Für den Regisseur, Autor und Maler Peter Patzak (1945–2021) waren Grenzen ein zwar wahrnehmbares, immer aber auch verhandelbares und vor allem überwindbares Konstrukt.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder wurde nur 37 Jahre alt, aber er drehte 42 Filme und schrieb Kinogeschichte: Er war das Enfant terrible und der kreative Motor des deutschen Autorenfilms.
Charles «Charlie» Spencer Chaplin (1889 – 1977) schuf mit der Figur des tragikomischen Tramp den Prototyp des kleinen Mannes, der gegen die Zwänge der Gesellschaft und für die Freiheit des einzelnen kämpft.
Wie der Taucher auf dem berühmten Fresko im süditalienischen Paestum, das einen Mann zeigt, der kopfüber von einer Säule springt, hat Claude Lanzmann sich in jedes Abenteuer gestürzt.
Nach den drei wichtigsten Regeln des Filmemachens gefragt, antwortete Billy Wilder bekanntlich: »Du sollst nicht langweilen, du sollst nicht langweilen, du sollst nicht langweilen.
Ein Motel, eine Dusche, eine Blondine, hektische Geigenklänge, ein Schrei, der dem Zuschauer das Blut in den Adern gefrieren lässt: Ein ›echter Hitchcock‹.
Viele Filmkenner halten Citizen Kane von Orson Welles für den besten Film aller Zeiten, praktisch alle wichtigen Filmwissenschaftler haben über ihn gearbeitet.
In 55 Aufsätzen, Kritiken, Porträts und Interviews beschreibt Hans-Christoph Blumenberg Themen, Tendenzen und Widersprüche des internationalen Films der frühen achtziger Jahre.
Das Leben des legendären Filmproduzenten Artur »Atze« Brauner und seiner Frau Maria: Eine Geschichte vom Überleben im Krieg, von einer großen Liebe und dem Traum, Hollywood nach Berlin zu holen.
Given its features as a modern mass medium and thus closely related to the nation, cinema has rightly been regarded as a privileged site for putting forward contesting representations of national identity, or in short, as a main area in which narratives of national identity are negotiated.
The brilliant screenplay of the Academy Awardnominated film The Trial of the Chicago 7 by Academy and Emmy Awardwinning screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER This ';wickedly pacey page-turner' (Total Film) unfurls the behind-the-scenes story of the making of The Godfather, fifty years after the classic film's original release.
An updated edition - with completely new chapters - of the most accessible and compelling history of the cinema yet published, and complements Mark Cousins' fascinating 15-hour film documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.
Paul McDonald's study of the actor-filmmaker George Clooney traces the star's career, from his role in the hit television medical drama ER to his dual screen persona, allowing him to move seamlessly from commercial hits such as Out of Sight (1998) and Ocean's Eleven (2001) to more offbeat roles in such films as Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Paul McDonald's study of the actor-filmmaker George Clooney traces the star's career, from his role in the hit television medical drama ER to his dual screen persona, allowing him to move seamlessly from commercial hits such as Out of Sight (1998) and Ocean's Eleven (2001) to more offbeat roles in such films as Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
David Lean's extraordinary films work philosophically through the modern reproductive and transportive technologies of sight and sound: through trains, planes, ships, and automobiles, from one perspective, and through the modern technology of the radio and gramophone, from another.
Given its features as a modern mass medium and thus closely related to the nation, cinema has rightly been regarded as a privileged site for putting forward contesting representations of national identity, or in short, as a main area in which narratives of national identity are negotiated.
Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2014The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage triumphs and the occasional disaster.
One of the most gifted directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson.
This is the first full-length monograph in English about one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers, perhaps best known in the English speaking world for his award winning Les Roseaux sauvages/Wild Reeds of 1994.
One of the most gifted directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson.
