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Murmur, the new horror movie from indie filmmaker Mark Polish, will have its world premiere at the Oldenburg Film Festival, the fall event known as “Germany’s Sundance.”
Polish is best known as one half, with brother Michael, of the writing/directing team The Polish brothers, whose credits include Sundance hit Twin Falls, Idaho (1999), Jackpot (2001), The Astronaut Farmer (2006) and The Smell of Success. Michael Polish has typically taken over directing duties on Polish brothers films, with Mark playing a lead role and both siblings sharing screenwriting credits.
Mark Polish first stepped behind the camera for Headlock (2019), his feature debut starring Andy Garcia, Dianna Agron and James Frain.
Murmur, which he wrote and directed, follows a group of social media stars who become guinea pigs for a new app that breaks down the boundaries between reality and fantasy. Polish’s daughter Logan Polish, of...
Murmur, the new horror movie from indie filmmaker Mark Polish, will have its world premiere at the Oldenburg Film Festival, the fall event known as “Germany’s Sundance.”
Polish is best known as one half, with brother Michael, of the writing/directing team The Polish brothers, whose credits include Sundance hit Twin Falls, Idaho (1999), Jackpot (2001), The Astronaut Farmer (2006) and The Smell of Success. Michael Polish has typically taken over directing duties on Polish brothers films, with Mark playing a lead role and both siblings sharing screenwriting credits.
Mark Polish first stepped behind the camera for Headlock (2019), his feature debut starring Andy Garcia, Dianna Agron and James Frain.
Murmur, which he wrote and directed, follows a group of social media stars who become guinea pigs for a new app that breaks down the boundaries between reality and fantasy. Polish’s daughter Logan Polish, of...
- 8/17/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jodorowsky actor directorial debut to be presented at new co-production event; Reygadas curates for Filmfest Hamburg.
Argentinian actor Leandro Taub’s directorial debut The Dream of the Guest and Slovenian filmmaker Jan Cvitkovic’s new feature film Mercedes Fire Horse are among the projects to be presented at a new co-production event, the Matchbox Coproduction Lounge, during this year’s Oldenburg International Film Festival (Sept 14-18).
Matchbox’s inaugural edition will also present Buddy Giovinazzo’s Potsdamer Platz which had been the last project, which the late Tony Scott had optioned to direct.
Taub, who was a lead actor in veteran Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Cannes competition film Endless Poetry this year, wrote the screenplay for the comedy drama which centres on how a family’s life changes dramatically when a special guest, claiming to be building a space ship, moves into their home to “confront them” with his strong belief in the possibility of the...
Argentinian actor Leandro Taub’s directorial debut The Dream of the Guest and Slovenian filmmaker Jan Cvitkovic’s new feature film Mercedes Fire Horse are among the projects to be presented at a new co-production event, the Matchbox Coproduction Lounge, during this year’s Oldenburg International Film Festival (Sept 14-18).
Matchbox’s inaugural edition will also present Buddy Giovinazzo’s Potsdamer Platz which had been the last project, which the late Tony Scott had optioned to direct.
Taub, who was a lead actor in veteran Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Cannes competition film Endless Poetry this year, wrote the screenplay for the comedy drama which centres on how a family’s life changes dramatically when a special guest, claiming to be building a space ship, moves into their home to “confront them” with his strong belief in the possibility of the...
- 8/22/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Germany’s film producers have expressed ¨exceptional regret¨ at learning that Angela Merkel’s cabinet has proposed reducing the annual budget for the Dfff ¨German spend¨ incentive by another €10m to €50m in the global federal budget for 2015.
In a first reaction, the German Producers Alliance said that it welcomed the statement by the new State Minister for Culture and Media Monika Grütters that she would push in future budget negotiations for the current level of €60m to be retained.
However, the German film community had already been disappointed by Bernd Neumann’s successor earlier this year when she seem to go back on pronouncements made at the Berlinale in February to keep the Dfff’s budget at €70m when she indicated at the German Film Awards in May that €60m would be her goal.
It remains to be seen whether she has the political clout to hold her own - and the interests of the German...
