 9" or "Jerichow," German film is in itself - and it radiates up to the other end of the world. In Berlin before the German Film Prize is awarded, Christian BuÃŸ an experience in Australia, which is seldom at home: queuing for cinema made in Germany.

The German cinema is full of mystery. In our own country is one of these myths serious cinema like a metaphor than banal, but the further you are geographically away from him, the seductive shimmer of gloss black. The best one goes the same to the other end of the world to get the full effect to be able to devote. Indeed, precisely the eternally sunny Australia learns the dark German film art world, perhaps its greatest appreciation.

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Benno FÃ¼rmann in "Jerichow": Myths Heavy cinema metaphor

Once a year there is the Audi Festival of German Films, during the two weeks in four cities about two dozen current productions are presented. After Sydney, Perth and Melbourne, the event will be held next Tuesday in Brisbane to an end. Significant 20,000 spectators, it had last year, it will be 2009 initial assessments that follow - and that, although this time the most serious substance was set.

Small dramas to big issues

Fortunately, no one in Australia the question of why German films always have this dark note. Why should they? Cheerful and optimistic - that we are not good times. Gloomy and sad - that we are world champions. Seen focused by the Goethe-Institut show put together almost on the core business of German Cinema: small dramas of the great social upheavals of recent history.

It was the program almost coincide with the major nominations for the German film Lola, on Friday evening in Berlin is to be awarded. And if you now Kapitalismusmelodram "Jerichow" or the RAF's Chronicle "Baader Meinhof Complex" takes the Rentnersexstudie "Cloud 9" or turning the drama "November Child" - makes it easy to the viewers, none of these films.

And the Aussies? They just loved this heavy german stuff - or at least discussed very encouraged about it. And that was not only that, as a co-sponsor of a Bavarian brewer this joyful drinking tribes before and after the performances with alcohol supplied. Unbelievable, what you here about the German cinema and German history knows.

Whether in Melbourne or Sydney, anywhere you meet critics and historians that a 100 years of German film history from the pocket can quote - and the firm have questions on which you first answer is no. Thus, it is possible that on a panel discussion on reunification of films is an Australian colleague and want to know where it actually comes to us in recent years so many strong women's roles as in any other national film industry. Only one is somewhat dumbfounded, then it becomes clear how right the man has.

So you saw at the festival Claudia Michelsen, Nina Hoss, Martina Gedeck, Karoline Herfurth, Johanna Wokalek and Julia Jentsch in their current productions. And the best will: You shall not male counterparts, which is similar to a rigorous game. Sometimes you have to travel far just to get to the simplest intelligence. One is: The German cinema has become a cinema of women. Men, because testosterone can be driven to himself, as in the shoot 'Baader Meinhof Complex, "are often just as supernumeraries.

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One of the women was also strong in Australia Location: Anna Maria MÃ¼he, this year as best actress for Lola nominations, presented its quiet, moving and cryptic film 'November children' before. The painful self of a young woman is here as a metaphor for a reunited, but is still not himself arrived in Germany to read. A good example of how German film actors are currently the largest issues in intimate contexts can absorb. At any rate had trouble with the attachment to the shows a lot of question time information about the political dimension of their supposedly small film type.

The Aussies and the Ossis: Daytime said Anna Maria MÃ¼he before inquiring young people from Sydney and Melbourne on reunification, celebrating the night she moved through the bars and discos. In the German-Australian bullish was also actor Robert Stadlober, in many gay clubs in the country is not completely unknown: his gay drama "Summer Storm" is now down under is a must else. Also a nice example of how unexpected way to the German film sometimes his international coming-out experience.

Arrived was Stadlober from the Goethe Institute, but really because his fairy tale film "Krabat" should imagine. Thus, for example, from the hinterland of Queensland busloads of students arrived in the connection to the dark fantasy drama perfectly legitimate questions presented. How to turn because nudity was one. As the film because Originalsaga to behave, was another. Originalsaga? The 14-year-olds are here appears to be very proficient in German culture.

Maybe because you do not really own the exciting stories can make. With a few exceptions, Australian films tell very rarely by the presence or history of their own country. If they do have a look, come to be an abomination as postcolonial "Australia" is emerging.

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If you ask local journalists about his own film industry, therefore the wave quickly. The proportion of Australian productions in the domestic cinema market is scarcely five percent - in Germany, however, it was 26th last year satte So much scrap between Babelsberg and Bavaria Film Studios will continue to be rotated, in the crowd was never so wisely and openly with a German identity.

And the nominations for the award-Lola, in this little half-baked review durchgewunken value cinema was showing the same as the gloss appear drab performance review of the Goethe-Institut down under: Germany in the distance so close.

A punk in the cornfield.

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Phew, that would also go wrong can be! The movie adaptation of Rocko Schamonis bestseller "Punks village" is actually managed. This is also at the grand young performers - the outsiders play full of energy and poetry.

The dump as an opportunity. Some people who enjoyed the privilege, in the province's deep hindsight grow in a diffuse otherness felt to experience the hindsight to know the happiness of this experience: Nothing fell from the sky, real, tangible, there were no role models, almost all were ideals selbstgebastelte constructs the information came from third-hand.

But the dreams and fantasies were more than Kuhwiesen and fields.

Rocko Schamoni, 42, musician, author, especially melancholic Kasper, is a good donor information in matters of the young one. Because he is not a Berufsjugendlicher, but as an eternal youth Stachelberg as pain and commitment to awakening and depression equally understands. This can be annoying, but there must be a yes, and he makes it great. Hardly anyone can be as good of punk in Germany tell how Schamoni. Especially because he is in the early eighties, when the concept of a dirty three-chord hits and beer together hair held in his hometown LÃ¼tjenburg arrived at the Baltic Sea, far too late so that was off. Too late and the wrong place: like a double chance.

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Â Almost five years seemed "Village punks", Schamonis autobiographical novel about his youth in the country. Schamoni then called Roddy Danger Blood - a name that very poetic way to pride and ridicule married and so understanding of punk and misunderstanding equally announcing.

From his liberal parents misunderstood, he moves with a clique of like-minded friends through the area, it is now and of village simpletons and mentally and Bundeswehr soldiers to bloody nose cut, founded his first band, has extremely awkward sex - and learn everything about life, what you needs to know.

Now comes "Village punks", the film in the cinema.

