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35-503: With over 200 feature films and feature-length documentaries on more than 18 screens, Filmfest München has an annual attendance of around 80,000. It accredits more than 600 members of the international press and media as well as over 2,500 film industry professionals. It has always been a popular meeting place for industry insiders throughout Germany and Europe. The festival center is located at Munich's cultural center Gasteig , where screenings, panels, ceremonies and discussions take place and

70-622: A black comedy titled The Book of Life (1998) was shot entirely on digital video in New York in 1998. The story imagines Jesus (Martin Donovan) returning to Earth on the eve of the 2000 millennium to open the Book of Life (stored on an Apple Mac laptop), which will start the Apocalypse. Some sources state that William Burroughs is featured, but according to Hartley, this is actually a shot of

105-548: A complex romantic relationship with a mysterious computer repairman (played by Martin Donovan, another Hartley regular). Trust won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival . Hartley followed this with the short feature Surviving Desire (1991), a romantic comedy about a college professor (Donovan) who has an affair with a student (Mary B. Ward). Simple Men (1992),

140-407: A drama about two brothers (played by Burke and Bill Sage ) who reunite to search for their anarchist father and encounter two women in a small town (Karen Sillas and Elina Löwensohn), was entered in competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival . Amateur (1994) marked a change of pace for Hartley, exploring somber themes. Described as "a metaphysical thriller", it starred Isabelle Huppert as

175-505: A former nun trying to write pornographic fiction who meets Thomas (Martin Donovan), a man suffering from amnesia, and Sophia (Elina Löwensohn), Thomas's wife and a porn star, who reveals that Thomas was a violent criminal and pornographer. Hartley developed Flirt (1995) as an extension of his short film of the same name made in 1993. The film is a triptych of three separate characters involved in romantic entanglements in different cities – New York, Berlin and Tokyo – with each story using

210-514: A fugitive). The film was shot in 2006 in locations in Berlin, Paris, and Istanbul and premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival . It had a limited cinematic release in 2007 and received mixed reviews. Since 1999, Hartley's films predominantly have been shot with digital cameras, including the features The Book of Life , The Girl from Monday , Fay Grim and Meanwhile (2011), in addition to his short films. His digital aesthetic

245-554: A libertine and aspiring novelist who inspires Simon to write and seduces Fay and her depressed mother (Maria Porter). The film garnered positive reviews, and it was entered into competition at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival , where Hartley won the Best Screenplay Award . Hartley was invited to contribute the American entry to a series of films financed by French television to celebrate the 2000 millennium. His entry,

280-660: A number of short films, many of which have been collected and re-released in DVD anthologies. Hartley's stage play Soon , a drama dealing with the confrontation at Waco, Texas , between the religious community known as the Branch Davidians and the U.S. federal government, was first produced at the Salzburg Festival and then later that year in Antwerp. It was also staged in the U.S. in 2001. In 1996, Hartley

315-428: A particular filmmaker or artist with a selection of films. Recent tributes: Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Julie Delpy , Nicolas Winding Refn , Willy Bogner and Philip Gröning . Since 1983, Filmfest München has screened the new feature films and shorts for kids (ages 4 and up) from around the world. Films that are enriching as well as entertaining. The children have the opportunity to vote for their favorite film to win

350-681: A selection of films in honor of the recipient, an outstanding personality in the international film community who has made extraordinary contributions to motion pictures as an art form. Previous recipients have included John Malkovich , Michael Haneke , William Friedkin , Julie Christie , Alan Parker , D.A. Pennebaker , Claude Chabrol , Susan Sarandon , Jules Dassin , Melanie Griffith and Michael Caine , Isabelle Huppert and Udo Kier , Jean-Jacques Annaud and Rupert Everett , Ellen Burstyn and Bryan Cranston , Emma Thompson and Terry Gilliam , as well as Antonio Banderas and Ralph Fiennes . Specials that, for reasons of current interest, honor

385-484: A shoestring budget and filmed in his native Long Island, it was an unconventional love story about a suburban Long Island teenager (played by Adrienne Shelly , a soon-to-be Hartley regular) falling in love with a handsome mechanic with a criminal past ( Robert John Burke , also a soon-to-be Hartley regular). The screenplay featured what have become Hartley's trademarks – deadpan humour, offbeat, stilted, pause-filled dialogue, and characters posing philosophical questions about

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420-525: Is placed on fostering talented young filmmakers from Germany and around the world. The sections of the Filmfest München program are: This section includes films from internationally acclaimed directors (with the exception of Germany). The films are in competition for the ARRI /OSRAM Award for Best Film (non-German). Innovative first and second-time films by up-and-coming directors from around

455-518: Is significantly different from that seen in the 1990s, and his films shot by Michael Spiller on 35mm film , which exhibit blurring of the image (due to a very low shutter speed), the use of freeze frames, and shifts between colour and black-and-white footage, also display a considerable divergence from the washed-out colours and straightforward cinematography of the Long Island films from the early 1990s. Meanwhile received its world premiere at