In a first reaction, the German Producers Alliance said that it welcomed the statement by the new State Minister for Culture and Media Monika Grütters that she would push in future budget negotiations for the current level of €60m to be retained.
However, the German film community had already been disappointed by Bernd Neumann’s successor earlier this year when she seem to go back on pronouncements made at the Berlinale in February to keep the Dfff’s budget at €70m when she indicated at the German Film Awards in May that €60m would be her goal.
It remains to be seen whether she has the political clout to hold her own - and the interests of the German...
- 7/4/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Though it's been likened to the early Roman Polanski classic Knife In The Water, presumably because they both involve sailboats, Summer '04 isn't really a thriller per se, but it has the unnerving tension of one. If comparisons must be made, it's actually more like a European version of The Ice Storm: Both are morality tales about the limits of permissiveness, and both build to an accident of stunning consequence. But Summer '04 is subtler and more insinuating, and less burdened by a puritanical urge to judge. German director Stefan Krohmer does seem to view some of the film's relationships as inappropriate or hypocritical, but he isn't given to generalizing too far beyond the five characters in immediate focus. His film is about people first, and social statements a distant second. Projecting an earthy sexiness that's just right for a woman torn between temptation and maternal responsibility, Martina...
- 6/18/2008
- by Scott Tobias
- avclub.com
Cinema Guild
NEW YORK -- This drama from German director Stefan Krohmer detailing the emotional and romantic complications during a family's summer vacation displays a subtlety that ultimately detracts from its effectiveness. Although intelligent and insightful, Summer '04 is also more than just a little bit dull. The film recently received its U.S. theatrical premiere at New York's Film Forum.
Miriam (Martina Gedeck, recently seen in "The Lives of Others") and Andre (Peter Davor) are a well-preserved fortysomething married couple vacationing on the Baltic Coast with their 15-year-old son, Niels (Lucas Kotaranin), and his precociously sexual 12-year-old friend, Livia (Svea Lohde). Although Miriam prides herself on her liberal attitudes, she becomes more than a little disconcerted when she suspects Livia of having a sexual relationship with Bill Robert Seeliger), a German-American living next door.
But when she decides to get to the bottom of the situation, she finds herself increasingly drawn to the handsome stranger, with a torrid sexual affair resulting.
Reminiscent of "Knife in the Water", even if it lacks the coiled tension of that Polanski classic, "Summer '04" ultimately emerges as a perceptive exploration of domestic ennui and complicated family dynamics. It also boasts a genuine eroticism in its depiction of the sexual passion between Miriam and her younger lover, with Gedeck delivering a terrific performance as a middle-aged woman rediscovering her sexuality. But the film ultimately suffers from lackadaisical pacing, contrived plot elements and the familiarity of its themes, with the result that it never quite delivers on its promise.
NEW YORK -- This drama from German director Stefan Krohmer detailing the emotional and romantic complications during a family's summer vacation displays a subtlety that ultimately detracts from its effectiveness. Although intelligent and insightful, Summer '04 is also more than just a little bit dull. The film recently received its U.S. theatrical premiere at New York's Film Forum.
Miriam (Martina Gedeck, recently seen in "The Lives of Others") and Andre (Peter Davor) are a well-preserved fortysomething married couple vacationing on the Baltic Coast with their 15-year-old son, Niels (Lucas Kotaranin), and his precociously sexual 12-year-old friend, Livia (Svea Lohde). Although Miriam prides herself on her liberal attitudes, she becomes more than a little disconcerted when she suspects Livia of having a sexual relationship with Bill Robert Seeliger), a German-American living next door.
But when she decides to get to the bottom of the situation, she finds herself increasingly drawn to the handsome stranger, with a torrid sexual affair resulting.
Reminiscent of "Knife in the Water", even if it lacks the coiled tension of that Polanski classic, "Summer '04" ultimately emerges as a perceptive exploration of domestic ennui and complicated family dynamics. It also boasts a genuine eroticism in its depiction of the sexual passion between Miriam and her younger lover, with Gedeck delivering a terrific performance as a middle-aged woman rediscovering her sexuality. But the film ultimately suffers from lackadaisical pacing, contrived plot elements and the familiarity of its themes, with the result that it never quite delivers on its promise.
