From Philip BovermanMaybe you have to have a happy ending to have a starring role in a Steven Spielberg film. Presumably, more and more is needed if this role is to embody the source of all the happy ending feelings of depth, meaning and security: the role of his mother. For his autobiographical film "The Fabelmans" he gave this role to Michelle Williams. One shouldn't be too surprised if, when meeting her, feelings arise that not only make a happy...
In "The Fabelmans" Steven Spielberg tells a surprisingly authentic story about himself - the birth of a cinema god out of the spirit of schism. Only at one point does he want to rewrite history. source site
US director Steven Spielberg received the Berlinale's Honorary Golden Bear for his life's work on Tuesday evening. The Berlinale bosses Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian presented him with the award. The audience celebrated 76-year-old Spielberg with minute-long ovations, and he too was visibly touched during the gala.Spielberg said he owed a lot to German cinema. He named film pioneers such as Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and Ernst Lubitsch, but also directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Margarethe von Trotta, Wim Wenders,...
In order to gauge the size of the filmmaker who accepted the Golden Bear for his life's work at the Berlinale on Thursday, one could refer to his titanic private wealth of an estimated around four billion US dollars - but we are not there after all manager magazine. You could also start with one of the countless moments that Steven Spielberg has added to film history. But maybe it's best to start somewhere else, namely with "Blackberry" by Matt...
US director Steven Spielberg received the Berlinale's Honorary Golden Bear for his life's work on Tuesday evening. The Berlinale bosses Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian presented him with the award. The audience celebrated 76-year-old Spielberg with minute-long ovations, and he too was visibly touched during the gala.Spielberg said he owed a lot to German cinema. He named film pioneers such as Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and Ernst Lubitsch, but also directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Margarethe von Trotta, Wim Wenders,...
US director Steven Spielberg received the Berlinale's Honorary Golden Bear for his life's work on Tuesday evening. The Berlinale bosses Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian presented him with the award. The audience celebrated 76-year-old Spielberg with minute-long ovations, and he too was visibly touched during the gala.Spielberg said he owed a lot to German cinema. He named film pioneers such as Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and Ernst Lubitsch, but also directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Margarethe von Trotta, Wim Wenders,...
The Berlinale announced its program for its 73rd edition on Monday afternoon, including this year's competition. The national cinema in particular stands out from the selection: five of the eighteen films competing for the bears come from German filmmakers.Margarethe von Trotta shows her film "Ingeborg Bachmann - Reise in die Wüste" with Vicky Krieps in the leading role, Paula Beer plays in Christian Petzold's relationship drama "Roter Himmel", Emily Atef returns with the novel adaptation "Sometime we will tell each...
Drew Barrymore, 47, US actress, was matched by US director Steven Spielberg. Barrymore and actor Corey Feldman opened up about their childhood sweetheart on The Drew Barrymore Show. When he was about 12 or 13 and she was about 11 or 12, his grandmother approached him and said, "We got a call from Steven Spielberg's office. The little girl from ET wants to meet you because she has a crush on you ." Barrymore, who starred in the film ET...
That tiny moment when Sandra Hüller dropped a handkerchief in the theater dressing room - it could conjure up a wonderfully dreamy smile of memory on Simone Bär's face. It was immediately apparent how much she loved her job as a casting agent, what details she saw that others might not have noticed, and why she was in her profession one of the largest in Germany would.You have to think of this smile when you hear the sad news that...
For 50 days, an international team of 34 young actors and 20 musicians has been rehearsing for the premiere of a new touring production of "West Side Story" at the Deutsches Theater in Munich. This is where the "No. 1 Greatest Musical of All Time" (TheTimes) Performed for the first time in Germany in 1961, just four years after its premiere in Washington. The new production team around Lonny Price ("Sweeney Todd" with Emmy Thompson, "Sunset Boulevard" with Glenn Close)...
