The DEFA Festival at the b-ware! Ladenkino may be over, but our film art video library offers further masterpieces from the GDR era on DVD hire: from newly discovered gems to cult classics such as The Legend of Paul and Paula, starring the recently deceased...
Are they mad? Or have they been smoking something dodgy? Unfortunately not. Nevertheless, director Parker Finn (SMILE) is planning a remake of Andrzej Zulawski’s cult classic POSSESSION (1980). One of the most enduring cult films of all time. Jürg Buttgereit declared it the best Berlin...
The tireless machine ran for 94 years, without interruption, before coming to a halt. Forever. The scope of his legacy makes any attempt to come to terms with it—for instance, by biographers—almost impossible: Alexander Kluge worked across media: he directed films, wrote books, and was...
With France’s Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), cinema was reinvented a second time. The architects: young filmmakers in 1950s Paris. Influenced by existentialism, the Cold War, and jazz, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette crafted a contemporary film aesthetic, articulating it through reviews...
Even Springer's daily newspaper Die Welt has figured it out: anyone interested in the future of cinema should look to South Korea. The label “Made in Korea” stands for “stylish stories and an unprecedented mix of genres, such as grotesque comedy and bloody social thrillers.” These...
New year, new films. In addition to newly shot films, there are also some rediscovered gems. Rarities, forgotten works, whose relevance today is often astonishing. For cineastes eager to discover new things, the Filmkunst video library is a veritable treasure trove. At the beginning of...
It seems as if death has been working overtime over the past year, especially in recent months. Numerous personalities from the worlds of acting and film directing disappeared from the earth in 2025: David Lynch, Diane Keaton, Robert Redford, Claudia Cardinale, Hark Bohm, Brigitte Bardot,...
What John Waters was to New Hollywood, Rosa von Praunheim was to New German Cinema: a whole bucketful of camp, trash, bad taste, and shrill freak shows. While colleagues such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Werner Schroeter presented their works with deadly serious expressions,...
Hark Bohm was one of the most important representatives of New German Cinema. As an actor, he appeared in films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (LOLA, BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, FEAR EATS THE SOUL) or Alexander Kluge. He was also a screenwriter and director. While colleagues such as Fassbinder,...
The b-ware! Ladenkino is showing BITTER GOLD by Chilean director Juan Olea. This is a great opportunity to discover Chile as a film country. The Filmkunst video library has a shelf with selected DVDs, including LA DANZA DE LA REALIDAD (2013) by cult all-round artist...