Groupies not stay for breakfast
Jun 21, 2010 Comedy
Groupies not stay for breakfast
Genre: Comedy
Love, Manager, Band, Singer, Paparazzi, Groupie
By chance, learn the 17-year-old Liladen charismatic Chriz and falls instantly head over heels in love with him. Lila is just back from America, where she has lived the last year as an exchange student. She does not know that in Germany now triggers a band called “Berlin Mitte” a mass hysteria among female teens. In particular, Chriz, their lead singer, provides fainting spells and sleepless nights for many girls – so even with younger sister Lila Luzy. As Lila learns, finally, in whom it has since fallen, the complications can not be far behind. Title: Groupies do not stay for breakfast Country of production: , Germany Year of Production: 2010 Distribution: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Germany (# )
Seventh heaven – TV-Tip of the Week
Seventh heaven – TV-Tip of the Week
Genre: Comedy
Psychoanalysis
Is the proverbial “seventh heaven” is also generally considered synonymous with the highest happiness, are the protagonists of this French drama by Benoît Jacquot’s 1997 miles away from this state first. It is the severe crisis of a young woman who represents the starting point of the seventh heaven, which is increasingly a psychological confusion around imaginations, dreams and the so-called reality. Even though her marriage to the well-situated surgeons Nico (Vincent Lindon), this does not need to tilt the distinctive Mathilde (Sandrine Kiberlain) increased to shoplifting and further suffers from fainting spells. While her husband is trying to eliminate this crisis with an appropriate medication quickly, Mathilde looks in their distress in a random acquaintance help quite a mysterious doctor (François Berléand), who specialized in hypnosis. The therapy, which Mathilde now starts with the Hynotiseur proves to be fast to be extremely fruitful: In the context of transparency and processing of their difficult family history wins Mathilde confidence, fresh energy – and a lot more joy in their sex life, what it enters the distrust of her husband Nico who suspects his wife changed so promptly, take a secret lover … In an ironic manner appealing carefully orchestrated Seventh heaven has cleverly calculated to delicious entertainment within a playful production, which plunges not only the wonderfully active characters, but also embraced the audience sometimes belonging in confusion. At the Venice Film Festival for the Golden Lion as well as for a César for Sandrine Kiberlain nominated for Best Actress is Benoît Jacquot (School of desire / L’école de la chair, 1998, Sade, 2000, Marie and Freud and Princess Marie, 2004) with The Seventh Heaven, a film succeeded not because of its impressive history, but in view of the playfulness of his actors and by the cunning use of the director with the apparent reality. (Mary Anderson)
Title: The Seventh Heaven – TV-Tip of the Week Original Title: Le septième ciel Country of production: France Production year: 1997 ( #) Length: 84 (Min.)
Friction
Jun 20, 2010 Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Friction
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Mystery
High School, triangle, students, film in film
Director Cullen Hoback will actually turn a feature film about a married couple and a student who begins an affair with the Ehefau. But while the film is formed blur the boundaries between fiction and reality. What remains is a mixture of documentary and feature film. Title: Friction Country of production: USA Production year: 2009 Length: 89 (Min.)
