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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 29, 2020 20:36:39 GMT
Winners:
BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL 2020 WINNERS GOLDEN BEAR BEST FILM There Is No Evil, dir: Mohammad Rasoulof
SILVER BEAR GRAND JURY PRIZE Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
SILVER BEAR FOR BEST DIRECTOR Hong Sang-soo, The Woman Who Ran
SILVER BEAR FOR BEST ACTRESS Paula Beer, Undine
SILVER BEAR FOR BEST ACTOR Elio Germano, Hidden Away
SILVER BEAR FOR BEST SCREENPLAY Bad Tales, dirs: Damiano & Fabio D’Innocenzo
SILVER BEAR FOR OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION Jurgen Jurges for the cinematography in DAU. Natasha
SILVER BEAR SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE 70TH BERLINALE Delete History, dirs: Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kerven
ENCOUNTERS BEST FILM The Works And Days (Of Tayoko Shiojiri In The Shiotani Basin), dirs: CW Winter and Anders Edström
SPECIAL JURY AWARD The Trouble With Being Born, dir: Sandra Wollner BEST DIRECTOR Cristi Puiu, Malmkrog Matías Piñeiro, Isabella (Special Mention)
BERLINALE DOCUMENTARY AWARD Irradiated, dir: Rithy Panh Notes From The Underworld, dirs: Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel (Special Mention)
GWFF BEST FIRST FEATURE AWARD Los Conductos, dir: Camilo Restrepo Naked Animals, dir: Melanie Waelde (Special Mention)
GOLDEN BEAR BEST SHORT FILM T, dir: Keisha Rae Witherspoon
SILVER BEAR JURY PRIZE SHORT FILM Filipiñana, dir: Rafael Manuel
SHORT FILM AWARD Genius Loci, dir: Adrien Mérigeau
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED Prizes of the Ecumenical Jury There Is No Evil, dir Mohammad Rasoulof (Competition) Father, dir: Srdan Golubović (Panorama) Zero, dir: Kazuhiro Soda (Forum)
FIPRESCI Undine, dir: Christian Petzold (Competition) The Metamorphosis Of Birds, dir: Catarina Vasconcelos (Encounters) Mogul Mowgli, dir: Bassam Tariq (Panorama) The Twentieth Century, dir: Matthew Rankin (Forum)
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Post by stephen on Feb 29, 2020 20:50:56 GMT
Elio Germano is now 2 for 3.
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Post by DeepArcher on Feb 29, 2020 21:06:33 GMT
UNDINE HYPE.
Reuniting Paula Beer and German Joaquin Franz Rogowski following Transit, though this time it seems she's the POV character ... plot summary makes it sound like The Shape of Water(?) by way of Petzold, I absolutely cannot wait to see this.
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Post by Martin Stett on Feb 29, 2020 21:45:26 GMT
UNDINE HYPE. Reuniting Paula Beer and German Joaquin Franz Rogowski following Transit, though this time it seems she's the POV character ... plot summary makes it sound like The Shape of Water(?) by way of Petzold, I absolutely cannot wait to see this. Out of curiosity, have you seen Neil Jordan's Ondine? I enjoyed it, but most people don't. I understand why, it... isn't very good. But it's romantic and sweet and has Colin Farrell.
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Post by DeepArcher on Feb 29, 2020 23:49:15 GMT
UNDINE HYPE. Reuniting Paula Beer and German Joaquin Franz Rogowski following Transit, though this time it seems she's the POV character ... plot summary makes it sound like The Shape of Water(?) by way of Petzold, I absolutely cannot wait to see this. Out of curiosity, have you seen Neil Jordan's Ondine? I enjoyed it, but most people don't. I understand why, it... isn't very good. But it's romantic and sweet and has Colin Farrell. I haven't, though perhaps I should check it out?
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Post by stephen on Feb 29, 2020 23:51:01 GMT
Never Rarely Sometimes Always feels like it might be the indie hit of the year. Do not sleep on this one.
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Post by Martin Stett on Mar 1, 2020 0:37:22 GMT
Out of curiosity, have you seen Neil Jordan's Ondine? I enjoyed it, but most people don't. I understand why, it... isn't very good. But it's romantic and sweet and has Colin Farrell. I haven't, though perhaps I should check it out? Do you like Colin Farrell being Irish? Do you like sappy fairy tale movies? Do you like movies starting all sweet and fluffy and then turning around yelling "FUCK YOU, LIFE SUCKS AND YOUR DREAMS ARE LIES" without any warning? I haven't seen the movie in forever, but I dug it pretty well.
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Post by DeepArcher on Mar 1, 2020 1:27:55 GMT
I haven't, though perhaps I should check it out? Do you like Colin Farrell being Irish? Do you like sappy fairy tale movies? Do you like movies starting all sweet and fluffy and then turning around yelling "FUCK YOU, LIFE SUCKS AND YOUR DREAMS ARE LIES" without any warning? Yes, yes, and yes! Watchlisted.
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Post by tobias on Mar 1, 2020 3:20:24 GMT
I mean by the looks of it a boring politicised decision to "make a (non-)statement". By its description the films sounds brazenly on the nose but I'll withhold further judgment until I actually get to see it. It's probably a fine film, maybe even a really good one, I just find the decission boringly predictable. First Cow or The Woman who Ran are also highly political films about our day and circumstance, probably more so than There is no Evil (I mean capital punishment is abolished in Germany and we're not really thinking about reversing that). Of the Golden Bear recipients last decade only 3 have had a sizeable post-festival life (Nader & Simin aka. A Separation, Taxi & On Body and Soul) and only one more looks interesting enough that I don't really care (Death of Cesar). For comparison in Venice 6 films had a sizeable post-festival life, in Cannes all of them did. But maybe that's rich coming from someone who's most anticipated unseen Golden Bear winner is Palermo oder Wolfsburg...
Maybe I'll give all of them a shot at some point to see how off I am. I've seen a total of 3 after the year 2000. Another thing worth noting is that even though the Golden Lion winners enjoyed more success after the festival the films I've seen were decidedly not that great. Joker was a tired, hollow rehash of New Hollywood, Roma was a technocrats melodrama and Pidgeon sat on a branch seemed like a rehash of something Andersson had already done in more excitng and fresh ways in the past (though it had its share of funny vignettes). Compared to that films like Synonyms and Black Coal, Thin Ice look distinctly more exciting. However Sokurov's Faust was actually really good and one of a kind.
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