Berlin 2010 Articles

George Pistereanu, Ada Condeescu in Florin Serban’s If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle (top); Grigory Dobrygin, Sergei Puskepalis in Alexei Popgrebsky’s How I Ended This Summer (upper middle); Shinobu Terajima in Koji Wakamatsu’s Caterpillar (lower middle); Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs in Babak Najafi’s Sebbe (bottom) Romanian filmmaker Florin Serban won two prizes for If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle at the 2010 Berlin [...]

Roman Polanski, in the news since his arrest in Switzerland last September and currently fighting extradition to the United States, received the Silver Bear for Best Director for the political thriller The Ghost Writer. In The Ghost Writer, Ewan McGregor has the title role, becoming involved with a former British prime minister (Pierce Brosnan, above, based on Tony Blair), who has more than a few [...]

Semih Kaplanoglu’s Turkish drama Honey, the final installment of an autobiographical trilogy that began with Egg (2007) and Milk (2008), was the unexpected winner of the 2010 Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear. Honey was the second Turkish film [not the first as previously reported] to win the Golden Bear. The first one was Metin Erksan’s Susuz yaz — as per the IMDb, known variously as [...]

"Maybe you’ve heard the buzz about Metropolis," reads a newsletter from the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. "The incredible discovery of long-lost footage from director Fritz Lang’s masterpiece. Found in a vault in Buenos Aires, the complete film has been reconstructed and restored by the F.W. Murnau Foundation." The restored 1927 silent classic starring Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, and Gustav Fröhlich had its premiere at [...]