It would be wrong to go. Since around a new, equally and satire of pop influenced Autorentums as next Rocko Schamoni notably his friend and studio-Braun-colleague Heinz Strunk, but Oliver Maria Schmitt embody shows: You can even terribly well here write from the hip, while the genuine pain and an attitude evident.

The movie version of Strunk genial "Meat is my vegetables" but also showed that the local cinema

the sovereignty of the depressed-cheerful expression of these books still hinterherlÃ¤uft. So it's nice to see what the director Lars Jessen from Schamonis book has done.

At the beginning Roddy is in the muddy entrance to the neat cottage of his parents. Since roll in. swashes a mighty wave over him. A metaphor for freedom, or Close? Is this yet or is it already happening right now or punk? The extremely unrefined scheppernde KlÃ¤ff music by Slime is heard. To do this: country idyll, cornfields in summer, while width and narrowness.

With his clique Roddy meets in the shade of a tree group on the field. The conversation of the boys wound themselves alkoholbrÃ¤sig a misunderstanding: "Did you?" "What?" "The fact that Howard Coverdale in Whitesnake now sings?". After that? S in the city to PÃ¶beln? we must once again the "Fressen show otherwise think the philistine that they had won." Only a minute later it sets a proper hoe pack through a couple of rather backward-looking young people in rural costumes.
The preamble begins, we hear the false with "Thank God not in England." All true, because it agrees with hardly anything.

Jessen film succeeds primarily because it is removed from the book, the thematic emphasis, however, not shifted. Like the book the film is also less of punks, but rather from the village, from the establishment and outbreaks of contradictions and difficulties in finding something that perhaps freedom could be.

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Jessen, born 69, comes from the same generation as Schamoni. He was not a punk, the German eighties but have him in his last film "The Day Bobby Ewing died as" fascinating. "Punks Village" is even better: The Power and Poetry of the awkward rebellion, and the exclusion in the misfit compound, and the bitter realization that the supposed relatives of mind but only part-mates are, and the impossibility of freedom in a collective striving for freedom of movement and the necessity of re-drawing, if you want to remain faithful - for all that takes place Jessen nice, mostly quiet amazing images.

Then there are the most wonderful young performers, the majority of the filming date yet has no appreciable film experiences available. In particular, main character of Cecil Renner? always a smile on his lips, brash and with pretty eyes? and Ole Fischer as his friend Tumbes bird must fly even callousness Alt-punks the tears of emotion in the eyes can occur.

And although this is definitely not a punk film, it is even more beautiful that all details correct so much? the clothes with their little mistakes, the awkward dancing and discussions of whether we as a punk but a few non-Prefab Sprout songs can be quite good.

Jessen "village Punks" is a nice little film about a not absolutely wasted youth. A youth, in which nothing, absolutely nothing to conclude, or dissolves, but in everything on track, which is one to be forever looking for it. And there is also moral: Really erupt, it seems "Village punks" to say, only the one who is out there anyway.

Jack Cardiff is dead

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He was considered a pioneer of the color film and was awarded with an Oscar: On Wednesday, the British cinematographer and director Jack Cardiff at the age of 94 years died.

London - He has his contribution to film history made - however, less as a director than as a cameraman: On Wednesday, Jack Cardiff after a short illness at the age of 94 years died. This, the British Film Institute (BFI) with. Cardiff was among other things, in "War and Peace" and "African Queen" behind the camera, he was considered a pioneer of Technicolor films.

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Jack Cardiff: Honorary Oscar in 2001

Cardiff came from a family actor and spent his childhood and youth on stages and film sets. With his parents, he traveled from theater to theater. For the work of the cameraman, he began to be interested in the hope that in the profession to exotic places to stay. It was after a training at the specialist for Technicolor color.

In 1947, Cardiff for his camera work in "Black Narcissus" with an Oscar award. Later, he was twice nominated for "War and Peace" 1956 and "Fanny" (1961), a romance with Leslie Caron. As a cinematographer, he also turned the classic "African Queen" (1951) with Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.

He directed the film "Sons and Lovers" (1960) became a key work of the so-called New Wave of British Films of the Fifties and Sixties. "Naked under leather", Cardiff motorcycle movie from the year 1968, with Marianne Faithfull in the lead role, is still on the other hand, tend his trash-factor because of known remains. As a cameraman managed to Cardiff in Germany broadcast series "Palace of Winds" (1984).

2001 Cardiff, up to old age worked as a cameraman, the honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement. BFI director Amanda Nevill honored the filmmaker as a "legend." He was a cameraman world, proposing the technique of filming in Technicolor brought forward as a pioneer. "

Author-filmmaker summit without German.

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The competition participants have been selected at Cannes - the shortlist is excellent occupied by the Golden Palm to compete this time the main author of the film world. Only in Germany is not a director nominated.

Hamburg / Paris - Rarely has the competition of the Cannes Film Festival so well filled as this year - a director from Germany, however, can not this year at the Palme d'Or hope.

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Director Quentin Tarantino with "Inglourious Basterds" in competition at Cannes

The selection of the 19 participants, who on Thursday were in Paris, contains some of the most important filmmakers worldwide Author: Included are, inter alia, the Spaniard Pedro Almodovar with "Los Abrazos rotos', Danish director Lars von Trier with" Antichrist ", and the Taiwanese-American director Ang Lee for "Brokeback Mountain" four years ago won an Oscar. He is in Cannes for the comedy "Taking Woodstock" nominated.

Even the New Zealand director Jane Campion and the Austrian Michael Haneke may be on the Palme d'Or hope. Campion was in 1992 for "The Piano" as the first director with the Golden Palm award, now it is her film "Bright Star" nominees. The British filmmaker Ken Loach is in line with the football film "Looking for Eric" in the competition.

Quentin Tarantino
occurs with "Inglourious Basterds" in a drama for a retaliatory action in the Second World War.

From Germany comes this year is no contest participants. Until recently also for the selection traded film "Soul Kitchen" of the Hamburg director Fatih Akin was not ready.

In 2008, the French filmmaker Laurent Cantet with "The Class" fetched the Golden Palm. The 62nd Cannes film festival lasts from 13 to 24 May. The jury is headed by French actress Isabelle Huppert.

Opening film, but not represented in the competition, is "Up", an animated film from Pixar Studios.

Long live the average.

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The French Filmhit "C'est la Vie" is a very normal middle-class family through their normal life - and celebrates it as a model of happiness for all. A stroke of luck for the cinema's?

