Something could happen at the 95th Academy Awards that has never happened before: a remake of a Best Picture champion could win Best Picture. The movie in question is “All Quiet on the Western Front,” which initially won the coveted Oscar prize for 1930 and is now a hot contender to be named the best film of 2022. The Netflix remake, directed by Edward Berger, earned nine total bids this year: picture, adapted screenplay, international film, score, sound, production design, cinematography, makeup & hairstyling and visual effects. If it wins Best Picture on Sunday, March 12, 2023, it will become the 17th war movie to prevail.
Scroll through our photo gallery above (or click here for direct access) to see all of the war movies that won Best Picture at the Oscars, from the most recent champ “The Hurt Locker” (2009) to the original victor “Wings” (1928). In all, 16 such films have triumphed in the top category,...
Scroll through our photo gallery above (or click here for direct access) to see all of the war movies that won Best Picture at the Oscars, from the most recent champ “The Hurt Locker” (2009) to the original victor “Wings” (1928). In all, 16 such films have triumphed in the top category,...
- 3/9/2023
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
October’s here and it’s time to get spooked. After last year’s superb “’70s Horror” lineup, the Criterion Channel commemorates October with a couple series: “Universal Horror,” which does what it says on the tin (with special notice to the Spanish-language Dracula), and “Home Invasion,” which runs the gamut from Romero to Oshima with Polanski and Haneke in the mix. Lest we disregard the programming of Cindy Sherman’s one feature, Office Killer, and Jennifer’s Body, whose lifespan has gone from gimmick to forgotten to Criterion Channel. And if you want to stretch ideas of genre just a hair, their “True Crime” selection gets at darker shades of human nature.
It’s not all chills and thrills, mind. October also boasts a Kirk Douglas repertoire, movies by Doris Wishman and Wayne Wang, plus Manoel de Oliveira’s rarely screened Porto of My Childhood. And Edgar Wright gets the “Adventures in Moviegoing” treatment,...
It’s not all chills and thrills, mind. October also boasts a Kirk Douglas repertoire, movies by Doris Wishman and Wayne Wang, plus Manoel de Oliveira’s rarely screened Porto of My Childhood. And Edgar Wright gets the “Adventures in Moviegoing” treatment,...
- 9/24/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
With the Academy Awards just around the corner, it’s time to talk about the “who didn’ts” — the actors who never won an Oscas, let alone received a nomination-as well as classic films that never saw Oscar gold. And there are plenty of who didn’t filmmakers. Countless legendary directors didn’t win Oscars or even earn nominations.
Martin Scorsese, who is one of the most influential, acclaimed directors of the past 50 years has only won for directing 2006’s Best Picture winner “The Departed.” Though his 1976 masterpiece “Taxi Driver” was nominated for Best Picture, he didn’t earn an Oscar nomination for Best Director. He first got his first directing nomination for his 1980 masterwork “Raging Bull,” but lost to Robert Redford for “Ordinary People.”
Scorsese has received a lot of Oscar love. As far as producing, writing and directing, he’s received 14 nominations. And this year, he’s nominated...
Martin Scorsese, who is one of the most influential, acclaimed directors of the past 50 years has only won for directing 2006’s Best Picture winner “The Departed.” Though his 1976 masterpiece “Taxi Driver” was nominated for Best Picture, he didn’t earn an Oscar nomination for Best Director. He first got his first directing nomination for his 1980 masterwork “Raging Bull,” but lost to Robert Redford for “Ordinary People.”
Scorsese has received a lot of Oscar love. As far as producing, writing and directing, he’s received 14 nominations. And this year, he’s nominated...
- 1/30/2020
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
In a wedding reception 90 years in the making, three pieces of a bejeweled costume worn by Jeanette MacDonald in the 1929 Ernst Lubitsch film The Love Parade were reunited on the Paramount lot, where the musical comedy was made.
About 200 invitees, including Nicola Lubitsch, the daughter of the director, were on hand at the Sherry Lansing Theatre on Saturday to gaze at the complete package — the gown, its 20-foot-long, 40-pound train and its tiara — and enjoy a screening of the film.
Private costume collector Greg Schreiner revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that he paid about $3,000 some ...
About 200 invitees, including Nicola Lubitsch, the daughter of the director, were on hand at the Sherry Lansing Theatre on Saturday to gaze at the complete package — the gown, its 20-foot-long, 40-pound train and its tiara — and enjoy a screening of the film.
