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Daily:
Day 5 - 13 February
Competition
The
Talented Mr. Ripley
by Anthony Minghella
Haven't
we all dreamed of being somebody else, assuming the identity
of somebody rich or powerful or just better looking? Director
Anthony Minghella's filming of Patricia Highsmith's 1950s
novel has provided Oscar-winner Matt Damon with the plum
role of a lavishly complicated rogue.
Also
in competition today is Goutte
d'eau sur pierres brulantes (Water Drops
on Burning Rocks). Ozon pays tribute to one of Europe's
greatest auteurs. Fassbinder's play, which he wrote aged
19 but never let be performed, tells of the blooming romance
between businessman Leopold and naïve, considerably
younger Franz.
Special
Screening: Pia
Liang Ma Ma (Breaking The Silence)
honours the film's star, Gong Li, president of
the Berlinale jury.
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Leomania
Question
after question was lobbed in Leo's direction, but there was
hardly a peep from anybody else. At one stage, festival director
Moritz de Hadeln took the microphone in a forlorn attempt
to remind the press that this wasn't a "private press conference"
for the star but to no avail.
Press
conference
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Streaming
video
The Beach cast face-to-face with the press:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet,
Tilda Swinton and director Danny Boyle....
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Streaming
video
The
fans came out in herds just to catch a glance of Leo at
The Beach opening... |
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Competition
The
Talented Mr Ripley Dir:
Anthony Minghella. Cast: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude
Law. An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1955 classic.
Tom Ripley forges signatures perfectly and impersonates
people uncannily. He assumes the identity of the son of
a wealthy New Yorker and becomes entangled in a web of unscrupulous
behaviour. 139 mins.
Gouttes
D'Eau Sur Pierres Brulantes
(Water Drops on Burning Rocks) (France) Dir: François
Ozon. Cast: Bernard Giraudeau, Anna Thomson. 90 mins.
+ short
Dream Kitchen. 9 mins.
Piao
Ling MaMa (Breaking The Silence) (Mandarin)
Dir: Sun Zhou. Cast: Gong Li,Gao Xin. Eng. subtitles. 90 mins.
Special
Screening
Retrospective
Kokaku
Kidotai (Ghost In The Shell) (Japan) (1995)
Dir: Mamoru Oshii. Animation. A special police unit is
made up of powerful cyborgs with human souls. 85 mins.
Der
Golem, wie er bIn die Welt kam (German) (1920)
Dir: Paul Wegener, Carl Boese. Cast: Paul Wegener, Albert
Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova. Music: Betty Olivero,
Giora Feidman with the Seraphin-Quartett Dresden. The
legend of a magical clay man. 85 mins.
Slecna
Golem (1972) Dir: Jaroslav Balik. Cast: Jana Brejchova,
Jan Triska, Martin Ruzek. Another take on the Jewish legend
of the man made of clay. German translation.
93 mins.
Cisaruv
Pekar/Pekaruv Cisar (1972) Dir: Martin Fric. Cast:
Jan Werich, Marie Vasova, Natasa Gollova, Bohus Zahorsky.
German translation.140 mins.
+
short Kybernetica (1962) 28 mins.
Le
Golem (The Golem) (France) (1935) Dir:
Julien Duvivier. Cast: Harry Baur, Roger Carl, Germaine
Aussey. In 16th-century Prague, a Rabbi constructs a man
of clay to defend his people against a pogrom. 135 mins.
Moderato
Cantabile (France) (1960) Dir: Peter Brook.
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Didier Haudepin.
English subtitled. 92 mins.20.00
Eva
(Eve) (France) (1962) Dir: Joseph Losey.
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker, Giorgio Albertazzi.
Moreau plays a high-class call girl who uses her allure
to sexually enslave a writer. 104 mins.
Homage:
Robert De Niro
Midnight
Run (replacing
A Bronx Tale)
Panorama1.30
The
Virgin Dir: Diego Donnhofer. Cast: Joey
Kern, Kirsty Hinchcliffe, Glen Cruz. Follows three
people on their drug-fuelled wanderings. 90 mins
+
short One Night. 12 mins
Segunda
Piel (Second Skin) (Spain) Dir: Gerardo
Vera. Cast: Javier Bardem, Jordi Molla, Ariadna Gil.
A love triangle becomes deeply tangled. 106 mins.
