An unsurprising winner of the Berlinale’s Golden Bear, Jafar Panahi’s Taxi is a road movie come-societal commentary of the type that seems to now be a fixture in Iranian cinema. Following on ...
An often bracing study of faces, Queen of Earth is a film that once again underlines the anachronistic influences of director Alex Ross Perry. Following on from last year’s wryly grim Listen Up...
James Franco is beginning to resemble the Berlinale’s bad luck charm. After grimacing his way through Werner Herzog’s risibly melodramatic Queen of the Desert, he can now be found sleepwalkin...
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“Less is more” could serve as a motto for Andrew Haigh’s latest film, 45 Years, screening in the Main Competition at the 65. Berlinale. Starring Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay, and ba...
With vacant eyes and mouth agape, man continues his seemingly irrevocable fall from innocence, in Terrence Malick’s eternally juvenile seventh feature Knight of Cups. Christian Bale ambles cata...
Of all the stories surrounding one of the last remaining maverick superstar directors, only one of Werner Herzog’s many legends involves a car accident. Several years ago, Herzog is said to hav...
Popculture, counterculture, gender patterns, satire, social perspective… the list of the potential filters is expanding so fast, it’s basically endless. From Catherine Breillat’s Sleeping B...
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A lighthouse towers over a deserted landscape of rubble. There is a pause and then an explosion, its sound substituted for the chime of a small bell, that brings the solitary building crashing to...
Stellan Skarsgard might be one of the busiest – and most laid-back – actors of today. Recently seen in Lars Von Trier’s controversial Nymphomaniac, with a role consisting of neverending lin...
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Berlinale is a lucky event for Keep the Lights On‘s Ira Sachs. Two years ago, the Festival’s 62. edition brought him a Teddy Award (awarded to the best LGBTQ feature). His latest entry, Love ...