14. Dezember 2024

1. Chaalchitra Ekhon (Kaleidoscope Now), by Anjan Dutt, India: 2023 ex aequo with 1-Cerrar los Ojos (Close Your Eyes) by Victor Erice, Spain: 2023 2-The Holdovers, Alexander Payne, USA: 2023 3-Furiosa - A Mad Max Saga, George Miller, Australien: 2024 4-Here, Robert Zemeckis, USA: 2024 5-All we imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia, Indien/France/Luxemburg: 2024 6-The Fable, Raam Reddy, Indien: 2024 7-Manick Kapur Camera /The magical Camera of Manick Uncle, Raja Chatterjee, Indien: 2024 8-Comme le Feu...

31. Dezember 2023

1-The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg, USA: 2022 ex aequo with 1-My Darling in Stirling, Bill Mousoulis, Australia: 2023 2-Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese, USA: 2023 3-Perfect Days, Wim Wenders, Japan: 2023 4-Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka (The Boy and the Heron), Hayao Miyazaki, Japan: 2023 5-Past Lives, Celine Song, USA: 2023 6-Ha´Mishlahat (Delegation), Asaf Saban, Israel, Poland/Germany: 2023 7-Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan, USA: 2023 8-Haeojil Gyeolsim (Decision to Leave), Park...

Konkona Sensharma · 01. März 2023

The film deals with a repressed and dark chapter of Indian histroy in 1984, when the Prime Minister Indira Ghandi was killed by her Sikh-bodyguards. The incident provoked high politicians to use this for provoking a campaign against the Sikh minority in New Delhi that lead a terrible backlash. More than 5000 people were reported killed by the incited crowd. Their houses were burnt – even the houses of Hindus who wanted to protect their neighbors were not spared. In every image of Amu we feel...

12. Januar 2023

1-Armageddon Time, James Gray, USA: 2022 2-Köy, Serpil Turhan, Deutschland: 2021 3-Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson, USA: 2021 4-Three Thousand Years of Longing, George Miller, Australien: 2022 5-Kind Hearts, Olivia Rochette, Gerard-Jan Claes, Belgien: 2022 6-Bettina, Lutz Pehnert, Deutschland: 2022 7-An CailinClùin, (The Quiet Girl) Colm Bariréad, Irland: 2022 8-Bimileui Eondeok (Hill of Secrets), Lee Ji-eun, Korea: 2022- 9-Nana, Kamila Andini, Indonesien: 2022 10-Last Film Show, Pan...

05. August 2022

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world. (Jeanne Moreau) Two methods to approach a deeper understanding of film stayed with me for a long time. The first is represented well in a short TV feature by German film critic Helmut Färber called Three minutes from a film by Ozu. Färber focusses on one scene from Ozu´s Banshun (Late Spring, 1949), the bicycle scene. Färber made from every shot a still and...

31. Dezember 2021

on the top: Nomadland, Last Days at Sea , Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse.

Indian Cinema · 25. Februar 2021

von Aparna Sen, Indien: 2007-2010 (english version is here) zur Erinnerung an Kei Kumai (1930 - 2007) Durch eine eigenartige Vermarktungsstrategie seines Weltvertriebs konnte ich The Japanese Wife bereits wenige Wochen nach seiner Uraufführung auf einer DVD sehen. Es gibt Filme, die kann man nur mit sehr viel Glück auf einer großen Kinoleinwand sehen. Das wäre gerade bei Aparna Sens Filmen wie Mr. and Mrs. Iyer oder The Japanese Wife besonders wichtig, denn beide Filme scheinen mir geradezu...

15. Dezember 2020

This was a year full of losses – to be quiet frank – one of the worst in my life. The most painful loss was the death of my second brother Detlev Triphan (1955-2020) who passed away last summer. He was the chronicler of my family and many of stories and details of my history and the history of my family are probably lost forever. For years I am thinking about a project about my home town Bochum, about places which were important for my life my story and the only person I could consult was...

Bettina Klix · 23. April 2020

Das Buch kann man über diesen Link bei BOD bestellen, oder über den Buchhandel oder Amazon.

Claude Forget · 27. Januar 2020

I dedicate the three following texts to my late friend Claude Forget (1949-2008). The September 30, 2019 would have been Claude´s 70th. birthday. He was a passionate activist for Independent cinema. Among other things he was for a long time the director of the distribution cooperative “Cinéma Libre” in Montréal. While watching some films I always catch myself wishing to talk with him about them. One of the three texts is about the third film by Richard Brouillette, Oncle Bernard – A...