#Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater on ‘Blue Moon,’ Cash vs Art: “When We Prioritize Money, We Get Generic Material”

#Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater on ‘Blue Moon,’ Cash vs Art: “When We Prioritize Money, We Get Generic Material”

Ethan Hawke is urging you to demand offensive art from moviemakers in a world with a tense political landscape. At the Berlin Film Festival Tuesday, Hawke was joined by co-stars Margaret Qualley, Andrew Scott and director Richard Linklater for a press conference on their new film, Blue Moon. When asked about making offensive art in…

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#Is Ed Sheeran in a Berlin Film Festival Movie?

#Is Ed Sheeran in a Berlin Film Festival Movie?

If you watch Austrian writer-director Florian Pochlatko’s feature film debut How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World (Wie man normal ist und die Merkwürdigkeiten der anderen Welt) in the Perspectives program of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, you may catch yourself rubbing your eyes and wondering: Is Ed Sheeran really…

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#‘The Ice Tower’ Review: Marion Cotillard Toplines a Twisted French Fairytale That’s ‘Frozen’ Meets ‘Mulholland Drive’

#‘The Ice Tower’ Review: Marion Cotillard Toplines a Twisted French Fairytale That’s ‘Frozen’ Meets ‘Mulholland Drive’

Like a distant French cousin to the late David Lynch, but with a name significantly harder to pronounce, director Lucile Hadzihalilovic has been making bizarre, intricately crafted movies for over two decades now. A rarity in Gallic cinema, where talk-heavy dramas and comedies tend to be the norm, her quietly disturbing films, which include Innocence,…

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#Composer Matthew Herbert Shares What Makes a Good Score and Why He Didn’t Use Spanish Music for ‘Hot Milk’

#Composer Matthew Herbert Shares What Makes a Good Score and Why He Didn’t Use Spanish Music for ‘Hot Milk’

British musician and DJ Matthew Herbert has pretty much done it all. After making a name for himself in electronic music (his 2003 manifesto “Personal Contract for the Composition of Music” famously emphasizes “no drum machines”) and launching his label Accidental Records, he ended up remixing such iconic artists as Quincy Jones, Ennio Morricone, Serge…

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#‘Bedrock’ Goes Face to Face With People Living on Holocaust Sites in Poland (Exclusive Berlin Trailer)

#‘Bedrock’ Goes Face to Face With People Living on Holocaust Sites in Poland (Exclusive Berlin Trailer)

“Bedrock captures the lived realities of people whose homes are on Holocaust sites,” reads a synopsis for Kinga Michalska’s feature film debut, an observational documentary that promises to take viewers “through landscapes in which traces of violence are intricately woven into the fabric of everyday life.” It is set to world premiere in the 75th edition…

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#Berlin Hidden Gem: ‘Evidence’ Examines the Insidious Power of Institutional Money

#Berlin Hidden Gem: ‘Evidence’ Examines the Insidious Power of Institutional Money

The political right has long derided institutions of higher education as a dangerous web of liberal ivory towers, practically a network of Mordors disseminating progressive, anti-American ideas into the lands below. But as Evidence, the fourth feature-length documentary from director Lee Anne Schmitt, reminds us, the conservative movement has strategically and successfully infiltrated American higher…

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#A Roller-Skating Hitler, Merfolk Culture, and Sex in Public: 7 Offbeat Films in the Berlin Lineup

#A Roller-Skating Hitler, Merfolk Culture, and Sex in Public: 7 Offbeat Films in the Berlin Lineup

The 75th edition of the Berlin Film Festival promises a mix of star vehicles and fresh independent movies from around the world in its competition program and beyond. Sprinkled throughout the Berlinale’s various strands, film buffs can also find some particularly offbeat, edgy-seeming offerings. Below is a selection of some of the more unusual-sounding films…

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#‘Where the Night Stands Still’ Explores Colonialism and the Filipino Psyche (Exclusive Berlin Trailer)

#‘Where the Night Stands Still’ Explores Colonialism and the Filipino Psyche (Exclusive Berlin Trailer)

Where the Night Stands Still, the debut feature film of Liryc Dela Cruz, is set to world premiere in the Berlin Film Festival’s new Perspectives section, a competition program for first fiction features. THR can now exclusively reveal its first trailer ahead of the 75th edition of the Berlinale. “After years of separation, three Filipino…

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