Word: floriane
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...Biggest press room applause so far follows the entry of Lives of Others director Florian Henchel von Donnersmarck. Those German journalists sure are nationalistic! I repress the urge to stand and declare, "I am a jelly donut." Someone asks a question comparing Dick Cheney to the KGB. The director wisely points out that said journalist would be killed for asking that question were the comparison really...
...Brother is watching,” dystopian storyline. After all, the film is set in East Germany in 1984, before the fall of the Berlin Wall—a time when the German Democratic Republic (GDR) kept a strict control on its citizens. However, first-time director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck enhances that common storyline, making raw human relationships the central component of the drama, rather than the history of political events or theory. The conflict between loyalty to one’s country and loyalty to one’s moral standards is the core struggle for the characters...
...little razzle-dazzle to its low-key roster, each year the Academy enlists a hot young actress to host the SciTech awards. In the past Scarlett Johansson and Rachel McAdams have done the honors. This year Gyllenhaal took on the challenge of describing work like that of winner Florian Kainz, for the design of OpenEXR, a system, the Sherrybaby star said, "engineered to meet the requirements of the visual effects industry by providing for lossless and lossy compression of tiered and tiled images." There's a reason the Academy recruits smart actresses for this event - you wouldn't entrust Jessica...
...Yugoslavia and to an extent in Iraq, and it broke out like a sweet fever among East Germans after the Wall came down in 1989. They called it Ostalgie--Eastalgia--and in 2003 it suffused the hit film Good Bye, Lenin! But for the imposingly named writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Ostalgie is a sickness in need of treatment. His urgent, exceptional first feature, The Lives of Others, is the ideal antidote. It has richly earned its Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film...
...from Indian fundamentalists. And I'm pleased that The Lives of Others was cited: partly because it's a smartly pensive spy thriller, partly because this means that some Generation Why cutie will have to stand on the Kodak Theatre stage and try to enunciate the director's name: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. (Paging Gov. Schwarzenegger?) But I chose Pan's Labyrinth as my film of the year, so I have to go with that...