"Films should not be a call to arms"
INTERVIEW. Aleksandra Kumorek's, Die Überflüssige, a dystopian 2020 vision of Berlin, screens with English subs at the next installment of Exblicks, our film and chat series in cooperation at Lichtblick Kino, on May 28 at 20:00.
May 22, 2012 by Sarah Gibson in Film
“These are the ruins of modern Greece”
INTERVIEW. Director Athina Rachel Tsangari's deadpan love story Attenberg marries animal docs with Greek story structure. Her second film is one of many to recently emerge from the new Greek school of filmmaking. It opens in Berlin cinemas May 10.
Childhood subversion: Céline Sciamma
INTERVIEW. French director Sciamma made turned some heads for sure at the 2011 Berlinale with her film Tomboy, but more surprising is the impact at the French cultural level, slipping into the country's school curricula. In cinemas now.
May 4, 2012 by Giovanni Marchini Camia in Film
Bring on the Freiluft!
Welcome spring with a visit to one of the Freiluftkinos in Berlin. Good weather, good flicks and however you choose to enjoy that open air at the same time (beer or wine optional).
May 3, 2012 by Annabel Brady-Brown in Film
EXBERLINER's May issue
OUT NOW! "The THEATRE issue" – Our THEATER guide, REVOLUTIONARIES of STAGE, RACISM in Berlin theatre, and our guide to TAX TIME. PLUS, an interview with ANDRE WILLIAMS and much more.
Apr 30, 2012 in Features
"I’d like to think I don’t have the ego issues that Thor has"
INTERVIEW. Eve Lucas went on an Avengers bender and spoke with three of the film's stars. Chris Hemsworth identifies with the Norse God of Thunder's passions, as he reprises the role of Thor for The Avengers'.
"People are so willing to go on these journeys"
INTERVIEW. Eve Lucas went on an Avengers bender and spoke with three of the film's stars. Here actor Mark Ruffalo talks about his character's suicidal tendencies in The Avengers, and watching The Incredible Hulk as a little boy.
"Loki is my exploration of my own craziness"
INTERVIEW. Eve Lucas went on an Avengers bender and spoke with three of the film's stars. Evil-genius and badass of The Avengers, Tom Hiddleston, reveals his dark (and rather reflective) side to Exberliner.
Klappe Cowboy!: Exclusive preview
Realeyz.tv and Achtung Film Fest have paired up to present us with a free viewing of this charming 'cowboy' comedy through Apr 26. It's set in our very own Berlin and stars local resident heartthrob Timo Jacobs.
Apr 23, 2012 by Sarah Gibson in Film
“Radicalise camp”
INTERVIEW. The Camp/Anti-Camp: A Queer Guide to Everyday Life special! Here filmmaker Bruce LaBruce discusses the elusive term ‘camp’ in preparation for the three-day festival which opens April 19.
Apr 16, 2012 by Walter Crasshole in Stage
"Break some taboos"
INTERVIEW. Canadian filmmaker Paul Donovan brings us young American Christian fundamentalists on a mission in Berlin in his film Blissestrasse. Donovan’s film is screening at our next installment of EXBlicks at Lichtblick Kino on Apr 21.
Achtung! Achtung!
Attention! Berlin's foremost festival of homegrown film, Achtung Berlin, returns for its eight year. Opening with the wildly eccentric and un-PC road movie Puppe, Icke & der Dicke on Apr 18. Read more for our highlights!
Apr 11, 2012 by Eve Lucas | Ange Suprowicz in Film
"More than just a film"
INTERVIEW. Playing Nobel Peace Prize winner and Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, former Bond girl Michelle Yeoh goes for inner strength in Luc Besson's The Lady, opening in Berlin cinemas on Thu, Apr 5.
Death of a street artist: director Torsten Königs
INTERVIEW. Pin2011 shadows the titular street artist to his “tragic” end. The director discusses the film following a screening at EXBlicks on March 19 at Lichtblick Kino.
Mar 15, 2012 by Annabel Brady-Brown in Film
He eats scum: an interview with Nick Zedd
Downtown low-budget shock king Nick Zedd on why his movies aren’t pretty. Showing at the KW Institute through Apr 9 as part of You Killed Me First, the Cinema of Transgression.
Mar 14, 2012 by Walter Crasshole in Art
“I want to make sexual fantasies public”
INTERVIEW: Cheryl Dunye. Dunye talks about sex and deviance, her new film Mommy Is Coming which opens in Berlin cinemas on March 8 and engaging film viewers in conversation.
“It’s King Lear in its own way”: Jim Broadbent
INTERVIEW. Equally comfortable on the stage, the television, the big screen or talking to us: Broadbent fills us in on his portrayal of Denis Thatcher in The Iron Lady.
EXBERLINER's March issue
OUT NOW! "The BOOBS issue" – HUMAN MILK BANKS, ART TITS, BOOB JOBS and an investigation into THE COST OF CHEAP SILICON. PLUS, interviews with TINDERSTICKS, and JIM BROADBENT.
Mar 1, 2012 in Features (3 Comments)
What should you do if you get a letter?
Feb 28, 2012 in Survival
What’s legal and what’s not?
Feb 28, 2012 in Survival
The lowdown on downloads
Everyone knows someone that's received one of those terrifying letters – the ungodly demand that one coughs up huge wads of cash for downloading media. But why is it so risky in Germany? And what is to be done?
Feb 28, 2012 by Ben Knight in Survival (14 Comments)
Who’s getting busted?
Feb 28, 2012 in Survival
How to make it as an actor
Want to be an actor? With 50 theatres, some 20 acting schools and the Babelsberg film studios, Berlin is the place to be. But climbing to the top is not easy. Exberliner outlines it for you.
Feb 23, 2012 by Alexandra Khan-Anselmo | Ange Suprowicz in Survival (2 Comments)
Indie movie houses… keepin’ it reel
It may be harder than it used be for our indie cinema paradises, but recent developments have injected some hope into the local scene.
Feb 20, 2012 by Nele Obermuller in Film (1 Comments)
Berlinale interview: "Knowing that there is a problem"
The award-winning Al Juma Al Akheira takes us on a taxi ride through Jordan's capital. Director Yahya Alabdallah wonderfully balances personal portrait and political allegory.
Feb 17, 2012 by Giovanni Marchini Camia in Film