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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Berlin Film Festival</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/berlin-film-festival/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:31:06 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Classy BEL AMI German Poster: Robert Pattinson in Blue</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bel-ami-poster-robert-pattinson-blue/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bel-ami-poster-robert-pattinson-blue/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:47:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37169</guid> <description><![CDATA[Bel Ami poster: Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci This classy, supercool, German (Guy de Maupassant's) Bel Ami poster features Robert Pattinson as the ambitious 19th-century ex-soldier Georges Duroy and the three main women in his life: Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci, and Kristin Scott Thomas. Notice the use of color &#8212; blue for Pattinson, green for Thurman, yellow for Ricci, red for [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bel-ami-poster-robert-pattinson-blue/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Robert Pattinson/BEL AMI: Berlin Film Festival 2012</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/robert-pattinson-bel-ami-michael-fassbender-haywire-berlin-film-festival/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/robert-pattinson-bel-ami-michael-fassbender-haywire-berlin-film-festival/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:40:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36843</guid> <description><![CDATA[Robert Pattinson, Bel Ami A week or so ago, we wondered if the Robert Pattinson period drama Bel Ami would be screened at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival. If so, would it be listed as a Word Premiere? The issue revolved around the fact that earlier this month Bel Ami had a few "special" screenings in various Belgian cities. Anyhow, the answer was given today, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/robert-pattinson-bel-ami-michael-fassbender-haywire-berlin-film-festival/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Robert Pattinson/BEL AMI at Berlin Film Festival?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/robert-pattinson-bel-ami-berlin-film-festival/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/robert-pattinson-bel-ami-berlin-film-festival/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:00:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36609</guid> <description><![CDATA[Robert Pattinson, Bel Ami Will the Robert Pattinson movie Bel Ami be screened at the Berlin Film Festival? Rumor has it that it will. Although that is certainly a possibility, the issue may turn out to be a little complicated. [Watch Bel Ami trailer.] Larry Richman has written a long and very detailed article on the likelihood &#8212; or not &#8212; of Bel Ami having [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/robert-pattinson-bel-ami-berlin-film-festival/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Benoît Jacquot/Diane Kruger/FAREWELL, MY QUEEN: Berlin Film Festival 2012 Opening Night Movie</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/diane-kruger-farewell-my-queen-berlin-2012-benoit-jacquot/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/diane-kruger-farewell-my-queen-berlin-2012-benoit-jacquot/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:42:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36454</guid> <description><![CDATA[Diane Kruger as Marie Antoinette, Farewell, My Queen The world premiere of Les Adieux à la reine / Farewell, My Queen will open the 2012 Berlin Film Festival next February 9. Directed by Benoît Jacquot (Tosca, Villa Amalia, Deep in the Woods), Farewell, My Queen stars Inglourious Basterds' Diane Kruger (as Marie Antoinette), Midnight in Paris' Léa Seydoux, and Army of Crime's Virginie Ledoyen. Adapted [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/diane-kruger-farewell-my-queen-berlin-2012-benoit-jacquot/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Meryl Streep: Berlin Film Festival 2012 Honorary Golden Bear Recipient</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/meryl-streep-berlin-2012-honorary-golden-bear/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/meryl-streep-berlin-2012-honorary-golden-bear/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:28:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36413</guid> <description><![CDATA[Meryl Streep, a likely Best Actress Academy Award contender for Phyllida Lloyd's Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady, will receive an Honorary Golden Bear at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival next February 14. As part of the ceremony, The Iron Lady will be screened at the Berlinale Palast. If Streep does get &#8212; the inevitable &#8212; Oscar nod for The Iron Lady, that'll be [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/meryl-streep-berlin-2012-honorary-golden-bear/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Mike Leigh: Berlin Film Festival 2012 Jury President (Better Not Invite Isabelle Adjani)</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mike-leigh-berlin-film-festival-isabelle-adjani/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mike-leigh-berlin-film-festival-isabelle-adjani/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:28:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36078</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mike Leigh will chair the jury of the 2012 Berlin Film Festival. Among the 68-year-old filmmaker's best known efforts are the Oscar-nominated Secret and Lies, New York Film Critics Circle Best Film winner Topsy-Turvy, Naked, Vera Drake, Another Year, and Happy-Go-Lucky. &#34;Over the course of his nearly 40-year film career, Mike Leigh has distinguished himself as one of the most outstanding film-makers of auteur cinema [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/mike-leigh-berlin-film-festival-isabelle-adjani/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>ROCK HUDSON: DARK AND HANDSOME STRANGER