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Full List of Berlin Film Festival Winners
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Diao Yinan's "Black Coal, Thin Ice" (Bai Ri Yan Huo) took home the Golden Bear at a ceremony tonight at the Berlin International Film Festival. A jury led by James Schamus decided the prizes, giving Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" the Silver Bear for best director, and Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize (essentially runner-up for the Golden Bear). Both American films had been seen as potential frontrunners heading into the ceremony, but "Black Coal" -- one of three Chinese films in competition and also the winner tonight for best actor -- surprised in the end. Full list if winners below. Check out a list of Indiewire's coverage of the festival here. Competition Golden Bear: Black Coal, Thin Ice (Bai Ri Yan Huo) by Diao Yinan Silver Bear Grand Jury Prix: The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize: Aimer, »
- Peter Knegt
Watch: Netflix Sets a Date and Releases a Teaser for Season Two of 'Orange is the New Black'
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Yesterday season two of "House of Cards" had its premiere on Netflix, and today the streaming service has announced a premiere date for the second season of "Orange Is The New Black." Jenji Kohan's prison dramedy will premiere on Friday, June 6, 2014, a fact that was revealed first to those obsessive fans who already managed to blow through the entire set of new episodes of "House of Cards" -- it was a surprise post-credits announcement. Season one of "Orange is the New Black" premiered on July 11th, 2013, meaning it'll be back for another 13-episode arc a little less than a year after it was first introduced. In Netflix tradition, all 13 episodes will be available to stream at launch. Take a look at a teaser for the new season below. »
- Alison Willmore
Watch The Berlin Film Festival's Awards Ceremony (Live Stream)
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The Berlin International Film Festival is handing out its awards tonight in the German capital, with jury head James Schamus and company (including Greta Gerwig and Christoph Waltz) announcing their decision for the Golden Bear -- among other awards. Who will take the top prize? "Boyhood"? "The Great Budapest Hotel"? Or perhaps Sudabeh Mortezai's under-the-radar "Macondo"? Watch below to find out. The ceremony and following press conference begins at 7:30pm Berlin time (1:30pm Est). Watch it here. »
- Indiewire
Berlinale 2014. Impressions Part III: Time as Depth & Cinema-Space
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Ken Jacobs' The Guests, a 3D-remix of an 1896 Lumière brothers' film of a group of people walking towards the camera into a church wedding (and, in a sense, into the audience of the cinema), exploits an optical phenomenon in which the lateral movement within the image can be used to create 3D by putting two frames, slightly apart temporally, together. It's a process Jacobs himself gleefully described at the screening, making a point of distinguishing this method from his previous approaches to 3D. Essentially, in this case, it is a temporal dis-alignment which controls and creates this illusion of depth. Time creates the space.
It's an imperfect film, and an imperfect application of 3D, but within the space of The Guests (who are the real guests?), these imperfections point to a strange alternate dimension of images. How far can we stretch an image to find more within in it? »
- Adam Cook
Berlin Review: Christophe Gans' 'Beauty And The Beast' Starring Léa Seydoux & Vincent Cassel
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Ever watched a 30-second perfume commercial and thought “Man, the decadent wonderland they’ve created here is so glorious and rich I wish this could go on forever?” No? Well, neither has anyone ever, but that hasn’t stopped Christophe Gans from addressing that imaginary need with his ghastly, overblown “Beauty and the Beast,” whose 112 minutes certainly feel like an eternity, and which fails on such a grand scale of pomp and over-ornamented visuals, that, robed in splendid scarlet satins, its failures practically preen. Starring Léa Seydoux, in a role that must have taxed the “Blue is the Warmest Color” actress to the very limits of her ability to heave her breasts and fall over things prettily, and pixels representing Vincent Cassel (the unconvincing CG Beast was a motion-capture creation, though he is himself in the pointlessly extensive flashbacks), the film gets literally every single narrative decision it makes wholly wrong, »
- Jessica Kiang
Video: Ellen Page Comes Out as Gay at Conference for Lgbt Youth
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Actress Ellen Page (Juno, X Men: Days of Future) came out as gay yesterday at the Human Rights Campaign’s inaugural Time to Thrive conference in Las Vegas. “I’m here today because I am gay,” Page said in a moving speech at the conference dedicated to Lgbt youth. “And because… maybe I can make a difference. To help others have an easier and more hopeful time. Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility. I also do it selfishly, because I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission.” In the speech, in […] »
- Scott Macaulay
Berlin Review: ‘Black Coal, Thin Ice’ A Distinct But Confounding Noir Tale
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One of the major narratives coming into the 2014 Berlin Film Festival, which ends this weekend, was the inclusion of three Chinese films in the main competition. And each of those films in turn seemed to represent an aspect of a national cinema that is still, to those of us in the West, often something of a mystery: “Blind Massage” comes from director Lou Ye, who has had a checkered history with the Chinese censors, having been banned from filmmaking several times over due to what they deem controversial depictions of gender and sexuality; “No Man’s Land” is a straight-up state-funded genre Western from Ning Hao; and “Black Coal, Thin Ice” lies somewhere in the middle on the political and aesthetic spectrum, blending elements of genre and elements of social realist commentary in a manner perhaps closest in spirit to Jia Zhangke’s Cannes entry “A Touch of Sin." On a purely visceral level, »
- Jessica Kiang
Berlinale 2014. Baal, Resurrected
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"When the dark womb drags him down to its prize
What's the world still mean to Baal, he's overfed
So much sky is lurking still behind his eyes
He'll just have enough sky when he's dead"
—Bertolt Brecht, Baal (1918)
Forty-three years after its entombment, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s incarnation of Baal rises from the grave, as brutal, poetic and rebellious as ever. This Berlinale, Volker Schlöndorff’s 1970 adaptation was shown in public for the first time in four and a half decades of censorship by Brecht’s inheritors, perhaps because there is something in the film which is too revelatory about the text’s essence. Steeped in the vitality of Brecht’s youth, in his raw anger, it is the punkish anomaly, anarchistic violent and immoral, which cannot be easily explained by or assimilated into his later theorized Epic Theater. This first play of Brecht’s lacks entirely that political »
- Yaron Dahan
Watch: There Be Monsters In The Trailer for Showtime's Horror Series 'Penny Dreadful,' Created By 'Hugo' Writer John Logan
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Created by John Logan, writer of "Hugo" and "Skyfall," and executive produced by Sam Mendes, the upcoming horror series "Penny Dreadful" finds Showtime swinging for the fences in terms of high-end genre programming. Josh Hartnett, Eva Green, Billie Piper, Rory Kinnear and Timothy Dalton are among the cast members, with "The Orphanage" filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona directing the first two episodes of a story that will explore the origins of gothic literary figures like Frankenstein's monster, Dorian Gray and Count Dracula in Victorian London. The series is one of the six set to screen at SXSW as part of the festival's first-ever Episodic section, and will premiere on Showtime on May 11th. What do you think? »
- Alison Willmore
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