Hoodlums and fortune.

Now please do not cinematic diagnosis, but free and straight out: What films have the film critic of blogs ONLINE most? The first part of the Review 2008 to determine hoodlums and fortune the picture.
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Ann Savage died.

A train on the cigarette, a challenging glance - the role of femme fatale Ann Savage made famous. Until last played the U.S. in the American mainstream and independent productions. It is now known, is it Christmas died.
  New York - In the summer of 2008 she was back at once: Ann Savage. Become famous as a lascivious femme fatale in Edgar G. Ulmer film noir classic "Detour" (1945), in which she played a reckless Erpresserin. More than 60 years later, she described the British "Guardian" as the Greta Garbo of our time.
The occasion: Savage comeback in the biographical film touch memory "My Winnipeg" by Guy Maddin. In the film of independent director, whose work sometimes in the experimental film of the early twentieth century, sometimes to remember David Lynch, Savage plays the mother of the filmmaker - and was by critics for their presence celebrated.
After her breakthrough with "Detour" Savage played in the forties and fifties in more than 30 films, but then withdrew from the screen largely back.
The German filmmaker Wim Wenders once said, Savage was with their performances were the 15 years ahead of time "was.
As the Los Angeles Times on Monday, having regard to their manager Kent Adamson reported that succumbed to Savage on the first Christmas in a nursing home in Hollywood, the effects of several strokes. She was 87 years old.

Jennifer Aniston defeated Brad Pitt.

Reunion at the box office: The ex-couple Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston made with their new films in the U.S. for a lavish holiday weekend. In Germany, "1 1 / 2 Ritter" is not enough to "Madagascar 2" to beat.
  Los Angeles / Hamburg - The past years have been hard for Jennifer Aniston. While her former husband Brad Pitt with cool blockbusters and independent productions such as film fans critics alike beglückte and along with his new love Angelina Jolie to media phenomenon Brangelina merged, Aniston remained in the public perception on the role of ex limited. That has probably changed now.
With its new comedy "Marley & Me" Aniston was not only the best result of their starting down cinema career, the movie was, according to "Focus on Film" with 51.5 million U.S. dollars shakedown results (3480 copies) to the first four days, also one of the most successful launches Christmas all times.
Aniston comeback had in recent weeks formally announced - at least what the media attention is concerned. The actress graced the cover of the New York Times Magazine "and - with only a tie clothed - the American" GQ ".
In "Marley & Me" Aniston plays alongside Owen Wilson, a journalist couple, the homeless dog Marley record. This family-friendly weihnachtszeit referred the substance of her new film's ex-number two on the box-office charts.
Pitt is currently there with "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button" to see the film in 2988 to restore the 39 million U.S. dollars could. For a drama that critics in advance as "the most expensive Hollywood film art" has been mocked, but a sensational result.
In "Benjamin Button" Pitt plays for the third time under the direction of David Fincher ( "Seven" 1995, "Fight Club" 1999). The nearly three hour film critics believe should have a good chance at this Oscar and Golden Globe awards abzuräumen.
Behind the Spitzenduo Brad and Jennifer landed the Walt Disney fantasy comedy "Bedtime Stories". The movie starring Adam Sandler film came in 3681 at 38.6 million U.S. dollars.
In fourth place came in Germany, including the hotly debated "Operation Walküre - Das Stauffenberg assassination." The movie with Tom Cruise in the lead turned out to be not, as predicted, as a disaster and has played in only four days in 2711 Cinemas 30 million U.S. dollars one. "Operation Valkyrie" has already implemented twice as much money as the first movie studio United Artists under the leadership of Tom Cruise, "From lions and lambs."
"The Yes-Sager" with comedian Jim Carrey Star occupied with 21.5 million U.S. dollars in four days of fifth place and now has 49.8 million U.S. dollars already implemented. First reported in ninth place Frank Miller's comic book adaptation "The Spirit" in 2509 cinemas to just 10.3 million U.S. dollars came from.
"1 1 / 2 knight" too weak for "Madagascar 2"
In Germany was also on the second weekend of the Medieval slapstick "1 1 / 2 Knights - In Search of ravishing Herzelinde" not against the computer-competition from "Madagascar 2" to enforce.
After 682,780 visitors came on the penultimate weekend of the DreamWorks movie at the weekend after Christmas to about 490,000 spectators and could make it to the last days of the year, "James Bond 007: A Quantum Solace" as a top-Film 2008, at least according to figures on visitors round.
Then in second place for "1 1 / 2 Knights - In Search of ravishing Herzelinde" (370,000 viewers), third place went to "Australia". Baz Luhrmann melodrama saw around 360,000 movie-goers (660 copies). Luhrmans movie musical "Moulin Rouge", with Nicole Kidman in the lead role, in 2001 at the start of 248,851 visitors.
The relaunch "Bedtime Stories" wanted to see about 315,000 viewers (516 copies). Thomas Mann adaptation "Buddenbrooks", the top 5 with about 215,000 Kinogängern (242 copies) from.

Drama with bite.

Most vampire movies verbeißen in clichés and shock effects. The Swedish horror film "So dark the night" is an excellent exception - and offers intelligent horror of the gentle art
  Vampires are hard totzukriegen, and similar considerations are vampire movies: Although no one for it, appears occasionally on a. Sometimes even a copy of which is something good. "So dark the night" by Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, which starts today in the cinema, is on closer examination, however, no pure bloodsucker history, but a deeply melancholic film about the friendship between two young outsiders in the Stockholm suburb, in the early eighties.

For the shy twelve-year-old Oskar (KÃ¥re Hedebrant) is the lonely girl new neighbor Eli (Lina Leandersson) is the only person who is honest affection entgegenbringt him. The school is Oskar von terrorized his classmates, his mother is too stressed out to the right to employ him, and when he visited his father, is also interested only so long until someone a bottle of vodka aufmacht.
Eli on the other hand, it only at night outside in the snow in front of the house meets, it is very different. You hear him, take him seriously, it is true. But Eli is already very long twelve years old, and sometimes, when they extended period of time has not eaten, then it smells strange. She needs blood, but they do not like to kill, since it usually human, fatherly fellow HÃ¥kan for them, but if it no other way, it knows no pity, just hungry.
That may be wasted or even sounds funny, but "So dark the night" is a bitter serious matter. Vampires are here not as a winking parody of itself to understand that they are lonely lethal fighters to deal with their broken existence just to come as the human losers around her.
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The tenderly told love story between Oskar and Eli is played out against the backdrop of prospects from suburban, interspersed by moments of naked violence.
When Oskar discovers that Eli is no human being and is nourished by blood, it turns out to be a good defender. But hope for the two can only be achieved if they destroy their opponents, in consequence of all, ruthless and cold.
So "So dark the night" after the novel by John Lindqvist Ajvide tenderness at all a ferocious, sometimes bad movie has become. A horror movie with a big, broken heart.

Nicole Lady of nowhere.

Big, bigger, "Australia"? Director Baz Luhrmann wanted to create a masterpiece, an epic about his homeland. The result is a disappointing brachial genre bastard with Kidman and Jackman, optics and computer öder terrible screenplay - an aquarium has more depth than this movie.
  A great love story, the birth of a nation and landscape photographs of never-seen dimensions: One can well imagine what Baz Luhrmann in mind might have been when he was many years ago to work making his country a cinematic monument to it.
A mixture of the Bürgerkriegsepos "Gone With the Wind" (1939) and the Australia-Western "The infinite horizon" (1960), it should probably be? here loved the heroes before a glowing red flames in the nation, then we drove the cattle through the seemingly limitless Outback of the fifth continent and grew up together at the campfire.

