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OCTOBER 2005

 

SWISS PREMIERE

MELT-BANANA IN KING KNUFFI'S EMPIRE



Captain Gustav's snail-ship



and the ballroom in the snail's shell





SEPTEMBER 2005

 

MAKING OF "BLISS"



Ralf Sziele interviewing Captain Gustav


Marcel Caspers and Jörg Buttgereit
explain the special effects


Friedrich Schoenfelder

Tellerlip Girl Dana Weber


Max Raabe


Soundtrack composer
Diet Schütte


Horst Tomayer recording the voice of
the sexually depraved rabbit

The owl and her voice


Mira and Mareen


The hot-for-the-King Grannies


Pissing Cow Tapes





AUGUST 2005

 


Fifth Place



JUNE 2005

 


APRIL 2005

 


MARCH 2005

 

GERMANY'S MOST OBSESSED FILM MAKER






"Is Wenzel Storch mad?"
(FRANKFURTER NEUE PRESSE)


FEBRUARY 2005

 

SARAH KUTTNER SHOW

On 2nd of February Wenzel Storch appeared as a guest on a talk show, SARAH KUTTNER - DIE SHOW, on the German music television station VIVA. The presenter, Miss Kuttner, said that watching Storch's films either left one feeling as if one was "on very hard drugs", or that "something is wrong with me".





JANUARY 2005

 

THEATRICAL RELEASE






NOVEMBER 2004

 

WENZEL STORCH'S FAVOURITE FILMS














18. BRAUNSCHWEIG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL







Super 8 legend Stefan Möckel
JOURNEY INTO BLISS Trailer

The picture shows Friedrich Schoenfelder, the 'grand seigneur' amongst voice-over actors (known to generations of German TV viewers as the German voice of David Niven and Vincent Price) during the synchronisation of the JOURNEY INTO BLISS trailer. The recording of an overall total of seven sentences took place on the 10th November under the direction of Katja Kiefer and Matthias Hänisch at the ZDF studios in Berlin.



Friedrich Schoenfelder with Uschi Glas in a
German Edgar Wallace film from the year 1971
OCTOBER 2004

 

10th. NORTHAMPTON INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL


At the end of October JOURNEY INTO BLISS was shown at the 10th NORTHAMPTON INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL in the USA. The printed programme warned: "This is by far the strangest film this festival has seen in its ten years of existence."

"Northampton, so safe and PC, needs more off-the-charts movies like this one", wrote Gerald Peary in THE BOSTON PHOENIX and characterised JOURNEY INTO BLISS as an "obsessive, scatological German nightmare fantasy, beyond DELICATESSEN, Terry Gilliam, and even the brothers Grimm".






JOURNEY INTO BLISS HAD ITS USA PREMIERE AT THE 40th CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

The Festival was thronged with such guests as Christopher Walken and Tom Hanks. The German film industry was represented by, amongst others, Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta and Wenzel Storch. JOURNEY INTO BLISS played to 3 performances in Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema.
In the printed programme they said: "The surreal fairy-tale world of JOURNEY INTO BLISS resembles something out of Lewis Carroll's raunchiest and most depraved fever dreams... a land where the tree frogs are art critics, hired thugs are cineastes, and trash-talking bears drive propeller cars. Bursting with political satire, gleefully over-the-top scatological humor, and the foul-mouthed anthropomorphic crudity of Peter Jackson's MEET THE FEEBLES, this bizarre odyssey has earned Wenzel Storch the label, 'Germany's most daredevil filmmaker'."

PRO & CONTRA

“I watched JOURNEY INTO BLISS with my mouth gaped about two inches wide. I couldn’t turn it off and I couldn’t believe my eyes. I stayed glued to my chair...” With these words there began an thorough-going slating in HOLLYWOOD BITCHSLAP, and a little later, they said: “At one point, one of the film festival organizers emailed me about something and I replied to him that I felt very scared by the movie I was watching. He replied, ‘I think I warned you about that one…have you got to the part where the animals get drunk, hump the furniture and turn into time machines?’ No. I hadn’t. Am I ready for that?”

Lee Shoquist (REELMOVIECRITIC) on the other hand recommended JOURNEY INTO BLISS with the words: “Like a bizarre car wreck between Ken Russell, Peter Jackson, Terry Gilliam, Marc Caro, and Jean Pierre Jeneut... It’s an experience like no other, to be sure, and a supremely confident one that’s a defiantly political, sexual, rudely adult fractured fairy tale to end all others. It’s also a wholly original vision. Love it or hate it, there’s nothing else like it.”

And on WWW.FILMBRATS.COM Jon Waterman wrote: “The director attended and impressed me. He was hilarious and astute. His film is the craziest I've seen in years, but is still quite amazing. (...) Wenzel Storch has definitely made a name for himself as one of the most outrageous directors, not only in Germany but also in the world. (...) If you’re into trying new things or want a good, trippy flick I don’t think you can do much better than this. It’s not for everyone, but it’s a lot of fun and entertaining and I loved it.”

And here are some further comments on www.livejournal.com:
"I saw this movie, JOURNEY INTO BLISS, written and directed by Wenzel Storch last night. Holy fuck, it was messed up. It was sorta like MEET THE FEEBLES meets ERASERHEAD or something like that, but waaay more disgusting. Those sick German bastards!"





























Landmark Century Centre Cinema


Wenzel Storch in front of his hotel


Storch's travelling companion Ms. Stern
SEPTEMBER 2004

 

JOURNEY INTO BLISS AT THE
OLDENBURG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Hanover's NEUE PRESSE wrote: "Sometimes the Oldenburg Film Festival is just as wicked as its programme would purport. Christopher Coppola, Francis Ford's nephew, Nicolas Cage's brother, lying there in a buffalo hunting waistcoat on the bar alongside a higgledy-piggeldy table. In the background Annaud's THE BEAR is playing as a silent film... Hit at the Film Festival: JOURNEY INTO BLISS. Spooky images, cinema like in a gaudy dream."
The film journal SCHNITT certified JOURNEY INTO BLISS „despite the partially explicit depiction of red, yellow and white bodily fluids, as having an innocent sort of charisma (…) Storch films with sets and costumes which one would otherwise normally only expect of Major Productions – Terry Gilliam would have been envious of the Snail Boat and Louis XIV would have had a ‘ball’ in the Throne Room.”
Wenzel Storch's "hilarious fairytale world" was, for the catholic FILMDIENST magazine also one of the highlights of the festival, alongside "Raiders of the lost Ark: The Adaptation" (three American youths re-film, frame for frame, Spielberg's "Raiders of the lost Ark").





 
FILM AWARD FROM THE FEDERAL STATE OF HESSEN  
CAPT'N GUSTAV'S SNAILSHIP ON THE COVER OF "SPLATTING IMAGE" NO. 59


JOURNEY INTO BLISS on the cover
of the trade journal "Splatting Image"









AUGUST 2004

 


Wednesday afternoon in the CinemaxX
in the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin



German cartoonist Rattelschneck

Display case at the "Cinéma Du Parc"


Journey into Piss
Journey into piss!


JULY 2004
 


JUNI 2004
 
MAI 2004

 

Jeremiah Costello und Rüdiger Geisler haben den
Rohschnitt des Making Ofs von DIE REISE INS GLÜCK fertig gestellt. Hierfür mussten etwa 40 Stunden Videomaterial bearbeitet werden.

Parallel dazu wird augenblicklich das Super-8-Rohmaterials für die Making Ofs von SOMMER DER LIEBE und DER GLANZ DIESER TAGE gesichtet.
 


APRIL 2004


 


Post vom Sultan


 

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