Tag: berlinale2017
Berlinale 2017 Review: DREAM BOAT Gives Cruising A Whole New Meaning
When you think of luxury cruises, you probably picture old couples and families setting off into the sunset - a sort of world tour that never has to forego the comforts of home. Well, Tristan Ferland Milewski's Dream Boat isn't that at...
Berlinale 2017 Review: Liu Jian Triumphs With HAVE A NICE DAY
Animated movies for adults are painfully undervalued, both at a festival level and as an art form, but Liu Jian's Have A Nice Day is a title that could smash through those barriers. Certainly one of the more interesting features...
Berlinale 2017 Review: ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE, Hong Sang-soo's Most Personal and Cruel Film to Date
A new year has arrived and with it the challenge of reviewing a new work from Korea's arthouse darling Hong Sang-soo. On the Beach at Night Alone, which borrows its name from the title of a Walt Whitman poem and...
Berlinale 2017 Review: BERLIN SYNDROME, Cate Shortland's Skin-Crawling Thriller
From Jutin Kurzel's Snowtown in 2011 to Ben Young's recent Hounds of Love at last year's Venice Biennale, Australia has developed a real knack for messed up cinema, and Cate Shortland's recent Screen Australia and Film Victoria supported skin-crawler is...
Berlinale 2017 Review: THE PARTY, Drawing Room Satire at its Finest
Sally Potter is not normally known for comedy; her most famous film, Orlando (which put Tilda Swinton on the map) certainly has its comedic moments, but her work (such as The Tango Lesson and Yes) tend to more serious examinations of what my...
Berlinale 2017 Review: A FANTASTIC WOMAN, Sebastián Lelio's Masterpiece of Micro-Aggressions
Last year, Álex Anwandter's Chilean LGBT drama You'll Never Be Alone was one of the films that lit up Berlinale's programme from the heart of Panorama (read the review). And since then, Pablo Larraín has cemented his respected standing with...
Berlinale 2017 Review: THE ERLPRINCE, The Polish Donnie Darko of Coming of Age Dramas
Emerging Polish director Kuba Czekaj demonstrates genre acrobatics in melancholic coming-of-age The Erlprince
Berlinale 2017 Review: WILD MOUSE, Unfortunately Tame Comedy
Josef Hader, the writer, director and lead actor of new Austrian comedy Wild Mouse, definitely has comedic pedigree. He's won best actor awards at Locarno Film Festival and written and starred in adaptations of his acclaimed play Indien back in...
Berlinale 2017 Review: ON BODY AND SOUL, One Of Those Films That Makes You See Afresh
Whether White God or Son of Saul, there are some seriously good films coming out of Hungary at the moment, and Ildikó Enyedi's On Body and Soul is no exception. Sitting in the 67th Berlinale's Main Competition, this often almost...
HAVE A NICE DAY: Watch A Clip From The Berlin Selected, Chinese Noir Animation
Fans of international animation will do well to keep a close eye on Berlin this week, where Chinese director Liu Jian's animated neo-noir Have A Nice Day is slated to have its premiere February 17th. A hard rain is about...
Mel Gibson And Vince Vaughn Join S. Craig Zahler's DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE
From the crop of American filmmakers who have impressed the Screen Anarchy family in recent years with their debut feature films, S. Craig Zahler's Bone Tomahawk was no exception. It was dark, nasty and the violence in the latter half...
THE BAR: Watch The Riotous Trailer For Alex de la Iglesia's Latest
Spanish master of genre cinema Alex de la Iglesia is having himself a busy year with a pair of directorial efforts scheduled to release in 2017 with The Bar and Perfect Strangers both in the final stages of work. And...
WILDE MAUS: A Middle Aged Revenge Comedy From Austria's Josef Hader
Long considered one of the top - if not the absolute top - comic in his native Austria, Josef Hader has been a staple on screens big and small for decades now. And having already made an impression as a...
Berlinale 2017 First Wave: New Films by Sally Potter & Aki Kaurismäki Among Highlights
Berlinale, where many European and world titles begin their festival journey of the calendar year, has announced its first competition titles and a few from the Berlinale Special section. New films by some of the top European auteurs will featured,...