Private costume collector Greg Schreiner revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that he paid about $3,000 some ...
- 7/14/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
In a wedding reception 90 years in the making, three pieces of a bejeweled costume worn by Jeanette MacDonald in the 1929 Ernst Lubitsch film The Love Parade were reunited on the Paramount lot, where the musical comedy was made.
About 200 invitees, including Nicola Lubitsch, the daughter of the director, were on hand at the Sherry Lansing Theatre on Saturday to gaze at the complete package — the gown, its 20-foot-long, 40-pound train and its tiara — and enjoy a screening of the film.
Private costume collector Greg Schreiner revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that he paid about $3,000 some ...
About 200 invitees, including Nicola Lubitsch, the daughter of the director, were on hand at the Sherry Lansing Theatre on Saturday to gaze at the complete package — the gown, its 20-foot-long, 40-pound train and its tiara — and enjoy a screening of the film.
Private costume collector Greg Schreiner revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that he paid about $3,000 some ...
- 7/14/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Haddad family’s role as one of the founders of today’s global film business began shortly after the birth of cinema.
Empire Intl. was launched 100 years ago when a young pharmacist named Georges Haddad began projecting silent shorts in Beirut cafes, and in 1919 opened the city’s first movie theater, which he called the Cosmograph.
By 1935, in partnership with entrepreneur Nicolas Cattan, Haddad had built 36 cinemas across a swathe of the Middle East, “the smallest of which had 1,000 seats,” recalls his son Mario Haddad Sr. Their flagship venue was the Empire Cinema on
Beirut’s trendy Rue Gouraud, where Ernst Lubitsch’s first talkie, “The Love Parade,” premiered locally in 1931. With 1,200 seats and two balconies, it was among the most luxurious hardtops in the Arab world.
Then, in 1956, having become the leading film company in the region, the Cattan and Haddad partnership was dissolved after Georges’ death and...
Empire Intl. was launched 100 years ago when a young pharmacist named Georges Haddad began projecting silent shorts in Beirut cafes, and in 1919 opened the city’s first movie theater, which he called the Cosmograph.
By 1935, in partnership with entrepreneur Nicolas Cattan, Haddad had built 36 cinemas across a swathe of the Middle East, “the smallest of which had 1,000 seats,” recalls his son Mario Haddad Sr. Their flagship venue was the Empire Cinema on
Beirut’s trendy Rue Gouraud, where Ernst Lubitsch’s first talkie, “The Love Parade,” premiered locally in 1931. With 1,200 seats and two balconies, it was among the most luxurious hardtops in the Arab world.
Then, in 1956, having become the leading film company in the region, the Cattan and Haddad partnership was dissolved after Georges’ death and...
- 5/7/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Over the decades, special or honorary Oscars have gone to everything from a film series to animated shorts to innovators to a ventriloquist to child performers to foreign films. Tour our photo galleries for a look back featuring every performer honored (above) and every non-performer honored (below).
Two special awards were handed out at the first Academy Awards on May 16, 1929:
Charlie Chaplin, who had originally been nominated for lead actor and for comedy direction for his 1928 masterpiece “The Circus,” was withdrawn from those nominations when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ Board of Governors gave him a special award for his “versatility in writing, acting, directing and producing” the comedy.
Warner Brothers also picked up a special honorary for producing 1927’s “The Jazz Singer”-“the pioneer outstanding talking picture, which has revolutionized the industry”.
Now called honorary Oscars, Donald Sutherland, cinematographer Owen Roizman (“The French Connection,” “The Exorcist...
Two special awards were handed out at the first Academy Awards on May 16, 1929:
Charlie Chaplin, who had originally been nominated for lead actor and for comedy direction for his 1928 masterpiece “The Circus,” was withdrawn from those nominations when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ Board of Governors gave him a special award for his “versatility in writing, acting, directing and producing” the comedy.
Warner Brothers also picked up a special honorary for producing 1927’s “The Jazz Singer”-“the pioneer outstanding talking picture, which has revolutionized the industry”.
Now called honorary Oscars, Donald Sutherland, cinematographer Owen Roizman (“The French Connection,” “The Exorcist...
