Beta sells other territories on the film based on Noah Gordon’s trilogy of books.
The Physician’s producers Wolf Bauer and Nico Hofmann have indicated that they may take on the other two books of Noah Gordon’s trilogy, of which The Physician is the first part: Matters Of Choice and Shaman.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily ahead of the world premiere of The Physician in Berlin on Monday evening, Bauer explained: “We have discussed this with Noah Gordon and would have access [to the properties].”
“But we won’t have this discussion before the film has reached 3m admissions in Germany and Spain,” said Bauer, who is currently reading Shaman for the seventh time.
Moreover, the producers would have freedom in casting since Shaman is set in the 19th century some 800 years after the events in The Physician.
Hofmann revealed that, as part of the film’s financing from broadcaster Ard Degeto, a longer...
The Physician’s producers Wolf Bauer and Nico Hofmann have indicated that they may take on the other two books of Noah Gordon’s trilogy, of which The Physician is the first part: Matters Of Choice and Shaman.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily ahead of the world premiere of The Physician in Berlin on Monday evening, Bauer explained: “We have discussed this with Noah Gordon and would have access [to the properties].”
“But we won’t have this discussion before the film has reached 3m admissions in Germany and Spain,” said Bauer, who is currently reading Shaman for the seventh time.
Moreover, the producers would have freedom in casting since Shaman is set in the 19th century some 800 years after the events in The Physician.
Hofmann revealed that, as part of the film’s financing from broadcaster Ard Degeto, a longer...
- 12/17/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
"How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster?, an admiring documentary about the British architect Norman Foster, by Norberto López Amado and Carlos Carcas, gives the viewer quite a lot to marvel at, which is, after all, the root meaning of the word 'admire,'" begins Ao Scott in the New York Times. "Accompanied by Joan Valent's pulsing, soaring score, the camera swoops over some of Mr Foster's largest and best-known structures and floats through the bright and airy interiors of his skyscrapers. Even before you hear Paul Goldberger (a former architecture critic for The New York Times, currently at The New Yorker) describe Mr Foster as 'the Mozart of Modernism,' you can appreciate the grace and harmony of his compositions in glass, steel and light."
For Benjamin Sutton, writing in the L, "what's most remarkable about this documentary," currently at the IFC Center through Tuesday, "is how...
For Benjamin Sutton, writing in the L, "what's most remarkable about this documentary," currently at the IFC Center through Tuesday, "is how...
- 1/26/2012
- MUBI
German actor and director Vadim Glowna has died at the age of 70.
Glowna passed away on Tuesday after a short illness, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
He tried his hand at odd jobs including a taxi driver and hotel bellboy before beginning his acting career, and he racked up a number of credits as a regular on TV and in film.
Glowna had supporting roles in No Place To Go in 2000 and 2006's Four Minutes, both of which were named Film of the Year at the German Film Awards, and he also appeared in the World War II drama Cross of Iron.
His directorial debut Desperado City was awarded the Golden Camera honour at France's Cannes Film Festival in 1981, while his second effort, Dies rigorose Leben, received an honourable mention at the 1983 Berlin Film Festival in Germany.
Glowna passed away on Tuesday after a short illness, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
He tried his hand at odd jobs including a taxi driver and hotel bellboy before beginning his acting career, and he racked up a number of credits as a regular on TV and in film.
Glowna had supporting roles in No Place To Go in 2000 and 2006's Four Minutes, both of which were named Film of the Year at the German Film Awards, and he also appeared in the World War II drama Cross of Iron.
His directorial debut Desperado City was awarded the Golden Camera honour at France's Cannes Film Festival in 1981, while his second effort, Dies rigorose Leben, received an honourable mention at the 1983 Berlin Film Festival in Germany.
- 1/26/2012
- WENN
Through his films Sam Peckinpah frequently explored the relationships between men and violence and the relationships between men thrust together, but Cross of Iron stands out as being his only foray into the war film genre, although films such as The Wild Bunch and Major Dundee certainly flirt with similar thematic concerns.
In venturing into the then somewhat overstuffed area of WWII war films Peckinpah unsurprisingly chose to do something a little different, framing the conflict not from the side of the Allied forces but making a film that embeds us in the trenches with the German troops. Shot mostly on location in Yugoslavia Cross of Iron reconstructs the Eastern Front circa 1943 and centres on the German troops fighting there.
