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by Andrew Horn
I wasn’t burning to see Gus van Sant’s “Promised Land” but it was the first day and the Competition press screening was in twenty minutes and I just thought what the hell. It was one of those morality tales, this time about fracking. (The film was awarded an "Honorable Mention" - the Ed.)

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by Andrew Horn
A few weeks ago, in writing an article about the then upcoming Berlin Film Festival,  I was interviewing Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, the section director of Forum Expanded section. We were talking about the section, and it’s role within the festival as a whole, and she said that for her it was not about Continue Reading

par Julien MARSA
Quoi de beau, quoi de neuf à voir, alors que nous cheminons tranquillement vers l'épilogue de cette Berlinale ? Une compétition un brin moribonde, mais toujours des surprises et des découvertes dans les sections parallèles. Au festivalier de passage, il faut bien dire qu'il est parfois difficile de repérer les perles dans ce Continue Reading

xhiller was out of the inner city and the last thing you'd expect to see is some beautiful guerrilla knitting so far out in the boondocks. But here it is - proof in pudding. A lamppost near Wannsee in Berlin, Germany gets a warm covering. Full Wool Jacket!

"You know how every once in a while you'll see an obit for an old movie star or politician kicking off at 90-plus after at least a decade in the rest home?" my friend Chris wrote me. "And you think 'Gee, he/she was still alive? Who knew?' That's how I felt when I saw this." "This Continue Reading

xhiller visits the Spree on a cold, sunny day. The colors of the graffiti are echoed in the colors of the river itself and the new buildings on the opposite shore. The banks to the Spree are more often than not an abandoned-looking jumble of garbage, old ruins from some building long gone, and ungroomed Continue Reading

von Miete Steinmann
Reißerisch ist das Kino des Matt Porterfield gewiss nicht. Von den Sehgewohnheiten eines reizüberfluteten jungen Publikums vollkommen unbeeindruckt, erzählte der mit 35 Jahren selbst noch junge Regisseur Geschichten aus seiner Heimatstadt Baltimore (PUTTY HILL, HAMILTON): nonchalant doch eindrücklich. Sein drittes Werk, „I Used To Be Darker“, das jetzt im Forum der Berlinale läuft Continue Reading

Getting dirty ?
par Julien MARSA
« I'm getting dirty », ce sont précisément les mots qu'utilise le Django (Jamie Foxx) de Quentin Tarantino pour annoncer à son bon Dr King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) qu'il entend se mettre au niveau de ses adversaires pour parvenir à ses fins. Il faut bien comprendre qu'il parle ici de prendre artificiellement de la Continue Reading

von Miete Steinmann
„Sie ist ein gutes Mädchen, aber zu schlau und die ganze Zeit wütend.“ So spricht ein Vater über seine Tochter, Salma, die er neun Jahre lang weggesperrte – bis sie sich bereit erklärte, den für sie erwählten Bräutigam zu heiraten. Denn in den muslimischen Dörfern im tamilischen Südindien ist das bis heute so Continue Reading

Man, talk about being right on the sweet spot of the news: 24 hours after last week's post came out the media was abuzz with stories about the manuscripts of Timbuktu, and now that a little time has passed, it appears that there were some losses, but things aren't as dire as we'd heard. The Continue Reading