The good old prejudice, with films from France, it is mostly art films with hochkulturellem claim should be refuted slowly apply. In any case, Germany has little to them today - only when Claude Chabrol again aufgerafft has (most recently with "The two women"), some times the French actually won at Cannes ( "The Class") or if it is action-packed gangster film disguises ( "Public Enemy No. 1.", which also launched today).

Otherwise seems to prefer the loose, flaky product to be exported, such as "Odette Toulemonde", "My best friend," "Chansons d'Amour", "This is Paris" and, above all, of course, Dany Boon "Welcome to the Sch'tis" , after his incredible success in France here in nearly two million viewers reached.

And now just "C'est la Vie - as we are, so is the life" by RÃ©mi BezanÃ§on. Flakier it's not at all. Even the preamble suggests a light-tone and presented as a kind of picture album moments of happiness of a family of five, before the film with its first episode from the year 1988 will really be true: Taxi driver Robert (Jacques Gamblin) lives with his wife Marie-Jeanne ( Zabou Breitman), two sons and a daughter of the grandfather in the house financed by the Open and has just two problems: the old family dog should be eingeschlÃ¤fert and the eldest son Albert (Pio Marmai) wants in the first home of their own move.

From there, follow "C'est la Vie" This emphasizes the average family in part by the most important days in her wonderfully normal life. The mother tries again as a student, the father tried unsuccessfully to quit smoking, the other son Raphael (Marc-AndrÃ© Grondin) gets little to the series but is still a nice guy, daughter Fleur (Deborah Francois) discovered the Grunge and first love. There will be married, as to be reconciled, each crisis is somehow durchstanden, just as in most ordinary families, and at the end, all much better than before, as at least should be.

Nothing is stronger than family ties, it is simple, but difficult rebuttable Embassy, long live the average, and the director and author BezanÃ§on celebrated this idea in as simple as more effective form - likeable characters, a schmissiger soundtrack by David Bowie and Lou Reed (with the inevitable "Perfect Day"), a little slapstick, a shot of pathos, problems, which everyone knows, and of course a tearful final driving sequence.

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Similarly one has the least in the highly successful Hollywood Audibles
"Marley & me" view in which the audience also had a family over the years through their banal everyday should accompany, except that a dog constantly jumps through the screen. "C'est la Vie", whether in France to great success with a little bit exaggerated nine CÃ©sar nominations rewarded (eventually to two prizes for the best young performers and led to a cut for the best), there is not more demanding than its American counterpart . But similarly entertaining.

Perhaps enough, yes.

Green wave for Rock'n'Roll.

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Crunchy blues riffs, languishing ballads: Modern pop music would be without Chess Records unthinkable. The film "Cadillac Records" tells the story of the legendary label as a moving story about the interplay between black and white under the banner of entertainment.

"You could at once be stronger than Superman, and that was a great feeling for a black then," says the bassist Willie Dixon, the narrator of the film.

This is the basic chord, the "Cadillac Records" his story, with the life stories of Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Howlin 'Wolf (Eamonn Walker) and Little Walter (Columbus Short). Big Blue black musicians, who in the fifties rock'n'roll from the baptism lifted.

Game against the Holocaust.

2009-04-21T19:12:00.000-07:00

This man has no chance, but he uses them in "Defiance" struggling Bond actor Daniel Craig with automatic weapons and a lot of testosterone in the blood against the Nazis. Historical facts bend the filmmakers after Gusto - so much grief, so much naivety was seldom in a Holocaust film.

His name is Bielski. Tuvia Bielski. It may seem unfair, Daniel Craig again on his world-saver image as James Bond festzunageln when he tried an ambitious role in a film long off trying. Solo, as he in "Defiance - unbending" during the Second World War as a Jewish resistance fighter in the forests of eastern Poland against Nazi occupiers and collaborators fights, which is now quite the act dictates of classical drama Action: This man has no chance, but he uses them .

His will is strong, the body is tough, do the rest the instant firearms. So is Daniel Craig the Holocaust Actionhero.

The handling of this big-Bugdet thriller is operated with history, is casually mention. And that begins with introduction of the names cited by Craig embodied hero: The name was at the time of the events have taken place, namely on the Tewje Bielski. Tuvia said he only later, after he moved to the end of the war in the United States had emigrated.

At first glance this may appear as a secondary detail - but it leads directly into a battle for ultimate truth, which long before the cinema release of "Defiance" was raging in Poland. There is, to say the major disagreement about the person Bielski.

The historical data base, however, everyone acknowledged: In the impenetrable forest area around the village Naliboki - then eastern Poland, now Belarus - Tewje Bielski went with his brothers in 1941 in the subsoil, in order of deportation by the Nazis and their helpers to escape. Hundreds of Jewish refugees from the ghettos joined them. The brothers founded in the forest, therefore, a sort of kibbutz, including school, hospital and synagogue. Gut 1200 people survived in this way, until 1944 the Red Army advancing into the area. So far the facts.

Divergence of opinion in Poland, however, if the aim is to reconstruct how the Bielskis succeeded in their "Jerusalem in the forest" by icy winter and hunger to bring periods. The press complained nationalpatriotische before the Polish cinema release of "Defiance" in January, the brothers were the villages of the region and robbed each resistance of farmers brutally crushed. To them has been charged with the massacre in the village Naliboki in which 128 civilians died. Now is regarded as evidence that the act on account of red partisans went.

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But even liberal media in Poland to do with the glorification of the Bielski brothers by Hollywood heavy. Two authors of the "Gazeta Wyborcza", which is for a book project extensively into the subject have characterized a rather dubious image of the resistance fighter Tewje. As a drunkard and womanizer, he had the ever-growing flow of refugees only against the making of jewelry, gold love and service access in its community grants.

Today's resistance to the historical resistance, as in "Defiance" is drawn, can not really surprising when you are looking at how awful schluderig dimensional and the figure of the Bielski embodied by Daniel Craig is. So much pathos times now provokes defense: Even in the largest vodka noise - in terms of alcohol consumption must be the makers actually facts attest loyalty - Bielski shows his unerring sense of justice. On horseback monitored Jewish nature of the processes lad in his camp, has weakly intellectuals in craft works, but also defends against attacks crude peasants.

Finally a man of action!

So it may be the filmmaker Edward Zwick ( "Blood Diamond") shot through the head, when he first got involved with the Bielski biography was confronted. As the son of Jewish immigrants, the Hollywood director himself by many members of the genocide in Poland, lost in the masculine instinct Bielski now people might have seen someone Zwick, his fate is not revealed who is not "like cattle to the slaughter" can lead wanted.

DEFIANCE - INFLEXIBLE (USA 2008)

Director: Edward Zwick
Screenplay: Edward Zwick, Clayton Frohman
Cast: Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell, Liev Schreiber
Production: The Bedford If Company, Grosvenor Park Productions
Distributor: Constantin
Running time: 137 minutes
Start: 23 April 2009

As befits the plot dictates of the classical action shocker heard overcomes the muscle man in "Defiance" the predominance. The militant discipline goes hand in hand with a moral. But actually it took only one ethical charismatic to the systematic mass murder of the Nazis a Snip Chen to beat? And this is implied in the film questions not already in itself a trivialisation of genocide?

It is therefore not so much the historical inaccuracies, the "Defiance" a very dubious pleasure. It is much more nassforsche the naivety with which the genocide here as background for a male self-drama is functionalized. So much grief, so much testosterone was seldom in a Holocaust film.

Finally, it is really bad then: Bielski leads women, children and old people from the Nazi persecutors through the swamps, the chance to escape go to zero. But just when he last heroic battle to compete, hurrying his brother with Russian partisans to help. The Germans, who will have pity because, in a powder-fated steam, ten dahingemetzelt action sequence. The world has never seen: the Shoah as a shootout.

Genuine "Crank," this guy.

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Von wegen Machos have played: Actor Jason Statham is in "Crank 2" and the hard man to conquer the German cinema charts. America's childish like - and makes a teen comedy for the box-office hit.

In the transatlantic comparison is childish boys and tough men. At the American-dominated Box Office "High School Musical 'star Zac Efron with the teen comedy" 17 Again ". In Germany struggled to Jason Statham ( "Transporter," "Bank Job") by the second part of the KÃ¶rperverwÃ¼stungsprogramms "Crank".

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In cinemas started 404 of the "wild and taboos action film" ( "Focus on Film"), 300,000 spectators watched, as Statham himself with power surges on life holds.

Also in second place makes the modern technology the race: "Fast & furious - New Model. Original Parts" has helped the genre to new AutozerknÃ¼llfilms of honor and proof that testosterone is still the fuel is primarily male audience in the multiplexes to attract (180,000 viewers).

Third place in Germany demonstrated the "cop shop": "King of Queens" star Kevin James in the role of the idiot store detective - maybe not an official contribution to the financial crisis from Hollywood, but still a film to the perceived situation (as you get things if they no longer can afford), the 150,000 movie-goers in this country wanted to see.

Fourth place goes to the fairy tales globalization
"Slumdog Millionaire" (140,000 visitors), the German top five, the animated film "Monsters vs.. Aliens", which the industry than
Prelude to the future of cinema in 3D celebrates (120,000 spectators plus 25,000 visitors from 3D screenings in 46 cinemas nationwide).

America, as I said Teenie-term playful at the box-office leader. Then the journalists thriller "State of Play" (14.1 million U.S. dollars). Third place for "Monsters vs.. Aliens" (12.9 million U.S. dollars box office results), "Hannah Montana - the Movie" (12.7 million U.S. dollars on the second weekend) in fourth place and the bottom of the Top Five are the speeder from the current "Fast and furious" movie (12.3 million U.S. dollars).

Indeed, scrapping made in Hollywood from.

Eternal Child heads.

2009-04-17T03:18:00.000-07:00

Oblique, friendly, aggressive: In "The Forbidden Kingdom", the martial arts legends Jackie Chan and Jet Li first time in a movie together. With surprisingly unspectacular, but heart-warming results.

Fans have long waited for, that the two stars most famous export of the Asian martial arts cinema is once done. Well, it finally happened, because even movie heroes are not younger. Jet Li is the end of the month 46 years old, Jackie Chan has recently become even 55 - because it is no longer quite so easy as before, twice during a flight Saltos a dozen opponents in the most elegant way niederzustrecken.

From the two are retired but still far away, and you can see them also in Rob Minkoff playful Kung-Fu film "Forbidden Kingdom" to. Their superbly choreographed martial arts deposits are made redundant and lovingly as ever - though perhaps less spectacular than in the past.

Irrespective of this: A rather ambitious first project as the "Forbidden Kingdom" would have wanted the two, because the film is at times being so silly, that already some 16-year-old too old for him should feel. Center of the story is the Boston teenager Jason (Michael Angarano), in his favorite Chinese pawnshop a mysterious Kampfstab discovered that the age-old shop owner, but only wants to move out when he was a little later by Jason archenemy Lupo shot.

As it turns out, Jason is to cover the Kampfstab its original owner, a certain monkey king, back - which is why he recently after scuffle with Lupo suddenly with rod in a distant Asian world teleported from other times, where the evil of Jadekriegsherren been petrified monkey king a few centuries, waiting for its liberation. To help him be the happy warrior Weinfan and Lu Yan (Jackie Chan), a young warrior with a pretty name Golden Sparrow (Liu Yifei) and a quiet, but helpful Monk (Jet Li), the inexperienced Jason just in the Arts of Kung-Fu introduce.

For a variety of Chinese legends has Author John Fusco's screenplay declaredly gebastelt, which is also nothing in a weird resemblance to "The Wizard of Oz" changes and no excuse for the bombastic nonsense is that the characters sometimes have to give. For some funny moments provides professional clown Jackie Chan, but not later than the scene in which Jet Li in his face pinkelt (!), Goes well but the most laughter.

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Otherwise offers "Forbidden Kingdom" friendly, pleasant brutalitÃ¤tsfreie entertainment for the younger generation and for the child in one or the other man. Genre fans will be at this meeting of two giants anyway quite lost their hearts are warm. Perhaps there is even a next time then, but make sure in an appropriately gigantic environment.

Beat on board.

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Nostalgic Trip into the Swinging Sixties: The ensemble comedy "Rock Radio Revolution" pays homage to its days as a pirate radio stations off the coast of Britain with a rock against the BBC sounded good - and playlists from iTunes yet, but from the cool, rebellious DJs have been made .

Who particularly badly weathered pop culture phenomena, you will quickly abgewirtschafteten the "Cool Britannia" hype find. There was the time in cinema. A late, also very poor example is "RocknRolla," the latest film by Madonna's ex-husband Guy Ritchie.

