"The film industry is at the end."

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

blogs ONLINE: You do not have the map here?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Jarmusch: Yeah, maybe. Isaach But is not something too beautiful for this? That was not Marvin.

blogs ONLINE: When did you actually even your first looks remarkably like Marvin noticed?

Jarmusch: One day I met the director Sam Fuller, and he said to me: 'Young man, you remind me of Lee Marvin. " Then I met John Boorman. The looked at me briefly and said: "They look like Lee Marvin." So went off.

blogs ONLINE: Did you know Marvin times since learned?

Jarmusch: Unfortunately not. But I have many wonderful stories about him belongs. On the canvas he is often hard, but in real life he is a very generous man been.

blogs ONLINE: A master of understatement.

Jarmusch: That I love him so.

blogs ONLINE: You have in your films have always mixed the cultures: the American road movie about the Japanese cinema of Ozu or the Danes Dreyer. Welcome to globalization?

Jarmusch: It is astonishing how small the world in recent years has become. Previously, I am for each of my films across the United States traveled today, I can stay here, because the PR especially on the Internet takes place, it really is incredibly powerful. Without the Internet, Obama would never be the Democrats presidential candidate has become. The traditional media have claimed prayer wheel, Hillary Clinton will make the race. But people have to decide for Obama.

Jim Jarmusch

Of Akron, Ohio-born former Assistant Director Wim Wenders was the beginning of the eighties in the German Otto Grokenberger a producer, his total control over his films guaranteed. With his humorous, cautious black studies "Stranger Than Paradise" (1984) and "Down by Law" (1986) established Jarmusch, now 52, as an American author of new generation of filmmakers. Jarmusch hallmark is the combination of music and film, often playing musician friends (including Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, Jack White) In addition to prominent roles. Among the most important Jarmusch films include "Mystery Train" (1989), "Night on Earth" (1991), "Ghost Dog" (1999) and the episode film "Coffee and Cigarettes" (2003). For "Broken Flowers" won Jarmusch 2005 the great prize of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. "The Limits of Control", recently Jarmusch film, runs from 28 May in German cinemas.

blogs ONLINE: How will the Internet change the film industry?

Jarmusch: The film industry is at an end. It is exactly the same fate as the music industry. I'm in a band. In order to publish our music, we do not need a record company anymore. We can song for song on the Internet to bring out. Similarly, directors can present their films on providers such as Netflix distribute - without the major studios.

blogs ONLINE: Movies do not lose their character of event, if it is in the Internet anytime and anywhere is available?

Jarmusch: When I was in the seventies, lived in Paris and went to the cinema, an old Max Ophuls film to see, I knew: If I were him today by 23 clock not look at him, I will for years no longer can see. Maybe we have the opportunity to see old films can then be estimated more than we do today.

blogs ONLINE: In the eighties, you have a time lived in Berlin. Has the city you are in New York remembers?

Jarmusch: Yes, the Berlin of the eighties was very similar to New York, the insularity, the mixture of different cultures, the attraction to artists. As the early eighties, I first came to Berlin, I thought, still, the German-German border was the middle of the city. Then to my amazement I found that the heart of Berlin in East Germany is surrounded by a wall is. I was completely obsessed with them in all possible directions to go and come back to the wall face.

blogs ONLINE: Did you find this is not oppressive?

Jarmusch: A little bit already. I like nature, the light, the changing of the seasons. That's why I prefer to write always in the Catskill Mountains back. Here in New York can I get the input from the people in the mountains by the human emptiness. Both are equally inspiring. You can learn more if you observe how a plant grows, as if a whole year spent in a metropolis.

Naked in the desert sand.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Cannibal of Rotenburg" must go to the cinema.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where's the class struggle here?.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blech gehabt!.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

Flagellation of lust.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saberi receives special award at Cannes.

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

 

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

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

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

The whole life is a memory game.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SIMONS SECRECY (CANADA 2008)

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

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

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

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

Singing to the grave.

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

 

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

Painfully slow roller Nazi.

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

 

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

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

Only one does not sweat.

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

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

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

Why he looked so gloomy? One can only speculate.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gray Dot in love noise.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

A woman cleans itself out with blood.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Before then perhaps others left behind a pile of dirt.

"Illuminati" captivated moviegoers.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

This is the strip, however, "Obsessed". In the main role of the pop star Beyoncé Knowles defensive wife, the husband and family against a rival libidinös lost must defend.

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

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

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

If two skins.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Free love, rotten life.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tahar Rahim Convinced prison as King

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I've always been very arrogant".

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

 

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

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

blogs ONLINE: And then?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

blogs ONLINE: Simple? That you must explain.

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

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

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

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

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

blogs ONLINE: When did you last learned something?

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

The interview was conducted by Andreas Borcholte

Families in stress test.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Transcending power of poetry

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

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

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

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

Indelicate British Slang

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

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

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

That was meant as praise, and r

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

Drama, Baby!.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

Drastically - phantastisch

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

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

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Where even rubber dolls have a soul.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Carnage left to leave.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Termination of the maintenance contract

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

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

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

THE LAST HOUSE THE LEFT ONE (USA 2009)

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

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

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

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

-Horror remake left to leave

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

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

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

Film Festival to start with stars and cartoon.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

With the gay cowboys.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

Bombige conversion.

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

 

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

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

Captain Kirk makes checkout.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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