The Heartbreak Agency is a romantic movie directed by Shirel Peleg starring Rosalie Thomass and Laurence Rupp. It is based on the book by Elena-Katharina Sohn.
“The Heartbreak Agency” is a humorous comedy that, at its core, tells the same old story: a love story that begins and fills the characters with hope. With its drops of comedy, realism, and even bitterness, but with an overall cheerful and lighthearted tone.
Is it the same old story? Yes and no, because “The Heartbreak Agency” has a good script and the characters don’t seem like they were taken from a preconceived design. They are well-crafted and, although they ultimately tell the same story, they are constructed with enough intelligence and creativity to say that this movie has an original, intelligent, and even creative point.
Despite being, at its core, a romantic comedy about the eternal battle of the sexes.
Plot
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“The Heartbreak Agency” is a humorous comedy that, at its core, tells the same old story: a love story that begins and fills the characters with hope. With its drops of comedy, realism, and even bitterness, but with an overall cheerful and lighthearted tone.
Is it the same old story? Yes and no, because “The Heartbreak Agency” has a good script and the characters don’t seem like they were taken from a preconceived design. They are well-crafted and, although they ultimately tell the same story, they are constructed with enough intelligence and creativity to say that this movie has an original, intelligent, and even creative point.
Despite being, at its core, a romantic comedy about the eternal battle of the sexes.
Plot
A...
- 2/14/2024
- by Veronica Loop
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
Here’s What You Can Watch on Netflix (Films) In February 2024 (Photo Credit – YouTube)
It’s a new month, and movie lovers are looking forward to the new movies releasing on Netflix in February 2024. The streaming giant is known for dropping interesting content every month in the format of series, movies, documentaries, stand-ups, or even short films. Regarding movies, they treat viewers with stories from all over the world.
Just like January, in February 2024 too, fun and intriguing movies and stand-up films are also making their way on Netflix. We have listed the same for you so you can keep a tab and not miss out on any of them.
What To Watch On Netflix (Films) In February 2024
Orion and the Dark – February 2
It’s a fantasy animated adventure film directed by Sean Charmatz and written by Charlie Kauffman. Jacob Tremblay has voiced Orion; Colin Hanks will feature as Adult...
It’s a new month, and movie lovers are looking forward to the new movies releasing on Netflix in February 2024. The streaming giant is known for dropping interesting content every month in the format of series, movies, documentaries, stand-ups, or even short films. Regarding movies, they treat viewers with stories from all over the world.
Just like January, in February 2024 too, fun and intriguing movies and stand-up films are also making their way on Netflix. We have listed the same for you so you can keep a tab and not miss out on any of them.
What To Watch On Netflix (Films) In February 2024
Orion and the Dark – February 2
It’s a fantasy animated adventure film directed by Sean Charmatz and written by Charlie Kauffman. Jacob Tremblay has voiced Orion; Colin Hanks will feature as Adult...
- 2/1/2024
- by Pooja Darade
- KoiMoi
Filming for the fourth season of the Sky Original series “Das Boot” wrapped in Malta last week, and the first look images have been released. NBCUniversal Global Distribution is handling international sales of the series, which is produced by Bavaria Fiction, on behalf of Sky Studios.
In Season 4, which is coming to Sky’s premium channel Sky Atlantic and streaming service Now next year, the brutal submarine war in the Mediterranean Sea comes to a head, while intrigues and secrets spread through Berlin. Resistance to the Nazis grows within the Kriegsmarine’s own ranks.
Rick Okon as Klaus Hoffmann, Sascha Gersak as Rahn, Jakub Horak as Bischof
After a shared tragedy, the siblings Klaus (Rick Okon) and Hannie Hoffmann (Rosalie Thomass) find their way back to each other. Both fight for their cause. Klaus has returned to the German Reich from Portugal. As a submarine commander he travels to Naples...
In Season 4, which is coming to Sky’s premium channel Sky Atlantic and streaming service Now next year, the brutal submarine war in the Mediterranean Sea comes to a head, while intrigues and secrets spread through Berlin. Resistance to the Nazis grows within the Kriegsmarine’s own ranks.
Rick Okon as Klaus Hoffmann, Sascha Gersak as Rahn, Jakub Horak as Bischof
After a shared tragedy, the siblings Klaus (Rick Okon) and Hannie Hoffmann (Rosalie Thomass) find their way back to each other. Both fight for their cause. Klaus has returned to the German Reich from Portugal. As a submarine commander he travels to Naples...
- 9/22/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Award Winning Director Wolfgang Becker (“Good Bye Lenin!”) will open the festival at the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre with “Me and Kaminski” bringing outstanding German cinema and its stars to Los Angeles from October 20 to 23rd.
Full Program Line Up Announced with a selection of the best new German, Austrian and Swiss Cinema
Celebrating its 10th year, German Currents features an expanded program including screenings of ten La premieres, conversations with prolific German directors, writers and actors, as well as the return of the free family matinee film screening for local schools.
“Me and Kaminski” starring Daniel Brühl and directed by Wolfgang Becker
2016 has been a successful year for German language cinema, not only in Europe, but across the globe. Beginning on Thursday, October 20th 2016 German Currents will open this year’s 4 day festival with the red carpet event Los Angeles premiere of Wolfgang Becker’s (“Goodbye Lenin”) five-time...
