This post contains spoilers for the first four episodes of "Mrs. Davis."
"Mrs. Davis" is a trip. The new show from "Lost" co-creator Damon Lindelof and "The Big Bang Theory" writer Tara Hernandez is so strange, its own star recently described it on "The Daily Show" as "like a Rubix Cube had sex with a haunted calculator." And you know what? Betty Gilpin's not wrong there; "Mrs. Davis" is a wacky exploration of faith and technology driven by absurd, algorithmically generated details that turn out to be integral to a mission to change the world.
So much happens in the four episodes of "Mrs. Davis" that dropped on Peacock this week that it's enough to make you need a break to process. That's exactly what Simone (Gilpin) takes in the fourth episode when a series of increasingly zany clues lead her to the Vatican, where she's told to deliver...
"Mrs. Davis" is a trip. The new show from "Lost" co-creator Damon Lindelof and "The Big Bang Theory" writer Tara Hernandez is so strange, its own star recently described it on "The Daily Show" as "like a Rubix Cube had sex with a haunted calculator." And you know what? Betty Gilpin's not wrong there; "Mrs. Davis" is a wacky exploration of faith and technology driven by absurd, algorithmically generated details that turn out to be integral to a mission to change the world.
So much happens in the four episodes of "Mrs. Davis" that dropped on Peacock this week that it's enough to make you need a break to process. That's exactly what Simone (Gilpin) takes in the fourth episode when a series of increasingly zany clues lead her to the Vatican, where she's told to deliver...
- 4/20/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Road to Nowhere: Von Trotta Presents the Basics on Bachmann
Throughout her career, Margarethe Von Trotta, a key figure from the New German Wave of the 1970s, has often focused on the recuperations of specific iconic women, from Rosa Luxembourg to Hildegard von Bingen to Hannah Arendt, usually with exceptional results. Her latest focuses on esteemed Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann and her toxic relationship with Swiss writer Max Frisch in Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert, detailing their relationship in the late 1950s.
Unfortunately, for those unfamiliar with Bachmann, this isn’t a helpful entry point, dealing specifically, and through surprisingly superficial flourishes, never conjuring either the actual impetus of this relationship or a clear portrait of the artist herself.…...
Throughout her career, Margarethe Von Trotta, a key figure from the New German Wave of the 1970s, has often focused on the recuperations of specific iconic women, from Rosa Luxembourg to Hildegard von Bingen to Hannah Arendt, usually with exceptional results. Her latest focuses on esteemed Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann and her toxic relationship with Swiss writer Max Frisch in Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert, detailing their relationship in the late 1950s.
Unfortunately, for those unfamiliar with Bachmann, this isn’t a helpful entry point, dealing specifically, and through surprisingly superficial flourishes, never conjuring either the actual impetus of this relationship or a clear portrait of the artist herself.…...
- 2/20/2023
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Let us now praise famous women” could serve as a pithy summation of the work of Margarethe Von Trotta.
With her representations of women of the past – feminists and philosophers, visionaries and revolutionaries, homegrown terrorists and everyday heroines – the veteran German filmmaker has carved out a unique place in cinematic history.
Ahead of the world premiere of Ingeborg Bachmann — Journey Into the Desert in Berlinale competition Feb. 19, von Trotta shared her insights into some of her most iconic onscreen feminists, the real-life women who inspired them and the actresses who brought them to life.
Read her comments below.
Marianne & Juliane
The 1981 drama, which won von Trotta the Golden Lion in Venice, follows two German sisters who both fight for women’s rights but take very different paths. Juliane (Jutta Lampe) becomes a journalist. Marianne (Barbara Sukowa), a terrorist. Inspired by real-life siblings Gudrun and Christiane Ensslin.
The beginning was not the women themselves,...
With her representations of women of the past – feminists and philosophers, visionaries and revolutionaries, homegrown terrorists and everyday heroines – the veteran German filmmaker has carved out a unique place in cinematic history.
Ahead of the world premiere of Ingeborg Bachmann — Journey Into the Desert in Berlinale competition Feb. 19, von Trotta shared her insights into some of her most iconic onscreen feminists, the real-life women who inspired them and the actresses who brought them to life.
Read her comments below.