490-745: The Camerimage festival in Bydgoszcz, Poland on 29 November 2011. The hour-long feature was released on DVD in 2012 following a successful funding campaign by Hartley using the Kickstarter website. In November 2013, Hartley funded Ned Rifle , the third film in the trilogy that began with Henry Fool and Fay Grim , via a Kickstarter campaign. The film premiered on September 7, 2014, at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival . From 2015 to 2017, Hartley directed eight episodes of Red Oaks . In addition to his feature work, Hartley has made

525-557: The Kinderfilmfest Audience Award . Festival atmosphere without tickets every night on the piazza of the festival center Gasteig . Every year a different theme. Former topics include: Cats, Masters of Disaster, Pirates, Rock ‘N’ Roll, Surfing, Dance, Las Vagas, Jazz, Skate films. Screenings are open to the public and free of charge. Source: The Filmfest München awards the following prizes (worth roughly €250,000): Prizes awarded to films other than those in

560-479: The 2005 Sundance Film Festival and received a limited cinematic release, receiving mostly negative reviews. In late 2005, Hartley moved from New York to Berlin and began preparing Fay Grim , an intended sequel to Henry Fool . The film, which starred Parker Posey, James Urbaniak and Thomas Jay Ryan reprising their roles from Henry Fool , was a comedy-drama in which Fay is coerced by a CIA agent ( Jeff Goldblum ) to try to locate notebooks that belonged to Henry (now

595-780: The Carl Orff Hall with a stage for drama, the Richard Strauss Conservatory, the Black Box studio theatre, the Münchner Volkshochschule (Adult Education Centre) for further education, various cafés and shops, e.g. the 'Pappnase' (cardboard nose) offering a selection of dramatic requisites, and the central branch of the Municipal Library with its extensive stock of books and periodicals. When famed conductor Leonard Bernstein

630-437: The Filmfest München program: Munich is not your typical festival. It's a great big party where you can make a great many new friends. Filmfest Munich is unique in that it continually breaks down the formal barriers between filmmaker and audience. I felt much more at home here than at other glitzy festivals. Munich offers pure cinema for the real audience. The first complete retrospective of my films at Filmfest München made

665-808: The Free State of Bavaria (represented by State Minister of Finance Markus Söder ), the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting, represented by Director Ulrich Wilhelm) and the SPIO (the German film industry association represented by Thomas Negele. The IMF also hosts the annual International Festival of Film Schools ( German : Internationales Festival der Filmhochschulen München )/Filmschoolfest in November. The festival's program ranges from lavish productions to No Budget Films. Special attention

700-759: The Glashalle describes the historical context for the memorial plaque. This article about a Bavarian building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hal Hartley Hal Hartley (born November 3, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and composer who became a key figure in the American independent film movement of the 1980s and '90s. His films include The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990), Simple Men (1992), Amateur (1994) and Henry Fool (1997), which are notable for deadpan humour and offbeat characters quoting philosophical dialogue. Hartley frequently scores his own films, sometimes under

735-635: The Massachusetts College of Art in Boston , where he studied art and developed an interest in filmmaking. In 1980, he was accepted to the filmmaking program at the State University of New York at Purchase in New York, where he met a core group of technicians and actors who would go on to work with him on his feature films, including his regular cinematographer Michael Spiller . Hartley shot The Unbelievable Truth in 1988. Made on

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770-676: The Town ) launched their careers with the winning films of this section. Various Academy Award -nominated films such as Beyond Silence by Caroline Link and The Story of the Weeping Camel by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni had their world premieres in this section. This section features outstanding TV movies, all world premieres, which are in competition for the Bernd Burgemeister TV Movie Award . The section Homage consists of sidebars that honor

805-590: The events of the Filmfest München , and many of the events of the Munich Biennale take place here. The Gasteig is planned to be restored until 2027. A provisional house for many of its functions is Gasteig HP8 . The Philharmonic Hall, opening like a great wood-panelled seashell, has an intimate atmosphere but poor acoustic qualities. The smaller hall "Kleiner Konzertsaal" offers slightly better acoustics for chamber music . The Gasteig comprises

840-512: The festival offices are located. There are several participating movie theaters in the downtown area. The director of Filmfest München is Diana Iljine , who took over in August 2011. Former directors are Andreas Ströhl (2004-2011) and Eberhard Hauff, who ran the festival from its outset. The festival is hosted by Internationale Münchner Filmwochen GmbH , whose shareholders are the City of Munich ,

875-495: The film's production manager doing a Burroughs impression (plus the fact that Burroughs died the previous year). The film screened on French television and had a limited commercial release in cinemas. Hartley's next feature No Such Thing (2001) tells the story of Beatrice ( Sarah Polley ), a journalist whose fiancé is killed by a monster in Iceland. Beatrice's editor ( Helen Mirren ) orders Beatrice to go to Iceland to interview

