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 in Schwabing, where he had...
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 announce the death of Jimmy...
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 one involuntarily thinks of the...
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 to be readers who sigh...
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 creature hadn't suggested rather clumsily...
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 words, "At Mach 2...
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 also be used negatively, as...
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 feature film: "Everything in the...
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 not give any further details....
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, in anticipation of a feat...