An impressive ensemble cast shines against an unlikely backdrop in the romantic comedy, Berlin, I Love You, arriving on Blu-ray (plus Digital), DVD, and Digital April 9 from Lionsgate.
An impressive ensemble cast shines against an unlikely backdrop in the romantic comedy, Berlin, I Love You, arriving on Blu-ray (plus Digital), DVD, and Digital April 9 from Lionsgate. This film is currently available On Demand. This heartwarming anthology contains 10 romantic stories set against the backdrop of the German capital and stars two-time Oscar® nominee Keira Knightley, Oscar® winner Helen Mirren, Luke Wilson, and Jenna Dewan. The Berlin, I Love You Blu-ray and DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $21.99 and $19.98, respectively.
Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Jim Sturgess, and Diego Luna head an all-star cast in this sparkling film from the producers ofParis, Je T’Aime. Set against the vivid backdrop of Berlin, Berlin, I Love You weaves ten stories of compassion,...
An impressive ensemble cast shines against an unlikely backdrop in the romantic comedy, Berlin, I Love You, arriving on Blu-ray (plus Digital), DVD, and Digital April 9 from Lionsgate. This film is currently available On Demand. This heartwarming anthology contains 10 romantic stories set against the backdrop of the German capital and stars two-time Oscar® nominee Keira Knightley, Oscar® winner Helen Mirren, Luke Wilson, and Jenna Dewan. The Berlin, I Love You Blu-ray and DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $21.99 and $19.98, respectively.
Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Jim Sturgess, and Diego Luna head an all-star cast in this sparkling film from the producers ofParis, Je T’Aime. Set against the vivid backdrop of Berlin, Berlin, I Love You weaves ten stories of compassion,...
- 3/21/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A visibly moved Dieter Kosslick received a standing ovation at the opening of the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday as he took to the stage to welcome international stars, filmmakers, and cinephiles for the final time as festival director.
The 69th Berlinale opened with a 1920s-style serenade dedicated to Kosslick by popular German singer Max Raabe and entertainer Anke Engelke, who also hosted the ceremony.
Monika Grütters, Germany’s culture and media commissioner, praised Kosslick for his 18 years at the head of one of the world’s largest film festivals.
Kosslick succeeded in sharpening the festival’s political profile, attracting international stars and filmmakers and ensuring the glamour factor, Grütters said.
“Our Berliner Bear in gold and silver, our beautiful trophy, is our most famous ambassador of film, but only one person can compete with him. That’s you, dear Dieter. And at the opening of your 18th and our 69th Berlinale,...
The 69th Berlinale opened with a 1920s-style serenade dedicated to Kosslick by popular German singer Max Raabe and entertainer Anke Engelke, who also hosted the ceremony.
Monika Grütters, Germany’s culture and media commissioner, praised Kosslick for his 18 years at the head of one of the world’s largest film festivals.
Kosslick succeeded in sharpening the festival’s political profile, attracting international stars and filmmakers and ensuring the glamour factor, Grütters said.
“Our Berliner Bear in gold and silver, our beautiful trophy, is our most famous ambassador of film, but only one person can compete with him. That’s you, dear Dieter. And at the opening of your 18th and our 69th Berlinale,...
- 2/7/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Berlin's famed crooner Max Raabe and his 12-piece Palast Orchester will bring their collection of meticulously recreated songs from the Weimar era of 1920s Germany as well as the Great American Songbook to six Us cities beginning March 2, 2014 in Fairfax, Va and continuing to Carnegie Hall; Princeton, NJ; Kennett Square, Pa; Atlanta, Ga and finishing in Miami, Fl on March 9, 2014. The tour will support their upcoming release on Deutsche Grammophon, Golden Age, which draws from the era between the two world wars and features timeless classics like Singing in the Rain, Dream a Little Dream and Cheek to Cheek as well as tongue-in-cheek interpretations of pop favorites Sex Bomb and Oops...I Did it Again. For...
- 12/2/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
The 18th Annual Berlin-potsdam Jewish Film Festival Kicks Off With A New Look
One of the vital features of Germany’s cinema landscape, the Berlin-Potsdam Jewish Film Festival (Jffb) is launching its 18th year with a provocative poster visible in and around the German capital.
With graffiti-style lettering that evokes Nazi propaganda, the Hamburg-based artist/photographer Daniel Josefsohn turns an anti-Semitic phrase–-specifically the 1938 law forbidding Jews from attending the cinema—upside down with glaring yellow script that reads Mehr Juden ins Kino (“more Jews to the movies”) against a black background.
Beyond Jffb’s main objective -- to screen international films in Germany that explore the diversity of the Jewish experience from multiple perspectives – the festival also aims to foster a renaissance of Jewish film production within Germany.
