Asia was the big winner at the 64th Berlin Film Festival, taking home four Bears, including the Golden Bear for Best Film and Silver Bear for Best Actor (Liao Fan) for Diao Yinan’s Black Coal, Thin Ice (Bai Ri Yan Huo).Click here for full list of winners
Another of the three Chinese titles, Blind Massage, picked up the Silver Bear for Outstanding Achievement, which again went to a cinematographer, Zeng Jian. Last year had seen DoP Aziz Zhambakiyev receive the prize for his camerawork on Harmony Lessons.
At the ceremony on Saturday night, the Silver Bear for Best Actress was presented to Haru Kuroki for her performance in The Little House by veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada.
There were a further six prizes or special mentions for films from Asia in the decisions of the Generation and independent juries (Fipresci and Netpac).
Black Coal, Thin Ice is the fourth Chinese film to win the Golden...
Another of the three Chinese titles, Blind Massage, picked up the Silver Bear for Outstanding Achievement, which again went to a cinematographer, Zeng Jian. Last year had seen DoP Aziz Zhambakiyev receive the prize for his camerawork on Harmony Lessons.
At the ceremony on Saturday night, the Silver Bear for Best Actress was presented to Haru Kuroki for her performance in The Little House by veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada.
There were a further six prizes or special mentions for films from Asia in the decisions of the Generation and independent juries (Fipresci and Netpac).
Black Coal, Thin Ice is the fourth Chinese film to win the Golden...
- 2/16/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The Berlin International Film Festival is celebrating its opening today, on February 7, 2013 at 7.30 pm. After a few words of greeting from Minister of State for Cultural and Media Affairs Bernd Neumann and Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit, the Festival will be officially opened by Jury President Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong, China) and Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick. The International Jury – whose other members are Susanne Bier (Denmark), Andreas Dresen (Germany), Ellen Kuras (USA), Shirin Neshat (Iran), Tim Robbins (USA) and Athina Rachel Tsangari (Greece) – will also be introduced during the gala. Anke Engelke will again host the evening. This year’s music will be provided by Ulrich Tukur & Die Rhythmus Boys. 3sat will be broadcasting the opening live. Ziyi Zhang in Yi dai zong shi (The Grandmaster) by Wong Kar Wai Following the gala, Wong Kar Wai’s epic martial-arts drama The Grandmaster will have its international premiere. The director and his leading actors,...
- 2/7/2013
- by hnblog@hollywoodnews.com (Hollywood News Team)
- Hollywoodnews.com
Following up the initial announcement of titles, the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival revealed it will open with the period drama Les Adieux à la reine (Farewell My Queen) today. From director Benoît Jacquot, the drama stars Inglourious Basterds lead Diane Kruger, as well as Léa Seydoux who broke-out in Midnight in Paris and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol this year. Based on, Chantal Thomas’ novel we have the first stills of the film (from Lumiere via The Playlist) that follows the “first few days of the French Revolution from the perspective of the servants at Versailles.”
Kruger, who plays Marie Antoinette here, has only appeared in one big film following her post-Basterds role with Unknown, but I look forward to her future work, especially with this film. I thought Seydoux was great as an action villain in Ghotocol and excited to see her career rise. Check out the stills below,...
Kruger, who plays Marie Antoinette here, has only appeared in one big film following her post-Basterds role with Unknown, but I look forward to her future work, especially with this film. I thought Seydoux was great as an action villain in Ghotocol and excited to see her career rise. Check out the stills below,...
- 1/4/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
The Berlinale's announced today that 20 films are now lined up for its Panorama program. All in all, around 50 titles will make up the main program, Panorama Special and Panorama Dokumente.
10+10 by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wang Toon, Wu Nien-Jen, Sylvia Chang, Chen Guo-Fu, Wei Te-Sheng, Chung Meng-Hung, Chang Tso-Chi, Arvin Chen, Yang Ya-Che and others, Taiwan — see a full report from the Taipei Film Commission: "Funded by the Golden Horse Film Festival and the Republic of China Centenary Foundation, 10+10 [is] a movie comprised of 20 short films by 10 renowned and 10 emerging Taiwanese filmmakers."
Death For Sale by Faouzi Bensaïdi, France
With Fehd Benchemsi, Fouad Labiad, Mouhcine Malzi, Imane Elmechrafi, Faouzi Bensaïdi
Die Wand (The Wall) by Julian Roman Pölsler, Austria/Germany
With Martina Gedeck — Synopsis from The Match Factory: "(1.) The wall is a highly unusual exploration of solitude and survival. (2.) It is the story of a woman who is separated from the...