Arriving at the front-line early in the film is Captain Stransky (Maximilian Schell), a stuffy Prussian officer desperate to win the prestigious Iron Cross. At the front he finds a...
In venturing into the then somewhat overstuffed area of WWII war films Peckinpah unsurprisingly chose to do something a little different, framing the conflict not from the side of the Allied forces but making a film that embeds us in the trenches with the German troops. Shot mostly on location in Yugoslavia Cross of Iron reconstructs the Eastern Front circa 1943 and centres on the German troops fighting there.
Arriving at the front-line early in the film is Captain Stransky (Maximilian Schell), a stuffy Prussian officer desperate to win the prestigious Iron Cross. At the front he finds a...
- 6/7/2011
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Father’s day is on the horizon and a whole bunch of cool Blu-ray’s are being released to celebrate that fact, a few films of which are particularly some of my Dad’s favourites.
Sam Peckinpah’s bloody anti-war movie Cross of Iron (out June 3rd), the British Wwi classic The Cruel Sea (June 13th) and the excellent Ice Cold Alex (June 13th), all digitally restored and available on the first time in Blu-ray. Excitedly if you are in London on father’s day weekend, the Odeon Panton St are showing Cross of Iron and Ice Cold in Alex from June 17th!
Owf have three copies of all three films to give away…
6 June: Cross Of Iron – Only On Bluray – Digitally Restored
Heralded as the most anti-war war film ever made, Cross Of Iron is a bloody and thought-provoking depiction of the horrors of war featuring an epic battle...
Sam Peckinpah’s bloody anti-war movie Cross of Iron (out June 3rd), the British Wwi classic The Cruel Sea (June 13th) and the excellent Ice Cold Alex (June 13th), all digitally restored and available on the first time in Blu-ray. Excitedly if you are in London on father’s day weekend, the Odeon Panton St are showing Cross of Iron and Ice Cold in Alex from June 17th!
Owf have three copies of all three films to give away…
6 June: Cross Of Iron – Only On Bluray – Digitally Restored
Heralded as the most anti-war war film ever made, Cross Of Iron is a bloody and thought-provoking depiction of the horrors of war featuring an epic battle...
- 6/3/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
To celebrate the release of Cross of Iron on 6th June, Optimum Home Entertainment have given us three copies of the movie to give away on Blu-ray.
Synopsis: Heralded as the most anti-war war film ever made, Cross Of Iron is a bloody and thought-provoking depiction of the horrors of war featuring an epic battle of wills between aristocratic Prussian Officer Stransky (Maximilian Schell) and gutsy Sergeant Rolf Steiner (James Coburn). Director Sam Peckinpah has served as an inspiration for everyone from Tarantino to Kathryn Bigelow.
Extras: All New! Passion & Poetry – Sam Peckinpah’s War (46:00): A documentary by Mike Siegel featuring James Coburn, Senta Berger, David Warner, Vadim Glowna, Roger Fritz, Katy Haber & Sam Peckinpah. 5 featurettes with 1976 on set audio interviews: Sam Peckinpah (5:06) / James Coburn (5:30) / James Mason (6:05) / Maximilian Schell (4:35) / David Warner (3:14) / Featurette KRÜGER Kisses Kern (8:27) / Letters From Vadim & Sam Featurette (3:48) / Vadim...
Synopsis: Heralded as the most anti-war war film ever made, Cross Of Iron is a bloody and thought-provoking depiction of the horrors of war featuring an epic battle of wills between aristocratic Prussian Officer Stransky (Maximilian Schell) and gutsy Sergeant Rolf Steiner (James Coburn). Director Sam Peckinpah has served as an inspiration for everyone from Tarantino to Kathryn Bigelow.
Extras: All New! Passion & Poetry – Sam Peckinpah’s War (46:00): A documentary by Mike Siegel featuring James Coburn, Senta Berger, David Warner, Vadim Glowna, Roger Fritz, Katy Haber & Sam Peckinpah. 5 featurettes with 1976 on set audio interviews: Sam Peckinpah (5:06) / James Coburn (5:30) / James Mason (6:05) / Maximilian Schell (4:35) / David Warner (3:14) / Featurette KRÜGER Kisses Kern (8:27) / Letters From Vadim & Sam Featurette (3:48) / Vadim...
