Berlin 2009: Joe Dallesandro to Receive Honorary Teddy Award

Joe Dallesandro, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey’s muse in films such as Flesh (1968), Trash (1970), and Heat (1972), and whose crotch adorned the Rolling Stones‘ album "Sticky Fingers," will be the recipient of the 2009 honorary Teddy Award, given to those who have contributed to gay/lesbian/etc. cinema, at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival, which runs Feb. 5-15.
Two films featuring Dallesandro, who’s now 60 years old, will be screened at the 2009 Berlinale: Little Joe, Nicole Haeusser’s new documentary on the actor, and Catherine Breillat’s Tapage Nocturne (1979), winner of the Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama Audience Award.
In addition to the Warhol Factory films, which also include titles such as the revisionist Western Lonesome Cowboys (1968), The Loves [...]

by Andre Soares | January 23, 2009   
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Berlin 2009: Maurice Jarre to Receive Honorary Golden Bear

The 59th Berlin International Film Festival’s Homage will be dedicated to Maurice Jarre, 84, who will receive the Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement on February 12, 2009.
Among Jarre’s screen credits are the David Lean epics and sub-epics Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan’s Daughter, and A Passage to India, plus Les Yeux sans visage / Eyes Without a Face, The Collector, Grand Prix, The Tin Drum, and the Peter Weir-directed dramas Witness, Dead Poets Society, and Fearless.
From the Berlinale’s press release:
"Born in Lyon in 1924, Maurice Jarre began his musical career with studies in percussion and conducting at the Conservatoire de Paris. He became the musical director of the Théâtre National Populaire in 1950, and composed [...]

by Massimo David | December 18, 2008   
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Berlin 2009: After Winter Comes Spring – Films Presaging the Fall of the Wall

The Dog’s Night Song by Gábor Bódy

Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the 2009 Berlin Film Festival will serve as the launching pad for the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Deutsche Kinemathek series “After Winter Comes Spring – Films Presaging the Fall of the Wall.”
As per the festival’s press release, "in fifteen feature-length blocks, ‘After Winter Comes Spring’ will present films made in both Germanys and Eastern Europe during the last decade of the Cold War – films that convey a sense of the radical changes to come. Some of these works were made in the official studios of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. Others were realized more [...]

by Massimo David | December 6, 2008   
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