10+10 by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wang Toon, Wu Nien-Jen, Sylvia Chang, Chen Guo-Fu, Wei Te-Sheng, Chung Meng-Hung, Chang Tso-Chi, Arvin Chen, Yang Ya-Che and others, Taiwan — see a full report from the Taipei Film Commission: "Funded by the Golden Horse Film Festival and the Republic of China Centenary Foundation, 10+10 [is] a movie comprised of 20 short films by 10 renowned and 10 emerging Taiwanese filmmakers."
Death For Sale by Faouzi Bensaïdi, France
With Fehd Benchemsi, Fouad Labiad, Mouhcine Malzi, Imane Elmechrafi, Faouzi Bensaïdi
Die Wand (The Wall) by Julian Roman Pölsler, Austria/Germany
With Martina Gedeck — Synopsis from The Match Factory: "(1.) The wall is a highly unusual exploration of solitude and survival. (2.) It is the story of a woman who is separated from the...
- 1/4/2012
- MUBI
COLOGNE, Germany -- Hans-Christian Schmid's exorcism drama Requiem won Germany's top editing prize Monday night, while film editors Hansjorg Weissbrich and Bernd Schlegel took the best feature film award at this year's Schnitt Prize in Cologne.
A jury of film professionals picked Requiem as the best-cut German feature of 2006. In the documentary category, Jean-Marc Lesguillons won for his edit of Christopher Buchholz's Horst Buchholz -- Mein Papa, a portrait of his famous actor father.
The Schnitt short film prize went to Wolfgang Weigl for FairTrade, a look at the illegal business of child smuggling between Morocco and Germany.
The Schnitt Prize, now in its eighth year, is Germany's top award for film editing.
A jury of film professionals picked Requiem as the best-cut German feature of 2006. In the documentary category, Jean-Marc Lesguillons won for his edit of Christopher Buchholz's Horst Buchholz -- Mein Papa, a portrait of his famous actor father.
The Schnitt short film prize went to Wolfgang Weigl for FairTrade, a look at the illegal business of child smuggling between Morocco and Germany.
The Schnitt Prize, now in its eighth year, is Germany's top award for film editing.
- 11/28/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BERLIN -- "Horst Buchholz ... My Papa" is a rambling, deeply personal document -- to call it a documentary might be pushing things -- about a son's search for his dad. Christopher Buchholz's father, the late actor Horst Buchholz, was a minor celebrity and actor known mostly for memorable roles in his youth both in Germany and in Hollywood. From 2001 until Horst's death in 2003, Christopher got his dad in front of a camera and tried but failed to get him to open up about his life.
Nothing says that an actor, even one who has lived as rich a life as Horst Buchholz, can't be a dull person. Yet Buchholz's dullness in front of his son's camera is the most interesting thing about this film. He chooses to be dull: It's a guise mostly, a means of avoiding any discussion of things intimate. He comes off as a man not given to introspection, and were he to indulge he certainly would not share such introspection with anyone else, even those closest to him.
Christopher Buchholz and co-director Sandra Hacker make little attempt to survey Buchholz's extensive career on stage, screen and TV. There is more discussion of roles turned down -- astonishingly, roles offered by such luminary directors as Visconti, Kazan and Wenders -- than about his successes. He shrugs off these poor decisions, saying, "I never have regrets".
Asked about his drinking problem, he murmurs, "I drink too much water". Asked about his bisexuality, he grows evasive. His wife, former actress Myriam Bru, is much more open, but even she is at times elusive -- or simply mystified. The movie is a study in ambiguity.
Christopher basically interviews himself -- mostly a reflection of his relationship with his dad as he walks through the empty Berlin flat his father occupied until his death -- and his sister in Los Angeles, who is now an American Sikh who calls herself Simran Kaur Khalsa. Each tries to puzzle out the enigma who was their dad.
It is a pity more effort wasn't spent on his films. None of the scant clips is identified. His genuine talent, especially in youth roles that had him labeled the James Dean of German cinema, barely is hinted at.
As a boy, Buchholz suffered through the horrors of war. He later searched for his biological father, knew many film greats, enjoyed a chaotic love life and seemingly was bent on destroying his own talent. The film never delves into any of this.
Of course, securing rights to film clips, interviewing people other than family members and really searching for the key to an inscrutable personality are not easy things. But they are what documentary filmmakers owe to their subject.