Big, bigger, "Australia"? the mag five years ago, the format has been set for Luhrmann, who in the U.S. through films such as the disco operetta "Moulin Rouge!" kassenträchtigsten one of the directors of the world had become and now his beer, and rock wool exporting home country in great style on the cinema map articulation wanted.
Then came the Australian Tourism Authority comes into play. The care with tax breaks worth millions while shooting for a comfortable financial environment, but apparently also had one or the other idea how to learn in Luhrmann epic to the applicant country to potential visitors could be attractive.
As a mixture of "Gone With the Wind" and "Endless Horizon", the film is now sadly no longer enough. Rather like a brute genre Bastard from the Weltkriegsschmonzette "Pearl Harbor" and the Dummbatzklamauk "Crocodile Dundee". With little sensitive irony here is again the usual stereotypes of boys biersaufenden widespread nature, while the war scenes to the type of big Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer as a digital stunt storms come along.
The Durchdigitalisierung of the images is actually a serious problem. Sure, you can not have more like Hollywood mogul David O. Selznick for "Gone With the Wind" a wooden backdrop city in flames, so that before the night horizon this very special, dangerous glowing red clay can spread the passion of the protagonists once again extra fired.
VIDEOS ON FILM Photo: Twentieth Century FoxVideo: Twentieth Century FoxAustraliaTrailer and film extracts film extracts: "Do you know what you have done" Film clip: "It will be interesting" film, "The waiting room next door for women is" The gepixelten Panoramic images prove but there is another reason as disastrous: They prevent the viewer that a sense of space and distance tasks. An aquarium has more depth than this movie.
That is but as it is probably actually in "Australia" go as you are in an area claimed that the largely free of natural, legal and civilizational boundaries is.
These freedoms must be based on an English upper-class lady in 1939 as the greatest threat of course work. No wonder then that Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman), in its stiff khaki-dress as a one-woman army colonial occurs around the hostile terrain to explore. Actually, they only wanted her husband back from the cattle on the beautiful island home to Europe's pick. But one opponent has the husband's murder, so that the British here in the north of the Australian Nirgendwo themselves into the flesh of the deceased to enter business does.
KINO-PLANERDPAIhr Cinema: What is where and when - the blogs ONLINE planners for the whole of Germany ... With a stern hail good accountant, a Chinese cook, a sweet mixed Aboriginal and pretty, but untamed backwoodsmen Drover (Hugh Jackman) tries Lady Ashley the impossible: the cattle into the many hundreds of miles away to drive the port town, where the British navy at the beginning of World War II is ready, a lot of money for fresh protein-rich diet soldiers spend.
Until the squad to a group of funny quasifamiliären meeting may take up, however, some adventure to exist: There must unleashed the herd before the fall into a ravine will be preserved, as must the infernal night of the Japanese attack on the northern Australian mainland survived, and since also has the little mongrel boy from the clutches of Christian missionaries rescued, his instincts with his Native American prayers and songs to drive out.
AUSTRALIA (USA / AUSTRALIA 2008) Director: Baz LuhrmannDrehbuch: Baz Luhrmann, Ronald Harwood, Stuart Beattie, Richard FlanaganDarsteller: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil, Brandon Walter Production: Bazmark Films, Twentieth Century - FoxVerleih: Twentieth Century FoxLaufzeit: 166 minutes Start: 25 December 2008offizielle WebsiteAn this point now is growing that this very weak adventure film for concern Esoterik-out kitsch. This year, the Australian government already officially in the natives of the country for the robbery and the Christianization of young Aborigines excused? a re-education, which are still up in the seventies of the last century was practiced. "Australia", by government agencies and supports blessing, now acts as an extension sought the official recognition of Aboriginal culture in the fictional universe.
The problem: director Luhrmann's film operates in the up a Naturmystizismus to whom he himself apparently is not willing to believe. Like a bolt from the sky is clear, therefore, whenever it will fire again, the grandfather of the boy (David Gulpilil, known from the ethno-classic "Walkabout", 1971) unmotivated on one leg in the center of action to the grandson and his white Fellowship with magic tricks to protect. A truly repellent postcolonial Gönnertum makes so wide in history: Supposedly this is politically correct ethno-hocus-pocus ascended without him aesthetically and socio seriously execute.
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So what is considered a Einigungsepos-torn nation begin immediately to non-binding Wildlife operetta. At a sort of "Moulin Rouge!" in the Australian Outback. Unfortunately, without the great music? and even appalling dance deposits: For a charity ball on the eve of the Japanese aggression must be heavily bearded drover Drover is completely depilate and in a white dinner jacket fit. And all for a pretty bleak foxtrot.
Even as a post-colonial coercive measure: Australian, where is all this out, the width of your country and the Ungezähmtheit your souls?

Jessica Schwarz violently attacked Breloer.

Damning verdict of a protagonist: Actress Jessica Schwarz called the "Buddenbrooks"-filming, in which she plays a major role, as "TV-term backlash and antiquated." Blame was director Heinrich Breloer.
  Frankfurt am Main - Critics praised it in the role of Tony Buddenbrookhaus, it exerts itself on the other hand, harsh criticism: Actress Jessica Schwarz is in an interview with the literary adaptation "Buddenbrooks" hard left into the court. "The end result has me, frankly, very disappointed," said the 31-year-old the "Frankfurter Rundschau".

The whole construction was "TV-term backlash and antiquated." The main problem had decided that the Director located. "The high-caliber ensemble was not well managed, although Heinrich Breloer in itself a great deal of experience in this area," she said.
VIDEOS ON FILM Photo: Warner Bros. Video: Warner Bros.BuddenbrooksTrailer and FilmausschnitteFilmauschnitt: The fine Lübecker society ball at the film: "It is disgusting to me" Film clip: "The money will proliferate" This was their " honest opinion, "said Black. "I think some other actor colleagues think so, even if it is not publicly known," it will be cited.
They have yet learned. Even though a lot of money put into a production, should things not always succeed, "because too many people are involved, no idea of the movie, but still want to say."
The 16-million-euro film after the Thomas Mann novel, will run on 25 December in the German cinemas.

"At every step seduce."

It is the shooting star of European cinema: The actress Cecile de France, 33, spoke with ONLINE blogs on the sex appeal of female elegance, the outbreaks of Gérard Depardieu and her new film "A Secret", which is currently in German cinema seen.
  blogs ONLINE: Mademoiselle de France, in your new film "A Secret", you play a Jewish swimmer in occupied France. Do you have a lot of training for this role?
Arsenal actress De France (with Patrick Bruel) in "A Secret": "I would have been good at this time pass"

De France: Three months! I wanted to have the body of a swimmer. Because my character Tania is the swimming is a passion, she is a woman who is very much about their Physis defined. I am in "A Secret" is quite different through the water as the high-performance indoor swimming today, a lot of female and sensual? with less force and much more grace. The swimming style of women has changed a lot.
blogs ONLINE: Are you in the role of a kind of feminine elegance, is discovered in our world today, miss?
De France: Yes. The women then have extremely elegant moves. This was of course also on the clothes. But all the clothes that I tried, sat like a glove! I'd be good to fit into this time. It has given me very much to play a woman who can not do otherwise than through their every move at every step to seduce. Tania has a greater attraction to men, as it would like. But she never uses her beauty calculation. We wanted every character in "A Secret" on her legal attack.