Full Program Line Up Announced with a selection of the best new German, Austrian and Swiss Cinema
Celebrating its 10th year, German Currents features an expanded program including screenings of ten La premieres, conversations with prolific German directors, writers and actors, as well as the return of the free family matinee film screening for local schools.
“Me and Kaminski” starring Daniel Brühl and directed by Wolfgang Becker
2016 has been a successful year for German language cinema, not only in Europe, but across the globe. Beginning on Thursday, October 20th 2016 German Currents will open this year’s 4 day festival with the red carpet event Los Angeles premiere of Wolfgang Becker’s (“Goodbye Lenin”) five-time...
- 10/4/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Directors Chanya Button, Adrian Sitaru, Xavier Seron scoop prizes; festival reveals works in progress winners.
UK filmmaker Chanya Button’s debut feature as director and producer, Burn Burn Burn, was voted by the audience at the Odessa International Film Festival (Oiff) as the winner of this year’s Grand Prix.
Producer Daniel-Konrad Cooper accepted the Golden Duke statuette on behalf of the production team from Oiff’s festival president Victoria Tigipko during the gala closing ceremony in the Black Sea city’s historic National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet.
Button’s melancholic comedy had premiered at last year’s London Film Festival and is being handled internationally by Urban Distribution International.
International Competition
Meanwhile, the International Competition jury - headed by the UK writer Christopher Hampton and also including Oiff 2015 winner Eva Neymann, Us writer-director-actor Alex Ross Perry, producer Rebecca O’Brien and producer-director Uberto Pasolini - gave the Golden Duke statuette for Best Film to...
UK filmmaker Chanya Button’s debut feature as director and producer, Burn Burn Burn, was voted by the audience at the Odessa International Film Festival (Oiff) as the winner of this year’s Grand Prix.
Producer Daniel-Konrad Cooper accepted the Golden Duke statuette on behalf of the production team from Oiff’s festival president Victoria Tigipko during the gala closing ceremony in the Black Sea city’s historic National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet.
Button’s melancholic comedy had premiered at last year’s London Film Festival and is being handled internationally by Urban Distribution International.
International Competition
Meanwhile, the International Competition jury - headed by the UK writer Christopher Hampton and also including Oiff 2015 winner Eva Neymann, Us writer-director-actor Alex Ross Perry, producer Rebecca O’Brien and producer-director Uberto Pasolini - gave the Golden Duke statuette for Best Film to...
- 7/25/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The International Film Festival in Guadalajara (FICG31) celebrated its 31th anniversary this year and moved to the center of town, a move toward regaining its early luster within the galaxy of younger festivals now competing for resources in México. With its myriad of activities beyond the mere programming of films, its mentoring other festivals such as Puerto Vallarta and Oaxaca, I would give it two thumbs up.
On Friday, March 11, it announced its awards and officially announced next year’s Guest of Honor, Germany, closing with the German film, Doris Dörrie’s “Fukushima Mon Amour” (Isa: The Match Factory). This film is a deeply moving homage to the spirit of humanity, recovery and love as a German clown, played by Rosalie Thomass and her clown partners, the wonderful Moshe Cohen of San Francisco and Nami Kamata, visit the people remaining at the devastated town of Fukushima and Rosalie bonds with the last geisha of Fukushima played by the beautiful Aya Irizuki. It premiered at the Panorama of the Berlinale where Doris won the C.I.C.A.E. Award and the Heiner Carow Prize.
Official Competition Winners FICG31
Mezcal Award for Best Mexican Film to “Maquinaria Panamericana”/ “Panamerican Machinery”
Mezcal jury
The jury consists of 30 students from related fields from universities or major schools of Mexico, Latin American, Europe and Canada. Serving as a sort of tutor, Jose Ramon Mikelajauregui, Director of Dis was responsible for the academic program held at FICG31.
The Mezcal Award consisting of 500,000 Mexican pesos went to the director, Joaquín del Paso for “Maquinaria Panamericana”/ “Panamerican Machinery”, a portrait of an inefficient factory on the edge of Mexico City where the workers lock themselves in when the owner is found dead in the back of the warehouse and they discover he has been bankrolling the wages out of his own pocket for years.
A coproduction of Mantarraya Producciones, it also won the Fipresci Prize at its premiere in the Forum of the Berlinale. International sales agent (Isa) is the new Paris-based sales and co-production company Luxbox whose
co-ceo Fiorella Moretti was formerly head of sales at Ndm, the Mexico City-based sales company she set up with director Carlos Reygadas and producer Jaime Romandia of Mantarraya Productions in 2012 to sell “Post Tenebras Lux”.
Co-ceo Hédi Zardi previously worked in sales for Fortissimo and went on to Unifrance, the French cinema promotions agency and then to the PR and events company Le Public Systeme, where he was in charge of industry initiatives at Marrakesh and Deauville festivals.
The pair got to know one another through Gabriel Ripstein’s “600 Miles”, winner of the best first feature last year at the Berlinale, which Zardi associate produced and Moretti sold.
Special Mention went to “Margarita” directed by Bruno Santamaría Razo
Infinitum Aaward Grante dby the Public, consisting of 150,000 pesos, went to " El Charro de Toluquilla" (Isa: Imcine) by José Villalobos Romero, a doc about mariachi singer Jaime Garcia Dominguez who became fascinated by the recklessness and ladies´ man lifestyle of the classic Mexican movie characters with one difference: he´s got HIV. Jaime faces an inner maturing process as he decides between keeping this lifestyle or becoming a family man. It also won the award for Best Iberoamerican Documentary of 150,000 Mexican pesos or its equivalent in dollars to the director.