Marianne & Juliane
The 1981 drama, which won von Trotta the Golden Lion in Venice, follows two German sisters who both fight for women’s rights but take very different paths. Juliane (Jutta Lampe) becomes a journalist. Marianne (Barbara Sukowa), a terrorist. Inspired by real-life siblings Gudrun and Christiane Ensslin.
The beginning was not the women themselves,...
- 2/18/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Click here to read the full article.
Pioneering female filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta will receive this year’s lifetime achievement honor at the 35th European Film Awards.
The German director and screenwriter has been a force on the European film scene for nearly 50 years since her directorial debut The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, co-directed with Volker Schlöndorff, back in 1975. She has carved out a unique position in cinema history with her focus on female stories, particularly portraits of real-life women overlooked or ignored by history.
Her second film, and first solo directing effort, Marianne & Juliane (1981), which won the Golden Lion in Venice, is a lightly-fictionalized retelling of the story of sisters Christiane and Gudrun Ensslin, one of whom became a journalist and women’s rights advocate, the other a left-wing terrorist. Barbara Sukowa, who starred as Marianne in the film, became von Trotta’s muse, playing the lead...
Pioneering female filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta will receive this year’s lifetime achievement honor at the 35th European Film Awards.
The German director and screenwriter has been a force on the European film scene for nearly 50 years since her directorial debut The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, co-directed with Volker Schlöndorff, back in 1975. She has carved out a unique position in cinema history with her focus on female stories, particularly portraits of real-life women overlooked or ignored by history.
Her second film, and first solo directing effort, Marianne & Juliane (1981), which won the Golden Lion in Venice, is a lightly-fictionalized retelling of the story of sisters Christiane and Gudrun Ensslin, one of whom became a journalist and women’s rights advocate, the other a left-wing terrorist. Barbara Sukowa, who starred as Marianne in the film, became von Trotta’s muse, playing the lead...
- 8/23/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Miguel Ángel Blanca, selected by Variety earlier this year as one of Spain’s 10 rising talents, has two new projects in development. His latest documentary, “Magaluf Ghost Town,” premieres in the International Spectrum competition at Hot Docs.
Both films will be produced by Barcelona’s Boogaloo Films, the company behind “Magaluf.” “Molón as F*ck” is “a documentary trip about the fashion and ideology of urban subcultures and how they dialogue with the current generation of young people,” said the director. Pic is co-produced by Los Hermanos Polo and Japonica Films.
A second feature, “Ejercicios para ver a Dios,” co-produced by France’s Lilith Films, Blanca described as “a mystical comedy about the potential of faith and desire, about the constructed truth, and the total surrender of body and soul based on the experiences of Hildegard von Bingen, the visionary mystic of the late Middle Ages.”
Like his latest feature,...
Both films will be produced by Barcelona’s Boogaloo Films, the company behind “Magaluf.” “Molón as F*ck” is “a documentary trip about the fashion and ideology of urban subcultures and how they dialogue with the current generation of young people,” said the director. Pic is co-produced by Los Hermanos Polo and Japonica Films.
A second feature, “Ejercicios para ver a Dios,” co-produced by France’s Lilith Films, Blanca described as “a mystical comedy about the potential of faith and desire, about the constructed truth, and the total surrender of body and soul based on the experiences of Hildegard von Bingen, the visionary mystic of the late Middle Ages.”
Like his latest feature,...
- 4/29/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Dr. Dre’s The Chronic, Cheap Trick at Budokan and Dusty Springfield’s Dusty in Memphis are among the Library of Congress’ 2020 inductees into the National Recording Registry.
Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You,” Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” and Glen Campbell’s “Wichita Lineman” also featured on the diverse list of 25 recordings deemed “aural treasures worthy of preservation because of their cultural, historical and aesthetic importance to the nation’s recorded sound heritage,” the Library of Congress said Wednesday.
Other inductees include Tina Turner’s 1984 LP Private Dancer,...
Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You,” Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” and Glen Campbell’s “Wichita Lineman” also featured on the diverse list of 25 recordings deemed “aural treasures worthy of preservation because of their cultural, historical and aesthetic importance to the nation’s recorded sound heritage,” the Library of Congress said Wednesday.
Other inductees include Tina Turner’s 1984 LP Private Dancer,...
