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Tom Tykwer
Tom Tykwer (; born 23 May 1965) is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing the thriller films ''Run Lola Run'' (1998), ''Heaven (2002 film), Heaven'' (2002), ''Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer'' (2006), and ''The International (2009 film), The International'' (2009). He collaborated with The Wachowskis as co-director for the science fiction film ''Cloud Atlas (film), Cloud Atlas'' (2012) and the Netflix series ''Sense8'' (2015–2018), and worked on the score for Lana Wachowski's ''The Matrix Resurrections'' (2021). Tykwer is also well known as the co-creator of the internationally acclaimed German television series ''Babylon Berlin'' (2017–). Early life Tykwer was born in Wuppertal, West Germany. Fascinated by film from an early age, he started making amateur Super 8 mm film, Super 8 films at the age of eleven. He later helped out at a local arthouse cinema in order to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
74th Berlin International Film Festival
The 74th annual Berlin International Film Festival, usually called the Berlinale, took place between 15 and 25 February 2024 in Berlin, Germany. Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong'o was named the Jury President for the main competition. This year's Berlinale was Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek's final edition in charge, following their dismissal in 2023. The festival opened with Tim Mielants' ''Small Things Like These (film), Small Things Like These.'' ''Dahomey (film), Dahomey'', directed by French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop, won the Golden Bear, making it the second year in a row that a documentary won the festival's top prize, following ''On the Adamant''s win in 2023. The Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize was awarded to ''A Traveler's Needs by'' Hong Sang-soo, and the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance was awarded to Sebastian Stan for ''A Different Man''. American filmmaker Martin Scorsese was awarded with the Honorary Golden Bear. Juries International Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super 8 Mm Film
Super 8 mm film is a motion-picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement over the older "Double" or "Regular" 8 mm home movie format. The formal name for Super 8 is 8-mm Type S, distinguishing it from the older double-8 format, which is called 8-mm Type R. Unlike Super 35 (which is generally compatible with standard 35 mm equipment), the film stock used for Super 8 is not compatible with standard 8 mm film cameras. The film is nominally 8 mm wide, the same as older formatted 8 mm film, but the dimensions of the rectangular sprocket hole perforations along one edge are smaller, which allows for a larger image area. The Super 8 standard also allocates the border opposite the perforations for an oxide stripe upon which sound can be magnetically recorded. Fujifilm released a competing system named Single-8, also in 1965, which used the same film, image frame, and perforation dimensions, but with a different fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life Is All You Get
''Life Is All You Get'' () is a 1997 German comedy film directed by Wolfgang Becker. It was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival where it won an Honourable Mention. Joe Leydon of ''Variety'' praised the film as "an extremely engaging tale of life and love in a city where everything appears to be in a state of flux", and described it as "a smartly written and sharply observed comedy-drama. At its frequent best, pic has a fresh and larky charm that's reminiscent of fondly remembered French New Wave romances." A literal translation of the German title is "Life Is A Construction Site". Cast * Jürgen Vogel as Jan Nebel * Christiane Paul as Vera * Ricky Tomlinson as Buddy * Meret Becker as Moni * Christina Papamichou as Kristina * Martina Gedeck as Lilo * Armin Rohde as Harri * Rebecca Hessing as Jenni * Andrea Sawatzki Andrea Sawatzki (; born 23 February 1963) is a German actress. From 2002 to 2010 she starred in the Hessischer Rundfunk version of the popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dani Levy
Dani Levy (born 17 November 1957) is a Swiss filmmaker, theatrical director, screenwriter and actor. Biography Levy was born to a Jewish family in Switzerland in 1957.Deutsche Welt: "Jewish Filmmaker Breaks Taboos with Hitler Send-Up" 27 December 2006 His mother was a survivor. He moved to in the 1980s. Levy's s include ''RobbyKal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Becker (director, Born 1954)
Wolfgang Becker (22 June 1954 – 12 December 2024) was a German film director and screenwriter, best known to international audiences for his work '' Good Bye, Lenin!'' (2003). He was a co-founder of the production company X Filme Creative Pool, which produced his first successful feature film, '' Das Leben ist eine Baustelle'', in 1997. Life and career Wolfgang Becker was born in Hemer on 22 June 1954. He studied German, History and American Studies at the Free University in Berlin. In 1980 he landed a job at a sound studio and later enrolled at the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB). In 1983 he started work as a freelance cameraman graduating from the DFFB in 1986 with ''Schmetterlinge'' (Butterflies), which won the Student Academy Award in 1988, the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival, and the Saarland Prime-Minister's Award at the 1988 Saarbrücken. Becker directed an episode of the television drama '' Tatort'', titled "". He mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Arndt
Stefan Arndt (born 1961) is a German film producer and managing partner of X Filme Creative Pool, which he started with fellow friends Tom Tykwer, Wolfgang Becker and Dani Levy. X Filme is one of Germany's most prosperous and famous production companies. Arndt produces many X Filme productions and acts as head manager of the company. He produced the films ''Cloud Atlas'', '' Alone in Berlin'' and '' Frantz''. Awards *1998 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Production *2013 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Production for ''Cloud Atlas A cloud atlas is a pictorial key (or an atlas) to the nomenclature of clouds. Early cloud atlases were an important element in the training of meteorologists and in weather forecasting, and the author of a 1923 atlas stated that "increasing use ...'' References External links * *http://www.x-filme.de (Official Web Page) *http://www.x-filme.de/html/p_arndt.html (Arndt biography (in German)) 1961 births German film producers Living people Film peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X Filme Creative Pool