- 2/27/2018
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
(See previous post: “Gay Pride Movie Series Comes to a Close: From Heterosexual Angst to Indonesian Coup.”) Ken Russell's Valentino (1977) is notable for starring ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev as silent era icon Rudolph Valentino, whose sexual orientation, despite countless gay rumors, seems to have been, according to the available evidence, heterosexual. (Valentino's supposed affair with fellow “Latin Lover” Ramon Novarro has no basis in reality.) The female cast is also impressive: Veteran Leslie Caron (Lili, Gigi) as stage and screen star Alla Nazimova, ex-The Mamas & the Papas singer Michelle Phillips as Valentino wife and Nazimova protégée Natacha Rambova, Felicity Kendal as screenwriter/producer June Mathis (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), and Carol Kane – lately of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt fame. Bob Fosse's Cabaret (1972) is notable as one of the greatest musicals ever made. As a 1930s Cabaret presenter – and the Spirit of Germany – Joel Grey was the year's Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner. Liza Minnelli...
- 6/30/2017
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
I find it impossible to believe anyone called Hobart Henley could ever be a great film director, but on the other hand, I also find it impossible to dislike a film director called Hobart Henley. It's too much fun reading his name in a credits sequence.Henley had been an actor, which seems to account for his preposterous, alliterative name, except it seems that really was his name, not a stage contrivance. He directed numerous silent films from the teens on, all of them obscure, but his late-career outpouring of a few cute pre-Codes is better remembered. Night World (1932) is enjoyable, and Roadhouse Nights (1930) is remarkable for being the only official adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest (unofficial source material for Yojimbo, A Fistful of Dollars, Last Man Standing...), only you wouldn't know it because it reached the screen as a Jimmy Durante musical. The only thing it has...
- 4/14/2016
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
Last August, Arik Devens created the Cinema Gadfly podcast, an audio supplement to his Web site of the same name. As we do with the CriterionCast, the Cinema Gadfly podcast features discussions of the various releases in The Criterion Collection, but Arik complements each release with an episode discussing a non-Criterion film chosen by the guest.
I’m extremely pleased to announce that Arik will be adding his show to our network, syndicating it in our feeds.
Arik joined us on a recently on our Criterion Favorites of 2015 episode. Over the six months that he’s been producing his podcast, he’s released fourteen episodes, covering films such as Alphaville (featuring Serenity Caldwell), The Love Parade, and most recently Chungking Express with our own David Blakeslee.
Arik spoke at the Layers Conference in 2015, discussing what he loves about the Criterion Collection.
Over the years, our little network (Hyperbolic) has grown,...
I’m extremely pleased to announce that Arik will be adding his show to our network, syndicating it in our feeds.
Arik joined us on a recently on our Criterion Favorites of 2015 episode. Over the six months that he’s been producing his podcast, he’s released fourteen episodes, covering films such as Alphaville (featuring Serenity Caldwell), The Love Parade, and most recently Chungking Express with our own David Blakeslee.
Arik spoke at the Layers Conference in 2015, discussing what he loves about the Criterion Collection.
Over the years, our little network (Hyperbolic) has grown,...
- 2/29/2016
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
'Ben-Hur' 1959 with Stephen Boyd and Charlton Heston: TCM's '31 Days of Oscar.' '31 Days of Oscar': 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'Ben-Hur' are in, Paramount stars are out Today, Feb. 1, '16, Turner Classic Movies is kicking off the 21st edition of its “31 Days of Oscar.” While the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is being vociferously reviled for its “lack of diversity” – more on that appallingly myopic, self-serving, and double-standard-embracing furore in an upcoming post – TCM is celebrating nearly nine decades of the Academy Awards. That's the good news. The disappointing news is that if you're expecting to find rare Paramount, Universal, or Fox/20th Century Fox entries in the mix, you're out of luck. So, missing from the TCM schedule are, among others: Best Actress nominees Ruth Chatterton in Sarah and Son, Nancy Carroll in The Devil's Holiday, Claudette Colbert in Private Worlds. Unofficial Best Actor...
