Tag: 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival
Servants | Review
A Separate Peace: Ostrochovský Crafts a Church Noir for Sophomore Feature
For his sophomore narrative feature, Slovak director Ivan Ostrochovský recuperates a uniquely chilling scenario...
Minamata | Review
Man with a Movie Camera: Levitas Aims for Noble Rendering of Horrific Toxic Waste Contamination
You’ve heard it before---corporate greed and government corruption colluding to...
Uppercase Print | Review
Capital Crimes: The Play’s the Thing in Jude’s Rendering of Secret Police Files
Romanian director Radu Jude lets no grass grow under his feet, back...
Wildland | Review
Wild in the Streets: Nordahl’s Debut Spins on Devotional Dysfunction
The family crest for the sinister brood at the heart of Jeanette Nordahl’s directorial debut...
Undine | Review
Till Human Voices Wake Us: Petzold Gets Mythologically Romantic
A classical figure of mythology and beyond, the Undine (or Siren), a water nymph creature who’s...
The Salt of Tears | Review
Love Means Never Having to Say: Garrel Continues Exploration of Love and Lust
“Love ain’t nothin’ but sex misspelled,” Harlon Ellison astutely wrote, for too...
Malmkrog | Review
Ollie Ollie Oligarchy: Puiu Weighs the World That Was in Long Form
For what stands as his sixth narrative feature, Malmkrog, Romanian New Wave auteur...
My Salinger Year | Review
Raise High the Roofbeams, Cinema: Falardeau’s Warm Homage Clangs Carpe Diem
“I think that one of these days…you’re going to find out where you want...
Pinocchio | Review
Nose the Ropes: Garrone Renovates Collodi’s Classic Children’s Text
Sometime over the past century, the cinematic conception of the fairy tale has enabled a movement...
Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness | Review
Killer Ratings: Bakhshi Brings Reality Television Gimmickry to Morbid, Potential Levels
To err is human, to forgive divine---or so we’ve come to accept as a...
Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Review
The Story of Women: Hittman Hits Home Run with Stellar, Topical Abortion Drama
How often have you seen an abortion drama, in any language, which...
The Roads Not Taken | Review
Roadside Assistance: Potter Putters in Nonsensical Melodrama
Who is the nearly catatonic man being dragged through New York by his overly sincere daughter? His name...
Best of the 2020 Berlinale: Hittman, Khrzhanovsky/Oertel & Gotardo/Dutra
Mohammad Rasoulof’s There Is No Evil landed the top prize (and once again landed the filmmaker in hot water as Iranian authorities aren't big...
The Woman Who Ran | 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Rendezvous in Seoul: Sang-soo Gets Spare in Conversational Triptych
Ending a rare year-long absence from the cinema (an observation of note since he presents two...
All the Dead Ones | 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Turn and Face the Strange: Caetano & Gotardo Navigate Displacement in Stellar Period Piece
The tagline for George Cukor’s 1939 classic The Women read “It’s...
The Assistant | 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Executive Suite: Green Metes Modern Monsters in Narrative Debut
Documentarian Kitty Green (last on hand with her unique memory tapestry Casting JonBenet, 2017) moves into...
Hidden Away | 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Painter Man: Diritti Resurrects Famed Italian Artist
Italian director Giorgio Diritti presents his first film in seven years with Hidden Away, a biopic on famed...
One of These Days | 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Hands of Fate: Gunther Paints Compelling Portrait of Pride and Poverty
German born director Bastian Günther returns to the other side of his dual citizenship...
The Intruder | 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
The Sound of My Voice: Meta Delivers Masterful Psychological Identity Horror
Does it come from without or within? ‘It’ being the perception of danger, delusion...
2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
For its 70th edition, the Berlinale begins a new era by adding some new categories (mainly the newly minted Encounters program, a competition for...
Exclusive: Poster for Lei Yuan Bin’s “I Dream Of Singapore”
The 70th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival begins Thursday and among the selections in the Panorama section (it premiered at last year's...
2020 Berlinale Exclusive: Poster & Trailer to Francisco Márquez’s A Common Crime (Un crimen común)
An Argentinean born filmmaker who saw his La larga noche de Francisco Sanctis selected for the Un Certain Regard section at 2016 Cannes Film...
Exclusive: Poster for Catarina Vasconcelos’ The Metamorphosis of Birds
The 70th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival (set to launch on February 20th) has built a solid Encounters programme (fifteen selections) line-up...
Exclusive: Poster for Cristi Puiu’s Malmkrog
As we await the unveiling of the Golden Bear hopefuls, earlier today, the Berlin International Film Festival unveiled the fifteen features that will comprise...
The Conversation: Bringing Up Berlin – Predictions for the 2020 Berlinale
Berlin becomes a septuagenarian in 2020. The significant European springboard will also receive a new facelift in the early dawn of the new decade,...
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