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German movies of the 1970s will forever be linked with the New German Cinema movement, the auteur directors — led by the likes of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorff — who shook the country out of its postwar stupor. “Papa’s Kino ist tot” (‘Papa’s cinema’s is dead’) was their motto, and they held radical new visions of what movies could do.

But alongside this art house wave, ’70s Germany also was a breeding ground for a cruder, more commercial strain of cinema, one that took inspiration from sexploitation and spaghetti Westerns, biker films and grindhouse horror and grafted it onto the zeitgeist-y themes of political upheaval and sexual liberation. The Berlinale pays tribute to this seldom-seen oeuvre of German genre cinema in its 2025 retrospective, which features 15 titles — cult classics and curios from both East and West Germany — that prove that German film could also be “wild,...

The Berlin International Film Festival has unveiled the first wave of titles for its 75th edition, including features in its Panorama, Berlinale Special and Generation strands.

An initial 12 titles have been revealed for Panorama, of which eight are world premieres. These include Paul, a documentary by Canadian filmmaker Denis Cote, who has played in competition at Berlin four times with titles including Vic + Flo Saw A Bear and That Kind Of Summer. His latest follows a man struggling with social anxiety who finds refuge in serving women who invite him to clean their homes.

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Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSMichael Mann on the set of HeatMichael Mann has stated that he wishes to continue the Heat saga with a big-screen sequel, and maybe even a television series. Mann has also "two-thirds" of a novel that is both a prequel and sequel to the iconic film. At the Venice Film Festival, Brian De Palma discussed his forthcoming thriller that uses the "Harvey Weinstein era" as a "historical backdrop." The current title for the project is Predator. One last potential movie we'd like to see: the ever-absent Richard Kelly, director of Donnie Darko, is rumored to be entering production on a biopic about The Twilight Zone creator Rob Serling.Recommended VIEWINGRoy Andersson's dreamy About Endlessness depicts "a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human" in a string of interconnected lives. The official trailer for Ema,...

Mubi's retrospective The Captive Man: Roland Klick's Neo-Genre Cinema is showing September 2 – November 8, 2019 in the United States.DeadlockEvery film culture, probably, has that one maverick genius defying induction into the national cinema pantheon—that one auteur seemingly every generation has to re-discover. Well, that's the wrong word, really—re-embrace feels better, more to the point. In the Federal Republic of Germany, that eternal wild card would be Roland Klick: the master without pupils proper, the director who wasn't able to create a career for himself. The latter is actually meant to be understood in double-edged way: as it is an interesting question whether the obstacles put into his pathway were simply too huge to push aside, or whether Klick, due to his character, was his own stumbling block. About the former we can say: While his contribution to Young German Cinema was officially cherished by certain cinephiles and audiences alike,...

Consider West German cinema and the familiar crop of names will rear its head: Fassbinder, Wenders, Herzog, Schlondorff… and, barring expertise, it’s here that the gas starts running low. To our fortune, New York’s Quad Cinema (working with programmers Dominik Graf and Olaf Möller) are about to commence the delightfully named” Fighting Mad: German Genre Films from the Margins,” which seeks exposure for an entire swath of, to quote Graf, “masters of the expressive, the outrageous, the subversive – they show how it looks and feels when the proverbial Teutonic order collapses and things go ballistic.”

If you aren’t in New York City, allow their program list to be your signpost and their trailer–which the Quad have kindly offered us as an exclusive–a peek at what awaits. Taking in its swirl of antiquated fashion, gunshots, blood smears, and screaming (so much screaming) will have you, at the very least,...

The series includes I Am Sion Sono!!.

The Forum strand of the Berlinale (Feb 11-21) has completed its programme with a series of Special Screenings.

Artist Ulrike Ottinger’s 12-hour film Chamisso’s Shadow (Chamissos Schatten) opens this year’s Forum with a mammoth screening at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele on Feb 12. At the end of the festival, it will be repeated in three separate parts at CineStar at Potsdamer Platz.

Under the title “Hachimiri Madness – Japanese Indies from the Punk Years”, the Forum is showing a series of newly digitised and subtitled Japanese 8-mm films from 1977 to 1990.

Many of the highest profile directors Japan has to offer today made their debut features in this format but very few of them have ever been shown internationally. The series was jointly curated by Keiko Araki (Pia Tokyo), Jacob Wong (Hong Kong Film Festival) and Christoph Terhechte (Berlinale Forum).

The series includes Sion Sono’s I am Sion...

Retrospective to include around 20 East and West German feature and documentary films from cinema and television.

The Retrospective of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 11-21) is to be dedicated to the year 1966, a year considered to be a turning point in German cinema.

“The year 1966 stands for extraordinary films in the West and the East, films which broke new artistic ground,” said Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick.

“The Retrospective 2016 shows the audacious revolt and tentative exploration in a time of transition.”

The strand will include around 20 East and West German feature and documentary films from cinema and television. Additionally, more than 30 films of short and medium length - a typical format at the time - will feature in film programmes and as supporting films.

In 1966, the New German Cinema wave received critical acclaim at major film festivals for the first time.

At the Berlinale, Peter Schamoni’s debut No Shooting Time for Foxes (Schonzeit für Füchse) won a...

