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Sunday. Mother’s Day.
The Mother’s Day weekend was dedicated to the Maryland Film Festival for as long as I can remember. I think only once it took place a week earlier or later. I have been lucky because my mother lives in Germany and six hours ahead of our time-zone. But not everybody is so (more)
When we put together our five screenings for the first full festival day I already thought it would become quite an exhausting Friday. And this really turned out to become one rock star day of watching movies without a pause and living on popcorn, energy-bars, water and sangria. But it was absolutely worth it.
Our day (more)
This year it was especially difficult to create our movie schedule for the film festival weekend. The line-up includes so many great movies, documentaries and foreign entries…it is impossible to watch everything on a single weekend. But we managed to put together a selection of 14 screenings I’m going to write about again like every (more)
About a week ago we watched our last film at the 10th annual Maryland Film Festival, and it took me about a week to write down some of my impressions. If you read any of my last blog entries: I hope you enjoyed reading them and could discover something you might enjoy as much as (more)
I think I might have found the next two great filmmakers of our time. I can see a great future for both Ronald and Mary Bronstein. If they manage to continue the unique path they began with Frownland and Yeast.
When I first saw Frownland last year it quickly became one of my favorite films of (more)
Originally we planned to see the documentary shorts program between Underworld and Out Late. It was just about a minute into Underworld’s Q&A when a fire alarm forced everybody out of the theatre. I don’t know what exactly happened. Did somebody try to smoke in a bathroom? Did a film projector start to burn after (more)
Sunday morning. Time for another annual festival tradition: a classic silent movie accompanied with live music performed by the Alloy Orchestra. I am always looking forward to this event. Just like the annual 3D screening this is also a rare opportunity to experience a piece of cinematic history close to how it must have been (more)
Warning: The following may be more like writing in a personal diary than about a movie. When I first read the movie description it was very clear to me that I just would have to watch this film. Wow. What I read sounded so much like my own story. And what I saw on the (more)