After Jews in the arts were stripped of their citizenship, forced to flee into exile, or deported and killed by the Nazis, their absence left a creative void in Germany’s cinematic landscape that is still palpable today. Under the direction of Nicola Galliner, the Berlin-Potsdam Jewish Film Festival is a forum that serves as a springboard to inspire a new wave of Jewish expression in German cinema.
Known for his ironic Jewish humor, the artist/photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who was born to Israeli parents, uses political sarcasm to put a daring twist on subjects many wouldn’t find funny at first glance. From stunning promotional campains for the Volksbühne, one of Berlin’s most well-known theaters (where he is the creative director), to his “political perfume” that combines the world’s major religions into a single scent, Josefsohn’s creative graphics will lend the Berlin-Potsdam Jewish Film Festival an unusual flair.
His poster for the Jffb, employing his trademark yellow script (www.josefsohn.com), and his slogan “more Jews to the movies” (mehr Juden ins Kino) are intended as a hopeful appeal to advance a new trend in Germany’s thriving art scene.
Sydney writing here: I am thrilled to have been invited to the Gala Premiere of Max Raabe in Israel in the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam.
"At the press conference after the [Max Raabe and his 12-piece Palast Orchester] ensemble’s sellout show in Bonn at the end of August, the 47-year-old bandleader was clearly moved by the fact that the journalists he was addressing were from Israel. 'I always mention the name of the person who wrote the song we are about to perform,' he declares. 'Most of our favorite composers and lyric writers are Jewish, everybody [in Germany] knows that. That is the reason why I always say the names of the composers because they were forbidden from 1933 to 1945, and I don’t say anything else about the composers. That is my important duty when I perform the songs, because the songs were so fantastic. Every name has to be mentioned during the concert, and that is my only message and this is what I do on stage. When I do interviews in German, I always explain this at length.' ...Many of the were originally performed by the Comedian Harmonists, an internationally acclaimed, all-male German close harmony ensemble that performed between 1928 and 1934, and was one of the most successful musical acts in Europe before World War II." (Jerusalem Post)
This Gala actually depletes the Jewish Film Festival's coffers and it is seeking angels to finance the annual festival and its events. The German funds are negative about funding such a "small" event which is not "German" enough. And yet the attendance belies these rationalizations. Attended by the Mayor of Potsdam, the Israeli Ambassador to Germany and enough glitterati in Potsdam's grand opera house-turned-cinema for one night, this event gave me a thrilling sensation...to be Jewish in Germany at this moment seems to be the natural progression of civilized society. Even though the mezuzah on my apartment door was ripped off the doorpost for the second time, my great grandparents would be so happy to see me in their own homeland of which they were always so proud, even after they left in the 19th century. Their German identity remains an animating point of discussion to this day in our family. Moreover, every time you speak to someone here in West or Eastern Europe you are likely to hear that there was a Jewish grandmother or grandfather somewhere in their family which gives rise to all sorts of stories.
L'Chaim, I say, to Life and to the continuation of this important international event in Berlin and Potsdam!
One of the vital features of Germany’s cinema landscape, the Berlin-Potsdam Jewish Film Festival (Jffb) is launching its 18th year with a provocative poster visible in and around the German capital.
With graffiti-style lettering that evokes Nazi propaganda, the Hamburg-based artist/photographer Daniel Josefsohn turns an anti-Semitic phrase–-specifically the 1938 law forbidding Jews from attending the cinema—upside down with glaring yellow script that reads Mehr Juden ins Kino (“more Jews to the movies”) against a black background.
Beyond Jffb’s main objective -- to screen international films in Germany that explore the diversity of the Jewish experience from multiple perspectives – the festival also aims to foster a renaissance of Jewish film production within Germany.
After Jews in the arts were stripped of their citizenship, forced to flee into exile, or deported and killed by the Nazis, their absence left a creative void in Germany’s cinematic landscape that is still palpable today. Under the direction of Nicola Galliner, the Berlin-Potsdam Jewish Film Festival is a forum that serves as a springboard to inspire a new wave of Jewish expression in German cinema.
Known for his ironic Jewish humor, the artist/photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who was born to Israeli parents, uses political sarcasm to put a daring twist on subjects many wouldn’t find funny at first glance. From stunning promotional campains for the Volksbühne, one of Berlin’s most well-known theaters (where he is the creative director), to his “political perfume” that combines the world’s major religions into a single scent, Josefsohn’s creative graphics will lend the Berlin-Potsdam Jewish Film Festival an unusual flair.
His poster for the Jffb, employing his trademark yellow script (www.josefsohn.com), and his slogan “more Jews to the movies” (mehr Juden ins Kino) are intended as a hopeful appeal to advance a new trend in Germany’s thriving art scene.
Sydney writing here: I am thrilled to have been invited to the Gala Premiere of Max Raabe in Israel in the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam.
