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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.
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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 verschläft 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 Rücker 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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"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 prügelnd 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 Gestählte 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 cliché 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.
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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?
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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.
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 hemdsärmeligen 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-débil" cop shop "with 55,000 Kinogängern 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 Beyoncé 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
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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".
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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 Hänfling 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 Wählerin 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.
BEES THE GUARDIAN (USA 2008)
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.
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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 Schöneberger 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 Bülow 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.
Özgür 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 Völler 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 Grünenthal, 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 Schöneberger 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 Schöneberger even at that party still be made. With Michael Gwisdek noodle salad.
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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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As a best actor award: Ulrich Tukur - Price congratulates godmother Heike Makatsch
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 Mühe 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 Bülow 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.
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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 Fürmann 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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Relationship drama "Jerichow" freezing in the East (07.01.2009)
Gangster film "Public Enemy No. 1.": A man is like a deactivated hand grenade (20.04.2009)
One of the women was also strong in Australia Location: Anna Maria Mühe, 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 Mühe 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.
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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 Lütjenburg 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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"Village punks"
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 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 hinterherläuft. 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 Kläff 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 alkoholbräsig a misunderstanding: "Did you?" "What?" "The fact that Howard Coverdale in Whitesnake now sings?". After that? S in the city to Pöbeln? 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.
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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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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. "
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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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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.
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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.
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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 Rémi Bezançon. 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 eingeschläfert 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-André 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 Bezançon 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 César 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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Körperverwüstungsprogramms "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 Autozerknüllfilms 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).
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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 brutalitätsfreie 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.
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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 selbstbeweihräucherndes 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Flüsterstimmen, 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 Zukunftsvisionäre 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.
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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 Tabubrüche 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.
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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.
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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 Görlitz shot.
In supporting roles are numerous German actors, including Til Schweiger, Daniel Brühl and
Martin Wuttke ( "Tatort Leipzig") as Adolf Hitler.
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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 gestählten 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.
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To the beautiful Villa Kunterbunt have gathered musicians everywhere is plucked, geträllert 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 bepöbelt 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.
Leichthändig 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 Ökos - 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.
