53rd Berlin Film Festival
Marcelle Perks and Ingo Ebeling round up the highlights in Asian and horror cinema from the 2003 Berlinale
»Marcelle Perks and Ingo Ebeling round up the highlights in Asian and horror cinema from the 2003 Berlinale
»This surprise winner of the Golden Lion at Venice last year has been breaking box office records in Ireland as it exposes an ugly truth from that country’s almost unbelievably recent past. Monika Maurer salutes director Peter Mullan’s ‘complete control of
»‘What is Solaris?’ asks the poster? Well, it’s a US commercial and critical nosedive for Soderbergh and Clooney, but a success d’estime in Europe. Todd Harbour applauds one of the most intelligent American movies of the year
»Elke de Wit enjoys the superlative documentary film programme at the 2003 Berlinale
»On show at the Berlin Film Festival was a restored print of Murnau’s 1929 masterpiece, Sunrise. John Gorick luxuriated in the imagery of one of silent cinema’s true greats
»To mark the release of Alex Cox’s Revengers Tragedy, we have sets of the soundtrack, source play and poster signed by Mr Cox himself. Click here to enter.
»Monika Maurer enjoys a new book about the hard rockin’ Serbian director of whom such critical appraisals are ‘long overdue’
»Uh oh, here it comes – the story of three women all pining for someone called Oscar. Ian Haydn Smith has to admit that ‘Stephen Daldry’s remarkable adaptation is an intelligent and moving film’
»This Cannes 2002 prize winner takes a surreal look at the heart-breaking Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s ‘caustic, relevant comedy at its finest’, according to Colin Odell and Michelle le Blanc
»The career revival for both Ray Liotta and Jason Patric starts here in this well received police procedural. ‘This is the best performance from a US actor in a long old stretch’, says Bob Carroll, of Liotta
»A genuine event, this – the DVD release of Peter Watkins’s long-banned ‘fictional documentary’. ‘Certain addresses in London, Washington and Baghdad may benefit from ordering a copy’, believes Andrew Davies
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