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Urville
Jun 20, 2010 Comedy, Documentary
Urville
Genre: Documentary
City, Utopia, living together
Is it the ideal city? Who knows? Director Angela Christlieb has certainly been looking after her. And cast a refreshing light-docu-fiction to the screen, which impresses by her loving humor. Urville is many things in one: documentation, because the people who are in it, very real. Fiction, because play fantasies, desires and utopias a central role. Comedy, because the interviewed people are funny guys. And experimental film, because everything is very playful and tells in part with funds alienating. The director goes into its second full-length film on a trip to three French villages, all the hot “Urville”. These small communities are part of only 60 or 150 people still very real, but at the same time mythically inflated. But with swings in the name of “Urville” something like the “Ur-city” or the “Ur-village”, so the thought of a nucleus of all human society. And that is also something of a model or a model or ideal. “Urville” in the Vosges level is the first stop. The place is so small that the mayor first time bring the orphaned sign out of the barn in order to prove to the film crew that it is the right place. In his village would be very harmoniously together, says the cheerful mayor – and adds in the next breath that the world is four kilometers again completely different look. Since we have, therefore, our desire for the peaceful, ideal world, after the idyllic small manageable amid a hostile environment in which everyone can be happy in his own way. Would not that wonderful? Everyone would be free, all have the same rights, no longer would have to be poor and the champagne came from the tap. In our second “Urville” – that is in the Champagne – at least the matter seems to be solved before in the champagne for all. The winery is located there seems to be so good that the villagers the noble brew supposedly get free champagne per line home delivered. This, they say it with incalculable wink, health care will be raised to an unexpected level. Because the help of champagne against both diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. , But also in the third “Urville” must not starve the lucky residents. This is in the Calvados and is, according to the Mayor, the most beautiful village in the world. Here among other things, the world champion of tripe has his business. And who’s culinary specialty is too heavy in the stomach, which can carry at any time with the famous apple brandy from the region of his digestion. Between their village visits – beautifully staged by a loss of control device cuts – the director recordings from another “Urville”. This is a recognizable fictional city, much larger and more colorful than the French province. Here there are, as we are assured that this voice, a life that would make even the proud mayor (s) fade from the real villages with envy. The divorce rate is at 0.7 percent, the prisons were abolished and everyone has a fundamental right to own apartment. This all sounds very funny and clever, these chains have targeted the Association assembled scattered visual joke, too. At the same time directs Angela Christlieb the view of a more universal world of fantasies, legends and stories. What would we be without these excesses, which we know also that they can not stand the test of reality. What would we be without all these strong character types with their sometimes quirky ideas that Angela Christlieb was able to get a surprising number before the camera? What would be our villages and cities without all this variegation of life plans? Perhaps well-organized and planned. But by no means ideal. (Peter Gutting)
Title: Urville Country of production: , Germany, France Year of Production: 2009 Length: 81 (Min.)
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Please Give
Jun 18, 2010 Comedy
Please Give
Genre: Comedy
New York, apartment, conscience, Berlinale 2010, furniture, materialism
Even stupid, a bad conscience. Kate (Catherine Keener is) with old designer furniture and is specialized to sight with her husband Alex (Oliver Platt) to the estate of recently deceased, peddling the best pieces in an exclusive junk shop in New York at the discerning clientele – of course with rich premium. Because she has but the whole thing a queasy feeling, Kate distributed to the homeless in their neighborhood 20-dollar bills as if they were candy, while it is rather stingy of their own teenage daughter. Obviously very politically correct and always with reference to the misery of other people. And then there’s the grim 91-year-old neighbor Andra (Ann Morgan Guilbert) in the apartment next door, speculating on the death of Kate and Alex, to subsequently purchase the apartment and thus increase their own place to live on. Andra is maintained by her granddaughter, Rebecca (Rebecca Hall), while her sister Mary (Amanda Peet) makes no secret of how much her the fate of the old lady does not matter. Much prefer the always starts and plenty solariumgebräunte classified the alcohol beautician an affair with Alex, his relationship with Kate resembles more of a long friendship. , Nicole Holofcener makes with Please Give, which was shown out of competition in the Berlinale competition, continued where they had last left off with Friends with Money: It’s about the neuroses of those who actually have anything to completely even bourgeois existences and their generally relatively trivial issues to sex and the life crises of middle age and the fact that ultimately everything will be fine. Although death and disease occur almost incidentally, also, just like love and the emotional life of a Fünzehnjährigen, which is in the midst of puberty. All this is in part to tremendously witty dialogues and punch lines garnish, reminiscent of Woody Allen’s always a little Annie Hall without ever achieving his Grade. One is talking in an easy way, especially when the cranky old neighbor of Kate and Alex their sardonic views on life are the best, and otherwise just takes no bones about it. However, one has forgotten the whole thing, despite an admirable Catherine Keener also quite quickly – especially in the hectic days of the Berlinale. For the next film is waiting … (Joachim Kurz)