ONLINE blogs: Also, because the film is based on true events?
De France: Yes, it was the responsibility is even greater. The film relies on the recollections of the writer Philippe GRIMBERT and the fate of his family as Jews in occupied France. This part of the French history was myself until then little known.
blogs ONLINE: In the film falls in their Tania brother Maxime (Patrick Bruel), but because both are married, is the desire of the two long unfulfilled.
De France: Yes, but the air between the two is to want to vibrate! The scene in the forest, as Maxime and Tania finally descend on each other, we have shot at the very end. We had to wait for days, because it rained constantly. Our director Claude Miller, however, wanted to have sunshine. Patrick and I began to nag and Claude asked: "Can not we shoot today?" He looked at the clouds and shook his head. "Why not?" we wanted to know. "Nature could not care about human issues. If the figures are in sombre mood, the sky blue!" Then the sun seemed to really, we turned, and all the frustration over the long wait vented at once: as the sexual tension between Maxime and Tania.
blogs ONLINE: Your character Tania in "A Secret" is a female Inbild Grazie. The figure Isabella, on the other hand, you two years ago in Danièle Thompson's film "A perfect place" to play, but moves so clumsily, as if every body part of its own will. Try for each character, one's own body language to be found?
De France: Absolutely! Only when I know how someone moves, I understand how someone feels. The psychology and intellect, I develop a character from her body. If I play, I completely and utterly my instinct? like an animal. My eyes have two filters that everything they perceive the usefulness of examining the role. At the beginning, I am a piece of white paper, then I learn, I like the character to move, then I get my costume, my make-up, then I dive into the inner life, and at the end of the piece of paper a whole life story .
blogs ONLINE: Sounds as if you need for each of your roles much time.
De France: Oh, yes. I'm incredibly slow. So slowly like an elephant. I am always eternally long for a role, because to me on the set goes far too quickly. A character to life, this is a process that is in me months. If I did not this time, I feel a little lost.
blogs ONLINE: In earlier films such as "Barcelona for a year" to play very often burschikose women. Why did the directors as long as needed, to discover your femininity?
De France: Why? Because directors have no imagination. No, I have no reason for me to complain. The sides repeatedly discover to me, which I myself still do not know. I'm not a lesbian, but often playful lesbians. Here I learn a lot about the relationship between the sexes. In Barcelona for a year "I show some of the Romain Durys played heroes, how to seduce a woman. It is simply fun, because I need to switch sides and in the role of the man can slip. In continuation of the "St. Petersburg for a year's what's even thicker: Because I must wear a dress! Of course, I move it like a guy. But now I am a real woman! Perhaps the femininity with age.
blogs ONLINE: In your roles often wear short hair. Is this just a personal preference or even become a trademark?
De France: It is simply practical! I like short hair. And if I have a role for long hair needs, provide me a wig. Wigs are a great invention, completely underestimated! To me, the people at my hairstyle recognize, this is not necessarily in my senses. Because I had the good fortune to be polymorphic. I can look very different. And I try to feed this happiness wherever it goes.
blogs ONLINE: In the film "Chanson d'amour" (2006) provide you with Gérard Depardieu is a mix of duel and duet. Were not you afraid of this massive guy on the screen to be crushed?
De France: If you have a film with Depardieu makes you have a partner to the volcano. We must not run away if it erupts. But we have exactly the same day for the first time, taken when we first encounter of the two in the film turned. The director Xavier Giannoli wanted this moment does not offer. Depardieu has not quite wrongly attributed to the reputation of being arrogant and indifferent to, because he moved to the hundreds of rolls of film to muzzle business had fully. But for this film, he was full of enthusiasm. He lifted and passed me a hand so that I could fly.
blogs ONLINE: Now under power but!
De France: No, really! From Depardieu, I have learned a lot, because unlike me, he is the self-assurance in person. He can stand out from the play. I must oppose it for weeks to prepare everything. He gave me courage to improvise. There are two kinds of acting: the southern and northern. In the south, the stars rely on their image, their charisma. The films are around them knitted. In the north are the important stories, and the actors introduce themselves at the service of narrative.
blogs ONLINE: They come from Belgium ...
De France: ... and I turn in France. So I am an ambassador of the North in the south. In Belgium, people work differently than in France, disciplined. Rather, as in Sweden or Britain. Or in Germany. I recently shot with Ulrich Tukur, who is working incredibly hard. He has for weeks gebüffelt French! In the north, worked in the south, the glamor celebrated. But that is okay so.

Poor Knights.

This did not work: Til Schweiger Medieval slapstick "1 1 / 2 knight" could start to his weekend is not against the animation spectacle "Madagascar 2" to enforce. The Americans helped kinomüden Jim Carreys "Yes-Sager" to box-office success.
  Hamburg / Los Angeles - Not to beat this durchgeknallten animals from the animation factory of DreamWorks' Madagascar 2 'Til Schweiger was re-launched cinema slapstick "1 1 / 2 Knight at the weekend to keep a distance. The animal trick came loud comedy "Focus on Film" in its third weekend to 700,000 visitors and had the best third weekend in a movie this year. Total controls "Madagascar 2" on the four-million-visitor mark. The predecessor attracted since its launch 2005 6.7 million viewers and is thus the most successful-DreamWorks animated film in Germany.
"1 1 / 2 Knights - In Search of ravishing Herzelinde" came last Thursday, exactly one year after Til Schweiger successful "Keinohrhasen" in the cinema, 598 copies went to the starting line. "Keinohrhasen" ran in a hundred theaters less.
Has used it only once not much: Despite round occupation envelope through the German comedy, drama show and wanted to landscape the distributor Warner estimates that only around 350,000 viewers (with previews) the knights see parody film.
But the "Keinohrhasen" presented on the second weekend really happening, and not without reason that the rental once again the Christmas season as the starting date chosen. Despite this, "1 1 / 2 knight" on the third-best start of a German film in this year look, behind "The Wilden Kerle 5" and "The Baader Meinhof Complex".
Third place went to "Inkheart" with 200,000 viewers, followed by "The day the Earth stood still" with 170,000 visitors on the second weekend. Fourth place conquered the newly launched U.S. teen comedy "Wild Child" (75,000 spectators), fifth place went to the long-running James Bond with "A Quantum consolation." Also new in the top 20: the boot 'O' hoarding '(10,000 viewers in 44 cinemas) and "Lakeview Terrace" (7000 spectators in 48 cinemas).
Visitor numbers remained as stable as in the past three weeks. A total of around two million tickets resolved.
In the U.S. meanwhile is a certain fatigue is a cinema, as does the lack of a real winter blockbusters such as the displaced new Harry Potter film noticeable. How could "Yes Man" ( "The Yes-Sager") with Jim Carrey enforce the cinemas in 3434 only 18.2 million U.S. dollars followed it. Little, but enough for the top position this weekend.
Unfortunately for Will Smith, his box-office success ( "I Am Legend", "Hancock") must briefly interrupt: The tear-jerking drama "Seven Pounds" ( "seven lives"), in which he Rosario Dawson is to be seen , Sat on its launch weekend only to 16 million U.S. dollars, also ran but so far only in cinemas in 2758. It is Smith's second collaboration with the "Pursuit of Happiness" director Gabriele Mucchino.
Even third place went to restart: The animated film "The Tale of Despereaux" about a brave mouse sat 10.5 million U.S. dollars to (3104 copies), followed by "The day the Earth stood still," like expecting a sales minus by 67 percent over the weekend to start and had only 10.2 million U.S. dollars einspielte. The Weihnachtshit "Four Christmas" includes the top five with 8.4 million U.S. dollars from.
Total recorded the top films of the weekend box office with a minus of about 50 percent over the previous year.

Bollywood movies terrorist plans.

Bollywood is the largest film industry in the world - and now want the Indian entertainment champion also faster. Already three weeks after the devastating terrorist attacks on Mumbai, the producers of the first films.
  New Delhi - How about "Mission Taj"? "26 / 1 Mumbai Underworld terror"? Or "Mission Oberoi? Fresh film titles, the Bollywood producers in all probability have to leave. The Indian film industry is barely a month after the brutal attacks on the financial and film capital Mumbai on first cinema versions of the tragedy.
The Indian news agency IANS reported on Thursday, about 30 movie titles to the series of terrorist had already been registered and protected; the above, which attacked the luxury hotel "Taj Mahal" and "Oberoi Trident" allude, included.
Vijay Verma of the Bollywood production company, "Salt and Pepper entertainment" had previously been the "Indian Express" said that the script for his film "26/11 @ Mumbai operation" was almost ready. He hoped the shooting in January to start the movie until June to be completed.
The three-terror series in Mumbai had on 26 November started and more than 170 lives. Indeed, the backgrounds are still not enlightened, perpetrator remains unknown and at large. But the industrious Bollywood producers (about a thousand films per year) seems to be almost as fast as the reality.
And even faster than the decency allowed?
The Bollywood producer and director B. Subhash dismissed any criticism back, the film industry wanted to exploit the terrorist tragedy in order to make cash. "As a filmmaker is my goal, a contemporary event on celluloid to captivate, not profit from the tragic incident that has many innocent lives has cost", was quoted Shubhash. He did not pretend to glorify the terrorists.
Even Anil Nagrath, spokesman for the Association of Indian film producer, wants in the current cinematic treatment of terrorist attacks see no problem. For all major events such as hurricanes, bomb attacks - or a bloodbath such as this - would newspaper articles, broadcast special programs and books written. Just as filmmaker wrote a script.
The Mumbai film industry is in line with the tradition-rich brother called Bollywood Hollywood. It is regarded as the biggest film industry in the world. With a total production of about 2,000 films per year in Mumbai produced more films than in the U.S. and Europe.

