Film directors trying to express themselves in East Germany had a tough row to hoe, yet quite a few of them dared to stray beyond the confines of social realism. The Defa Film Library has two new releases from 1966 that were banned and shelved before they could be finished -- and weren't seen until they were patched together in 1990. When You're Older, Dear Adam DVD Defa Film Library 1966-1990 / Color / 2:35 / 74 min. / Wenn du groß bist, lieber Adam / Street Date April, 2016 / Available from the Defa Umass Film Library / 29.95 (separate release) Starring: Stephan Jahnke, Gerry Wolff, Manfred Krug, Daisy Granados, Rolf Römer, Hanns Anselm Perten, Wolfgang Greese, Günther Simon. Cinematography Helmut Grewald Film Editor Monika Schindler Original Music Kurt Zander Written by Egon Günther, Helga Schütz Produced by Defa Directed by Egon Günther Berlin Around the Corner DVD Defa Film Library 1966-90 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 83 min. / Berlin um die ecke / Street Date April,...
- 4/26/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Locarno’s Golden Leopard has been awarded to Filipino director Lav Diaz’s five-and-a-half-hour epic From What Is Before.Scroll down for full list of winners
The film, which has the Filipino title Mula sa kung ano ang noon, also picked up the Fipresci International Critics Prize, the Environment is Quality of Life Prize, and the International Federation of Film Societies’ (Iffs) Don Quixote Prize.
On learning that he had won Locarno’s top honour, Diaz said that he wanted to dedicate the award to his father.
“He brought me cinema, he’s a cinema addict, and he started this passion in me,” said Diaz.
“For the Filipino people, it’s for them, for their struggle, and then I would like to dedicate it to all serious filmmakers in the world, to Pedro Costa, he’s my brother and I love his work, to Matias Pineiro, and to the makers of all the other films in the...
The film, which has the Filipino title Mula sa kung ano ang noon, also picked up the Fipresci International Critics Prize, the Environment is Quality of Life Prize, and the International Federation of Film Societies’ (Iffs) Don Quixote Prize.
On learning that he had won Locarno’s top honour, Diaz said that he wanted to dedicate the award to his father.
“He brought me cinema, he’s a cinema addict, and he started this passion in me,” said Diaz.
“For the Filipino people, it’s for them, for their struggle, and then I would like to dedicate it to all serious filmmakers in the world, to Pedro Costa, he’s my brother and I love his work, to Matias Pineiro, and to the makers of all the other films in the...
- 8/16/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Cologne, Germany -- The Berlin Film Festival has picked two of Germany's most prolific and prestigious film talents -- acting diva Hanna Schygulla and screenwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase -- for its 2010 lifetime achievement awards.
The choice is particularly inspired, as Schygulla and Kohlhaase each represent a distinct period in German cinema -- West and East respectively -- and both have seen a late-period revival in their careers.
"Schygulla's name is inseparably connected with Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films (while) Wolfgang Kohlhaase adopted a course that was new for (East German state studio) Defa," said Berlin Festival Director Dieter Kosslick.
Hanna Schygulla appeared in 23 Fassbinder productions -- including "The Marriage of Maria Braun," "Berlin Alexanderplatz" and "Lili Marleen" and became the on-screen face of the new German cinema movement of the 1970s and 80s. More recently she starred in Fatih Akin's "The Edge of Heaven" (2007) in a role that won her...
The choice is particularly inspired, as Schygulla and Kohlhaase each represent a distinct period in German cinema -- West and East respectively -- and both have seen a late-period revival in their careers.
"Schygulla's name is inseparably connected with Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films (while) Wolfgang Kohlhaase adopted a course that was new for (East German state studio) Defa," said Berlin Festival Director Dieter Kosslick.
Hanna Schygulla appeared in 23 Fassbinder productions -- including "The Marriage of Maria Braun," "Berlin Alexanderplatz" and "Lili Marleen" and became the on-screen face of the new German cinema movement of the 1970s and 80s. More recently she starred in Fatih Akin's "The Edge of Heaven" (2007) in a role that won her...
- 12/3/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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