50 years of great films

50 years of great films

How many films have you seen today? Is there one you’d recommend? What will you watch next? That’s clearly festival talk. Currently it’s going on in Vienna, where the 50th issue of the film festival Viennale just started.

The Viennale was the first film festival I ever visited and also the one I still like most. That’s probably due to a variety of factors. I studied film in Vienna, so of course the festival was the highlight of the year. Not only because of the great films, but also because it really seems to change Vienna. Living there it is impossible not to notice the festival is taking place. There’s plenty of people everywhere, new venues springing up all over the city and simply something on every single night…

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SHAME

Since Steve McQueen took the Camera D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his first feature film Hunger in 2008 the film world has been waiting for a new film of the Turner Prize Winning Artist. Now Shame has finally been released in Germany…

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