Movies
Torn worlds: the USA at the Berlinale
Gang wars and Sexstreik, the struggle of a Mexican immigrant to recognition and pay homage to the writer Thomas Wolfe: The cinematic view of the US shows very different worlds.
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Spike Lee’s views on the black culture
The Director Spike Lee has like hardly any other since years for the concerns of African-Americans in his home engaged. In Berlin, he showed his new movie “Chi-Raq” – here is a scene with actress Teyonah Parris.
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A Director with a message
Spike Lee is a representative of the so-called “New Black Cinema”, his breakthrough came in 1986 with the Film “She’s Gotta Have It”. Lee is one of those black Filmkünstlern, just against the non-observance of the Afro-Americans at the Academy awards protested.
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A desert of Pop-Opera
“Chi-Raq”, the title stands for the high-crime-afflicted city of Chicago – is a wild tour de force through the afro-American cultural history. A feature film with Musical and Rap elements, the of gang warfare within the black Community is told.
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The Church also plays with
The starting point of the action in “Chi-Raq” is a rebellion of the women, the street fighting of the individual Gangs get tired of it and on their very own ways to defend themselves: they set the stage for a Sexstreik under the Motto: “No Peace – No Pussy!” You also get from the Church side support.
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Kulturgesättigtes epic with a lot of music
Lee’s Film takes some of the bonds of the classical Greek Antikendichtung. It acts the actor Samuel L. Jackson as a narrator – always new and trendy-brightly-dressed – as singing narrator through the Film.
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An America of limits
A very different picture of the U.S. gives the Iranian-British Director Rafi Pitts. His new Film “Soy Nero” and shows a boy Mexicans attempting in the US to integrate. Asked about the current refugee situation in Europe, said Pitts: “no one likes it, to leave his country, his
Roots. One is forced to.” -
American Paranoia
“Soy Nero” is in three large Erzählblöcke divided. The first shows how the young Mexicans in the USA enters. Encounter him strange Shape – like this man, the it at the auto stop takes. He stands with his confused Speeches for primal American Fears of an Immigration.
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“Soy Nero”: luxury and war
In the second section met the young Hero and his brother in Beverly Hills in a luxury property as a house servant works. The third part shows the main character as a soldier during a deployment in the Middle East. With his commitment he can get US citizenship back. He had also made a Film about these so-called “Green Card Soldiers” want to do, said Pitts.
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Look at famous U.S. writer: “Genius”
As Rafi Pitts is also the Director Michael Grandage no Americans look back on the history and society of the United States. The British Director showed in Berlin, its historical Film “Genius” about a famous U.S. author: Thomas Wolfe, his novel “Look homeward, angel!” became world famous.
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Large equipment and Schauspielerkino
Grandages Film “Genius” deals with the friendship, but complicated relationship between Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law, r.) and his publisher and Editor Max Perkins (Colin Firth) apart. The Film is set in the late 1920s and in the 1930s, and offers much for the eye. But also the actors are terrific.
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Different Perspectives
He wanted to in his novels over the country to write about the people, the cities, the history, said Thomas Wolfe in a scene in the movie “Genius”. So also offer the three films at the Berlinale, quite different, perspectives on the United States: historical and modern, cultural and socio-critical.
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Spike Lee’s views on the black culture
The Director Spike Lee has like hardly any other since years for the concerns of African-Americans in his home engaged. In Berlin, he showed his new movie “Chi-Raq” – here is a scene with actress Teyonah Parris.
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A Director with a message
Spike Lee is a representative of the so-called “New Black Cinema”, his breakthrough came in 1986 with the Film “She’s Gotta Have It”. Lee is one of those black Filmkünstlern, just against the non-observance of the Afro-Americans at the Academy awards protested.
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A desert of Pop-Opera
“Chi-Raq”, the title stands for the high-crime-afflicted city of Chicago – is a wild tour de force through the afro-American cultural history. A feature film with Musical and Rap elements, the of gang warfare within the black Community is told.
-
The Church also plays with
The starting point of the action in “Chi-Raq” is a rebellion of the women, the street fighting of the individual Gangs get tired of it and on their very own ways to defend themselves: they set the stage for a Sexstreik under the Motto: “No Peace – No Pussy!” You also get from the Church side support.
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Kulturgesättigtes epic with a lot of music
Lee’s Film takes some of the bonds of the classical Greek Antikendichtung. It acts the actor Samuel L. Jackson as a narrator – always new and trendy-brightly-dressed – as singing narrator through the Film.
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An America of limits
A very different picture of the U.S. gives the Iranian-British Director Rafi Pitts. His new Film “Soy Nero” and shows a boy Mexicans attempting in the US to integrate. Asked about the current refugee situation in Europe, said Pitts: “no one likes it, to leave his country, his
Roots. One is forced to.” -
American Paranoia
“Soy Nero” is in three large Erzählblöcke divided. The first shows how the young Mexicans in the USA enters. Encounter him strange Shape – like this man, the it at the auto stop takes. He stands with his confused Speeches for primal American Fears of an Immigration.
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“Soy Nero”: luxury and war
In the second section met the young Hero and his brother in Beverly Hills in a luxury property as a house servant works. The third part shows the main character as a soldier during a deployment in the Middle East. With his commitment he can get US citizenship back. He had also made a Film about these so-called “Green Card Soldiers” want to do, said Pitts.
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Look at famous U.S. writer: “Genius”
As Rafi Pitts is also the Director Michael Grandage no Americans look back on the history and society of the United States. The British Director showed in Berlin, its historical Film “Genius” about a famous U.S. author: Thomas Wolfe, his novel “Look homeward, angel!” became world famous.
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Large equipment and Schauspielerkino
Grandages Film “Genius” deals with the friendship, but complicated relationship between Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law, r.) and his publisher and Editor Max Perkins (Colin Firth) apart. The Film is set in the late 1920s and in the 1930s, and offers much for the eye. But also the actors are terrific.
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Different Perspectives
He wanted to in his novels over the country to write about the people, the cities, the history, said Thomas Wolfe in a scene in the movie “Genius”. So also offer the three films at the Berlinale, quite different, perspectives on the United States: historical and modern, cultural and socio-critical.
Rafi Pitts is an Iran-born filmmaker, whose father is British roots. Now owns Pitts the Iranian and British citizenship and works in the world. His new movie, “Soy Nero” he has, especially in the USA turned.
Michael Grandage is a British national and was established in 1962 in Yorkshire was born. The Director is at the theatre grew. His first long feature film “Genius”, he is now in the competition of the 66. Berlinale, where “Soy Nero” was premiered.
Both the Director look in to their works on the United States: Pitts through the eyes of a young Mexican immigrant who tries to use the US citizenship to obtain. Grandage, however, is devoted to a historical fabric and shows the rise of the writer Thomas Wolfe (“Look homeward, angel!”) to literary fame.
Director Michael Grandage
The Director Spike Lee is, of the three Directors, the half-time of the festival their latest work is presented, the only one in the US-Born. All three filmmakers unites you with the world power United States deal with, their society, culture and politics.
So granted the Berlinale international film festival-day an interesting look at the United States – from three very different perspectives and with very different cinematic means.
A young Mexican and his view of the United States in “Soy Nero”