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10/24/2025

"No matter how many films you watch, it’s still a fairly rare occurrence to find a film that is wholeheartedly a joyous, entertaining and infectious experience, Köln 75 is one of those films." - Film Carnage

Köln 75 is now playing at IFC Center in NYC, and at Laemmle Theaters in LA.

Filmmaker Ido Fluk will do Q&As in LA Fri 10/24 - Sun 10/26. info at: Laemmle.com Zeitgeist Films release.
https://filmcarnage.com/2025/10/23/review-koln-75/

Written and directed by Ido Fluk, Vera, still in high school when she started producing and promoting music concerts in Cologne, puts everything on the line to put on Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Conc…

10/16/2025

KÖLN 75, a film by Ido Fluk, opens at IFC Center in NYC on Friday, Oct 17. Post screening Q&A with Director, lead actors Mala Emde and Michael Chernus and subject of the film, Vera Brandes. Film opens 10/24 at Laemmle Theaters in LA. Distributor: Zeitgeist Films

Mala Emde plays a teenage promoter who pushed for what became a landmark performance by the pianist Keith Jarrett.

10/09/2025

Among Neighbors, the powerful and moving documentary by Yoav Potash - filmmaker opens at The Quad in NYC on Friday, October 10th, and at Laemmle Theaters in LA on Oct 17th. Filmmaker in person!

Filmmaker documents the post-Holocaust killings of Jews in a Polish town

07/31/2025

Opens October 17 in NYC and October 24 in LA!

A FILM ABOUT KEITH JARRETT’S LEGENDARY PERFORMANCE

KÖLN 75

Opens theatrically on October 17 at IFC Center in New York, and on October 24 at Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles. Other cities will follow.

Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber is proud to present the US theatrical release of Köln 75, a film by Ido Fluk starring Mala Emde (And Tomorrow the Whole World), John Magaro (Past Lives; September 5), and Michael Chernus (Severance; Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy). The film had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, and has received four Lola nominations including Best Picture. It has crossed one million dollars at the German box office with over one hundred thousand admissions.

Keith Jarrett’s legendary performance in January 1975 nearly didn’t happen. Based on a true story, Köln 75 follows how the concert was conceived and orchestrated by the efforts of a teenage up and coming concert promoter, Vera Brandes, (played by German actress Mala Emde). Her enthusiasm set her to multitasking – from organizing the concert venue (the Cologne Opera House), promoting the event, and selling the tickets, to convincing Jarrett to perform when he almost dropped out when the Bösendorfer Imperial Grand piano he was promised was nowhere to be found. John Magaro plays Jarrett with his own intensity, a sublime counterpoint to Mala Emde’s joyful portrayal of the enthusiastic and unstoppable Vera. Köln 75 captures the compelling, entertaining and, until now, unknown back story about Jarrett’s one-hour, entirely improvised concert, which became the best-selling solo album in jazz history.

Get more info here: https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/koeln-75

Enjoy the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CrFdGMj4cM

07/25/2025

"DEATH & TAXES, Justin Schein and Robert Edwards’ new documentary opening today at Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles, could well be the most important and relevant American film I’ll see this year – and maybe for many years to come." https://hollywoodtimes.net/film-review-death-taxes-and-the-cost-of-the-american-dream/

07/16/2025

DEATH & TAXES, a documentary film by Justin Schein, opens 7/17-7/24 at IFC Center in NYC, and 7/25-7/31 at Laemmle Theatres in LA. Interview with the director by E.NinaRothe.com

And this documentary proves one to be watched, if you find yourself in NYC starting July 18th and LA from July 25th.

05/09/2025

MOST PEOPLE DIE ON SUNDAYS, a film from Argentina - written, directed and starring Iair Said, is now playing at Laemmle Royal and Laemmle Town Center 5 in Los Angeles. Here's an interview Iair did with Greg Laemmle and Raphael Sbarge for Inside the Arthouse

MOST PEOPLE DIE ON SUNDAYS may be the quirkiest film you see this year ...or any year.Directed and starring Iair Said, and asking the big question: when “ord...

04/30/2025

MOST PEOPLE DIE ON SUNDAYS opens at Quad Cinema in NYC on May 2nd, and at Laemmle Theatres in LA on May 9. Interview by Gary Kramer with writer/director/actor Iair Said in Gay City News A Big World Pictures release.

An engrossing mix of melancholy, social issues, and cringe comedy, “Most People Die on Sundays” opens with a scene of David (writer/director Iair Said) naked

12/10/2024

THE FISHING PLACE opens February 6th at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, and March 7 at Laemmle Theatres in LA.

In the last couple years I’ve conducted two very long interviews with Rob Tregenza, whose journey through cinema comprises four independent features of staggering vision (one being the sole film Godard produced outside his own direction), DP duties for Alex Cox and (with remarkable strife) Béla T...

10/31/2024

AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence, a film directed by Richard Kroehling, opens November 1 at Cinema Village in NYC, and November 8 at Laemmle Royal in LA. It is a beautiful hybrid documentary about Poetry and the Holocaust, with Melissa Leo and Géza Röhrig in the film. Thank you, The New York Times, for the review!

Richard Kroehling’s documentary presents a mixture of poets’ responses to the Holocaust and argues for the importance of the form in addressing trauma.

09/04/2024

PARADISE IS BURNING opens at Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles on September 6th!

Mika Gustafson and Alexander Öhrstrand sit down with the Inside the Arthouse podcast to discuss their new film Paradise is Burning. Paradise Burning premier...

08/21/2024

PARADISE IS BURNING is "reminiscent of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Nobody Knows and Andrea Arnold’s American Honey and Fish Tank, while injecting a bit of David Lynch into the karaoke scenes" - This Week in New York.
Q&As w/dir Mika Gustafson at IFC Center in NYC Aug 22-24. Film opens 9/6 at Laemmle Theatres in LA.

21 Aug/24 PARADISE IS BURNING 21 Aug/24 Three sisters come of age in one summer in Mika Gustafson’s Paradise Is Burning PARADISE IS BURNING (Mika Gustafson, 2023) IFC Center 323 Sixth Ave. at West Third St. August 22-29 www.ifccenter.com www.roomeightfilms.com “I will never disappear / For forev...