- 2/2/2016
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
'The Merry Widow' with Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald and Minna Gombell under the direction of Ernst Lubitsch. Ernst Lubitsch movies: 'The Merry Widow,' 'Ninotchka' (See previous post: “Ernst Lubitsch Best Films: Passé Subtle 'Touch' in Age of Sledgehammer Filmmaking.”) Initially a project for Ramon Novarro – who for quite some time aspired to become an opera singer and who had a pleasant singing voice – The Merry Widow ultimately starred Maurice Chevalier, the hammiest film performer this side of Bob Hope, Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler – the list goes on and on. Generally speaking, “hammy” isn't my idea of effective film acting. For that reason, I usually find Chevalier a major handicap to his movies, especially during the early talkie era; he upsets their dramatic (or comedic) balance much like Jack Nicholson in Martin Scorsese's The Departed or Jerry Lewis in anything (excepting Scorsese's The King of Comedy...
- 1/31/2016
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Nina Hoss in 'Phoenix': 'Village Voice' Critics' Best Actress runner-up. 'Village Voice' Best of 2015: Offbeat picks include Géza Röhrig, runner-up Nina Hoss The Best of 2015 choices of the Village Voice film critics will not influence the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, or the SAG Awards. No matter. If you're interested in movies to watch or performances to check out, then you should pay close attention to those smaller critics' lists. More so, in fact, than the lists of academies, guilds, and press/critics associations with televised awards shows – or even critics groups worried about their “Oscar relevance.” In their case, buzz easily (and usually) trumps quality. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' tops The top three slots of the Village Voice critics went to expected, English-language fare: George Miller's female-centered actioner Mad Max: Fury Road, starring Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy. Todd Haynes' female-centered romantic drama Carol,...
- 12/16/2015
- by Mont. Steve
- Alt Film Guide
Oliver Heldens continues his esteemed Hi-lo project with a remix of a ’90s classic sure to appease bass house fans while undoubtedly angering a few purists in the process. He’s put German artist Da Hool’s 1997 hit “Meet Her at the Love Parade” (a reference to the now-defunct German festival Love Parade) through the Hi-lo machine, updating the track for modern audiences.
…And what musical element might you guess jumps out immediately from the remix? That’s right, a breakbeat. We’ve mentioned a time or two that the bass house style borrows heavily from the breaks style – which has yet to recover from an inexplicable nose dive in popularity – and the Hi-lo remix of “Meet Her At The Love Parade” reinforces the trend. It also features the dubby Lfo loop wobbles characteristic of the genre, with some squeaky high notes that almost hint at trap.
Take a minute...
…And what musical element might you guess jumps out immediately from the remix? That’s right, a breakbeat. We’ve mentioned a time or two that the bass house style borrows heavily from the breaks style – which has yet to recover from an inexplicable nose dive in popularity – and the Hi-lo remix of “Meet Her At The Love Parade” reinforces the trend. It also features the dubby Lfo loop wobbles characteristic of the genre, with some squeaky high notes that almost hint at trap.
Take a minute...
- 8/31/2015
- by John Cameron
- We Got This Covered
Gary Cooper movies on TCM: Cooper at his best and at his weakest Gary Cooper is Turner Classic Movies' “Summer Under the Stars” star today, Aug. 30, '15. Unfortunately, TCM isn't showing any Cooper movie premiere – despite the fact that most of his Paramount movies of the '20s and '30s remain unavailable. This evening's features are Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Sergeant York (1941), and Love in the Afternoon (1957). Mr. Deeds Goes to Town solidified Gary Cooper's stardom and helped to make Jean Arthur Columbia's top female star. The film is a tad overlong and, like every Frank Capra movie, it's also highly sentimental. What saves it from the Hell of Good Intentions is the acting of the two leads – Cooper and Arthur are both excellent – and of several supporting players. Directed by Howard Hawks, the jingoistic, pro-war Sergeant York was a huge box office hit, eventually earning Academy Award nominations in several categories,...
- 8/30/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Luis Buñuel movies on TCM tonight (photo: Catherine Deneuve in 'Belle de Jour') The city of Paris and iconoclastic writer-director Luis Buñuel are Turner Classic Movies' themes today and later this evening. TCM's focus on Luis Buñuel is particularly welcome, as he remains one of the most daring and most challenging filmmakers since the invention of film. Luis Buñuel is so remarkable, in fact, that you won't find any Hollywood hipster paying homage to him in his/her movies. Nor will you hear his name mentioned at the Academy Awards – no matter the Academy in question. And rest assured that most film critics working today have never even heard of him, let alone seen any of his movies. So, nowadays Luis Buñuel is un-hip, un-cool, and unfashionable. He's also unquestionably brilliant. These days everyone is worried about freedom of expression. The clash of civilizations. The West vs. The Other.
