Dienstag, 30. November 2021

Maximum Cinema Filmpodcast #37: "Red Notice", "Last Night in Soho", "Benedetta"

© Olivier Samter

In Folge 37 des Maximum Cinema-Podcasts unterhalten Daniel, Lola und ich uns über Red Notice, seines Zeichens die bislang teuerste Netflix-Produktion und ein Machwerk sondergleichen. Auch Edgar Wrights Last Night in Soho überzeugt nicht restlos, und Lola und ich philosophieren über die christliche Symbolik des muskulösen Jesus in Paul Verhoevens Nonnen-Historiendrama Benedetta. Der Podcast ist auf allen gängigen Plattformen verfügbar.

Montag, 22. November 2021

Thomas Imbach, a filmmaker unafraid of masculinity

"From November 22, the international streaming platform DAFilms, curated by Doc Alliance, a creative partnership of seven European documentary film festivals, will launch No Short Cuts: The Films of Thomas Imbach, an online retrospective of ten works by the Swiss director. Born in Lucerne in 1962, Imbach first rose to prominence in the 1990s and has since developed a maverick reputation, not least through his perennial blurring of the traditional lines between documentary and fiction filmmaking."

Full article available at swissinfo

Mittwoch, 10. November 2021

Line to Line: Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival 2021

"Lines are a bit of a theme at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival. There are those you expect, greeting you in front of screening halls, pop-up food stands, restaurants and the wobbly information desks in the cramped festival center—all reminders that this quaint Czech town of 50,000 people was not built to play host to a film festival of international renown. Then there are lines of the less obvious sort, like the swirling white chalk marks on the pavement that connect the various festival locations—an act of 'environmental installation,' created annually since 2005 by local artist Vit Kraus using a sports line maker, which is meant to guide, and maybe also confound, visitors as they navigate the picturesque streets of Jihlava’s historic old town. And then there’s Lines the film, which deservedly emerged as the big winner of Jihlava."

Full article available at Filmmaker Magazine

Dienstag, 9. November 2021

Maximum Cinema Filmpodcast #36: Grosse Freiheit, kleine Mutter

© Olivier Samter

In Folge 36 des Maximum Cinema-Podcasts erzähle ich von meinem Besuch am internationalen Dokumentarfilmfestival im tschechischen Jihlava, bevor Daniel und ich die Causa Free Guy neu aufrollen. Danach schaltet sich Lola in die Diskussion ein, und wir bereden zu dritt das deutsche Gefängnisdrama Grosse Freiheit und die zarte Kindergeschichte Petite Maman von Céline Sciamma (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu). Der Podcast ist auf allen gängigen Plattformen verfügbar.