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2015 Troy
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Open Air will set the Gasteig
swinging ••••
This year's Open Air at FILMFEST
MÜNCHEN is dedicated to Swing music, with
music and dance films reaching back eight decades.
Catchy rhythms and choreographies will swing the
Gasteig Piazza -- and leave the audience tapping
toes and humming along!
••••
The unmatched classic among Swing films is
still HELLZAPOPPIN' from 1941, which brought Lindy
Hop pioneer Frankie Manning and the Whitey Lindy
Hoppers from Harlem's legendary Savoy Ballroom to
Hollywood for some of the most spectacular dance
routines and moves in movie history, which even the
best modern break dancers can learn a thing or two
from.
••••Director
Tim Whelan's SWING FEVER (1943) open the Hollywood
doors to "Cotton Club" star Lena Horne, who
supplemented an overwhelmingly white cast. It was
one of the rare movie roles for the Civil
Rights advocate Horne, who
was later blacklisted by McCarthy and unable to
work in Hollywood.
•••••Jimmy
Stewart in THE GLENN MILLER STORY
After WWII, the glory days of Big Band music came
to an end with the ascendancy of Rock'n'Roll, Elvis
Presley and Buddy Holly. Director Anthony Mann's
THE GLENN MILLER STORY (1954) looks back on the
life story of the great American band leader,
played by Jimmy Stewart -- his first non-Western
for Mann.
••••
Richard Gere and Diane
Lane in COTTON
CLUB
•••• Swing was out of
fashion for 30 years, until Francis Ford Coppola
chimed in its renaissance with COTTON CLUB (1984)
&endash; starring Richard Gere as a trumpet player
who falls for a mobster's girl (Diane Lane, later
paired with Gere in UNFAITHFUL), along with dance
legend Gregory Hines and early performances by
Lawrence Fishburne (MATRIX) and Coppola's nephew
Nicolas Cage.
••••
Dermot Mulroney and Harry Belafonte in
KANSAS CITY
By the 1990s, the Swing Renaissance was in full
swing: In 1996, Robert Altman returned to his
hometown in KANSAS CITY to weave a web of intrigue,
crime, love, opium and jazz around Jennifer Jason
Leigh, Dermot Mulroney, Steve Buscemi and Harry
Belafonte. In SWEET AND LOWDOWN (1999), Woody Allen
let Sean Penn, "second-best Jazz guitarist ever"
and hopeless egomaniac, vie for the hand of mute
laundress Hattie (Samantha Morton).
••••
The SWING KIDS (directed by Thomas Carter,
1993) were youthful Jazz fans in 1930s Hamburg, who
rebelled against the Nazis und Hitler Youth though
modern "negro" dance and music -- starring Robert
Sean Leonard (DEAD POET'S SOCIETY), Christian Bale
and Kenneth Branangh. And 2003 saw director Martin
Guigui's steamy romance SWING, in which a young
musician (Innis Casey) falls for a mysterious older
woman (Jacquline Bisset) in a jazz club.
Open Air 2015
Fri. June 26
KANSAS CITY
Directed by Robert Altman
Sat. June 27
SWING FEVER
Directed by Tim Whelan
Sun. June 28
THE COTTON CLUB
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Mon. June 29
HELLZAPOPPIN'
Directed by Henry C. Potter
Tue. June 30
SWING
Directed by Martin Guigui
Wed. July 01
THE GLENN MILER STORY
Directed by Anthony Mann
Thu. July 02
SWEET AND LOWDOWN
Directed by Woody Allen
Fri. July 03
SWING KIDS
Directed by Thomas Carter
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CineMerit Award for Michael
Caine The internationally acclaimed British
actor is being honored at this year's festival with
its CineMerit Award.
••••The
actor, who is being honored for his extraordinary
contributions to the motion pictures as an art
form, has played more than 150 roles throughout his
career. "Michael Caine is a legend. Not many actors
have had long lasting, wide-ranging and remarkable
careers such as his", says festival director Diana
Iljine. "We're incredibly proud that he is coming
to Munich to accept our award."
••••
Sir Michael Caine will receive the 2013 CineMerit
Award at a gala on July 1. Writer-director Sherry
Hormann ("Desert Flower", "3096 Days") will be the
speaker. FILMFEST MÜNCHEN will be screening
five Michael Caine films in its homage to him,
among them Woody Allen's "Hannah And Her Sisters"
and Lasse Hallström's "The Cider House Rules".
Caine was awarded an Oscar for his performances in
these two films.
