filmstarts.de: "Nach ihrer international erfolgreichen Dokumentation „Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel“ über das Leben der Nomaden in der Wüste Gobi erzählt Byambasuren Davaas neuer Film „Die Höhle des gelben Hundes“ die Geschichte einer Nomadenfamilie im Nordwesten der Mongolei, zu der sich die mongolische Filmemacherin durch eine Erzählung von Gantuya Lhagva sowie eigene Kindheitserinnerungen inspirieren ließ. Die fiktive Handlung ist zwar inszeniert, bedient sich in ihrer Darstellungsform aber großenteils dokumentarischer Mittel. Das Ergebnis ist eine echte Mischform aus Dokumentation und Spielfilm." Mehr
Eine Einführung in Geschichte und Ästhetik des Bollywood-Films
Der Text ist in der Zeitschrift Splatting Image Nr. 62, Juni 2005, erschienen und dort um viele Abbildungen reicher. Der Text ist in die folgenden Kapitel untergliedert:
Geschichte
Ästhetik
Wichtige Filme
Kommentierte Literaturliste und Links"
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Der Splatterfilm gilt als Schmuddelgenre. Dabei verdankt sich Splatter den Erkenntnissen der Psychoanalyse: Er lässt die Gewalt im Zentrum der Gesellschaft aufbrechen.
Der Versuch einer historischen Grundlegung des modernen Horror- und Splatterfilms kommt nicht ohne Edward Theodore Gein aus. Es war am 17. November 1957, als die Polizei von Wisconsin einen beinahe unaussprechlichen Fund in seinem abgeschieden gelegenem Haus machte. Die ausgeweidete Leiche der Ladenbesitzerin Benice Warden und Teile anderer toter Körper, eine ganze Sammlung von Nasen, weiblicher Geschlechtsorgane und Gesichtsmasken führten die Beamten auf die Spur einer ganzen Serie schlimmstmöglicher Verbrechen." Der ganze Artikel auf netzzeitung.de
Offering a description of himself for the program of a 1966 screening, Kenneth Anger stated his 'lifework' as being Magick and his 'magical weapon' the cinematograph. A follower of Aleister Crowley's teachings, Anger is a high level practitioner of occult magic who regards the projection of his films as ceremonies capable of invoking spiritual forces. Cinema, he claims, is an evil force. Its point is to exert control over people and events and his filmmaking is carried out with precisely that intention.
Whatever one's view of this belief may be, what is undeniable is that in creating the nine films that he either managed to complete [...], Anger forged a body of work as dazzlingly poetic in its unique visual intensity as it is narratively innovative. In many ways, these wordless films represent the resurgence and development of the uniquely cinematic qualities widely considered retarded or destroyed by the passing of the silent era, especially in the area of editing. According to Tony Rayns, “Anger has an amazing instinctive grasp of all the elements of filmmaking; his films actively work out much of Eisenstein's theoretical writing about the cinema…. [Anger] comes nearer [to Eisenstein's theories] than anything in commercial cinema and produces film-making as rich in resonance as anything of Eisenstein's own.More
Archive.org "Little Shop of Horrors" is one of the most famous B-movie cult classics in film history. Corman and writer Charles B. Griffith purportedly wrote the script over the course of a single evening, writing in all-night Hollywood coffee shops. The film was cast with stock actors that Corman had used in previous films. They rehearsed for three days before filming began.
Principal photography of "Little Shop of Horrors" was shot in two days and one night by Corman, with other material shot over two successive weekends. He used three cameras at once and shot every scene with only one take. As a result, some scenes run continuously for two or three minutes.The total budget for the production was $27,000". Little Shop of Horrors" is also noteworthy for featuring a young Jack Nicholson in a small role as Wilbur Force, the dentist's masochistic patient." Download here
nytimes.com: "Actor-director Paul Wegener made three films built around the mythical creature of Jewish legend: Golem was released in 1914, and a sequel of sorts, Der Golem und die Tänzerin, came out in 1917. This is the one film which has survived and is regarded among the landmarks of early German expressionism. In medieval Prague, Rabbi Loew (Albert Steinruck) observes the stars and concludes that trouble is brewing for his people. When the emperor issues a decree threatening the expulsion of Jews from the city, the rabbi, a master of magic, activates the Golem, a monstrous clay figure, to help save his congregation."
"Consciousness and World Peace, Part 1 play podcast BBC interview with David Lynch. (5:49 minutes; 5.33 Mb)
Consciousness and World Peace, Part 2 play podcast David Lynch tells the story of how he learned the Transcendental Meditation technique, how it has affected his personal and professional life, and why he is now devoting himself to help create world peace. From a lecture and Q/A session at American University (13:27 minutes; 12.3 Mb)
Speaker: David Lynch is an award-winning film director, writer, and producer. He has been practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique for over 30 years, and recently established the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace."
archive.org: "Often billed as the worst movie ever made, and not entirely undeserving of the title, this is a masterpiece of Ed Wood's making.