Se
Quien Eres ( I Know Who You Are) (Spanish)
Dir: Patricia Fierreira. Cast: Miguel Angel Sola,
Ana Fernandez, Roberto Enriquez. A neurologist tries
to piece togther the past of her mysterious patient,
but when his former bosses begin to doubt his amnesia,
it puts him in danger, as he was involved with terrorist
attacks. 100 mins.
Paragraph
175 Dir: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman. Relates
the history of the German anti-homosexuality law,
which was used to prosecute West German homosexuals
until 1969. 81 mins.
Ameriku
Dir: Kira Muratova. 21 mins.
Antigone
(Federal Republic Of German/France) Dir: Daniele Huillet,
Jean MarieStraub. (1991). 100 mins.
Fremdgehen
(Stepping Out) (German) Dir: Eva Heldmann.
Eng. subtitles. Centres on a female protagonist
who wanders the long corridors of a military barracks
in search of sex and pleasure. 64
mins +
short Subterranean (Homesick Blues)
10 mins.
Cremaster
2 Dir: Mathew Barney. The latest film from
the sculptor-video artist is actually the fourth
of a five-part series. 79
mins.
Chutney
Popcorn (English)
Dir: Nisha Ganatra. This comedy cheerfully confounds Indian
tradition and American mores. 92 mins. +
short Hartes Brot. Dir: Natalie Percillie.
7
mins.
Botin
De Guerra (Spoils Of War) (Spain).
Dir: David Blaustein. The Plaza de Mayo mothers
touched the world with their pleas for information
on those 'disappeared' during the post-Peron era.
116 mins.
Extension
Du Domaine De La Lutte (Whatever)
(France)
Dir: Philippe Harel. Cast: Philippe Harel and
José Garcia. A radical and frank look at
the male predicament and the dangers of frustration.
118 mins.
Hotel
Splendide
Dir: Terence Gross. Cast: Toni Collette, Daniel
Craig, Katrin Cartlidge, Stephen Tompkinson. An
imposing hotel located on a dreamlike (or perhaps
nightmarish) North Sea island houses a matriarch
who casts her spell on all.
No
One Sleeps (English).
Dir: Jochen Hick. Cast: Tom Wlashchiha, Irit Levi
and Jim Thalmann. A medical student follows the
lead of his father, a high-ranking Aids researcher
in the GDR.
108 mins
Forum
Running
Out Of Time (Hong Kong) Dir: Johnnie To.
Cast: Andy Lau, Lau Ching-Wan. English subtitles.
92 mins.
Teatro
Amazons (US) Dir: Sharon Lockhart. 40 mins.
The
Litter On The Breeze First love (Hong
Kong) (1999) Dir: Eric Kwok. Cast: Wai Wai. Two
tales of first love, before and after. Eng. subtitles.
93 mins.
Long
Night's Journey Into Day (US) Dirs: Frances
Reid, Deborah Hoffmann. A moving account of the
work of the Truth and Reconciliation committee in
South Africa. 94 mins.
Jiang
Hu: Life On The Road (China) Dir: Wu Wenguang.
A documentary film about a group of country dwellers
who lead a sparse existence and are in constant
danger. Eng. subtitles. 149 mins
Shiro
(The White) (Japan) (1999) Dir: Katsuyuki
Hirano. A man and his bicycle are ready to take
an adventure 2, 328 kilometres long.118 mins
Pelon
Maanitiede (Geography Of Fear) (Finland)
Dir: Auli Mantila. Cast: Tanjalotta Raikka, Pertti
Szeholm. Tum accidently kills two thugs. 95 mins.
Vacances
Au Pays (Cameroon) Dir: Jean-Marie Teno.
Teno takes a journey through Cameroon, travelling
through his own past and the history of his native
country, repeating a journey he undertook 30 years
earlier. 75 mins.
Wojacek
(Poland) Dir: Lech Majewski. Cast: Dominika Ostalowska,
Krysztof Siwczzk. The life of Rafal Wojacek, an
angry young poet who died at the age of 26. 90 mins.
Kinpatsu
No Sogen (Across A Gold Prairie)
(Japan) (1999) Dir: Isshin Inudo. Cast: Yusuke Iseya,
Chizuru Ikewaki. An 80-year-old man has spent years
confined to his house due to a heart condition.
One morning he wakes up believing to himself to
be 20 again. 96 mins.
