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How to get Berlinale tickets
Don’t be intimidated by the prestige and glamour of the Berlinale: it’s the most visitor-friendly major international festival in the world. And it’s fairly easy to buy a ticket. Here's how. The Berlinale starts on Feb 9, so tix go on sale Feb 6.
Feb 3, 2012 in Film
Fritz Lang is back
If Lang were born 50 years later, Hollywood's "master of darkness" would be schooling David Lynch in the art of cinema. Catch a string of his greatest blockbusters this month at Babylon Mitte starting Feb 2.
Feb 2, 2012 by Annabel Brady-Brown in Film
EXBERLINER's February issue
OUT NOW! "The FILM issue" – BERLINALE rundown, aspiring ACTORS, the lowdown on DOWNLOADING and a look into the resurgence of Berlin's independent KINO's. PLUS, interviews with TUNE-YARDS, DIRTY BEACHES and a new KIDS page.
Jan 31, 2012 in Features
White (girl) power
INTERVIEW: director David Wnendt. A not-so-far cry from what's going on in the today's headlines, Wnendt's first feature, Kriegerin, explores causes and consequences of right-wing extremism. The film opens January 19.
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Konrad Werner: Ossi fetish
Konrad has a confession to make. He, like everyone at EXB's blog department, gets unnaturally aroused by East German stuff.
Jan 27, 2012 by Konrad Werner in The Berlin Blog (3 Comments)
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Amok Mama: Pornography for women
Jacinta Nandi totally agrees with the notion that rom-coms are porn for women. But of course, some porn is better than other porn. Here are her six fave mini-clit-wank instigators and her six biggest turn-offs.
Oct 10, 2011 by Jacinta Nandi in The Berlin Blog (1 Comments)
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Walter Crasshole: God beats the precious...
Walter hates precious things. And people who wear multiple festival wristbands LONG after the festival is over. Here's a weekend where he'll be able to hate a whole new batch of people.
Sep 8, 2011 by Walter Crasshole in The Berlin Blog (2 Comments)
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Walter Crasshole: Either way you'll drop dead
Summer's come and gone, but things are just starting to heat up. Walter Crasshole takes you down festival lane, gives you flick tips from your favorite press-baiting director and keeps it classy with classy classical music.
Sep 1, 2011 by Walter Crasshole in The Berlin Blog
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Mumblecore at Arsenal
Andrew Bujalski’s three films have come to represent the dispossessed, semi-articulate state of mind today. Arsenal is hosting a feature of his works with the man himself in attendance starting Jan 24.
EXBlicks: Punks in luck
The next installment of our Berlin film series (with English subs!) will be with Claudia Lehmann's Hans im Glück, a documentary of GDR punk, Hans Narva. As well as the Q&A with Lehmann, Narva perform!
Jan 9, 2012 by Walter Crasshole in Film
Indie flicks from the U.S.A.
Every year Unknown Pleasures presents a selection of recent gems of US independent cinema. Though you can quibble about the ‘indie’ in some productions, cutting short the wait for German release is always a bonus.
Jan 2, 2012 by Giovanni Marchini Camia in Film
Prison philosophy
INTERVIEW: director Silvia Kaiser. The Conquest of Inner Freedom illustrates what happens when the incarcerated meet the educated. One half of the directing team illuminates here AND at EXBlick on Mon, Dec 12 at Lichtblick Kino.
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The Return of Frank James
Hollywood and Germany's romance with the Western collided long ago. Fritz Lang got in on the action with his sequel to Henry King's Jesse James. Frank hunts down the killers of his brother in this historically inaccurate but amusing box office flop.
Feb 2, 2012 by David Page
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Fritz Lang's final film follows three detectives in their search for the villainous Mabuse. Long dead, the "master of disguise" still manages to terrorise the public much to the confusion of our protagonists. Presented in German without subtitles.
Feb 2, 2012 by David Page
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
The supernatural talents of Dr. Mabuse continue to wreak havoc upon the general public in Fritz Lang's sequel. Presented in the original German without English subtitles, it's worth catching this Nazi-banned crime thriller for historical value alone.
Feb 2, 2012 by David Page
Metropolis
Despite it's age and its technological limitations, Fritz Lang's most famous production remains among the most influential. Don't miss the chance to see the earliest depictions of the dystopian nightmare on the big screen at least once.
Feb 2, 2012 by David Page
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Spy vs. spy
OUT NOW! TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY is the big budget re-imagining of the critically acclaimed BBC series.
More than just balls
OUT NOW! MONEYBALL already has Oscar-win all over it with its down-and-dirty universalisation of the baseball biz.
Immigration issues
OUT NOW! FERNES LAND is a convincing look at how Germany treats its immigrant population.
Full throttle
OUT NOW! DRIVE may not have much plot, but that leaves plenty of room on the road for some ultra-stylized retro cool.
Jan 27, 2012 by Giovanni Marchini Camia in Film
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Pictoplasma
Berlin's premier animation fest returns with new work by Chris Ware, James Jarvis, Jean-Julien Pous, Kristof Luyckx, Asterokid, Plaix, Sola Baptiste, Malcolm Sutherland, Freestyle, Buck LA, Meindbender, Ben & Julia, McBess, Angry Natives, and many more.