To Save and Project Films at MOMA

Included in the 8th Annual International Festival of Film Preservation at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art were numerous “newly restored masterworks and rediscoveries” by European filmmakers such as Patrice Chéreau, Abel Gance, Volker Schlöndorff, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Luchino Visconti. The latter’s 1963 masterpiece, Il Gattopardo (The Leopard,), opened the showcase in [...]

To Save and Project: Filmschutz in New York

Während des soeben abgelaufenen, achten internationalen Festivals des Filmschutzes zeigte das New Yorker Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) auch den digitalen Director’s Cut von „Die Blechtrommel“ (1979). Volker Schlöndorff hatte die 164 Minuten lange Fassung seines mit Auslands-Oscar und Goldener Palme ausgezeichneten Films persönlich vorgestellt.
Aus Österreich kam „Langsamer Sommer“ („Slow Summer“, 1976) des in Kanada [...]

Austrian Christoph Waltz & Michael Haneke & German-American Sandra Bullock win Golden Globe

Herzlichen Glückwunsch to the 2010 Golden Globe Winners: Viennese Christoph Waltz for Inglorious Basterds, Austrian Michael Haneke for The White Ribbon and Half-German Sandra Bullock, who spoke German to her German family in the acceptance speech, for The Blind Side (P.S. English Translation to what she said in German: You can go to bed [...]