BY THE BOOK & MORE OR LESS BY THE BOOK
Two film series on the occasion of the London Book Fair and European Literature Night 2014.
1. BY THE BOOK
MON 7 APR – TUES 6 MAY
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en12553599v.htm
Roughly bookended by the London Book Fair (8–10 April) and European Literature Night (14 May) this series of five documentary films drawn from the Goethe-Institut Film Archive looks at some of the mental and material processes it takes for a book to come into being, including how to develop a character, how to negotiate between languages when translating, or which type of paper to choose. These films are also portraits of five unique individuals.
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2. MORE OR LESS BY THE BOOK
WED 16 APR - WED 25 JUN
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en12557262v.htm
Complementing our By The Book series are four films that were inspired by or inspired a book. They include two adaptations by R.W. Fassbinder and Wim Wenders, both about women at odds with the social and religious norms of their times. The other two films take us from raucous ‘Ostalgia’ for 1970s East Berlin to a more reflective journey along a disused rail track in rural Bavaria.
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OTHER SCREENINGS
MOVIEDROME PRESENTS KAMIKAZE 1989
MO 14 APR 2014
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en12557238v.htm
This precursor of cyberpunk set in 1989 stars Rainer Werner Fassbinder in his last screen role. Squeezed into a leopard skin suit he wanders a garish utopian world as a police lieutenant who, while investigating a bomb threat against a powerful media co-operation, uncovers the latter’s ruthless plot to suppress all independent intellectual thought. With a soundtrack by Edgar Froese and Tangerine Dream, this is a rare screening of a cult classic.
FRG 1981 /1982, colour, 106 mins. With English subtitles. Director: Wolf Gremm.
Introduced by Moviedrome co-hosts, filmmakers Ben Rivers and Shezad Daewood, along with a specially selected secret short.
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VENUE Goethe-Institut London / ADDRESS 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2PH / TICKETS £3 (free for our language students & library members) /BOOKING 020 7596 4000, [log in to unmask] / INFORMATION www.goethe.de/london / TUBE South Kensington
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BY THE BOOK AND MORE OR LESS BY THE BOOK SCREENINGS BY DATES
BY THE BOOK
HOUWELANDT
MON 7 APR 7PM
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en12553611v.htm
Intertwining the perspective of film director Jörg Adolph and that of John von Düffel, the author of the novel Houwelandt who keeps a video diary, this documentary gives a candid insight into the often difficult process of creating a book.
Germany 2005, colour, 104mins. With English subtitles. Director: Jörg Adolph.
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BY THE BOOK
DOUBLE FEATURE
THU 10 APR 6.30PM AND 7.40PM
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en12553619v.htm
1. DAS HERZ SITZT LINKS – KLAUS WAGENBACH / THE HEART IS ON THE LEFT – KLAUS WAGENBACH
A good-humoured Klaus Wagenbach looks back on his life and the history of his publishing house founded in 1964 that has published works by Ulrike Meinhof, Erich Fried, Pier Paolo Pasolini, or Che Guevara.
Germany 2005, colour, 60mins. With English subtitles. Directors: Margit Knapp, Arpad Bondy.
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2. HOW TO MAKE A BOOK WITH STEIDL
‘F*** the midtones’, says Gerhard Steidl discussing the colour scheme for a new book with photographer Joel Sternfield. When it comes to producing the perfect book, there are indeed no midtones for one of today’s most prolific and possibly most obsessive art publishers.
Germany 2011, colour, 88mins. With English subtitles.
Directors: Gereon Wetzel and Jörg Adolph.
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BY THE BOOK
DIE FRAU MIT DEN 5 ELEFANTEN / THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS
WED 23 APR 7PM
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en12557163v.htm
The five elephants are Dostoyevsky’s five great novels. Svetlana Geier, who was born in Kiev in 1923 and fled to Germany in 1943, made it her task to translate them anew from Russian into German.
Germany / Switzerland 2009, colour, 97mins. German with English subtitles. Director: Vadim Jendreyko.
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MICHAEL HAMBURGER – EIN ENGLISCHER DICHTER AUS DEUTSCHLAND / MICHAEL HAMBURGER – AN ENGLISH POET FROM GERMANY
TUE 6 MAY 7PM
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en12557200v.htm
In this sensitive portrait of the German-born poet, critic and translator Michael Hamburger, who lived in Suffolk till his death in 2007, director Frank Wierke follows Hamburger’s daily routine in his Suffolk house and garden.
Germany 2007, colour, 77mins. With English subtitles.
Director: Frank Wierke.
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SONNENALLEE / SUN ALLEY
WED 16 APR 7PM
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en12557265v.htm
Colourful, over the top, full of rock and romance, this film named after a real Berlin street divided by the Wall, takes an ‘Ostalgic’ look at youth culture in the GDR in the early 1970s.
Germany 1998/99, colour, 94mins. With English subtitles. Director: Leander Haußmann.
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WALLERS LETZTER GANG / WALLER’S LAST TRIP
TUE 20 MAY 7PM
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en12557277v.htm
In his much acclaimed 1988 debut film, Christian Wagner follows track inspector Waller on his final walk along the railway track he has overseen for most of his life. Based on the 1985 novel Die Strecke (The Stretch), one of several magical realist books set in the Allgäu by Gerhard Köpf.
FRG 1988, colour, 100mins. With English subtitles. Director: Christian Wagner.
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DER SCHARLACHROTE BUCHSTABE / THE SCARLET LETTER
WED 28 MAY 7PM
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en12557295v.htm
An adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s nineteenth century American classic (via a scenario by Tankred Dorst and Ursula Ehler) about the ‘A’-dulteress Hester Prynne standing up against Puritan bigotry in seventeenth century New England.
FRG / Spain 1972 / 73, colour, 90mins. With English subtitles. Director: Wim Wenders.
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FONTANE EFFI BRIEST
WED 25 JUN 7PM
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en12557305v.htm
Theodor Fontane’s late nineteenth century novel had been a favourite of Fassbinder’s and he spent years preparing this masterly adaptation, in which he himself takes the role of the narrator, using Fontane’s words to tell Effi’s story.
FRG 1974, B/W, 141mins. With English subtitles. Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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