World Premiere of ENCOUNTERS by Austrian Composer

Austrian Composer Gernot Wolfgang’s ENCOUNTERS will celebrate its world premiere this Wednesday, March 10th 2010.
Violinist Sara Parkins and bassoonist Judith Farmer will perform the world premiere of ENCOUNTERS.
Also on the program will be Wolfgang Gernot’s piece for bassoon & contrabass, LOW AGENDA, which will be performed by Judith Farmer and contrabassist Nico Abondolo.
Bela Bartok’s “44 [...]

Oscar for Christoph Waltz and Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock and Christoph Waltz won an Oscar last night, first nomination and first win for both, Christoph Waltz, who had to give tons of award speeches this season already this season, gave another one honoring again in particular Quentin Tarantino.
Sandra Bullock gave an impressive speech, probably one of the best acceptance speeched ever, read [...]

Sandra Bullock really has a sense of humor

Regardless if you love Sandra Bullock, the Superstar with German roots, you have to give it to her: She really has humor. When she was nominated for the Annual Razzie award for the worst performance of the year, aswell as an Oscar, granted for different projects, but within the same year, she did not snub [...]

You will never eat salad without thinking where it came from again

Whether we like it or not, we all know that part of the American wealth and our cushioned lifestyle is based on a huge workforce in foreign countries like China as well as immigrants within the US doing jobs most Americans won’t do. Not only won’t do for the small wages they pay, but probably [...]

Max Raabe & Palast Orchester on Tour in the US

The inimitable Max Raabe & Palast Orchester embody the music, style and decadence of Weimar-era Berlin. Raabe and his stellar 12-member band return to the US with a brand new program, “A Night in Berlin,” celebrating the musical glory of the 1920s and ’30s. Travel back to the roaring 20s with a brassy big [...]

Fritz Lang’s Metropolis goes “Back to the Future”

Fritz Lang’s film historical milestone Metropolis got a makeover and was screened during this year’s Berlinale in front Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate.
Read what Kirk Honeycutt wrote for the Hollywood Reporter:
Fritz Lang’s film gets a true director’s cut 83 years later
BERLIN — The memory is still vivid after these many years. Following a screening of Fritz Lang’s [...]

Winter, Waltz, Berger, Band, Basterds and Rabbit à la Berlin

James Cameron and his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow are at the top of the Oscar world with nine nominations apiece for “Avatar” and “The Hurt Locker.” “Inglorious Basterds” (with Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart) Zehnte Studio Babelsberg Produktion also shines with eight nominations.
by Andreas Fuchs
Quentin Tarantino was nominated twice for directing and screenplay while several German [...]

Scorsese, DiCaprio and Classic Films

On the occasion of the director’s fourth collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island, which hits theatres this weekend, he let the LA Times know which movies he let his cast and crew watch to set the mood of this dark picture.
Come join us for film school with the master! Out of the six movies he [...]

New York: New Goethe Institut Library Now Open!

The library at the new Goethe Institut location at 72 Spring Street opened for business on February 2, 2010. The new opening hours are: Tues. – Thurs. 2 – 7 pm; Fri. 12 – 5 pm; Sat. 10am – 1 pm
The Goethe-Institut New York Library is one of the few German-language lending libraries in the [...]

Oscar Nominations 2010

Nominations:
Christoph Waltz – Best Supporting Actor
Sandra Bullock – Best Actress
The White Ribbon – Best Foreign Language Film
Christian Berger – Cinematography
Following an American Society of Cinematographers nomination for “Das Weisse Band – The White Ribbon”, the Oscar nomination for Austrian Christian Berger might not be that surprising, however the Academy Awards are still the crown [...]

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