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The Week in Germany: Culture November 3, 2006 Live from New York! - New German Films This week, TWIG brings you a film special straight from New York featuring interviews with three German directors. TWIG editor Karen Carstens traveled from the German Information Center in Washington to Manhattan for the October 26 opening of the "Kino!2006 New German Films" series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Chris Kraus' "Four Minutes" (Vier Minuten) was enthusiastically received by an audience of New Yorkers, whose tastes surely cannot be called into question. Carstens spoke with Kraus, who hopes to bring his film to a wider American audience next year. She also interviewed Michael Verhoeven, whose riveting documentary "The Unknown Soldier" (Der unbekannte Soldat), for which he has been honored by Brandeis University, had its US premiere at the Kino!2006 filmfest. And a conversation with Valeska Grisebach, director of "Longing" (Sehnsucht), sheds light on her motivation in crafting a romantic fable of lust and loss. A long tradition of German cinema MoMA has been screening German films for over a quarter century. This was the 27th annual ode to German cinema at the museum, with an impressive line-up of feature-length films presenting new talent. It also brought back revered veterans such as Verhoeven and actress Hanna Schygulla (Winter Journey), and included a short film section that has become a Kino! staple.
"We have other film series showcasing movies from other countries," Laurence Kardish, senior curator of MoMA's film and media department told TWIG in New York. "But no program is quite as comprehensive as our German film series. Germany has a long tradition of fine filmmaking." That includes documentaries: Back in Berlin, Philip Gröning's "Die grosse Stille" (The big Silence) has just won the European Film Prize for the best documentary film of the year. In 160 minutes, it delves deeply into the meditative lives of reclusive monks living in the French Alps. Awarded by the Berlin-based European Film Academy, this year's European film prizes will be presented on December 2 in Warsaw. European film goes to Washington Meanwhile, just outside Washington, D.C., the 2006 European Union Film Showcase at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center began on Thursday. A German film worth watching for in the eclectic lineup from 21 EU member states is Hans Christian Schmid's "Requiem". And coming soon to a future TWIG issue just for you will be an exclusive interview by TWIG editor David Brown with Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, director of the award-winning "The Lives of Others" (Das Leben der Anderen), which will have its US premiere at the EU filmfest and is due to open in movie theatres across the country in February 2007. We hope you enjoy our coverage of German films! Your TWIG team, David Brown and Karen Carstens MoMA's Kino!2006 German film survey was organized in collaboration
with Munich-based German Films and was presented with the support of the
Goethe Institut New York and the German Consulate General New York. Links:
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