wnyc.org: "Director David Cronenberg has a reputation for making films about the nature of violence and cruelty that sometimes make audiences want to cover their eyes, but always make them think. He'll discuss his latest, Eastern Promises (See clip above)"
altertube: "David Cronenberg interviewed at UCSB Campbell hall by Santa Barbara International Film Festivals Roger Durling sbiff.org after a showing of Eastern Promises." watch here 80 min !
imdb.com: "In a small, battered wooden box, the DJ kept a precious selection of 7-inch singles that meant more to him than any of the others. Supported by John's family, and with his son Tom Ravenscroft working as the programme's researcher, this one-hour special reveals the contents of the box. Giving a unique insight into his eclectic tastes, it tells the extraordinary stories behind the records and the artists who created them." Read on
Lots of Blade Runner collector editions are coming!
amazon.com: "In celebration of Blade Runner's 25th anniversary, director Ridley Scott has gone back into post production to create the long-awaited definitive new version. Blade Runner: The Final Cut, spectacularly restored and remastered from original elements and scanned at 4K resolution, will contain never-before-seen added/extended scenes, added lines, new and improved special effects, director and filmmaker commentary, an all-new 5.1 Dolby® Digital audio track and more. Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos, Joanna Cassidy, Sean Young, and Daryl Hannah are among some 80 stars, filmmakers and others who participate in the extensive bonus features. Among the bonus material highlights is Dangerous Days, a brand new, three-and-a-half-hour documentary by award-winning DVD producer Charles de Lauzirika, with an extensive look into every aspect of the film: its literary genesis, its challenging production and its controversial legacy. The definitive documentary to accompany the definitive film version."
DVD Editions
<a href="www.amazon.com" target="_blank"">Blade Runner - The Final Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) - $14.99
<a href="www.amazon.com" target="_blank"">Blade Runner (Four-Disc Collector’s Edition) - $24.99
<a href="www.amazon.com" target="_blank"">Blade Runner (Five-Disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition) - $54.99
HD DVD Editions
<a href="www.amazon.com" target="_blank"">Blade Runner (Five-Disc Complete Collector’s Edition) $27.95 (no briefcase)
<a href="www.amazon.com" target="_blank"">Blade Runner (Five-Disc Complete Collector’s Edition) - $69.95 (briefcase)
epd-film.de: "Quentin Tarantino und Robert Rodriguez bringen ihre neuen Filme Death Proof und Planet Terror unter dem Signum „Grindhouse“ auf den Markt. Dabei geht es den beiden befreundeten Hollywood-Outlaws nicht nur um den Film oder ein mehr oder weniger diffuses Genre, sondern vielmehr um den Ort, den schmierigen Kinosaal und das Gemeinschaftserlebnis des Filmeguckens. Wobei mit Film tatsächlich Filmmaterial, also Zelluloid oder Polyester, gemeint ist. Denn die Videokassette war noch nicht erfunden, als das Kino, das die beiden Regisseure meinen, seine seltsamen Blüten trieb." Weiter
goon-magazin.de: "In »Nightmare Detective« erzählt Tsukamoto von einer Serie mysteriöser Selbstmorde, von den Opfern im Schlaf verübt. Die Polizistin Keiko (dargestellt vom J-Popstar hitomi) wendet sich zur Unterstützung ihrer Ermittlungen an den selbst suizidalen nightmare detective Kyoichi (Ryuhei Matsuda), der über die Fähigkeit verfügt, in die Träume anderer zu sehen und einzugreifen." Weiter
Matt Groening: "I was a hopeless cartoonist who couldn't quite draw well enough," he says. "But I knew I was doomed — that I was going to be drawing the rest of my life, no matter what I was doing to pay the rent." Listen to the whole interview
24.07.2007, 22.25 Uhr - Waking Life
25.07.2007, 22.25 Uhr - Ghost in the Shell
26.07.2007, 22.25 Uhr - Das große Rennen von Belleville
28.07.2007, 16.10 Uhr - Chicken Run - Hennen rennen
28.07.2007, ab 1.20 Uhr - Animationsfilmnacht
29.07.2007, 23.35 Uhr - Die geheimen Abenteuer von Däumling
29.07.2007, ab 0.35 Uhr - Kurzfilme von Jan Švankmajer
telepolis.de: "Ein elektrischer Bohrer bohrt sich ins Fleisch eines Mannes, eine Säge trennt Glieder vom Leib, alles natürlich ohne Betäubung, eine Schere dringt in ein menschliches Auge ein - nur ein paar wenige Szenen aus US-amerikanischen Horrorfilmen der letzten Zeit. Letzte Woche kam nun der von keinem Geringeren als Quentin Tarantino produzierte, von Eli Roth inszenierte "Hostel 2" in unsere Kinos - nur der neueste und brutalste in einer ganzen Kette von Horrorfilmen, die in den letzten zwei Jahren alles weit überschreiten, was Zuschauern zuvor in punkto Brutalität, Ekel und Perversion auf der Leinwand geboten wurde. Die Zeiten sind hart, aber der Horror ist härter." Weiter
npr.org: "Horror films increasingly skip the supernatural shivers in favor of extended torture scenes; detractors say that with their gross-out excesses and unsettling mass appeal, these films are a kind of "torture porn." But they've never been bigger at the box office." Listen here
"Der Dokumentarfilmer Michael Moore gilt als Kronzeuge des besseren Amerika. Doch die Kanadier Debbie Melnyk und Rick Caine erheben im Streifen "Manufacturing Dissent - Uncovering Moore" schwere Manipulationsvorwürfe gegen ihn."
