Berlinale in Berlin

by clorenz1 | February 9, 2007 at 04:45 pm | 1202 views | 7 comments

I love German film, and not because I am dating a beautiful German girl, which does not hurt, but because German film brings such an edge to it that Hollywood has lost. The films just feel Indy without having to say they are, and the acting is always amazing. I must admit my range of German film is small in comparison to some, but Berlin will play host to the German Film Festival on Thursday. It was noted that there is a real shortage of German film being represented at this years festival, which is a real shame...

For a few days in February each year, Berlin transforms itself into the center of the film world with the annual Berlin International Film Festival, also known as the Berlinale. The bleak winter city gets a touch of movie magic as international celebrities descend on the German capital and hundreds of films play at packed movie theaters across the town.

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foto4berlin.de

at 08:22 on February 8th, 2007

The Berlinale has a climate problem: right now, it's too cold in Berlin

for most of the north american stars... Cannes is cooler :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/foto4berlin/

Since the Oscar Ceremony is around the corner

some of them prefer to promote their movies

at home instead of rocking Berlin.

The German Film is difficult to promote inter-

nationally since it's a lot about language

and the German stories are not

developped as professionally

for the international market.

Dieter Kosslick, head of Berlinale, said

that the Germans Films do not need

as much promotion anymore...

And in the end, a "Berlin Bear" does

not really help at the box office.

But it's still like Christmas for

all filmmakers over here.

Please, join our

party in Berlin!

www.filmmann.de

clorenz1

at 15:21 on February 9th, 2007

Thank you for the post, foto4berlin, I found another interesting story regarding the Berlin Film Festival.

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Actual News Geezer

at 16:44 on February 9th, 2007

good stuff:

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Actual News Geezer

at 16:54 on February 9th, 2007

The foto of Cate Blanchette is magical. Many thanks to our member who posted it. I'd like to find out how the foto was taken, and the "back story" on the whole night!

djdiscofox

at 07:36 on February 10th, 2007

i´m happy you like it. because its all about "the good german" its probably okay to answer in bad english.

i was just standing in the public crowd far to far away, hiding the camera with 300mm-tele from the snow. i arrived late at the carpet, but had no professional interest. i´m very far from professional and knew i had very little chance to get a good picture. i tried hard in this few moments because of cate. since i first saw her in "elizabeth" years ago i´m ... addicted.

i went home and had some happy cocktails. nothing else mattered.