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Last year you made a record with Zooey Deschanel under the name She & Him. How did that project come about? I was doing music for a film that she was starring in called Go Getter. The director had an idea to put us in the studio together to record a Richard Thompson song. So we met in L.A. and got along really well and eventually she sent me her demos and I thought they were incredible, so I told her you know, "Let's make a record." She came up to Portland and it took about no more than...
...about what they did," says Eichinger. "I'm not interested in the psychology, in the Freudian aspect of this at all. I am not trying to prove a point. I want to demystify them." (See pictures of animated movies, including Waltz with Bashir, the favorite for Best Foreign Language Film...
...lift the Baader-Meinhof members to mythical status. It's a uniquely German story, but in the age of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, many of the themes also resonate with American audiences. "Eichinger has demonstrated that it is possible to treat stories that are inherently German in film in a way that they are interesting for people in other countries," says Alfred Hürmer, president of the film industry jury that picked Baader Meinhof as Germany's entry for the Academy Awards. "He's learned a lot from American films and has found a language...
...More than 2.4 million Germans saw The Baader Meinhof Complex when it came out, to mixed reviews, last September, and now it's in the running for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars on Feb. 22. Directed by Uli Edel - who called the shots on Eichinger's first hit - the film focuses on West Germany in the '60s, when a group of largely middle class youth led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Enslin broke off from the massive anti-Vietnam War student protests and, calling themselves the Red Army Faction (more commonly known outside Germany...
...criticism of other German filmmakers who've tackled the same subject - such as Volker Schlöndorff in his 2000 film The Legend of Rita - is that they focus too much on trying to understand the terrorists and not enough on comprehending the destruction they caused. Besides, destruction makes for more exciting viewing. Throughout his career, Eichinger has emulated filmmakers who know how to entertain, which serves him well at the box office, but puts him at odds with the arthouse crowd, who accuse him of pandering. Never one to stand down from a fight, Eichinger bats the criticism back...