It also won the prizes for best director, screenwiting, lead actress and editing.
Ilker Çatak’s The Teachers’ Lounge was the surprise winner of the German Film Awards’ top prize of the Golden Lola for best film, ahead of the Silver Lola for Edward Berger’s All Quiet On The Western Front and the Bronze Lola for Ali Abbasi’s thriller Holy Spider.
The fourth feature from Çatak stars Benesch as a teacher struggling to keep a situation under control in a secondary school also won best director for Çatak, best screenplay for Çatak and Johannes Duncker, best lead actress...
Ilker Çatak’s The Teachers’ Lounge was the surprise winner of the German Film Awards’ top prize of the Golden Lola for best film, ahead of the Silver Lola for Edward Berger’s All Quiet On The Western Front and the Bronze Lola for Ali Abbasi’s thriller Holy Spider.
The fourth feature from Çatak stars Benesch as a teacher struggling to keep a situation under control in a secondary school also won best director for Çatak, best screenplay for Çatak and Johannes Duncker, best lead actress...
- 5/13/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
‘All Quiet’ leads the way with 12 nominations, followed by Ilker Catak’s The Teachers’ Lounge with seven.
Edward Berger’s Bafta and Oscar award-winner All Quiet On The Western Front has garnered 12 nominations for this year’s German Film Awards (aka Lolas), including for best feature film, best direction, best lead actor (Felix Kammerer), and best cinematography.
Ilker Catak’s The Teachers’ Lounge, which premiered in the Berlinale’s Panorama section last month, received seven nominations, including best feature film, best direction, best screenplay and best lead actress (Leonie Benesch), while Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider has received four nominations for best feature film,...
Edward Berger’s Bafta and Oscar award-winner All Quiet On The Western Front has garnered 12 nominations for this year’s German Film Awards (aka Lolas), including for best feature film, best direction, best lead actor (Felix Kammerer), and best cinematography.
Ilker Catak’s The Teachers’ Lounge, which premiered in the Berlinale’s Panorama section last month, received seven nominations, including best feature film, best direction, best screenplay and best lead actress (Leonie Benesch), while Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider has received four nominations for best feature film,...
- 3/24/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
It’s almost midnight in Tokyo, where Isabelle Huppert is playing faded southern belle Amanda in a New National Theatre production of Tennesee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie.” We’re on Zoom to discuss a new retrospective of her career opening at Film Forum this Friday. Her career needs no introduction, but it’s one so bursting with iconic, complicated, often gnarly characters — she has two Césars, five Lumières, a BAFTA, three Cannes honors, a Golden Globe, and an Oscar nomination — that to distill it all into 20 minutes of conversation with the French actress would be a fool’s effort. But one can try.
Instead of trying to parse what’s long made her so alluring to directors like Claude Chabrol (“La Ceremonie”), Jean-Luc Godard (“Every Man for Himself”), Michael Cimino (“Heaven’s Gate”), Maurice Pialat (“Loulou”), Ira Sachs (“Frankie”), Olivier Assayas (“Sentimental Destinies”), Paul Verhoeven (“Elle”), Claire Denis (“White Material”), and...
Instead of trying to parse what’s long made her so alluring to directors like Claude Chabrol (“La Ceremonie”), Jean-Luc Godard (“Every Man for Himself”), Michael Cimino (“Heaven’s Gate”), Maurice Pialat (“Loulou”), Ira Sachs (“Frankie”), Olivier Assayas (“Sentimental Destinies”), Paul Verhoeven (“Elle”), Claire Denis (“White Material”), and...
- 10/4/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Werner Schroeter's Malina (1991) is exclusively on Mubi on October 22, 2020 in Mubi's Rediscovered series.Malina (1991), Werner Schroeter’s searing and serrated adaptation of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann’s 1971 cult novel, begins with a flurry of typing and the scratching of pen against paper. An anonymous woman writer (Isabelle Huppert), surrounded by papers, scrawls the letters of a feminine name not her own: Malina. Or as Humbert Humbert wrote of Lolita—Lo-lee-ta—Malina’s hypnotic chain of vowels guides “the tip of the tongue [on] a trip of three steps down the palate.” Ma-Lee.-Na. Flushed with the heat of obsession, she takes the word apart and rearranges its letters: Malina. Anima. Animal. Animus. The figure on the page—Malina (Mathieu Carrière), the woman’s housemate—then enters. Through the mirrors on the walls and doors, his figure becomes distorted and projected across every surface while the camera circles the maze-like estate.
- 10/22/2020
- MUBI
Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska's The Children of the Dead is showing February 20 - March 20, 2020 on Mubi in the series Direct from the Berlinale.Above: Behind the scenes of The Children of the Dead. Photo by Ditz FejerIn 2016 we were invited by the Austrian art and performance festival, steirischer herbst, to make a project in the Styrian countryside. We knew we wanted to ground ourselves to a particular place—to go deep, to make something which would be rooted in landscape and land, time and tide. We were drawn to the heimatfilme and bergfilme genres, that naively celebrate landscape and rural life (in reaction to the horrors of WWII) and we were looking for a Austrian text to build this work upon... when someone suggested we should read Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Kinder der Toten, a 666-page epic entirely rooted in the Styrian landscape, a book in which the...
