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...with all of these anxieties and prejudices that I approached Edward Snow’s new translation of Rainer Maria Rilke, the early 20th century poet who wrote in German (though he was born in Prague, at the time under Austro-Hungarian control). Before I evaluate the translation, I must admit that I do not speak a single word of German. Accordingly, I will address the book as a reader for whom it was intended: one who does not know the language and therefore needs another to present Rilke’s poetical universe...
...somethings as with the college students who pioneered it - they have found ways to reconnect with one another. And who better to get in touch with than an old flame? "Facebook makes it easier for you to take that first step of finding someone again," explains Rainer Romero-Canyas, a psychology research scientist at Columbia University. "It has finally provided a way for people to reach out to someone without fear of rejection." The Boston Phoenix even coined a term, retrosexuals, for people who are taking the plunge into recycled love...
...Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now, 1979) took the glory for the U.S. and even Bob Fosse joined in at the start of the 1980s with All That Jazz. But critics would snipe that truly great films (and directors) were being overlooked: there would be no Cannes love for Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul),Werner Herzog (Every Man for Himself and God Against All, aka The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser), Terence Malick (Days of Heaven) or Wim Wenders (Kings of the Road) - though it must be acknowledged that Wenders would eventually win in 1984 for Paris, Texas. Meanwhile...
...film was released in 1969, it was provocative. The 2009 German production ups the shock value of Nazi symbols and dancing blond chorus girls singing "Springtime for Hitler and Germany," but it is clear that today's audiences aren't so easily scandalized. "It was kind of banal," says Rainer Dietmar, 40, a librarian. "Is it O.K. if I say I didn't like...
When the screen at the Deutsche Kinemathek's film museum in Berlin whirred into life, and showed the black-and-white image of a glamorous brunette sporting an elaborate headdress and a man applying lipstick on her pale, powdered face, curator Rainer Rother couldn't believe his eyes. It wasn't the beauty of the young actress that stunned him, but rather the realization that what he was watching was a sight film historians and archivists from around the world had been desperate to see: the legendary missing scenes from Austrian-born director Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis...