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TSOTSI

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

TSOTSI

With TSOTSI, Gavin Hood has taken the liberty of updating the timeframe of South African writer Athol Fugard’s only novel. In doing so, the politics of apartheid that spurred the story in the book has given way to the tragedy of AIDS. Changing the circumstances of its title character’s orphaning, though, doesn’t affect the nature of… Read More »

Tagged With: Academy Award Winner, Africa, African Cinema, Athol Fugard, Best Foreign Film, cinema, director, drama, Gavin Hood, Johannesburg, lawyer, movie drama, narrative, Oscar-winner, race relations, screenwriter, South Africa, TSOTSI

Adrien Brody is THE PIANIST, Thomas Kretschmann, his Tormentor

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Adrien Brody is THE PIANIST, Thomas Kretschmann, his Tormentor

Meeting Adrien Brody and Thomas Kretschmann is like spending time with two old pals who still enjoy joking around with each other even after a difficult shoot in Europe and a grinding publicity tour schedule to promote their extraordinary film, THE PIANIST. Once we began talking about that film, though, they were deadly serious about the subject matter, the… Read More »

Tagged With: 20th-century history, Academy Award Winner, Adrien Brody, anti-Semitism, based on a true story, drama, film, history, Holocaust, movie, narrative, Nazi, Poland, Thomas Kretschmann, Warsaw Ghetto, Wladyslaw Szpilman, World War II

Gavin Hood Tells the Story of TSOTSI

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Gavin Hood Tells the Story of TSOTSI

Gavin Hood felt that there was more than just an Oscar ™ riding on the success of TSOTSI, based on the novel by Athol Fugard and South Africa’s official entry for the 2005 Best Foreign Film Academy Award ™. It’s one of the many things we talked about when I interviewed him on February 10, 2006. … Read More »

Tagged With: Academy Award Winner, Africa, African Cinema, Athol Fugard, Best Foreign Film, cinema, director, drama, Gavin Hood, Johannesburg, lawyer, movie drama, narrative, Oscar-winner, race relations, screenwriter, South Africa, TSOTSI

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Observes THE LIVES OF OTHERS (Das Leben der Anderen)

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Observes THE LIVES OF OTHERS (Das Leben der Anderen)

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck had always been fascinated by the Stasi, the East German secret police who took spying on the public to an almost absurd extreme. During his meticulous research about them for THE LIVES OF OTHERS, he  became something of an expert on their procedures, consulting not only scholarly experts, but also by including on his… Read More »

Tagged With: Academy Award Winner, director, drama, East German Secret Police, espionage, German Cinema, interview, narrative, Stasi, surveillance, THE LIVES OF OTHERS, Uhlirch Muhe. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

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