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On New Year's Eve, 1993, two young men drove to a farmhouse in rural Nebraska and killed the three people inside. Their victims were the farmhouse's residents, a 24-year-old single mother and a...
View ArticleIch bin ein Berlinaler
The Berlinale is the crocus of the big international film festivals: Midwinter in Berlin may not be as warm or as sunny as spring in Cannes, but there's something optimistic about the way the Berlinale...
View ArticleStrangers in a strange land
Courtesy of The Cinema GuildThavisouk Phrasavath in "The Betrayal."Cinematographer Ellen Kuras is a filmmaking veteran whose work goes back to the late '80s. She's shot arty independent films ("I Shot...
View ArticleSearching for Clive Owen
I came to Berlin in search of movies, Clive Owen and wild boars, though maybe not necessarily in that order. In my four days here, I've seen no wild boars -- more on these elusive fellows later -- and,...
View ArticleFrench lovers and Iraq vets
Berlin is a city of many enchantments -- for example, the little supermarket around the corner from my hotel, which is hardly super and barely a market. I'm sure there are lovely, softly lit,...
View ArticleBerlin Film Festival report: Noah Baumbach returns!
Berlin is a city that's deeply and painfully in touch with its past: I'm here for the 60th annual Berlinale, and across the street from my hotel is a block's worth of scrubby gray brush known as the...
View ArticleMovie News Now: Berlin, Apatow, Spidey and more
Reviewers at indieWIRE are so unenthusiastic about the Berlin International Film Festival that they're deeming it a "two-star" festival. According to Shane Danielson, "There were some good films,...
View ArticleBerlin Film Festival: Controversy, art, violence
I've been brought to Berlin to participate in the Berlinale Talent Campus, a program that brings in young filmmakers, screenwriters, composers, editors and even film critics from around the world for a...
View ArticlePolanski best director at Berlin film festival
The Turkish film "Bal," or "Honey," won the top Golden Bear award Saturday at the 60th annual Berlin film festival, whose jury also crowned Roman Polanski best director.Polanski, whose film "The Ghost...
View ArticleHow Hitler made Hollywood
BERLIN, Germany — Two months after Adolf Hitler’s appointment as German chancellor in 1933, Jews working in Germany’s groundbreaking film industry were warned there would be no place for them under the...
View ArticleIran protests Berlin film festival organizers
Iranian officials are protesting the Berlin International Film Festival for awarding Jafar Panahi and Kamboziya Partovi's "Closed Curtain" with best screenplay; Panahi is currently under house arrest...
View ArticleIranian government confiscates passports of “Closed Curtain” crew
Following the condemnation of Jafar Panahi's "Closed Curtain" and its reception at the Berlin Film Festival, Iranian government officials have seized the passports of the film's co-director, Kambuzia...
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Documentary filmmakers Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir talk about the story behind “The Brandon Teena Story.”
View ArticleIch bin ein Berlinaler
Having a great time at the sprawling Berlin International Film Festival. Wish you were here. But since you’re not, here are the films you should know about.
View ArticleStrangers in a strange land
Shot over 23 years, Ellen Kuras’ haunting Oscar contender “The Betrayal” follows a Laotian immigrant family’s agonizing American odyssey.
View ArticleSearching for Clive Owen
At the 59th Berlin International Film Festival, a disdain for Hollywood movies bumps up against a hunt for celebrities — and wild boars.
View ArticleFrench lovers and Iraq vets
The Berlin International Film Festival offers a break from Starbucks-style cinema, and even Ren
View ArticleBerlin Film Festival report: Noah Baumbach returns!
The director rallies back from a slump with the affecting “Greenberg,” one of the 2010 Berlinale surprises
View ArticleMovie News Now: Berlin, Apatow, Spidey and more
This year’s Berlinale a bust? Scorsese and von Trier say “nein”; Cameron to help Spidey’s 3-D reboot?
View ArticleBerlin Film Festival: Controversy, art, violence
The brutal noir of Michael Winterbottom’s “The Killer Inside Me,” and other highlights from the 2010 Berlinale
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