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A little bit more Berlinale

April 11, 2008 · 2 Comments

Gotta love Berlinale comments.

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Categories: Berlinale · British Council · Film · Germany · U.K.

Giraffes at Berlin Zoo

March 15, 2008 · 5 Comments

Categories: Berlin · Germany · Jumpcut · giraffes · zoo

Recently-read: A Woman in Berlin and Persepolis

March 10, 2008 · 2 Comments

I read these two in my last week in Berlin and on the way home [something has to distract me from flying]. One is really famous these days, with the release of the film, and the other ought to be more famous.

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Categories: A Woman in Berlin · Books · Germany · Iran · Islamic Revolution · Persepolis · novels · reading · writing about war

More Berlinale news

January 22, 2008 · 4 Comments

Johansson, Cruz Expected at Berlin Fest

Sunday, January 20, 2008

(01-20) 12:40 PST BERLIN, Germany (AP) –

Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana and Natalie Portman are among the stars expected to attend the Berlin Film Festival next month.

Penelope Cruz and Daniel Day-Lewis, who won a Golden Globe as best dramatic actor, also are expected, festival director Dieter Kosslick told The Associated Press. He said Johansson’s appearance at the Berlin festival would be her first.

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Categories: Berlin · Berlinale · Daniel Day-Lewis · Eric Bana · Germany · Natalie Portman · News · Penelope Cruz · Scarlett Johansson · Vietnam war · film festival

Madonna’s directorial debut at the Berlinale

December 27, 2007 · 3 Comments

I am going to be all over this. I’ll need a laff.

Madonna’s directorial debut, Filth and Wisdom, will have its world premiere at Germany’s Berlinale film festival next February. The thirty-minute low-budget short comedy is reportedly based on the singer’s life.

From Rolling Stone (last item)

Here’s the review!

Categories: Berlin · Berlinale · February 2008 · Filth and Wisdom · Germany · Madonna · News · comedy · director · film festival · short film

BERLIN!

December 17, 2007 · 4 Comments

 

Ooh I’m going to Berlin in February to cover the Berlinale! I am hugely excited already… (more…)

Categories: Berlin · Berlinale · Germany · film festival