- 3/25/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
An Afrofuturist Kate Bush with some fierce pole-dancing moves, Fka Twigs lept from kinetic music video extra to among the most electric of electronic pop acts with her debut LP1 five years ago. On Magdalene, her long-brewing followup, she moves to the next level, making music that resists being pinned by genre — or even as merely music, so integral is choreography, filmmaking, and photography to what she does. Few current artists (Beyoncé and Bjork come to mind) have made the visual feel so organically integral to their sound.
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- 11/8/2019
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
Acclaimed German director Margarethe von Trotta will receive a lifetime achievement honor for "extraordinary service to German cinema" at the 2019 German Film Awards.
A fixture on the German and international art house scene for 50 years — first as an actress, then as a writer and director — von Trotta is best-known for her portraits of often-overlooked heroines of German history. They ranged from communist leader Rosa Luxemburg to the medieval saint Hildegard von Bingen; from the philosopher Hannah Arendt to the women whose civil protest in Berlin's Rosenstrasse in 1943 prevented the deportation of their Jewish ...
A fixture on the German and international art house scene for 50 years — first as an actress, then as a writer and director — von Trotta is best-known for her portraits of often-overlooked heroines of German history. They ranged from communist leader Rosa Luxemburg to the medieval saint Hildegard von Bingen; from the philosopher Hannah Arendt to the women whose civil protest in Berlin's Rosenstrasse in 1943 prevented the deportation of their Jewish ...
Acclaimed German director Margarethe von Trotta will receive a lifetime achievement honor for "extraordinary service to German cinema" at the 2019 German Film Awards.
A fixture on the German and international art house scene for 50 years — first as an actress, then as a writer and director — von Trotta is best-known for her portraits of often-overlooked heroines of German history. They ranged from communist leader Rosa Luxemburg to the medieval saint Hildegard von Bingen; from the philosopher Hannah Arendt to the women whose civil protest in Berlin's Rosenstrasse in 1943 prevented the deportation of their Jewish ...
A fixture on the German and international art house scene for 50 years — first as an actress, then as a writer and director — von Trotta is best-known for her portraits of often-overlooked heroines of German history. They ranged from communist leader Rosa Luxemburg to the medieval saint Hildegard von Bingen; from the philosopher Hannah Arendt to the women whose civil protest in Berlin's Rosenstrasse in 1943 prevented the deportation of their Jewish ...
The Academy Awards reminded actress/writer Jeanne Marie Spicuzza about what could be. After all, her screenplay “Breath of God” was a semi-finalist in the Academy sponsored Nicholl Fellowship, a prestigious competition that found sourced screenplays for films such as “Arlington Road” and Aqueelah and the Bea.” Having just finished shooting her second feature length film, “Night Rain”, in January, which aims for release later in 2017, Spicuzza is set to make “Breath of God” as a European co-production, eyeing a start date in 2018. For her Master’s degree in philosophy at one of the top two programs in the U.S., Spicuzza had spent seven years researching the life and work of Hildegard von Bingen, even traveling to Bingen, Germany, for that purpose, and made Hildegard,...
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- 4/28/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Twelfth-century Germany, Victorian-era America, China in the 1900s: Our staffers are in the mood for some time traveling, and these three novels do the trick. Tell us what you think of their choices - and let us know what you're reading. Tatsha Robertson, Senior Editor Her Pick: Illuminations by Mary Sharratt Who wouldn't want to read about a ballsy 12th-century nun whose divine visions could make the most powerful evil monk shiver in his tunic? Sharratt offers up a mesmerizing reimagining of the true story of Hildegard von Bingen, probably the most famous nun of the Middle Ages. Expected to...
- 1/17/2014
- PEOPLE.com
As always, there are biases at play here; my greatest interests are symphonic music, choral music, and piano music, so that's what comes my way most often. There are some paired reviews; the ranking of the second of each pair might not be the true, exact ranking, but it works better from a writing standpoint this way.
1. Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4; Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 Tragic Overture, Op. 81; Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a; 3 Hungarian Dances; 9 Liebeslieder Waltzes; Intermezzi, Op. 116 No. 4 & Op. 117 No. 1 Gewandhausorchester/Riccardo Chailly (Decca)
It is not easy, at this point in recording history, to match the giants of the baton in a Brahms cycle, but Chailly has done it (this is my fiftieth Brahms cycle, and I have more than another fifty Brahms Firsts, and upwards of thirty each of the other symphonies outside those cycles, so I've got some basis for comparison...
1. Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4; Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 Tragic Overture, Op. 81; Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a; 3 Hungarian Dances; 9 Liebeslieder Waltzes; Intermezzi, Op. 116 No. 4 & Op. 117 No. 1 Gewandhausorchester/Riccardo Chailly (Decca)
It is not easy, at this point in recording history, to match the giants of the baton in a Brahms cycle, but Chailly has done it (this is my fiftieth Brahms cycle, and I have more than another fifty Brahms Firsts, and upwards of thirty each of the other symphonies outside those cycles, so I've got some basis for comparison...
- 1/6/2014
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Everett Saint Hildegard von Bingen
When is a doctor more like a gardener than a mechanic?
It took me 35 years of practicing medicine and a PhD in medical history to learn that sometimes it is better to treat a sick patient the way a gardener nurtures an ailing plant than the way a mechanic fixes a broken machine.
Our modern idea is that the body is a machine; disease is a mechanical breakdown, and the doctor’s job is to...
When is a doctor more like a gardener than a mechanic?
It took me 35 years of practicing medicine and a PhD in medical history to learn that sometimes it is better to treat a sick patient the way a gardener nurtures an ailing plant than the way a mechanic fixes a broken machine.
Our modern idea is that the body is a machine; disease is a mechanical breakdown, and the doctor’s job is to...
- 4/25/2012
- by Victoria Sweet
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Let's join Der Tagesspiegel's Claudia Lenssen in wishing Margarethe von Trotta all the best on her 70th. Lenssen reminds us that when von Trotta hoped to see her first feature, The Second Awakening of Christina Klages (1978), in cinemas, the "fine machos" at the Filmverlag der Autoren in Munich judged it worthy of television, but no more. For the movers and shakers of the New German Cinema, the story of a bank employee and a bank robber who fall for each other was all together too much a woman's picture. Lena (Katharina Thalbach) finds out that the stolen money's supposed to save a kindergarten from being shut down? Not sexy enough.
Lenssen: "Margarethe von Trotta's films are inspired by real events and circumstances. Die bleierne Zeit (Marianne and Juliane, 1981) tells the story of Raf terrorist Gudrun Ensslin and her sister, Christiane, Rosa Luxemburg (1986), the story of the revolutionary who was...
Lenssen: "Margarethe von Trotta's films are inspired by real events and circumstances. Die bleierne Zeit (Marianne and Juliane, 1981) tells the story of Raf terrorist Gudrun Ensslin and her sister, Christiane, Rosa Luxemburg (1986), the story of the revolutionary who was...
- 2/21/2012
- MUBI
Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films made available by Netflix for instant streaming.
This Week’s New Instant Releases…
Promised Lands (1974)
Streaming Available: 04/19/2011
Cast: Documentary
Director: Susan Sontag
Synopsis: Set in Israel during the final days of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, this powerful documentary — initially barred by Israel authorities — from writer-director Susan Sontag examines divergent perceptions of the enduring Arab-Israeli clash. Weighing in on matters related to socialism, anti-Semitism, nation sovereignty and American materialism are The Last Jew writer Yoram Kaniuk and military physicist Yuval Ne’eman.
Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009)
Streaming Available: 04/19/2011
Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung, Gerald Alexander Held, Lena Stolze, Sunnyi Melles
Synopsis: Directed by longtime star of independent German cinema Margarethe von Trotta, this reverent...
This Week’s New Instant Releases…
Promised Lands (1974)
Streaming Available: 04/19/2011
Cast: Documentary
Director: Susan Sontag
Synopsis: Set in Israel during the final days of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, this powerful documentary — initially barred by Israel authorities — from writer-director Susan Sontag examines divergent perceptions of the enduring Arab-Israeli clash. Weighing in on matters related to socialism, anti-Semitism, nation sovereignty and American materialism are The Last Jew writer Yoram Kaniuk and military physicist Yuval Ne’eman.
Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009)
Streaming Available: 04/19/2011
Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung, Gerald Alexander Held, Lena Stolze, Sunnyi Melles
Synopsis: Directed by longtime star of independent German cinema Margarethe von Trotta, this reverent...
- 4/20/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
HeyUGuys brings you the latest in World Cinema film trailers in association with Film Dates UK.
Each week we’ll be showcasing some of most anticipated foreign releases as well as highlighting a few hidden gems which may have fallen off your radar. It’s no surprise that Hollywood has turned to World Cinema for inspiration in recent years with the number of remakes getting more and more popular.