Best Latin American Fiction Film consisting of 250,000 Mexican pesos or its equivalent in dollars went to the production company of Felipe Guerrero’s film “ Oscuro animal”, about three women forced to flee their homes in a war torn region in Colombia. The film also won Best Actress Award (s) for Marleyda Soto, Luisa Galiano and Jocelyn Vides Meneses and Best Photography Award to Fernando Lockett.
A coproduction of Argentina, Greece, Netherlands, Germany and Colombia, it is being sold internationally by FiGa. It previously played in the Rotterdam Film Festival’s Tiger Competition and Ficci Cartagena 2016’s Official Dramatic Competition. At the Berlinale’s Efm 2016 it was part of the World Cinema Fund’s First Look section. Financing for the film came from Colombia’s Proimágenes, Argentina’s Incaa, Netherlands’ Hubert Bals Fund, Fundación Typa, and Germany’s Nrw and World Cinema Fund.
It also won the award for Award for Best Iberoamerican Director consisting off 150,000 Mexican pesos or its equivalent in dollars, because “almost wordlessly it portrays a complex and painful situation in Colombia which is all too common in Latin America.”
Special Feature Film Jury Award Iberoamerican Fiction of 125,000 Mexican pesos or its equivalent in dollars, went to the production company of “The 4th Company”/ ”La 4a Compañía” by Amir Galván Cervera and Mitzi Vanessa Arreola, based upon a true story about an underdog prison (American-style) football team that, against all odds, wins against the police force team. The jury stated that it “considers it a cinematic achievement about a shameful moment in the history of Mexico to be remembered and not to be repeated”. Adrian Thief also won for Best Actor, and he is that! There is no Isa of record, so those ISAs reading this should check it out on Cinando! It’s a seller!
Award for Best Latin American Film of 125,000 Mexican pesos or its equivalent in dollars went to the superb debuting director from Puerto Rico, Angel Manuel Soto for“La Granja”/ “The Farm”. Also the first film produced independently by Tom Davia’s Cinemaven (but check out his credits!), this film is a full-circle “Crash”-style story that rivals “Gemorrah” in its look at the barrio called “The Farm” or “La Granja” in which the lives of a midwife, a young boxer, a janitor, a mute kid and a young couple collide in a story about the desperate pursuit of happiness on the mean streets of La Granja. Shot on a budget of $250,000, this film took four years to complete as the Puerto Rican government film establishment sought to block its production and release – and you can see why. It previously played in Fantastic Fest.
This is another discovery film with no Isa, and I am sure the agents have already locked their eyes upon writer-director Angel Manuel Soto. He lives in Los Angeles. “Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Son of a car salesman and a flight attendant. Studied architecture and advertising. Always loved films. Now he makes them. He is a cinephile. He travels all over the world doing it, including Australia, Thailand, Cambodia, France, USA, and Puerto Rico. He is not planning on stopping.”
Best Screenplay Award went to Marina Seresesky for “La Puerta Abierta”/ “Open Door” (pictured above). Marina also directed this first film. She has made two shorts previously. After Ficg it will play at Sofia Iff 2016 in International Competition, San Diego Latino 2016 and Chicago Latino 2016 Film Festivals.
Movies Recommended for Selection for the Golden Globes Awards 2017 are “The 4th Company” and “Ciudades Desiertas” / “Deserted Cities” by Roberto Sneider.
Documentary Jury Special Award of 100,000 Mexican pesos or its equivalent in dollars to the director Jorge Caballero for“Patient”/ "Paciente" Isa Rise and Shine, a new company in Germany, picked up the film at its world premiere in Competition at Idfa.
Best Iberoamerican Short Film Award D of 75,000 pesos or its equivalent in dollars to the directors Miguel de Olaso and Bruno Zacharias for the 10 minute short “ Los Angeles 1991”.
Special Mention went to “Juan's Sundown”/ "El Ocaso de Juan" by Omar Deneb Vargas Juárez
Rigo Mora Award for Best Mexican Animated Short Film of 100,000 Mexican pesos went to the director Alejandro Rios for “ The Cats”/"Los Gatos."
Maguey Award for best Lgbt film went to "Theo et Hugo dans le meme bateau"/ "Paris 05:59" of France, directed by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau.
Special Mention went to “Neon Bull” of Brazil, directed by Gabriel Mascaro for its poetic and innovative illustrating of how traditional ideas of masculinity slowly have been made obsolete inviting us to question our own perspectives on gender bias.
After the Awards, Ficg gave a great closing night party. Lots of good people, new and old friends, great salsa band, danced til 3! Here’s me with my friend David Martinez of Raindance Film Festival. Coming from Guadalajara, living in London, this year he came home with Elliot Grove of Founder and Director of Raindance, and Aaron Wileman of Imaginative Exposure who gave a Master Class on Film Funds and Product Placement.
And of course I presented my own book in its abridged, Spanish language format, published by the University of Guadalajara Press, Cine Iberoamerican Industria y financiamiento por pais (Iberoamerican Cinema: Industry and Financing by Country). Read more about it here.
On Friday, March 11, it announced its awards and officially announced next year’s Guest of Honor, Germany, closing with the German film, Doris Dörrie’s “Fukushima Mon Amour” (Isa: The Match Factory). This film is a deeply moving homage to the spirit of humanity, recovery and love as a German clown, played by Rosalie Thomass and her clown partners, the wonderful Moshe Cohen of San Francisco and Nami Kamata, visit the people remaining at the devastated town of Fukushima and Rosalie bonds with the last geisha of Fukushima played by the beautiful Aya Irizuki. It premiered at the Panorama of the Berlinale where Doris won the C.I.C.A.E. Award and the Heiner Carow Prize.