Madness of everyday life.

The terrific TV series "Frasier" on German television has always only a late run shadows. On DVD you can television gem now finally re-learn.
  Dr. Frasier Crane is not easy? the psychiatrist, just recently divorced, has abandoned his practice of Chicago and is back in his native Seattle, where he a job as a telephone consultant in a radio broadcast has taken over. But the planned new beginning is more difficult than expected: The orchestrated stylish appointments of verbildeten and vain Snobs usually go spectacularly wrong, and that his father, an earth, morose policeman, after an injury in the early rounds, including dog and nurse him crazy distance, makes his life but not necessarily straightforward.

Frasier, the series, also never had it easy in Germany. The sitcom was mostly superior to the exclusion of large audiences and sends Spätprogramm years in hiding? a kind of precious gem for Spätheimkehrer bed and volatile. All others now come to the course? recently is finally the first season on DVD appeared in late January following the second.
The congenial offshoot of the TV classic "Cheers" heard despite the annoying canned laughter in the Off to the absolute highlights of the poor quality of U.S. Culture Series: kauzige wonderful characters, despite the one? or because? all their quirks and malfunctions may simply be portrayed by great actors, as well as original screenplays, fully intelligent, fine wit, their protagonists seriously and never divulged to ridicule.
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Secret hero of the series is cultured Frasier and lightning was urther, but also obsessive, hasenfüßiger and his repressed Psychoanalysts wife-brother Niles. The two lovable, jaded Schnöseln in their sophistry word duels to listen and to experience how it repeatedly to himself, in the world, the everyday madness and the inadequacies of the people fail, is just how highly touching manner and can provide us with your own fate in particular and The TV program in general reconciled. A DVD box, which Marcel Reich-Ranickis Christmas tree should lie!
Unfortunately, the extras saved: There is none. A little over the English original equipment on the unloving hinwegzutrösten? as the Council seeking callers are stars like Mel Brooks or Linda Hamilton to hear.

DVD, "Frasier? The Complete Fourth Season", 4 DVDs (Paramount Home).

Showdown at the garden fence.

A man terrorized his neighbors. That sounds conventional. But when a INTERRACIAL couple and a black policeman in the game, it becomes explosive. Neil LaBute has with "Lakeview Terrace" a sophisticated thriller about modern America turned.
  The difference is subtle but crucial: Lake View Terrace was the residential area, in the Rodney King in 1991 by policemen of the Los Angeles Police Department during his arrest has been brutally mistreated. Scene of the new film from Neil LaBute's "Lakeview Terrace, a settlement high in the hills above LA. The parallels are obvious here as significant as the small variations in spelling and geography.

The date on which the cash sounded.

Tired, Bronze sci-fi remake? Regardless of spectacle is always: "The day the Earth stood still" has become sovereign in the United States to the top of the charts cinema set. In Germany trotzten animals from the animated "Madagascar 2" the aliens.
  Los Angeles / San Francisco - It is one of those typical box-office phenomena: "The day the Earth stood still," the ecologically upgraded remake of the sci-fi classic from the fifties, sat down as expected at the forefront of American Cinema charts and played proud, though not outstanding 31 million U.S. dollars in 3560 cinemas On. The reviewers were thoroughly subdued the audience does not appear to depend on the spectacle with Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly a chance to give.
However, it is expected that the long run not vorhält: Next weekend, when the word of mouth has made the rounds, the sales probably dramatically, up to 60 percent, declined. No wonder that Hollywood studios only to start the weekend set: once the main square one, everything else governs the DVD sales.
Second place in North American movie charts claimed the Christmas comedy "My treasure, our family and I", which once implemented 13.3 million U.S. dollars and now stands at 88 million U.S. dollars turnover lies. More than 150 million U.S. dollars has been the best-selling adaptation "Twilight - bite to the dawn" recorded, which this weekend with eight million U.S. dollars occupies third place. Fourth place went to the Disney animated film "Bolt - A dog for all eventualities", which once implemented 7.5 million U.S. dollars (total: 88.9 million). "Australia", Baz Luhrmans Down Under spectacle with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, the next week in Germany, will deal with claims 4.3 million U.S. dollars turnover in fifth place, placed a total of only 37.9 million U.S. dollars in the USA.
"Nothing Like the Holidays", another Christmas comedy with John Leguizamo and Debra Messing, started with a meager 3.5 million U.S. dollars revenue to rank seven. Notable: Clint Eastwood's new film "Gran Torino", his supposed last appearance before the camera, started in only six theaters in Los Angeles, but sat proud to 284,000 U.S. dollars.
German cinema audience had little appetite for apocalypse and gave "The day the Earth stood still" a basket. The apocalyptic spectacle had, according to "Focus on Film" with the second place of the charts simply because Vorwochenspitzenreiter "Madagascar 2" once again attracted 950,000 viewers.
"The day the Earth stood still," launched in 681 cinemas, has only about 300,000 viewers, and could just as precisely against with only 493 copies underway "Inkheart" claim. Cornelia Funke-the-filming had 220,000 viewers. Fourth place went to the Bond film "A Quantum consolation," which once attracted 80,000 spectators. Rank and found five with the comedy "The Women" another restart: Despite 351 copies in use and star cast of Meg Ryan and Eva Mendes came the remake of George Cukor "The Women" only around 70,000 visitors.
The thriller "Transsiberian", started with 85 copies, had nearly 9,000 spectators with vorliebnehmen - 15th place Overall, about 2.2 million tickets resolved, a very good record.

Too much snow in the blood.

A train, which is pain: director Brad Anderson sends in his new movie "Transsiberian" a U.S. couples through the ice-cold Russia. Unfortunately, the adrenaline level climbs into this so unmotivated as subdued thriller rarely on the freezing point.
  A train ride is like a life time lapse: it is progressing (usually at least), each driven meter, reaching every city, every encounter in the next moment is already history, the memories to fade quickly.

