“The opposite of politically correct, totally unwoke”
The great Klaus Lemke is dead – outlaw filmmaker, also in his own life a border crosser between fiction and truth, 81-year-old street kid. Until the end he lived in a small attic apartment...
The Godfather star James Caan has died at the age of 82
The US actor James Caan, known from the classic film "The Godfather", is dead. He died at the age of 82, as his manager announced on Thursday. "It is with great sadness that we...
The Empress is without makeup!
When Empress Elisabeth of Austria, also known as Sisi, is greeted by friends in England in the film "Corsage" while fleeing the demands of the Viennese court, someone introduces himself as "Spencer" - and...
At the pump with Thomas Gottschalk
A classic, cynics would define, is a book or film whose title everyone knows and is happy to use in conversation—but whose content and meaning have largely been lost over time. There are likely...
It could all be completely different
As is well known, in order to produce something really great, every single cell is important. If, 3.8 billion years ago, at a club party in the depths of the ocean, a pastel amoeba-like...
Why “Top Gun” could soon disappear from cinemas
In 1983 none of this existed, the YouTube videos from the pilot's cockpit, the training films, the flight simulators. But the May 1983 issue of California Magazine ran a long article that began with...
The war that never ended
Hiroo Onoda is barely twenty years old when his special talent is discovered. It is rare and precious, especially in times of war: He can survive. In Japan in 1944, however, this advantage can...
“On good days, I part with something that hurts me”
At 14 she was "Christiane F.", at 16 fleeing media hype, first to London and then to Paris, and at 31 she began writing screenplays. Now, at 55, Natja Brunckhorst has directed her first...
Actor Ray Liotta dies aged 67
Actor Ray Liotta has died. This was reported by several US media on Thursday. Liotta was 67 years old.His agent told The Hollywood Reporter that the actor died while he was sleeping. She did...
Like Basic Instinct without sex
A new film from Korean champions Park Chan-wook is like a Cristiano Ronaldo free-kick. Already three quarters of an hour before admission on the picturesque and turbulent Croisette of Cannes, the admirers are queuing,...