Ein
Mensch wie Dieter Golzower (German)
Dir: Barbara and Winfried Junge. The life story
of Dieter, who joins the army and dreams of sailing
the seven seas.122 mins.
Nabbie
No Koi (Nabbie's Love) (Japan) Dir:
Yuji Nakae. Cast: Naomi Nishida, Tomi Taira. A humourous
and sometimes eerie tale from the island of Okinawa,
with strong folklore and musical elements. Eng.
subtitles. 92 mins.
Seitsemän
Laulua Tundralta
(Finland)
Dir: Markku Lehmuskallio, Anastasia Lapsui. The result
of some long-term cinematic exploration of the lifestyle
of North Siberian Eskimos. 85 mins.
Homesick
(Japan) Dir: Mito Hineki. Cast: Okumura Kiminobu.
Set in late autumn in Hokkaido, illustrating people's
homesickness with black humour. 60 mins.
+
Rendez-Vous (Japan) Dir: Yamamoto Kosuke.
Cast: Murakami Jun. 55 mins.
Strastnoj
Bulwar (Passion
Boulevard) (Russia)
Dir: Vladimir Chotinenko. Cast: Sergej Koltakow, Nina
Usatowa. A successful actor disguises himself as Pushkin
and visits
a succession of girlfriends and aquaintances who talk
about their failures.108 mins.
George
Washington (US) Dir: David Gordon Green. Cast:
Candace Hairston, Donald Holden. Follows a group of
teenagers on the edge of adulthood, and how they deal
with a friend's death, love, jealousy and their improverished
existence in North Carolina. 89 mins.
Cinéma
Vérité: Defining The Moment
(Canada)
Dir: Peter Wintonick. Unravels the history of the
cinematic form to which Canadian film-makers have
made a significant contribution. 105 mins
Marsal
(Croatia)
Dir: Vinko Bresan. Cast: Drazen Kühn, Linda
Begonja.
Village dwellers on a small Adriatic island believe
they
have seen the ghost of Marshal Tito. 97 mins
Beau
Travail (France)
Dir: Clare Denis. Cast: Denis Lavant, Grégoire
Colin.
An African Foreign Legion outpost is transformed
into a bizarre ballet of violence and passion
with homorerotic undertones. 90 mins.
New
German Films
Sonnenallee
(Sun Alley) Dir: Leander Haubmann.
In the shadow of the Berlin Wall, Micha
lives in a cramped apartment and his neighbour
works for the secret police. Eng. subtitles.
92 mins.
Otomo
(German) Dir: Frider Schlaich. English subtitles.
Focuses on an incident that took place in
the summer of 1989 which shocked the entire
city of Stuttgart and prompted weeks of
controversy in the media. 85 mins.
Erleuchtung
Garantiert (Enlightenment Guaranteed)
(German) Dir: Dorris Dörrie. Two brothers
decide to spend some time at a Zen monastery
looking for inner peace. Eng. subtitles.
108 mins
Der
Grosse Bagarozy
(The Great Bagarozy) Dir:
Bernd Eichinger. A psychiatrist becomes
involved with a patient who claims to
have orchestrated the life of Maria Callas
and believes himself to be the devil reincarnated.
She diagnoses him with schizophrenia...
at first. Eng. subtitles. 99 mins.
Ein
Lied Von Liebe Und Tod (Gloomy
Sunday) Dir: Rolf Scübel. Budapest
at the end of the thirties. A love affair
among three people is characterised by
friendship and passion but also sacrifice
and sadness. Eng. subtitles. 114 mins.
Kinderfest
Mr
Rice's Secret Dir: Nicholas Kendall. A cancer-stricken
boy overcomes his fears and makes a miraculous discovery
which resurrects his will to live. 92 mins.
Sherdil
(Sweden) Dir: Gita Mallik. Eng. subtitles. 97 mins.
Zukkoke
Sanningumi-Kaito X Monogatari
(The Adventures Of A Hilarious Trio)
(Japan) Dir: Tsutomu Kashima. What starts out
as fun and games for a trio of friends ends
in a dangerous adventure as the children unearth
mayorial machinations which shake up the townspeople's
lives. 100 mins.
Man
Van Staal (Man Of Steel)
Dir: Vincent Bal. A 13-year-old boy becomes
a man of steel in his dreamworld, where
he encounters his dead father. 85 mins.
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