Bela Lugosi was cast in the role of "Ghoul Man" but passed away before filming really started.
So what happens? The producer's wife's chiropractor (Mr. Reynold's was the executive producer) takes over as "Ghoul Man" and holds his cape in front of his face THE ENTIRE MOVIE.
Add to this numerous plot inconsistencies, horrid acting, and masses of stock footage - some of which we see several times and you have a terrible but funny movie.
A highly advanced alien culture is determined to destroy Earth before our scientists discover a bomb which will explode sunlight, the description Eros gives of this is quite funny.
In order to destroy our world, of several billion people, they raise three zombies from the dead. :-)" Download here
Francine Stock talks to film makers and fans, including Ollie Bader, of animation magazine Neo; David Sin, of the British Film Institute; Helen McCarthy, co-author of The Anime Encyclopaedia; film makers Michio Harada and Joji Koyama; critic Joe Cornish and author Stephen McGinty.
<b<filmportal.de: "As soon as German producers have made a film comedy which is halfway successful, the press and film industry always start to proclaim the supposed return of an allegedly long neglected genre. Declarations announcing the renaissance of our film comedy are as numerous as commonly heard statements, which assert that Germans have no sense of humor. The fact is, of course, that there have always been German films aiming to make their audiences laugh. The individual artistic, dramaturgical, directorial and acting qualities remain are not taken into account by this assertion, neither are questions concerning the quality of comedy. Right at the beginning of the 21st century, film comedy "made in Germany" is booming, and it's noteworthy that nearly all exponents of this cheerful trade are recruited from television. " Read more
"Gleich in einer Doppelrolle tritt Fatih Akin bei den diesjährigen Filmfestspielen in Cannes auf. Er präsentiert seinen Dokumentarfilm "Crossing the Bridge" - eine Annäherung an die Stadt Istanbul und ihre Musik - im Wettbewerb außerhalb der Konkurrenz. Und er vergibt unter der Federführung von Emir Kusturica am Ende des Festivals die Goldene Palme für den besten Film."
Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell , and Hong Kong's Cityscape
Wong Kin Yuen: Sf films such as Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell take a deep interest in the Hong Kong urbanscape at the turn of the century. With its history of dislocation, migration, and marginality in its colonial days, Hong Kong emerges as a model city for the sf genre of "future noir"; its overcrowded, disjunctive cityscape provides a perfect setting for multiculturalism in a postmodern ontext. This article takes readers on a guided tour of a unique shopping mall at the hub of Hong Kong urbanscape, Times Square, as an illustration of how we can read out of it an "urban secret located at the intersection" of sf and the postmodern.Read more PDF file
- Dance, Song, Drama - Bollywood: the Big Picture
- Cinema of Language and Region
- Dokumentarfilme
- Kurzfilme
- Animationsfilme
- Horrornacht mit indischen Gruselfilmen.
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Der Splatterfilm gilt als Schmuddelgenre. Dabei verdankt sich Splatter den Erkenntnissen der Psychoanalyse: Er lässt die Gewalt im Zentrum der Gesellschaft aufbrechen.
Der Versuch einer historischen Grundlegung des modernen Horror- und Splatterfilms kommt nicht ohne Edward Theodore Gein aus. Es war am 17. November 1957, als die Polizei von Wisconsin einen beinahe unaussprechlichen Fund in seinem abgeschieden gelegenem Haus machte. Die ausgeweidete Leiche der Ladenbesitzerin Benice Warden und Teile anderer toter Körper, eine ganze Sammlung von Nasen, weiblicher Geschlechtsorgane und Gesichtsmasken führten die Beamten auf die Spur einer ganzen Serie schlimmstmöglicher Verbrechen." 
Offering a description of himself for the program of a 1966 screening, Kenneth Anger stated his 'lifework' as being Magick and his 'magical weapon' the cinematograph. A follower of Aleister Crowley's teachings, Anger is a high level practitioner of occult magic who regards the projection of his films as ceremonies capable of invoking spiritual forces. Cinema, he claims, is an evil force. Its point is to exert control over people and events and his filmmaking is carried out with precisely that intention.
Archive.org "Little Shop of Horrors" is one of the most famous B-movie cult classics in film history. Corman and writer Charles B. Griffith purportedly wrote the script over the course of a single evening, writing in all-night Hollywood coffee shops. The film was cast with stock actors that Corman had used in previous films. They rehearsed for three days before filming began.
A sampling of what prominent film critics wrote in their reviews of the earlier "Star Wars" films 