Berlin 2005: Official Competition Line-Up

2005 Berlin Film Festival Competition Line-Up

Anklaget (Accused), Denmark, director Jacob Thuesen

Asylum, United States / Ireland, director David MacKenzie

De battre mon coeur s’est arreté (The Beat That My Heart Slipped), France, director Jacques Audiard

Gespenster (Ghosts), Germany / France, director Christian Petzold

In Good Company, United States, director Paul Weitz

Kakushi Ken – Oni no Tsume (The Hidden Blade), Japan, director Yoji Yamada

Kong que (Peacock), China, director Gu Changwei

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, United States, director Wes Anderson

Man to Man, France / South Africa / Britain, director Regis Wargnier

Les mots bleus (Words in Blue), France, director Alain Corneau

One Day in Europe, Germany / Spain, director Hannes Stoehr

Paradise Now, Netherlands / France, director [...]

by Andre Soares | February 5, 2005   
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IN GOOD COMPANY – Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace

In Good Company (2004)
Direction and screenplay: Paul Weitz
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson, Marg Helgenberger, David Paymer, Philip Baker Hall, Clark Gregg, Malcolm McDowell
 

 

Better known for his gross-out comedy American Pie and for co-directing (with brother Chris Weitz) the syrupy morality tale About a Boy (which received an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay), Paul Weitz is hardly the type of talent one would expect behind a movie about a ruthless corporate takeover. But rest assured, In Good Company, despite its business dog-eats-business dog setting, is anything but heavy drama.
In the film, Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid) is the head of ad sales for the New York-based magazine Sports America — though not for very much longer. Right [...]

by Andre Soares | December 28, 2004   
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