Even Jessie (Emily Mortimer), formerly an over-the-strings-Schlägerin today with the Bible-minded groups Roy (Woody Harrelson) liiert, tried their history behind them as a way station on the edge. Stupid for them that the past but then einholt, calculated at about 9000 km long railway line between Beijing and Moscow.
Russians drink with wodkaseligen
A train ride is also like a blind date: You never know whom you meet. Probably just so the train sociotope of directors Alfred Hitchcock ( "The stranger on the train") to Wes Anderson ( "Darjeeling Limited") is fascinating. Because the protagonists - eingepfercht in a rolling box and in a confined space with other people face - their personal ambivalences and problems only for a short time can keep for themselves.
Even in "Transsiberian," the new thriller by Brad Anderson, the train has this feature. Jessie and Roy, in China at an aid organization for needy children ausgeholfen and have now extended their home to the U.S. muster, share their sleeping compartment with the silent Abby (Kate Mara) and her boyfriend Carlos (Eduardo Noriega).
Initially, the mood is euphoric. Roy, so candid, as a good Christian has to be, is happy in a strange place to have friends and to Carlos betrinkt itself and wodkaseligen Russians. Jessie is restrained and studied the conversation of women in: your fellow travelers Abby revealed her wild past full of drugs and alcohol excesses. Carlos probably reminds them of his southern temperament can be difficult to rein in and Jessie constantly making advances in this exciting time.
VIDEOS ON FILM Photo: Universe Video: UniversumTranssiberianTrailer film excerpts and film extracts: "Is this your first time?" Film excerpt: "Today's criminals" film excerpt: "Roy has disappeared" Then it comes, as it must: Roy goes to a lost intermediate stop, Jessie, Abby and Carlos wait for the next stop on him - and Carlos' sexual bids will be clearer.
Finally, he Jessie, the time to proceed with a trip to an old abandoned church totzuschlagen. And precisely at this sacred place Jessie forgets their morality for a moment.
The situation escalates, the snow turn red. Jessie returns without Carlos back to the station and leave the next train to the city. But the escapade with the dubious Carlos, who as drug smugglers turn is equally adamant she gets back on its past as before.
Placeholder for an enemy country
Suddenly, the train sociotope as nothing more exotic maddening. The mood is claustrophobic in order: drug dogs sniff around, policemen fierce growl, grumble kauzige Schaffner.
CINEMA PLANERDPAIhr Cinema: What is when and where - the SPIEGEL ONLINE planner for the whole of Germany ... In this second part of the film - at the Sundance festival and celebrated its premiere in the spring at the Berlinale - succeed in the highly by critics Independent filmmaker Anderson ( "Session 9", "The Machinist"), what you during the first half in which it is the adrenaline level just above the freezing creates missing: build up tension, the protagonists through the narrow corridors compartment to hunt and the uncertainties of their adventure vacation trips feel it.
But the delayed onset voltage is pretending not overlook that in this strange thriller unausgegorenen many chances recklessly whiz have been left. As one would be the scene: Anderson sends his American couple on a trip with the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway, a trip which the director himself to students times has ever undertaken. In "Transsiberian" serve the ideologically and politically charged countries China and Russia but only as a placeholder for a diffuse strange, hostile environment.
TRANSSIBERIAN (Britain / Germany / Spain 2008) Director: Brad Anderson Screenplay: Brad Anderson, Will ConroyDarsteller: Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Kate MaraProduktion: Rental universe: the universe (Walt Disney) Running time: 111 minutes start: 11 December 2008offizielle WebsiteZum others remain the most right-dimensional figures. To the drug investigators Grinko (Ben Kingsley) who does not honor between police and bribe can decide, all Russians staffages. At worst, it is the German export Hollywood caught Thomas Kretschmann, a mafioso plays, all three sentences must speak Russian - and otherwise looks bad.
Not even his main roles was Anderson vibrating life. Apart from the fear and self zerfressenen Jessie remain the four supporting characters themselves for an action-thriller much too flat. Away is especially the use Woody Harrelson ( "Larry Flynt"), the naive throughout the worshiper to play.
Shall leave you "Transsiberian" after a loud schneegrellen pictures and asked him again so quickly forgotten as the film was only a small number of stops on a long train ride.

Tom Tykwer and "The readers come to the Berlinale.

The first Berlinale films are clear: the festival will open with "The International, a world premiere of Tom Tykwer. Also "the lecture" after the success of Bernhard Schlink's novel shows - except competitor. That leaves it first with a German contribution to the competition.
  Berlin - The Golden Globe nominated literary adaptation "The lecture" by director Stephen Daldry ( "The Hours") is also in competition at the Berlinale 2009. However, the film after the success of the German novel writer Bernhard Schlink with Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes and David Kross in the main roles shown out of competition, such as the Berlinale leadership announced on Friday. Into the race for the Bears is meanwhile the German contribution "All Others" by Maren Ade ( "The forest for the trees").
The competition films, which are already available, "Rage" by Sally Potter, "Mei Lanfang (Enthralled Forever)" by Chen Kaige, "The Dust of Time" by Theo Angelopoulos, the debut movie "The Messenger" by Oren Moverman, "London River "by Rachid Bouchareb and" Mammoth "by Lukas Moodysson.
Out of competition to run alongside "The readers" nor "The Private Lives of Pippa" by Rebecca Miller and "Pink Panther II" by Harald Zwart. The Berlinale will open with Tom Tykwer's financial thriller "The International" with Clive Owen, Naomi Watts and Armin Mueller-Stahl, also out of competition and a world premiere runs.
Festival director Dieter Kosslick said: "Many of the films selected so far deal with the globalized world and the impact on the private life sector. They tell of encounters significant resistance and traumatic experiences. Blogsn international crises in the films resist, but also the hope that a better world is possible. "
During the festival with international celebrities expected in the capital. With regard to the first competition entries could, for example, Judi Dench, Jude Law or Steve Buscemi, which in the film "Rage" the Briton Potter ( "Orlando") play.
Presentation of "The Dust of Time" Angelopoulos of Greece ( "The earth is crying") could Willem Dafoe arrive for the presentation of "Mammoth" is a visit by Gael García Bernal and Michelle Williams possible. In "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" among other plays Robin Wright Penn, Keanu Reeves, Julianne Moore and Winona Ryder with.
"Pink Panther II" comes up with Steve Martin, Emily Mortimer and Andy Garcia on. Among the German actors, which is expected on the red carpet are progressing, belongs Alexandra Maria Lara ( "The readers').
The 59th Berlin International Film Festival of 5 found to 15 February 2009 instead.

Films to survive.

He is the oldest still-working director of the World: Manoel de Oliveira will be 100 years old and looks back on an eventful career full of political obstacles and successes back late. The latest film in the Altmeisters in February at the Berlinale to be seen.
  When his father him for the first time took to the cinema, saw the eight-year-old Manoel de Oliveira a silent film. Even if the clay in 1917 are not yet in the cinema, after all, has the fascination of the Portuguese for moving images has not lost more.

Manoel Oliveira of the birth record, according to this Friday, according to Portuguese media, however, already on Thursday will be 100 years old, grew up in a wealthy industrialist family. The pictures from his youth to read himself as a film about the twenties: In the chic and tweed cap with white fliers behind the wheel of an open car; between Badenixe on the beaches of his native city of Oporto, or as an actor with a muscular upper body.
But in one of these evenings, as Manoel de Oliveira from his movie mature life into the world of moving pictures abtauchte, he saw the montage film "Berlin: Symphony of the city" by Walter Ruttmann. Oliveira decided to become a filmmaker. His first work, in 1931 shot, was called "Douro, Faina Fluvial," a documentary about the River Douro, because of its importance for the wine trade and life in northern Portugal has decisively shaped.
Productivity in the Age
It was a film with an open visor, Oliveiras fellow countrymen while lovingly presented, but also the social antagonisms of a line as bitterly poor agricultural country openly appealed. This kind of criticism just tasted the incumbent Salazar regime did not quite. The additional funding was critical film made difficult Oliveira, also brought his first feature film "Aniki-Bobo" to the commercial failure of 1941 so that it until the end of the dictatorship of the early seventies by the "Carnation Revolution" only three more films and a handful of documentaries could conclude.
In the meantime, Oliveira devoted to the Winzertum and placed in the vineyards of his family at the Douro River Port ago. With increasing age was prevented early filmmakers always productive. Since 1990, thus beginning his 82nd Birthday, turned the Portuguese each year a movie. This was possible only because Oliveiras films with relatively low budgets were produced.
His art was to: Oliveiras performances of the film are closely connected to the theater. With slow settings, long dialogues and a few slices familiar Oliveira especially on the power of words and images of the breast. The templates were mostly literary friends of Portuguese writers.
Among the most important works Oliveiras include the so-called "tetralogy of failed love", to which films like "O Passado eo Presente" ( "Past and Present") and "Amor en Perdição" ( "The fate of love") belong with which the Director in the eighties and nineties at festival favorite was the critics.
By restrained directing moved the skills of the actors in Oliveiras movies in the foreground, which is why it is not long before international world stars such as Catherine Deneuve ( "O Convento") and Marcello Mastroianni ( "Journey to the top of the World") to his door knocked.
But the emergence of film stars Paulo Branco noted that more than twenty Oliveira-produced films and on the side of the Altmeisters to Portugal's most important film producers ascended, before financially difficult to impossible task.
Sun had Branco in the eighties for the first time on a film trade fair fly to Milan to raise money for a desperately-overindebted Oliveira film. Fortunately, he met the Israeli producer Menahem Golan, which it on a paper napkin the Treaty on the international rights to the film outlined the production and so secured.
Especially in the circle of the author cinemas made Manoel de Oliveira is very popular. His films were always in the competitions of the major European film festivals. At the beginning of the year, he was in Cannes for his lifetime achievement award. Wim Wenders, with Oliveira is good friend, gave the Portuguese a very special tribute, by providing it with a guest appearance in his film "Lisbon Story" donated.
Celebrated by the critics, the audience verschmäht
By contrast, the ratio of Manoel de Oliveira to his home country is not always smooth. His films, usually only two or three cinemas in Lisbon run by the Portuguese criticism but praised, but the audience will find little attention. Many Portuguese may be the intellectual discourse of Altmeisters little. There is hardly an artist of such detail as Oliveira of Portugal and its cultural and religious roots has employed.
At least a year its 100th Birthday has Manoel de Oliveira in Portugal so far not reached attention. Two major exhibitions and retrospectives were in Oporto and Lisbon in the presence of political celebrities opened the second public television channel Oliveira had several films in a row to see and in Porto was even a locomotive in the name of his first feature film baptized.
Who honors and wanted to organize birthday parties, but soon had to be tuned. Because the director already announced in November that he had at his 100th Weighing just the festival would do what he always birthdays used to do: a film. Oliveira since his latest work "idiosyncrasies of a blonde girl" yet to finish the Berlinale, is the birthday of his favorite jobs very dedicated.
The film is for the 100-year-old but also a form of survival become. In a letter to a fellow journalist wrote Manoel de Oliveira in the past year: "Everything dissolves into nothing. My memory is available in the future, an insatiable lust, the difficulties to be bridged in order to shoot my movies."

