Musik spielt in den Filmen von Christian Petzold immer eine große Rolle. In »Phoenix« von 2014 wird der Jazz-Song »Speak Low«, den Kurt Weill zu den Versen von Ogden Nash schrieb, zum Schlüsselmotiv. »Speak low«, heißt es darin, »when you speak of love«, und: »Love is a spark lost in the dark too…
“In Starland,” the directorial debut of British star Ray Panthaki and led by “Sing Sing” breakout Clarence Maclin, has been backed by some of the indie film world’s leading lights. Killer Films has boarded the feature, with Christine Vachon and Mason Plotts having joined the producing team. The…
Mark Addy, known for “The Full Monty” and “Game of Thrones,” and “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’s” Yasmin Al-Khudhairi joined other cast members from upcoming British feature “First Christmas” in a live table read in London recently. It was an unconventional move by the filmmakers to build industry…
Sold by its trailer as a gag reel, Tom Cruise’s strangest movie may be the most unsettling portrait of our tech and climate moment yet.
Markus Granbacher wirkt seit sechs Jahren in zahllosen Film- und Fernsehprojekten mit und versteht es, sich auf Branchenportalen gut zu vermarkten. Unlängst mietete er einen Kinosaal, um Freunden und Bekannten den Kurzfilm „Ruin Drive“ in Form einer Österreich-Premiere zu zeigen. Denn auch da…
EXCLUSIVE: Smart-TV maker Vizio, which was acquired by Walmart in 2024, is bringing to market an original holiday movie and more programming from premium suppliers and creators in a major content expansion. The initiative, unveiled Wednesday during Advertising Week in New York, is designed to…
Chinese filmmaker Gu You’s films modeled on Chinese landscape painting will not stop at three. The director of “The First Taste of Loneliness,” which world premiering in competition at the Busan International Film Festival, tells Variety that a fourth installment is already in research and…
Unter dem Titel „Einsichten“ wurde der Entwicklungsprozess des im September aufgeführten Stückes festgehalten.
Gleich mit ihrer ersten Filmrolle holte Eva Marie Saint an der Seite von Marlon Brando einen Oscar. Das war im Jahr 1955. Nun ist die Hollywoodgröße mit 102 Jahren gestorben.
The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) is keeping Hur Jin-ho’s “The Assassin(s)” as its opening film, a day after all 109 lawmakers of South Korea’s conservative People Power Party (PPP) asked the festival to pull it. The festival made no mention of the PPP in a statement issued…