Title: Please Give Country of production: USA Production year: 2010 Length: 87 (Min.) Distribution: ( #) Sony Pictures Releasing
A Serious Man (DVD)
Jun 18, 2010 Comedy, Movie Trailers
A Serious Man (DVD)
Genre: Comedy
Marital crisis, professor, plastic surgery, 1960s, Rabbi, extortion
In its latest strip Burn After Reading, the Coen brothers, a dubious CD-Rom used to branching story to get started. In its latest joint work A Serious Man, it is a Walkman confiscated, at least raises the voltage of the subplot. The story is set in an American suburb in the late sixties, is just as anonymous as the cast of this high-profile ensemble, which the Coens have masterfully in control. Just as the idiosyncratic view of history, is especially a pleasure when exposed analogies and contrasts the loose Done right from the start frame to poetic. How good that the 13 year old Danny Gopnik (Aaron Wolff) thanks to his walkman the corrosive Hebrew lessons with “Somebody to love” can secretly behind his open book drown. Until the orthodox teacher caught him here, and the high-tech device uses it, the camera remains funny in revealing the perspective of dudelnden from the ear music. Then, a meaningful key cut following the ear of the hypochondriacal, depressed father Larry (Michael Stuhlbarg). The doctor may, in its shell but found nothing and dismiss the professor back in his university life and the desperate life crisis. After a grueling seminar is a little later, the Korean Student Clive (David Kang) in his office. He asks Larry for a better grade, so he keeps his scholarship and not fall through. But Larry, who is on the verge of his tenure is not one on the wish of this oddity. “Actions always have consequences,” replied Larry the depressed student, almost sober and philosophical. “Yes, sir … most” Clive replied dryly, leaving an unnoticed envelope with money on his desk before he leaves the room and you do not know if he now runs amok or just taking life. Larry is a loss. And then he is in a painfully long interview with the head of the faculty indicated discreetly, he should not worry because of the tenure. No, not really. Or is it? After his heinous and homeless brother, an unrecognized genius, has now taken root on the couch for hours, empties the sebaceous cysts and Larry’s devious daughter so blocked the bathroom, Larry slowly loses the final nerves. And then also extends his bad-tempered wife, Judith (Sari Lennicke) a divorce, to elope with her new lover, the Wichtigteuer and pest Sy. Judith does Larry still seriously the proposal to move into the local motel “Jolly Roger”. Larry is at the end. The only bright spot furtive glances from the roof to stay in the adjoining garden, where the fries are permissive neighbor in the sun. His son Danny meanwhile, breaks open with its orthodox teachers to the revenue obtained Walkman back. All these actions have any further consequences delicious. Mostly. And, although most of this reach because of their unpredictability daredevil unbelievably funny: When anonymous letters denunciatory the university management, the desired transfer seems to tilt. Everything points to the Koreans. The visit to the rabbi, from which Larry himself had hoped for salvation turns out to be a flop, because this will – despite apparent inaction represented – by an incompetent junior rabbi. The now switched divorce lawyer costs a fortune, a car accident caused by him stemmed Larry to other vast sums and the new husband of his ex-wife, the cost of living, the funeral expenses he intended to take over yet. And in this already horrible existence Larry dreams into nightmares further that blend beautifully with what’s happening, because they appear merely as a digression within an already bitter dream. A Serious Man is created in addition to this search for meaning and a normal life of a people which came at the same time telling a graceful study of the absurdity of Judaism, not to annoy, without ostensibly to make fun of. On the contrary, one could say: The film takes its characters and its extremely seriously, so that one is inclined quickly, even outside of fiction quite natural to start from the (real) existence of these figures. An excellent character witness for credibility, but is based also on the faces and all, are rather unknown. The constantly create significant persistence of narrative, the style will consistently held out, the sometimes mischievous tone and leave unforgettable moments of reflection and the humor that you might see in a form so pure and brilliant, unfortunately, rare. The Coen’s latest coup is a real hit – I’m serious. (Malte Can)
Title: A Serious Man (DVD) Country of production: USA Production year: 2009 Length: 98 (Min.) (# ) Published at: Universum Film format: 16:9 tone / language: Dolby Digital 5.1, German, English EAN: 886 974 461 593 Tools : , featurettes, trailers and TV spots (dt & engl.), interviews, B-Roll, Making Of
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Middle Men
Jun 16, 2010 Comedy, Criminal, Drama
Middle Men
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Crime
Business idea, gangster, FBI, Internet, porn
1995: The world marvels at a new invention – the Internet. The businessman Jack Harris has a flourishing company and a happy family when he meets Wayne Beering and Buck Dolby, which present him with an idea of how to earn money with the new medium: it sold pornography. Jack takes over the management of the company very soon rolling in cash. But success also come the problems, because all want a piece of the pie. And soon Jack is caught in a web of porn stars, gangsters and the FBI. Title: Middle Men Country of production: USA Production year: 2009 Length: 105 (Min.)