Documentary</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/rock-hudson-dark-and-handsome-stranger-berlin-43443/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/rock-hudson-dark-and-handsome-stranger-berlin-43443/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 08:23:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22142</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rock Hudson Andrew Davies and Andre Shafer's Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger was screened in the 2010 Berlin Film Festival's Panorama sidebar. [Rock Hudson documentary synopsis.] Universal star Rock Hudson, one of the top box-office attractions in the United States in the 1950s and early 1960s, died of AIDS complications in his Beverly Hills home in 1985. Hudson, who was gay, lived a closeted [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/rock-hudson-dark-and-handsome-stranger-berlin-43443/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin Film Festival 2011 Competition Line-Up</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/berlin-film-festival-2011-competition-line-up/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/berlin-film-festival-2011-competition-line-up/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:58:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arthur Leander</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26185</guid> <description><![CDATA[Matt Damon in Joel Coen and Ethan Coen's True Grit The Berlin Film Festival runs Feb. 10-20. In competition: A Torinoi Lo (The Turin Horse), Bela Tarr Bizim Buyuk Caresizligimiz (Our Grand Despair), Seyfi Teoman Coriolanus, Ralph Fiennes El premio (The Prize), Paula Markovitch Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (Nader and Simin, A Separation), Asghar Farhadi Les contes de la nuit (Tales of the Night), Michel [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/berlin-film-festival-2011-competition-line-up/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, THE MOUTH OF THE WOLF: Berlin Film Festival Gay Movie Awards</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/teddy-awards-the-kids-are-all-right-open-32187/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/teddy-awards-the-kids-are-all-right-open-32187/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:38:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Alessandro Moretti</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22180</guid> <description><![CDATA[Annette Bening, Julianne Moore in The Kids Are All Right (top); Pietro Marcello's The Mouth of the Wolf (upper middle); James Franco's The Feast of Stephen (lower middle); Gaea Gaddy in Jake Yuzna's Open (bottom) Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right, a family comedy co-written by Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg, and starring Annette Bening and Julianne Moore, claimed the Teddy Award for best gay-themed [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/teddy-awards-the-kids-are-all-right-open-32187/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>More Berlin 2010 Winners</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/more-berlin-winners-honey-a-family-44876/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/more-berlin-winners-honey-a-family-44876/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:17:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arthur Leander</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22174</guid> <description><![CDATA[From the Berlin Film Festival website: Prizes of the Ecumenical Jury  Since 1992, the international film organisations of the Protestant and Catholic Churches &#8211; INTERFILM and SIGNIS &#8211; have been represented by the Ecumenical Jury. It consists of six members and awards its main prize to a film entered in the Competition. It also awards two other prizes, both worth 2,500 Euros, one to a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/more-berlin-winners-honey-a-family-44876/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2010 Winners: Short Films</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/berlin-winners-short-films-ruben-ostlund-47676/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/berlin-winners-short-films-ruben-ostlund-47676/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:07:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arthur Leander</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22175</guid> <description><![CDATA[From the Berlin Film Festival website: The Golden Bear for the best short film goes to Händelse Vid Bank [above]by Ruben Östlund (Sweden) “His film is a real reflection on our times and the role played by media. Filmed with a single camera without a single cut, we zoom in and out of the picture as if using a CCTV camera. The dialogues are perfect, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/berlin-winners-short-films-ruben-ostlund-47676/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2010 Winners</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/berlin-winners-florin-serban-71922/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/berlin-winners-florin-serban-71922/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:47:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arthur Leander</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22172</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/berlin-winners-florin-serban-71922/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Roman Polanski Named Best Director at Berlin Film Festival</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/roman-polanski-best-director-berlin-32190/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/roman-polanski-best-director-berlin-32190/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:39:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arthur Leander</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22167</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/roman-polanski-best-director-berlin-32190/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2010: HONEY Wins Golden Bear</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/berlin-honey-golden-bear-76129/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/berlin-honey-golden-bear-76129/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:37:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arthur Leander</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22166</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 &#8212; as per the IMDb, known variously as [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/berlin-honey-golden-bear-76129/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Fritz Lang&#039;s METROPOLIS in Berlin and San Francisco</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/fritz-lang-metropolis-berlin-festival-49012/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/fritz-lang-metropolis-berlin-festival-49012/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:11:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22017</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#34;Maybe you’ve heard the buzz about Metropolis,&#34; reads a newsletter from the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. &#34;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.