910-658: The films internationally known and ushered in a new phase in my career. In Cannes, they buy and sell films. In Munich, they discover them. Gasteig The Gasteig is a cultural center in Munich , opened in 1985, which hosts the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra . The Richard Strauss Conservatory , the Volkshochschule , and the municipal library are all located in the Gasteig. Most of

945-465: The meaning of life, combined with a degree of stylization in acting, choreography and camera movement. The film received positive reviews and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival . Trust (1990) followed similar themes and style to The Unbelievable Truth , again an offbeat romantic comedy starring Adrienne Shelly as a Long Island teenager who forms

980-692: The monster (Robert John Burke), who is a sensitive philosopher. The film also stars Julie Christie as a doctor sympathetic to the monster's cause. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival . The Girl from Monday (2005), filmed in New York City and Puerto Rico, is set in a future dystopia where people are encouraged to record their sexual encounters as an economic transaction and thus increase their consumer buying power. The film stars Bill Sage, Sabrina Lloyd and Tatiana Abracos. It premiered at

1015-484: The pseudonym Ned Rifle, and his soundtracks regularly feature music by Sonic Youth , Yo La Tengo and PJ Harvey . His films provided a career launch for a number of actors, including Adrienne Shelly , Edie Falco , James Urbaniak , Martin Donovan , Karen Sillas and Elina Löwensohn . Hartley was born in Lindenhurst, New York, the son of an ironworker. Hartley had an early interest in painting and attended

1050-484: The same dialogue. The film stars Hartley regulars Bill Sage , Parker Posey , Martin Donovan , Dwight Ewell and the Japanese actress Miho Nikaido, whom Hartley married in 1996. Hartley achieved his greatest commercial and critical success with Henry Fool (1997), a comic drama about a near-catatonic garbageman Simon Grim ( James Urbaniak ) and his sister Fay (Parker Posey), who meet Henry Fool ( Thomas Jay Ryan ),

1085-1098: The work of a particular filmmaker: Screenings that represent a comprehensive or major part of the work of an internationally acclaimed filmmaker. The retrospectives of famous filmmakers have included: Sergio Leone (1986), Im Kwon-taek (1990), Lars von Trier (1991), Hal Hartley (1992), Nagisa Ōshima (1992), Stanley Donen (1992), Nanni Moretti (1994), Michael Haneke (1994, 2009), Nelson Pereira (1995), Nicolas Roeg (1995), Robert Wise (1996), Ron Bass (1996), Roman Polański (1999), Miloš Forman (2000), Aki & Mika Kaurismäki (2004), Alan Parker (2004), Barry Levinson (2006), Mike Figgis (2006), Richard Linklater (2007), Werner Herzog (2007), Herbert Achternbusch (2008), Julie Christie (2008), Stephen Frears (2009), Ulrich Seidl (2010), Tom DiCillo (2011), Todd Haynes (2012), Alejandro Jodorowsky (2013), Walter Hill (2014), Alexander Payne (2015), Christian Petzold and Bahman Ghobadi (both 2016), Sofia Coppola (2017), Lucrecia Martel (2018), Bong Joon Ho and Mads Brügger (both 2019). The festival screens

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1120-718: The world compete for the CineVision Award for Best Film by a New Director (non-German). German co-producers of international co-productions compete for the CineCoPro Award which is sponsored by FFF Bayern and comes with a prize of €100,000. This section showcases stories that are larger than life - grand emotions, lavish production design, big names in front of and behind the camera, traditionally crafted movies by acclaimed, experienced directors as well as by outstanding, lesser-known filmmakers. The section focuses on new encounters with exciting filmmakers from around

1155-787: The world. Definitely not mainstream. Young, uncompromising cinema from the US, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa and Europe. The new productions in this section are all world premieres. Up and coming filmmakers vie for the German Cinema New Talent Awards in the categories Best Director, Best Production, Best Actor & Actress and Best Screenplay. Many well-known German film directors such as Sönke Wortmann ( Alone Among Women  [ de ] ), Oskar Roehler ( Silvester Countdown ), Marcus H. Rosenmüller ( Grave Decisions ) and Rainer Kaufmann ( Talk of

1190-515: Was asked on his opinion of the hall, he remarked, "Burn it." The estate behind the Gasteig was until its demolition in 1979 the location of the Bürgerbräukeller , stage for the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch and the 1939 Hitler assassination attempt by Georg Elser . A memorial plaque for Elser is located outside the GEMA building. An illuminated information board in the passage next to

1225-539: Was made Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic . From 2001 through 2004, Hartley was a visiting lecturer at Harvard University while simultaneously editing No Such Thing , shooting The Girl from Monday and writing Fay Grim . Hartley was awarded a fellowship by The American Academy in Berlin in late 2004, where he did research related to a proposed large-scale project concerning

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