It’s perhaps only natural that a film festival as wide-ranging as the Berlinale would include a few documentaries about filmmakers.
Imagine an entire film made up of variations of those occasional free-associative montages of Vienna in Museum Hours.
The setup suggests a topical takedown of both corruption in the priesthood and the ruthless ways Catholic churches have tried to cover up their immoral behavior.
With Knight of Cups, Terrence Malick achieves the sense of stylistic ossification that many accused his last feature, To the Wonder, of embodying.
Theoretically, the subject of Queen of the Desert could hardly be more Herzogian in nature.
In keeping with his recent work, Panahi turns the camera on himself and his own government-imposed creative struggles.
The film manages to be a law unto itself even in light of Guy Maddin’s previous oeuvre.
Lars von Trier’s pretenses of self-interrogation and cross-examination avail themselves as especially useful when considering his work.
Not since Robert Altman’s Nashville has an American film felt as real as life itself.
It’s not just the prosaic approach the mythically outsized hallmarks of Americana that makes A.J. Edwards’s first directorial effort feel like a Malick movie.
This paean to cinema, and to the kindness of strangers, curdles into miserablism.
Gondry’s squiggling animations—loaded with puns and cutesy-poo jokes—don’t really square with the subject.
A film about history that avoids it entirely. Not out of cowardice or lack of nerve, but because the head-on acknowledgement of Europe’s long 20th century is quite simply too painful.
The Nun is a timeless story about a girl who’s sent against her will to a convent as a tenuous, quick fix to her precarious place in life.
Films about the not-so-great outdoors pervade this year’s festival.
Vladimir Putin’s Russia is a complex place.
After a few initial disappointments in Berlinale’s main competition, things gradually began to pick up.
Berlinale, the most smoothly run of all major festivals, is a pleasure for the Anglophone.