Beiträge und Aufsätze zu Film und Kino
Saturday 29 January – Fourth day of the festival First program: Fabulous Lola (OT: Die tolle Lola) Today we start at 3 p.m. with Richard Eichberg’s film “Fabulous Lola” (OT: Die Tolle Lola) with Lilian Harvey. In the festival program, the film is the example of German light comedy of the 1920s. A critic of …
A contrasting comparison At the Berlinale 2020 I could see the world premiere of “Rizi” by Chinese director Tsai Ming-Liang, who lives in Taiwan, as well as the screening of the 4K restoration of “Xiao Wu” (Pickpocket), originally shot on 16mm, and debut film of Jia Zhang-ke, who lives in the Chinese Mainland. A comparison …
Jamaica Inn is well-known as Hitchcock’s last British work, for soon after he moved to Hollywood. Also, this film is generally considered the least well directed film by the Master of Suspence – as also stated by Hitchcock himself. But would Hitchcock have succeeded in his following film Rebecca, made in USA, if he had …
Some basic thoughts on genre film, especially german genre film – but still no theory of genre film. To be more precise, I am concerned with the relation of the genre film to external reality. This text was created after I saw the documentary by Dominik Graf and Johannes F. Sievert “Open Wound German Film” …
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, …
“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 …
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 …