- 8/14/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
COLOGNE, Germany -- Oscar-nominated Stasi drama The Lives Of Others, fragrant blockbuster Perfume: The Story of a Murderer and controversial comedy "Mein Fuehrer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler" are among the titles selected for the Berlinale's European Film Market's German Cinema showcase.
The lineup, which provides a cross-section of the most successful and critically acclaimed German-language films of the past year -- along with a few new titles -- includes Marcus H. Rosenmueller's sleeper hit Grave Decisions; Chris Kraus' award-winning 4 Minutes; Matthias Luthardt's Pingpong, which won the screenwriting award in Cannes; and Ralf Westhoff's speed-dating comedy Shoppen, which was snapped up for German release by X Verleih following its debut at the Hof Film days.
The 17 titles picked for this year's showcase will be screened at the CinemaxX 1 cinema Feb. 9-17.
A full list of German Cinema titles follows.
A Friend Of Mine Sebastian Schipper (sales: Telepool)
Emma's Bliss Sven Taddicken (sales: The Match Factory)
4 Minutes Chris Kraus (sales: Beta Cinema)
Grave Decisions Marcus H. Rosenmueller (sales: Beta Cinema)
Mein Fuhrer Dani Levy (sales: Beta Cinema)
Neandertal Ingo Haeb, Jan-Christoph Glaser (sales: Rommel Film)
Offset Didi Danquart (sales: Bavaria Film International)
"Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" Tom Tykwer (sales: Summit Film Sales)
Pingpong Matthias Luthardt (sales: Media Luna Entertainment)
Shoppen Ralf Westhoff (sales: Drife Prods.)
Summer '04 Stefan Krohmer (sales: Bavaria Film International)
The Cloud Gregor Schnitzler (sales: Bavaria Film International)
The Last Train Joseph Vilsmaier, Dana Vavrova (sales: Telepool)
The Lives Of Others Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (sales: Beta Cinema)
Warchild Christian Wagner (sales: Christian Wagner Film)
While You Are Here Stefan Westerwelle (sales: Kunsthochschule fuer Medien KHM)...
The lineup, which provides a cross-section of the most successful and critically acclaimed German-language films of the past year -- along with a few new titles -- includes Marcus H. Rosenmueller's sleeper hit Grave Decisions; Chris Kraus' award-winning 4 Minutes; Matthias Luthardt's Pingpong, which won the screenwriting award in Cannes; and Ralf Westhoff's speed-dating comedy Shoppen, which was snapped up for German release by X Verleih following its debut at the Hof Film days.
The 17 titles picked for this year's showcase will be screened at the CinemaxX 1 cinema Feb. 9-17.
A full list of German Cinema titles follows.
A Friend Of Mine Sebastian Schipper (sales: Telepool)
Emma's Bliss Sven Taddicken (sales: The Match Factory)
4 Minutes Chris Kraus (sales: Beta Cinema)
Grave Decisions Marcus H. Rosenmueller (sales: Beta Cinema)
Mein Fuhrer Dani Levy (sales: Beta Cinema)
Neandertal Ingo Haeb, Jan-Christoph Glaser (sales: Rommel Film)
Offset Didi Danquart (sales: Bavaria Film International)
"Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" Tom Tykwer (sales: Summit Film Sales)
Pingpong Matthias Luthardt (sales: Media Luna Entertainment)
Shoppen Ralf Westhoff (sales: Drife Prods.)
Summer '04 Stefan Krohmer (sales: Bavaria Film International)
The Cloud Gregor Schnitzler (sales: Bavaria Film International)
The Last Train Joseph Vilsmaier, Dana Vavrova (sales: Telepool)
The Lives Of Others Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (sales: Beta Cinema)
Warchild Christian Wagner (sales: Christian Wagner Film)
While You Are Here Stefan Westerwelle (sales: Kunsthochschule fuer Medien KHM)...
- 1/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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