My fourth and last outing at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival was at the same time the very last screening of it… and what a screening! War on Everyone exceeded all expectations considering it is a mostly unknown buddy cop movie. The film by John Michael McDonagh (The Guard, […]
Berlinale
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This last Saturday, the opening day of this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, the “Berlinale“, I had the pleasure of seeing a restored work by Wim Wenders, and among the first in the world on top of that. Until the End of the World was released in 1991 in a […]
Twenty years ago, in the fall of 1993, River Phoenix collapsed in front of Johnny Depp‘s club in Hollywood and shortly after passed away. He was 23 years old. At the time, he was filming Dark Blood with still today little-known Dutch director George Sluizer. The project came to a […]
Many years ago, when I was in my teenage years, we hosted a movie night on a decent big screen. We had a few beers, sat on rancid couches and popped in a DVD from the video store. The movie was Perdita Durango, and I had never seen a movie […]
I was recently told that when telling others about how many films you have seen at a film festival, you are not supposed to count movies you saw in the market (i.e. the films shown to potential distributors) or retrospectives, but only films in competition. Since the three films I […]
In 2008 at the Berlin International Film Festival (aka the Berlinale; /ber-lee-nah-lae/) a Brazilian movie that depicted the work of Rio de Janeiro’s special police force BOPE won the prestigious golden bear award for best film. The police unit, which often shows up in Human Rights Watch reports and is […]