Peter Paul Huth
Film publicist
Country of origin:
Germany
Peter Paul Huth (*1954) studied Sociology, Political Science, English Literature and History in Cologne, Marburg, Hannover and at UC Riverside, California, and Ohio University, Athens. As a free lance critic he wrote about cinema and cultural affairs for the daily Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung and the weekly Deutsches Allgemeines Sonntagsblatt (Hamburg). Since 1987 he has been working in the feature film department of ZDF German Television. Until 2011 he was the responsible editor of the cinema programme „Kennwort Kino“ on ZDF/3sat, as well as the author and co-author of TV portraits of numerous renowned directors. He has been a member of the critics jury in San Sebastián 1985, Huesca 1994, Karlovy Vary 2013.
Articles
Commentary on the award ceremony at the 81st Venice International Film Festival 2024
Series seem like a foreign body at a film festival, like aliens from the banal world of television. But in recent years, the perception and appreciation of series has changed fundamentally. This year, Venice dared to experiment by placing four so-called mini-series in the official programme.
Peter Paul Huth reports about the films by Justin Kurzel, Walter Salles, Delphine and Muriel Coulin as well as Anastasia Trofimova
Follow-up to Peter Paul Huth's reporting on the Venice Film Festival 2024.
Opening report by Peter Paul Huth on the 81st International Film Festival Venice 2024
There are some well-travelled cineastes and regular festival-goers who call Bologna their favourite festival. The atmosphere is relaxed and democratic, there is no VIP area, no stars who have to be shielded from the common people. The participants come from 70 countries, as is proudly noted. Final report by Peter Paul Huth.
When you see classic films on the big screen, you realise that the cinema is a time machine, a place of historical memory. A medium that makes the past visible through the subjective view of those involved in the film, because cinema is always a collective art form. Continuation of the report by Peter Paul Huth.
Peter Paul Huth reports on the film festival in Bologna dedicated to film history. The 2024 edition of the festival focussed on films featuring Marlene Dietrich.
2024 was the year of women in Cannes, and this was clearly reflected in the awards. Although the Palme d'Or went to a man, to the American Sean Baker, his film "Anora" however has a combative female protagonist in Mikey Madsen. In his acceptance speech, Baker dedicated the award to all female sex workers.
A political highlight was saved for the finale in Cannes, the film "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" by Mohammad Rasoulof. Under the conditions of Iranian censorship, Rasoulof's film seems like a suicidal project.