The fade gangster farce, recently, virtually unnoticed by the audience, also in German cinemas ran nervt with London-bowl blocks, Tumbes Kirmes-machismo and an extremely uncharitable music. So really all that since the nineties for misdirected, Union Jack-wedelndes to selbstbeweihrÃ¤ucherndes philistine entertainment from the island.

Fortunately, the number of Britons find the same boring, both the many other beautiful plates and films from England explained, as well as the gratifying fact that Guy Ritchie for his Altherr-Gepose hardly finds viewers.

As is often the alleged love affair for England's Pop unequally charming and above all entertaining highlight it shows "Rock Radio Revolution: The carefree ensemble comedy from writer and director Richard Curtis recalls the private pirate radio stations operating in the sixties of the high seas from the Beat brought into the United Kingdom. This is unabashedly nostalgic, sometimes plain silly, but precisely for that reason deserves actually olling attribute "cool".

From swinging nonchalance is the young Carl (Tom Sturridge), but still far away, when he was 1966 after a school on the pirate ship 'Radio Rock' lands. Under the command of his uncle Quentin Pate (Bill Nighy) recorded a team of eccentric DJs around the clock from the anchorage in the North Sea from the British mainland with music in the BBC program of the government finds no place.

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In addition to songs from the original "The" bands - the Kinks, Who, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys - many more gems of the first Popgeneration. But equally important for the success of the dazzling personalities at Studio Microphone: The hearty good Romanticists Simon (Chris O'Dowd), the quick and passionate speaker bed adventurer Dave (Nick Frost), a penetrating "Seekers" fan named Angus (Rhys Darby), the taciturn sex symbol Midnight Mark (Tom Wisdom) and The Count (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a bearded apostle with rock slope to revolt - they and their equally eccentric colleagues are the stars in a classic transmitter-receiver model. It is the dedication with which they hang up plates, exceeded only by their passion for the female fans surpassed.

In this maritime living and working group brings Carl missed his musical and sexual socialization in accordance with the daily life on and below deck, as the number Revue colorful designs. One of the highlights include debauchery country course, a bizarre wedding ceremony or the messianic return of the prodigal son Gavin (Rhys Ifans), the presumed best disc jockeys in Britain.

The big, lovable boy-narcissistic dream, however, threatens to end when the enemy lust Government Minister Dormandy (Kenneth Branagh) decides that the music fleet by law to sink. A dramatic showdown on the open sea seems inevitable, but how Weiland on the "Titanic" plays the music in spite of impending doom continues.

Given the Fidele Paisley pirates, it is a nice parallel that in May, "The Who Sell Out" in a deluxe edition will be republished. Bowed to 1967 Pete Townshend and his colleagues with the playful album - just think of the cover with Roger Daltrey in a bathtub full Canned Beans - one last time before the UK-pop-art scene, said at the same time and by the just-entered the jingles by law prohibited private broadcasters deep respect.

RADIO ROCK REVOLUTION (UK 2009)

Original Title: The Boat That rocked
Director: Richard Curtis
Screenplay: Richard Curtis
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy,
Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Sturridge,
Chris O'Dowd
Production: Working Title Films
Distributor: Universal
Running time: 135 minutes
Start: 16 April 2009

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The idealization of an advertising-funded broadcasting like in times of profile-free format radio course arg naive act. But the initial attraction of a collective-FM party, not yet covered by individual playlists, iTunes and Web Radio auseinanderdividiert was transported "Rock Revolution Radio" with contagious enthusiasm.

For Richard Curtis, scriptwriter for the immensely successful productions of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Notting Hill", it means the boat dropped a departure from the familiar grid of the Brit-romantic comedies with her neurotic metropolis Singles around 30, despite all the injustice always huge loft in London could afford.

"Radio Rock Revolution" is far more likely Kinoburlesken the British "Carry On" tradition and the Sixties-hysterical comedies Richard Lester committed. To make the wafer-thin plot, literally on the game board and review and a pleasure beyond all doubt sublime soundtrack to Lester Beatles films "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help" think.

Now the 2009 revolution truly no more, neither in the cinema, still on the platter. But for lovers and undogmatic Popfreunde canvas inspired slapstick, this, despite all past animosity surprisingly brisk boat from Britain today to a veritable dream.

Miley Cyrus is the Easter Bunny.

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Superstar Miley Cyrus: U.S. teenagers streamed on Easter weekend in droves in the screen version of the successful Disney series "Hannah Montana" with the 16-year-old singer and actress in the lead role. Germany went into the sun rather than to the cinema.

Los Angeles / Hamburg - The Jonas Brothers are cute and threes, but also in the majority Miley Cyrus, they can not water rich. The 16-year-old singer and actress is durably popular among the target group of Tweener ten to twelve years. With the movie to the successful Disney series "Hannah Montana" in which Cyrus plays a dual role as a schoolgirl pop star and plays drew her audience of the Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies away: 34 million U.S. dollars set "Hannah Montana - the Movie" since Friday, This is the second-best Easter start in the U.S. at all - after "Scary Movie 4", in 2006 approximately 40 million U.S. dollars recordings.

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So sure if the half-life of the Disney creatures might not have exceeded, could not be, because also in a Disney series have become big Jonas Brothers failed in February with their 3-D concert film failed miserably at the U.S. box office.
Miley Cyrus, however, the last year with their own concert on the blockbuster film made, continue to float on a wave of pre-teen enthusiasm. On 1 June is "Hannah Montana - the movie" in Germany.

Leaders-week "Fast & Furious" built in the U.S. cinemas 59 percent of its sales from, but played loud "Focus on Film" again 28.8 million U.S. dollars, so the full spectacle with Vin Diesel, after ten days solid above the 100-million mark ranks. Success - at least in the U.S. - also remains the DreamWorks animated film
"Monsters vs.. Aliens", the third weekend of his 22.6 million U.S. dollars and implemented so that after 17 days at 141 million U.S. dollars is the total turnover.

At number four U.S. chart is the comedy "Observe and Report with Seth Rogen, the film started in 2727, but only 11.1 million U.S. dollars followed it. The failure could be something wrong with the age restriction by an R-rating have to do, but also so that the canvas Ulk a striking similar premise as the recently successful "store The Cop" has - but in the anarcho-variant. Fifth place went to the
Mystery thriller "Knowing" with 6.7 million U.S. dollars. Weak section of the boot "Dragonball Evolution" from. The real version of the successful anime series began in 2181 cinemas only 4.6 million U.S. dollars in order.

