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15 articles from 2009
European Film Awards 2009: Rules & Relevance
7 November 2009 9:00 PM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Maria Heiskanen in Everlasting Moments European Film Awards 2009 – Nominations: Part I Among the eligible films and performers that failed to nab a mention were Giovanna Mezzogiorno for Vincere, Audrey Tautou for Coco Before Chanel, Maren Ade’s Everyone Else, Ulrich Tukur for The White Ribbon, Martina Gedeck for The Baader Meinhof Complex, and Michael Fassbender for Fish Tank. Also, Christian Petzold’s Jerichow, Nina Hoss for Jerichow, Jan Troell’s Everlasting Moments, Maria Heiskanen for Everlasting Moments, Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective, Andrzej Wajda’s Sweet Rush, and Philippe Lioret’s Welcome. Now, the curious thing about the European Film Awards is that the awards’ timing and eligibility rules (some of which have varied throughout the years) make many of the nominations seem like old news. Indeed, [...] »
- Andre Soares
Updated: Eugenio Mira shooting baroque retro-futuristic thriller Agnosia
5 November 2009 2:26 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
Updated: We have added a production still and a concept piece which has been provided for us, both of which are after the break. We have also been informed that this is not a "retro-futuristic thriller" (although the synopsis sounds like it) and it's more in the vein of The Prestige or The Elephant Man.
Eugenio Mira (The Birthday) is at work on his second feature length film entitled Agnosia which stars Eduardo Noriega, Bárbara Goenaga, Felix Gomez, Lluis Homar and Martina Gedeck. Billed as a baroque, retro-futuristic thriller, it's about an optician who designs a massive deadly lens and is set in Spain in the late 19th century. With a screenplay written by Antonio Trashorras (The Devil's Backbone). Word is that shooting will start this month (if it's not already underway).
I'm trying to get more details, so stay tuned!
To boot, you can check out Mira's incredibly stylish »
Foreign Objects: The Baader Meinhof Complex
22 October 2009 9:15 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Germany! This may come as a shock to some of you, but I don't know everything. The range of what I don't know is actually fairly impressive in it's own right and includes (but is not limited to) the solution to the Hodge conjecture, what another word for 'synonym' is, the justification behind pea soup, the location of the Holy Grail, and much, much more. My ignorance is most notable (and most shameful) though when it comes to historical events. I blame the Catholics and their close-minded school system, but many Americans are in the same boat when it comes to being unaware of even recent historical events outside of our borders. For »
- Rob Hunter
Kurt Loder Reviews 'The Baader Meinhof Complex'
11 September 2009 9:30 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
From MTV.Com: "The Baader Meinhof Complex" is a smart and explosively powerful movie about a German student terrorist gang of the 1970s, and the wave of arson, robbery, kidnappings and murder with which they shook their country's government — in the process triggering exactly the sort of right-wing repression against which they claimed to be crusading. The picture was a deserving Oscar nominee earlier this year for Best Foreign Language Film, and in its weaving-together of the intricacies of social ferment and the bullet-riddled reality of what the gang wrought, it's a fascinating achievement.
The Baader Meinhof Group, as the gang was called in the press (they styled themselves the Red Army Faction, or Raf), was actually led by Gudren Ensslin (played here by Johanna Wokalek), a blonde parson's daughter turned steely-willed Marxist revolutionary, along with her highly charismatic boyfriend, Andreas Baader (Moritz Bleibtreu), a petty thief and intellectual primitive »
- Kurt Loder
'The Baader Meinhof Complex': Student Unrest, By Kurt Loder
21 August 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
From Germany, a fiery action film with lots more on its mind.
Vinzenz Kiefer, Bernd Stegemann and Hannes Wegener in "Baader Meinhof Complex"
Photo: Vitagraph Films
"The Baader Meinhof Complex" is a smart and explosively powerful movie about a German student terrorist gang of the 1970s, and the wave of arson, robbery, kidnappings and murder with which they shook their country's government — in the process triggering exactly the sort of right-wing repression against which they claimed to be crusading. The picture was a deserving Oscar nominee earlier this year for Best Foreign Language Film, and in its weaving-together of the intricacies of social ferment and the bullet-riddled reality of what the gang wrought, it's a fascinating achievement.