- 1/27/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Written and directed by Wes Anderson
USA/UK/Germany, 2014
More than perhaps any other director, the work of Ernst Lubitsch has been the most noticeable influence on Wes Anderson’s style. Though the great German-American writer-director, most prolific in the 1930s and 1940s, was never quite so aesthetically bold in the look of his sets, he too was preoccupied with meticulous staging for comedy within his chosen locales, be they the titular Shop Around the Corner or the Parisian hotel of Ninotchka; The Grand Budapest Hotel is set in a fictional European country, the Republic of Zubrowka, another Lubitsch trait from works like The Merry Widow and The Love Parade, though The Shop Around the Corner happens to be set in the city Anderson’s mountaintop lodging house takes its name from. He garnered the descriptor of ‘the Lubitsch touch’ thanks to the moving sincerity that...
Written and directed by Wes Anderson
USA/UK/Germany, 2014
More than perhaps any other director, the work of Ernst Lubitsch has been the most noticeable influence on Wes Anderson’s style. Though the great German-American writer-director, most prolific in the 1930s and 1940s, was never quite so aesthetically bold in the look of his sets, he too was preoccupied with meticulous staging for comedy within his chosen locales, be they the titular Shop Around the Corner or the Parisian hotel of Ninotchka; The Grand Budapest Hotel is set in a fictional European country, the Republic of Zubrowka, another Lubitsch trait from works like The Merry Widow and The Love Parade, though The Shop Around the Corner happens to be set in the city Anderson’s mountaintop lodging house takes its name from. He garnered the descriptor of ‘the Lubitsch touch’ thanks to the moving sincerity that...
- 2/20/2014
- by Josh Slater-Williams
- SoundOnSight
Jean Dujardin, The Artist Best Actor Academy Award nominee Jean Dujardin — for Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist — is a first-time Oscar nominee and only the fourth Frenchman to be shortlisted for an Academy Award in the acting categories. Dujardin's predecessors were Best Actor nominees Maurice Chevalier for the Ernst Lubitsch musicals The Big Pond and The Love Parade (1929-30); Charles Boyer for Clarence Brown's Conquest (1937), John Cromwell's Algiers (1938), George Cukor's Gaslight (1944), and Joshua Logan's Fanny (1961); and Gérard Depardieu, the only actor nominated for a French-speaking role, for Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Cyrano de Bergerac (1990). None of those three performers ended up taking home the Best Actor Oscar statuette, though at the 1959 Academy Awards ceremony Chevalier was awarded an Honorary Oscar "for his contributions to the world of entertainment for more than half a century." (Not coincidentally, that was the year he failed to be nominated for Vincente Minnelli...
- 1/24/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
2012 Oscar Predictions Best Actress: Tilda Swinton, Glenn Close. [Photo: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley in The Descendants.] Like in the Best Actress 2012 Academy Award race, there are three shoo-ins for the Best Actor shortlist: George Clooney, Jean Dujardin, and Brad Pitt. Clooney will be in the running for Alexander Payne's The Descendants, Dujardin for Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist, and Pitt for Bennett Miller's Moneyball. Clooney has already won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his sleazy U.S. spy/weapons dealer in Stephen Gaghan's Syriana (2005). In the acting categories, he was also nominated as Best Actor for Tony Gilroy's Michael Clayton (2007) and Jason Reitman's Up in the Air (2009). This year, Clooney's own Golden Globe-nominated political drama The Ides of March serves as further evidence of the actor-director's "worthiness." (Clooney was a Best Director Oscar nominee for the 2005 black-and-white drama Good Night, and Good Luck, which also earned David Strathairn a Best Actor nod.
- 1/24/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
John Landis walks us through all the things we won’t see in the trailer for Heaven Can Wait.
No, it’s not the Warren Beatty remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan, but the sublime Ernst Lubitsch comedy fantasy, his biggest commercial hit and generally considered the last of his films to exemplify the inimitable “Lubitsch touch”. Feckless womanizer Don Ameche recounts his love life to urbane devil Laird Cregar at the gates of Hell in a sparking rumination on life, death and the importance of the common man.
Click here to watch the trailer.
It’s July 4th and The Movie Orgy is looming, so let’s keep this short:
There’s an excellent Criterion edition of this film and, with it, a classic Criterion film essay that’s worth checking out:
Heaven Can Wait was different: with this film, Lubitsch achieved his greatest commercial success in the sound...