••••
Michael Caine will also be on hand for the European
premiere of his latest film, "Mr. Morgan's Last
Love" by Sandra Nettelbeck ("Bella Martha"). Caine
plays a lonely American widower in Paris who meets
a young Parisian woman who changes his life.
••••
Sir Michael Caine, born in 1933 as Maurice Joseph
Micklewhite, Jr., grew up in London. Using the
stage name Michael Caine he worked his way up to
become one of the most respected and sought after
actors of his generation - on both sides of the
Atlantic.
••••
His breakthrough came in the mid-sixties with
"Zulu" and later "Alfie", which brought him an
Oscar nomination. He has also won numerous other
major international awards. In 2000, he was
knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
••••
The list of actors and directors with whom Michael
Caine has worked reads like a Who's Who of
Hollywood: Sean Connery, Anthony Quinn, Omar
Sharif, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley McLaine, Nicole
Kidman, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway, Leonardo
DiCaprio and Christian Bale, to name just a
few.
••••
Since 1997, Filmfest München has honored
outstanding personalities in the international film
community for extraordinary contributions to motion
pictures as an art form. Previous recipients
include John Malkovich, Julie Christie as well as
directors Michael Haneke, Barry Levinson and Milos
Forman. •
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THE BEST MOVIES OF THE SUMMER AT MUNICH
FILMFEST The 31ST INTERNATIONAL
FILMFEST MÜNCHEN (June 28 - July 6) is
presenting 174 films from 48 countries. Films by
and starring women make up a significant part of
this year's program.
••••
Germany's biggest summer film festival will be
showing the best new films from around the world.
They are all German premieres. There are also two
specials, one on outstanding TV series - The New
Epics - and another entitled Films and Games. The
Homage section is showing classic movies with
British actor Sir Michael Caine, the recipient of
Filmfest München's CineMerit Award this year.
Retrospectives will be honoring Italian director
Paolo Sorrentino and Chilean filmmaker Alejandro
Jodorowsky. Both will be on hand at the festival to
present their latest films. 32 films will be having
their world premieres at FILMFEST MÜNCHEN - 13
their European premieres.
••••
"2013 will be a festival in which women play an
unusually strong role", said Diana Iljine, Festival
Director of FILMFEST MÜNCHEN. "Many of this
year's films focus on courageous women. The many
great actress and directors are one of this year's
highlights."
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Partner The BMW Group and FILMFEST MÜNCHEN
are renewing their long-time partnership for the
31st edition of the festival
The BMW Group will be an official partner of the
31ST INTERNATIONAL FILMFEST MÜNCHEN (June 28 -
July 6). The world-famous automobile manufacturer
and the festival will be restarting a partnership
that dates back to the early years of FILMFEST
MÜNCHEN.
••••
"Filmfest and BMW go way back together", commented
Filmfest Director Diana Iljine. "BMW supported the
festival more than twenty years ago. That makes me
all the happier that the BMW Group is once again
our strong partner."
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15 Films in Competition for the CineVision
Award A high-caliber jury will select the
winner of the CineVision Award for Best
International Newcomer Film at this year's FILMFEST
MÜNCHEN.
••••
15 films from Europe, North and South America,
Afghanistan and China are competing for the
CineVision Award for Best International Newcomer
Film by a director with a first or second feature
film in this year's CineVision section, films that
go in new artistic directions.
••••
2013 marks the seventh consecutive year for the
CineVision Award and its ¤12,000 prize money.
Berlin-based Senator Entertainment AG is its
donator. Greek actress Aggeliki Papoulia,
French-American actor-director Jean-Marc Barr and
Spanish producer-director Luis Miñarro make
up the jury that will decide this year's
winner.
•••••The
2013 CineVision Award ceremony takes place on
Friday, July 5, in the Bavarian Parliament. •
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- July - 2011 - 29th FILMFEST
MÜNCHEN
•••This
year's FILMFEST MÜNCHEN FILMFEST
MÜNCHEN will be taking place June 20-28,
Munich will be the site of Germany's sunniest film
festival.
Some of this
year's highlights include:
Guests of honor John Malkovich, Tom DiCillo, the
Dardenne Brothers, Roy Andersson and Otar
Iosseliani are expected to hit town this opening
weekend. The festival opens with an invitation-only
gala on Friday evening, the first audience events
and screenings begin on Saturday. You can already
buy your tickets online, by phone and at the
festival box office in the Gasteig center,
including for John Malkovich's CineMerit Award
ceremony!