The Baader Meinhof Group, as the gang was called in the press (they styled themselves the Red Army Faction, or Raf), was actually led by Gudren Ensslin (played here by Johanna Wokalek), a »
Movie Review - 'The Baader Meinhof Complex'
21 August 2009 4:07 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
Starring Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck, and Johana Wokalek
Directed by Uli Edel
Rated R
I appreciated The Baader Meinhof Complex far more than I enjoyed it. Having not grown up in the 1960s, so many of the events that shaped the 40 years or so that have followed them are shared by younger generations through archival footage, not emotional memories.
For example, the only two images of Robert Kennedy that resonate with me are of him on the stage after winning the California primary and moments later after being shot. My frame of reference for most of these things looks like a TV screen.
It's even foggier for non-American history in the 60s, which has to be the most tumultuous decade since World War II. Vietnam, Che Guevara, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, much of the second half of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire »
- Colin Boyd
Marxism Brothers
20 August 2009 9:53 PM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »
'The Baader Meinhof Complex" isn't, very: This saga of Communist terrorists sowing mayhem in 1970s Germany treats a bloody band as a unit of stouthearted warriors sallying forth to fight for their principles against impossible odds.
Built by a leftist journalist named Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck) and car thief Andreas Baader (Moritz Bleibtrau), the Red Army Faction set fire to a department store, bombed Us military installations and a newspaper publisher, and assassinated cops, judges, bankers and innocent bystanders.
All of it was in the name of supporting Communist North Vietnam, destroying capitalism and »
- By KYLE SMITH
Baader-Meinhof Complex, a New Film Based on True Events
20 August 2009 3:20 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Ulrike Meinhof, a prominent left-wing journalist in '70s Germany found the revolutionary spirit of the Red Army Faction so appealing, she abandoned her children to join up with a counterculture much like the U. S. Weather Underground in its terrorist tactics. Andreas Baader was one of its leaders along with Gudrun Ensslin and other young people who protested the policies of their elders during this volatile period of the Vietnam War when Germany became America's accomplice. The writer Stefan Aust's riveting Baader-Meinhof: The Inside Story of the R.A.F. (Oxford) came out in the mid-'80's and now a film, directed by Uli Edel (Last Exit to Brooklyn)--epic length, Oscar- and Golden Globe-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film--opens on Friday. All 150 minutes of it are mesmerizing thanks to the fine work of the German actors: Martina Gedeck as Ulrike, Moritz Bleibtreu... »
- Regina Weinreich
Taking the Romance Out of Revolution in The Baader Meinhof Complex
17 August 2009 11:10 AM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
This month, Christopher Hitchens directs our attention to a new German movie, The Baader Meinhof Complex, about the Red Army Faction, a left-wing youth movement that terrorized West Berlin and challenged the authorities of the Federal Republic in the 60s and 70s. The events have been romanticized by other German filmmakers, including Volker Schlöndorff and Rainer Werner Fassbiner, but what distinguishes this movie in Hitchens’s view is its unforgiving take on the revolutionaries’ scattershot radicalism and knee-jerk subversion. “It’s important to deglamorize the use of violence," says Hitchens, "particularly the use of violence in Germany, and I think this is a very essential part of that process.” Hitchens explains the urge to romanticize communist revolutionaries: “A lot of people know they’re not very brave and not very risk taking and thus they admire too easily men of action.” In this exclusive clip from the Oscar-nominated film, the »
Basterds, the Ira and the real Mad Men
17 August 2009 7:01 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Another monster release slate this week finds, amongst other things, interpretations of the Irish troubles, both real and imagined. Also, we meet the real life Mad Men, Qt's Basterds and the godfather of African-American indie film as a bearded ten-year-old boy.
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"Art & Copy"
Filmmaker Doug Pray ("Surfwise") goes inside the advertising industry to uncover the creative minds behind such iconic slogans as "Got Milk?" and "Just Do It," encountering a multitude of contrasting viewpoints, from those who feel they have whored themselves out in the name of commerce to those hopelessly addicted to the rush of satisfying the constantly changing needs of the modern world. Don Draper, eat your heart out.
Opens in New York.
