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FUTURES: 'Gloria' Star Paulina García Talks About Midlife Crises and the Sexuality That's Missing From Movies
There was no bigger discovery at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival than Paulina García, star of Chilean director Sebastián Lelio's competition entry "Gloria." If García isn't your average young newcomer, that's part of the point: Her electrifying performance in "Gloria," for which she won ...
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Banned Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi's 'Closed Curtain' Earns Ire From Iran
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is once again in the spotlight for his latest film, "Closed Curtain." Having won Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival, "Closed Curtain" has brought Panahi's banned filmmaking activites to the Iranian government's attention.
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Critics Rank the Best Films and Performances From the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival
Paulina García and "Gloria" fared well in our poll of the best of Berlinale, but there was plenty of praise to spread around to new competition films and those that debuted elsewhere.
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Baffled Catherine Deneuve and 'On My Way' Director Laugh through Berlinale Press Conference
Here at the Berlinale, films in Competition receive press conferences where journalists from around the world ask questions. Many of them, for whatever reason, are incredibly bizarre.
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Berlinale Golden Bear Goes to Romania's 'Child's Pose;' David Gordon Green Best Director
Romanian director Calin Peter Netzer has won this year's Golden Bear Award at the 2013 Berlinale. "Child's Pose" focuses on the wealthy mother of a man charged with killing a young boy in an automobile accident who attempts to save her son from harsh punishment. Upon winning ...
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Critic's Notebook: Lessons from the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival
For the subset of movie viewers for whom the process of discovering movies takes place at major film festivals around the world, there is no greater question mark than the Berlinale. Otherwise known as the Berlin International Film Festival, this hefty gathering commands plenty of attention for its ...
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Berlin 2013: 19 Reviews From This Year's Festival
The door is almost closed on the 63rd International Berlin Film Festival and while none of this year's awards have yet to be handed out, you can find all of our reviews from the festival below. Indiewire's Eric Kohn was in Berlin where he reviewed eleven of this year's entries, including Wong Kar-Wa...
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Incredibly Unsettling, Incredibly Watchable River Phoenix Last Film Premieres at Berlin, But Will It Get a Release?
On October 31, 1993, Tupac Shakur was arrested for shooting two off-duty cops. Meatloaf's "I'd Do Anything for Love" had just become the number one song in the U.S. The actor River Phoenix, the brother of Joaquin, had just finished shooting on location in Utah for George Sluizer's thriller "Dark B...
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Berlin Review: Danis Tanovic's Neorealist 'An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker' Is a Cry For Help From the Bosnian Lower Class
Danis Tanovic's "An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker" has plenty to say, but as tragic observations go it's curiously dry. A dramatically compelling social realist parable about the underprivileged Bosnian and Herzegovinian lower class, it's closer to conventional cinema v...
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Berlinale 2013: Jane Campion on Turning to TV For 'Top of the Lake'
"I think television came alive to me when I was aware that people -- some very bright, extraordinary people like HBO or Showtime -- were commissioning really radical work," Jane Campion said at a special panel on television at the Berlin International Film Festival this week. "That wa...
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