&#34; The restored 1927 silent classic starring Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, and Gustav Fröhlich had its premiere at [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/fritz-lang-metropolis-berlin-festival-49012/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Wang Quan&#039;an&#039;s APART TOGETHER Opens Berlin 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/wang-quanan-apart-together-berlin-76109/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/wang-quanan-apart-together-berlin-76109/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:31:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arthur Leander</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21871</guid> <description><![CDATA[The 2010 Berlin Film Festival opened Thursday evening with Wang Quan'an's Apart Together, the tale of a couple separated for decades by both the Taiwan Strait and Chinese politics. Wang, whose Tuya's Marriage won the Golden Bear in 2007, said his drama focuses on &#34;people who are caught up in the flow of history,&#34; adding that &#34;reunification is something people in China really yearn for. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/wang-quanan-apart-together-berlin-76109/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Families in Conflict, Psychotic Murderers, Anti-Semitism, Censorship: Berlin 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2010-the-killer-inside-me-howl-199/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2010-the-killer-inside-me-howl-199/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:19:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arthur Leander</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21510</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kate Hudson, Casey Affleck in The Killer Inside Me (Berlin Film Festival) (top); Lene Maria Christensen, Johan Philip Asbæk in A Family (Zentropa / Rolf Konow) (middle, upper); Moritz Bleibtreu, Tobias Moretti in Jud Süss &#8212; Film Without a Conscience (Petro Domenigg / Concorde Film) (middle, lower); Mark Ruffalo, Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island (Paramount) (bottom) THE GHOST WRITER at 60th Berlin Film Festival Also [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2010-the-killer-inside-me-howl-199/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2010: Film Line-Up Announced</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2010-film-line-up-812/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2010-film-line-up-812/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:52:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arthur Leander</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21508</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kim Cattrall, Ewan McGregor in The Ghost Writer The complete official program for the 2010 Berlin Film Festival, which runs Feb. 11-21, has been announced. Twenty-six films will be screened, of which twenty will be vying for the Golden Bear. The other six entries will be screened out of competition. Among the films in competition, Roman Polanski's mystery thriller The Ghost Writer has attracted the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2010-film-line-up-812/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Werner Herzog, Renee Zellweger, Francesca Comencini, Cornelia Froboess: Berlin 2010 Jury</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/werner-herzog-renee-zellweger-berlin-2010-114/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/werner-herzog-renee-zellweger-berlin-2010-114/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:21:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Arthur Leander</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21309</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Berlin Film Festival has announced the jury members for its 2010 edition. They are: German filmmaker Werner Herzog, the jury president; Chinese actress Yu Nan; Italian writer-director Francesca Comencini; Spanish producer Jose Maria Morales; Somali-born writer Nuruddin Farah; American Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger; and German actress Cornelia Froboess. The 67-year-old Herzog has been making movies since 1962. Among his best-known efforts are The Enigma [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/werner-herzog-renee-zellweger-berlin-2010-114/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Martin Scorsese&#039;s SHUTTER ISLAND with Leonardo DiCaprio at Berlin 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/martin-scorsese-shutter-island-leonardo-dicaprio-876/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/martin-scorsese-shutter-island-leonardo-dicaprio-876/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:17:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Edwige Andersson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=19678</guid> <description><![CDATA[Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island The 60th Berlin Film Festival has announced the first seven titles for its Golden Bear Competition line-up. As per the film festival's press release, this initial group is &#34;characterized by up-and-coming young directors, stars and masters of filmmaking like Martin Scorsese and Roman Polanski.