By Andrew Horn
A film festival centered on the city of Berlin can, and one could say should, certainly include films about getting the hell out of Berlin.
One film that gets us out of town and into the wilds of East Brandenburg is “Der Ausflug”, which begins as a sunny little story of a family picnic Continue Reading

By Andrew Horn
The Achtung Berlin Film festival is by no means on the scale of the Berlinale, but still no less a potential to see some decent films. Any festival has many more films than you could, or would want to, ever see and one’s impression is, more often than not, significantly due to the Continue Reading

By Andrew Horn
I remember once reading what I thought was an amusing quote by Joseph Campbell which was something about how he thought computers were like religion - you expect them to solve all your problems but in fact they drive you crazy.
The same could be said for the whole so-called digital filmmaking thing. That Continue Reading

By Andrew Horn
I used to be a big fan of Guy de Maupassant and in fact I once made a film based on three of his stories - I used to describe it as a story within a story, in which one of the characters tells a story. So I, of course, also read Continue Reading

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

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

Acclaimed German documentary filmmaker Karin Jurschick's latest documentary "Die Wolke - Tschernobyl und seine Folgen" has been nominated for Germany's top television award, the Adolf Grimme Preis, in the category "Information & Culture".

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.

Flavorpill, the music/film/art geek's ultimate online information source, just published their list of most anticipated art exhibitions in 2012. Among them, a show Keith Haring's early works at the Brooklyn Museum. Sure, Haring is often cited as an example of ultimate co-optation of underground voices by the mainstream. Haring's distinctive, stylized figures with bold outlines Continue Reading

 

This next post from MusicFilmWeb is Andy Markowitz’s interview with Phil Grabsky, director of BOY WHO PLAYS ON THE BUDDHAS OF BAMIYAN and many music-themed docs and TV series, including ESCAPE FROM LUANDA, which portrays an Angolan music school. First published on December 1, 2008, the interview offers still timely insights into life in Angola Continue Reading