No, it’s not the Warren Beatty remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan, but the sublime Ernst Lubitsch comedy fantasy, his biggest commercial hit and generally considered the last of his films to exemplify the inimitable “Lubitsch touch”. Feckless womanizer Don Ameche recounts his love life to urbane devil Laird Cregar at the gates of Hell in a sparking rumination on life, death and the importance of the common man.
Click here to watch the trailer.
It’s July 4th and The Movie Orgy is looming, so let’s keep this short:
There’s an excellent Criterion edition of this film and, with it, a classic Criterion film essay that’s worth checking out:
Heaven Can Wait was different: with this film, Lubitsch achieved his greatest commercial success in the sound...
- 7/4/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
For the month of June, I’m trying something a little different for my (more or less) weekly review column here on CriterionCast.com. Going with the old tradition of June as the ideal month for weddings that I alluded to just about a year ago, in my second installment in this Journey through the Eclipse Series that covered Ernst Lubitsch’s Monte Carlo, I’m going to focus on the theme of Marriage. I’ve selected a few titles that concern themselves in various ways, and from the perspective of different cultures and times, with that venerable institution. That basic human phenomenon of coupling up and sealing the relationship with a set of vows is one that we can all relate to in some way, even if we haven’t taken that walk down the aisle (or in whatever other situation our culture and whims might lead us to arrange.
- 6/9/2011
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
1929-1962 The following list reflects my personal choice of the best films of each year, in order of preference. Certain titles are included mainly because of historical interest, because of their popularity or because of their director’s more noteworthy later career. Films with an asterisk (*) have full sound but little or no spoken dialog; they are the final few non-talking “silent” pictures. Officially, the last of these was in 1936, with Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times, though Charlie does sing some French gibberish near the end. 1929 The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch) Hallelujah! (King Vidor) Eternal Love (Ernst Lubitsch)* The…...
- 9/19/2010
- Blogdanovich
Death of 19 in stampede at festival ranks among all-time worst concert disasters.
By Gil Kaufman
Emergency services personnel at the Love Parade festival in Duisburg on Saturday
Photo: Achim Scheidemann/ Getty Images
After 19 people were killed and 511 injured during a panic stampede at Germany's annual Love Parade music festival on Saturday, prosecutors are investigating whether negligent manslaughter was involved in the deaths.
The Associated Press reported that even as officials try to determine who was to blame for the panic near a tunnel that was the only entrance to the festival grounds in the western industrial city of Duisburg, they have not yet identified any of the potential suspects in the case.
"The investigations are concentrating on the allegation of negligent manslaughter and negligent bodily harm," said Rolf Haferkamp, a spokesman for Duisburg prosecutors. "They are not directed against any concrete person at present."
A union for German police has...
By Gil Kaufman
Emergency services personnel at the Love Parade festival in Duisburg on Saturday
Photo: Achim Scheidemann/ Getty Images
After 19 people were killed and 511 injured during a panic stampede at Germany's annual Love Parade music festival on Saturday, prosecutors are investigating whether negligent manslaughter was involved in the deaths.
The Associated Press reported that even as officials try to determine who was to blame for the panic near a tunnel that was the only entrance to the festival grounds in the western industrial city of Duisburg, they have not yet identified any of the potential suspects in the case.
"The investigations are concentrating on the allegation of negligent manslaughter and negligent bodily harm," said Rolf Haferkamp, a spokesman for Duisburg prosecutors. "They are not directed against any concrete person at present."
A union for German police has...
- 7/26/2010
- MTV Music News
A criminal investigation has been launched after 19 people were killed and a further 340 injured in a stampede at a free dance music festival in Germany. The Love Parade festival was taking place in the German city of Duisburg. Eyewitnesses have blamed overcrowding for the disaster after an estimated 1.4 million people attended the event, which had just one entrance which went through a tunnel. Mayor of the city Adolf Sauerland told the BBC that he would not place the blame on anyone at this point in the investigation, adding: "That would not serve the victims, nor would it serve the families." A woman told German newspaper Die Welt: "Everywhere you looked, there were people with blue (more)...
- 7/25/2010
- by By Colin Daniels
- Digital Spy
Deaths, more than 340 injuries occurred during stampede in underpass.
