Uncomfortably at Home: German Films at the 64th Berlinale Jaimey Fisher March 2014 Festival Reports In the press conference for Stereo, one of the Berlin Film Festival’s German films, the cast was asked why their film had already sold out its large, Zoo-Palast premiere whereas George Clooney’s The Monuments M...
“Westalgie” in Leander Haußmann’s Herr Lehmann Dorothea Otto October 2011 Feature Articles A supposed nostalgia for the old West Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall has made its appearance in a number of films. Dorothea Otto discusses Herr Lehmann and other titles pertinent to the theme.
Knife in the Head: German Social Realism Meets Cinema Verité Robert M. Stowe October 2011 Feature Articles Neurologist and cinephile, Robert Stowe, looks at Reinhard Hauff’s 1979 political drama about a man recovering from brain trauma.
Insecure Times, Confident Localities: German Films at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival Mattias Frey April 2009 Festival Reports 5-15 February 2009 As if out of spite, just as banks fail and states teeter towards insolvency, German cinema could not be better. In a year of crisis, the Berlin International Film Festival booked...
