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Berlinale 2012 – Robert Pattinson – Bel Ami World Premiere

Carsten — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:34:41 +0000

The World Premiere of the movie Bel Ami was held today at the Berlinale Palast – Potsdamer Platz as part of this year’s International Film Festival in Berlin. The story of Bel Ami chronicles journalist Georges Duroy’s corrupt rise to power from a poor ex-NCO to one of the most successful men in Paris, most of which he achieves by manipulating a series of powerful, intelligent, and wealthy mistresses.

Robert Pattinson, who plays the role of the main character “Georges Duroy”, as well as his Co-Stars Christina Ricci and Holliday Grainger walked the red carpet while giving autographs and taking pictures with their fans. Sadly, Uma Thurman canceled her flight this morning, she had an appointment for the new US-Series Smash and wasn’t able to attend today’s special event.

Berlinale 2012 – Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady

Carsten — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:51:23 +0000

Another Day, another premiere, another Star, Meryl Streep was attending the German Premiere of The Iron Lady, a film about the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, for which she won a best actress BAFTA award in London two days ago, beside the golden globe she received for the same role earlier this year. She is also nominated for her third Oscar on February 26.

The premiere was hold today at the Berlinale Palast – Potsdamer Platz, with hundreds of fans, singing and cheering for their beloved actress.

Berlinale 2012 – Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt – Cinema for Peace

Carsten — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:00:40 +0000

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt together with the complete cast of her directorial debut “In The Land Of Blood And Honey” were attending the Cinema for Peace Gala at the Konzerthaus Am Gendarmenmarkt tonight during this year’s Berlinale. The movie was honored with the “Cinema for Peace Honorary Award for Opposing War and Genocide”.

The film is set in Sarajevo against the back drop of the Bosnian War that tore the Balkan region apart in the 1990′s. The movie tell the story of Danijel (Goran Kostić), a soldier fighting for the Bosnian Serbs, re-encounters Ajla (Zana Marjanović), a Bosniak woman he was involved with before the war, and who is now a captive in the camp he oversees.

Berlinale 2012 – Shah Rukh Khan – The King is back

Carsten — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:58:49 +0000

Right now, Berlinale 2012 is all over the city and the world is guest in Berlin, actors, directors, journalists and of course, the fans. The Berlinale, Berlin’s International Film Festival, is not only the city’s largest cultural event, but also one of the most important dates on the international film industry’s calendar.

Today, Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan (and his wife Gauri Khan) was attending the premiere of his new movie Don 2 – The King is back, together with Co-Star Priyanka Chopra at the Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin.

Berlinale 2011 – The Exhibition

Carsten — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:11:14 +0000

Berlinale 2011 is over. During the last week 18 young photographers received the opportunity to experience working as professional photojournalists to show us this years Berlinale through their eyes, or should I say, through their cameras?

All the works were gathered at the C/O Berlin gallery and Dieter Kosslick himself opened the exhibition “Close Up!”.

Berlinale 2011 – Hollywood in Berlin

Carsten — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:42 +0000

The City of Berlin has placed a 14 meters high and 53 meters wide Hollywood Sign in the middle of the Tiergarten between the Brandenburg Gate and the Potsdamer Platz.

The Holly- wait.. there is only one L? Oh boy, something went terribly wrong…

Just kidding, the Holywood Sign is a creation by the artist and filmmaker Ralf Schmerberg and part of a Climate Protection campaign, to plant 10.000 new trees all across the City.

So from now on, it’s “Welcome to HolyWood”.

Berlinale 2011 – Helena Bonham Carter

Carsten — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:14:46 +0000

Finally I had some time to visit this years Berlinale at Potsdamer Platz and lucky me got some shots of Helena Bonham Carter as she left the Hyatt Hotel near the Berlinale Palace to promote the new movie “The King’s Speech”.

Helena is well known for her role as Bellatrix Lestrange in Joan K Rowlings Harry Potter or on the Side of Johnny Depp as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd.

Berlinale 2010 – Welcome to the Space Show World Premiere

Carsten — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:05:17 +0000

I watched the second Anime during this years Berlinale, the world premiere of Welcome to the Space Show or Uchuu Show e Youkoso / 宇宙ショーへようこ if you are more familiar with the Japanese title.

A tiny mountain village in a remote woodland region. Five primary school kids have come together in this idyllic spot in order to spend their summer holidays at a camp. At first the children enjoy carefree days amidst unspoiled nature far away from adult supervision. But their life changes dramatically when they come across what they believe to be a small dog, badly in need of help.

The creature turns out not to be a dog at all but an alien on an important mission. It seems there is a mysterious substance on earth that is coveted throughout the universe.

The movie was produced by the same guys who brought you R.O.D -Read or Die-, Ishihama Masashi Masunari Kouji, Hideyuki Kurata and Tomonori Ochikoshi, all of them were parts of the audience.

There was only one thing I found a bit disturbing, I watched the movie in three languages, Japanese language, English subtitle and… a German translator for every single sentence and also totally emotionless.

But overall It was a really great movie with an interesting science-fiction story and cute characters.

Berlinale 2010 presents Summer Wars サマーウォーズ

Carsten — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:10:27 +0000

So I watched Summer Wars today at an official cinema of the Berlinale 2010. It’s the DVD premiere in Germany and the movie was shown two weeks earlier, of course in Japanese language with English subs.

The movie was about a boy called Kenji, a computer technician for a virtual world called Oz (a massive social network in which everything is connected with the real world) who was invited by the most popular girl at his high school to her expansive family’s home for a summer job.

During their trip, the world of Oz became infected by a virus, Kenji’s Account got hacked and so the chaos begun.

Hosoda Mamoru, the producer himself, was one of today’s guests and at the end, he answered a couple of questions about the movie which I can’t tell you without spoiling you the story. The only thing I can tell you is that he got his inspiration from his own family… oh yes and that he loves Germany.

Berlinale 2010 Ticket Madness

Carsten — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:28:58 +0000

Seems like this years Berlinale is pretty popular, people standing in line for about one hour to get a ticket for their favorite movie or a chance to meet one of the many stars who came to Berlin to present their newest creations.