Le Tableau --

Ein animierter, französischer Film über ein unvollendetes Gemälde, mit einer verdorbenen Gesellschaft, was aus 3 verschiedenen Klassen stattfindet.  Nur die völliggefärbten Figuren in dem Bild dürfen mit in der Oberstufen teilnehmen.  In der zweiten Klasse kommen die Figuren, die nur teilweise gemalen waren.  Die kurz mit Bleistift gestrichende Figuren bleiben weit unten.

Aber wo bleibt der Maler?  Wird er das Bild nicht vollenden, und diese armen unbefärbten Figuren von einem furchtbaren Leben befreien?

http://face-foundation.org/tournees-film-festival/le-tableau-the-painting/

URI Filmfest, am Dienstag, den 15. März zu sehen.  Wer macht mit?

Step Into German --- Filmcontest

Ja, es kann losgehen!   Musiker:  Joris!   Wer kennt schon seinen großen Hit "Herz über Kopf" ?? 

Anfang April -- Wer will einen Film drehen -- mit Joris, bis (fast) ans Ende der Welt ??


Joris ist Deutschlands Newcomer des Jahres 2015. 

Schau den Song ,,Herz ueber Kopf" an.  Er ist  jetzt als "Musikvideo des Monats" auf Step into German!  
http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/stg/mus/cli/enindex.htm

Und HIER gibt es 2 weite Songs von Joris zum Wettbewerb:

1.  Bis ans Ende der Welt ... vom Ost nach West . .

2.  Im Schneckenhaus

http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/stg/mus/cop/enindex.htm

Preisen sind eine Sommerreise fuer 2 nach Berlin und Erfurt:  7 Tage in Deutschland!

Was zu tun?

Alle Deutscheschüler/Innen dürft ih nun in einem kurzen Video ihre eigenen Interpretation von einem dieser 3 Songs von Joris produzieren.

Der Hauptpreis des Wettbewerbs ist eine Reise nach Deutschland, wo zwei Gewinner zuerst Berlin und Erfurt besuchen. Dann geht's ins bayerische Coburg, wo Joris ein Konzert in einem richtigen ;-) Schloss gibt. Und unsere zwei Gewinner werden dabei sein und Joris persönlich treffen!!!

Wie cool Joris ist, durften wir bereits vor ein paar Wochen in Colorado Springs erleben. Doug Philipp bot seinen Deutschschüler/innen eine Überraschung, die sie ihr Leben lang nicht vergessen werden. Schaut euch das
Eingangsvideo zum Wettbewerb an ("Mann mit Kamera") und überzeugt euch selbst!

Alle Details zum Wettbewerb findet ihr auf der Step into German Website. 
[Peter ZygowskiGoethe-Institut San Francisco]

Ein Junge und die Welt

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Die Welt ist bunt!

Great Big Story: The Gnomist

Wo wohnt der Zwerg?
CNN  Film •  Firefly Forest along Tomahawk Creek Trail in Kansas



How little things can make a difference.

Sound of Music remake

DW Film

Gets new twist but keeps the kitsch

'The Trapp Family' is certainly one of the German movies which had the most after-effects in Hollywood. Now a remake tells the story of the singing 'Sound of Music' family from a different angle. Will it work in 2015? 

In 1956, the film "The Trapp Family," directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Ruth Leuwerik and Hans Holt, became one of the most popular films in post-war Germany. The film also had a sequel, "The Trapp Family in America," which was released in 1958.

Most notably, the story of this singing family became a legend in the US, as it was turned into a Broadway musical and an extremely successful film, both called "The Sound of Music."

"The Trapp Family" was based on the memoir of Maria-Augusta von Trapp, "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers," which describes how the family escaped from Austria during Nazi rule to live in the US. The book became a bestseller.

A few years later, Broadway producers became interested in the story. The musical "The Sound of Music" premiered in New York in 1959. It ran for almost 1,500 performances. Then a London production of the musical was just as successful. The story has fans in many other countries, too, especially in Asia.

The German actress Yvonne Catterfeld is Maria von Trapp in the new film

The most memorable and famous version of this story comes from Hollywood. The film director Robert Wise adapted the musical, casting Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in the lead roles. The nearly three-hour musical drama obtained five Oscars and smashed box office records in several countries.

Fifty years later, a German remake is being released, and premiered Monday (02.11.15) in the Gloria Palast in Munich, which is where the original film was also screened for the first time.
Filmmaker Ben Verbong tells a slightly different version of the well-known story. In the original film in 1956, the memories of the Maria von Trapp led the narrative: This time it is the oldest daughter, Agatha von Trapp, who is at the center of the story. The emotional core of the film remains similar to the original - a remix of kitsch sentimental drama.

This is what it looked like in the 50s

This remake will probably not be as successful as the original version. In the 1950s, moviegoers in Germany were yearning for entertainment after the war. This new movie was filmed in the style of a German evening soap - directly in English, apparently to conquer an international audience.  