In Germany Miley Cyrus was still nothing to see, therefore, broke the sales at the box office on Easter weekend, as is almost tradition. Even the spring weather is expected to have played a role. Thus, "Fast & Furious" already with 315,000 viewers to defend top position. After attendance was "The Cop shop 'to 150,000 spectators to defend second place - followed by rebooting" Knowing, "according to" Focus on Film "in 440 cinemas attracted 145,000 visitors. According to sales figures expected landed the mystery movie with Nicolas Cage, however, before the comedy with Kevin James. Oscar-winner
"Slumdog Millionaire" took part in its fourth weekend with 120,000 more viewers overall visitor million. Mario Barths "men" came with 90,000 spectators at the fifth place.

The family adventure "The Hunt for the Magic Mountain" was launched in 309 cinemas, but only attracted around 40,000 spectators. And the well-known from TV scrap dealer
"The Ludolf" had to deal with her first feature film content with little support: in 68 cinemas gathered only 9000 visitors - 17th place Altogether, about 1.2 million tickets, about one million less than in the past weekends.

Bushido in the cinema soon.

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Authentic, provocative and radical, the film about Bushido are - just like the music of the rapper says Bernd Eichinger. The producer wants the screen biography of Berlin early as 2010 bring to the cinema. Directed by Uli Edel.

Hardly anyone knows Mohammed Anis Ferchichi. But the name Bushido have many people interested in pop between ten and 49 have often heard. Ferchichi and Bushido are one and the same person. The rapper has published in the last year and his autobiography was a best pleased about. Now, Bernd Eichinger and director Uli Edel, the life story of the Berlin, which the school leavers to millionaire musician ascended, filming.

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Bushido is happy about the future cooperation: "If anyone can make films in Germany, then in any case, the two". He could hardly imagine anything better than the film with Edel and Eichinger to realize. It feels almost so, as if Eminem when he calls with him and wanted to make music.

Eichinger announcement is a surprise, because the duo Eichinger-Nobly really wanted to begin "The minute's silence" by Siegfried Lenz filming. The drainage project was now now because of the Bushido-film adaptation of the long been shelved, because the history of Schlink adaptation "of the lecture" was too similar.

The Bushido Movie is the fourth collaboration by Bernd Eichinger's and Uli Edel. Among other things, they filmed the Berlin Drug Report "Christiane F. - We Children from Bahnhof Zoo" and - in the past year - Stefan Aust RAF report "The Baader-Meinhof Complex," for the Oscar as best foreign language film was nominated.

Eichinger is the screenplay of the movie Bushido write Edel directs. The shooting will still begin this summer, announced the film company to Constantin. The main role of the rapper will personally take over.

A Surprise of sinister Art

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Versoffener Nicolas Cage as an astrophysicist, a transcendental gifted son - and then a capsule with the warning of the super-catastrophe: The apocalyptic thriller "Knowing" oppressive offers a doomsday scenario.

When his son Caleb transcendental gifted an enigmatic, with a dense series described from a sheet of paper half a century ago capsule buried back home, is the astrophysicist John Koestler (Nicolas Cage) as electrifies. After the death of his wife in crisis alkoholvernebelter sense solidified, he now finds no rest until he knows more.

Can that be: a chronological list of the great disasters of the last 50 years, plus three more imminent disasters? The solution is the strange girl Lucinda (Lara Robinson) to find, then the encrypted warning as written in a trance, led by FlÃ¼sterstimmen, which now includes the small Caleb (Chandler Canterbury) listens.

After Professor Koestler actually two of the announced catastrophes witness must tear him a deep concern for his son and threatened the man from his fatalism. He fears the past day, determine the numbers and make up, and to warn off evil.

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Spectacular apocalyptic movies, but at the end of earthly life beckons, there are many who really oppressive, however, specimens are rare. Stanley Kramers-nuclear drama "On The Beach" from 1959 is one of them, "Knowing" also.

Alex Proyas, the specialist for ZukunftsvisionÃ¤re and creator drabber classics like "The Crow" and "Dark City" returns with "Knowing" an ambitious disaster allegory with a stitch of action and creates both the one he captivates with a finishing time atmospheric thriller about fear of the future, Ausgeliefertsein and hope, with philosophical questions of all predetermined or random events.

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But he maneuvered his film as a confused and increasingly absurd mystery drama with ordinary special effects and soundtrack into a bellowing verkitschte Schlussapotheose: For building strong finale meet the main characters and some since the beginning of film usually ominous pale strangers standing around - a messianic, but also silly encounter.

Hello, please wake up!.

2009-04-08T19:14:00.000-07:00

If no triggers ethics debate: A schnarchiger father falls into a coma patient - and the drama drifts "Unconditional" from the twilight zone between life and death. Or is it just between film noir and hocus-pocus?

It is the opportunity. Now or never. Everything once again back to zero. The tough, but unmistakably wilting wife, probably the most precarious, but also somewhat boring children, the credit for the move into an empty high-rise settlement on the outskirts of Copenhagen, the mature scrap wagon in front of the door, the dinner invitations from friends on the weekend, which is also nothing more plan than with any minute to be slightly older.

All the shoots with zoom away from the consciousness. Finally makes room for a wild life. One in which the next day, the passing will always outdo. One, which was finally held and no longer is just super.

One of just how you look at it as a "National Geographic" subscriber has always been presented. At the equator, on an eight-thousand, in the jungle or on the beaches of Polynesia. In any case, on the side of a young, funky, obviously immortal love woman best conditions.

It is Jonas' opportunity. Jonas (Anders W. Berthelsen), the always startling images of spectacular landscapes wanted to make, as a photographer and a Forensic teams actually mainly photographed corpses: dead wives, children and fathers at the end of their Amoklaufs. Victim of a tremendous rage, a satiety, a life, which itself seems aufzufressen.

As Jonas had a car accident is involved, hence a young woman, Julia (Rebecka Hemse), half will be admitted to hospital, he comes to the demarcation line between life and death.

He visited the Julia coma, and when the parents of the patient him for Sebastian, a friend kept her daughter, he embarrassed the hand of the motionless. He speaks with Julia, telling her invented stories from his life as Sebastian and visited them regularly now. You wake up, you can barely see and even less to remember.

Now or never. So Jonah to Sebastian. The police photographer is married to an independent globetrotters, from the father schnarchigen a risk-lover ready. And do not forget, a divine forces of the same fate.

