Complete List of the 84th Academy Awards Winners
The complete list of winners in the 24 motion picture categories at the 84th Academy Awards: Best Picture War Horse The Artist Moneyball The Descendants The Tree of Life Midnight in Paris The Help Hugo Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Best Actress Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Viola Davis, The Help Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn Best Actor Demian Bichir, A Better Life George Clooney, The Continue …
Q&A with Israeli Artist Anan Tzuckerman
Your name : Anan Tzuckerman Date of birth : May 24, 1982 Place of birth : Israel Residence : Israel Website : Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin *All images courtesy the artist & Galerie Christian Ehrentraut Artist’s statement: I’ll do my best in front of your blazing gaze. After all is left just a symbolic superfluous. MV – Favourite movie(s) & director(s): All films by: Harmony Korine, Woody Allen, Peter Greenaway, Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Continue …
Q&A with Dutch Artist Jeroen Evertz
Your name: Jeroen Evertz (1973) Born: Trintelen (NL) Lives in: Maastricht (NL) Artist’s statement – ‘I like to remember things my way, not necessarily the way they happened’ – Fred Madison Because of often contradictory interests, it is hard to decide what is real and who decides what is real nowadays: advertisements, politics, technology, nature or we? I would like to add my works to this list. As a research to the simultaneous existence of Continue …
Wim Wenders’ 3D Documentary on Architecture
German filmmaker Wim Wenders is considering a 3D documentary on architecture. Following the recent success of PINA - the first 3D dance documentary on the late choreographer Pina Bausch (1940-2009) – Wenders revealed his next project in a recent interview with the Documentary Channel, “I have always wanted to do a film about architecture, and I have a lot of architect friends. But that is another subject I never really knew how to approach with film. I realized through PINA Continue …
Laurel & Hardy Retrospective @ the Austrian Filmarchiv (VIDEO)
Here is yet another reason to schedule a visit to the Austrian Film Archives. One of Europe’s formost institutions of its kind, the Archive is holding a retrospective of films by the classic comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. Celebrated for their edgy, slapstick and even at time physically violent humour, the Anglo-British duo defied traditional (or often any kind of) narrative while creating an entertainment style that was copied by numerous other comedic acts. The Austrian Continue …
BERLINALE 2012 – Happy 100th Birthday Studio Babelsberg (VIDEO)
In 2012, Germany’s most famous film studio will celebrate its 100th year in existence. Studio Babelsberg is the largest film studio complex in the world. The Studio’s first production was Danish director Urban Gad’s Der Totentanz (The Dance of the Dead), in 1912, starring Asta Nielsen. Studio Babelsberg has served as a (filming) stage for some of the most critically acclaimed movies in the history of cinema, including: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (The Last Laugh, 1924), Fritz Lang (Metropolis, Continue …
Director of Faust in Talks with the LOUVRE Museum (VIDEO)
Director of the Russian Ark is in negotiations with the Louvre Museum to create a film in the style of his 2002 masterpiece. Last Thursday, Alekzandre Sokurov‘s producer Andrei Sigle stated that the French museum has approached the director to make a movie like the one filmed at the Hermitage. Winner of Visions Award at the 2002 Toronto Film Festival, Sukorov’s film involved “2000 Actors. 300 years of Russian History. 33 Rooms at the Continue …
Q&A with Egyptian-American Poet Yahia Lababidi (VIDEO)
Your name : Yahia Lababidi (1973), Aphorist, Poet, Essayist Place of birth : Cairo, Egypt Residence : Washington, D.C. Artist’s statement – Looking to use words, to lose words. To harness the spirit that swims through them. To get words to echo our silences. Interested in art that triggers an ecstatic moment, and the role of the artist as secular mystic. MV – Favourite book(s) & author(s) – Nietzsche, Rilke, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Wilde. The ones Continue …
Q&A with Dutch Artist Bas de Wit
Bas de Wit (1977) Born in: Budel, The Netherlands Lives in: Maastricht, The Netherlands Dealer: Figge von Rosen Galerie (Berlin/Cologne) Artist’s statement – Making monuments to the huge fiasco of your very own enthusiasm MV – Favourite movie(s) & director(s) – My Top 5000 List begins with: Stanley Kubrick (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest); Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove), Mary Poppins (the movie), Federico Fellini; Todd Solonz (The NeverEnding Story), Roy Andersson (Songs From the Second Continue …
Berlinale 2012 Announces First Five Films In Competition (VIDEO)
Berlin International Film Festival 2012 has confirmed its first five fiction films that will be screening in Competition. Coproductions from Indonesia, Spain, the People’s Republic of China, Hongkong-China, the Philippines, Great Britain, Germany, the USA and France are well represented at the Berlinale’s forthcoming edition. Films featuring in the Berlinale Special include: Don – The King Is Back, Marley, La chispa de la vida, Keyhole and Death Row. During the coming weeks, we will bring you updates, news & reviews on the Berlinale, Continue …
National Media Museum’s Mission Impossible
Bradford, UK – Colin Philpott, the Director of the National Media Museum, is leaving his post in the Spring to pursue “long term and creative projects” beyond the museum which include the publication of a book that is due for release in Autumn of 2012. In the meantime, the NMM doesn’t miss a beat in offering a wide variety of exhibitionary, scholarly and entertaining projects. For example, in case you missed Brad Bird’s Mission Impossible: Ghost Continue …
Rest in Peace: Vaclav Havel (1936-2011)
Václav Havel has died at the age of 75. He was the dissident Czekoslavakian playwright who used the power of theatre (on and off the stage) of the absurd – that is the absurdities of life and politics – to bring down communism during the 1989 Velvet Revolution. Havel was Czechoslavakia’s first democratically elected president who led his country through a peaceful breakup from Slovakia, in 1993. The Power and the Powerless (1978) one of Continue …
Bradford, UK – Colin Philpott, the Director of the National Media Museum, is leaving his post in the Spring to pursue “long term and creative projects” beyond the museum which include the publication of a book that is due for release in Autumn of 2012. In the meantime, the NMM doesn’t miss a beat in offering a wide variety of exhibitionary, scholarly and entertaining projects. For example, in case you missed Brad Bird’s Mission Impossible: Ghost Continue …
Bernardo Torrens (1957) Born & Lives in: MADRID, SPAIN Dealer: Bernaducci Meisel Gallery, NYC Artist’s statement: My work is about the human being. The deepest part of the human being. Any of my subjects tries to be the representation of the Humanity. Also in some cases they pretend to be the representation of a group of all people. My work is also deeply connected with my life and circumstances. Weight, intensity, sincerity, reflection are key Continue …
Last night, the sale of Elizabeth Taylor’s collection of jewels at Christie’s brought in $116 million. The auction house’s estimate for 80 objects in the Taylor collection had been valued at $20 million. Needless to say that leading up to the event, much ado had been made about the late British-born American actress’ life. During the 10-day exhibition held at Christie’s New York, some 25,000 visitors had paid $30 to view the objects that are going Continue …
- From a historical perspective, Hotel Adlon in Berlin is one of the most glamorous purpose-built hotels in Germany. Certainly, there are numerous Schlosses and villas turned hotels, or part-time residences, for affluent clients throughout the country. However, very few can compete with the Adlon’s dramatic, or shall we say cinematic, history. Since its founding in 1907, the hotel has embodied standards of luxury in mythic proportions. In its early years, the Adlon was host Continue …
Also read: The ADLON – Berlin’s Grand Hotel (ARTICLE) All photos courtesy Homa Nasab