By James Montgomery
Paramedics transport an injured person to an ambulance after a stampede at Germany's Love Parade festival on July 24
Photo: Christoph Reichwein/ Getty Images
Nineteen people were killed and more than 340 injured at the annual Love Parade music festival in the German city of Duisburg on Saturday, the result of a stampede that occurred beneath an overpass at the entrance of the festival grounds. According to The New York Times, police had closed off the festival grounds on Saturday evening, citing overcrowding (there were some 1.4 million people inside the Love Parade at the time), but failed to close off the entrance to a 200-meter long tunnel that led to the site of the concert.
More and more concertgoers streamed into the tunnel, only to find that the entrance — reportedly the only entrance to the fest — was shut. It was...
By James Montgomery
Paramedics transport an injured person to an ambulance after a stampede at Germany's Love Parade festival on July 24
Photo: Christoph Reichwein/ Getty Images
Nineteen people were killed and more than 340 injured at the annual Love Parade music festival in the German city of Duisburg on Saturday, the result of a stampede that occurred beneath an overpass at the entrance of the festival grounds. According to The New York Times, police had closed off the festival grounds on Saturday evening, citing overcrowding (there were some 1.4 million people inside the Love Parade at the time), but failed to close off the entrance to a 200-meter long tunnel that led to the site of the concert.
More and more concertgoers streamed into the tunnel, only to find that the entrance — reportedly the only entrance to the fest — was shut. It was...
- 7/25/2010
- MTV Music News
It’s a silly story, only possible with music.
After spending last weekend immersed in the horrors of trench warfare, World War I style, via Raymond Bernard’s Wooden Crosses, I’m in the mood for something light and frivolous – how about a romantic comedy, a musical one at that? Sure – Criterion’s Eclipse series has got just the thing for me, in Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals. But which one of the four best fits the occasion? Well, it’s the first weekend of June, that time of year when blissful young couples traditionally get married, a custom going back to ancient Roman times when Juno was paid special homage as the goddess of marriage. Of course, June weddings also have the practical advantage of ensuring that if the bride gets pregnant on the honeymoon, she won’t be ready to give birth until after the harvest time, and...
After spending last weekend immersed in the horrors of trench warfare, World War I style, via Raymond Bernard’s Wooden Crosses, I’m in the mood for something light and frivolous – how about a romantic comedy, a musical one at that? Sure – Criterion’s Eclipse series has got just the thing for me, in Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals. But which one of the four best fits the occasion? Well, it’s the first weekend of June, that time of year when blissful young couples traditionally get married, a custom going back to ancient Roman times when Juno was paid special homage as the goddess of marriage. Of course, June weddings also have the practical advantage of ensuring that if the bride gets pregnant on the honeymoon, she won’t be ready to give birth until after the harvest time, and...
- 6/8/2010
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
By Michael Atkinson
The idea of a "national" cinema, expressive of a particular and coherent cultural esprit, is a standard of most cinematic intercourse . until you confront the real map, in which Kosovar cinema is now primed to forge an identity of its own (as the Serbs and Slovenians have done), the ex-Soviet nations of the Silk Road are struggling to differentiate themselves from Russian film and the nationless movies of the Basque, the Romany and the Palestinians still hunt for footing and voice. Add to this gray zone the films of Kurdistan, a non-country standing nevertheless with its own army, government and debatable borders, and a nascent cinema rising with the ascent of the Iranian new wave and from the crater of the American occupation. Even within this context, Hiner Saleem is filmmaker on the roam . an Iraqi Kurd long expatriated to France, Saleem has made seven features, two in France,...
The idea of a "national" cinema, expressive of a particular and coherent cultural esprit, is a standard of most cinematic intercourse . until you confront the real map, in which Kosovar cinema is now primed to forge an identity of its own (as the Serbs and Slovenians have done), the ex-Soviet nations of the Silk Road are struggling to differentiate themselves from Russian film and the nationless movies of the Basque, the Romany and the Palestinians still hunt for footing and voice. Add to this gray zone the films of Kurdistan, a non-country standing nevertheless with its own army, government and debatable borders, and a nascent cinema rising with the ascent of the Iranian new wave and from the crater of the American occupation. Even within this context, Hiner Saleem is filmmaker on the roam . an Iraqi Kurd long expatriated to France, Saleem has made seven features, two in France,...
- 3/4/2008
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
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