This year's German nominee for the best foreign-language film Oscar, Uli Edel's adaptation of »
- Neil Pedley
Venice film fest unveils lineup which includes 86 world premiers
30 July 2009 1:50 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
The 66th edition of the Venice Film Festival lineup includes the main festival plus the sidebar which will be playing films like Yannick Dahan's gangster zombie flick The Horde.
In competition we have the long awaited scifi awesomeness from Jaco Van Dormael, Mr. Nobody and Shinya Tsukamoto's trfiecta Tetsuo the Bulletman.
Out of competition has [Rec] 2 and the Midnight section has Nicolas Refn's long awaited Valhalla Rising which was actually made before Bronson.
Man I wish I could go! Anyone want to cover the fest for us? Use the contact link at the bottom of the page. We'd be happy to do cross-posted reviews.
Full list after the break.
66Th Annual Venice Film Festival Lineup
Competition
"36 vues du Pic Saint Loup," Jacques Rivette (France)
"Accident," Cheang Pou-Soi (China-Hong Kong)
"Baaria," Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy) – Opening Film
"Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," Werner Herzog (U.S.)
"Between Two Worlds, »
Exclusive: Poster and Green Band Trailer Premiere: The Baader Meinhof Complex
28 July 2009 9:45 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Cinematical is proud to premiere the brand spankin' new poster and green band trailer for The Baader Meinhof Complex, nominated this year for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Directed by Uli Edel, the film features a cast of European all-stars, and looks to be a thriller that has a good shot at transcending potential linguistic barriers -- starting with the title! (Click image below to view full version of the poster, which was created by Shepard Fairey's Studio Number One)
Gallery: 'The Baader Meinhof Complex' Poster
From the official synopsis: "Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the still fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation led by Andreas Baader (Moritz Bleibtreu), Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck) and Gudrun Ensslin (Johanna Wokalek) are »
- Peter Martin
Exclusive Video: New The Baader Meinhof Complex Red Band Trailer!
7 July 2009 8:34 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
We have the exclusive red-band trailer premiere for The Baader Meinhof Complex, which will hit theaters nationwide on August 21. Click below to take a look at this upcoming German film, but only if you're 18 or older.
to check out our exclusive red-band trailer for yourself.
The Baader Meinhof Complex stars Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Nadja Uhl, Jan Josef Liefers, Stipe Erceg, Niels-Bruno Schmidt, Vinzenz Kiefer and will be released on August 21.
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Monica Bleibtreu
15 May 2009 2:23 PM, PDT | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Monica Bleibtreu, a respected stage, film, and television actress, and mother of Moritz Bleibtreu, died yesterday, May 14, in Hamburg. She was 65. Bleibtreu had been battling cancer for a number of years. Born into a theatrical family in Vienna on May 4, 1944, the dark, strong-featured Monica Bleibtreu had been working steadily on German-language television since the late 1960s. Among her TV credits are a presentation of Bertold Brecht’s play Mother (1971), the series Doctors in the mid-1990s, and the made-for-television movie Happy Hour oder Glück und Glas (2000), starring The Lives of Others‘ Martina Gedeck. In 1975, she won a German Television Award for best actress for her performance in the made-for-tv movie Marias letzte Reise / Maria’s Last Trip. Although Bleibtreu had been playing supporting roles in films since the early 1970s (including a brief appearance as a blind woman in her son’s international hit Run, Lola, Run), she made her »
- Andre Soares
Indie Roundup: German Terrorists, Irish Kisses, Boston Indies
22 April 2009 6:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
In this week's edition of Indie Roundup, the headline says it all.
Deals. Nominated this year for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category, Uli Edel's The Baader-Meinhof Complex has been acquired for Us theatrical distribution by Vitagraph Films, according to indieWIRE. Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, and Bruno Ganz star in a film that "dramatizes the history of the real-life West German terrorist group Red Army Faction (Raf), which rose to violent action against the German political status quo in the late 1960s." Current plans are for a platform release in August, with 18 of the top 20 markets targeted. When the film opened in the UK last fall, David Hudson compiled the mixed critical reaction at GreenCine Daily. We've embedded the action-packed trailer below.
Lance Daly's Kisses, described as an Irish "romantic coming-of-age film," will see release later this year, courtesy of Oscilloscope Releasing, »
- Peter Martin
2009 | 2008 | 2006
15 articles from 2009
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