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Summer film preview
Summer blockbuster season has morphed over the past few years into summer sequel season. If that doesn’t sound very exciting, that’s because it isn’t.
Jul 8, 2011 by Änne Troester in Film
Full-immersion Bergman
The Berlinale always devotes some of its precious screen space to retrospectives and homages at the cosy Zeughaus theater, inside the German History Museum. This year, legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman gets the honor.
Feb 8, 2011 by Änne Troester in Film
Berlinale 2011: Feb 10-20
February’s finally here, which to every Berliner cinephile means only one thing: Berlinale! As Potsdamer Platz becomes a frenzy of preparation, EXBERLINER tells you everything you need to know.
Feb 7, 2011 by Änne Troester in Film (1 Comments)
The Berlinale Forum: Family experiments
Your first stop for the weird and wonderful, the Forum section of the Berlin Film Festival always surprises, challenges, and delights. We pick out the choice offerings in the festival this year.
Feb 4, 2011 by Änne Troester in Film
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Jodaeiye Nader az Simin | Nader And Simin, A Seperation
The Berlinale Blog: See you next year
No matter how many Berlinale films you manage to see, there are always even more films you've missed. A little frustrating perhaps, but at least it leaves something to look forward to for the rest of the year.
Feb 20, 2011 by Änne Troester in The Berlin Blog (2 Comments)
The Berlinale Blog: Slo-fest
Many of this year's films proceed at a painstakingly slow pace – it's time to get a kick, and the kids fest provides it.
Feb 16, 2011 by Änne Troester in The Berlin Blog
The Guard
The Berlinale Blog: English as a second language
English might be the world's lingua franca, but it sure ain't easy for native speakers to communicate.
Feb 14, 2011 by Änne Troester in The Berlin Blog
Photo by Richard Hübner
The Berlinale Blog: True love
Whatever happens in the next 10 days, today has been the highlight of the year. Who cares about a boring film if you can sit in a cinema with Isabella Rossellini?
Feb 11, 2011 by Änne Troester in The Berlin Blog
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Hitchcock für Anfänger
Haven't seen a single Alfred Hitchcock film yet? Check out his earlier silent classics on the big screen.
Jun 15, 2011 by Änne Troester in Film
The spies of life
Eleven films from both sides of the Iron Curtain, some of them hardly ever seen before, were selected to represent the wide spectrum of cinematic responses to the Cold War at the time it happened.
Jun 1, 2011 by Änne Troester in Film
America's Independents
Babylon Mitte isn't trying to outgun Berlinale, but the collection of independent films they will screen for their Unknown Pleasures festival is bringing in some big names, and some good films.
Dec 31, 2010 by Änne Troester in Film (2 Comments)
Death of a star: Christoph Schlingensief retrospective
Honor Germany’s favorite agent provocateur, who recently died of lung cancer at only 49 years of age. If you don't know Schlingensief, a nice dose of Udo Kier is included in his works.
Dec 7, 2010 by Karen Sofie Egebo | Änne Troester in Film
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Potiche
François Ozon's latest comical outing, a bright and fluffy affair but ultimately charming. When a despotic owner of an umbrella factory falls ill at the unfortunate time of a strike by his workers his wife is forced to take over business affairs.
Jun 7, 2011 by Änne Troester
Jack Goes Boating
One relationship blooms, the other slowly crumbles. Jack Goes Boating’s wonderful rhythm is incredibly New York, extremely contemporary and heartwarming. Bring a bottle of wine and a blanket.
Jun 3, 2011 by Änne Troester
The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
The well-known Fritz Lang film today looks almost like a documentary on surveillance and information gathering.
Jun 1, 2011 by Änne Troester
S-a furat o bomba (A Bomb was Stolen)
Even though the spy film genre is practically dead, the issue is still relevant: WikiLeaks and Google Street View are simply modern forms of spying. A spy movie-genre celebration begins with a Romanian farce without dialogue from 1961.
May 31, 2011 by Änne Troester
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More than one can chew
OUT NOW! Relying on cheap didactic tricks,TAMBIÉN LA LLUVIA is too big a topic for this production to handle.
Dec 29, 2011 by Änne Troester in Film
Photo by Rolf Konow
Confronting the past
OUT NOW! With excellent casting, the dual time periods in one life are well played in SVINALÄNGORNA.
Dec 8, 2011 by Änne Troester in Film
Dispelling the classics?
OUT NOW! ANONYMOUS should have stuck with more Shakespeare and less Roland Emmerich.
Nov 9, 2011 by Änne Troester in Film
K.O.! Film beats book
OUT NOW! Better as a visual than in print, ONE DAY is the simple story of true love that isn't positively drivel.
Nov 3, 2011 by Änne Troester in Film