&#34; Scorsese's out-of-competition entry, Shutter Island, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/martin-scorsese-shutter-island-leonardo-dicaprio-876/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Roman Polanski&#039;s THE GHOST WRITER to Premiere at Berlin 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/roman-polanski-the-ghost-writer-berlin-9894/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/roman-polanski-the-ghost-writer-berlin-9894/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:20:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Edwige Andersson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=19676</guid> <description><![CDATA[According to The Guardian, Roman Polanski's latest effort, The Ghost Writer, will have its premiere in competition at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, which takes place February 11-21. Based on the International Thriller Writers' Award-winning novel The Ghost by Robert Harris (who also penned the screenplay), The Ghost Writer was shot at Studio Babelsberg outside Berlin and was finished by Polanski while in prison [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/roman-polanski-the-ghost-writer-berlin-9894/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2010: Play it Again &#8230;! Series</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2010-play-it-again-series/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2010-play-it-again-series/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:01:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18426</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless As per The Hollywood Reporter, the Berlin International Film Festival will mark its 60th anniversary with the retrospective &#34;Play it Again &#8230;!,&#34; featuring 40 films compiled by British film critic David Thomson from previous Berlin festivals. Among them are Curzio Malaparte's The Forbidden Christ, Alf Sjoberg's Miss Julie, Akira Kurosawa's To Live, Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, Michael Cimino's The Deer [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2010-play-it-again-series/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2009: Joe Dallesandro to Receive Honorary Teddy Award</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/joe-dallesandro-teddy-award-berlin-2009/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/joe-dallesandro-teddy-award-berlin-2009/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:39:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=7409</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 &#34;Sticky Fingers,&#34; 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 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/joe-dallesandro-teddy-award-berlin-2009/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2009: Maurice Jarre to Receive Honorary Golden Bear</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/maurice-jarre-honorary-golden-bear-2009/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/maurice-jarre-honorary-golden-bear-2009/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:09:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=5866</guid> <description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/maurice-jarre-honorary-golden-bear-2009/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2009: After Winter Comes Spring &#8211; Films Presaging the Fall of the Wall</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlinale-2009-after-winter-comes-spring/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlinale-2009-after-winter-comes-spring/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:10:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=5402</guid> <description><![CDATA[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, &#34;in fifteen feature-length blocks, 'After Winter Comes [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlinale-2009-after-winter-comes-spring/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE ELITE SQUAD: The 2008 Berlin Film Festival&#039;s Controversial Winner</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-elite-squad-berlin-festival-2008-controversy/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-elite-squad-berlin-festival-2008-controversy/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:11:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-elite-squad-berlin-festival-2008-controversy/</guid> <description><![CDATA[The second Brazilian production to win the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear, José Padilha's Tropa de Elite / The Elite Squad, a violent tale about Rio's special police unit's fight against slum-based druglords, was a controversial choice for the 2008 festival's top award. Unlike the previous Brazilian winning entry, the considerably cozier Central Station back in 1998, The Elite Squad was greeted with strong reservations [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-elite-squad-berlin-festival-2008-controversy/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin Film Festival Awards 2008</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-awards-2008/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-awards-2008/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:40:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-awards-2008/</guid> <description><![CDATA[2008 Berlin Film Festival Awards 2008 Berlin Film Festival: February 7&#8211;17, 2008 2008 Berlin Film Festival &#8211; Competition Line-Up &#160; &#160; Golden Bear: Tropa de Elite / The Elite Squad, directed by José Padilha Silver Bear &#8211; The Jury Grand Prix: Standard Operating Procedure, directed by Errol Morris Silver Bear &#8211; Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood Silver Bear &#8211; Best Actor: [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-awards-2008/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Francesco Rosi Retrospective</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/francesco-rosi-retrospective/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/francesco-rosi-retrospective/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:40:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21670</guid> <description><![CDATA[Francesco Rosi to Receive Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement Lino Ventura in Cadaveri eccellenti / Illustrious Corpses Carmen Gian Maria Volonte in Il Caso