Berlinale
Police (Night Shift)
Director Anne Fontaine’s latest effort manages to be middlebrow entertainment for a middle-aged, middle class audience, with an…
By Oliver JohnstonSpecial
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Berlinale
The Roads Not Taken
For a project packed with talent – writer-director Sally Potter, cinematographer Robbie Ryan, actors Javier Bardem, Salma Hayek and…
By Joseph Owen
Berlinale
Siberia
Abel Ferrara does his own thing, it seems. Other Berlinale competition efforts have paid credence to narrative convention,…
By Joseph Owen
Berlinale
Welcome to Chechnya
It’s perhaps a little rote and cursory to describe a documentary as urgent or timely but this film…
By Joseph Owen
Berlinale
DAU. Natasha
With the frankly gob-smacking backstory of the DAU project that produced DAU. Natasha, it might have been thought…
By Oliver Johnston
Berlinale
Days (Rizi)
Tsai Ming-liang makes films that probe the very nature of art. Eschewing senseless and frenetic action, they stop…
By Joseph Owen
Berlinale
Bad Tales (Favolacce)
Bad Tales matches the grim determinism of its title. Bad things have happened, are happening, and will happen. This…
By Joseph Owen
Berlinale
“The film is my process of accepting my father”: An interview with Digger director Georgis Grigorakis and actor Argyris Pandazaras
Georgis Grigorakis’s feature film debut Digger celebrated its world premiere this month in the Panorama section of the…
By Selina Sondermann
Berlinale
Onward
Heartwarming and magical in every aspect, in Onward Pixar offers us a fresh new animated feature that feels…
By Cristiana Ferrauti
Berlinale
Undine press conference: Improvisation, underwater scenes and nine-to-five serial killers
It was at the end of production for Transit, Christian Petzold’s previous directorial effort, that he came up…
By Oliver Johnston