film festivals

Rising star Reinsve has two shots at top Berlinale prize

Norwegian actor Renate Reinsve said on Saturday it was a huge challenge playing two very different people who share the same body in the sci-fi drama “Another End” that is competing at the Berlinale for the festival's top Golden Bear award. “It was hard it, it was demanding,” she said of portraying on the one…Read more Rising star Reinsve has two shots at top Berlinale prize

Absent directors denounce Iran’s “red lines” at Berlinale

Two empty chairs and a photo of the Iranian co-directors of the Berlinale competition film “My Favourite Cake”, which takes aim at Iran's strict morality rules and the country's treatment of women, were placed on stage for a press conference on Thursday to protest a ban on the directors traveling to the film festival. “Like…Read more Absent directors denounce Iran’s “red lines” at Berlinale

Cillian Murphy takes on nuns in “Small Things” Berlinale opener

In his last big screen role, Irish actor Cillian Murphy, played the nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer who ran the Manhattan Project that built the first atomic bombs to defeat the Axis powers in World War II. In his latest screen incarnation, he is the coal merchant Bill Furlong, delivering fuel to penny-pinching households during the…Read more Cillian Murphy takes on nuns in “Small Things” Berlinale opener

King Vidor retrospective at Berlinale is a hit with film buffs

Marion Davies mugs for the camera, flirts with her sister's boyfriend and spouts old clunkers of American folk wisdom -- "Always remember -- nature gives us many of our features, but she lets us pick our own teeth" -- in the 1928 silent comedy "The Patsy". You can find it on YouTube, but in a…Read more King Vidor retrospective at Berlinale is a hit with film buffs

Skewering Silicon Valley at the 70th Berlinale

The 70th edition of the Berlinale is living up to its reputation as the most political of festivals, wirh films taking direct swipes at Silicon Valley and the gig economy, the failure of men to deal with women as equals and the aftermath of slavery in Brazil. "My p--sy's in the Cloud" -- on a…Read more Skewering Silicon Valley at the 70th Berlinale