In today's roundup, we track the fates of the blogs leaving the Indiewire network. Plus: The late Jenny Diski on Frank Capra, Adrian Martin on Margot Nash, Olaf Möller on Lav Diaz's A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery, Michael Koresky on Christian Petzold's Phoenix, Thom Powers on documentaries by Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, D.A. Pennebaker and Albert Maysles, Richard Brody on Christian Braad Thomsen's Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands and Ada Ushpiz's Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Otto Preminger, plus news from Cannes and Venice—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 4/30/2016
- Keyframe
In today's roundup, we track the fates of the blogs leaving the Indiewire network. Plus: The late Jenny Diski on Frank Capra, Adrian Martin on Margot Nash, Olaf Möller on Lav Diaz's A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery, Michael Koresky on Christian Petzold's Phoenix, Thom Powers on documentaries by Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, D.A. Pennebaker and Albert Maysles, Richard Brody on Christian Braad Thomsen's Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands and Ada Ushpiz's Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Otto Preminger, plus news from Cannes and Venice—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 4/30/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
If the age old cliche is true, then true genius will not earn the proper respect and admiration until years after they have passed. Need an example? Subject number one: Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
While he’s garnered high praise before and after his deeply sad passing at the age of 37, the last few years, marked by numerous box sets of his work and various Blu-ray releases of his Grade-a masterpieces, have seen Fassbinder become a relative household name in arthouse and world cinema circles. And now he’s the subject of not one, but two documentaries, one of which debuts this weekend in New York for an exclusive one week engagement at The Metrograph.
With The Fassbinder Story waiting in the wings (it just played this year’s Kino! Festival in NY), director Christian Braad Thomsen attempts to discuss Fassbinder’s life in his own way with the superlative biographical...
While he’s garnered high praise before and after his deeply sad passing at the age of 37, the last few years, marked by numerous box sets of his work and various Blu-ray releases of his Grade-a masterpieces, have seen Fassbinder become a relative household name in arthouse and world cinema circles. And now he’s the subject of not one, but two documentaries, one of which debuts this weekend in New York for an exclusive one week engagement at The Metrograph.
With The Fassbinder Story waiting in the wings (it just played this year’s Kino! Festival in NY), director Christian Braad Thomsen attempts to discuss Fassbinder’s life in his own way with the superlative biographical...
- 4/29/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
When observing its material from something of a remove, it could easily be argued that Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands is a bit drier than its amazing subject deserves. While I don’t wish to spend too much time in a review of someone else’s documentary extolling the virtues of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s massive, emotionally bruising filmography, it’s worth noting the division between those films, many of which are seen herein via clip form, and Christian Braad Thomsen’s document, the film at hand. Being that this is subtitled as his “Personal Recollections,” it’s only natural for the picture to favor his and others’ direct experiences with Fassbinder over anything else; even the most prominent interview with the eponymous figure is Thomsen’s own work. We get this in the “info-dump” style, the sort of documentary filmmaking one might be able to immediately picture: talking-head...
- 4/28/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
"Two documentaries about trailblazing artists who were both dead before forty open in New York this week," begins Melissa Anderson in the Voice. "Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands is informed by director Christian Braad Thomsen's friendship with the New German Cinema godhead, while Marcie Begleiter's Eva Hesse surveys the life of the paradigmatic post-Minimalist sculptor largely through giving voice to Hesse's diary entries." We're collecting reviews. More goings on: A new restoration of Eagle Pennell's Last Night at the Alamo, talking with Lizzie Borden about Born in Flames—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 4/28/2016
- Keyframe
"Two documentaries about trailblazing artists who were both dead before forty open in New York this week," begins Melissa Anderson in the Voice. "Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands is informed by director Christian Braad Thomsen's friendship with the New German Cinema godhead, while Marcie Begleiter's Eva Hesse surveys the life of the paradigmatic post-Minimalist sculptor largely through giving voice to Hesse's diary entries." We're collecting reviews. More goings on: A new restoration of Eagle Pennell's Last Night at the Alamo, talking with Lizzie Borden about Born in Flames—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 4/28/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Each weekend we highlight the best repertory programming that New York City has to offer, and it’s about to get even better. Opening on February 19th at 7 Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side is Metrograph, the city’s newest indie movie theater. Sporting two screens, they’ve announced their first slate, which includes retrospectives for Fassbinder, Wiseman, Eustache, and more, special programs such as an ode to the moviegoing experience, and new independent features that we’ve admired on the festival circuit (including Afternoon, Office 3D, and Measure of a Man).
