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Meryl Streep is to be honored for her wide-ranging career at this year's Berlin film festival.
Festival organizers said Monday that Streep, 62, will be presented with an honorary Golden Bear, the event's top award, on Feb. 14.
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It's a film about redemption," said the 35-year-old Englewood native. "A sister who's redeemed and learns that you should not lose your morals or values for money or fame.
"I've grown as a director. I've grown as a writer and a producer. I've learned how to tell the story through the lens," he said. "I understand my characters better, so the dialogue is real."
"One of the things that caught my attention is that [[Simee Smith]] didn't have any love scenes, she didn't have any nudity. The cursing with her character was very minimal. She wasn't an angry Black woman," she reflected.
The South Side of Chicago will meet the East Side of Germany when Mark Harris screens his newest film, I Used to Love Her at the Black International Cinema festival this summer in Berlin. While working at a f...
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BERLIN - The annual Berlin film festival will open next month with the premiere of a new movie from Chinese director Wang Quan'an, "Apart Together.
Organizers said this week that the latest film from Wang - whose "Tuya's Marriage" won Berlin's top Golden Bear award in 2007 - will kick off the festival Feb. 11.
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BERLIN -- Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio celebrated nearly a decade working together as they presented the director's latest film, "Shutter Island," at the Berlin film festival Saturday.
Based on a novel by "Mystic River" author Dennis Lehane, the 1950s psychological thriller is the fourth film pairing Scorsese with DiCaprio, after "Gangs of New York" (2002), "The Aviator" (2004) and the Oscar-winning "The Departed" (2006).
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BERLIN - Director Roman Polanski won the Berlin film festival award for best director Saturday for "The Ghost Writer.
Producer Alain Sarde, who accepted the award for Polanski, said Polanski told him he would not have attended because the last time he traveled for an award he "landed in jail."
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Get your fix of flicks from Hollywood blockbusters to foreign esoterica at the Berlin International Film Festival. The eight- night tour, Feb. 8-17, includes sightseeing and access to the festival, including film screenings, receptions, meetings with filmmakers and discussions with film critic Stephen Farber. The festival is one of the world's most prestigious, a prime destination for actors, directors and industry power-players from Hollywood, Europe and Asia. Cost: $2,475 per person, double occupancy ($575 single surcharge), including eight nights in the Westin Grand Berlin, some meals, excursions and festival pass. Airfare is not included but can be booked through the tour's organizers, Let's Travel, of Santa Monica, Calif.
Details: 310-451-5805 or www.letstravel-sm.com.
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Madonna's debut movie as a director will have its world premiere at the annual Berlin film festival in February.
Filth and Wisdom," starring Eugene Hutz, Richard E. Grant and Stephen Graham, will screen in the Panorama section, outside the main competition, a festival statement said Thursday.
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BERLIN - For his debut as a director, Ralph Fiennes has pulled the Shakespearean tragedy "Coriolanus" into the present-day world of 24-hour news coverage of riots and politics.
Fiennes takes the lead as a great but proud and flawed Roman general in the movie, which had its premiere Monday at the Berlin film festival.
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Shine a Light," Martin Scorsese's documentary on the Rolling Stones, will open the Berlin film festival next month.
Scorsese and the band will attend the Feb. 7 screening, organizers said Tuesday. The annual event, the first of the year's major European film festivals, ends Feb. 17.