Berlinale
Berlinale 2013: Side Effects, Night Train to Lisbon, Reaching for the MoonFriday, 15 February 2013
Big hitters have graced Berlin, with the festival now reaching its close - Damon, Huppert and Binoche have been and gone, Deneuve is yet to come - but one of the more anticipated visits this week was Steven Soderbergh’s. He has said that Side... Read more... |
Berlinale 2013: Before MidnightTuesday, 12 February 2013
They’re in trouble. They had to be. Otherwise there’d be no drama. And if you’re a fan of Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004) skip the next two paragraphs to avoid knowing where, physically, temporally, Céline (Julie... Read more... |
Berlinale 2013: Don Jon's Addiction, Charlie Countryman, Vic+Flo, GloriaMonday, 11 February 2013
Great fun on day three in Berlin: Scarlett Johansson co-stars in a porn movie. Well, a movie about a young man’s love of porn sites, in which she flashes her famous curves - and starts sleeping with Jon Martello (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). But Jon, a... Read more... |
Berlinale 2013: The Grandmaster, Promised Land, More Than HoneySaturday, 09 February 2013
Ecology at the first full day of the Berlin film festival. An intriguing Matt Damon city-versus-country movie, Promised Land, puts fracking into the mainstream for the first time. Damon plays Steve Butler, an eager corporate buyer of leases in rural... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Berlin: The 62nd BerlinaleSunday, 19 February 2012
In a major festival upset last night, the Taviani brothers Paolo and Vittorio won the 2012 Berlinale’s best-film award, the Golden Bear. Their film, Cesare deve morire (Caesar Must Die), defies categories. Set in Rome’s Rebibbia maximum security... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Berlin: The 61st BerlinaleSaturday, 19 February 2011
Another 400 films, another rush for seats, another biting wind from Vladivostock: the 61st Berlin Film Festival - the Berlinale - has packed ’em in in the centre of town at Potsdamer Platz (mainly) over the last 10 days and hoped to light up the... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Berlin: The 60th BerlinaleSunday, 21 February 2010
The Palme d'Or at Cannes makes headlines. The Golden Bear in Berlin tends not to, and few films that win in competition at the German capital's annual film festival, the Berlinale, go on to command global clout, though that's no general reflection... Read more... |
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