The Way to the Golden Donkey
The Ferroni BrigadeAbove: the first Golden Donkey winner, Reha Erdem's Kosmos (2009). Little did the Ferroni Brigade anticipate the earth-shattering importance of the date, as it happily embarked towards the Sala Volpi
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2010 So Far, Part 2. Random Roundups
David HudsonMore of a supplement to Part 1 than a second half, this collection of roundups on films screening at Sundance, Rotterdam, Berlin and SXSW this year is simply the result of my looking back at those four
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2010 So Far, Part 1. Possible Narratives
David HudsonCannes will announce its lineup on Thursday and speculation as to what'll be in and what'll be out has been bubbling along nicely — see, for example, Cineuropa, indieWIRE, ioncinema and the Playlist
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Retrospective Revelations: Bringing Up the Rear at Berlinale 2010
Kevin LeeAbove: Yasujiro Shimazu's 1937 film, The Lights of Asakusa. Arriving for the last few days of this year’s Berlinale, at first I thought my being late to the party was why I didn’t find any new films
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勝手にしやがれ #4: Resistance is Futile (Post-Berlin)
Stephen SarrazinAs Japan enters another season of social-economic woes which fail to find a filmic voice to address the state of affairs, instead releasing a number of vacuous titles, the recent Berlinale rewards seem
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"Jew Suss - Rise and Fall" and "Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss"
David HudsonTo my knowledge, the only film in Competition at this year's Berlinale to be booed — and vigorously booed at that — was Oskar Roehler's Jew Suss - Rise and Fall (Jud Süss - Film
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Berlinale. Cons and Ex-Cons
David HudsonImprisonment figured into even the top brand Competition entries at this year's Berlinale. "You'll never leave this island," Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) is warned in Martin Scorsese's Shutter
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Berlinale. Breakouts from the Berlin School
David HudsonAnyone looking for a running motif at this year's Berlinale didn't have to look far. Prisons. More to the point, men in prisons — or just out of prison or about to land in prison. In an interview for
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Berlinale. Awards and roundups.
David HudsonThe International Jury for the 60th Berlinale, presided over by Werner Herzog, has awarded the Golden Bear to Bal (Honey), the third part of Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu's reverse-order trilogy
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Berlinale. Palast of Swords Reversed: Dispatch #6
Neil YoungYou are experiencing information overload. Clear your mind and put your thoughts in order. With distance it is possible to rise above the situation so that you can see the larger pattern, determine some
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Berlinale. Palast of Swords Reversed: Dispatch #5
Neil YoungToo much or too little mental freedom - uncertainty. Too many or too few choices. Criticism of self and others can be harsh and inaccurate. A sharp tongue. A sense of mental loss rather than gain. The
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Berlinale. Philip Scheffner's "Day of the Sparrow" Review
Marie-Pierre DuhamelI expected very much from Philip Scheffner’s new essay, particularly after his brilliant Halfmoon Files (2007). A documentary filmmaker as well as video and sound artist, Scheffner is known (at least