Author Mattias Frey

Berlin was particularly icy this February; even discounting the gusts of wind that howled across Potsdamer Platz in the evenings, temperatures dropped below -20 °C. The extreme weather provided an appropriate c...

A feeling of cautious optimism pervades Germany for the first time in years. The stock prices of Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen have never been higher; according to the latest prognoses, unemployment, the perpetua...

This article is an updated and substantially revised version of his original essay from 2003. b. March 23, 1942, Munich, Germany A cinema of disturbance: the films of Michael Haneke in context My films a...

If one measures a national cinema in numbers and percentages, then 2009 was an annus mirabilis for Germany. Not only were admissions and box office up vis-à-vis 2008, the domestic market share increased to 27.4...

  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...

5-15 February 2008 Industry trade papers have pronounced yet another German crisis. Cinema ticket sales dropped 9% in 2007 vis-à-vis 2006, a period in which most European territories experienced admissio...

February 8-18, 2007 When the German dailies gave this year's Berlinale an unfortunate post mortem, they merely subscribed to an annual tradition. For although there were some disappointments, very good f...

26 January – 5 February 2007 The 30th Göteborg International Film Festival proved why it is Scandinavia's superior film festival. Featuring 450 films from 65 countries, the festival balanced its wide bre...

Tracing the many subjects and styles of the “staged reality” of Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl, Frey concludes with a look at his latest film, Jesus, You Know.

b. March 23, 1942, Munich, Germany filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources A cinema of disturbance: the films of Michael Haneke in context My films are intended as polemical statem...