Showing posts with label Berlin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Berlin. Show all posts

Sunday, April 10, 2016

66th Berlin International Film Festival



Opening film: Hail, Caesar!
Festival date: 11–21 February 2016


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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)


"To enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman."


Directed by Jonathan Demme
Produced by Kenneth Utt, Edward Saxon, Ron Bozman
Screenplay by Ted Tally
Based on "The Silence of the Lambs" by Thomas Harris
Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine
Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography: Tak Fujimoto
Edited by Craig McKay
Distributed by Orion Pictures
Release date: 14 February 1991 (United States)
Running time: 118 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $19 million
Box office: $272.7 million



"The Silence of the Lambs" is a thriller crime drama film directed by Jonathan Demme and based on Thomas Harris' novel of the same name. The story is about a young F.B.I. cadet who must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Boyhood (2014)


"A moving 12 years epic that isn't quite like anything else in the History of Cinema."


Directed by Richard Linklater
Produced by Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss
Written by Richard Linklater
Starring: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Lorelei Linklater, Ethan Hawke
Cinematography: Lee Daniel, Shane Kelly
Edited by Sandra Adair
Distributed by IFC Films
Release date: 5 June 2014 (Germany)
Running time: 165 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $2.400.000
Box office: $43.400.000

"Boyhood" is a coming-of-age drama film, written and directed by Richard Linklater. It shows the adolescence of Mason Evans, Jr. from ages six to eighteen as he grows up in Texas with divorced parents.

Sunday, June 29, 2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)



Directed by Wes Anderson
Produced by Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven M. Rales, Scott Rudin
Screenplay by Wes Anderson
Based on the story of Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Edward Norton, Mathieu Amalric, Saoirse Ronan, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Léa Seydoux, Jeff Goldblum, Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Tony Revolori
Music by Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography: Robert Yeoman
Edited by Barney Pilling
Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release date: 6 March 2014 (Germany)
Running time: 99 minutes
Country: Germany, United Kingdom


"The Grand Budapest Hotel" is an adventure comedy drama film which is written and directed by Wes Anderson. It's about the unknown author who made a trip to the Grand Budapest Hotel in 1968. One afternoon he encounters Zero Moustafa, the hotel's elderly owner. The owner tells the author the captivating story of how he took ownership of the hotel and why he is unwilling to close it down.