"At the press conference after the [Max Raabe and his 12-piece Palast Orchester] ensemble’s sellout show in Bonn at the end of August, the 47-year-old bandleader was clearly moved by the fact that the journalists he was addressing were from Israel. 'I always mention the name of the person who wrote the song we are about to perform,' he declares. 'Most of our favorite composers and lyric writers are Jewish, everybody [in Germany] knows that. That is the reason why I always say the names of the composers because they were forbidden from 1933 to 1945, and I don’t say anything else about the composers. That is my important duty when I perform the songs, because the songs were so fantastic. Every name has to be mentioned during the concert, and that is my only message and this is what I do on stage. When I do interviews in German, I always explain this at length.' ...Many of the were originally performed by the Comedian Harmonists, an internationally acclaimed, all-male German close harmony ensemble that performed between 1928 and 1934, and was one of the most successful musical acts in Europe before World War II." (Jerusalem Post)
This Gala actually depletes the Jewish Film Festival's coffers and it is seeking angels to finance the annual festival and its events. The German funds are negative about funding such a "small" event which is not "German" enough. And yet the attendance belies these rationalizations. Attended by the Mayor of Potsdam, the Israeli Ambassador to Germany and enough glitterati in Potsdam's grand opera house-turned-cinema for one night, this event gave me a thrilling sensation...to be Jewish in Germany at this moment seems to be the natural progression of civilized society. Even though the mezuzah on my apartment door was ripped off the doorpost for the second time, my great grandparents would be so happy to see me in their own homeland of which they were always so proud, even after they left in the 19th century. Their German identity remains an animating point of discussion to this day in our family. Moreover, every time you speak to someone here in West or Eastern Europe you are likely to hear that there was a Jewish grandmother or grandfather somewhere in their family which gives rise to all sorts of stories.
L'Chaim, I say, to Life and to the continuation of this important international event in Berlin and Potsdam!
- 6/12/2012
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Do you know what today is? It's the first day of Shark Week! A whole week full of seal chomping, chum spewing, great white leaping action over on the Discovery channel and I, for one, could not be happier. Shark Week always arrives just at that point in the summer when you're seriously considering giving up on TV. "All the shows I like I can watch on the internet or get on DVDs through Netflix" you think "what's the point of keeping up with cable?" Well, Shark Week is the point of keeping up with cable and for the rest of this week, Shark Week can be your reason for everything. When your alarm goes off you're not getting up just for work, you're getting up for Shark Week! When you're debating whether or not to make a nice dinner for yourself but you're not sure if it's worth the bother,...
- 8/1/2010
- by Intern Rusty
I was lucky enough to be backstage at Carnegie Hall with my dear friend Jeremy Geffen, who is Director of Artistic Planning for this most esteemed concert venue, last night when Max Raabe made his way to his dressing room after his utterly successful show there with his Palast Orchestra. As he stepped off the elevator that takes performers from the main stage to the Green Room area, the German baritone hugged everyone standing in the hallway - some people he knew, and others he didn't. "That was really fun!" he said with a smile. It was an obvious and touching display of emotion that contrasted rather brilliantly with the super-cool, highly stylized persona he inhabits on stage. I told him that no man living in New York City could have confidence wearing formal wear after seeing...
- 3/5/2010
- by Albert Imperato
- Huffington Post
COLOGNE, Germany -- The Berlin International Film Festival will screen all 15-plus hours of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic miniseries "Berlin Alexanderplatz", based on the novel by Alfred Doeblin, to mark the 25th anniversary of helmer's death.
Bavaria Film International, which has remastered Fassbinder's original 16mm reels, will premiere the first two episodes of "Berlin Alexanderplatz: Remastered" on Feb. 9 at the Admiralspalast in Berlin.
The series' stars -- Guenter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa and Gottfried John -- will attend along with Doeblin's grandson, Stefan Doeblin.
Famed Berlin musician Max Raabe will host the premiere, accompanied by his 1930s-style Palast Orchestra.
The remastered version of Fassbinder's classic will have its premiere in Berlin as a high-definition projection with Dolby digital sound. The original series was broadcast on German public television in 1980 over 13 episodes and an epilogue.
The series will be screened in its entirety Feb. 11 at the Volksbuehne in Berlin in five segments from 10 a.m. until around 2:45 a.m.
Bavaria Film International, which has remastered Fassbinder's original 16mm reels, will premiere the first two episodes of "Berlin Alexanderplatz: Remastered" on Feb. 9 at the Admiralspalast in Berlin.
The series' stars -- Guenter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa and Gottfried John -- will attend along with Doeblin's grandson, Stefan Doeblin.
Famed Berlin musician Max Raabe will host the premiere, accompanied by his 1930s-style Palast Orchestra.
The remastered version of Fassbinder's classic will have its premiere in Berlin as a high-definition projection with Dolby digital sound. The original series was broadcast on German public television in 1980 over 13 episodes and an epilogue.
The series will be screened in its entirety Feb. 11 at the Volksbuehne in Berlin in five segments from 10 a.m. until around 2:45 a.m.
- 1/16/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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