German Film Critics Awards 2008
2008 German Film Critics Association Awards
2008 German Film Critics Association Award winners: Berlin on Feb. 11, 2008
Nina Hoss in Yella
Best Film:
Yella
by Christian Petzold
Best First Film:
Die Unerzogenen
by Pia Marais
Best Documentary:
Prater
by Ulrike Ottinger
Best Actor:
Ulrich Noethen
Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler (Direction: Dani Levy)
Best Actress:
Maren Kroymann
Verfolgt (Direction: Angelina Maccarone)
Best Screenplay:
Matthias Pacht and Alex Buresch
Das wahre Leben (Direction: Alain Gsponer)
Best Cinematography:
Hans Fromm
Yella (Direction: Christian Petzold)
Best Editing:
Andrew Bird
Auf der anderen Seite / The Edge of Heaven (Direction: Fatih Akin)
Best Score:
Dieter Schleip
Die Hochstapler (Direction: Alexander [...]
by Andre Soares | February 11, 2008
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Tags: Alex Buresch, Christian Petzold, Film Awards, German Film Critics Awards, Hans Fromm, Maren Kroymann, Matthias Pacht, Pia Marais, Ulrich Noethen, Yella
Berlin 2007 Winners
Yu Nan in Tuya’s Marriage
"When I started making films, my teacher said film should show people’s dreams. This film made my dreams come true," 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 in desertifying Inner Mongolia (a territory in northern China) tries to find a new husband to take care of herself and of her family, including handicapped husband #1. "I think that it is important, particularly in this time when the economy is booming," Wang remarked, "to ponder and reflect on what we’re losing."
Tuya’s Marriage is [...]
by Andre Soares | February 18, 2007
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Tags: Berlin 2007, Berlin Film Festival, Film Awards, Julio Chávez, Nina Hoss, Park Chan-Wook, The Good Shepherd, The Other, Tuya's Marriage, Wang Quan'an, Yella
Berlin 2007: 300, THE COUNTERFEITERS, YELLA
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 confronted invader King Xerxes‘ brush-stomping Persian army. If the film looks even half as good as the stills, it’ll win every cinematography and production design award for 2007. But I wonder if 300 will display anything resembling intelligent storytelling, or if it’ll simply be a series of extended battle sequences glorifying bravery, honor, sadism, and all those great [...]
by Andre Soares | January 26, 2007
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Tags: 300, Berlin 2007, Berlin Film Festival, I'm a Cyborg But That's Ok, In Memory of Myself, Nina Hoss, The Counterfeiters, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, Yella