• Please Note: The July 2nd screening of
ARIRANG is moved from 8 pm in the Filmmuseum to
7:30 pm in the CinemaxX 2. The screening of CEDAR
RAPIDS is moved to the Filmmuseum at 8 pm.
Prior Years -
2010 - 2009
The 2009 CineMerit
Award went to Michael Haneke
Munich is preparing for
the stars: Guests of honor John Malkovich, Tom
DiCillo, the Dardenne Brothers, Roy Andersson and
Otar Iosseliani are expected to hit town this
opening weekend. The festival opens with an
invitation-only gala on Friday evening, the first
audience events and screenings begin on Saturday.
You can already buy your tickets online, by phone
and at the festival box office in the Gasteig
center, including for John Malkovich's CineMerit
Award ceremony!
Please Note: The July 2nd
screening of ARIRANG is moved from 8 pm in the
Filmmuseum to 7:30 pm in the CinemaxX 2. The
screening of CEDAR RAPIDS is moved to the
Filmmuseum at 8 pm.
•••FILMFEST
MÜNCHEN is honoring the Munich-born director
with its CineMerit Award and is screening THE WHITE
RIBBON, winner of this year's Palme d'Or.
•••Another
exciting film region we are spotlighting is Munich.
This year's Cannes top winner will be our guest at
the 2009 FILMFEST MÜNCHEN - director Michael
Haneke, whose film THE WHITE RIBBON won the golden
Palm at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Haneke is
the recipient of this year's CineMerit Award, with
which FILMFEST MÜNCHEN honors outstanding
personalities in the international film community
for their extraordinary contributions to motion
pictures as an art
form.
•••"We
look forward to congratulating Michael Haneke here
in Munich and are exceptionally pleased that our
CineMerit Award winner has won the Golden Palm at
this year's Cannes festival." Festival director
Andreas Ströhl also pointed out that "Our
decision to honor Michael Haneke with the CineMerit
Award was made long before
Cannes."
•••THE
WHITE RIBBON will be screened at the CineMerit
Award ceremony on July 3. Five other films by the
Austrian director will also be screened at the
festival.
•••We
will be focusing on the heart of Europe this year,
on new films from Poland, the Czech Republic,
Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as
Serbia-Montenegro - films that will contrast old
clichés and new prejudices with the actual
realities of these societies today.
•
LAST YEAR'S SPOTLIGHT WAS ON: Makhmalbaf
Retrospective •••Director
Mohsen Makhmalbaf has single-handedly changed the
cinema of Iran with his poetic yet realistic film
parables. He has demonstrated, under various
administrations, that making oppositional as well
as esthetically innovative films can not only be
done but that the films can receive international
acclaim as wells as causing problems for the
director with government censors. His last two
films, however, could not be made in Iran and he
sees no possibility of continuing his work there
because of the present political situation. He
emigrated to Paris with the entire Makhmalbaf Film
House, which includes his wife Marziyeh Meshkini,
his daughters Samira and Hana, and his son Maysam -
an entire family of filmmakers in exile. Filmfest
München will be screening all available films
of the Makhmalbaf Film House and all members of the
family will be present. It is the first time that
films of the entire family will be screened at one
venue. •Mike
Figgis - Retrospective •••We
are also honoring the cinematic work of British
director, writer and musician Mike Figgis with a
retrospective. Since his feature film debut
with
STORMY
MONDAY (1988), Figgis has constantly expanded
the borders of filmmaking. After his Academy
Award-winning LEAVING LAS VEGAS, Figgis has
continued to develop innovative forms of
storytelling which have a great influence on
contemporary cinema. Mike Figgis will be in Munich
as a guest of the Filmfest. •CineMerit
Award 2006 ˆ Barry Levinson •••His
very first film, DINER, was a sensation and rightly
so. The native Marylander soon established himself
as one of Hollywood's most creative and versatile
directors. An Oscar-winner (for RAIN MAN in 1989),
he seems to combine artistic excellence and
commercial success with relative ease. There are
not many directors who have made over a half dozens
films that were popular with both audiences and
critics. •••
GOOD MORNING,
VIETNAM and TIN MEN (1987), AVALON (1990),
DISCLOSURE (1994), SLEEPERS (1996), WAG THE DOG
(1997), to mention a few, are among the most
interesting films produced in Hollywood in the last
25 years. We are proud to announce that Barry
Levinson will be in Munich to receive Filmfest
München's CineMerit Award for his
extraordinary contributions to motion pictures as
an art form. •••The
roughly 200 films that we will be showing in 2006
will be arranged in the sections that have
traditionally made up our program: International
Program, New German Cinema, German TV Movies,
Silent Classic, Open Air, Nouveau Cinéma
Français, American Independents and the
Kinderfilmfest. •The
theme of this year's Open Air screenings on the
terrace of the Gasteig festival center is: Movie
Pirates! •••We'll
be showing classic pirate movies like THE CRIMSON
PIRATE but also more arcane jewels of the
genre.