Artistic and Programming Director Jacob Perlin says in a press release, “Jean Eustache in a Rocky t-shirt. This is the image we had in mind while making this first calendar. Great cinema is there, wherever you can find it. The dismissed film now recognized as a classic, the forgotten box-office hit newly resurrected, the high and the low,...
Artistic and Programming Director Jacob Perlin says in a press release, “Jean Eustache in a Rocky t-shirt. This is the image we had in mind while making this first calendar. Great cinema is there, wherever you can find it. The dismissed film now recognized as a classic, the forgotten box-office hit newly resurrected, the high and the low,...
- 1/20/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The 44th edition of the Festival du Nouveau Cinema has just announced their entire lineup and it’s pretty insane! The festival which takes place in Montreal from October 7 to 18 is screening nearly 400 films and events in only 11 days. This includes 151 feature films and 203 short films from 68 countries – 49 world premieres, 38 North American premieres and 60 Canadian premieres. Give credit to the team of programmers: Claude Chamberlan, Dimitri Eipides Julien Fonfrède, Philippe Gajan, Karolewicz Daniel, Marie-Hélène Brousseau, Katayoun Dibamehr and Gabrielle Tougas-Frechette.
Below is the lineup. There’s a lot to process so take your sweet time!
Opening and closing
The whole New Testament directed by Jaco Van Dormael (Toto the Hero, Mr Nobody, The Eighth Day), will kick off this 44th edition.
After its world premiere at the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes last May, the new opus unconventional Belgian director, starring Benoît Poelvoorde (Three Hearts, Ransom of Glory), Yolande Moreau (Mammuth,...
Below is the lineup. There’s a lot to process so take your sweet time!
Opening and closing
The whole New Testament directed by Jaco Van Dormael (Toto the Hero, Mr Nobody, The Eighth Day), will kick off this 44th edition.
After its world premiere at the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes last May, the new opus unconventional Belgian director, starring Benoît Poelvoorde (Three Hearts, Ransom of Glory), Yolande Moreau (Mammuth,...
- 9/29/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
UK premieres include Palio, The Company You Keep and Infinitely Polar Bear.Scroll down for full programme
The 35th Cambridge Film Festival (Sept 3-13) has revealed its full line-up for this year, including titles from over 30 different countries.
Star*Men, a documentary from debut director Alison E. Rose will open the festival. The film follows four UK astronomers, Donald Lynden-Bell Frs and Roger Griffin of the University of Cambridge, and Wal Sargent Frs and Neville Woolf of Manchester University, on a road trip to the United States.
The festival’s closing night gala will be the UK premiere of Palio, Cosima Spender’s documentary about the world’s oldest horse race, which debuted at Tribeca in April before playing at Karlovy Vary in July.
The main programme will feature the UK premiere of Robert Redford’s political thriller The Company You Keep, which he directrs and stars in. The festival will also screen the Redford-starring A Walk In The Woods, from...
The 35th Cambridge Film Festival (Sept 3-13) has revealed its full line-up for this year, including titles from over 30 different countries.
Star*Men, a documentary from debut director Alison E. Rose will open the festival. The film follows four UK astronomers, Donald Lynden-Bell Frs and Roger Griffin of the University of Cambridge, and Wal Sargent Frs and Neville Woolf of Manchester University, on a road trip to the United States.
The festival’s closing night gala will be the UK premiere of Palio, Cosima Spender’s documentary about the world’s oldest horse race, which debuted at Tribeca in April before playing at Karlovy Vary in July.
The main programme will feature the UK premiere of Robert Redford’s political thriller The Company You Keep, which he directrs and stars in. The festival will also screen the Redford-starring A Walk In The Woods, from...
