Berlin Film Festival Articles

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 — or not — of Bel Ami having [...]

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 [...]

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 — the inevitable — Oscar nod for The Iron Lady, that’ll be [...]

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. "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 [...]