HORST BUCHHOLZ ... MY PAPA
Say Cheese Productions
Credits:
Producers/directors: Christopher Buchholz, Sandra Hacker
Director of photography: Christoper Buchholz, Olivier Distel, Sandra Hacker, Arthur Boisnard
Music: Arnaud Jacquin
Editor: Jean-Marc Lesguillons
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 93 minutes...
Nothing says that an actor, even one who has lived as rich a life as Horst Buchholz, can't be a dull person. Yet Buchholz's dullness in front of his son's camera is the most interesting thing about this film. He chooses to be dull: It's a guise mostly, a means of avoiding any discussion of things intimate. He comes off as a man not given to introspection, and were he to indulge he certainly would not share such introspection with anyone else, even those closest to him.
Christopher Buchholz and co-director Sandra Hacker make little attempt to survey Buchholz's extensive career on stage, screen and TV. There is more discussion of roles turned down -- astonishingly, roles offered by such luminary directors as Visconti, Kazan and Wenders -- than about his successes. He shrugs off these poor decisions, saying, "I never have regrets".
Asked about his drinking problem, he murmurs, "I drink too much water". Asked about his bisexuality, he grows evasive. His wife, former actress Myriam Bru, is much more open, but even she is at times elusive -- or simply mystified. The movie is a study in ambiguity.
Christopher basically interviews himself -- mostly a reflection of his relationship with his dad as he walks through the empty Berlin flat his father occupied until his death -- and his sister in Los Angeles, who is now an American Sikh who calls herself Simran Kaur Khalsa. Each tries to puzzle out the enigma who was their dad.
It is a pity more effort wasn't spent on his films. None of the scant clips is identified. His genuine talent, especially in youth roles that had him labeled the James Dean of German cinema, barely is hinted at.
As a boy, Buchholz suffered through the horrors of war. He later searched for his biological father, knew many film greats, enjoyed a chaotic love life and seemingly was bent on destroying his own talent. The film never delves into any of this.
Of course, securing rights to film clips, interviewing people other than family members and really searching for the key to an inscrutable personality are not easy things. But they are what documentary filmmakers owe to their subject.
HORST BUCHHOLZ ... MY PAPA
Say Cheese Productions
Credits:
Producers/directors: Christopher Buchholz, Sandra Hacker
Director of photography: Christoper Buchholz, Olivier Distel, Sandra Hacker, Arthur Boisnard
Music: Arnaud Jacquin
Editor: Jean-Marc Lesguillons
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 93 minutes...
- 2/16/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Screened at the Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO -- Only one of the three episodes of the anthology film Eros delivers on the title's promise. Three world-class directors -- Wong Kar-wai, Steven Soderbergh and the seemingly ageless master himself, Michelangelo Antonioni -- take a crack at making a short film about eroticism and desire. That and the title should create considerable excitement in art houses for Warner Independent Pictures. But the disappointment caused by two-thirds of the film may cut into the boxoffice.
The first and most successful short belongs to Wong. The Hand, the story of a Hong Kong tailor's (Chang Chen) longtime obsession with a beautiful prostitute (Gong Li) for whom he crafts many fine garments, is like the writer-director's recent features -- a moody and intimate story told in close shots in almost claustrophobic rooms.
Eroticism hangs heavily in the air, and the two actors ably convey the passage of years and ebb and flow of a life where a certain kind of love can never be requited.
Soderbergh's Equilibrium is an amusing sketch set in a psychiatrist's office in 1955 between a shrink (Alan Arkin) and a very anxious patient (Robert Downey Jr.). All but the patient's recurring dream is shot in stylish black-and-white.
The dream itself does feature flashes of female nudity, but any short that revolves around the invention of the snooze alarm clock cannot consider itself erotic. Equilibrium is clever but emotionally flat.
For many cineastes the world over, the great Italian director Antonioni can do no wrong. So this free-form series of images revolving around a quarreling married couple and their individual encounters with a free-spirited woman may trigger all sorts of suggestions and provocations. Indeed, they will have to because on the surface, the short suffers from emotional and cinematic banality.
A couple (Christopher Buchholz and Regina Nemni) bicker in stilted, poorly delivered dialogue. They visit a restaurant, and he spots a young woman (Luisa Ranieri). When they angrily separate, the husband pursues the girl and makes love to her. Some time later, in early winter, the estranged wife goes to the beach, takes off her clothes and then encounters the same girl, who is also naked. Who takes their clothes off at the beach in wintertime?
Technical credits vary, but for the most part are top-notch.