- 8/26/2015
- ScreenDaily
San Francisco's Frameline39, "the granddaddy of the world’s Lgbtq festivals," opens tonight, "and by the time it finishes June 28, about 60,000 people will have bought tickets to 180 films from 33 countries," announces David Lewis at SFGate. We're sampling recommendations from around the Bay Area, which include Christian Braad Thomsen's documentary Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands, Joseph Graham's Beautiful Something, Natalia Leite's Bare, Justin Kelly's I Am Michael, Alante Kavaite's The Summer of Sangaile, Stu Maddox's Reel in the Closet and Mark Christopher's director's cut of 54 (1998). » - David Hudson...
- 6/18/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
San Francisco's Frameline39, "the granddaddy of the world’s Lgbtq festivals," opens tonight, "and by the time it finishes June 28, about 60,000 people will have bought tickets to 180 films from 33 countries," announces David Lewis at SFGate. We're sampling recommendations from around the Bay Area, which include Christian Braad Thomsen's documentary Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands, Joseph Graham's Beautiful Something, Natalia Leite's Bare, Justin Kelly's I Am Michael, Alante Kavaite's The Summer of Sangaile, Stu Maddox's Reel in the Closet and Mark Christopher's director's cut of 54 (1998). » - David Hudson...
- 6/18/2015
- Keyframe
Copenhagen’s Cph Pix (April 9-22) will be bookended by films from two Danish directors shooting in the UK – Jeppe Ronde’s Welsh teen suicide drama Bridgend [pictured] and Thomas Vinterberg’s Thomas Hardy adaptation, Far From The Madding Crowd.
The audience-focused Cph Pix will show 130 feature films during 420 screenings and events.
Festival director Jacob Neiiendam said: “Artistically it’s a strong year for Danish cinema.”
Indeed, three Danish debut features will screen at Pix. “The first features from Thomas Daneskov [The Elite], Anna Sofie Hartmann [Limbo] and Jeppe Rønde showcase a diversity and nerve we have been missing in our fiction films, and they are just the tip of the iceberg,” added Neiiendam.
“We always wanted the festival to be a platform for local films which wouldn’t play well with regular releases, and this year we’ve been flooded with films produced outside the standard support system - and they are good films.”
Opening night will also...
The audience-focused Cph Pix will show 130 feature films during 420 screenings and events.
Festival director Jacob Neiiendam said: “Artistically it’s a strong year for Danish cinema.”
Indeed, three Danish debut features will screen at Pix. “The first features from Thomas Daneskov [The Elite], Anna Sofie Hartmann [Limbo] and Jeppe Rønde showcase a diversity and nerve we have been missing in our fiction films, and they are just the tip of the iceberg,” added Neiiendam.
“We always wanted the festival to be a platform for local films which wouldn’t play well with regular releases, and this year we’ve been flooded with films produced outside the standard support system - and they are good films.”
Opening night will also...
- 3/12/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Danish documentarian Christian Braad Thomsen examines the great – and extremely unsympathetic – German film-maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, using unseen interview footage. The result is an intimate, revealing and rather sentimental portrait
Separating the personal life of Rainer Werner Fassbinder from his films would be like trying to unscramble the eggs in an omelette. This was not a man to compartmentalise. Lovers male and female ended up on screen. Addictions and power games splashed over the sides of his life and into art. His were not sets, or films, for the faint-hearted. The producer Peter Berling once recalled that Fassbinder had begun each working day on his sexually charged western Whity by demanding 10 Cuba libres: nine to drink and one to hurl at the cameraman.
Despite being just 37 at the time of his death in 1982, he had to his name more than 40 features, plays and TV films, as well as the 14-part series Berlin Alexanderplatz.
Separating the personal life of Rainer Werner Fassbinder from his films would be like trying to unscramble the eggs in an omelette. This was not a man to compartmentalise. Lovers male and female ended up on screen. Addictions and power games splashed over the sides of his life and into art. His were not sets, or films, for the faint-hearted. The producer Peter Berling once recalled that Fassbinder had begun each working day on his sexually charged western Whity by demanding 10 Cuba libres: nine to drink and one to hurl at the cameraman.