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Little Nick
Jun 16, 2010 Comedy
Little Nick
Genre: Comedy
Family Relationship, 1950s, students, fears
Little Nick leads a peaceful life: He has parents who love him, a clique of fabulous friends – and he has absolutely no desire to change that something. But one day overheard a conversation between his parents Nick and thinks now that his mother was pregnant. He panics and fears the worst: a little brother! Nick’s parents have no time for him. Maybe they will expose him even in the forest, such as Tom Thumb in fairy tales. To avoid this unfortunate fate, the small Nick designed a strategy to stand up for his parents is indispensable. But although he does its best, he enters into a faux pas after another, conjuring up over time more and more trouble. Title: The Little Nick Country of production: France Production year: 2009 Length: 90 (Min.) Distribution: Central Film
Men Who Stare at Goats (DVD)
Jun 16, 2010 Comedy
Men Who Stare at Goats (DVD)
Genre: Comedy
Special unit, the Iraq war, psychological warfare
To bizarre to be true. This would think when you hear of the attempts of the U.S. Army, extrasensory perception and telepathy in the war use. But experiments like trying to walk through a wall or kill a hamster by staring, were in the sixties, seventies and eighties, actually carried out by the U.S. military and the CIA. The journalist Jon Ronson has revealed the same non-fiction, Peter Straughan packed into a screenplay and filmed Grant Heslov (screenwriter of Good Night, and Good Luck) for the big screen. So who are the hippie men who can kill with looks? As a small-town reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) gets the story of the supernatural “Jedi Warriors” to his ears, he may not believe it at first. However, in the hope of “hot food” he goes into the track. He seeks the former spy Gus Lacey (Stephen Root), who initiates into the secret operations of the past. Bob believes him nothing, and would forget the whole thing, if not the sudden death of a colleague and his separation from his wife he would be completely thrown off course. In search of diversion, he will try his luck as a war reporter in Iraq. But he does not receive entry permission and sit down for weeks in a Kuwaiti hotel – until he accidentally Lyn Cassady (George Clooney with a mustache!) To know. A name that was associated with the fanciful stories of the spy Gus Lacey. With Lyn Cassady takes the fate of the reporter run its course. In a joint trip to the wilderness of Iraq reported Cassady that started it all. As Bill Django (Jeff Bridges), who later became chief guru of the New Earth Army in the Vietnam war failed and now employed with alternative methods of struggle. How to dance the freedom fighters or barefoot over hot coals had to run. As they tried with LSD to expand their consciousness. Lyn Cassady was a star of the Force – turn out much to the chagrin of Larry Hooper (Kevin Spacey), whose paranormal talents rather miserably. Cassady told and told, leads some of his supernatural capable, and overlooks the prompt the only obstacle in sight. The two are stuck, are kidnapped and rescued instead end up as prisoners in an American camp. Cassady is now once again asked to bring his unorthodox fighting techniques are used. You feel a little bit on the weird stories of the Coen brothers, recalls similar comical and satirical are also films like Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and Three Kings – It’s nice to be king, in which George Clooney also played a leading role. No wonder he was excited by this script, which he produced together with Heslov. The two have known each other from Good Night, and Good Luck, for which she wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay together. It is credited, not least, Clooney, the film attracted so many stars and gathered behind the camera’s excellent staff. Sun characterized as Robert Elswitt responsible for the images, the cameraman, who was Will There Be Blood for an Oscar and also for Good Night, and Good Luck was behind the camera. The cast alone is worth the way to the movies. Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Ewan McGregor and Clooney shine in their roles naturally. Nevertheless, the film sometimes do not know really what he wants to be and sometimes oscillates between parody and sincerity back and forth. Again and again he slips and falls into the absurd one gag to the next. Still, who fast entertainment, great actors and the absurd with the cinema like is in this film the best of hands. (Katrin Knauth)
