by Andrew Horn
There is a sub genre of documentary films where a filmmaker goes on a quest for a parent or important figure in his/her life only to be rebuffed, disappointed, or otherwise hit a dead end, turning the film into a portrait of the filmmaker rather than the attempted subject. We’ve seen it play Continue Reading
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achtung berlin - new berlin film award: Roundup Part 2
Posted on May 3, 2013 by Ahorn
This post was posted in Documentary Films, Events
and was tagged with history, achtung berlin, dragan wende, lena müller, dragan von petrovic, petra tschörtner, east berlin, west berlin, fall of the wall, nostalgia, prenzlauer berg, berlin -prenzlauer berg 1990, yugoslavia, rolf eden, red light -
How The Past Matters
Posted on February 6, 2013 by Ed Ward
Man, talk about being right on the sweet spot of the news: 24 hours after last week's post came out the media was abuzz with stories about the manuscripts of Timbuktu, and now that a little time has passed, it appears that there were some losses, but things aren't as dire as we'd heard. The Continue Reading
This post was posted in The Ward Report
and was tagged with history, islam, africa, Europe, Timbuktu, Libraries, Dinosaurs, Mars -
Interview with Angelika Levi About Her Film My Life Part 2
Posted on March 31, 2011 by Arsenal
(Interview re-published courtesy of the International Forum of New Cinema)
Stefanie Schulte Strathaus: Your last film was made a very long time ago. How long did you spend working on MY LIFE, PART 2, your first full-length film?
Angelika Levi: I began in 1996. I travelled to Chile and began researching my mother’s life. So seven years Continue Reading
This post was posted in Documentary Films
and was tagged with angelika levi, mein leben teil 2, first person film, history, autobiografischer film, chile, emigration, exile, family, my life part 2, nachkriegsdeutschland, remembrance, shoah -
Howard Zinn Cartoon
Posted on March 27, 2010 by ahoj666
The short film is based upon Zinn’s essay of the same name and narrated by none other than Viggo Mortensen, Academy Award nominated actor who starred in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Eastern Promises (the film that got him the Oscar nomination), Hidalgo and much more. (Mortensen’s rumored next project is the title role Continue Reading
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and was tagged with paper tiger, history, usa, Axis Of Evil, Class Dismissed, Howard Zinn, A People's History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation, graphic novel, imperialism, viggo mortensen, What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me About American Empire
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