Official Competition Winners FICG31
Mezcal Award for Best Mexican Film to “Maquinaria Panamericana”/ “Panamerican Machinery”
Mezcal jury
The jury consists of 30 students from related fields from universities or major schools of Mexico, Latin American, Europe and Canada. Serving as a sort of tutor, Jose Ramon Mikelajauregui, Director of Dis was responsible for the academic program held at FICG31.
The Mezcal Award consisting of 500,000 Mexican pesos went to the director, Joaquín del Paso for “Maquinaria Panamericana”/ “Panamerican Machinery”, a portrait of an inefficient factory on the edge of Mexico City where the workers lock themselves in when the owner is found dead in the back of the warehouse and they discover he has been bankrolling the wages out of his own pocket for years.
A coproduction of Mantarraya Producciones, it also won the Fipresci Prize at its premiere in the Forum of the Berlinale. International sales agent (Isa) is the new Paris-based sales and co-production company Luxbox whose
co-ceo Fiorella Moretti was formerly head of sales at Ndm, the Mexico City-based sales company she set up with director Carlos Reygadas and producer Jaime Romandia of Mantarraya Productions in 2012 to sell “Post Tenebras Lux”.
Co-ceo Hédi Zardi previously worked in sales for Fortissimo and went on to Unifrance, the French cinema promotions agency and then to the PR and events company Le Public Systeme, where he was in charge of industry initiatives at Marrakesh and Deauville festivals.
The pair got to know one another through Gabriel Ripstein’s “600 Miles”, winner of the best first feature last year at the Berlinale, which Zardi associate produced and Moretti sold.
Special Mention went to “Margarita” directed by Bruno Santamaría Razo
Infinitum Aaward Grante dby the Public, consisting of 150,000 pesos, went to " El Charro de Toluquilla" (Isa: Imcine) by José Villalobos Romero, a doc about mariachi singer Jaime Garcia Dominguez who became fascinated by the recklessness and ladies´ man lifestyle of the classic Mexican movie characters with one difference: he´s got HIV. Jaime faces an inner maturing process as he decides between keeping this lifestyle or becoming a family man. It also won the award for Best Iberoamerican Documentary of 150,000 Mexican pesos or its equivalent in dollars to the director.
Best Latin American Fiction Film consisting of 250,000 Mexican pesos or its equivalent in dollars went to the production company of Felipe Guerrero’s film “ Oscuro animal”, about three women forced to flee their homes in a war torn region in Colombia. The film also won Best Actress Award (s) for Marleyda Soto, Luisa Galiano and Jocelyn Vides Meneses and Best Photography Award to Fernando Lockett.
A coproduction of Argentina, Greece, Netherlands, Germany and Colombia, it is being sold internationally by FiGa. It previously played in the Rotterdam Film Festival’s Tiger Competition and Ficci Cartagena 2016’s Official Dramatic Competition. At the Berlinale’s Efm 2016 it was part of the World Cinema Fund’s First Look section. Financing for the film came from Colombia’s Proimágenes, Argentina’s Incaa, Netherlands’ Hubert Bals Fund, Fundación Typa, and Germany’s Nrw and World Cinema Fund.
It also won the award for Award for Best Iberoamerican Director consisting off 150,000 Mexican pesos or its equivalent in dollars, because “almost wordlessly it portrays a complex and painful situation in Colombia which is all too common in Latin America.”
Special Feature Film Jury Award Iberoamerican Fiction of 125,000 Mexican pesos or its equivalent in dollars, went to the production company of “The 4th Company”/ ”La 4a Compañía” by Amir Galván Cervera and Mitzi Vanessa Arreola, based upon a true story about an underdog prison (American-style) football team that, against all odds, wins against the police force team. The jury stated that it “considers it a cinematic achievement about a shameful moment in the history of Mexico to be remembered and not to be repeated”. Adrian Thief also won for Best Actor, and he is that! There is no Isa of record, so those ISAs reading this should check it out on Cinando! It’s a seller!
Award for Best Latin American Film of 125,000 Mexican pesos or its equivalent in dollars went to the superb debuting director from Puerto Rico, Angel Manuel Soto for“La Granja”/ “The Farm”. Also the first film produced independently by Tom Davia’s Cinemaven (but check out his credits!), this film is a full-circle “Crash”-style story that rivals “Gemorrah” in its look at the barrio called “The Farm” or “La Granja” in which the lives of a midwife, a young boxer, a janitor, a mute kid and a young couple collide in a story about the desperate pursuit of happiness on the mean streets of La Granja. Shot on a budget of $250,000, this film took four years to complete as the Puerto Rican government film establishment sought to block its production and release – and you can see why. It previously played in Fantastic Fest.
This is another discovery film with no Isa, and I am sure the agents have already locked their eyes upon writer-director Angel Manuel Soto. He lives in Los Angeles. “Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Son of a car salesman and a flight attendant. Studied architecture and advertising. Always loved films. Now he makes them. He is a cinephile. He travels all over the world doing it, including Australia, Thailand, Cambodia, France, USA, and Puerto Rico. He is not planning on stopping.”