•Filmfest's Movie Mile runs from the RIO
Filmpalast past Gasteig (the festival center), the
Museum Lichtspiele, and the MaxX Cineplex all the
way to Munich's Filmmuseum.
•The Press Center (with computer work
stations) is located in the Glass Hall on the upper
level of the Gasteig festival center (Rosenheimer
Str. 5).
•We will continue to provide you with updated
information on the program and guests. Press
conferences will be held on June 12 in the
Vortragssaal der Bibliothek in Gasteig (the
festival center) and on July 6 in the Filmmuseum.
Invitations will be sent out separately. As of June
22 the complete program will be available on our
website. The catalog will be available as of July
8. Starting July 3, tickets can be purchased
online. Advance ticket sales begin on July 8 at the
box office in the Gasteig festival center.
•Journalists who were accredited last year
received the accreditation application form by
e-mail. For those who weren't, info can be obtained
at our website, www.filmfest-muenchen.de, or
contact info-presse@filmfest-muenchen.de.
•With best
regards,
•••Zoran
Gojic
•••Presse
Filmfest München
•••089-38190430
•••presse@filmfest-muenchen.de
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"Tristan und Isolde" was featured during the
video shoot which included, Bundespresident
Horst Koehler and wife Eva, Ministerpresident
Edmund Stoiber and his wife Karin, Angela
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MÜNCHEN 2005 --
From June 25 to
July 2, the Filmfest was one of the largest
cinema and television events of the year will
take place for the 22nd time. Once again eight
days and eight long nights filled with Great
Stories, Great Directors, Great Actors, Great
Movies at Filmfest
München.
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23. Filmfest München will be incorporating
a number of innovations. The participating
cinemas, to cite just one, will be situated
along the Munich Movie Mile, all within walking
distance of each other, enhancing the festival's
cordial atmosphere. This convivial ambience
allows for more informal encounters for both
moviegoers and guests and will, we hope,
encourage even more filmmakers from around the
globe to come to Munich to interact with
audiences on a personal level.
In the sections of
World Cinema, American Independents, Made in
Germany - German Feature Films and German TV
Movies, VideoArt & Experimental Film,
Children's Film
Festival,
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Filmfest
München presents new cinematic discoveries
from around the world, highlights from the big
studios and major companies, as well as the best
works by international young directors. The
extensive festival program of International,
European and German Premieres is rounded out
with Retrospectives, Portraits, Tributes and
Special Screenings.
The 21st Filmfest
München will again honor a major
personality from the international world of
cinema for his or her contributions to the
cinematic arts with the CineMerit
Award.
•
•
Previous recipients
were the directors Jules Dassin, Francesco Rosi,
Milos Forman and Manoel de Oliveira, the
American producer and repeated Oscar winner Eric
Pleskow, the formidable European producer Marin
Karmitz as well as the actresses Susan Sarandon,
Jacqueline Bisset and Barbara
Hershey.
•
•
The well-endowed
prizes awarded at Filmfest München 2003
will also supply thrilling
excitement:
The Young German
Cinema Award, in the amount of 80,000 ¤
donated by the HypoVereinsbank, the Bavaria Film
and the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation
(Bayerischer Rundfunk).
•
•
The prize will be
awarded to the best new director (with a purse
of 40,000 ¤), the best new screenwriter
(20,000 ¤) and the best new actor (20,000
¤) of any German feature film from Filmfest
München's program.
High Hopes Award,
endowed with a purse of 25,000 ¤. It is
sponsored by the German Film & Television
Royalty Collecting Society (GWFF) and is awarded
to the best debut film from the festival's
international
program.
•
•
VFF TV Movie Award,
endowed with a purse of 25,000 ¤. It is
sponsored by the German Royalty Collecting
Company of Film & TV Producers Ltd. (VFF)
and is awarded to the best TV Movie in the
festival's Made in Germany category.
Bild-Kunst Award for
Experimental Film, endowed with a purse of
25,000 ¤, sponsored by the Royalty
Collecting Company of the Pictorial Arts. It is
awarded to the best film from the VideoArt &
Experimental Film section (German section
only).
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with Great Stories, Great Directors, Great Actors,
Great Movies at Filmfest München.
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