Alice Cooper in WACKEN 3D (Jumpseat 3dplus)
Area moviegoers and music fans can cross another item off their cinematic bucket list this weekend; that is, if your list includes the item, “see Henry Rollins 3D movie.”
The 23rd annual festival of new films from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland opens Friday night with director Baran bo Odar’s Who Am I: No System is Safe, about a high school hacker (Tom Schilling) who’s recruited by a hacker collective called CLAY (Clowns Laughing @ You). The festival runs from November 6-12. With one exception, the screenings will be at E Street Landmark Cinema. The festival is presented by the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Embassy of Switzerland, and, of course, the Goethe-Institut. This is perhaps a bittersweet event for the Goethe; due to rising rents, the Goethe will be leaving their 7th Street location (and that sweet, state-of-the-art screening room) for a temporary location next year.
See the complete Film|Neu schedule here. Festival highlights include:
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Robert (Max Hubacher) is a young car enthusiast just out of prison for an accident that killed a child. Trying to get his life together, he connects with Alice (Sabine Timoteo), who has links to a past they’re both trying to forget. This is the feature film debut from Swiss-English director Karim Patwa, and he’s made a kind of Fast and Furious that replaces action with character study.
Watch the trailer.
Sunday, November 8 at 8:30 pm and Wednesday, November 11 at 6:30 pm at E Street Landmark Cinema
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After her mother’s death, a lounge singer (Katja Riemann) learns that a New York opera singer (Hannah Arendt‘s Barbara Sukowa) might be her twin sister. This is the latest film from acclaimed director Margarethe von Trotta (The Lost Honor Of Katharina Blum, Hanna Arendt), who discovered late in life that she had a half-sister.
Watch the trailer.
Saturday, November 7 at 1:00 pm and Sunday, November 8, 4:15 pm at E Street Landmark Cinema.
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Victoria .
Director Sebastian Schipper’s acclaimed crime thriller gets its local premiere this weekend. The film was shot as one uninterrupted take over the course of 22 different locations. The Examiner’s Travis Hopson calls it “an intoxicating one-take classic.” I haven’t had a chance to preview the film but am looking forward to its commercial run next weekend.
Watch the trailer.
Saturday, November 7 at 7 p.m. at E Street Landmark Cinema
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Every year, a charming German town in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein opens up its doors to headbangers from around the world for Wacken Open Air, the world’s largest heavy metal festival. This 3D documentary of the 2013 event isn’t just a concert film; it spends a little time with the festivals diverse attendees (including a young Taiwanese woman who explains that she told her mother she was going on a business trip) and opens with a look at the (no subgenre intended) heavy metal industrial production that went into the huge steer head that tops the stage. But you’ll probably come for a lineup that includes Alice Cooper, Anthrax, Deep Purple, Motörhead, Rammstein and Henry Rollins, all EXTRA IN YOUR FACE.
Watch the trailer.
Saturday, November 7 at 2:30 p.m at the Goethe-Institut
