For five days the silver screens of this town have been running non-stop: the Berlin Film Festival is in full throttle. As a native from Cologne I had to first sing praise to my hometown at Karneval before I could go to the movies. Therefore I’ve only seen 6 films so far, not a bad cut for two days. With a programme of more than 400 films that still means I can’t report much, I will save that for next week.
But here are a few tips for the hot films of the festival, that are already much talked about and in the run for the Golden Bears.
They are all still running, so off to the ticket booths and into the cinema!
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by Lia | Movies
This week’s Cinéma de Mode features the video loobook for KTZ‘s new menswear fall/winter collection, directed by George Harvey. The UK-based label presents a perfect combination of street and high fashion, with futuristic headpieces, and unique patterns on sweatsuits, joined by scarves and leather tassels. Especially interesting is the clean black and white effect and the Diplo beat as a soundtrack. Enjoy the video after the jump… Read on…
by Devid | Fashion, Videos
Right away Rust and Bone simply feels like nails of emotions are raining down on you for two hours. It’s all about the feeling of being alive and when I slipped into the freezing cold of Berlin after the film, I was quite relieved to feel my blood pumping through my veins…
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by Lia | Movies
Quentin Tarantino’s new film Django Unchained finally opens in German cinemas this Thursday. In the US it already opened before Christmas, securing a Golden Globe trophy and multiple Oscar nominations…
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by Lia | Movies
Hardly ever does a film make me feel physically ill. But after I watched Lore this past Sunday, all I wanted to do is curl up in my bed and sleep it off.
Travelling with five children through post-war Germany was exhausting, but what really got me was the emotional turmoil the children were in after their Nazi parents disappeared and the world suddenly turned against them…
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by Lia | Movies
Ursula Meier’s film is coming to the German cinemas next week. Switzerland’s official entry to the Oscar race 2013 tells the moving tale of Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein). The boy comes from a very poor background and steals skies, glasses, jackets and simply everything he can get a hold of in a nearby ski region…
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by Lia | Movies
photo: Elizafoxxx
A call for submissions for our Berlin Film Night! On September 29th we will screen selected Berlin-related films at the cinema at Naherholung Sternchen. Read more about the cooperation with Mobile Kino and how to get your film into our film night and – if you’re lucky – also onto the big screen at Babylon Mitte after the jump…
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by Lia | Movies
There are very few topics that haven’t yet been explored by a vast variety of films. But when it comes to men taking off their clothes for a living one struggles to come up with films really dealing with it. Although I wouldn’t have thought so, male stripping seems to be an under-represented issue in films. Oscar and Palme D’Or winning director Steven Soderbergh now puts the topic on the map. His new film Magic Mike stars plenty of half naked men thrusting their pelvises in order to make the all female audience scream hysterically…
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by Lia | Movies
What does a mother do, when her son turns out to be a cold-blooded killer? At first she will probably refuse to believe it was him before beginning to investigate what it was that corrupted her darling boy.
Eva (Tilda Swinton) does just that in Lynne Ramsay’s new film We need to talk about Kevin, when her 15-year-old son Kevin (Ezra Miller) goes on a killing spree in his High School… Read on…
by Lia | Movies
I was one of the biggest Fan of the Bar 25. I think I had the most magical, romantic, funny, crazy Berlin nights at that place. Memories I will have forever. But am I ready to see the place of my own memories captured in a documentary? Not so sure if the pictures of a movie can at all capture the memories and emotions I have connected to this place. Still the Bar 25 documentary is one of the most anticipated movies of Berlin’s youth and party culture and I will probably watch it even if the impressions of the trailer feel a little trashy. Check it out for yourself after the jump.
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by Claudio | Movies, Party