Alien Apocalypse with silly.

Underground extraterrestrial: In the remake of the classic doomsday "The day the Earth stood still" Keanu Reeves is a precious Alien with chic suits, pallor and noble Économie philosophy. Popeliger as Armageddon never worked here.
  Every year the world: time for the celebration comes the remake of the sci-fi classic "The day the Earth stood still" in the cinema. Nothing shortens the wait to meet Santa Claus so much as a bit of apocalypse for Advent, as some might think, and is looking forward to Doomsday Sausenberger between seasonal mandatory romantic comedies and family films.

Unfortunately, the hoped-Bescherung from: Scott Derricksons reinterpretation is not juicy, let alone provokantes spectacle, but rather the cinematic equivalent of a boring speculaas: Dust dry, free of flavor, unloving garnished with special effects and pre-served by the perplexed stars Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly.
That is more than embarrassing, given the superior original: "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (1951) by Robert Wise, together with the Howard Hawks-production "The Thing From Another Planet" (1951) and Don Siegel "Invasion of the Body Snatchers "(1956), something like the trinity of U.S. Cinemas paranoia of the fifties dar. midst of the Cold War found this fantastic parables compelling images for the anxieties of its audience and defined as the science fiction genre again.
No sense for the qualities of the predecessor
Wise 'film conveyed his pacifist message from another star in the shadow of the nuclear arms race, which today is once again present seems far more than fifteen years ago. Starting points for a contemporary update thus there would be enough.
VIDEOS ON FILM Photo: 20th Century FoxVideo: 20th Century FoxDer day the Earth stood still and movie trailers, movie excerpts extracts: "The answer would only scare" film excerpt: "There is nothing you can do" film excerpt: " They do not hurt him "Indeed, the remake, to name several individual role details, but makes itself in key scenes only unnecessary, and later fatal changes and basically shows no sense of the essential qualities of the predecessor.
The kick remains familiar: a vast, penetrate unidentifizierbares object from space in the American airspace which makes for a veritable state of emergency and eventually landed softly in New York's Central Park
What looks like an oversized Christmas Ball is a spaceship, which under the eyes of world public entsteigt extraterrestrial beings. Even before the initial contact, the visitors but from a nervous soldiers wounded, whereupon a gigantic robot emerges, the present military and scientists at bay holds.
The aliens want with the United Nations talk
The wounded alien is salvaged and at an army base deals where it from its gray skin and skin peels adrette the form of Keanu Reeves accepts. As Klaatu is the star man of treating biologist Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly), and calls to the United Nations to be able to speak. The present Defense Minister (Kathy Bates) has rejected its application from, whereupon Klaatu using his skills from the custody escapes.
CINEMA PLANERDPAIhr Cinema: What is when and where - the SPIEGEL ONLINE planner for the whole of Germany ... Helen Benson and her minor adoptive son Jacob (Jaden Smith) to be his accomplices and then learn from Klaatus serious mission: As a message of galactic Nations of humanity should he make an ultimatum? either they quit their destructive activity, or they will with violence worthy of protection from the planet Earth.
Diplomacy appears to have failed and that ET nothing more than genocide thinks global, it becomes clear as more and more sightings of crystal balls and Klaatus robot colleague? as 1951 to the beautiful name Gort hear? with the destruction of New Jersey begins. Now it is up to Helen, the pessimistic Weltraumemissär still umzustimmen and humanity a second chance to give.
Popeligstes Armageddon in living memory
That all sounds exciting unequal than it actually presented on the screen. From the large glass marbles God in the park, on the computer bustle of the arbitrary action scenes up to the fact that Keanu Reeves' after "Matrix" and "Constantine" once again act as a messianic hotel on gutsitzenden suit and his noble pallor must demonstrate, this is probably the popeligste Armageddon since time immemorial.
THE DAY THE EARTH TO STANDSTILL (USA 2008) Original title: The Day the Earth Stood Still directed by Scott DerricksonDrehbuch: David ScarpaDarsteller: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy BatesProduktion: Twentieth Century-Fox Film CorporationVerleih: FoxLaufzeit: 103 minutes start: 11 December 2008offizielle WebsiteDa it fits in general, excellent Kuddelmuddel again that the supposedly smart advocate of humanity chosen by John Cleese played. His super scientists, somewhere between Einstein and Professor Hastily from Sesame Street located, brings Klaatu with a few calendar saying so to speculate that it not only in the minds of this world, but also on the intelligence of the aliens must be doubted.
Even the last infallible Jennifer Connelly, whether the grandeur of its actually nothing wrong can make the skin right here beside times and limited their theatrical performance to the zaudernden radical restructuring Klaatu waidwunde glances zuzuwerfen.
Mahnende differs according to the appeal of the original, which is nothing less than world peace called for a diffuse Geschwurbel Zen and the friendly letter of intent, in the future just a bit nicer to animals, plants and others to be. Every official German plea for energy saving lamps has more drive and flair to show this as a truly quiet standing disaster movie in the intergalactic Heal, Heal, Blessing lost.
What remains is a disappointment cosmic scale and the realization that the only charismatic celestial visitors this month will probably Santa Claus.

First animated film for best film of the year.

That has seen in the history of the renowned Los Angeles Film Critics Association has never given: The U.S. film critics have with the Disney box-office hit "Wall-E" first time an animated film with the highest award consideration.
  Los Angeles - "Wall-E - The Last acknowledges the Earth to" tells the love story of two robots. On Tuesday was the co-production of Pixar Studios and Walt Disney by the U.S. Federation of Film Critics in Los Angeles (Los Angeles Film Critics Association) for best film of the year. In the 33-year history of the organization was still never a cartoon-animated film or the highest distinction clear.
Sean Penn, in the drama "Milk" a gay politician plays, received the award for best actor. Sally Hawkins sat down with her appearance in the film "Happy-Go-Lucky" against the female competition. Director Danny Boyle convinced the critics with the staging of the drama "Slumdog Millionaire" about a young Indian, in the slums of Mumbai grow up. "Slumdog Millionaire" has already been acknowledged by critics Association National Board of Review as the best film award.
"The Dark Knight" actor Heath Ledger, in the Batman movie plays the diabolical Joker, was posthumously named best Supporting Actor appointed. Penélope Cruz won the supporting roles prize by their passionate performance in Woody Allen's comedy "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."
On 12 January Critics Association wants the trophies in Los Angeles on rich. They apply as the first signpost for the Oscars, on 22 February. The past year marked the film critic from Los Angeles, Paul Thomas Anderson Öltycoon drama "There Will Be Blood", which later in the trophies won two Oscars (Best Actor was Daniel Day-Lewis and Best Cinematography).
But whether "Wall-E" also comes Oscar honors, probably only know the Oscar gods.