Whilst it remains to be seen how many of these remakes go on to succeed or stay true to their original story counterparts, we decided it was high-time we turned the spotlight onto the next wave of foreign films to grace our screens.
This week we have 7 new trailers for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!
Au Revoir Taipei (Yi ye Taibei) UK Cinema Release Date: Sunday 13th March 2011
Synopsis: A love story takes place over the course of one evening in Taipei.
Each week we’ll be showcasing some of most anticipated foreign releases as well as highlighting a few hidden gems which may have fallen off your radar. It’s no surprise that Hollywood has turned to World Cinema for inspiration in recent years with the number of remakes getting more and more popular.
Whilst it remains to be seen how many of these remakes go on to succeed or stay true to their original story counterparts, we decided it was high-time we turned the spotlight onto the next wave of foreign films to grace our screens.
This week we have 7 new trailers for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!
Au Revoir Taipei (Yi ye Taibei) UK Cinema Release Date: Sunday 13th March 2011
Synopsis: A love story takes place over the course of one evening in Taipei.
- 3/8/2011
- by Andy Petrou
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Start: 02/10/2011 End: 02/13/2011 Start: 02/10/2011 End: 02/13/2011
The first-ever Athena Film Festival chose some good films!
From February 10-13, 2011 in New York City, USA, they're screening Miss Representation (directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom) - the documentary about women in media that we're gushing about! The doc explores the media’s disparaging portrayals of women via interviews with Katie Couric, Nancy Pelosi, Rosario Dawson, Lisa Ling, Catherine Hardwicke and Geena Davis.
“The films we’ll screen exemplify our mission—to bring women’s unique and powerful voice to the forefront,” said Kathryn Kolbert, co-founder of the Festival and director of the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College. “It is an honor for us to bring films with distinguished, creative and innovative visions and voices from all over the world, to our community,” said Melissa Silverstein, co-founder of the Festival and founder of Women and Hollywood.
They're also showing Margarethe Von Trotta's Vision,...
The first-ever Athena Film Festival chose some good films!
From February 10-13, 2011 in New York City, USA, they're screening Miss Representation (directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom) - the documentary about women in media that we're gushing about! The doc explores the media’s disparaging portrayals of women via interviews with Katie Couric, Nancy Pelosi, Rosario Dawson, Lisa Ling, Catherine Hardwicke and Geena Davis.
“The films we’ll screen exemplify our mission—to bring women’s unique and powerful voice to the forefront,” said Kathryn Kolbert, co-founder of the Festival and director of the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College. “It is an honor for us to bring films with distinguished, creative and innovative visions and voices from all over the world, to our community,” said Melissa Silverstein, co-founder of the Festival and founder of Women and Hollywood.
They're also showing Margarethe Von Trotta's Vision,...
- 12/17/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Vision: From The Life Of Hildegard Von Bingen is the biography of Hildegard von Bingen, the multi-talented 12th century German nun. Von Bingen was an author and playwright, composer of Gregorian chants, a visionary bibliophile, physician, botanist, and a practitioner of holistic medicine with advanced knowledge of herbal healing. Sounds exciting, huh? It’s not but German director Margarethe von Trotta’s film is an impressive accomplishment on many levels. Historically it must have been a real challenge to illustrate so vividly this life lived almost 900 years ago with such attention to facts and details and visually it’s a real stunner. Von Trotta, an actress turned director, gets great work from her mostly female cast but the film goes on too long and ultimately left this reviewer cold
Vision: From The Life Of Hildegard Von Bingen takes place in a time when men dominated, especially within the church, and...
Vision: From The Life Of Hildegard Von Bingen takes place in a time when men dominated, especially within the church, and...
- 11/24/2010
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Written and directed by Margarethe von Trotta
Featuring Barbara Sukowa, Hannah Herzsprung, Mareile Blendl, Lena Stolze, Heino Ferch, Annika
Hildegard von Bingen was a 12th-century abbess who really pissed off the men around her.
The world of the 11th-century was one in which the overreaching arms of the patriarchal Catholic church controlled every aspect of women’s (and most men’s) lives; a woman was told when she can have sex, with whom, and for what purposes. She was told what power she could have in her family and who she must obey (men). And for a nun in the middle ages, it was a dozen times worse. Nuns were the bottom of the rung, and still are, in the catholic church, beholden to their male leaders *cough* oppressors. That’s why the story of Hildegard von Bingen, thankfully still in existence due to numerous volumes dictated by the nun herself,...
