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SUMMER
IN BERLIN
A big hit in its native Germany, Summer in Berlin is the tale
of two working class women living in the German capital. Nike
(Nadja Uhl) is a single mother who works as a nurse in a retirement
home but dreams of being a window designer, whose relationship
with her best friend Katrin (Inka Friedrich) becomes strained
when she embarks on an ill-advised love affair with a trucker.
The theme of single women and their romantic and financial
struggles is hardly new, but director Andreas Dresen handles
what could have been dark and dreary material with humor and
a pleasing lightness of touch, ably blending dramatic and
comic moments, and is helped by strong performances from Uhl
and Friedrich, two of the best German actresses around. Summer
in Berlin opens in New York March 30, at Landmark Sunshine
Cinema, April 20 in Los Angeles at Laemmle's Music Hall; May
11 in Austin, TX at Landmark's Dobie Theater, Washington,
DC at Landmark's E Street Cinema and Boston, MA at Landmark's
Kendall Square Cinema. Filmmaker and D Street Releasing would
like to thank Volkswagen AG, V2 Vodka, Fernet-Branca, and
Karlsberg Beer for their support of the film.
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AFTER
THE WEDDING
Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards
last month, After the Wedding represents the breakthrough
movie for Susanne Bier, one of a crop of Danish directors
making exciting, innovative cinema at the moment. Jacob (Casino
Royale villain Mads Mikkelsen), a solitary Dane running an
ailing orphanage in Mumbai, returns to his native Copenhagen
after 20 years abroad in the hope of getting rich philanthropist
Jorgen (Rolf Lassgard) to help out the Indian street children
he cares for. Far from being just a business trip, Jacob's
homecoming forces him to confront his past after an unexpected
revelation. The script by Bier and her regular screenwriter
Anders Thomas Jensen cleverly plays with genre conventions,
while controlled direction and fine performances make this
a dark, complex and satisfying drama.
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OUTLANDISH
EMPIRE
To save yourself the expense of a trip to gay Paris to see
David Lynch's bizarre and haunting exhibition at the Fondation
Cartier, The Air is on Fire, you can instead take a virtual
tour here. Go to the English language version of the site,
select The Air is on Fire from the 'What's On' menu, then
go to 'Views of the Exhibition' and 'The Works.' (And for
those of you who want to see it in person, the show runs until
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KEEPING
IT SIMPLE
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DON'T
JUDGE THE MOVIE BY ITS POSTER!
After earning the ire of both the MPAA and alarmed motorists
with its unapproved billboard campaign for the upcoming Elisha
Cuthbert torture pic Captivity, After Dark Releasing is preparing
to court further controversy with its campaign for Wristcutters,
a very good film that deals, in part, with suicide...
Read
the complete stories at Filmmakermagazine's Blog... |
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THE
DIRECTOR INTERVIEW: BRIAN COOK - By Nick Dawson
Color Me Kubrick: A True...ish Story is the fascinating story
of English conman Alan Conway (flamboyantly portrayed by John
Malkovich) who made his career out of impersonating Stanley
Kubrick. Conway found out that hardly anyone actually knew
what Kubrick looked like, a discovery which led him to take
his deception to extravagant, and often ridiculous, extremes.
He used his borrowed identity to obtain huge amounts of money
and seduce the young and impressionable, and got so immersed
in the activities of his affluent alter ego that he began
almost believing he was Kubrick....
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here for the rest of the article
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