That is roughly the story of "Bedingunglos" by Danish director Ole Bornedal. With "Freeze - Nightmare Nightwatch" (1994) and its American remake, which Bornedal even three years later was staged, he was internationally known.

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And his penchant for morbid, for appointed TabubrÃ¼che and aufgeplatzte surface is concerned, he remained true to its beginnings. Added are costly frills in his own narrative style.

In his previous films has Bornedal in crude stories of fear and violence to the aesthetic principle of fragmentation collected. This was once a radical, bold and cheeky. In perfect new lighting, sophisticated pans and painstaking Farbdramaturgie that everything with a morbid and andeutungsvollen patina covers, it seems a bit too calculated and abgeschmackt.

And when the camera is right at the beginning of over a zerschossenen Jonas circling us and the main character dying off, a casual assessment of these stresses picture setting provides, describes not only the beginning of a confirmed self-reflection. But also the unbridled joy of the film on its own attractions: the wet asphalt, that the dead man, later destroyed by the woman, with the reminder divided. "A beautiful woman with a secret so ... not starting at all film noir?" says a colleague from the police.

Sometimes is a mysterious beauty of the beginning of a film noir, sometimes a large hocus-pocus. And "Unconditional" varies a bit between the two. His best moments are those where the film itself along with its narrator about himself makes fun.

Some if it is to recognize there as shameless, even ridiculous men dream, of manipulation and power of social climbing, sex and world mastery. As an internal Nazi Party, celebrating the power of the man in the true, little lives is not even a touch can be presented. Jonas, the frustrated male rubs the eyes, and awakens as alpha animalcule a totally helpless female.

But there's still the other, the villains, the partout not want to die, the silver back of the gorillas, which are simply taking what they want. The real Sebastian's flat.

With these moves in the film, however, a morality that the hybrid, cowardly, but always self-noise a conventional psycho-thriller makes. In between, there are limits even just vernichtenswert good and bad. So we know that and it will be a bit boring.

Economy for full-dreams.

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Admissions in the United States and Germany are dreaming of better, more powerful PS-time: The full-thriller "Fast & Furious" movie dominated the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. In contrast, even the 3D Monster Dreamworks and a German hero of the See.

Hamburg / Los Angeles - The bad news first: a bad start in German cinemas had no film in the American animation studio Dreamworks.
"Monsters vs.. Aliens" drew loud "Focus on Film" at the weekend just 165,000 viewers and did not even profited from the 3D bonus. Because only 47 cinemas nationwide offered the stereoscopic version, but at least its a better copy than the average had normal venues. Fifth place for the animated science-fiction spectacle, which at least from the House of blockbusters like "Shrek" and "Madagascar" comes from.

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The mood of the audience seems to be another kind of escapism demand. Perhaps many yearn in times of crisis and Opel-GM-Pleite instinctively after an era, when driving a car meant to be full, non-environmentally conscious Herumzuckeln the Eco-Drive. "Fast & Furious - New Model. Genuine Parts", the fourth part of "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, came as well to the right place. Especially as Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, then still largely unknown lead actor of the first part of 2001, again with the lot.

The cinema started in 597 films, including the original unoriginellen legally entitled "Fast & Furious - New Model. Original Parts" to bear, had, according to "Focus on Film" with some 650,000 visitors to the second-best start of a film in the series. Then as now it is in the "Fast & Furious" movies a little bit also about human destinies. In the foreground, however, illegal street racing-up boxes in the urban area. So exactly what ordinary drivers like to once again want to make. Even in the Gulf if necessary.

Low interest in "John Rabe"

To race is also the second-film, however, the car chases are not by car, but with the Sedgway Roller-challenged: "The department store Cop" landed on his second weekend with 210,000 spectators on second place, followed by
"Slumdog Millionaire" with 160,000 visitors. Fourth place went to Mario Barths "men" who in his third weekend attracted 155,000 moviegoers.

Loser of the weekend is seven times for the German Film Award-nominated
Historical film "John Rabe" in 126 cinemas only 22,000 spectators wanted the lavish drama with Ulrich Tukur see. The sunny spring weather did not so much on the ticket, as you may have feared. Overall, nearly two million visitors.

And if we are approaching the summer: Even in the United States started "Fast & Furious" from the pole position: 72.5 million U.S. dollars put the car show at cinemas in 3461 - and set a new April-record. The previous April-clearing was "The Wutprobe" ( "Anger Management") of 2003 with 42 million U.S. dollars start sales.

"Monsters vs.. Aliens" is running in his country and played better on the second weekend again remarkable 33.5 million U.S. dollars one. After only ten days, the 3-D adventure, the 100-million-dollar barrier. On third place of the box-office charts landed the horror film "The Haunting in Connecticut" with 9.5 million U.S. dollars turnover on the second weekend. The mystery-thriller from the ex-leader "Knowing" came to its third weekend with 8.1 million U.S. dollars in the fourth place. "Witness wanted!" decide the top five with 7.8 million U.S. dollars.

The relaunch "Adventure Land" made it with about 6 million U.S. dollars turnover in 1862 cinemas only to sixth place. Nevertheless, the summer movie this year has already started early. According to "Focus on Film" continued the Top Ten of the U.S. charts this weekend total to 149.4 million U.S. dollars, 96 percent more saturated than in the comparable period 2008.

Tarantino meets with Nazi shocker to.

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The first competition entry for the Cannes Film Festival is clear: Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds". In a crucial role of some production filmed in Germany: "Tatort" Commissioner Martin Wuttke.

Los Angeles / Cannes - the Palme d'Or for "Pulp Fiction" was the beginning of his international career. In that year, Quentin Tarantino, with its World War II drama "Inglourious Basterds" in the competition of the International Film Festival of Cannes.

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As the film sheet "Variety" on Thursday reported that in Germany is the film with Brad Pitt so that the first fixed contribution of the major competitive film festivals in the world.

Officially, the participants on 23 April proclaimed. "Inglourious Basterds" in Germany will be on 20 August in the cinemas.

The film, in which Jewish American soldiers in occupied France to Nazi brutal revenge, was, inter alia, in Potsdam, Berlin and GÃ¶rlitz shot.

In supporting roles are numerous German actors, including Til Schweiger, Daniel BrÃ¼hl and
Martin Wuttke ( "Tatort Leipzig") as Adolf Hitler.

God and ridicule.

