I really wanted the film to be shown in the US because Cuba, for a huge section of the American public, has been eradicated from view.
I really wanted the film to be shown in the US because Cuba, for a huge section of the American public, has been eradicated from view.
I grew up in postwar Germany. It was the opposite of the American West. The West became in my mind the ideal place on this planet. When I got there, I felt more at home than anywhere.
In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.
In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.
I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.
At the moment it is much more unknown to me here than in the American west, which I know quite well now -- much better than Saxony, Mecklenburg or even Bavaria.
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