EROS
Warner Independent
Roissy Films/Block 2 Pictures/Jet Tone Films Production/IpsoFacto/Solaris/Cite Films Productions/Fandango/Delux
Credits:
Directors: Wong Kar-wai, Steven Soderbergh, Michelangelo Antonioni
Writers: Wong Kar-wai, Steven Soderbergh, Tonino Guerra
Producers: Jacky Pang Yee Wah, Gregory Jacobs, Stephane Tchal Gadjieff, Raphael Berdujgo, Jacques Bar, Domenico Procacci
Executive producers: Chang Ye Cheng, Danielle Rosencranz
Directors of photoghraphy: Christopher Doyle, Peter Andrews, Marco Pontecorvo
Production designer: William Chang, Philip Messina, Stefano Luci
Costumes: William Chang
Milena Canonero Carin Berger,
Music: Peer Rabin
Enrica Antonioni, Vinicio MalaniOnly
Editors: William Chang Suk Ping, Mary Ann Bernard, Claudio di Mauro.
Cast: Miss Hua: Gong Li
Zhang: Chang Chen
Nick: Robert Downey Jr.
Dr. Pearl: Alan Arkin
Christopher: Christopher Bucholtz
Cloe: Regina Nemni
Luisa Ranieri
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 104 minutes...
TORONTO -- Only one of the three episodes of the anthology film Eros delivers on the title's promise. Three world-class directors -- Wong Kar-wai, Steven Soderbergh and the seemingly ageless master himself, Michelangelo Antonioni -- take a crack at making a short film about eroticism and desire. That and the title should create considerable excitement in art houses for Warner Independent Pictures. But the disappointment caused by two-thirds of the film may cut into the boxoffice.
The first and most successful short belongs to Wong. The Hand, the story of a Hong Kong tailor's (Chang Chen) longtime obsession with a beautiful prostitute (Gong Li) for whom he crafts many fine garments, is like the writer-director's recent features -- a moody and intimate story told in close shots in almost claustrophobic rooms.
Eroticism hangs heavily in the air, and the two actors ably convey the passage of years and ebb and flow of a life where a certain kind of love can never be requited.
Soderbergh's Equilibrium is an amusing sketch set in a psychiatrist's office in 1955 between a shrink (Alan Arkin) and a very anxious patient (Robert Downey Jr.). All but the patient's recurring dream is shot in stylish black-and-white.
The dream itself does feature flashes of female nudity, but any short that revolves around the invention of the snooze alarm clock cannot consider itself erotic. Equilibrium is clever but emotionally flat.
For many cineastes the world over, the great Italian director Antonioni can do no wrong. So this free-form series of images revolving around a quarreling married couple and their individual encounters with a free-spirited woman may trigger all sorts of suggestions and provocations. Indeed, they will have to because on the surface, the short suffers from emotional and cinematic banality.
A couple (Christopher Buchholz and Regina Nemni) bicker in stilted, poorly delivered dialogue. They visit a restaurant, and he spots a young woman (Luisa Ranieri). When they angrily separate, the husband pursues the girl and makes love to her. Some time later, in early winter, the estranged wife goes to the beach, takes off her clothes and then encounters the same girl, who is also naked. Who takes their clothes off at the beach in wintertime?
Technical credits vary, but for the most part are top-notch.
EROS
Warner Independent
Roissy Films/Block 2 Pictures/Jet Tone Films Production/IpsoFacto/Solaris/Cite Films Productions/Fandango/Delux
Credits:
Directors: Wong Kar-wai, Steven Soderbergh, Michelangelo Antonioni
Writers: Wong Kar-wai, Steven Soderbergh, Tonino Guerra
Producers: Jacky Pang Yee Wah, Gregory Jacobs, Stephane Tchal Gadjieff, Raphael Berdujgo, Jacques Bar, Domenico Procacci
Executive producers: Chang Ye Cheng, Danielle Rosencranz
Directors of photoghraphy: Christopher Doyle, Peter Andrews, Marco Pontecorvo
Production designer: William Chang, Philip Messina, Stefano Luci
Costumes: William Chang
Milena Canonero Carin Berger,
Music: Peer Rabin
Enrica Antonioni, Vinicio MalaniOnly
Editors: William Chang Suk Ping, Mary Ann Bernard, Claudio di Mauro.
Cast: Miss Hua: Gong Li
Zhang: Chang Chen
Nick: Robert Downey Jr.
Dr. Pearl: Alan Arkin
Christopher: Christopher Bucholtz
Cloe: Regina Nemni
Luisa Ranieri
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 104 minutes...
- 9/16/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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