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Filmmaker Brendan Canty at the Q&A following the world premiere of ‘Christy’, photo courtesy of © Berlinale

Brendan Canty talks Berlinale gem 'Christy', casting his ensemble and hints at upcoming epic... in development stages

E. Nina Rothe February 19, 2025

In many ways, ‘Christy’ is the perfect film. And talking to the film’s director and co-writer provided many of the reasons why.

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In Festivals, Interviews, Movies Tags Brendan Canty, Irish cinema, Christy, Berlinale, Generation 14plus opening film, Charades film sales, Daithí, Cork, Kabin Crew, Danny Power, Take Me to Church, Hozier, Jamie Forde
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Photo by © Ali Ghandtschi, courtesy of the Berlinale

"I’ll keep trying to make movies that are as disruptive as possible": Olivier Assayas at Berlinale for 'Hors du temps'

E. Nina Rothe February 23, 2024

In his latest film which in English gets the title ‘Suspended Time’, the French maestro gets super personal and in the process, makes us discover the laughter we lost during COVID times.

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In Celebrity, Interviews, Festivals Tags Berlinale, hors du temps, Olivier Assayas, ICSFilm.org, French cinema, Irma Vep, Personal Shopper, Micha Lescot, Nine D'Urso, Vincent Macaigne, Nora Hamzawi, Non Fiction, Covid, Pandemic, lockdown, A24, Wasp Network, Cuba, Suspended Time
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Clockwise from top left: Lupita Nyong'o © Nick Barose; Ann Hui; Albert Serra © Oscar Orengo, Oksana Zabuzhko © Agnete Brun; Brady Corbet © Atsushi Nishijima; Jasmine Trinca © Andrea Gandini; Christian Petzold © Schramm Film 

Berlinale announces 2024 juries and expresses solidarity with travel-banned Iranian filmmakers

E. Nina Rothe February 1, 2024

A multitalented group of people will decide who brings home the top prizes from Berlin, while Iran shows its colors.

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Tags Maryam Moghaddam Behtash Sanaeeha, Berlinale, Juries, Iran, Ira Sachs, Lupita Nyong'o, Brady Corbet, Ann Hui, Christian Petzold, Albert Serra, Jasmine Trinca, Oksana Zabuzhko, Golden Bear, Silver Bear, Denis Cote, Tizza Covi, Lisandro Alonso, Encounters jury, Ilker Çatak, Xabier Erkizia, Jennifer Reeder, GWFF Best First Feature Award, Eliza Hittman, Andréa Picard, Toronto International Film Festival, Katrin Pors, Abbas Fahdel, Thomas Heise, Véréna Paravel, Amjad Abu Alala, Banafshe Hourmazdi, Martin Scorsese, Lupita Nyong’o, Joanna Hogg, Peaches, Abderrahmane Sissako, Tsai Ming-liang and Mati Diop, Berlinale Talents, My Favourite Cake, Carlo Chatrian, Mariëtte Rissenbeek, Ballad of a White Cow, Glass Bear
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Lupita  Nyong'o © Nick Barose

Four reasons to love Lupita Nyong'o, if you ever needed them

E. Nina Rothe December 14, 2023

Reason one: she’s going to be Jury President of the Berlinale 2024.

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In Fashion, Celebrity, Festivals Tags Lupita Nyong'o, Sudan, Berlinale, Academy Awards, Oscar winner, Vashti, Vashti Harrison, Sulwe, book, actress, Kenya, Mexico, Dreamworks Animation, The Wild Robot, Chris Sanders, Jeff Hermann, Roz, animation
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John Malkovich talks 'Seneca', acting in the TikTok generation & shooting in Morocco, again

E. Nina Rothe July 17, 2023

The American actor may have said something during the press conference about his good friend Julian Sands, also featured in the film Malkovich is promoting at this year's Berlinale, but during our interview the tragedy of the actor who has gone missing felt like a looming presence, unspoken and indescribable.

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In Celebrity, Festivals, Interviews Tags Seneca, Berlinale, John Malkovich, Julian Sands
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Aamir Khan speaks to E. Nina Rothe

An interview with Aamir Khan for 'Laal Singh Chaddha', the Indian Forrest Gump

E. Nina Rothe June 30, 2023

"We have such a large and healthy audience of our own in India, the fact is that none of the filmmakers have really felt the need to reach out to a world audience," Aamir Khan told me in 2010, "and when I say really felt the need, I mean filmmakers in Argentina perhaps, or in France or Germany, different parts of the world, don't have such big and healthy audiences of their own and so they come from a situation where they really need to reach out to a world audience and an audience in the West."

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In Celebrity, Interviews Tags Aamir Khan, Aamir Khan Productions, Laal Singh Chaddha, Forrest Gump, Berlinale
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A still from ‘Until Tomorrow’ which world premiered at Berlinale in 2022

Ali Asgari talks 'Until Tomorrow' and filmmaking in Iran

E. Nina Rothe January 3, 2022

Don’t think of this film as your ordinary Western world garden variety torment, as Asgari's oeuvre usually involves two individuals dancing a dance of impossibilities with the authorities of Tehran, trying to navigate a world that makes one's humanity a challenge.

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In Interviews, Movies Tags Ali Asgari, Iranian cinema, Until Tomorrow, Tehran, Cannes, Berlinale, Disappearance, The Baby, Sadaf Asgari, Audience Award
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Locarno 2017

Locarno 2017

Irrfan Khan, why did you go? The world is uglier today...

