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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 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 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 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 in Film

Berlinale basics

Is it all too much for you? Don't despair: we've got handy hints for getting into the parties, laying your hands on those prized tickets, what to do with tiny totts and the latest jury gossip.

Feb 2, 2011 by in Film

DVD recommendations for Xmas

Nothing relieves holiday stress like watching video footage of Pelé dancing around the field. But if soccer isn't your thing, our film editor Änne Troester offers up more DVD choices for a break from winter.

Dec 13, 2010 by in Film

Fighting HIV/AIDS the Berlin Way

Today is World AIDS Day and as many as 11,000 people in Berlin are affected by the epidemic. Berlin has many ways of dealing with the epidemic – from art and film to education to on-the-street outreach.

Dec 1, 2010 by | | | in People

J'adore le Cinéma

Unlike its cuisine, France’s Cinema might not be on the world’s heritage list yet, but it is all the same duly celebrated this month in Berlin. Many of the films will get released later in the coming months, but you can be the first to see them here.

Nov 29, 2010 by | in Film (1 Comments)

Review: My Name Is Khan

NOW SHOWING! Don't be too quick to judge Shahrukh Khan’s performance as a Rain Man/Forrest Gump-style autistic man in My Name Is Khan. It may lack subtlety, but he’s a better actor than many people think.

Jun 10, 2010 by in Film

Let's talk about it

De Niro’s latest vehicle, a cinematization of a Noël Coward play and the much-lauded Precious all release a lot of hot air – with varying degrees of success.

Mar 1, 2010 by in Film

The end of the world as we know it

The Hughes brothers' The Book of Eli and Werner Herzog's remake of Bad Lieutenant tackle post-apocalyptic life in two very different ways.

Feb 1, 2010 by in Film

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Berlinale 2010

Giving an overview of the Berlinale is like summarizing the world. It simply has everything you could possibly think of that’s in any way connected with current cinema.

Feb 1, 2010 by in Film

Partir

A film completely out of time, old-fashioned in its sentiment and unabashedly, wildly melodramatic, Partir is something you will need to be in the mood for - but if you are, you’ll be richly rewarded.

Jan 1, 2010 by in Film

The Visitor

After a long absence, a lonely college professor returns to New York City (where he still maintains an apartment) to read a paper at a conference. But when he opens the door, he realizes that someone else lives there. Who are these people?

Jan 1, 2010 by in Film

North

What begins as a sort of Nordic Straight Story ends up in a thoroughly uplifting and original “self-improvement-through-skiing” message.

Jan 1, 2010 by in Film

Can Go Through Skin

When Marieke is brutally assaulted in her own apartment – right after ending a longterm relationship – it looks as if she will get over it.

Jan 1, 2010 by in Film

Good and bad

A mad scientist makes a Faustian pact and a hapless everyman tries to get by as best he can: Terry Gilliam and the Coen brothers tackle the human condition.

Jan 1, 2010 by in Film