Moritz Bleibtreu
Families in Conflict, Psychotic Murderers, Anti-Semitism, Censorship: Berlin 2010
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 — 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 of note at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival are Michael Winterbottom's violent crime drama The Killer Inside Me, starring Casey [...]
European Film Awards 2009 Predictions: Best Actress, Actor
Penélope Cruz has already won a best actress European Film Award (for Volver in 2006) and since her role in Broken Embraces is borderline supporting, my guess is that Cannes winner Charlotte Gainsbourg (above, with Willem Dafoe) will be the one taking home the prize for her bereaved sexed-out mother in Lars von Trier's Antichrist. But who knows? Oscar winner Kate Winslet (for The Reader) could be the dark horse who splits the vote with the brown one (Katie Jarvis for Fish Tank) so the [...]
European Film Academy Ambassadors
Maria de Medeiros (top); Belén Rueda (middle); Kim Rossi Stuart (bottom) The European Film Academy (EFA) has enlisted a group of Ambassadors of European Film to cooperate in the promotion of European cinema and the European Film Awards. From the European Film Academy's press release, the EFA Ambassadors are: Moritz Bleibtreu, actor, Germany One of the best-known German faces in international cinema, Moritz Bleibtreu first shot to international attention as Manni in Tom Tykwer’s RUN LOLA RUN (1998). He was nominated in 2001 for the [...]
Fatih Akin's SOUL KITCHEN Photos
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, Fatih Akin's Soul Kitchen is a comedy set at a Hamburg restaurant inhabited by a disparate group of Hamburgese. At IFC, Stephen Saito calls Soul Kitchen "a lark, but an enjoyable one. The film sees the director of Head On and The Edge of Heaven doing schtick for the first time — not as odd a transition as one might think from his previous dramas, which have in common a deeply felt human [...]