- 2/12/2020
- MUBI
Now in its fifteenth year, the Alamo Drafthouse-created Fantastic Fest is showing no signs of relinquishing its title as America’s premiere genre film festival. The first wave of its 2019 lineup includes premieres from around the world, restorations of classic horror flicks, and an eclectic assortment of documentaries.
Taika Waititi’s “Jojo Rabbit” will open the festival, marking the film’s American premiere with an appearance from the filmmaker. Legendary director Takashi Miike will also be in attendance, promoting his Cannes favorite “First Love.” Other highlights include Stephen King adaptation “In the Tall Grass” and the Elijah Wood-led “Come to Daddy.”
“Our fifteenth year is a one-of-a-kind of celebration of the cinema we champion: brilliant and out-there,” said the festival’s Creative Director Evrim Ersoy in an official statement. “It’s a 15-year-long love letter to the wide spectrum of daring, crazy films, filmmakers, and audience members whom...
Taika Waititi’s “Jojo Rabbit” will open the festival, marking the film’s American premiere with an appearance from the filmmaker. Legendary director Takashi Miike will also be in attendance, promoting his Cannes favorite “First Love.” Other highlights include Stephen King adaptation “In the Tall Grass” and the Elijah Wood-led “Come to Daddy.”
“Our fifteenth year is a one-of-a-kind of celebration of the cinema we champion: brilliant and out-there,” said the festival’s Creative Director Evrim Ersoy in an official statement. “It’s a 15-year-long love letter to the wide spectrum of daring, crazy films, filmmakers, and audience members whom...
- 7/30/2019
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Fantastic Fest, the touchstone of envelope-pushing genre films, has released its first wave of programming and revealed that Taikai Waititi’s anti-hate satire Jojo Rabbit will be opening the 15th edition of the Austin-based film festival which kicks off September 19 and continues through September 26.
Jojo Rabbit, which will make its U.S. premiere at Fantastic Fest, tells the story of a lonely young boy growing up in World War II Germany. He finds his world-view turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (played by Waititi), Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
In addition, Jim Mickle will return to the fest to present the World Premiere of In the Shadow of the Moon, a mind-bending sci-fi film starring Boyd Holbrook as a Philadelphia police officer who begins tracking a serial killer...
Jojo Rabbit, which will make its U.S. premiere at Fantastic Fest, tells the story of a lonely young boy growing up in World War II Germany. He finds his world-view turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (played by Waititi), Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
In addition, Jim Mickle will return to the fest to present the World Premiere of In the Shadow of the Moon, a mind-bending sci-fi film starring Boyd Holbrook as a Philadelphia police officer who begins tracking a serial killer...
- 7/30/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday.
“Tolkien” and “All Is True” are opening this weekend, and both films illustrate how difficult it can be to capture the writing process on screen.
This week’s question: What is the best movie about the writing process (or about a writer)?
Mae Abdulbaki (@MaeAbdu), The Young Folks, Movies with Mae
“Shakespeare in Love” probably doesn’t come to mind for most, but it is a great example of the ups and downs of writing. It strangely nails the writing process, while also tackling the business of theater. Simply put, “Shakespeare in Love” follows the journey of William Shakespeare’s writing of his famous play, “Romeo and Juliet.” The film strikes a balance between Shakespeare’s struggles with writer’s block and the maddening passion to write that comes after inspiration strikes:...
“Tolkien” and “All Is True” are opening this weekend, and both films illustrate how difficult it can be to capture the writing process on screen.
This week’s question: What is the best movie about the writing process (or about a writer)?
Mae Abdulbaki (@MaeAbdu), The Young Folks, Movies with Mae
“Shakespeare in Love” probably doesn’t come to mind for most, but it is a great example of the ups and downs of writing. It strangely nails the writing process, while also tackling the business of theater. Simply put, “Shakespeare in Love” follows the journey of William Shakespeare’s writing of his famous play, “Romeo and Juliet.” The film strikes a balance between Shakespeare’s struggles with writer’s block and the maddening passion to write that comes after inspiration strikes:...
- 5/6/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The hills are alive, with the sound of music (also mastication and the moaning of zombies) in Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska’s experimental, dialogue-free, home-movie-style riff on Elfriede Jelinek’s “Die Kinder Der Toten” (The Children of the Dead). A seminal text in Jelinek’s native Austria, the 1995 book has never been translated into English, and so the directors, who are part of New York-based performance group the Nature Theater of Oklahoma were reportedly working from a sort of CliffsNotes version of this sprawling, complex, metatextual novel — one that had hitherto been dubbed “unfilmable.”