Featuring Barbara Sukowa, Hannah Herzsprung, Mareile Blendl, Lena Stolze, Heino Ferch, Annika
Hildegard von Bingen was a 12th-century abbess who really pissed off the men around her.
The world of the 11th-century was one in which the overreaching arms of the patriarchal Catholic church controlled every aspect of women’s (and most men’s) lives; a woman was told when she can have sex, with whom, and for what purposes. She was told what power she could have in her family and who she must obey (men). And for a nun in the middle ages, it was a dozen times worse. Nuns were the bottom of the rung, and still are, in the catholic church, beholden to their male leaders *cough* oppressors. That’s why the story of Hildegard von Bingen, thankfully still in existence due to numerous volumes dictated by the nun herself,...
- 11/7/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Barbara Sukowa as Hildegard von Bingen in Vision Margarethe von Trotta's Vision, Official Selection at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals, will open (via Zeitgeist Films) in Los Angeles at the Laemmle theaters on November 12. A national release will follow. In Vision, two-time European Film Award nominee Barbara Sukowa plays Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th-century Benedictine nun who was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist. Vision is the fourth feature-film collaboration between writer-director von Trotta and star Sukowa. Their prior joint effort, L'africana, was released in 1990. The first von Trotta-Sukowa effort, Die Bleierne Zeit / Marianne and Juliane, won the Golden Lion at the 1981 Venice Film Festival. Von Trotta was the first female director to take home that award. Also in the Vision cast: Heino Ferch, Gerald Alexander Held, Hannah Herzsprung, Annemarie Düringer and Lena Stolze. Photo: Zeitgeist Films...
- 10/25/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
As a historical drama, Margarethe von Trotta's Vision is easy to appreciate because of its competent execution. Unfortunately, the film might leave enthusiasts of medieval history very hungry because it favours some angles more than others that are more relevant.
The latest film by German director Margarethe von Trotta (Rosenstrasse) follows Hildegard von Bingen (Barbara Sukowa), a German nun best known for her musical compositions, her knowledge in herbal medicine and her religious "visions". In 1106, at the age of eight, Hildegard is sent by her parents at the Benedictine monastery of Disibodenberg. Under the supervision of mother Jutta (Lena Stolze), Hildegard studies herbal medicine, reading, writing and Christianity. Thirty years later, mother Jutta dies and Hildegard is elected as the female abbot by her sisters.
Because she believes she occasionally has "visions" sent by God, Hildegard describes them to brother Volmar (Heino Ferch). With the authorization of the pope,...
The latest film by German director Margarethe von Trotta (Rosenstrasse) follows Hildegard von Bingen (Barbara Sukowa), a German nun best known for her musical compositions, her knowledge in herbal medicine and her religious "visions". In 1106, at the age of eight, Hildegard is sent by her parents at the Benedictine monastery of Disibodenberg. Under the supervision of mother Jutta (Lena Stolze), Hildegard studies herbal medicine, reading, writing and Christianity. Thirty years later, mother Jutta dies and Hildegard is elected as the female abbot by her sisters.
Because she believes she occasionally has "visions" sent by God, Hildegard describes them to brother Volmar (Heino Ferch). With the authorization of the pope,...
- 10/15/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Director: Margarethe von Trotta Writer: Margarethe von Trotta Starring: Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung, Gerald Alexander Held, Paula Kalenberg, Sunnyi Melles, Annemarie Düringer, Devid Striesow, Annika, Katinka Auberger Hildegard von Bingen (Barbara Sukowa) is a 12th-century Benedictine nun-turned-magistra -- as well as a seer, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, scientist, naturalist and herbalist -- who is often revered as an early feminist icon. Sent to Disibodenberg Cloister at age 8 (many historians claim von Bingen was not cloistered until age 14), von Bingen is placed in the care of the magistra of the cloister, Jutta (Lena Stolze). Upon Jutta's death, von Bingen is elected as magistra of the cloister. After one of her nuns becomes pregnant at Disibodenberg, von Bingen and about twenty nuns move into the newly constructed St. Rupertsberg monastery -- von Bingen’s loyal confident and teacher Volmar (Heino Ferch) serves as their provost. Vision is reminiscent of director...