Best Screenplay Award went to Marina Seresesky for “La Puerta Abierta”/ “Open Door” (pictured above). Marina also directed this first film. She has made two shorts previously. After Ficg it will play at Sofia Iff 2016 in International Competition, San Diego Latino 2016 and Chicago Latino 2016 Film Festivals.
Movies Recommended for Selection for the Golden Globes Awards 2017 are “The 4th Company” and “Ciudades Desiertas” / “Deserted Cities” by Roberto Sneider.
Documentary Jury Special Award of 100,000 Mexican pesos or its equivalent in dollars to the director Jorge Caballero for“Patient”/ "Paciente" Isa Rise and Shine, a new company in Germany, picked up the film at its world premiere in Competition at Idfa.
Best Iberoamerican Short Film Award D of 75,000 pesos or its equivalent in dollars to the directors Miguel de Olaso and Bruno Zacharias for the 10 minute short “ Los Angeles 1991”.
Special Mention went to “Juan's Sundown”/ "El Ocaso de Juan" by Omar Deneb Vargas Juárez
Rigo Mora Award for Best Mexican Animated Short Film of 100,000 Mexican pesos went to the director Alejandro Rios for “ The Cats”/"Los Gatos."
Maguey Award for best Lgbt film went to "Theo et Hugo dans le meme bateau"/ "Paris 05:59" of France, directed by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau.
Special Mention went to “Neon Bull” of Brazil, directed by Gabriel Mascaro for its poetic and innovative illustrating of how traditional ideas of masculinity slowly have been made obsolete inviting us to question our own perspectives on gender bias.
After the Awards, Ficg gave a great closing night party. Lots of good people, new and old friends, great salsa band, danced til 3! Here’s me with my friend David Martinez of Raindance Film Festival. Coming from Guadalajara, living in London, this year he came home with Elliot Grove of Founder and Director of Raindance, and Aaron Wileman of Imaginative Exposure who gave a Master Class on Film Funds and Product Placement.
And of course I presented my own book in its abridged, Spanish language format, published by the University of Guadalajara Press, Cine Iberoamerican Industria y financiamiento por pais (Iberoamerican Cinema: Industry and Financing by Country). Read more about it here.
- 3/17/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
After King Joffrey’s (Jack Gleeson) death at the reception of his wedding to Lady Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer) in Game of Thrones, the killer was a mystery to those who hadn’t read George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire. In "Oathkeeper," the mystery is solved.
Lady Olenna Killed Joffrey
Lady Olenna Tyrell (Diana Rigg), the grandmother of Joffrey’s wife of a few hours, is the one who committed the final act of murder. She admits her guilt to Margaery before leaving King’s Landing for Highgarden while giving her advice about how to use her skills as the wife of a king – more specifically to the young and impressionable Tommen – to thrive and use her will.
Though Olenna is technically the killer, she didn’t commit regicide without help. Petyr Baelish (Aiden Gillen) was the brains of the operation. He had a necklace made...
Lady Olenna Killed Joffrey
Lady Olenna Tyrell (Diana Rigg), the grandmother of Joffrey’s wife of a few hours, is the one who committed the final act of murder. She admits her guilt to Margaery before leaving King’s Landing for Highgarden while giving her advice about how to use her skills as the wife of a king – more specifically to the young and impressionable Tommen – to thrive and use her will.
Though Olenna is technically the killer, she didn’t commit regicide without help. Petyr Baelish (Aiden Gillen) was the brains of the operation. He had a necklace made...
- 4/28/2014
- Uinterview
Game of Thrones “Oathkeeper” begins outside the slave city of Mereen, where Dany (Emilia Clarke) interrupts Missandei (Nathanlie Emmanuel) giving Grey Worm (Jacob Anderson) language lessons so that he can lead the troops through the sewers and into the city to spark the slave rebellion.
Game of Thrones Recap
Grey Worm, with dozens of other soldiers at his heels, manages to find his way to a congregation of Mereen’s slaves, who were, incidentally, in the middle of a conversation about Dany. The slaves fear that they have too few weapons at their disposal to revolt, despite the fact that they outnumber their owners. It’s then revealed that the sacks the soldiers were carrying held swords and daggers.
The following day, the slaves have taken over the city and Dany and her people walk into Mereen unscathed, urged on by the cheers of the now free slaves. Dany wants...
Game of Thrones Recap
Grey Worm, with dozens of other soldiers at his heels, manages to find his way to a congregation of Mereen’s slaves, who were, incidentally, in the middle of a conversation about Dany. The slaves fear that they have too few weapons at their disposal to revolt, despite the fact that they outnumber their owners. It’s then revealed that the sacks the soldiers were carrying held swords and daggers.
The following day, the slaves have taken over the city and Dany and her people walk into Mereen unscathed, urged on by the cheers of the now free slaves. Dany wants...
- 4/28/2014
- Uinterview
Games of Thrones on Sunday depicted Lannister twins Jamie (Nicolaj Coster-Waldau) and Cersei (Lena Headey) mourning the loss of their eldest son Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) over his body in the sept. Before long, Jamie was forcing himself on his sister at the base of the altar on top of which rested their dead son.
Game of Thrones Rape?
Fans of the show were made uncomfortable by the scene, and many fans of the books were outraged by the scene, claiming that it departed from George R. R. Martin’s book in all the wrong ways. In the book, many claimed, things went down in a far more consensual nature that what David Benioff and D.B. Weiss put forth in the HBO show.