That’s an assessment barely contradicted by Copper and Liska’s tiresome adaptation, which starts out buoyantly inventive but quickly turns grating, its one-joke premise wearing thinner as the grotesquerie is layered on thicker. Initially, however, it provides an aesthetic surprise, shot in deliciously grainy Super-8 footage, set to Wolfgang Mitterer’s bizarro-folksy score and...
That’s an assessment barely contradicted by Copper and Liska’s tiresome adaptation, which starts out buoyantly inventive but quickly turns grating, its one-joke premise wearing thinner as the grotesquerie is layered on thicker. Initially, however, it provides an aesthetic surprise, shot in deliciously grainy Super-8 footage, set to Wolfgang Mitterer’s bizarro-folksy score and...
- 4/19/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Franz Rogowski with Paula Beer in Christian Petzold's Transit on Anna Seghers novel: "I read it because of the movie." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the second half of my conversation with Franz Rogowski, we discuss the use of voice-over in Transit, breathing with Christian Petzold, his theatre work at the Kammerspiele in Munich, including Elfriede Jelinek's Wut and Toshiki Okada's No Sex and Terrence Malick's film Radegund. Franz told me that he loved Joaquin Phoenix, who just happens to be an actor he resembles in his performance for Jakob Lass's audacious Love Steaks opposite Lana Cooper.
Shot by Petzold's longtime cinematographer Hans Fromm, Transit stars Franz Rogowski as Georg, a young man who escaped a concentration camp into present-day Marseille. He travels through France in the hopes to obtain a transit visa and finds himself among refugees and while on a mission to deliver a letter,...
In the second half of my conversation with Franz Rogowski, we discuss the use of voice-over in Transit, breathing with Christian Petzold, his theatre work at the Kammerspiele in Munich, including Elfriede Jelinek's Wut and Toshiki Okada's No Sex and Terrence Malick's film Radegund. Franz told me that he loved Joaquin Phoenix, who just happens to be an actor he resembles in his performance for Jakob Lass's audacious Love Steaks opposite Lana Cooper.
Shot by Petzold's longtime cinematographer Hans Fromm, Transit stars Franz Rogowski as Georg, a young man who escaped a concentration camp into present-day Marseille. He travels through France in the hopes to obtain a transit visa and finds himself among refugees and while on a mission to deliver a letter,...
- 3/18/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Selection includes 39 titles and 31 world premieres.
This year’s Forum programme at the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) will feature 39 films, including 31 world premieres.
The Forum brings together challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.
Highlights include a Super 8 silent vision of Elfriede Jelinek’s ghost novel ’Die Kinder der Toten’ in a film of the same name by Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska, Ghassan Salhab’s “essayistic collage” An Open Rose for which the filmmaker has used the letters from prison by Polish Marxist Rosa Luxembourg, and the documentary Landless, the...
This year’s Forum programme at the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) will feature 39 films, including 31 world premieres.
The Forum brings together challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.
Highlights include a Super 8 silent vision of Elfriede Jelinek’s ghost novel ’Die Kinder der Toten’ in a film of the same name by Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska, Ghassan Salhab’s “essayistic collage” An Open Rose for which the filmmaker has used the letters from prison by Polish Marxist Rosa Luxembourg, and the documentary Landless, the...
- 1/18/2019
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
The Berlin International Film Festival on Friday unveiled the lineup for its Forum sidebar of avant-garde cinema, with fictional and documentary titles from across Europe, Africa and South America among the highlights.
Literary adaptations — from Rita Azevedo Gomes’s costume drama The Portuguese Woman, based on the Robert Musil novella, to Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska's adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek’s ghost novel The Children of the Dead to Ghassan Salhab’s essayistic collage An Open Rose, inspired by letters from prison from legendary leftist martyr Rosa Luxemburg — are a major focus in the Forum program this year.
The ...
Literary adaptations — from Rita Azevedo Gomes’s costume drama The Portuguese Woman, based on the Robert Musil novella, to Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska's adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek’s ghost novel The Children of the Dead to Ghassan Salhab’s essayistic collage An Open Rose, inspired by letters from prison from legendary leftist martyr Rosa Luxemburg — are a major focus in the Forum program this year.
The ...
- 1/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Berlin International Film Festival on Friday unveiled the lineup for its Forum sidebar of avant-garde cinema, with fictional and documentary titles from across Europe, Africa and South America among the highlights.
Literary adaptations — from Rita Azevedo Gomes’s costume drama The Portuguese Woman, based on the Robert Musil novella, to Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska's adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek’s ghost novel The Children of the Dead to Ghassan Salhab’s essayistic collage An Open Rose, inspired by letters from prison from legendary leftist martyr Rosa Luxemburg — are a major focus in the Forum program this year.
The ...
Literary adaptations — from Rita Azevedo Gomes’s costume drama The Portuguese Woman, based on the Robert Musil novella, to Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska's adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek’s ghost novel The Children of the Dead to Ghassan Salhab’s essayistic collage An Open Rose, inspired by letters from prison from legendary leftist martyr Rosa Luxemburg — are a major focus in the Forum program this year.
The ...