- 10/15/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
"The fifth collaboration of director Margarethe Von Trotta and actress Barbara Sukowa, Vision continues the proto-feminist canonization of Blessed Hildegard von Bingen (Sukowa), 12th-century Benedictine magistra, scientist, visionary composer, and literal receptor of visions." Nick Pinkerton in the Voice: "A bustling figure among ancient gray colonnades when not ill to extreme unction, Von Bingen is presented as prophet of a more modern and less gloomy faith, rejecting mortification and calcified prejudices, and so meeting tut-tut disapproval from catacomb-faced church elders.... Vision is more immediate and immersive when dealing in the jealous attachments among sisters; when circumstance and politics tear [assistant] Richardis [Hannah Herzsprung] from Hildegard, Sukowa's performance rears to towering heights of abjection."...
- 10/13/2010
- MUBI
Zeitgeist Films is releasing this account of medieval mystic Hildegard von Bingen in NYC on October 13 and in Los Angeles on November 12. A national release will follow.
This is a story worth telling, and we're hoping it has an ample amount of brutality, considering how brutal Hildegard's life really was.
Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist.
New German Cinema and feminist filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta directs Barbara Sukowa as Hildegard. Sukowa portrays von Bingen’s fierce determination to expand the responsibilities of women within the order, even as she fends off outrage from some in the Church over the visions she claims to receive from God. Shot in the original medieval cloisters of the fairytale-like German countryside,...
This is a story worth telling, and we're hoping it has an ample amount of brutality, considering how brutal Hildegard's life really was.
Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist.
New German Cinema and feminist filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta directs Barbara Sukowa as Hildegard. Sukowa portrays von Bingen’s fierce determination to expand the responsibilities of women within the order, even as she fends off outrage from some in the Church over the visions she claims to receive from God. Shot in the original medieval cloisters of the fairytale-like German countryside,...
- 9/25/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Cologne, Germany -- Veteran director Margarethe von Trotta returns to her perennial theme of strong woman with her new project, a biopic of Jewish philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt. Producers Heimatfilm picked up €750,000 ($920,000) in production financing from regional subsidy body Film Board NRW on Tuesday.
Von Trotta co-wrote the script to "Hannah Arendt" with Pam Katz. The film focuses on Arendt's reporting for The New Yorker on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann. In it, she coined the phrase "the banality of evil." "Hannah Arendt" will shoot in Israel and in North-Rhine Westphalia in Germany. Von Trotta's last feature, a biopic of the German nun Hildegard von Bingen starring Barbara Sukowa, was a sleeper success in Germany, earning around $4 million at the boxoffice here.
The Film Board Nrw also put up €1.5 million ($1.8 million) towards another biographical feature, Patrica Riggen's "Vivaldi." Jessica Biel and Kevin Zegers are set to star,...
Von Trotta co-wrote the script to "Hannah Arendt" with Pam Katz. The film focuses on Arendt's reporting for The New Yorker on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann. In it, she coined the phrase "the banality of evil." "Hannah Arendt" will shoot in Israel and in North-Rhine Westphalia in Germany. Von Trotta's last feature, a biopic of the German nun Hildegard von Bingen starring Barbara Sukowa, was a sleeper success in Germany, earning around $4 million at the boxoffice here.
The Film Board Nrw also put up €1.5 million ($1.8 million) towards another biographical feature, Patrica Riggen's "Vivaldi." Jessica Biel and Kevin Zegers are set to star,...
- 6/15/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Berlin -- Sherry Horman's fashion biopic "Desert Flower" and the political drama "Der Grosse Kater" (The Big Tom-Cat) from director Wolfgang Panzer tied for the top prize as Best Film at the Bavarian Film Awards this weekend.
"Flower" producers Peter Herrmann and Dietmar Guntsche and "Kater" producer Wolfgang Behr will share the €200,000 ($287,000) award that comes with the honor, cash that has to be invested in new film projects.
Acting legend Barbara Sukowa added a Bavarian best actress trophy to her trophy cabinet, taking the honor for her portrayal of Medieval nun and proto-feminist Hildegard von Bingen in "Vision" from Magarethe von Trotta.
