Berlin

[Berlin Review] Eisenstein in Guanajuato

From today’s vantage it’s difficult to believe that in the 1980's Peter Greenaway counted as one of the hippest auteurs around. After bursting onto the scene in...

[Berlin Review] The Club

With his exceptional trilogy on the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship – Tony Manero (2008), Post Mortem (2010) and No (2012) –Chilean director Pablo Larraín proved ...

[Berlin Review] Life

A James Dean biopic told from the perspective of Dennis Stock, the photographer who shot a series of Dean’s most iconic photographs, seems like a perfect fit fo...

[Berlin Review] Knight of Cups

The most eagerly anticipated entry in this year’s Berlinale, Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups, premiered tonight in the festival’s main competition. As expected...

[Berlin Review] Taxi

The first image of Jafar Panahi’s Taxi, a POV shot looking out through a car’s windshield, immediately calls to mind the opening of his previous film, Closed Cu...

[Berlin Review] Queen of the Desert

From his very first feature, 1968’s Signs of Life, Werner Herzog has demonstrated a predilection for stories revolving around exceptionally zealous and uncompro...