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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Berlinale adds Swiss American Renée Zellweger to their jury

The renowned German film festival confirmed that Swiss American Academy Award Winner Renée Zellweger joined the jury of the 60th Berlinale. The International jury will be led by legendary film maker Werner Herzog. Also part of the jury will be one of Germany’s most popular and versatile actresses and singers Cornelia Froboess.

Avatar’s Na’vi use German Grammar

Who knew that German could actually be cool enough to lend it’s Grammar to the natives in the most successful movie of all times, Avatar’s Na’vi?
The natives of the fictional planet Pandora speak a made up language created by Paul Frommer a linguistics expert at USC.
Na’vi language is similar to Star Trek’s Klingon or to [...]

New on DVD: A Woman in Berlin

Set in 1945 during the Red Army invasion of Berlin. Women are victims of rape and devastation; one of them is Anonyma (Nina Hoss), a journalist and photographer. She meets a Russian officer Andrei (Evgeny Sidikhin) – an encounter which develops into a complex symbiotic relationship that forces them to remain enemies until the bitter [...]

No BERLIN & BEYOND Film Festival in January 2010

The acclaimed German film festival in San Francisco joins forces with its Los Angeles’ counterpart GERMAN CURRENTS in Fall 2010
The two most important German-language film events on the West coast – the San Francisco-based Berlin & Beyond Film Festival and the Los Angeles German Currents Film Festival – are uniting to create a single German [...]

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