The ALPINALE short film festival shows full length films too: for children, with the special assistance of Stefanie Seidel, a specialist in theatre and media pedagogics. A much needed assistance, as KAUWBOY (NL, 2012, director: Boudewijn […]
Rain! This means there won’t be open air cinema tonight … yet the orange carpet is ready for one of Austria’s international short film festivals … we have already previewed one of the entries here, […]
Saw GREEN LANTERN yesterday on Austrian TV and – even though it was another synchronized German version (Gah!) – I simply knew that this pointy-eared alien Sinestro would have to be a British guy. When […]
Yes, it is a Vampire flick. Yet, ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE is much less and much more than that. Less: It totally lacks the jolly-ghastly-fun of TrueBlood and the gothic blood thirst of your average […]
“Ein ernster Umhauer ist er wirklich, dieser kleine Claude” dachte ich über Ernst Umhauer, als ich “Dans la Maison” erstmals am Zürich Film Festival sah. Da schleicht sich Umhauer als der Schüler Claude in fast […]
IN A BETTER WORLD is the English title of that 2010 Danish film by Susanne Bier, which won that 2011 Oscar for best … what do they call it at that film academy over the pond?…. […]
Niki Lauda has always been a living legend to us Austrians. After having seen Ron Howard’s epic film RUSH here at the ZFF though, Niki goes right up to Olympus for this Austrian girl. And […]
(c) Elisabeth Schabus