However, book readers may have been exercising their selective memories as Cersei says, “No,” to Jamie in the books as well.
“‘No,’ she said weakly when his lips moved down her neck,...
Game of Thrones Rape?
Fans of the show were made uncomfortable by the scene, and many fans of the books were outraged by the scene, claiming that it departed from George R. R. Martin’s book in all the wrong ways. In the book, many claimed, things went down in a far more consensual nature that what David Benioff and D.B. Weiss put forth in the HBO show.
However, book readers may have been exercising their selective memories as Cersei says, “No,” to Jamie in the books as well.
“‘No,’ she said weakly when his lips moved down her neck,...
- 4/23/2014
- Uinterview
Game of Thrones returned on Sunday night to deal with the aftermath of Joffrey’s death during the Purple Wedding to Margaery Tyrell.
Game of Thrones Recap
As Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) gasped his last breaths, Ser Dontos swept Sansa (Sophie Turner) away – and just in time, as after Cersei (Lena Headey) ordered Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) shackled she called for his wife. Dontos brought Sansa towards the sea where a skiff was waiting for them. Hurriedly, he convinces her to trust that this is her only option and he begins rowing out into the waters. Eventually they arrive at a massive ship and meet no other than Littlefinger (Aiden Gillen).
Littlefinger makes fast work of having Dontos killed and explains to Sansa that it was he, not the drunkard knight, who’d arranged for her escape. All along, Littlefinger was paying Dontos to do his bidding. Even the necklace that Dontos...
Game of Thrones Recap
As Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) gasped his last breaths, Ser Dontos swept Sansa (Sophie Turner) away – and just in time, as after Cersei (Lena Headey) ordered Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) shackled she called for his wife. Dontos brought Sansa towards the sea where a skiff was waiting for them. Hurriedly, he convinces her to trust that this is her only option and he begins rowing out into the waters. Eventually they arrive at a massive ship and meet no other than Littlefinger (Aiden Gillen).
Littlefinger makes fast work of having Dontos killed and explains to Sansa that it was he, not the drunkard knight, who’d arranged for her escape. All along, Littlefinger was paying Dontos to do his bidding. Even the necklace that Dontos...
- 4/21/2014
- Uinterview
Game of Thrones shocked the show’s viewers who haven’t read the books in George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice & Fire series when it showed the death of the sociopathic inbred Lannister boy king Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) last week. What’s ahead, according to director Alex Graves, in Sunday night's episode "Breaker of Chains" will be even more unbelievable.
Game of Thrones Spoilers
Following the Purple Wedding, a lot will change in King’s Landing and the rest of Westeros, as the realm is now without a king and tensions are running higher than ever. Tyrion (Peter Dinklage), Joffrey’s uncle, looks destined to be convicted for his death.
"Episode three is in part an aftermath episode, where you settle and everything takes a turn toward the second half of the season," Graves told The Hollywood Reporter. "Joffrey's death is a beginning. Ned Stark's death was...
Game of Thrones Spoilers
Following the Purple Wedding, a lot will change in King’s Landing and the rest of Westeros, as the realm is now without a king and tensions are running higher than ever. Tyrion (Peter Dinklage), Joffrey’s uncle, looks destined to be convicted for his death.
"Episode three is in part an aftermath episode, where you settle and everything takes a turn toward the second half of the season," Graves told The Hollywood Reporter. "Joffrey's death is a beginning. Ned Stark's death was...
- 4/20/2014
- Uinterview
Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage and German actress Rosalie Thomas were spotted posing during a photocall for their upcoming feature Taxi Monday afternoon in Hamburg, Germany.
Peter Dinklage On 'Taxi' Set
In the movie, based on the novel of the same name by Karen Duve, Thomas plays a taxi driver that gets embroiled in the opulent lives of the celebrities and politicians she drives around. Dinklage, meanwhile, plays a man named Marc.
On Monday, Dinklage and Thomas leaned up against the eponymous taxi at Hamburg’s Fischerhaus Restaurant. For the shoot, Thomas sported a pair of jeans and a striped shirt under a brown leather jacket. Dinklage, also in jeans, wore a khaki trenchcoat over a green hoodie.
Kerstin Ahlrichs is helming Taxi, which has yet to announce a prospective release date.
In addition to Taxi and his work on Game of Thrones, Dinklage has a number...
Peter Dinklage On 'Taxi' Set
In the movie, based on the novel of the same name by Karen Duve, Thomas plays a taxi driver that gets embroiled in the opulent lives of the celebrities and politicians she drives around. Dinklage, meanwhile, plays a man named Marc.
On Monday, Dinklage and Thomas leaned up against the eponymous taxi at Hamburg’s Fischerhaus Restaurant. For the shoot, Thomas sported a pair of jeans and a striped shirt under a brown leather jacket. Dinklage, also in jeans, wore a khaki trenchcoat over a green hoodie.
Kerstin Ahlrichs is helming Taxi, which has yet to announce a prospective release date.
In addition to Taxi and his work on Game of Thrones, Dinklage has a number...
- 4/15/2014
- Uinterview
MUNICH -- Good Times (Beste Zeit) is fettered with an unfortunate title in English, a slow start and some clunky dialogue. But hot young director Markus H. Rosenmueller's third film, which is intended to be the first in a trilogy, is a fresh and ultimately touching look at the reality that no matter where or how you live, growing up is hard to do.
