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

realeyz.tv caught up with Timo Jacobs, the star and co-director of achtung berlin feature competition entry KLAPPE COWBOY! (Clapper Cowboy!) at Saturday's festival party. The extremely low budget labor of love (although not that low budget, says Jacobs, if everyone had been paid “humane wages” and not deferred their fees), produced over a period of Continue Reading

It's almost a platitude to say that No Wave director Amos Poe rocks with his  camera like musicians do with their axes. His filmography includes not only neo-noir featuring the likes of Deborah Harry and John Lurie, experimental films with stellar soundtracks and music docs like "Blank Generation", "Night Lunch" and "Steve Earle: Just an Continue Reading

By Andrew Horn
A week or so ago, a friend of mine sent me an email about one of the few remaining film labs in New York, called Duart. It said,
"They're now cleaning out their film vaults, which means they're looking for the owners of film that has been there for, potentially, decades. If there's anything Continue Reading

By Andrew Horn
A few months ago I was substituting for the regular Variety correspondent here in Berlin and I turned up a small story about how the German tv station, ProSieben, had bought the American tv series New Girl.
It didn’t seem like a very big deal - a lot of what one sees on Germany 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

(Quelle: Pressemitteilung Institut Forschender Film)

Als erste merken drei Berliner KünstlerInnen, die ART GIRLS (Inga Busch, Megan Gay, Jana Schulz), dass mit der sogenannten Realität etwas nicht stimmt. Dann beobachten zwei Hamburger Wissenschaftler (Peter Lohmeyer) seltsame Masterzellen, die es eigentlich nicht geben kann. Und bald darauf erleben alle Menschen phantastische Phänomene in Ihrem Alltag und eine Continue Reading

Das Gericht reagiert damit auf die Beschwerde der Turbine Classics GmbH, die sich gegen den Beschluss des Amtsgerichts Frankfurt am Main vom 11. August 2010 wehrte. Inhaltlich griff das Gericht in seiner Entscheidung die rechtliche Argumentation von Rechstanwältin Dr. Henrike Maaß von der Kanzlei Eggers Malmendier auf, die Turbine im Beschwerdeverfahren vertreten hat. Das Gericht begründete nun auf zehn Seiten, warum das Continue Reading

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has closed his Twitter account. What appeared to be a nightmare for his millions of followers on social media might just be a notification of a change of address - the Indian actor will allegedly open up a Facebook page soon.
His reasons for leaving Twitter were reportedly that the sometimes inappropriate and Continue Reading