Mattei / The Mattei Affair Gian Maria Volonte in Cristo si è fermato à Eboli / Christ Stopped at Eboli James Belushi in Dimenticare Palermo / To Forget Palermo Gian Maria Volonte in Lucky Luciano Belinda Lee, Renato Salvatori in I [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/francesco-rosi-retrospective/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Francesco Rosi to Receive Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/francesco-rosi-golden-bear-lifetime/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/francesco-rosi-golden-bear-lifetime/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:39:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/francesco-rosi-golden-bear-lifetime/</guid> <description><![CDATA[This year's Berlin Film Festival will present the Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement to the unabashedly political Italian filmmaker Francesco Rosi, 85, on February 14, 2008. Rosi's work includes Salvatore Giuliano (above), which earned him the best director Silver Bear in 1962; Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Mattei Affair (1972); and the Oscar nominated Three Brothers (1981). In conjunction with the homage, the Berlin Festival [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/francesco-rosi-golden-bear-lifetime/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2008: Out of Competition Film Line-Up</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2008-out-of-competition-film-line-up/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2008-out-of-competition-film-line-up/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:57:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16512</guid> <description><![CDATA[Out of Competition Opening Film: Shine a Light, USA by Martin Scorsese with the Rolling Stones Fireflies in the Garden, USA (World Premiere) by Dennis Lee with Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson Katyn, Poland (International Premiere) by Andrzej Wajda with Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski and Andrzej Chyra The Other Boleyn Girl, USA / Great Britain (World Premiere) by Justin Chadwick with Natalie [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2008-out-of-competition-film-line-up/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2008: CHERRY BLOSSOMS, THERE WILL BE BLOOD</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2008-cherry-blossoms-there-will-be-blood/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2008-cherry-blossoms-there-will-be-blood/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:56:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16511</guid> <description><![CDATA[2008 Berlin Film Festival: Official Competition Line-Up Part II Berlin 2008: Official Competition Line-Up &#8211; Part I Kirschblüten &#8211; Hanami / Cherry Blossoms, Germany by Doris Dörrie with Elmar Wepper, Hannelore Elsner, Nadja Uhl Lady Jane, France by Robert Guédiguian with Ariane Ascaride, Gérard Meylan, Frédérique Bonnal Lake Tahoe, Mexico / US (World Premiere) by Fernando Eimbcke with Diego Cataño, Héctor Herrera, Daniela Valentine, Juan [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2008-cherry-blossoms-there-will-be-blood/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2008: Official Competition Line-Up</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-2008-competition/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-2008-competition/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:55:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-2008-competition/</guid> <description><![CDATA[2008 Berlin Film Festival: Official Competition Line-Up The Berlin Film Festival will be held between February 7&#8211;17, 2008. Avaze Gonjeshk-ha / The Song of Sparrows, Iran (World Premiere) by Majid Majidi with Reza Najie, Maryam Akbari, Kamran Dehghan, Hossein Aghazi Ballast, USA (International Premiere) by Lance Hammer with Micheal J. Smith, Jim Myron Ross, Tarra Riggs Bam gua Nat / Night and Day, Republic of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-2008-competition/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2007 Winners</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-2007-winners/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-2007-winners/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:10:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2007/02/19/berlin-film-festival-2007-golden-bear-winners/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Yu Nan in Tuya's Marriage &#34;When I started making films, my teacher said film should show people's dreams. This film made my dreams come true,&#34; remarked Chinese director Wang Quan'an upon accepting the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear for his rural drama Tuya's Marriage, a portrait of the social and environmental costs of China's unbridled economic growth. In Tuya's Marriage, a woman (Yu Nan) living [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-2007-winners/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin Film Festival Awards 2007</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-awards-2007/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-awards-2007/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:09:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2820</guid> <description><![CDATA[2007 Berlin Film Festival Awards 2007 Berlin Film Festival: February 8&#8211;18, 2007 Berlin 2007 Winners &#160; International Competition Golden Bear for the Best Film: Tu ya de hun shi / Tuya's Marriage by Wang Quan'an Silver Bear &#8211; The Jury Grand Prix: El Otro / The Other by Ariel Rotter Silver Bear &#8211; Best Director: Joseph Cedar for Beaufort Silver Bear &#8211; Best Actor: Julio [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-awards-2007/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2007: Marianne Faithfull, THE WITNESSES</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-2007-marianne-faithfull-the-witnesses/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-2007-marianne-faithfull-the-witnesses/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:25:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2007/02/15/berlin-film-festival-news/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Peeping jane Marianne Faithfull tries to see if