Take One Action | Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival | Into Unknown Territory: The Cinema Of Roland Klick | Raindance Film Festival

Take One Action, Edinburgh & Glasgow

Think globally and watch locally with this respected social action festival. There are big topics here, addressed through drama and documentary and invariably accompanied by panel discussions. A new "Sisters" strand puts women's stories to the fore but the opener, Fire In The Blood, takes a detailed look at Big Pharma and its control over medical drugs. Elsewhere, nuclear orthodoxy is challenged in Pandora's Promise, and other topics up for inspection include Russian politics, HIV and urbanisation.

Edinburgh Filmhouse & Glasgow Film Theatre, Fri to 12 Oct

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival

The tourist-friendly Northumberland border town has found an ingenious way of attracting visitors: by turning the whole town into a "living cinema". New video artworks and site-specific installations have been commissioned for some of Berwick-upon-Tweed's celebrated landmarks.

Professor Stephen Hawking helped launch the Cambridge Film Festival with a Q&A broadcast to 70 cinemas nationwide and messages from Sir Richard Branson, Morgan Freeman and the cast of The Big Bang Theory.

The 33rd Cambridge Film Festival (Cff) opened last night [Sept 19] with a special gala screening of Hawking presented by the documentary’s subject, Professor Stephen Hawking.

The gala Q&A was broadcast live by Vertigo Films to 70 Picturehouse, Everyman, Empire, Vue and independent cinemas across the UK and Ireland after the screening of the film, making it the first Cff event to have a live Q&A broadcast nationwide.

The film about the life and work of the world’s most famous living scientist is told in Hawking’s own words and by those closest to him.

Special guests at the opening night gala included his sister Dr. Mary Hawking: physicist Kip Thorne; Walt Woltosz, the founder of Word+ who developed the computer software...

Professor Stephen Hawking helped launch the Cambridge Film Festival with a Q&A broadcast to 70 cinemas nationwide and messages from Sir Richard Branson, Morgan Freeman and the cast of The Big Bang Theory.

The 33rd Cambridge Film Festival (Cff) opened last night [Sept 19] with a special gala screening of Hawking presented by the documentary’s subject, Professor Stephen Hawking.

The gala Q&A was broadcast live by Vertigo Films to 70 Picturehouse, Everyman, Empire, Vue and independent cinemas across the UK and Ireland after the screening of the film, making it the first Cff event to have a live Q&A broadcast nationwide.

The film about the life and work of the world’s most famous living scientist is told in Hawking’s own words and by those closest to him.

Special guests at the opening night gala included his sister Dr. Mary Hawking: physicist Kip Thorne; Walt Woltosz, the founder of Word+ who developed the computer software...

My Noir | Urban Wandering: Film And The London Landscape | Cambridge Film Festival | Encounters

My Noir, Manchester

Film noir's hard-boiled loners certainly suit late-night viewing, so what better way to start this celebration of double crosses and femmes fatales than a 24-hour "noirathon". Starting with Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (paired with an exhibition), the weekend marathon brings classics old and new, from Out Of The Past to Brick, ending somewhat aptly with The Big Sleep, plus special events such as writer Walter Mosley talking about the adaptation of his Devil In A Blue Dress (16 Oct).

Cornerhouse, Sat to 29 Dec

Urban Wandering: Film And The London Landscape, London

Like the capital itself, this promising season is sprawling, eclectic and difficult to get a handle on. It's a survey of the changes the city has experienced postwar, via a myriad of media, but above all, cinema. The guest list is a...

Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now will close the festival, which has assembled it largest programme to date.

The 33rd Cambridge Film Festival (Sept 19-29) has unveiled its 2013 line-up, comprising 150 titles from 40 countries.

As previously announced, Professor Stephen Hawking will attend the opening night gala of documentary Hawking, which will be broadcast live to more than 60 screens across the UK.

The festival will close with Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now, an Orwellian vision of a post-apocalyptic future starring Saoirse Ronan and George MacKay.

Alongside Hawking, other special guests to the festival will include directors Lucy Walker (The Crash Reel), Roland Klick (Deadlock), Mark Levinson (Particle Fever), Julien Temple (Oil City Confidential), Ramon Zürcher (The Strange Little Cat), Małgośka Szumowska (In The Name Of), Marzin Malaszczak (Sieniawka), Matt Hulse (Dummy Jim) and Andrew Mudge (The Forgotten Kingdom), Bob Stanley, John Pearse and actress Stephanie Stremler (Dust On Our Heart).

Strands include Young Americans, aimed at showcasing...

Famed scientist Stephen Hawking to present the Stephen Finnigan-directed documentary in Cambridge.

The 33rd Cambridge Film Festival, which runs from September 19-29, is to open with documentary Hawking.

Told in his own words and by those closest to him, the film relays Professor Stephen Hawking’s journey from boyhood underachiever, to PhD genius, to being diagnosed with Motor Neurone disease and given just two years to live. Despite the constant threat of death, Hawking has risen to fame and stardom and continues to make scientific discoveries.

Review: Hawking

The professor, best-selling author (A Brief History of Time) and Cambridge resident will present the film in person on September 19.

Stephen Finnigan, BAFTA-nominated series producer of The Choir: Military Wives, directs the Channel 4 and PBS co-production, which is produced by Darlow Smithson Productions (Dsp).

It received its world premiere at SXSW in March and the UK rights have been secured by Vertigo Films. It is also...