Lazier magic with Ms. Funke.

And ask where is the magic? Cornelia Funke's fantasy mega Eller "Inkheart" is a book about the magic of reading. The Hollywood adaptation falls on the other hand, pretty half-hearted - and confined itself to harmless, übersüßtes entertainment to be.
  With adaptations of fantasy bestsellers is unthinkable in Hollywood much money, but slowly, the resources scarce. The "Harry Potter" books are soon shot, the "Lord of the Rings" saga is also through, the world will gefahndet replenishment. That since sometime on Cornelia Funke's highly successful youth "Inkheart" has come, it seems only logical: The book has as its two million followers worldwide strong supporters, and it just so bursting imagination and inventiveness.

The basic concept is even one of the most beautiful fairy tale world of contemporary literature: A Bücherfan has the gift of characters when read aloud a reality in the transport and, in return for a man disappears into the world of books? a substance to dream, just as you yourself sometimes in a very beautiful novel hineinwünscht happy times or his favorite book hero in real life on a coffee would take.
And it also changed the film, which starts today in the cinema, apart from the usual Verschlankungsmaßnahmen as little as possible to act Funke scaffold: After hero Mortimer (Brendan Fraser) accidentally one day his wife Resa (Sienna Guillory) in a book called "Inkheart "Read and that among other things, the rogue superpower Vile Capricorn (Andy Serkis) to the mankind has been released, he studied with his twelve-year-old daughter Meggie (Eliza Bennett) years after an edition of the novel to the whole thing again to undo.
When he finally will find, however, calls the Capricorn again on the plan that deals with his army meanwhile comfortably in a castle in northern Italy, and has little desire to return to his old world back. Cornelia Funke had enough influence on the screenplay, so that the fans are not too much worried about radical changes to make. Only the end is a little friendly failed.
VIDEOS ON FILM Photo: Warner Video: Warner Inkheart movie trailers and excerpts film extracts: "The words bring it back to me" film excerpt: "The story that you wanted to hear" film excerpt: "I want you to save your neck" Only: In "Inkheart" conjures spark to nearly 600 pages of the magic of reading. That may be the film in its approximately 110 minutes so obviously prefer not to do, because director Iain Softley ( "The forbidden key") obviously wants the audience not constantly remind you that it is much more fun would be to read the book.
And so much trouble to use the advantages of the medium of film highlight? with a loving and detailed range of equipment, especially in the village of villains to Capricorn in all facets of steam was allowed, and effects, at least the ludicrous illogical, but fast-paced almost Finale rich in "Harry Potter" lift spheres.
But apart from everything looks after a rather half-hearted venture out more after an off-key elements of the story as a serious film version. Without great excitement the characters stumble through the sometimes very act of holes, as if they fear that in between times it could be really exciting. Capricorn henchmen can still so angry look and with their machine guns herumfuchteln? they are so stupid that none of the heroes to be frightened.
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Would be disastrous, because Brendan Fraser plays Mortimer as a pale bore so that it sometimes looks as if it simply umpusten. Serkis as Capricorn is unevenly charismatic, and so might some viewers almost on the side of evil want to suggest, would be on the side of good are not infallible nor Helen Mirren as a reason Aunt Elinor and Paul Bettany as a fire artist (and sympathy main carrier) dust finger be reported.
At an end "Inkheart" in his film version is not more than harmless, slightly übersüßte entertainment. Perhaps this is already an achievement for a film, which his presentation really is not geheuer.

"Baader Meinhof Complex" for Golden Globe nominations.

German history is a solid bank in American film prices: Bernd Eichinger RAF film "The Baader Meinhof Complex" was nominated for a Golden Globe, the most important award for the Oscar. In the main categories include "Benjamin Button" and "Frost / Nixon" to the favorites.
  Los Angeles - "The Downfall", "The Lives of Others", "Sophie Scholl", "The Counterfeiters," and now "The Baader Meinhof Complex": films that deal with German history issues have been good cards in the award the American film awards. Bernd Eichinger RAF film has a good chance of a Golden Globe win. The director, Uli Edel film was shot on Thursday by the Organization of foreign correspondents in Hollywood as the best foreign language film nominees.
The terrorists spectacle with Moritz Bleibtreu and Martina Gedeck in the same category is also in the running for an Oscar, the nominations are, however, only in January announced. The Golden Globes, however, traditionally seen as barometers for the Academy Awards ceremony on 22 February.
At the Golden Globes, on 11 January in Los Angeles be awarded, competes "The Baader Meinhof Complex", including the Italian Mafia epic "Gomorrah," the French drama "So many years I love you" and the animated Israeli war drama "Waltz with Bashir". "Cherry blossoms - Hanami" by Doris Dörrie had also supported the international division of the Golden Globes qualified, received the nominations but empty.
In the main categories crystallize the first favorites for the race to Oscar out. To the title of "best drama" compete at the Golden Globes the mystery drama "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by David Fincher, the polit-cabinet piece "Frost / Nixon", the literary adaptation "The Reader" ( "The Lecture") and "Revolutionary Road" ( "times of rebellion") by Sam Mendes and the Indian drama "Slumdog Millionaire" by Danny Boyle. "Benjamin Button" and "Frost / Nixon", the favorites list with five nominations at.
In the segment comedy / musical were "Burn After Reading", "Happy-Go-Lucky," "In Bruges" and the musical "Mamma Mia!" and Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" nominated.
About two nominations can be Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet look. Streep has been named best leading actress of a drama ( "Doubt") and musicals ( "Mamma Mia!) Have been developed. Winslet resigned as best lead actress in a drama for" Revolutionary Road "(with Leonardo DiCaprio) to. It is also thanks to the filming of Bernhard Schlink's novel "The readers' as best supporting actress nominees.
With Streep and Winslet compete among other things, Angelina Jolie ( "Changeling"), Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona "), Sally Hawkins (" Happy-Go-Lucky ") and Kristin Scott Thomas (" So many years I love you ") .
For the main cast includes Brad Pitt ( "Benjamin Button") to the favorites, but also Leonardo DiCaprio ( "Revolutionary Road"), Javier Bardem ( "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"), Nioxon-actor Frank Langella and especially Mickey Rourke ( "The Wrestler ") may be hope.
As the best TV series has been nominated, among other things: "Dexter," "Dr. House," "Mad Men", "30 Rock" and "Californication." Hope for a Golden Globe as a series Performers can David Duchovny ( "Californication"), Michael C. Hall ( "Dexter") and Tina Fey ( "30 Rock") make.
All nominations on the website of the HFPA

Italian TV censored "Brokeback Mountain."

ARD would Kissing men censor? Hardly - quite the contrary to their Italian counterparts. The public broadcaster Rai average is two love scenes from 'Brokeback Mountain' out - of course among men. Gay organizations are protesting now.
  Rome - "Brokeback Mountain" 2005 was not only commercially successful film. He also broke with the stereotype of the tough guy whose life is as straightforward as his sexual desire. Ironically from America's mythical figure, the cowboy, he made one of his torn feelings, homosexual man director Ang Lee won the Oscar for best director award and the now deceased Actor Heath Ledger was not only in the gay scene for the Star.
Of course it tears itself as a broadcaster, just as a public service with educational mission, about this movie in its own broadcast channel.
Should you think.
So why the Italian state television Rai on Monday two scenes in which men love, cut out, is therefore hard to understand.
Because much clearer heterosexual love scenes and violent scenes were in the broadcasting of the film on Rai Due not been censored.
Gay associations in Italy have the television station on Tuesday also criticized since. The former left-wing MPs Franco Grillini, figurehead of the Italian gay movement, said: "That is absurd - if you try, from a film, by a large homosexual love tells the story of a simple friendship to men, says a lot about the cultural climate in Italy. "
"Brokeback Mountain", with three Oscars awards, was in the Italian cinema initially only for viewers over 14 years been released.
In May 2007 this restriction was withdrawn, however.