Sure to be a popular follow-up to his first two films, Heavyweights and Grave Decisions, both of which were hits in Germany, Good Times may not have much of an international run outside of selected arthouse theaters and festivals. But it is well worth seeing for the immersion in a culture that is pure cliche to most Americans, and for the wonderful performance of Anna Maria Sturm, Rosenmueller's latest discovery.
Sturm plays Kati, who turns 17 as soon as the film's expository bits are completed. She lives on a farm and loves it. She has a best friend (Jo, played well by Rosalie Thomass) with whom she sneaks off at night in the old family van to smoke, drink and philosophize. She's crazy about local boy Mike (Florian Brueckner), who, like most 18-year-old guys, is more interested in hanging out with his friends and stringing her along in order to deflower her than in having a serious relationship.
Her parents don't keep her on a particularly tight leash: Kati's father (Andreas Giebel) complains when she drinks a bottle of wine he had been saving, and her mother (Johanna Bittenbinder) sees Kati's cigarettes while tidying up her room - and hides them again instead of confronting her.
Then, on her 17th birthday, Kati receives notice that she has been accepted into an exchange student program in the U.S., and will be leaving her familiar life in a matter of weeks. From the beginning she is undecided about her adventure. Kati's infatuation with Mike and her affection for Jo eventually conflict with her rebelliousness against her father's typical Bavarian -- read: chauvinistic and selfish -- attitude towards his blossoming daughter. When everything seems to be falling to pieces around her, and not even her mother's attempts at peacemaking are tolerable, Kati has to decide whether freedom really means uprooting herself, or if independence can also be won at home.
Karin Michalke's script, based on her own adolescence in a tiny Bavarian farming village (where the film was shot), is always true to the emotional cadences of her characters and the barriers they build between themselves and others. The love and friendship storylines, for all their predictability, are genuine, while the family conflicts are portrayed with understanding and tenderness.
Rosenmueller deftly shifts between the humor of teenage pranks and the misery of being 17 and not knowing where you belong. But it is in Anna Marie Sturm's achievement as a young actress that Kati's troubles become universal, instead of being confined to a Bavarian backwater.
GOOD TIMES
Monaco Film Hamburg
Credits:
Director: Marcus Rosenmueller
Writer: Karin Michalke
Producers: Nils Duencker, Joke Kromschroeder
Executive producer: Tom Blieninger
Director of photography:Helmut Pirnat
Production designer: Johannes Sternagel
Music: Gerd Baumann
Co-producer: Dr. Cornelia Ackers
Costume designer: Walter Schwarzmeier
Editor: Anne Loewer
Cast:
Kati: Anna Marie Sturm
Jo: Rosalie Thomass
Mike: Florian Brueckner
Kati's father: Andreas Giebel
Kati's mother: Johanna Bittenbinder
Rocky: Ferdinand Schmidt-Modrow
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Sure to be a popular follow-up to his first two films, Heavyweights and Grave Decisions, both of which were hits in Germany, Good Times may not have much of an international run outside of selected arthouse theaters and festivals. But it is well worth seeing for the immersion in a culture that is pure cliche to most Americans, and for the wonderful performance of Anna Maria Sturm, Rosenmueller's latest discovery.
Sturm plays Kati, who turns 17 as soon as the film's expository bits are completed. She lives on a farm and loves it. She has a best friend (Jo, played well by Rosalie Thomass) with whom she sneaks off at night in the old family van to smoke, drink and philosophize. She's crazy about local boy Mike (Florian Brueckner), who, like most 18-year-old guys, is more interested in hanging out with his friends and stringing her along in order to deflower her than in having a serious relationship.
Her parents don't keep her on a particularly tight leash: Kati's father (Andreas Giebel) complains when she drinks a bottle of wine he had been saving, and her mother (Johanna Bittenbinder) sees Kati's cigarettes while tidying up her room - and hides them again instead of confronting her.
Then, on her 17th birthday, Kati receives notice that she has been accepted into an exchange student program in the U.S., and will be leaving her familiar life in a matter of weeks. From the beginning she is undecided about her adventure. Kati's infatuation with Mike and her affection for Jo eventually conflict with her rebelliousness against her father's typical Bavarian -- read: chauvinistic and selfish -- attitude towards his blossoming daughter. When everything seems to be falling to pieces around her, and not even her mother's attempts at peacemaking are tolerable, Kati has to decide whether freedom really means uprooting herself, or if independence can also be won at home.
Karin Michalke's script, based on her own adolescence in a tiny Bavarian farming village (where the film was shot), is always true to the emotional cadences of her characters and the barriers they build between themselves and others. The love and friendship storylines, for all their predictability, are genuine, while the family conflicts are portrayed with understanding and tenderness.
Rosenmueller deftly shifts between the humor of teenage pranks and the misery of being 17 and not knowing where you belong. But it is in Anna Marie Sturm's achievement as a young actress that Kati's troubles become universal, instead of being confined to a Bavarian backwater.
GOOD TIMES
Monaco Film Hamburg
Credits:
Director: Marcus Rosenmueller
Writer: Karin Michalke
Producers: Nils Duencker, Joke Kromschroeder
Executive producer: Tom Blieninger
Director of photography:Helmut Pirnat
Production designer: Johannes Sternagel
Music: Gerd Baumann
Co-producer: Dr. Cornelia Ackers
Costume designer: Walter Schwarzmeier
Editor: Anne Loewer
Cast:
Kati: Anna Marie Sturm
Jo: Rosalie Thomass
Mike: Florian Brueckner
Kati's father: Andreas Giebel
Kati's mother: Johanna Bittenbinder
Rocky: Ferdinand Schmidt-Modrow
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
MUNICH - The government of Bavaria, Germany's biggest and wealthiest state as well as a major media center, held its annual TV awards -- the "Blue Panthers" -- on Friday in Munich.
