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Stars line up for 60th Berlin Film Festival - Summary
Berlin - The Berlin Film Festival is to mark its 60th anniversary next month with organizers announcing Wednesday a bumper field of movies with a big line up of stars. This includes Hollywood topliners Ben Stiller, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Julianne Moore, and Mark Ruffalo as well as France's Gerard Depardieu and Japan's Sayuri Yoshinaga.
A total of 26 films have been selected for the festival's main program this year with another batch announced Tuesday including productions from Argentina, Scandinavia, Western Europe, China, Romania, Russian Federation and the US.
The festival's coveted Golden Bear is to be handed out at a gala ceremony set down for February 20.
One of the world's top three film festivals, the Berlinale brings a touch of glamour to Berlin during the grey cold winter months.
Among the movies in the race for the Golden Bear are Caterpillar from Japanese director Koji Wakamatsu, whose previous films include Secrets Behind The Wall, Sex Jack, Go Go Second Time Virgin, Ecstasy of the Angels, United Red Army. It stars Shinobu Terajima and Shima Ohnishi.
This is one of two Japanese movies in the festival's main competition. The other is Otouto (About Her Brother) from Yoji Yamada, which is to close the festival.
Danish director Pernille Fischer Christensen returns to Berlin with the world premiere of En Familie (A Family). Christensen won a Silver Bear at the 2006 Berlinale for En Soap.
En Familie, which is one of two Danish films selected for the festival, stars Jesper Christensen, Lene Maria Christensen, Pilou Asbæk and Anne Louise Hassing.
In addition, Submarino from Danish director Thomas Vinterberg is to have its world premiere in Berlin.
Also from Scandinavia comes the world premiere of Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland's En ganske snill mann (A Somewhat Gentle Man).
Romania's blossoming film industry is to be represented at the festival by the world premiere of Florin Serbann's Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier (If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle) with George Pistereanu, Ada Condeescu, Clara Voda and Mihai Constantin.
Russian director Alexei Popogrebsky's Kak ya provel etim letom (How I Ended This Summer) about deepening personal tensions between two men spending months in complete isolation on an Arctic research base. The Berlin screening will be the film's world premiere.
The US is also to have a strong presence in Berlin with the world premiere of Noah Baumbach's Greenberg, starring Ben Stiller and Jennifer Jason Leigh and Howl from Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.
It stars Mary-Louise Parker and James Franco as the beat generation poet Allen Ginsberg.
In Greenberg, Stiller plays a character who at some point around 40 just decides to do nothing.
The festival has already announced plans to screen new productions from star directors Martin Scorsese and Roman Polanski, who is currently facing the threat of extradition to the US for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Films from two US filmmakers are also to be screened as out-of-competition movies at the festival.
This includes New York-born Nicole Holofcener's Please Give and Los Angeles-born Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are Alright, which features Julianne Moore, Annette Benning, and Mark Ruffalo.
British director Michael Winterbottom also returns to the festival for the international premiere of his movie The Killer Inside Me. It stars Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson and tells the story of a Texas sheriff's dark secret.
Winterbottom won the Golden Bear top prize in 2003 for his drama In This World about Afghan refugees harrowing attempts to gain entry into Britain.
In addition to been given the honours of opening the festival with Wang Quan'an's Tuan Yuan (Apart Together), China is to be represented at the festival by legendary director Zhang Yimou's San qiang pai an jing qi (A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop).
Featuring Sun Honglei, Xiao Shenyang and Yan Ni, Zhang Yimou's movie tells the story of Wang, a noodle shop owner whose wife wants her lover to kill her husband.
The festival will also mark the world premiere German director Oskar Roehler's Jud Suess (Film ohne Gewissen - film without a Conscience) over the story of the chilling Nazi anti-semitic propaganda film Jud Suess.
Shahada, the debut film from Burhan Qurbani, who grew up in Germany as the son of Afghan refugees, is also part of the vanguard of German movies to be screened.
His film is about people being forced to face decisive decisions after they are plunged into a personal crisis.
Meanwhile, Benoit Delepine and Gustave de Kervern's Mammuth has been included in the French contingent. The movie is to have its world premiere in Berlin and stars Gerard Depardieu, Yolande Moreau and Isabelle Adjani.
A French-Argentinian production Rompecabezas (Puzzle) from Natalia Smirnoff has also been selected for the festival lineup. It stars Maria Onetto, Gabriel Goity and Arturo Goetz and will have its world premiere at the festival. |
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发表于 2010-1-21 05:53
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