there's a best actress Silver Bear awaiting her on the other side of the glory hole. In The Guardian, Geoffrey Macnab interviews Marianne Faithfull, whose Irina Palm, the story of a woman who becomes a sex worker in order to get money for her sick grandson, was screened at the Berlinale: &#34;Irina Palm is far less voyeuristic [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-2007-marianne-faithfull-the-witnesses/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2007: Cinema for Peace</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/cinema-for-peace-in-berlin/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/cinema-for-peace-in-berlin/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:44:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2007/02/14/cinema-for-peace-in-berlin/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Goodbye Bafana by Bille August At Berlin's Cinema for Peace charity event attended by Richard Gere, Catherine Deneuve, Christopher Lee, and Bob Geldorf this past Monday, a one-minute segment from a short video by Sergiu Matei was shown. Matei's film depicts a Sept. 30, 2006, incident in which Chinese border police opened fire on Tibetan refugees attempting to flee the country. Gere, a relentless Tibet [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/cinema-for-peace-in-berlin/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2007: Asta Nielsen is Hamlet</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/asta-nielsen-is-hamlet-at-the-berlin-film-festival/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/asta-nielsen-is-hamlet-at-the-berlin-film-festival/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:15:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2007/02/08/asta-nielsen-is-hamlet-at-the-berlin-film-festival/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Asta Nielsen in Hamlet Sure, the 2007 Berlinale, which has kicked off this evening, will offer a number of good &#8212; hopefully, even a few great &#8212; 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 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/asta-nielsen-is-hamlet-at-the-berlin-film-festival/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin Film Festival 2007 Film Line-Up</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-2007-film-line-up/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-2007-film-line-up/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:59:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2007/01/26/berlin-film-festival-2007-film-line-up/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Berlin 2007: Official Competition Line-Up &#160; 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 &#124; The Counterfeiter by Stefan Ruzowitzky, Germany/Austria (World Premiere) El Otro &#124; The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-2007-film-line-up/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2007: 300, THE COUNTERFEITERS, YELLA</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2007-300-the-counterfeiters-yella/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2007-300-the-counterfeiters-yella/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:24:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16685</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2007-300-the-counterfeiters-yella/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin Film Festival 2007</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2007/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2007/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:23:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=12660</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2007/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2006 Winners</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/berlin-2006-winners/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/berlin-2006-winners/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 01:55:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16742</guid> <description><![CDATA[There weren't many surprises at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival awards. One of this year's favorites, Jasmila Zbanic's Grbavica, the story of a 12-year-old girl (Luna Mijovic, above, hugging Mirjana Karanovic) who discovers that she is the end result of a Bosnian war crime &#8212; namely, rape &#8212; was awarded the Golden Bear for best film. Also on the political side, Michael Winterbottom and Mat [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/berlin-2006-winners/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin Film Festival Awards 2006</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-awards-2006/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-awards-2006/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 02:54:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=425</guid> <description><![CDATA[2006 Berlin Film Festival Awards 2006 Berlin Film Festival: February 9&#8211;19, 2006 2006 Berlin Film Festival Winners Photos: &#169; Berlinale 2006 &#160; Golden Bear : GRBAVICA, by Jasmila Zbanic Silver Bear &#8211; The Jury Grand Prix 2006 (ex-aequo): EN SOAP / A SOAP, by Pernille Fischer Christensen, and OFFSIDE, by Jafar Panahi Silver Bear &#8211; Best Director : Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, THE ROAD [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-film-festival-awards-2006/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2006: REQUIEM, GRBAVICA, THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-2006-grbavica-the-yacoubian-building/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-2006-grbavica-the-yacoubian-building/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:35:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=374</guid> <description><![CDATA[Moritz Bleibtreu in The Elementary Particles (top); Sandra Hüller in Requiem (bottom) More on the Berlin International Film Festival: Four German films will be screened in the Official Competition. They are: Oscar Roehler's literary adaptation Elementarteilchen / The Elementary Particles; Hans-Christian Schmid's exorcism drama Requiem; Matthias Glasner's Der Freie Wille / The Free Will, the story of a convicted rapist who is freed after 12 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-2006-grbavica-the-yacoubian-building/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2006: Is Dresden Burning?