X Filme Creative Pool is a German television and film production company based in Berlin. History X Filme was founded in 1994 in Berlin by the directors Tom Tykwer, Dani Levy and Wolfgang Becker and the producer Stefan Arndt. The inspiration for X Filme Creative Pool were the founders of United Artists, with the idea that artistic and, above all, economic independence should enable more creative work. In 2000, however, 50.1% of the shares were sold to Berlin-based Senator Film. In 2000, the company founded its own film distribution company , which works closely with the German branch of Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Pictures Germany, using its distribution structure. X Filme has also been working with Warner Home Video in the home entertainment sector since the end of 2001, supplying content that WHV Germany and WHV Switzerland distribute through their traditional channels. After Senator Film went broke in 2004, the partners tried to buy the company back from the bankruptcy estate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadly Maria
''Deadly Maria'' (), is a 1993 German film directed by Tom Tykwer. Cast * Nina Petri as Maria * Katja Studt as Maria (age 16) * Juliane Heinemann as Maria (age 10) * Josef Bierbichler as Maria's father * Peter Franke as Heinz * Joachim Król Joachim Król (, born 17 June 1957 in Herne, West Germany) is a German actor, known for his appearances in the films ''Run Lola Run'', '' Maybe, Maybe Not'', and '' Anne Frank: The Whole Story''. Early life and education Król was born in He ... as Dieter External links * 1993 films German thriller films Films directed by Tom Tykwer Films with screenplays by Tom Tykwer Films scored by Tom Tykwer 1993 directorial debut films 1990s German-language films 1990s German films Films produced by Tom Tykwer Films produced by Stefan Arndt {{1990s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screenplay
A screenplay, or script, is a written work produced for a film, television show (also known as a '' teleplay''), or video game by screenwriters (cf. ''stage play''). Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. A screenplay is a form of narration in which the movements, actions, expressions and dialogue of the characters are described in a certain format. Visual or cinematographic cues may be given, as well as scene descriptions and scene changes. History In the early silent era, before the turn of the 20th century, "scripts" for films in the United States were usually a synopsis of a film of around one paragraph and sometimes as short as one sentence.Andrew Kenneth Gay"History of scripting and the screenplay"at Screenplayology: An Online Center for Screenplay Studies. Retrieved 15 December 2021. Shortly thereafter, as films grew in length and complexity, film scenarios (also called "treatments" or "synopses"Steven Maras. ''Screenwri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hof International Film Festival
The Hof International Filmfestival is a German film festival that takes place in Hof, Bavaria, every year in October. Apart from numerous foreign productions, the main focus traditionally is on German films. During six festival days, about 130 films (80 feature and documentary films as well as 50 short films) are shown in 8 theaters of 2 cinema centers, adding up to a total of 200 individual film presentations. With the exception of the retrospective, all films are German or world premieres. History Initiators of the festival were Heinz Badewitz and Uwe Brandner, who were also members of the Hof "New Jazz Group", together with the artist Werner Weinelt, who later on relocated his art gallery to the pub "Galeriehaus" in Hof. Badewitz, festival director until his death in 2016, and Brandner, had moved to Munich in 1963 where they made short films together. However, they had problems to find a cinema for their film presentations in Munich. Without further ado, Badewitz, who was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Film
A short film is a film with a low running time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of not more than 40 minutes including all credits". Other film organizations may use different definitions, however; the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, for example, currently defines a short film as 45 minutes or less in the case of documentaries, and 59 minutes or less in the case of scripted narrative films (it is not made clear whether this includes closing credits). In the United States, short films were generally termed short subjects from the 1920s into the 1970s when confined to two 35 mm reels or less, and featurettes for a film of three or four reels. "Short" was an abbreviation for either term. The increasingly rare industry term "short subject" carries more of an assumption that the film is shown as part of a presentation along with a feature film. Short films are often s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosa Von Praunheim
Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky (born Holger Radtke; 25 November 1942), known professionally as Rosa von Praunheim, is a German film director, author, producer, professor of directing and one of the most influential and famous LGBT social movements, queer activists in the German-speaking world. A pioneer of Queer Cinema and gay activist from the very beginning, von Praunheim was a key co-founder of the modern lesbian and gay movement in West Germany and Switzerland. He was an early advocate of AIDS awareness and safer sex. His films center on queer-related themes and strong female characters, are characterized by excess and employ a campy style. They have featured such personalities as Keith Haring, Larry Kramer, Diamanda Galás, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Judith Malina, Jeff Stryker, Jayne County, Divine (actor), Divine, Charlotte von Mahlsdorf and a row of Warhol superstars. In over 50 years, von Praunheim has made more than 150 films (short and feature-length films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
