Homewrecking karate teachers, hard-partying Finns, and two thumbs up from Daniel Day-Lewis: I’m having a fine time at the Berlin Film Festival. My latest update, sent from woefully sparse wifi hotspots between marathon screenings and hurried curry sausage meals, covers six more movies: Black Ice, Auge in Auge, Shiver, Gardens of the Night, Chiko, and [...]
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"A fast, complex, exhilarating roadster ride through history and time.... Kino is an intoxicating Euro-brew, written with enormous skill and dedication." — Frederick Barthelme
"Jürgen Fauth's deft mashup of genre and historical period is both a full-throttle literary thriller of ideas and a contemplative examination of film and fascism. Kino is a debut of great intellectual force."– Teddy Wayne
"A surprising alternative history. Kino brings the golden age of German cinema to light with loving, sometimes gritty, detail and great precision." – Neal Pollack, author of Jewball.
"A delirious melange of conspiracy, magic, sex, history, bad behavior, and cinema, Kino is a stellar entertainment, and Jürgen Fauth is a writer of rare, sinister imagination." – Owen King, author of Reenactment
"A light-hearted romp that leads straight into darkness and back through the shadows on the wall."– Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"Movie nuts arise! A happy and felicitous debut."– Terese Svoboda
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Berlinale Journal, Day 3
Posted by Jürgen on February 10, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/02/10/berlinale-journal-day-3/
Youth Without Youth
I had a strange dream last night about Romania and Malta, India and Switzerland. In my dream, Francis Ford Coppola had made a new movie, something about an old man who is hit by lightning and grows a new set of teeth. He collects roses and languages and Bruno Ganz was there, too. He owned [...]
Posted by Jürgen on November 21, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/11/21/youth-without-youth/
Links, Flowers
To break up the monotony of cross-posted festival reviews, here are some flowers from the garden of Max Liebermann‘s villa on the Wannsee, along with a few more linkworthy items: Jennifer Merin, fellow critic and film journalist extraordinaire, is our new colleague and About.com Guide for Documentaries. Look, one of my photos made it into [...]
Posted by Jürgen on October 3, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/10/03/links-flowers/
Titanic (1943)
Neither the first nor the best film telling the story of the doomed ocean liner, the 1943 German version is nonetheless fascinating– mainly because of the ways the story and imagery compares to John Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster, and as a study in overt propaganda. There’s the obligatory love story, poor immigrants dance below deck, and [...]
Posted by Jürgen on October 1, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/10/01/titanic-1943/
Run Lola Run
Ten years later, Tom Tykwer’s pop masterpiece still fascinates and exhilarates. It’s a film with a simple premise and complex philosophical implications, a movie that’s all about movement which nonetheless points to big questions best contemplated in complete repose. It’s a film about chance, second chances, repetition, and contingency. It’s Groundhog Day with a techno [...]
Posted by Jürgen on September 26, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/09/26/run-lola-run/
Berlin, Symphony of a Great City
Walther Ruttmann‘s non-narrative rhythmic portrait of Berlin, usually connected to the “kino-eye” of Dziga Vertov, also had a clear influence on Godfrey Reggio. Much more upbeat than Koyaanisqatsi, Symphony covers a “regular day” in the metropolis circa 1927, celebrating modern life before the speed and exploitation turned sour. No dire Hopi prophecies here, even though [...]
Posted by Jürgen on September 26, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/09/26/berlin-symphony-of-a-great-city/
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