The film "The Trapp Family - A Life of Music" directed by Ben Verbong, starring Matthew Macfayden, Eliza Bennett, Yvonne Catterfeld, Cornelius Obonya, and Rosemary Harris is released on November 12 in Germany. A worldwide release is expected for the Christmas holidays.

Groupies bleiben nicht zum Frühstück

Here is a sweet film (made for TV I believe) about a popular Berlin band named after a subway stop...



Let me know if you like it! -- rsb

7 Zwerge: Das Lied / Der Song

Ein Zwerg . .



Alles verstanden?  Albern (goofey), nicht wahr?

Die Kunst und das Leben von Caspar David Friedrich: Der Romantiker

Hier: Eine Einführung (Trailer) zu einem Doku-Film über einen Wanderer und auch Künstler aus der Romantik...



"Ein Film voller atemberaubende Entdeckungen...
Komm mit auf den Gipfel, und schau hinab ins Nebelmeer ...
Der Wanderer in unserer Seele:  Caspar David Friedrich.
Wenn das Schöne und das Schaurige (horrifying) einander treffen."

Internet LESSONS for make-up / assignment days ...

Mit besten Dank an Frau Combs

Select one 

of the following 

activities.

OPTION #1 - MUSIK

Listen to and learn about some popular German music on the  

Step into German website.

1. Watch 3 music videos on this site. 
   *** Old site with all videos: http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/tid/mus/mcv/enindex.htm
   *** New site with fewer videos:http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/stg/mus/vid/enindex.htm

2. Choose your favorite video/song of the three and read the article about the band.

3. Click on the link (at the bottom of the article) to visit the band’s page (if the link doesn’t work, google the band name to find it.) Browse around the site.

4. Answer the following questions (either print out and complete or write on notebook paper.)

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

1. Which three videos did you watch? 
   List them and give a brief summary of what was in the video or what the song was about (write 25 words for each video)
1. Song Name:___________________________________________
   Singer/Band Name:_____________________________________
   Summary of video/song: ______________________________________________________
   ______________________________________________________
   ______________________________________________________
   
   
2. Song Name:___________________________________________
   Singer/Band Name:_____________________________________
   Summary of video/song: _____________________________________________________
   _____________________________________________________
   _____________________________________________________
   
   
3. Song Name:___________________________________________
   Singer/Band Name:_____________________________________ 
   Summary of video/song:
   _____________________________________________________
   _____________________________________________________
   _____________________________________________________
   
   
2. Give some interesting details about the band: 
   (ie- where they’re from, how they started, how they got famous, etc.)  
   (minimum 25 words)
1. _______________________________________________________
   
   
2. ________________________________________________________
   
   
3. ________________________________________________________
   
   
   
   
3. After looking at the band’s site, what additional information did you find out? 
   Did you learn any new words? 
   What did you think of the site? (minimum 25 words) ______________________________________________________________
   ______________________________________________________________
   ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________
   ______________________________________________________________

OPTION #2 - FERNSEHEN

Watch episodes of a popular children’s television program

1. Watch 3 videos of “Sachgeschichten” from “Die Sendung mit der Maus” on from these YouTube channels. You can choose any 3 that interest you. 
   There are hundreds to choose from! 
   
   

1. A-G (160 videos): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9jLZ9wYGVw&list=PL3C898CA4BC88B4D4 
   
   
2. H-Q (140 videos): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYh6rjZbqjI&list=PL265F3C05352C6C3C
   
   
3. R-Z (129 videos): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxLNk7y0uwqdjCQX-e6-1Ls4RiC8DxmLF

2. Answer the following questions 
   (either print out and complete or write on notebook paper.)

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

1. Which three videos did you watch? 
   List them and give a brief summary (including steps of the process or production), 
   and a new word or phrase you learned. (write 50 words for each video)

1. Video title/subject matter:_______________________________________
   Summary___________________________________________________
   ___________________________________________________________
   ___________________________________________________________
    
    New word/phrase: ___________________________________________

2. Video title/subject matter:_______________________________________
   Summary ___________________________________________________
   ___________________________________________________________
   ___________________________________________________________
    
    New word/phrase: ___________________________________________
   
   

3. Video title/subject matter:________________________________________
   Summary___________________________________________________
   ___________________________________________________________
   ___________________________________________________________
    
    New word/phrase: ___________________________________________
   
   

OPTION #3 - KULTUR DOKU

Watch mini-documentaries produced by the Goethe-Institut 

about different cultural aspects of German culture.

