THE SLEEP OF REASON in Berlin’s Moviemento on February 5 To mark the seventy-fifth birthday of the filmmaker Ula Stöckl, the Moviemento cinema in Berlin is screening her most successful film THE SLEEP OF REASON, for which she received Germany’s top film award, the Deutscher Filmpreis, in 1985. The film tells the story of a (…)

Premiere on February 1, 2013 on the main stage in Memmingen The second part of the current theater season at the Landestheater Schwaben is opening with this small but finely wrought production of one of RWF’s early works. Katzelmacher was originally written and produced as a theater play by Fassbinder in 1968 and turned into (…)

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 (…)