Berlin 2007 Articles

Asta Nielsen in Hamlet Sure, the 2007 Berlinale, which has kicked off this evening, will offer a number of good — hopefully, even a few great — new films. But for my money, the most interesting section this year is the Retrospective covering the roles of women in silent films of the 1910s and 1920s. I've mentioned the Retrospective in a previous post, but I [...]

Berlin 2007: Official Competition Line-Up   300 by Zack Snyder, U.S. (World Premiere, Out of Competition) Angel by François Ozon, France/Belgium/U.K. (World Premiere)/Closing Film Beaufort by Joseph Cedar, Israel (World Premiere) Bordertown by Gregory Nava, U.S. (World Premiere) Desert Dream / Hyazgar by Zhang Lu, Republic of Korea/France (World Premiere) Die Fälscher | The Counterfeiter by Stefan Ruzowitzky, Germany/Austria (World Premiere) El Otro | The [...]

300 by Zack Snyder (top); Nina Hoss in Yella (middle); In Memory of Myself by Saverio Costanzo (bottom) Berlin Film Festival 2007: Part I A few other titles that sound intriguing: Inspired by Frank Miller's drawings and directed by Zack Snyder, 300 depicts the battle of Thermopylae in the year 480 B.C.E. At that decisive battle, King Leonidas of Sparta and a mere 300 followers [...]

Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie in The Good Shepherd (top); Cate Blanchett, George Clooney in The Good German (bottom) English-language productions dominate the Berlin Film Festival's 2007 official competition line-up. In all, 22 films are competing for the Golden Bear and four are being screened out of competition at this year's Berlinale, which runs between Feb. 8-18. Most of the English-language fare hails from the United [...]