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Gay Muslims, Jesus-Cast bizarre, religious truckers - they all take Bill Maher force to prayer. The U.S. comedian can be seen in the documentary "Religulous" mercilessly on the religions of this world funny.

Poor John Westcott against Bill Maher has no chance. The young Evangelicals-pastor from Florida is doing his best to explain how each of homosexuals with a little good will and the infinite power of a good faith may be heterosexual, when he himself had indeed worked. But Maher has stated the obvious answer - and Westcott argument breaks down: With his gentle nature, and the upper gestÃ¤hlten perfectly seated Gel Hair Westcott would probably still the star in every gay bar, right? As the two farewell hug (Westcott idea ...), still says Maher, "Wow, this is about an erection?"

Bill Maher is merciless when it comes to the dismantling of his interlocutor's. With his dry, sarcastic nature has it in the U.S. to star comedians with their own late-night show brought in the documentary "Religulous", he uses it to the religions of the world to decompose. Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Scientology is ridiculous for him - but too powerful. The group of infidels on the other hand, according to Maher at least 16 percent of the U.S. population, is reasonable in his eyes - but totally underrepresented.

He did no evil in mind, Maher said that he wanted to just these 16 percent a voice: they and their skepticism. You will still be time to ask.

And anything other than ask Maher really does not. Under the direction of Larry Charles ( "Borat"), he travels through the world and interviewed all sorts of, well, experts, why they not realize that their religion actually a pretty silly thing.

And against the sharp wit of the intellectuals of the East Coast are the most powerless, the trucker, the caravan in a sort of church on Highway during the coffee break praise the Lord, the devout Jesus-Cast, which is absurd in a Christian theme park in Orlando several times a day to Cross nailed it, the two gay Muslims, the lonely in a bar in Amsterdam, sit, and the crazy rabbi who denies the Holocaust, or the provincial politician from Arkansas, a Democrat who does not like to decide whether he or Evolution to Creation believe.

Maher is all just talk and walk into the blade. It requires just the right keywords and you do all by itself quite ridiculous.

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This results in a partially extremely funny, entertaining documentary. Maher is sensitive and sympathetic than brute-scout Michael Moore, but just as fearless and resolute.

Deep believer will understandably not very amusing, and also found unconvincing. Because serious theologians Maher can barely speak, and if he does it but just as in two high-level Vatican priests, then they prove to be a reasonable, perfectly rational interlocutors argued that just will not believe by blind faith, very but a lot of enlightened religiosity.

"Religulous" will be converted, and nobody likes to his enemy is not always fair, the fun does not diminish. And many Buddhists and Hindus are largely spared.

Perhaps there is a second part soon.

Say yes to the destruction.

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From the poster girl for the wreck - so does a career leap from. In the case of Anne Hathaway, which were previously only knew from Kinoromanzen. Now she shines in "Rachel's Wedding" as an alcoholic who disturbed their environment and challenges.

To the beautiful Villa Kunterbunt have gathered musicians everywhere is plucked, getrÃ¤llert and geklimpert. How should one because damn it all to rest his neuroses desire?

So roars Kym (Anne Hathaway) the wedding guests through the window of her room black angemalt to youth, they should finally keep the muzzle. Then bepÃ¶belt the bridesmaid, triezt sister and humiliated his father.

No, Kym is not necessarily a dream guest for a wedding. But because her sister Rachel (Rose Marie DeWitt) marries, has a dry alcoholic three days starting from the withdrawal clinic received. This puts the family on alert, because the happiness of others for Kym is a disaster - but it could be one's own suffering to radiate.

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That is so special about the tragicomic family study "Rachel's Wedding": Unlike other dramas of this kind is not a festive gathering used as a backdrop from which the repressed hervorbricht unexpectedly. There are no hidden tangle of blame. The psychological war, he rages, especially in Kym.

LeichthÃ¤ndig undermined the director Jonathan Demme, the usual analogy of the family as a displacement device. The clan in this drama is open-minded and enlightened. An amusing bunch of East Coast Ã–kos - that is the counterpart to the petty suburban families, where else in the Middle American Portraits encountered. The message is: Even the freisinnigste environment protects against trauma not.

Instead denunciatory on foreign milieu to show that the filmmaker and his screenwriter Jenny Lumet (daughter of director Sidney Lumet Altstars) the act into genuine artist relocated environment.

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Demme, who is concerned with social dramas such as "Philadelphia" as well as with classically become Popdokumentationen such as "Stop Making Sense" has made a name, then as a true parade of friends and colleagues who are sometimes even play.

Because Rachel's husband (played by Tunde Adebimpe, the singer of indie-Stars TV On The Radio) musician, has an entire squad of joyous celebration bohemians arrived. Fab 5 Freddy, also in real life hiphoppers, raps a little and the Jamaican dancehall queen Sister Carol East society animated dance. Jazzsaxophonisten play bebop, and later in the night creates a samba troupe going.

Between the wedding guests plenty of people like the punk veteran Robyn Hitchcock, or the B-movie mogul Roger Corman, with his first film Demme turned.

But there is never a false glamor On. You drink to the bride and groom, distributes itself over time during the day with games and comic keeps the evening more or less felicitous speeches. So Demme drama as a mixture of a shaky video and a wedding ensemble work of Robert Altman.

Only Kym, this junkie nightmare in purple evening dress, is lost among the other and allows each tentative approach fail. Cinematographer Declan Quinn follows the heroine through sad and happy turmoil brings staggering hand-held camera exactly in those moments of silence, in which the whole trauma of this family opens.

RACHEL WEDDING (USA, 2009)

Director: Jonathan Demme
Screenplay: Jenny Lumet
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Rose Marie DeWitt, Tunde Adebimpe
Production Company: Clinica estetico, Marc Platt
Distributor: Sony
Running time: 112 minutes
Start: 2 April 2009

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Approximately when Kym on her father, now separated from the mother (Debra Winger) receives, in its elegant Schmallippigkeit cruelly hostile acts. Or if the eulogy to the bride on the eve of the big celebration in a speech about his own alcohol addiction transforms.

Anne Hathaway calculated that the nervous wreck, there is a real coup occupation: From Rotwang Poster Girl romantic comedy ( "Suddenly Princess") on the enfant terrible of a wedding party - that alone would have the lead actress had earned the Oscar for which it is next to Kate Winslet was nominated .

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Viewers who would otherwise Hathaway at spit-Schmonzetten need here conclude their peace with the perhaps most sincere despised genre of cinema history - the wedding film.