Helmut Färber

Berlin Film Fest 1984. The best place for every cinema fan. Everyone wants to be in on the festival, but that may be really difficult, if one has no accreditation. Also Journalist Matthies gets to know the rules of being in or out when he wants to see a screening and is not welcome. Thus he watches an old German silent flick which he is barely interested in. The next day the newspapers are full of reports about a newly discovered German masterpiece from the silent era. It seems that Matthies had luck. He just saw *the* film everybody is talking about now. Also everybody is speculating about its director, who remains unknown. When Matthies talks to Ackrewa, an old befriended projectionist, about the film, the latter seems to recall the name of the director. Matthies decides to research the case. An odyssey into film-history begins and if it is successful Matthies will come up with a top story.

Blank's TV documentary on Straub-Huillet.

Un hommage à Mallarmé qui non seulement affirme la pertinence de son œuvre, mais confronte également ses ambiguïtés littéraires à ses propres ambiguïtés politiques et cinématographiques. Dans ses grandes lignes, le film ne pourrait être plus simple : il propose une récitation de l'un des poèmes les plus célèbres et les plus complexes de Mallarmé (il s'agit de sa dernière œuvre publiée de son vivant, parue en 1897, un an avant sa mort) et propose un équivalent cinématographique à l'expérience originale de l'auteur en matière de typographie et de mise en page en attribuant les mots à neuf locuteurs différents, en séparant chaque locuteur au fur et à mesure qu'il parle et en utilisant de légères pauses pour correspondre aux espaces blancs sur la page d'origine.

After an extensive prison term, a free man wanders into a new reality.

TV documentary about the bicycle sequence in Ozu`s Banshun (Late Spring)

Film critic and scholar Helmut Färber analyzes the final scene of Eisensteins "October: Ten Days That Shook the World"

Icône du nouveau cinéma allemand, Wim Wenders parle de son amour pour l'art et le cinéma, à l'origine de son œuvre primée et saluée par la critique.

TV documentary about the bicycle sequence in Ozu`s Banshun (Late Spring)

Film critic and scholar Helmut Färber analyzes the final scene of Eisensteins "October: Ten Days That Shook the World"

Film critic and scholar Helmut Färber recounts the life and work of Robert Bresson

Film critic and scholar Helmut Färber recounts the the life and work of Erich von Stroheim

Film critic and scholar analyzes Jean Renoir's two films "Le Testament du docteur Cordelier" and "Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe".

Film scholar Helmut Färber discusses Griffith' A CORNER IN WHEAT.

Helmut Färber makes connections between architecture and film