- 5/26/2011
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In the Bedroom: 'House of Sleeping Beauties' mysteriously erotic, but somewhat disappointing It's a longtime friend (Maximilian Schell) who recommends to Edmond (Vadim Glowna) this strange bordello, a place where a man can spend the night in a bed alongside a beautiful young woman. The catch and core secret at the heart of "House of Sleeping Beauties," a sensual adaptation of Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata's sixties novella, is that the women are sound asleep and do not wake up. Edmond enjoys their beauty and tenderness over repeated visits but grows determined to find out the secret behind these beautiful sleeping women. His curiosity, paired with lingering sorrow from the death of his wife and daughter fifteen years ago, may prove to be his downfall.
- 11/19/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
In the Bedroom: 'House of Sleeping Beauties' mysteriously erotic, but somewhat disappointing It's a longtime friend (Maximilian Schell) who recommends to Edmond (Vadim Glowna) this strange bordello, a place where a man can spend the night in a bed alongside a beautiful young woman. The catch and core secret at the heart of "House of Sleeping Beauties," a sensual adaptation of Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata's sixties novella, is that the women are sound asleep and do not wake up. Edmond enjoys their beauty and tenderness over repeated visits but grows determined to find out the secret behind these beautiful sleeping women. His curiosity, paired with lingering sorrow from the death of his wife and daughter fifteen years ago, may prove to be his downfall.
- 11/19/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
House of Sleeping Beautiesby Steve Ramos, Writer In the Bedroom: 'House of Sleeping Beauties' mysteriously erotic, but somewhat disappointing It's a longtime friend (Maximilian Schell) who recommends to Edmond (Vadim Glowna) this strange bordello, a place where a man can spend the night in a bed alongside a beautiful young woman. The catch and core secret at the heart of "House of Sleeping Beauties," a sensual adaptation of Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata's sixties novella, is that the women are sound asleep and do not wake up. Edmond enjoys their beauty and tenderness over repeated visits but grows determined to find out the secret behind these beautiful sleeping women. His curiosity, paired with lingering sorrow from the death of his wife and daughter fifteen years ago, may prove to be his downfall. Vadim Glowna, a veteran actor and director in his native Germany, adapts, directs and stars in "House of the Sleeping Beauties...
- 11/19/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
In the Bedroom: 'House of Sleeping Beauties' mysteriously erotic, but somewhat disappointing It's a longtime friend (Maximilian Schell) who recommends to Edmond (Vadim Glowna) this strange bordello, a place where a man can spend the night in a bed alongside a beautiful young woman. The catch and core secret at the heart of "House of Sleeping Beauties," a sensual adaptation of Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata's sixties novella, is that the women are sound asleep and do not wake up. Edmond enjoys their beauty and tenderness over repeated visits but grows determined to find out the secret behind these beautiful sleeping women. His curiosity, paired with lingering sorrow from the death of his wife and daughter fifteen years ago, may prove to be his downfall.
- 11/19/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
It would be easy to dismiss "House of the Sleeping Beau ties" as a lewd male fantasy, but that would be ignoring the German film's deeper purpose as - in the words of the director, Vadim Glowna - a meditation on "transition, remembrance, mourning, guilt, loneliness, sex and death, eroticism and dying."
Sure, there's copious full-frontal female nudity and an aroused male body part, but such scenes are a means to an end, not an end in themselves. There's a subtle difference, but still a difference.
The story was written by Glowna based on a Japanese novella.
Sure, there's copious full-frontal female nudity and an aroused male body part, but such scenes are a means to an end, not an end in themselves. There's a subtle difference, but still a difference.
The story was written by Glowna based on a Japanese novella.
- 11/14/2008
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
In a gloomy urban German nowhereland, morose 60-something Edmond (Vadim Glowna) walks the streets alone, the surrounding prison-bar railings and angular staircases framing his solitary stroll as well as mirroring his feelings of being trapped by his past. Did his wife and daughter die accidentally in a car crash or was it suicide, he wonders, a depressing, unshakable fixation that spurs an old friend of his, Kogi (Maximilian Schell), to recommend that he visit a clandestine establishment where elder gentlemen can sleep alongside slumbering young women.
These heavily sedated sleeping beauties cannot be awakened nor do they remember their nocturnal rendezvous, a situation that hints at deviant sex but, for Edmond, merely provides an opportunity to freely talk about love, life, transience, his deceased spouse and child, and his mother, all topics which he expounds upon while lying naked next to his comatose companions. Is, as he wonders, the mysterious proprietor of this business,...
