Beiträge und Aufsätze zu Film und Kino
I like to write about people, the places they live and the things with which they choose to surround themselves. Here are some of my favorite pieces that made it into Article.
The new film concept of Baden-Württemberg appeared in autumn last year. The current situation is analyzed on a good 100 pages and the course is set for the future. When creating the concept, the Ministry of Science, Research and Art was supported by an advisory board made up of several experts, including: B. Susanne Marschall, …
(Segue testo in italiano) Following the article “The most beautiful film museum in the world” published here on Sinn und Cinema, I can say that, from my point of view too, the Mole is indeed the most beautiful cinema museum in the world, as well as a building that followed truly unique path. My opinion …
(Traduzione italiana di seguito) … is at least in my opinion the National Museum of Cinema in Turin. Probably I knew already before visiting the Berlinale in 2004 that there was a cinema museum in Turin. But it wasn’t until I saw the film “Dopo Mezzanotte” (After Midnight) by Davide Ferrario in the program of …
If one thinks of 1929 in filmic terms, some films might come to mind: the musical and Best Picture of the year “The Broadway Melody” by MGM, for instance, was a major success in the United States and abroad as well. 1929 is also the year of Vidor’s Hallelujah!, of the first multiple-language version Atlantic, …
… was for me in every conceivable way the event for the fortieth anniversary of the Karlsruhe Kinemathek, which, as I have explained elsewhere *, should better be called “Municipal Cinema”. The event took place in September 2014 and I haven’t thought about it for a long time. Or rather: I had probably repressed …
“Pourquoi ne devrais-je pas faire un Don Quichotte ? C’est un sujet éternel.” (Pabst on Pour Vous, 1932) Almost each decade of the history of cinema has had its “Don Quijote film”, and sometimes even more than one. These include a British silent film, a Spanish adaptation based just on one of the two parts of …
The following text is a comment, a response to a contribution by Lars Henrik Gass, which was published on filmdienst.de on October 22, 2020. Ursprünglich war beabsichtigt, diesen Text dort als Kommentar einzufügen. That was not possible because the text is obviously too long. Therefore the text is published here. Based on the current problems …
Screening in the Kinemathek Karlsruhe in May 2018 Paris, 1967: an upper-class family goes on vacation in the summer as usual for several weeks. In their apartment, a few young people open a kind of flat share and begin to practice for the world revolution. The individual persons correspond to certain ideological attitudes; we have …
This pandemic year 2020 is pushing intermediality very far, and very fast. Speaking of cinema and of the academic environment, of symposia, conferences and festivals, countless new exchange modalities are being experimented these days. Though this has been generally driven by the global emergency status, it must be said that there is also a widespread, …