- 1/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In 2001, controversial filmmaker Michael Haneke adapted the controversial Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek’s controversial 1983 novel The Piano Teacher. What we got was, naturally, controversial: a sophisticated, psychologically deep film set in a music conservatory in Vienna that went on to win multiple awards at Cannes, and one that makes the mouth dry up in shock and repulsion, both because of what Haneke shows on screen as well as what he explores in the characters’ minds. We often want to turn away from both.
Isabelle Huppert, who went on to win her second Best Actress Award at Cannes for this role, plays Erika Kohut, a piano teacher in a Viennese conservatory. Within those hallowed and intellectual surroundings, Erika looks rather conservative and assured, as if all passions were directed at the instrument with little care about other passions. On the outside, her life supports that interpretation: she’s passed middle age...
Isabelle Huppert, who went on to win her second Best Actress Award at Cannes for this role, plays Erika Kohut, a piano teacher in a Viennese conservatory. Within those hallowed and intellectual surroundings, Erika looks rather conservative and assured, as if all passions were directed at the instrument with little care about other passions. On the outside, her life supports that interpretation: she’s passed middle age...
- 10/4/2017
- by Trevor Berrett
- CriterionCast
The Piano Teacher
Blu-ray
Criterion
2001 / 1:85 / Street Date September 26, 2017
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Magimel, Annie Girardot
Cinematography: Christian Berger
Film Editor: Monika Willi, Nadine Muse
Produced by Veit Heiduschka
Music: Martin Achenbach
Directed by Michael Haneke
Her serene face a fragile mask just waiting to crack along with her sanity, the tortured spinster at the center of The Piano Teacher is a Blanche Dubois for the S&M set.
Her name is Erika Kohut, a brilliant but merciless tutor entrenched in a swank Viennese conservatory where she brings a surgical precision to her teaching (while leaving the anesthesia at home). She’s a harsh mistress, no doubt, but she’s merely assumed the mantle of her mother, a clinging horrorshow who monitors her middle-aged daughter’s every move while provoking nightly brawls that begin in the living room and end in the bedroom; a sick parody of a bad marriage.
Blu-ray
Criterion
2001 / 1:85 / Street Date September 26, 2017
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Magimel, Annie Girardot
Cinematography: Christian Berger
Film Editor: Monika Willi, Nadine Muse
Produced by Veit Heiduschka
Music: Martin Achenbach
Directed by Michael Haneke
Her serene face a fragile mask just waiting to crack along with her sanity, the tortured spinster at the center of The Piano Teacher is a Blanche Dubois for the S&M set.
Her name is Erika Kohut, a brilliant but merciless tutor entrenched in a swank Viennese conservatory where she brings a surgical precision to her teaching (while leaving the anesthesia at home). She’s a harsh mistress, no doubt, but she’s merely assumed the mantle of her mother, a clinging horrorshow who monitors her middle-aged daughter’s every move while provoking nightly brawls that begin in the living room and end in the bedroom; a sick parody of a bad marriage.
- 9/23/2017
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
While the vast majority of our favorite films of last year have been treated with Blu-ray releases, one title near the top of the list we’ve been waiting the longest for is Kelly Reichardt‘s Certain Women. It looks like it’s been worth the wait as The Criterion Collection have unveiled their September releases and it’s leading the pack (with special features also an interview with the director and Todd Haynes!).
Also getting a release in September, is Michael Haneke‘s Isabelle Huppert-led The Piano Teacher and the recent documentary David Lynch: The Art Life (arriving perfectly-timed to the end of the new Twin Peaks). There’s also Alfred Hitchcock‘s classic psychodrama Rebecca and the concert film Festival, featuring Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, and many more.
Check out the high-resolution cover art and full details on the releases below, with more on Criterion’s site.
Also getting a release in September, is Michael Haneke‘s Isabelle Huppert-led The Piano Teacher and the recent documentary David Lynch: The Art Life (arriving perfectly-timed to the end of the new Twin Peaks). There’s also Alfred Hitchcock‘s classic psychodrama Rebecca and the concert film Festival, featuring Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, and many more.
Check out the high-resolution cover art and full details on the releases below, with more on Criterion’s site.
- 6/16/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Five new movies are joining the Criterion Collection in September, two of which were released in the last year: Kelly Reichardt’s spare, moving “Certain Women” and the documentary “David Lynch: The Art Life.” Also getting the Criterion treatment are Michael Haneke’s “The Piancho Teacher,” starring Isabelle Huppert; “Rebecca,” Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel and his first American production; and Murray Lerner’s documentary “Festival,” which features performances by Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, among others.
It isn’t Criterion’s most exciting month, but there’s still much to look forward to. Details below, including Criterion’s own descriptions:
Read More: Criterion Collection Announces August 2017 Additions, Including Restored ‘Sid & Nancy’ and Mike Leigh’s ‘Meantime’
“Rebecca”
“Romance becomes psychodrama in Alfred Hitchcock’s elegantly crafted ‘Rebecca,’ his first foray into Hollywood filmmaking. A dreamlike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel, the film...
