A diva of European cinema Jeanne Moreau was born in Paris on January 23, 1928 and began training as an actor in 1946 after finishing high school. She was only 20 when she was she invited to work full time with the venerable Comédie-Française. She subsequently moved to the Théâtre National Populaire, where director Louis (…)

A prize recognizing services to new German-language film This year the Max Ophüls Film Festival (January 21-27) is awarding a special prize for services to new German film for only the second time. During the opening of the Saarbrucken festival, now in its thirty-fourth year, this honor will be bestowed on the cinematographer Michael Ballhaus. (…)

Margarethe von Trotta portrays another towering female figure on film After playing the protagonists in ROSA LUXEMBURG (1986) and VISION (2009), Barbara Sukowa—once again working with the director of Margarethe von Trotta—now takes on the role of the philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt. At the center of the film, which does not seek to (…)

“Fucking Liberty” opens on January 17 in the main auditorium Ladies & Gentlemen! … A vaudeville show! Duck shooting in America! A world in 3D! With film, live music, quotations, icons of popular culture and a puppet show!!! A trip to the Planet of the Apes and back again, going way back to Nazi Germany, (…)

The sensibilities of a country towards “intellectual-moral” transformation Director Patrick Wengenroth characterizes his piece as, “retrospectively looking forward from the viewpoint and with the words of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.” The series of interviews conducted with Fassbinder between 1969 and 1982 and published unabridged for the first time in 2004 by Verlag the Autoren in the (…)