Title: Men Who Stare at Goats (DVD) Original Title: The Men Who Stare at Goats Country of production: USA Production year: 2009 Length: 89 (Min.) Published at: Kinowelt Home Entertainment format: 16:9 tone / language: Dolby Digital 5.1 , German, English EAN: 4006680051130 Extras: Audio Commentary by Grant Heslov and John Ronson, character biographies, deleted scenes, photo gallery, Goats Declassified: The true men of the 1st Battalion, press release (PDF), Project “Hollywood”: A secret report from the set, turn cover
Humpday
Jun 15, 2010 Comedy
Humpday
Genre: Comedy
Male friendship, sexuality, challenge, bet
After college, the paths have separated the two friends Ben (Mark Duplass) and Andrew (Joshua Leonard). While the former are in the meantime, a comfortable, middle-life with a steady job, a wife, a house and perhaps even soon established with offspring, maintains Andrew still a student-bohemian life between trips around the world and rather vague attempts to live by his art. When the art of living on one of his many trips to Ben one night unexpectedly at the door, the joy is great. The unexpected appearance of his friend and his cheerful insouciance makes it clear to Ben that he has chosen the easy path and that he sometimes just lack this facility. Is that possible yet to break out – regardless of the consequences of the bourgeois existence, and then return to calmly back into the nest made? Precisely this question, Ben will make soon. And she takes him as the alleged freethinker Andrew in quite a “scrape”. If a party in an artist-WG is Ben that is already plenty tipsy, the idea of a film festival for amateur porn join in – and with a work that shows him and the community Andrew Marriage. As the two friends were naturally really straight stock, the whole thing had nothing to do with being gay, of course, but serves only to let the boundaries of convention behind them, we are assured each other. Now only thing missing is the consent of Ben’s wife, Anna (Alycia Delmore), and the company can begin. But the closer the deadline, the more difficult the situation for the two friends. Can she even back yet, without admitting that they are stuffy, as if they want to admit it? And behind the proposal is not unusual but perhaps more than it seems? What sounds at first glance like a slightly obscene version of a rather schlichthumorigen works such as American Pie and other postpubertal works, turns out on closer inspection to be very charming indie comedy, the life plans and models of the generation 30 + ruthlessly takes a close look at without her characters to reveal or expose too much. It is wonderful to watch these two men as they pursue their ideals, are trying at all costs apparently lost time and thereby maneuver in a seemingly hopeless situation at the end of it in the truest sense of the word, let down your pants and show your colors need. Given the distortions and self-questioning that arises from the idiotic idea gets out, the superficial question of whether Ben and Andrew “will be” at the end actually do over time more and more a sideshow ( at least for the audience) – and provides nevertheless ensure that the tension is maintained on cryptic-clever way. Not only because Humpday is recognized as an extraordinary and intelligently entertaining comedy in which the true joy (and horror) for some viewers is that they are frequently condemned it can again. (Joachim Kurz)
Title: Humpday Country of production: USA Production year: 2009 Length: 94 (Min.) Distribution: (# ) Fugu Film Distribution
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