On August 19, the restored version of famed British filmmaker Tony Palmer's 1972 Leonard Cohen tour doc Bird on a Wire will have its U.K. premiere at the Green Man Festival in southeastern Wales (with a DVD release to follow in September). Chris Mugan, a London journalist who writes about music for the Independent, took Continue Reading

The American TV host Oprah Winfrey has ended her show for good on May, 25th after 25 years. There’s some hope for German viewers as they can still watch her show on the Sixx channel (every week day at 1.35 PM). On this channel, the show is broadcasted with one year and a half delay Continue Reading

 
Photo: On the set of the music video ‘Gotta Give’ (courtesy of Steps for the Future)
Reading an obituary about Gil Scott-Heron’s untimely death at age 62 on Friday, May 27, greatly saddened me. Scott-Heron’s witty and incisive social commentary had been a great source of inspiration, call to action and solace for almost three decades.He Continue Reading

 
Some personal effects of the so-called Unabomber (Ted Kaczinski) are currently being sold by the US Marshals at an online auction from May,18th until June, 2nd in order to provide compensations for his victims.
Even though Ted Kaczinski is a criminal, I find a bit disturbing that very personal things are being sold like his driving licence and letters Continue Reading

Festival persona non grata von Trier achieved that his film couldn’t/didn’t win the Golden Palm (for which it certainly was a favored candidate), but so that the festival not be accused of aesthetic knee-jerkism, the film (not von Trier as a person) had to win something. And so the Best Actress Palm went to Dunst Continue Reading

Strauss-Kahn is wearing an ankle monitor, is under video surveillance and is being watched by an armed guard. Nevertheless, I wonder if it’s the norm that accused lawbreakers awaiting trial are in a monetary relationship with those supposed to guard them, as much of a relief it may be for New York City to not Continue Reading

The Persian Gulf holds many attractions for the intrepid traveler, but I’ve already made up my mind: for a media junkie, no visit to Qatar can be complete without a trip to the Al Jazeera TV channel headquarters in downtown Doha. Full story

Riding home on the bike I spotted what looked to be a shortcut that until then I had never before noticed. It looked like a good way to avoid some road traffic. So off I went into the unknown, down the brick path.  It’s funny, you’ve lived in an area for years and suddenly,  it’s Continue Reading

Piroska Nagy, his mistress in the past, said in 2009 (view related article in Frenchhere) that he abused his position in order to start a relationship with her and that she fears he has a problem that might make him unable to work within an organization where women also work. There is also another woman Continue Reading

We welcome new guest blogger MusicFilmWeb, the online resource for news and background lowdown on music documentaries. Their first post is an insightful interview with RADICAL ACT director Tex Clark (pictured left) by MFW’s Andy Markowitz, published on December 17, 2010. Clark spoke to Markowitz about the film’s remarkable history, the timeliness of its current Continue Reading