Sun Xun: The Dark Magician of New Chinese Animation

Requiem (top); Shock of Time (bottom)

The REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles will give a rare U.S. presentation of Chinese artist and filmmaker Sun Xun’s animation works on Mon., Oct 19, at 8:30 p.m. Sun Xun will be present at the screening.
According to the REDCAT’s press release, "Sun Xun: The Dark Magician of New Chinese Animation" will feature "a program of shorts ranging from a witty experiment in body art (Lie of Magician, 2005) to the creation of an expansive imagistic world that evokes China’s checkered voyage toward technological and political modernity."
The text below is from the REDCAT’s release:
After studying printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, Sun founded the [...]

by Anna Robinson | September 18, 2009   
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German Film Critics Awards 2007 Winners

Sandra Hüller in Requiem (top); Ulrich Mühe in The Lives of Others (bottom)

Surprisingly, the Association of German Film Critics did not pick Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s internationally acclaimed Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others as the best German film of 2006. Instead, their choice was Hans-Christian Schmid’s Requiem, based on the real-life story of a woman who believed herself possessed by the devil. (That same story also inspired the undemonic The Exorcism of Emily Rose.) Henckel von Donnersmarck had to content himself with winning the best first film prize.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, The Lives of Others has had the biggest opening for a German-language film ever in the United States. (I’m assuming [...]

by Andre Soares | February 13, 2007   
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German Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 German Film Critics Association Awards
2007 German Film Critics Association Award winners: Berlinale on Feb. 13, 2007
 

Sandra Hüller in Requiem
 

Best Film: Requiem directed by Hans-Christian Schmid
Best First Film: Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Best Documentary (tie): Behind the Couch directed by Viet Helmer and Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen / Germany: A Summer Fairytale by Sonke Wortmann
Best Actor: Ulrich Mühe, The Lives of Others
Best Actress: Sandra Hüller, Requiem
Best Screenplay: Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Sommer vorm Balkon / Summer in Berlin
Best Cinematography: Hagen Bogdanski, The Lives of Others
Best Editing: Patricia Rommel, The Lives of Others
Best Score: Bert Wrede, Knallhart
 
German Film Critics Association site
German Film Critics Awards: 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 [...]

by Andre Soares | February 13, 2007   
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Berlin 2006: REQUIEM, GRBAVICA, THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING

Moritz Bleibtreu in The Elementary Particles (top); Sandra Hüller in Requiem (bottom)

More on the Berlin International Film Festival:
Four German films will be screened in the Official Competition.
They are: Oscar Roehler’s literary adaptation Elementarteilchen / The Elementary Particles; Hans-Christian Schmid’s exorcism drama Requiem; Matthias Glasner’s Der Freie Wille / The Free Will, the story of a convicted rapist who is freed after 12 years behind bars; and Valeska Grisebach’s Sehnsucht / Desire (right), a love story set in eastern Germany, and starring Andreas Müller and Ilka Welz.
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At European Films, Boyd van Hoeij gives his take on the films screened at Berlin 2006, including Jasmila žbanic’s post-Bosnian war drama Grbavica, the Icelandic gay soccer comedy Strákarnir Okkar / Eleven Men [...]

by Andre Soares | February 15, 2006   
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