It isn’t Criterion’s most exciting month, but there’s still much to look forward to. Details below, including Criterion’s own descriptions:
Read More: Criterion Collection Announces August 2017 Additions, Including Restored ‘Sid & Nancy’ and Mike Leigh’s ‘Meantime’
“Rebecca”
“Romance becomes psychodrama in Alfred Hitchcock’s elegantly crafted ‘Rebecca,’ his first foray into Hollywood filmmaking. A dreamlike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel, the film...
- 6/16/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Isabelle Huppert in Werner Schroeter's MalinaFresh off the triumph of her Golden Globe win and Oscar nomination for her performance in Paul Verhoeven’s Elle (2016), the French actress Isabelle Huppert is, at 63 and four decades into her career, starting to reap major American award season appreciation. The Golden Globe was a surprise win, but to those who are familiar with her work, it’s well-deserved. Her accumulation of critical acclaim and European awards has garnered her the title of the “French Meryl Streep,” but her career’s variety, international scope and pure nerve outstrip even Streep’s. “Fearless” could be the most commonly used descriptor applied to Huppert, who is known to take on roles that other major actresses won’t go near: insanity, depravity, crime, and other controversial subject matter are Huppert hallmarks. However, it’s not merely the nature of her characters that sets her apart, it...
- 2/21/2017
- MUBI
The Beautiful Woman Sleeping
Director: Ulrike Ottinger
Writer: Ulrike Ottinger, Elfriede Jelinek
At the beginning of 2016, we had listed The Beautiful Woman Sleeping, a new project from German auteur Ulrike Ottinger, as one of our most anticipated titles for 2017.
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Director: Ulrike Ottinger
Writer: Ulrike Ottinger, Elfriede Jelinek
At the beginning of 2016, we had listed The Beautiful Woman Sleeping, a new project from German auteur Ulrike Ottinger, as one of our most anticipated titles for 2017.
Continue reading...
- 1/12/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
It may be literature’s greatest honor, but the Nobel Prize has sometimes drawn negative attention to writers, too. Bob Dylan Some critics claim the 2016 Nobel winner was undeserving because his songs contain unattributed work from others. Others believed the groundbreaking folk artist belonged more to the world of pop music than to that of letters. Harold Pinter The English playwright was slammed for his left-wing politics and sometimes scatological point of view. Elfriede Jelinek One Nobel member was so upset about the consideration given to this “chaotic and pornographic” Austrian writer that he refused to participate in the deliberations.
- 10/14/2016
- by Scott Collins
- The Wrap
The Beautiful Woman Sleeping
Director: Ulrike Ottinger
Writers: Ulrike Ottinger, Elfriede Jelinek
It is with great pleasure we feature the announced plans for a new film from German auteur Ulrike Ottinger, a provocative artist perhaps best remembered for 1981’s Freak Orlando, starring Magdalena Montezuma and Delphine Seyrig, an exemplification of her own surrealist style. Ottinger is also an applauded documentarian, her last project being 2011’s Under Snow. But it’s been well over a decade since we’ve seen Ottinger tackle a fictional narrative, the last being 2004’s Twelve Chairs. Around 2007/2008, an announcement was made for Ottinger to make a feminist vampire film about the infamous historical figure Countess Bathory, set to star Tilda Swinton and Isabelle Huppert. The project never got off the ground (and Julie Delpy went ahead with her own recuperation, The Countess). However, in early 2015, Amour Fou Films announced two projects with writer Elfriede Jelinek (author...
Director: Ulrike Ottinger
Writers: Ulrike Ottinger, Elfriede Jelinek
It is with great pleasure we feature the announced plans for a new film from German auteur Ulrike Ottinger, a provocative artist perhaps best remembered for 1981’s Freak Orlando, starring Magdalena Montezuma and Delphine Seyrig, an exemplification of her own surrealist style. Ottinger is also an applauded documentarian, her last project being 2011’s Under Snow. But it’s been well over a decade since we’ve seen Ottinger tackle a fictional narrative, the last being 2004’s Twelve Chairs. Around 2007/2008, an announcement was made for Ottinger to make a feminist vampire film about the infamous historical figure Countess Bathory, set to star Tilda Swinton and Isabelle Huppert. The project never got off the ground (and Julie Delpy went ahead with her own recuperation, The Countess). However, in early 2015, Amour Fou Films announced two projects with writer Elfriede Jelinek (author...
- 1/15/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Production outfit Amour Fou is in development on two projects - including a “feminist vampire” film - with Nobel prize winning Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek.
The Vienna and Luxembourg-based firm, co-founded by Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu and Bady Minck, are currently at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) (Jan 21-Feb 1) for the world premiere of its new film, Dreams Rewired narrated by Tilda Swinton.
Speaking in Rotterdam, the producers revealed that the first project in development with Jelinek is La Belle Dormeuse (The Beautiful Woman Sleeping), to be directed by Ulrike Ottinger. It is described by the producers as “a modern feminist vampire story”.
