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Berlin Film Festival 2024: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews
The Berlin Film Festival kicked off its 74th edition February 15 with the opening-night world premiere screening of Small Things Like These, the Irish drama starring Oscar-nominated Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy. It started 10 days of debuts including for movies starring Rooney Mara, Isabelle Huppert…
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‘Sex’ Review: Norwegian Prize Winner Is Complex And Dialogue-Driven First Entry In Dag Johan Haugerud’s Ambitious Trilogy – Berlin Film Festival
Don’t get too hot and bothered over the title of the new Norwegian film Sex. The act itself in this first entry in a new trilogy from writer-director Dag Johan Haugerud is really only just talked about in this intriguing movie mostly dependent on leaning…
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By Pete Hammond
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‘Architecton’ Review: Victor Kossakovsky’s Magnetic Film Essay Reflects On Man’s Relationship With Nature – Berlin Film Festival
It's very easy to misread the title of Victor Kossakovsky's latest documentary as "Architection," since it is, in some ways, a detective story about the world we live in, albeit one in which it is very easy to figure out whodunit (spoiler: we did it to…
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By Damon Wise
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‘The Roundup: Punishment’ Review: Don Lee Thrills And Blood Spills In Fun, Stylish Police Action Thriller From Korea – Berlin Film Festival
The feelgood component of the action-packed Roundup franchise, says its originator, producer and star Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-seok), is that you know from the start that the bad guys are totally going to get rammed. As beefy detective Ma Seok-do, Lee has certain skills and dubious methods, both of which come…
Berlin: Sasha Nathwani On His Competition Title ‘Last Swim,’ Transitioning From Directing A-List Commercials To Narrative Features & The Struggles Of Indie UK Filmmaking
With his debut feature Last Swim, an ambitious and quietly radical portrait of young life in London, Sasha Nathwani has achieved one of the most difficult tasks for a new filmmaker: cutting through with a festival audience.
Last Swim debuted last week at the Berlin Film Festival, where it opened the…
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Berlin Blues: How Can The Berlin Film Festival Be Revitalized?
Martin Scorsese was at the Berlinale this week for the first time in a decade. His presence to collect an honorary Golden Bear was a reminder of the festival’s glories of yesteryear.
In decades past, Scorsese touched down in Berlin with major works such as Raging Bull (1981), Cape Fear (1992); Gangs o…
‘Seven Veils’ Review: Atom Egoyan’s Cold But Bracing Take on ‘Salome’ – Berlin Film Festival
From his breakthrough work Family Viewing, which dates back to 1987, Atom Egoyan has been exploring the possibilities of different communication technologies by showing screens within screens, stories within other stories and the ways unconnected stories may merge with each other and with real life. Seven…
‘Pepe’ Review: The Odyssey Of An Outcast Hippo – Berlin Film Festival
A hippopotamus is a semi-aquatic animal native to sub-Saharan Africa. However, in the early 1990s, hippos and other wild animals ran amok in South America, thanks to drug lord Pablo Escobar and the exotic menagerie at his Hacienda Nápoles estate.
After his death, the animals were left to their own…
‘The Devil’s Bath’ Review: Grim Austrian Folk Horror Chillingly Evokes A Dark Chapter In European History – Berlin Film Festival
"Please make me a good wife to Wolf," murmurs Agnes (Anja Plaschg) on her marriage night, head bowed in front of the crucifix she has already set up in the conjugal bedroom of the tumbledown stone farmhouse where she will live from now on. Wolf (David Scheid), meanwhile, is carousing with his fellow…
‘Spaceman’ Review: Adam Sandler Fails To Style Out This Dour Sci-Fi – Berlin Film Festival
For a time, it seemed like an auteur war was about to break out over Adam Sandler, with some of America's most revered directors vying to find the right role for the comedian. It was rumored, but never confirmed, that Quentin Tarantino imagined him a key role while writing Inglourious Basterds, although…
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‘Sons’ Clip: Swedish Filmmaker Gustav Möller Returns With Psychological Thriller Starring Sidse Babett Knudsen — Berlin
EXCLUSIVE: Swedish Filmmaker Gustav Möller made a lot of waves with his debut feature, The Guilty, which was adapted by Antoine Fuqua with an English-language cast including Jake Gyllenhaal.
Möller has now returned to feature filmmaking Sons (Vogter), which debuts this week in competition at the…
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Adam Sandler On His Desire To Star In More Dramatic Films & The Pain Of Shooting ‘Spaceman’ Stunts: “My Body’s Not The Most Flexible”
The Berlin Film Festival was rocking Wednesday afternoon as Adam Sandler rolled into town with Spaceman, his latest feature for Netflix.
The Uncut Gems actor and his co-stars, including Carey Mulligan and Paul Dano, received buoyant rounds of applause as they entered the press conference for the…
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