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/is-dresden-burning/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/is-dresden-burning/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:43:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=409</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#34;German filmmakers have tackled the touchy subject of whether the Allied firebombing of Dresden at the end of World War Two was a 'war crime' with a carefully balanced melodrama that got its worldwide premiere on Monday. &#34;Showing the German point of view of anything in World War Two is always likely to cause a stir &#8212; and that's precisely what the makers of Dresden [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/is-dresden-burning/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2006: Teddy Award Retrospective</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/teddy-award-retrospective/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/teddy-award-retrospective/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:50:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=373</guid> <description><![CDATA[Wieland Speck, director of the Panorama sidebar at the Berlin Film Festival: &#34;To show a film from Iran about a transsexual, as we did three years ago, was a sensation. We had to take enormous precautionary measures, because this continues to be a highly political issue. &#34;But it's by no means just the Islamic countries. In our neighbouring Poland a man was recently elected president [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/teddy-award-retrospective/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2006: Out of Competition Films</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2006-out-of-competition-films/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2006-out-of-competition-films/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:08:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16957</guid> <description><![CDATA[Berlin 2006: Out of Competition Films Capote, Bennett Miller The New World, Terrence Malick The Science of Sleep, Michel Gondry Syriana, Stephen Gaghan V for Vendetta, James McTeigue Wu ji / The Promise, Chen Kaige Closing film: Pat Garrett &#38; Billy the Kid, Sam Peckinpah (digitally restored print)]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/berlin-2006-out-of-competition-films/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2006: Golden Bear Film Line-Up</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-international-film-festival-2006/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-international-film-festival-2006/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:07:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=372</guid> <description><![CDATA[Berlin 2006: Golden Bear Film Line-Up Opening film: Snow Cake, director Marc Evans Candy, Neil Armfield El Custodio / The Minder, Rodrigo Moreno Elementarteilchen / The Elementary Particles, Oskar Roehler Find Me Guilty, Sidney Lumet Der Freie Wille / The Free Will, Matthias Glasner Grbavica, Jasmila Zbanic Invisible Waves, Pen-ek Ratanaruang Isabella, Pang Ho-cheung L'Ivresse du pouvoir / Comedy of Power, Claude Chabrol Offside, Jafar [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/berlin-international-film-festival-2006/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Andrzej Wajda, Ian McKellen to Receive Honorary Golden Bears</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/andrzej-wajda-ian-mckellen-golden-bear/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/andrzej-wajda-ian-mckellen-golden-bear/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:45:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=364</guid> <description><![CDATA[The 56th Berlin International Film Festival will present the 2006 Honorary Golden Bears to Polish director and screenwriter Andrzej Wajda (above, left) and British actor Ian McKellen (above, right). Andrzej Wajda, one of Poland's best-known filmmakers, has had several of his films in competition in Berlin, including Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania, Miss Nobody, and Holy Week. Among his forty or so features, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/andrzej-wajda-ian-mckellen-golden-bear/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2006: Charlotte Rampling to Head International Jury</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/charlotte-rampling-to-head-berlin-jury/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/charlotte-rampling-to-head-berlin-jury/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2005 07:07:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=192</guid> <description><![CDATA[British actress Charlotte Rampling, 60, will preside over the International Jury of the Berlinale 2006. Referring to Rampling as a &#34;fascinating woman and brilliant artist,&#34; Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick expressed his pleasure in having on board an actress who &#34;has come to stand for unconventional and memorable cinema.&#34; During her 40+-year career, Rampling &#8212; who has lived in France most of her life &#8212; has [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/charlotte-rampling-to-head-berlin-jury/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Berlin 2005 Winners</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/berlin-2005-winners/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/berlin-2005-winners/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2005 03:27:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16656</guid> <description><![CDATA[Pauline Malefane in Carmen in Khayelitsha The 2005 Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear has been awarded to a South African production, the Xhosa-language Carmen in Khayelitsha. Directed by Mark Dornford-May and starring Pauline Malefane (right), the film is a modernized version of Georges Bizet's opera set in a South African slum. Headed by Roland Emmerich, the seven-member Berlin jury gave the runner-up Silver Bear to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/berlin-2005-winners/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
