Toy robots conquer the (cinema)-world.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

In Pepita dress on the crash.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HOME (SWITZERLAND, 2008)

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

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

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

A very clever Fox.

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

 

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

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

Birth Name Fox

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

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

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

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

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

Megan hates Disney, loves marijuana

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

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

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

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

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

Immigrants for removal from the cinema Walking.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And good intentions alone, which has never served.

Dual voltage at the Oscar.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The silence after the thunder flash.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SHADOW WORLD (GERMANY, 2008)

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

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

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

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

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

Evil dead children full games.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unlike all the others.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sandra Bullock finished the bachelor party.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

Not much new in the German cinemas

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

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

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

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

"The poison of cynicism is spreading."

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

blogs ONLINE: You may not particularly journalists, huh?

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

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

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

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

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

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

blogs ONLINE: What do you mean?

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

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

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

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

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

blogs ONLINE: Can you give an example?

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

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

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

Marketing in leopard panties.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vulnerability of the campaign: praise from gay

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

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

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

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

Police arbitrariness? Won!.

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

 

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

The death looks good on him.

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

 

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

What I wanted you to say.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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In the supermarket take this couple, whose greatest strength, especially in its Infantilität and his sexual ambiguity lies to another with more traditional gender roles. Hans (Hans-Jochen Wagner), a braggart and zotenreissender Sana (Nicole Marischka), girlish, pretty and adapted. A meeting, gradually Gittis and Chris' love in lopsided is advised.

Chris tried to manhood in the gestures of the successful architect colleagues, Gitti in the softness only a woman is standing. Chris took the job, a holiday property to transform a building that is cosmetic, for which he had previously never away. Gitti piefiges buys a dress, not her, and tried to be friendly, unobtrusive hostess. And in a hint of masculinity imagined mimics Chris Hans, and now raises Gitti dressed in the pool.

This is the low point, nothing more true. A tragedy is happening somewhere in the realm of utopian Between fresh Verknallten with all its small, bizarre rituals - and the first tiny irritations.

ALL OTHERS (GERMANY 2009)

Director: Maren Ade
Screenplay: Maren Ade
Cast: Birgit Minichmayr, Lars Eidinger, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Nicole Marischka
Production: Komplizenfilm, SWR, WDR, Arte
Rental: Prokino
Running time: 119 minutes
Start: 18 June 2009
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The disarming of "all others" is that the film never pretends the course of events or to understand its rules. He observed, here and there is something symbolic in advance, suggests or add scenes together, so completely new way to comment on each other.

He sympathizes with the times of a silliness, sometimes with the anger of others. The insight into the nature of love, which Gitti and Chris cut the more the more they want to assure her, is not the strength of this film - it's good feel for their quiet vibrations, which is mainly manifested in the dialogues. In the wild these Thirtysomethings honesty, childlike in their desperate undertones and not least in what they omit. It has long been in German cinema as a safe handling of the nuances in concrete, semantic shifts, and breaks no longer get to hear.

What is so airy and so close to the truth of one's own small life vorbeizuhüpfen seems, is the product of hard work. Three years has it sat Maren Ade so aufweicht nothing, nothing will be blurred. And something we can see, what else, perhaps too small to be normal, would be familiar. Therein lies their art. And because here on the big actors and actresses take, we must all reckon with.

The love and its end, death.

Danger and desire.

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

 

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

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Actor Tony Leung: External finely inside Agony

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Power to us!.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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The cinema has lost the desire

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That needs to change urgently.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Heady hangover.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

German battle for pole position

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

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

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

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

Death on the island.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Especially when it rains.

On a visit in the blood bank.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DRAG ME TO HELL (USA 2009)

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

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

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

Leg dich nicht in with Beyoncé!.

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

 

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

Giggling with Kiffer.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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Held at the head is not enough.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

"CHE" (USA, 2008)

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

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

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

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

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

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

"El pueblo unido jamás será vencido ..." - Whether one is now in Icelandic WG-voiced kitchens?

But still hangover at Pixar.

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

 

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

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

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

"Up" remains on top.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

David Carradine is dead

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Corpses on the roadside.

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

 

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

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

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

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

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