As usual, the extensive German pubcasting system picked up on most of the awards, wrapping up nine of the 13 Panthers on offer.
But there were a few surprises. Small-time commercial channel Vox won a special prize for an episode of its travel show Voxtours about Ethiopia's Surma tribe called Journey to the Last Gladiators. And Friedemann Fromm was named best director for two different episodes of two different shows.
This year's prizes were awarded for the first time in five categories: informational broadcasts, television films, series, entertainment programs and cultural/educational offerings.
A complete list of winners follows:
Best screenplay: Daniel Speck for Meine verruckte turkische Hochzeit (My Crazy Turkish Wedding) -- ProSieben
Best informational report: Ralf Benkoe for "Ein Deutscher im All (A German in Space) -- RTL
Best camera work: Holly Fink for Die Flucht (The Escape) -- ARD, Arte
Best direction: Friedemann Fromm for Vom Ende der Eiszeit (On the End of the Ice Age) / NDR, ARD, Arte and Tatort (Crime Scene) -- BR, ARD
Best sports documentary: Manfred Oldenburg for "Das verflixte dritte Tor - Wembley '66: Die wahre Geschichte" (The Cursed Third Goal -- Wembley '66: The True Story) - ZDF
Best documentary: Juliane Schuhler for "Marcel - Ein Kampfchen, das war' schon" (Marcel - A Little Fight Would Be Nice) -- BR
Best performance in a comedy series: Cordula Stratmann for "Schillerstrasse" (Schiller Street) -- Sat.1
Best actress in a TV film: Rosemarie Fendel fur Das zweite Leben (The Second Life) -- ARD/BR
Best actor in a TV film: Friedrich von Thun for Helen, Fred und Ted -- ARD/BR/NDR
Best actress in a series: Saskia Vester for KDD - Kriminaldauerdienst (Criminal Investigations) -- ZDF
Best actor in a series: Christian Ulmen for Dr. Psycho -- ProSieben
Best upcoming actor/actress: Rosalie Thomass for her role in Polizeiruf 110 (Police Emergency 110) -- BR, ARD
Special prize: Richard Gress, Producer, Author, Director, Cameraman and Editor for "Voxtours: Reise zu den letzten Gladiatoren" (Journey to the Last Gladiators) -- Vox"...
As usual, the extensive German pubcasting system picked up on most of the awards, wrapping up nine of the 13 Panthers on offer.
But there were a few surprises. Small-time commercial channel Vox won a special prize for an episode of its travel show Voxtours about Ethiopia's Surma tribe called Journey to the Last Gladiators. And Friedemann Fromm was named best director for two different episodes of two different shows.
This year's prizes were awarded for the first time in five categories: informational broadcasts, television films, series, entertainment programs and cultural/educational offerings.
A complete list of winners follows:
Best screenplay: Daniel Speck for Meine verruckte turkische Hochzeit (My Crazy Turkish Wedding) -- ProSieben
Best informational report: Ralf Benkoe for "Ein Deutscher im All (A German in Space) -- RTL
Best camera work: Holly Fink for Die Flucht (The Escape) -- ARD, Arte
Best direction: Friedemann Fromm for Vom Ende der Eiszeit (On the End of the Ice Age) / NDR, ARD, Arte and Tatort (Crime Scene) -- BR, ARD
Best sports documentary: Manfred Oldenburg for "Das verflixte dritte Tor - Wembley '66: Die wahre Geschichte" (The Cursed Third Goal -- Wembley '66: The True Story) - ZDF
Best documentary: Juliane Schuhler for "Marcel - Ein Kampfchen, das war' schon" (Marcel - A Little Fight Would Be Nice) -- BR
Best performance in a comedy series: Cordula Stratmann for "Schillerstrasse" (Schiller Street) -- Sat.1
Best actress in a TV film: Rosemarie Fendel fur Das zweite Leben (The Second Life) -- ARD/BR
Best actor in a TV film: Friedrich von Thun for Helen, Fred und Ted -- ARD/BR/NDR
Best actress in a series: Saskia Vester for KDD - Kriminaldauerdienst (Criminal Investigations) -- ZDF
Best actor in a series: Christian Ulmen for Dr. Psycho -- ProSieben
Best upcoming actor/actress: Rosalie Thomass for her role in Polizeiruf 110 (Police Emergency 110) -- BR, ARD
Special prize: Richard Gress, Producer, Author, Director, Cameraman and Editor for "Voxtours: Reise zu den letzten Gladiatoren" (Journey to the Last Gladiators) -- Vox"...
- 5/28/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MUNICH -- Actresses shut out their male colleagues to take both acting awards at this year's Munich International Film Festival. In a surprise decision, the three-man jury of cameraman Gernot Roll (Nowhere in Africa), producer Uli Putz (Beyond Silence) and actor Ulrich Noethen (Downfall) chose two women for the Foerderpries Deutscher Film, Munich's top acting award, instead of awarding one of the prizes to a male performer. Joerdis Triebel won for her performance in Emmas Glueck (Emma's Luck), a drama from director Sven Taddicken, while the second award went to Rosalie Thomass for her starring role in an episode of German police series Polizeiruf 110.
- 7/20/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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