"Uncovering Moore" - Kritik am Kritiker Michael Moore
"Der Moore-Biograph Kay Sokolowsky hält die jüngsten Vorwürfe gegen den Filmemacher Michael Moore, er manipuliere die Wahrheit, für ungerechtfertigt. Moore habe stets zugegeben, Material zu manipulieren und zu inszenieren, bis es in seine Botschaft passe. Moores Filme sollten nicht als Dokumentarfilme, sondern als Agit-Prop-Stücke verstanden werden, plädierte Sokolowsky." Weiter
jurnalo.com: "The cultural divide between villagers in north Germany and the heavy metal fans who descend on their quiet community could hardly be greater.
Prim cotton blouses, Wellington boots and double-breasted suits contrast with studded collars, tattoos and shoulder-length hair. The Wacken Open Air line-up of bands says it all: Cannibal Corpse, Grave Digger, Raise Hell, Death Angel, Sodom.
Wacken has become a place of pilgrimage for 40,000 heavy metal fans who gather in the Schleswig-Holstein village each year for an orgy of hand-banging and ear-splitting music." Read on
abc.net.au: "With the advent of on-line shopping, you can now order or bid for all sorts of things from your favourite serial killer: a painting, a letter, an autograph; maybe a lock of their hair, or even a clipping from one of their toenails, the list is endless.
Then, of course, there's the plethora of films, TV programs and books featuring serial killers.
Now this fascination with serial killers isn't new, it's been going on for a century or more. But what IS new is a book that explores, not who these killers are or why they kill and how, but the consequences of according fame to serial killers, and what that fame suggests about the state of contemporary American culture." Listen here
BBC: "Just how free are we? According to Adam Curtis - we're not. In fact, he says that in an attempt to liberate us, Western governments have simply narrowed our choices and created a system where class and money means everything. In a series of three films, Curtis finds out how we got where we are today, and how our system of governance has led to chaos abroad.
Wikipedia: "On the Edge of Blade Runner (55 minutes), produced in 2000 by Nobles Gate Ltd. (for Channel 4), was directed by Andrew Abbott and hosted/written by Mark Kermode. Interviews with production staff, including Scott, give details of the creative process and the turmoil during preproduction. Stories from Paul M. Sammon and Fancher provide insight into Philip K. Dick and the origins of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Interweaved are cast interviews (with the notable exceptions of Harrison Ford and Sean Young), which convey some of the difficulties of making the film (including an exacting director and humid, smoggy weather). There is also a tour of some locations, most notably the Bradbury Building and the Warner Bros. backlot that became the LA 2019 streets, and which look very different from Scott's dark vision." More
BBC: “A woman in trouble”. That’s as far as David Lynch is prepared to elaborate on the subject of his latest film, Inland Empire. Lynch has always resisted interpreting his own multi-layered, surreal dreamscapes but his reticence here makes more sense than ever, because his movie, on any conventional shot-by-shot basis, does not. How does one describe a three-hour digital video shuffle (shot on a consumer-level camera, not HD) of shape-shifting characters and parallel worlds populated by Hollywood actors, Polish prostitutes and a canned-laughter sitcom featuring humans dressed as rabbits?"
wps1.org: "New York Times cultural reporter Dinitia Smith interviews filmmaker Jim Jarmusch as part of the 2006 Arts and Leisure Weekend Times Talks events. Jarmusch discusses highlights of his three-decade long career making over a dozen films including the Grand Prix award for Broken Flowers at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. In addition to her work for the Times, Dinitia Smith is an author, journalist, and Emmy-award-winning filmmaker. Elise Meyers of the Times introduces the program." Listen here
Arte: "Die Dokumentation zeigt, dass es auch in der sozialistischen DDR einen Bedarf an Pornografie gab. Offiziell verpönt, entstanden freizügige Fotos und Filme im real existierenden Sozialismus in erster Linie im Rahmen privater Amateurfilmerzirkel. Doch hartnäckig hielt sich das Gerücht, dass in der DDR Pornohefte und einschlägige Filme für das kapitalistische Ausland produziert wurden. Die Dokumentation geht diesen Vermutungen nach."
wikipedia.org: "The Man Who Saves The World is a Turkish-made film commonly known as Turkish Star Wars because of its notorious bootlegging of Star Wars film clips worked into the film." More
Meyer - nicknamed King Leer - produced, directed, wrote, edited and shot over 20 films, including the 1965 cult hit Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! His trademarks were violence and busty women, though by modern standards his films featured little graphic sex." More
NPR.org: "English comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen is best-known for his characters. They include a journalist from England named Ali G, and Bruno, a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion reporter.
His most famous character is Borat, a Kazakhstan reporter who stars in the controversial film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. All three characters were part of his Da Ali G Show." listen here
arte.tv: "Mit schrillen, bunten, frechen, provokativen, oft schnell und billig produzierten Werken wagt sich ARTE ab Januar 2007 immer donnerstags gegen 00.30 Uhr auf ein im Fernsehen noch relativ unerforschtes Terrain und zeigt Filme der besonderen Art, mit Science Fiction, Horror, Erotik, Gewalt, aber auch schrägem Humor, Satire und Nonsense." Weiter
