Beiträge und Aufsätze zu Film und Kino
Preliminary Remark The following text is an expanded version of the text that was published in “A look at history – Contributions to Karlsruhe city history” (OT: Blick in die Geschichte – Karlsruher stadthistorische Beiträge), No. 135, on June 17, 2022. The text aims to depict the first years of early cinema in Karlsruhe; i.e. …
Preliminary remark: This text was mostly written in the course of 2021. Many references to the entries refer to this, e.g. B on filmportal.de etc. In the meantime, the level of information regarding Fanny Carlsen has changed fundamentally. The following text explains how this happened. I probably first became aware of Fanny Carlsen when I …
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 …
Some weeks ago one could attend a couple quite special cinematographic events in Köln: “Frau im Mond” (1929) and “Spione” (1928) by Fritz Lang have been screened at the Filmforum NRW, right next to the Dom, in the framework of the “Filmreihe Fritz Lang – Ikone der Filmgeschichte mit Livemusik”. The third and last …
A slightly theoretical text about comedy, slapstick and the comic in general
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 …
(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, …