The second is Die Liebhaberinnen (Women As Lovers), which is adapted from Jelinek’s 1975 novel of the same name and will be directed by newcomer Caroline Kox.
Amour Fou is already producing a short film by Kox, titled Casting A Woman.
The Jelinek projects are likely to shoot in 2016.
Ambitious projects
In the meantime, the company...
The Vienna and Luxembourg-based firm, co-founded by Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu and Bady Minck, are currently at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) (Jan 21-Feb 1) for the world premiere of its new film, Dreams Rewired narrated by Tilda Swinton.
Speaking in Rotterdam, the producers revealed that the first project in development with Jelinek is La Belle Dormeuse (The Beautiful Woman Sleeping), to be directed by Ulrike Ottinger. It is described by the producers as “a modern feminist vampire story”.
The second is Die Liebhaberinnen (Women As Lovers), which is adapted from Jelinek’s 1975 novel of the same name and will be directed by newcomer Caroline Kox.
Amour Fou is already producing a short film by Kox, titled Casting A Woman.
The Jelinek projects are likely to shoot in 2016.
Ambitious projects
In the meantime, the company...
- 1/27/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Opera has always been a reflection of the cultural zeitgeist of Western society. Historical events, popular stories, real people—they’ve all inspired musicalizations which allow patrons to connect directly with cultural moments in artistic ways.
But while opera may have stopped being the most popular art form, it never stopped being a relevant one. Hats off to the contemporary composers who continue to devote themselves to breathing life into the art form (because if they don’t, who will?). Opera is an endangered species, much like pandas or stenographers, and it continues to thrive creatively by reflecting the pop culture moments—movies,...
But while opera may have stopped being the most popular art form, it never stopped being a relevant one. Hats off to the contemporary composers who continue to devote themselves to breathing life into the art form (because if they don’t, who will?). Opera is an endangered species, much like pandas or stenographers, and it continues to thrive creatively by reflecting the pop culture moments—movies,...
- 1/27/2014
- by Marc Snetiker
- EW.com - PopWatch
Odd List Ryan Lambie Simon Brew 5 Dec 2013 - 06:54
Our voyage through history's underappreciated films arrives at the year 2001, and a vintage year for lesser-seen gems...
Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke may have seen 2001 as the year we'd head off to meet alien intelligences in the depths of space, but in reality, its cinematic landscape was dominated by fantasy rather than extra-terrestrials. Rowling and Tolkien dominated the box office, with Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone and The Fellowship Of The Ring earning almost $1bn each, while Monsters, Inc and Shrek thrilled old and young audiences alike.
At the other end of the spectrum of success, 2001 was such a vintage year for movies that we had to whittle our usual selection of 25 films down from an initial selection of more than 40. This is why the decision was made - with heavy heart - to exclude some of our favourite films,...
Our voyage through history's underappreciated films arrives at the year 2001, and a vintage year for lesser-seen gems...
Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke may have seen 2001 as the year we'd head off to meet alien intelligences in the depths of space, but in reality, its cinematic landscape was dominated by fantasy rather than extra-terrestrials. Rowling and Tolkien dominated the box office, with Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone and The Fellowship Of The Ring earning almost $1bn each, while Monsters, Inc and Shrek thrilled old and young audiences alike.
At the other end of the spectrum of success, 2001 was such a vintage year for movies that we had to whittle our usual selection of 25 films down from an initial selection of more than 40. This is why the decision was made - with heavy heart - to exclude some of our favourite films,...
- 12/4/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Top: Martin Parr, from “Life’s a Beach”. Bottom: Ulrich Seidl, from Paradise: Love.
Some films you watch. Others you live. In Ulrich Seidl's films you suffer. You suffer and laugh, and laugh and suffer, until tears pour from your eyes, until out from laughter arises guilt. Guilt for having suffered. Guilt for having laughed. And only then, when you emerge from the guilt, wipe the film from your eyes, do you realize that the naïve 200-pound quinquagenarian Austrian sex-tourist on holiday in Kenya is none other then yourself, if not your sister or perhaps mother. Only then does the comfort of guilt morph into the vexation of shame as you understand that the buffoon you saw on the screen was wearing what turned out to be your face for a mask.
But don’t say you weren’t forewarned. The ballsy and shameless opening scene of Paradise: Love,...
Some films you watch. Others you live. In Ulrich Seidl's films you suffer. You suffer and laugh, and laugh and suffer, until tears pour from your eyes, until out from laughter arises guilt. Guilt for having suffered. Guilt for having laughed. And only then, when you emerge from the guilt, wipe the film from your eyes, do you realize that the naïve 200-pound quinquagenarian Austrian sex-tourist on holiday in Kenya is none other then yourself, if not your sister or perhaps mother. Only then does the comfort of guilt morph into the vexation of shame as you understand that the buffoon you saw on the screen was wearing what turned out to be your face for a mask.
But don’t say you weren’t forewarned. The ballsy and shameless opening scene of Paradise: Love,...