Best director went to Juraj Herz for his period drama "Habermann," with lead Mark Waschke taking the best actor prize for his role as a mill owner whose life is transformed with the onset of World War II.
Benjamin Heisenberg received the best newcomer nod for his sophomore effort,...
"Flower" producers Peter Herrmann and Dietmar Guntsche and "Kater" producer Wolfgang Behr will share the €200,000 ($287,000) award that comes with the honor, cash that has to be invested in new film projects.
Acting legend Barbara Sukowa added a Bavarian best actress trophy to her trophy cabinet, taking the honor for her portrayal of Medieval nun and proto-feminist Hildegard von Bingen in "Vision" from Magarethe von Trotta.
Best director went to Juraj Herz for his period drama "Habermann," with lead Mark Waschke taking the best actor prize for his role as a mill owner whose life is transformed with the onset of World War II.
Benjamin Heisenberg received the best newcomer nod for his sophomore effort,...
- 1/18/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
242 feature length pics which 95 world premiers.. Wow, I wish I was going, but our lucky Toronto correspondent Rick McGrath will be there instead. (Very lucky Toronto correspondent) Among the standouts are:
Some serious Greek weirdness I'm dying to see in Dogtooth.
Lars Von Triers insanity leaks out in Antichrist. (review)
The long awaited scifi awesomeness starring Jared Leto, Mr. Nobody.
And Locarno winner from the hip UK firm Warp X, She, A Chinese.
List of remaining flicks after the break.
Special Presentations
Mr. Nobody Jaco Van Dormael, France/Germany/Canada/Belgium
North American Premiere
Mr. Nobody tells the story of Nemo (Jared Leto), the world's oldest man. In 2092, Mars has become a trendy vacation destination and humans have achieved immortality, thanks to advances in genetics. At the age of 120 years, Nemo is the last mortal left on Earth. His death is drawing near, and media from all over the world...
Some serious Greek weirdness I'm dying to see in Dogtooth.
Lars Von Triers insanity leaks out in Antichrist. (review)
The long awaited scifi awesomeness starring Jared Leto, Mr. Nobody.
And Locarno winner from the hip UK firm Warp X, She, A Chinese.
List of remaining flicks after the break.
Special Presentations
Mr. Nobody Jaco Van Dormael, France/Germany/Canada/Belgium
North American Premiere
Mr. Nobody tells the story of Nemo (Jared Leto), the world's oldest man. In 2092, Mars has become a trendy vacation destination and humans have achieved immortality, thanks to advances in genetics. At the age of 120 years, Nemo is the last mortal left on Earth. His death is drawing near, and media from all over the world...
- 8/20/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Toronto -- The Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday (August 20) unveiled its final selections, including international premieres for South Korean director Lee Hey-jun's "Castaway on the Moon" and Mike Sandejas' "If I Knew What You Said," from the Philippines.
And the Masters sidebar added the latest work by veteran auteurs Lars von Trier, Amos Gitai, Francois Ozon, Michael Haneke and Margarethe von Trotta.
Hey-jun's offbeat romantic drama will unspool as part of the Contemporary World Cinema sidebar, which added 34 titles as Toronto finalized a September slate that comprises 335 films from 64 Countries.
The Cwc program also booked international premieres for two Australian films, Rachel Perkins' "Bran Nue Dae" and Robert Conolly's "Balibo," Cesc Gay's "V.O.S.," from Spain, Italian director Giuseppe Capotondi's "The Double Hour" and Henrique Goldman's "Jean Charles," a British/Brazilian co-pro.
North American premieres fill out the rest of the Cwc sidebar, which includes a...
And the Masters sidebar added the latest work by veteran auteurs Lars von Trier, Amos Gitai, Francois Ozon, Michael Haneke and Margarethe von Trotta.
Hey-jun's offbeat romantic drama will unspool as part of the Contemporary World Cinema sidebar, which added 34 titles as Toronto finalized a September slate that comprises 335 films from 64 Countries.
The Cwc program also booked international premieres for two Australian films, Rachel Perkins' "Bran Nue Dae" and Robert Conolly's "Balibo," Cesc Gay's "V.O.S.," from Spain, Italian director Giuseppe Capotondi's "The Double Hour" and Henrique Goldman's "Jean Charles," a British/Brazilian co-pro.
North American premieres fill out the rest of the Cwc sidebar, which includes a...
- 8/20/2009
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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