Berlin Film Festival

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Caesar Must Die Paolo Taviani, 80, and Vittorio Taviani, 82, were the big winners at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival. The Taviani brothers’ documentary Cesare deve…

Robert Pattinson in Bel Ami: Berlin Film Festival. A week or so ago, we wondered if the Robert Pattinson period drama Bel Ami would be screened at the 2012 Berlin…

Salma Hayek: Legion d’Honneur controversy. Salma Hayek: Legion d’Honneur controversy There hasn’t been much buzz about Marthe Keller’s induction into France’s Legion of Honor. Or the induction of actresses Dominique…

Bel Ami 2012 poster with Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Christina Ricci. Shot in early 2010 but coming out in 2012, the latest film version of Guy…

Mike Leigh to be Berlin Film Festival Jury President. No Mike Leigh film has taken home the Berlinale’s Golden Bear, but Happy-Go-Lucky was in contention in 2008, eventually earning star…

Rock Hudson. Gay actor Rock Hudson was not… It’s surprising that back in the mid-1980s some people were surprised to learn that Rock Hudson was gay, when the star of…

Honey: Berlin Film Festival. 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…

Lene Maria Christensen and Johan Philip Asbæk (a.k.a. Pilou Asbæk) in A Family (Zentropa / Rolf Konow). Also of note at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival are Michael Winterbottom’s violent…

At a meeting held Monday, the 2009 Guldbagge (Golden Beetle) jury comprised of Katinka Faragó, Nils Petter Sundgren, Pia Johansson, Jannike Åhlund, Johan Renck, Mikael Marcimain and Guldbagge jury chairman…

Alfred Hitchcock British films: The Lady Vanishes with Dame May Whitty, Margaret Lockwood, and Michael Redgrave. On Nov. 27–28, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (website) will present the…

Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands in director Steve McQueen’s Hunger. With six wins, Steve McQueen’s Hunger was the big winner at the 2009 Irish Academy Awards. The story of Irish…

Camino with Carmen Elias: Controversial Opus Dei drama. Goya Award winners Written and directed by Javier Fesser, the controversial drama Camino – described by Screen Daily‘s Lee Marshall as a…

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 “Sticky Fingers,” will…

Maurice Jarre to be handed an Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement at next year’s Berlin Film Festival. One of the greatest film composers of the 20th century, Maurice Jarre…

A Short Film About Killing with Miroslaw Baka. One of the films to be shown in the series “After Winter Comes Spring: Films Presaging the Fall of the Wall” is…

Francesco Rosi political drama Salvatore Giuliano. This year’s Berlin Film Festival will present the Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement to the unabashedly political Italian filmmaker Francesco Rosi, 85, on Feb.…

Berlin Film Festival: Nazi era and Cold War Flops + handjob expert Marianne Faithfull and inspirational (but debatable) Nelson Mandela tale.

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…

A Carmen-inspired South African ‘dance movie,’ German anti-Nazi fighters and a Taiwanese watermelon sex tale are Berlin’s top Golden Bear winners.

A restored print of Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 Soviet masterpiece Battleship Potemkin will be screened at next year’s Berlin Film Festival.

Set to open the Berlin Film Festival, Régis Wargnier’s ‘missing link movie’ starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Joseph Fiennes focuses on ‘science-based’ racism.