Despite being just 37 at the time of his death in 1982, he had to his name more than 40 features, plays and TV films, as well as the 14-part series Berlin Alexanderplatz.
- 2/11/2015
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Maverick German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder is a source of eternal fascination to us round here (check out our retrospective from a few years back). And as this Berlinale title, directed by Fassbinder's long-time friend, Danish film theorist and producer Christian Braad Thomsen, makes manifest in the most clear-eyed, intelligent and witty manner. It's a fascination that is not misplaced. In "Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands," Thomsen presents previously unseen interview footage he himself recorded with Fassbinder throughout their fifteen-year friendship, which spans exactly the length of his career — their first encounter was at the Berlinale in 1969 where Fassbinder's debut was famously booed (you can hear the cries of "Awful!" and "Shame!" on the archive footage), and their last was just three weeks before his untimely death. Interspersing that primary source material with current-day interviews with other Fassbinder...
- 2/11/2015
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
New films from Hal Hartley, James Franco, Gus Van Sant among lineup.
Eighteen features - including seven documentaries - have been selected for the Berlinale’s Panorama programme.
Among the selection are new films from Hal Hartley, Doze Niu Chen-Zer, Jk Youn and The Yes Men.
Hartley concludes his filmic trilogy with Ned Rifle while Justin Kelly’s Gus Van Sant-produced debut I Am Michael stars James Franco as a gay activist in the 1980s.
54: The Director’s Cut
USA
By Mark Christopher
With Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Mike Myers, Sela Ward, Mark Ruffalo
World premiere
Chorus
Canada
By François Delisle
With Sébastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette, Pierre Curzi, Geneviève Bujold
European premiere
Der letzte Sommer der Reichen (The Last Summer of the Rich)
Austria
By Peter Kern
With Amira Casar, Nicole Gerdon, Winfried Glatzeder
World premiere
Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern (Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents)
Switzerland / Germany
By Stina Werenfels...
Eighteen features - including seven documentaries - have been selected for the Berlinale’s Panorama programme.
Among the selection are new films from Hal Hartley, Doze Niu Chen-Zer, Jk Youn and The Yes Men.
Hartley concludes his filmic trilogy with Ned Rifle while Justin Kelly’s Gus Van Sant-produced debut I Am Michael stars James Franco as a gay activist in the 1980s.
54: The Director’s Cut
USA
By Mark Christopher
With Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Mike Myers, Sela Ward, Mark Ruffalo
World premiere
Chorus
Canada
By François Delisle
With Sébastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette, Pierre Curzi, Geneviève Bujold
European premiere
Der letzte Sommer der Reichen (The Last Summer of the Rich)
Austria
By Peter Kern
With Amira Casar, Nicole Gerdon, Winfried Glatzeder
World premiere
Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern (Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents)
Switzerland / Germany
By Stina Werenfels...
- 12/16/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Following yesterday's announcement of the first seven films lined up for the Competition, the Berlinale rolls out eleven narrative and eight documentary films slated for its 36th Panorama program. Among the eleven narrative and eight documentary films are Hal Hartley's Ned Rifle with Liam Aiken, Martin Donovan, Aubrey Plaza, Parkey Posey and Thomas Jay Ryan; Christian Braad Thomsen's documentary on Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Mark Christopher's 54: The Director's Cut with Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Mike Myers, Sela Ward and Mark Ruffalo; new films by Raoul Peck, Peter Kern and more. » - David Hudson...
- 12/16/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Following yesterday's announcement of the first seven films lined up for the Competition, the Berlinale rolls out eleven narrative and eight documentary films slated for its 36th Panorama program. Among the eleven narrative and eight documentary films are Hal Hartley's Ned Rifle with Liam Aiken, Martin Donovan, Aubrey Plaza, Parkey Posey and Thomas Jay Ryan; Christian Braad Thomsen's documentary on Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Mark Christopher's 54: The Director's Cut with Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Mike Myers, Sela Ward and Mark Ruffalo; new films by Raoul Peck, Peter Kern and more. » - David Hudson...
- 12/16/2014
- Keyframe
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