- 6/3/2013
- by retinalechoes
- MUBI
Previews began Sunday February 24 for Tina Benko starring in Jackie, the North American premiere of the play by Nobel Prize winning Austrian Elfriede Jelinek, best known in the United States for her novel The Piano Teacher and the 2001 film based on it. Directed by Tea Alagic from the English translation by Gitta Honegger, Jackie opens Tuesday, March 5, at 730pm at Women's Project Theater's new home, New York City Center Stage II, 131 West 55th Street. Check out highlights of Benko in action below...
- 2/28/2013
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Previews began Sunday February 24 for Tina Benko starring in Jackie, the North American premiere of the play by Nobel Prize winning Austrian Elfriede Jelinek, best known in the United States for her novel The Piano Teacher and the 2001 film based on it. Directed by Tea Alagic from the English translation by Gitta Honegger, Jackie opens Tuesday, March 5, at 730pm at Women's Project Theater's new home, New York City Center Stage II, 131 West 55th Street. Check out photos of Benko in action below...
- 2/28/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
“She’s just a picture,” Patrick (John Hawkes) sings to Marcy May (or is it Martha?), a smooth articulation of this brilliantly dangerous film’s darker thematic thrust. It fits well with another of his stark declarations of control: “You need to share yourself. Don’t be selfish.” This is a movie about psychological collapse, to be sure, but it’s got a very specific tinge. Martha (Elizabeth Olsen) is broken down by two worlds dominated by a distinctly masculine form of power and abuse. As sharply confrontational as anything by Catherine Breillat or Elfriede Jelinek, Sean Durkin’s feature debut is a dark meditation…...
- 9/9/2011
- Spout
Though he spent the last few years of his life openly battling the lung cancer he knew would kill him, the loss of Christoph Schlingensief back in August came as a shock nonetheless. He was, as Hugh Rorrison wrote in the Guardian, "a talented, energetic maverick, often working on several projects at the same time: films, theater, opera, blogs, interviews, prose, art actions, videos. By the end of his life he was considered one of the most influential figures in the German theater and something of a national treasure." And though he was only 50, he had created "a new genre that defies all classification," as Elfriede Jelinek wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. "There will be nobody like him."
Partnering with Filmgalerie 451, we present a retrospective celebrating Schlingensief's work in cinema. If you're completely unfamiliar with his work, one way in might be the documentary Christoph Schlingensief and His Films (2005), in...
Partnering with Filmgalerie 451, we present a retrospective celebrating Schlingensief's work in cinema. If you're completely unfamiliar with his work, one way in might be the documentary Christoph Schlingensief and His Films (2005), in...
- 1/6/2011
- MUBI
Lust, power, murder, the quest for eternal youth and a dash of lesbianism – no wonder the story of Erzébet Báthory appeals to film-makers so much
Deep within the preposterous Euro pudding that is Bathory, there lurks a would-be revisionist account of the woman cited in the Guinness World Records as having killed "the most number [650] of victims attributed to one murderess". In between Anna Friel's mad wigs, a babel of accents and a parade of indistinguishable Magyars, Juraj Jakubisko's film suggests Erzsébet Báthory was a sort of Renaissance Florence Nightingale figure who had an affair with Caravaggio. She didn't mean to stab her hairdresser with a pair of scissors! Those bathtubs of virgins' blood were nothing but water tinted red by herbs! She was framed!
Báthory has been portrayed on film some 30 times since 1970, has lent her name to a Swedish black metal band and, since she could...
Deep within the preposterous Euro pudding that is Bathory, there lurks a would-be revisionist account of the woman cited in the Guinness World Records as having killed "the most number [650] of victims attributed to one murderess". In between Anna Friel's mad wigs, a babel of accents and a parade of indistinguishable Magyars, Juraj Jakubisko's film suggests Erzsébet Báthory was a sort of Renaissance Florence Nightingale figure who had an affair with Caravaggio. She didn't mean to stab her hairdresser with a pair of scissors! Those bathtubs of virgins' blood were nothing but water tinted red by herbs! She was framed!
Báthory has been portrayed on film some 30 times since 1970, has lent her name to a Swedish black metal band and, since she could...
- 12/3/2010
- by Anne Billson
- The Guardian - Film News
Tilda Swinton likes to make films in between organising flash mobs (google it). She’s comfortable in arty stuff and Hollywood. She’s what you’d call a brilliant actress.
According to director Ulrike Ottinger via her own website, Swinton will be playing the infamous mass murderer Elizabeth Bathory in a movie entitled The Blood Countess. Even more intriguing is Elfriede Jelinek has co-written the script!
The film has also lined up French legend Isabelle Huppert, Udo Kier, Sophie Rois, Udo Samel, Irm Hermann, and Nicholas Ofczarek. A fine European production! Elizabeth Bathory murdered hundreds of young girls believing their virgin blood would keep her young for ever. It didn’t and she spent her remaining years locked in a room in her castle. She became a legend and infamous historical figure!