These heavily sedated sleeping beauties cannot be awakened nor do they remember their nocturnal rendezvous, a situation that hints at deviant sex but, for Edmond, merely provides an opportunity to freely talk about love, life, transience, his deceased spouse and child, and his mother, all topics which he expounds upon while lying naked next to his comatose companions. Is, as he wonders, the mysterious proprietor of this business,...
- 11/13/2008
- by Nick Schager
- Cinematical
by indieWIRE (November 13, 2008) Based on Yasunari Kawabata's novel, Vadim Glowna's "House of Sleeping Beauties" follows Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, and who is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beautiful, sleeping young women who never awaken. The German film is being released stateside by First Run Features, and opens at the Quad Cinema in New York this Friday, November 14. indieWIRE talked to Glowna about the film and its U.S. release.
- 11/13/2008
- by peter
- indieWIRE - People
by Kristi Mitsuda (November 12, 2008) [An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]
Intended as a meditation on mortality and morality, Vadim Glowna's adaptation of a Yasunari Kawabata novel simultaneously strives towards portentous poeticism and thriller intrigue, but falls more into tawdry B-movie territory instead. Written, directed, and produced by the German filmmaker, who also stars as protagonist Edmond, "House of the Sleeping Beauties" follows a man in the literal and figurative winter of his life. Edmond begins to visit the titular maison upon the advice of longtime friend Kogi (Maximilian Schell), who creepily persuades him by saying, "I only feel really alive when lying beside someone somnolent."...
Intended as a meditation on mortality and morality, Vadim Glowna's adaptation of a Yasunari Kawabata novel simultaneously strives towards portentous poeticism and thriller intrigue, but falls more into tawdry B-movie territory instead. Written, directed, and produced by the German filmmaker, who also stars as protagonist Edmond, "House of the Sleeping Beauties" follows a man in the literal and figurative winter of his life. Edmond begins to visit the titular maison upon the advice of longtime friend Kogi (Maximilian Schell), who creepily persuades him by saying, "I only feel really alive when lying beside someone somnolent."...
- 11/12/2008
- by peter
- Indiewire
By Neil Pedley
There is plenty of (semi)lighthearted fare at the art house this week with Danny Boyle tracking a "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" whiz kid in Mumbai, Arnaud Desplechin looking at a family reunion in France and a Bollywood musical playing out in Miami, followed by films that are distinctively more "hardcore," whether that refers to Harry Potter fans or elderly curmudgeons. Oh, and there's also some globetrotting carnage with our man Craig -- Daniel Craig.
"B.O.H.I.C.A."
If this debut effort from "Melvin Goes To Dinner" producer turned writer/director D.J. Paul is to be believed, the best way to support our brave boys serving overseas is to send them some sunscreen and a truckload of Sudoku books. Marooned in the middle of the Afghan desert guarding a radio tower, four army reservists (Adam Rodriguez, Nicholas Gonzalez, Kevin Weisman, Brendan Sexton III) do battle with the...
There is plenty of (semi)lighthearted fare at the art house this week with Danny Boyle tracking a "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" whiz kid in Mumbai, Arnaud Desplechin looking at a family reunion in France and a Bollywood musical playing out in Miami, followed by films that are distinctively more "hardcore," whether that refers to Harry Potter fans or elderly curmudgeons. Oh, and there's also some globetrotting carnage with our man Craig -- Daniel Craig.
"B.O.H.I.C.A."
If this debut effort from "Melvin Goes To Dinner" producer turned writer/director D.J. Paul is to be believed, the best way to support our brave boys serving overseas is to send them some sunscreen and a truckload of Sudoku books. Marooned in the middle of the Afghan desert guarding a radio tower, four army reservists (Adam Rodriguez, Nicholas Gonzalez, Kevin Weisman, Brendan Sexton III) do battle with the...
- 11/10/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
COLOGNE, Germany -- Switzerland has nominated Dominique de Rivaz's period biopic My Name Is Bach as its entry for a foreign-language Oscar nomination in this year's race, Bach producers Twenty Twenty Vision and Pandora Film said Tuesday. The feature, which stars German actor Vadim Glowna as composer Johann Sebastian Bach, won the best picture award at this year's Swiss Film Prize. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will select nominees for the foreign-language Oscar on Jan. 25.
- 10/1/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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