Reviews and reports
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Berlinale 2014 preview: Buzzing unknowns
Day one, and “arresting indeterminacy” defines the prospects in the festival programme as much as it does Josephine Decker’s Butter on the Latch, reports Nick James.
Thursday 6 February 2014 -
Soft landing: suicide comedy A Long Way Down
Nick Hornby adaptations have fallen, reports Demetrios Matheou.
Monday 10 February 2014 -
Soldiers and saints: Berlinale 2014 midway roundup
At midway, the Berlinale’s hits worth writing home about include the Northern Ireland Troubles thriller ’71 and note-perfect German teen martyr melodrama The Stations of the Cross. Nick James rounds them up.
Tuesday 11 February 2014 -
Sticks to beat them with: She’s Lost Control and Nymph()maniac first look
Women’s sexual autonomy is still up for judgement in these two new movies from Anja Marquardt and Lars von Trier, finds Carmen Gray.
Monday 10 February 2014 -
Zen time: Tsai Ming-liang’s Journey to the West
The Taiwanese master’s latest / last film offers a refined limit-case of slow cinema – and a meditation on the uses of slowness itself, says Jonathan Romney.
Tuesday 11 February 2014 -
Could Berlin’s quartet of Latin American competition entries be more red-blooded? Demetrios Matheou pleads for restraint.
Friday 14 February 2014 -
Boyhood and downhill: Berlinale 2014 roundup
Richard Linklater’s 12-year study of growing up is one of the few movies in this year’s festival to hit its target, says Geoff Andrew.
Thursday 13 February 2014 -
Bad seeds and worse: 20,000 Days on Earth, Free Range and The Kidnapping of Michel Houllebecq
From Nick Cave to Michel Houellebecq, creatives majestic and wretched were the subjects of a trio of notable movies at the 2014 Berlinale, reports Carmen Gray.
Friday 14 February 2014 -
Cinema, art of light and shadow: a review of The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting Styles 1915-1950
From Japan to Germany and America, ideas in movie lighting have long travelled on the wind. Daniel Fairfax reports on a Berlin/New York retrospective that follows their course.
Wednesday 26 February 2014 -
Colonial visions: Concerning Violence and N – The Madness of Reason
Africa’s subjugated pasts are far from past in two new films in this year’s festival, reports Ashley Clark.
Wednesday 12 February 2014
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