Posted on February 22, 2012 by Ed Ward
Keith Richards and Mick Jagger knew of each other's existence because they went to the same school, but they didn't actually speak to each other until the day Keith noticed that Mick had a pile of impossible-to-find blues albums with him. (He'd been ordering them directly from Chess Records in Chicago). Obviously, this kid was Continue Reading
This post was posted in The Ward Report
and was tagged with horror vacui, ubiquitous entertainment, Richard Hamilton, clutter, Occupy, community
Posted on February 22, 2012 by Ahorn
By Andrew Horn
Leave it to the Forum to program a film about concrete. All kidding aside - actually only some kidding aside - the film "Parabeton - Pier Luigi Nervi" is about the architect, Nervi, insofar as it documents his various buildings, all designed for his material of choice, poured concrete (concrete in German is Continue Reading
This post was posted in Documentary Films, Berlin Kalender, Fiction films, Events
Posted on February 18, 2012 by Ahorn
By Andrew Horn
I started off Saturday with “Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present” playing in the Panorama. During "Iron Sky", I met a critic friend of mine and asked her if she had seen it. She acknowledged that it was ok but semi dismissed it as “typical HBO”. But okay, I’m interested in Marina Abramovic Continue Reading
This post was posted in Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin Kalender, Fiction films
and was tagged with berlinale, andrew horn, whiteonwhite, eve sussman, rufus corporation, zhang yimou, flowers of war, young adult, jason reitman, diablo cody, charlize theron, marina abramovic, miss mend, jayne mansfield's car, billy bob thornton, patton oswalt
Posted on February 15, 2012 by Ed Ward
A long time ago, in a newsroom far away (as far away as Austin, Texas is from you right now, anyway), a newspaper columnist sat typing blurry green letters on a black screen when he felt a presence next to him. Turning, he saw Jimmie Vaughan, one of the best guitarists in a town loaded Continue Reading
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and was tagged with music, classical music, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Walkman, cassette, recorded music, listening, Vivaldi, Bach, popular music, audiences, folk music, musical performance, social utility of music, acidie, emotional content of music, popular music consensus
Posted on February 13, 2012 by Ahorn
By Andrew Horn
With literally 100s of films on offer at the Berlinale, it’s always hard to know what films to go see based on just the small descriptions given in the catalogues. Sometimes films that appear dire can turn out to be interesting and sometimes things that look like a must-see turn out to be Continue Reading
This post was posted in Music Films, Documentary Films, Indie Fiction, Berlin Kalender, Fiction films, Events
and was tagged with shah rukh khan, laibach, iron sky, andrew horn, barbara, christian petzold, “Gibel Sensazii”, lossof sensation, marley, kevin macdonald, don 2 - the king isback
Posted on February 8, 2012 by Ed Ward
I used to have this nightmare that Steve Jobs showed up at my apartment in Berlin to thank me for my support of Apple (believe it or not, for a short while I was the go-to guy for English-speaking Berliners having problems with their Macs) and, as a token of his respect, gave me an Continue Reading
This post was posted in The Ward Report
and was tagged with music, jazz, iPad, iPod, iTunes, eMusic, Blue Note, headphones, acoustics, Rudy van Gelder, classical music
Posted on February 1, 2012 by Ed Ward
Hi, folks. My name is Ed Ward and this is my new weekly blog for realeyz. They've given me permission to write about just about anything I want to, which I take to mean I'm going to range far and wide over the cultural landscape, covering everything except films. They've got that taken care of Continue Reading
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and was tagged with technology, publishing, Ward Report, culture, iPad, iPhone, Apple, Amazon, Kindle, iBooks, iBooks Author
Posted on January 20, 2012 by realeyz_team
This post was posted in Documentary Films
and was tagged with chernobyl, die wolke, it should have been nice after that, Karin Jurschick, peacekeepers and the women, zertifikat deutsch, tschernobyl
Posted on January 18, 2012 by xhiller
For the first time in its history, Wikipedia has halted access to the 'people's encyclopaedia'. The black out is in protest of two bills circulating in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate: the "Stop Online Piracy Act" and the "Protect Intellectual Property Act." Prompting this drastic measure was Wikipedia's concern Continue Reading
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and was tagged with wikipedia black out
Posted on January 14, 2012 by LauraHZ
In OTHER SIDE OF THE SCREEN - 100 YEARS OF MOVIEMENTO CINEMA, Speck reminisces about his tenure as the programmer of the influential Berlin-Kreuzberg counterculture cinema Moviemento (then called Tali) in the 1970s.
This post was posted in Documentary Films, Exclusive Video Interviews
and was tagged with auf der anderen seite der leinwand, on the other side of the screen, panorama, westler, wieland speck, berlinale