1. Watch 2 videos from the Goethe Institut’s YouTube channel. 
   You can choose any 2 that interest you (make sure you are watching the full videos, approximately 10-15 minutes each, not just the trailers)
   
   
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bchgHZeCIgk&index=10&list=PLGvnWJxYy5ZGaVRsClFvcAy7Vfvi8G3D6

2. Answer the following questions (either print out and complete or write on notebook paper.) You should provide thorough answers

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

1. Video Year __________
   
   
1. Video Title_______________________________________________________
   
   
2. Summary of documentary? (minimum 25 words) _______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________
   ________________________________________________________________
   _______________________________________________________________
   
   
3. What did you think of the documentary? (minimum 25 words) _______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________
   ________________________________________________________________
   _______________________________________________________________
   
   

2. Video Year __________
1. Video Title_______________________________________________________
   
   
2. Summary of documentary? (minimum 25 words) _______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________
   ________________________________________________________________
   _______________________________________________________________
   
   
3. What did you think of the documentary? (minimum 25 words) _______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________
   ________________________________________________________________
   _______________________________________________________________

'Woman In Gold' Trailer - NPR: Lost Art Is Reclaimed In

Enjoy the trailer...  It's already playing at the Showcase Cinema; will be released nationwide on 4/10.

APRIL 02, 2015 5:03 PM ET    Ella Taylor

Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds star in Woman in Gold.

Robert Viglasky/Weinstein Company

Gustav Klimt's famous painting of a dark-eyed beauty encased in shimmering gold lozenges is often dismissed by art critics as a disappointing excursion into kitsch by the avant-garde Austrian painter. But the portrait, commissioned by a wealthy Jewish family not long before the outbreak of World War II, has brought visceral pleasure to countless owners of postcards, posters and key-rings who have yet to set foot in New York's Neue Galerie, where the original hangs today. How it got there from Vienna makes for a sensational true-life tale, however staidly told in the new film  Woman in Gold.
To Maria Altmann, an elderly Los Angeles Jewish dress-shop owner played in the movie by Helen Mirren, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was a precious reminder of her glamorous and beloved Aunt Adele, lost forever in the wake of Nazi art theft. Before her premature death, Bloch-Bauer had bequeathed the painting to Vienna's prestigious Belvedere art gallery. Soon after, the painting, along with many other artifacts owned by her family, was brazenly looted by Austrian Nazis; Maria was one of the few in her family who escaped death and ended up in the Untied States. After the War the painting resurfaced and remained in Vienna's prestigious Belvedere gallery for six decades until Altmann — with the help of a young attorney who happened to be the grandson of émigré composer Arnold Schoenberg, a contemporary of Klimt — returned to try to reclaim her family property.
The epic legal fight that followed is the subject of Woman in Gold, a stolidly sequential drama by British director Simon Curtis (My Week With Marilyn). With a directing style best described as reverently ceremonial, Curtis plods through scenic tours of the baroque architectural grandeur of Vienna today, regularly punctuated with flashbacks to the traumatic wrecking of Maria's gilded youth. Dancing the hora at Maria's wedding comes with a thudding overlay of Nazi jackboots. On the soundtrack, lest you miss the message, is "O Mary, don't you weep."
With star power more in mind than goodness of fit, the movie is hopelessly miscast. Mirren is her usual entertaining blast of acerbic brio, but here she improbably reprises her QEII testiness, accessorized with an Austrian accent. For his part Ryan Reynolds, a terrific physical comedian, is all wrong for the earnestly idealistic Randy Schoenberg, who found a novel way to help Maria sue the Austrian government for recovery of a painting it had now recast as a symbol of the country's national identity.
How they accomplished this is such a great yarn that, for all its broad brush strokes,Woman in Gold can't help but tell a moving populist parable about the will to power of an ordinary woman — one among millions, it turns out as the restitution of wartime cultural theft becomes a very big deal in the art world — taking on powerful institutions to regain a tiny fraction of her family's appalling losses.
To the credit of screenwriter Alexi Kaye Campbell and a nice turn by Daniel Bruhl as an Austrian investigative journalist with a guilty secret he is driven to expunge, Woman in Gold does not shy away from Austria's reluctance to face up to its wartime record. Instead, the film suggests that the affirmation of national pride that moved Austrian officials to fight Maria's claim tooth and nail depended on a sustained denial of its own shameful history.
After a Herculean struggle, in the end an Austrian arbitration committee did right by Altmann, who sold Klimt's Adele to cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder for a fortune and donated most of the proceeds to arts institutions and Holocaust survivors' groups. There it hangs in New York, a refugee like its rightful owner — and an enduring testament to the Austrian back-story that never made it into The Sound of Music.

Movie Synopsis

Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting 'The Lady in Gold'. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court, and forces her to confront difficult truths about the past along the way.

• Cast:

   
  Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany

• Writer:

   
  Alexi Kaye Campbell

• Director:

   
  Simon Curtis

• Genre:

   
  Drama

• MPAA Rating:

   
  PG-13

• Length:

   
  1 hr 50 min

• Releases:

   
  4/1/15 Limited, 4/10/15 Nationwide