Robert Prosky is dead

Whether "Dead Man Walking," "Mrs. Doubtfire" or "Green Card": The major roles played Robert Prosky not. Yet did the veteran theater with guest appearances in film and TV also a name in Hollywood. Besides the popular actor died shortly before his 78th Birthday.
  Washington - Robert Proskys stage was the theater. 23 Saison he played as a solid ensemble member at the Arena Stage theater in Washington, DC. In the eighties and nineties, his face was well known to a wider audience.
His screen debut was Prosky 1981 in Michael Mann's "The loner". Further engagements in the entertainment cinema of the eighties, followed by, for example, in "Christine" (1983), "The Natural" (1984), "Broadcast News" (1987) and David Mamet's "Things Change" (1988).
Even in the nineties came Prosky in TV and cinema, and played mostly on larger-scale secondary roles, as in "Gremlins II? The return of the little monster" (1990) or "Dead Man Walking" (1995). In the comedy "Mrs. Doubtfire? The Prickly nanny" (1993) gave Prosky a TV producer, the Robin Williams at his empathy in the feminine role helps. Also published in 1993 "Last Action Hero" with Arnold Schwarzenegger Prosky played a nice, old projectionists, the magic cinema tickets distributed.
As is now known, died in the American actor with Polish roots on Monday, five days before his 78th Birthday of complications after a heart operation.

People, animals, animation.

And gone is the Bond: The animal animated adventure "Madagascar 2" swept the top agents from the German cinema charts. In the U.S. floppte pretty much every prominent restart - in favor of a shallow Christmas comedy.
  Los Angeles / San Francisco - animals always go? For the animation comedy "Madagascar 2" hits on every case. The sequel to the successful DreamWorks spectacle of 2005 met with German Kinogängern last weekend a nerve: According to preliminary estimates started the new adventures of zebra, lion, giraffe and hippo with 1.5 million visitors - and sat confidently at the top of the cinema charts .
DDPSzene from "Madagascar 2": animation brings fun movie sales

Quite far behind in second place landed after several weeks to rank the one Bond adventure "A Quantum solace" with around 160,000 visitors. With 4.4 million visitors dissolve the 007-thriller, however, "Mamma Mia!" as successful this year launched the film.
Follows in third place with around 90,000 spectators "Vicky Cristina Barcelona", after "Madagascar 2" the second best restart of the weekend. Completes the top five, according to "Focus on Film" by the also newly launched Turkish sci-fi film "AROG" and the durable success successful French comedy "Welcome to the Sch'tis" each with around 70,000 visitors. New to the Top Ten: The Turkish War spectacle "Valley of the Wolves 2 - Muro" and the current U.S. leader "My treasure, our family and I", each with about 50,000 visitors.
Around 2.1 million cinema tickets sparked German spectators at the weekend - a horde of animated animals, thankfully.
Unfortunately for the Punisher
In the United States did in the first five places in the charts as good as nothing. The comedy "Four Christmas" ( "My treasure, our family and I) stayed with a turnover of 18.2 million U.S. dollars - still a minus of 42 percent over the Thanksgiving weekend - in the first place. At least at Christmas time suck Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn So as a cash magnet.
Number two went to the best filming "Twilight - bite the morning," once the 13.2 million U.S. dollars and has been implemented in the U.S. alone 138.6 million U.S. dollars einspielte. Occupies third place Disney animation fun "Bolt - A dog for all eventualities" with 9.7 million U.S. dollars (total: 79.3 million), followed by Baz Luhrmans "Australia" at the weekend seven million U.S. dollars and implemented after 12 days only about 30.9 million U.S. dollars restoring could - little, if bombast and star cast, with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman considering. "James Bond: A Quantum consolation" landed with 6.6 million U.S. dollars to place five (total: 151.5 million).
Only at eight square logs, the first reboot of the U.S. weekend: "The Punisher: War Zone", the second adaptation of the comic Rächers from Marvel, started with a meager four million U.S. dollars turnover in 2508 still Cinemas - a real flop, particularly as the thriller still behind in the previous week launched genre colleagues "Transporter 3" (4.5 million U.S. dollars, ranking seven) landed.
Even the Jazz label portrait "Cadillac Records", still with superstar Beyoncé Knowles occupied, is so far no response to excessive response: With 3.5 million U.S. dollars turnover is not yet a blockbuster status in sight, however, the musical also started first in 686 cinemas. Even with the numerous stars equipped independent drama "Nobel Son" floppte with 370,575 U.S. dollars turnover in 893 cinemas.
But what is already cash-turnover when it comes to Oscars goes: Traditionally, the Film candidates around Christmas around with a limited number of copies in the cinemas, the much-needed "buzz" to produce. The politician-portrait "Frost / Nixon" for example, suggested at last weekend not bad and sat around 60,000 dollars - in three New York theaters.

Clint Eastwood and Anne Hathaway excellent.

The seasonal price of the American film industry has started: The U.S. Critics Association National Board of Review gave its awards announced this year. Have won under other Clint Eastwood, Anne Hathaway and a film about life in Indian slums.
  Los Angeles - Anne Hathaway, 26, was for her role as chain-smoking young woman with drug problems in the family drama "Rachel Getting Married" as best actress award. Clint Eastwood, 78, received the prize as best actor for his role in "Gran Torino" in which he plays embittered widower.
For best film selected by the U.S. Critics Association National Board of Review for little money produced drama "Slumdog Millionaire." The film by the British director Danny Boyle ( "Trainspotting") plays in India and tells the confused life of a former street child from Mumbai.
David Fincher ( "Seven," "Fight Club") was named best director for his drama "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" excellent, in which Brad Pitt plays the main role. Josh Brolin ( "Milk") and Penelope Cruz ( "Vicky Cristina Barcelona") received prizes for best supporting actor.
The trophy for best foreign film went to the Historienepos "The Mongol" by the Russian director Sergei Bodrow. The film about the rise of tribal leader Genghis Khan was coproduziert with German funding.
With the announcement of critics prizes, the film of 125 experts will begin in the U.S. traditionally the annual series of film awards ceremonies, held on 22 February with the Oscar award in Hollywood ends. The National Board of Review awards are valid but not as groundbreaking for the Oscars, because they are more interested in international productions of smaller studios than on blockbuster Hollywood movies are based.

"Gomorrah" grants from the European Film Awards.

Huge success for "Gomorrah": The Mafia film by director Matteo Garrone is at the European Film Awards equal five awards. The German participants were on the other hand, almost nothing.
  Copenhagen - The Italian film "Gomorrah" about the Mafia in Naples has at the European Film Awards in Copenhagen with 5 of 15 prizes downright cleared. Besides the main prize for the European Film 2008 has been named best director and Toni Servillo as the best actor award. Servillo also received the award for his lead role in "Il Divo" ( "The Star").
To kick off the award had "Gomorrah" and the award for best screenplay and cameraman Marco Onorato for the best camera work won. The stripes on organized crime, the Camorra based on the book by Roberto Saviano was responsible for 10 of a total of 15 prizes nominated. The author was at the event in the Danish capital for security reasons not to participate because the criminal groups threaten him with murder.
In the past year was the film "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" Romanian director Cristian Mungiu won the European Film Awards. Since 1988 the prize was awarded before 2006, "The Lives of Others" by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and 2004 Fatih Akın "Against the Wall" and 2003 "Good Bye, Lenin!" by Wolfgang Becker.
In Copenhagen, on the other hand, prices for Germans remained scarce. Only in Germany, born in Britain living composer Max Richter was for the music to "Waltz With Bashir" by Ari Folman honored. Ursula Werner, Actress from Andreas Dresen's "Cloud 9", had in the competition for the prize as best actress Kristin Scott Thomas beaten, which for her role in "Il YA long Que je t'aime" was honored.
The audience prize at the 21st Presentation of the European Film Awards got 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'. The film by director David Yates was the fifth film adaptation of the Potter novels by JK Rowling.
The British actress Judi Dench received a prize for her life's work. Veronica also got the Danish directors Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Søren Krag Jacobsen and Kristian Levring for their "dogma" Manifesto of 1995.
Through the gala, with about 1500 guests, the Danish presenter and journalist Mikael Bertelsen. Among the guests were Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark and Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.