This looks very promising. Ottinger’s director’s statement on the website gives a glimpse into what sounds...
According to director Ulrike Ottinger via her own website, Swinton will be playing the infamous mass murderer Elizabeth Bathory in a movie entitled The Blood Countess. Even more intriguing is Elfriede Jelinek has co-written the script!
The film has also lined up French legend Isabelle Huppert, Udo Kier, Sophie Rois, Udo Samel, Irm Hermann, and Nicholas Ofczarek. A fine European production! Elizabeth Bathory murdered hundreds of young girls believing their virgin blood would keep her young for ever. It didn’t and she spent her remaining years locked in a room in her castle. She became a legend and infamous historical figure!
This looks very promising. Ottinger’s director’s statement on the website gives a glimpse into what sounds...
- 6/29/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Flamboyant cult German director, belatedly appreciated
After a long, fallow period in German cinema, there emerged, in the late 1960s, a new wave of directors, including Werner Schroeter, who has died of cancer, aged 65. What separated Schroeter from most of his contemporaries, such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog, was his almost complete rejection of realism, social and political, and his espousal of high camp.
Schroeter lived by Oscar Wilde's dictum: "Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess." His mixture of flamboyant, gender-bending minimalism and stylised melodrama, inspired by 19th-century Italian bel canto opera and the music of German romanticism, often juxtaposed with popular song, blurred the distinction between art and kitsch. His eschewal of conventional narrative made him a marginal figure, but towards the end of his life, with several retropectives at festivals and cinematheques, he gained a wider audience of cinephiles. He kept a faithful,...
After a long, fallow period in German cinema, there emerged, in the late 1960s, a new wave of directors, including Werner Schroeter, who has died of cancer, aged 65. What separated Schroeter from most of his contemporaries, such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog, was his almost complete rejection of realism, social and political, and his espousal of high camp.
Schroeter lived by Oscar Wilde's dictum: "Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess." His mixture of flamboyant, gender-bending minimalism and stylised melodrama, inspired by 19th-century Italian bel canto opera and the music of German romanticism, often juxtaposed with popular song, blurred the distinction between art and kitsch. His eschewal of conventional narrative made him a marginal figure, but towards the end of his life, with several retropectives at festivals and cinematheques, he gained a wider audience of cinephiles. He kept a faithful,...
- 4/22/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
So I have this list of crossover guys—guys I’d revisit the whole “guy” thing for. My list is different than most girls, I think. I have about five fellers that make me rethink which way my gate swings. Clive Owen tops the list. This is probably the least strange of all. He’s a handsome devil, and he is exceedingly charming. And then there is Philip Seymour Hoffman—a little less expected. But he’s a talented dude, and that’s usually what draws me in. Edward James Olmos made the list because William Adama is my hero. Then, of course, comes David Cronenberg. I know he is like the creepiest guy ever (well, besides John Waters), but I want to marry him and have 10,000 of his babies.
The last man on my list of crossover guys will be the subject of our discussion today. Michael Haneke is my guy.
The last man on my list of crossover guys will be the subject of our discussion today. Michael Haneke is my guy.
- 1/12/2010
- by Melissa Yearian
- FusedFilm
Love and violence may seem axiomatically opposed, but in the movies they share a common bond – they’re both difficult to depict on screen without attaching any sense of thrill to their meanings. And yet The Piano Teacher, a French film from director Michael Haneke, based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, depicts its love scenes as disturbing and awkward. Isabelle Huppert plays Erika Kohut, a piano teacher whose competence is complemented by an icy, stone-faced self-control that merely hides violent and repressed sexual fantasies. The camera always seems to find her face, taking in her whole implacable being; it’s to her credit that her emotions still come across so easy and apparent. Erika has a kind of masculine confidence and certitude. Like a man, she strides aplomb into a porn shop, never concerned outwardly with how people come to regard her in the situation. She...
- 10/8/2009
- by Jacob
- Beyond Hollywood
Sony Pictures Classics didn't waste any time hob-nobbin' on la Croisette or catching a 3D showing of Up before buying shelling out some francs for new movies on the opening day of Cannes. Spc snatched up Michael Haneke's latest discomfort-fest The White Ribbon (which is also in competition for the Palme d'Or), as well as the dramatic romance Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky. According to IMDb, The White Ribbon's plot is as follows:
"Strange events happen at a rural school in the north of Germany during the year 1913, which seem to be ritual punishment. Does this affect the school system, and how does the school have an influence on fascism?" Creepy!
The official Cannes site has more information:
"A village in Protestant northern Germany. 1913-1914. On the eve of World War I. The story of the children and teenagers of a choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families: the baron,...
"Strange events happen at a rural school in the north of Germany during the year 1913, which seem to be ritual punishment. Does this affect the school system, and how does the school have an influence on fascism?" Creepy!
The official Cannes site has more information:
"A village in Protestant northern Germany. 1913-1914. On the eve of World War I. The story of the children and teenagers of a choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families: the baron,...
- 5/14/2009
- by Jenni Miller
- Cinematical
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