E. Nina Rothe April 29, 2020

Now, in the moment when we would have needed him most, Irrfan Khan has left us. He’s gone. He had been ill for the last couple of years and yet, just as with all those we deeply love and are deserving of that love, his passing was unexpected. Unwarranted. Unwanted. HIs words won’t get us out of this funk now.

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In Celebrity Tags Irrfan Khan, The Namesake, Locarno Film Festival, Carlo Chatrian, Berlinale, Abu Dhabi Film Festival, Emirates, Emirates Palace
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Filmmaker Rithy Panh in Qatar, photo courtesy of the Doha Film Institute

Filmmaker Rithy Panh in Qatar, photo courtesy of the Doha Film Institute

“Cinema has a responsibility”: An interview with Rithy Panh

E. Nina Rothe February 1, 2020

Meeting Cambodian documentary filmmaker Rithy Panh in Doha, during their annual Qumra event, was a real treat for someone who believes in the power of cinema with a conscience. Apart from the Doha Film Institute's wonderful meeting of talents held within the Souq Waqif and inside the Museum of Islamic Art each March and now in its fifth edition, Panh's presence felt historic. He was a Qumra Master in 2017, came back to teach a short documentary lab at the Institute in the summer of 2018, and now is back as a Mentor -- patiently watching works in progress and meeting with filmmakers to share his wisdom.

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In Celebrity, Interviews, Movies Tags Rithy Panh, Doha Film Institute, cinema, Cambodia, Berlinale, Carlo Chatrian, Irradiated, Irradies, documentary, competition, Qumra, The Land of Wandering Souls, Graves without a Name, First They Killed My Father, Angelina Jolie, cinema with a conscience
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Rachid Bouchareb at Berlinale 2016: "Peace Should Be a Subject Taught in Schools"

E. Nina Rothe January 3, 2020

I find that there is a leitmotif running through three-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb’s work. It’s the idea that peace is fragile, no matter how idyllic the setting of your life, there could always be something threatening to invade it, to destroy the status quo.

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In Celebrity, Festivals, Interviews, Movies Tags Rachid Bouchareb, Iran crisis, peace, Berlinale, Road to Istanbul, film
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Roberto Saviano at Zuccotti Park during the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, photo by © Umberto Nicoletti

Roberto Saviano at Zuccotti Park during the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, photo by © Umberto Nicoletti

Roberto Saviano, wins Silver Bear at Berlinale, but here he was in an earlier interview

E. Nina Rothe February 19, 2019

Roberto Saviano, to any Italian, is a figure that we constantly re-evaluate. I started out being completely taken by his apparent courage and in fact wrote the piece below after meeting him in secret in NYC. I named it “The Face of Courage” for the Huffington Post.

These days, his police protection magically gone, even though the Camorra is still going strong, he’s written the screenplay for an award winning film at Berlinale, and I am starting to doubt his intentions. Or even his provenance. When I wanted to catch up again with the writer and TV personality, he dismissed me on a couple of occasions. But regardless of my own experiences and thoughts about Saviano, this interview I conducted with him in NYC in 2012 is a great testament to something. I just have to figure out what… My good writing perhaps?

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In Celebrity, Interviews Tags Roberto saviano, La Paranza dei bambini, Berlinale, interview, Italian
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Jeff Goldblum photographed on opening night of the Berlinale 2018, on the red carpet for Wes Anderson's 'Isle of Dogs'Photo courtesy of Berlinale 

Jeff Goldblum photographed on opening night of the Berlinale 2018, on the red carpet for Wes Anderson's 'Isle of Dogs'

Photo courtesy of Berlinale 

The pastel hues of Jeff Goldblum: On watching 'Isle of Dogs' for the first time and Wes Anderson's "some kind of wonderful"

E. Nina Rothe March 23, 2018

I met Jeff Goldblum in Berlin, where his latest project, Wes Anderson's stop-motion animated masterpiece 'Isle of Dogs' premiered and kicked off the 68th edition of the Berlinale. The actor was dressed to the nines, as he typically is, in the past even having prompted a special quote from his three-time director, "I like the pastel hues of Jeff Goldblum –' That’s the title of something," which remains a personal favorite quote to describe Goldblum.

In person Goldblum is bigger than life but in a way that's not burly or self-important. He simply is the man with the constantly evolving good looks, the actor who has gotten better with age and who, at 65 years old, can still hold a table of jaded journalists spellbound. For the half hour we chatted with him, there seemed to be no one else in the room, even with Bill Murray and Liev Schreiber just feet away at other tables. That's how charismatic Goldblum is. It is a quality that definitely comes across whenever the actor is photographed, like the photographer captured the shot above.

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In Celebrity, Interviews, Movies Tags Isle of Dogs, Wes Anderson, Jeff Goldblum, Berlinale, Berlin, US release date, Fox Searchlight, Robert Altman
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Aamir Khan by © Avinash Gowarikar

Aamir Khan by © Avinash Gowarikar

Aamir Khan on His Fans, Jafar Panahi, 'A Separation' and the Mahabharata

E. Nina Rothe March 2, 2018

At our first meeting, when I got up, ready to pack up my recording device after the interview and bid Aamir Khan adieu, the Indian mega star insisted “no please, have a seat. I would like to ask you a couple of questions. Do you have the time?” Of course I did, for the greatest star in the firmament of Indian cinema! And so for the next fifteen minutes, Khan unassumingly asked about my background, my love for Arab cinema and my passion for India. 

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In Celebrity, Interviews Tags Aamir Khan, Berlinale, Jafar Panahi, Mahabharata, Aamir Khan Productions, Peepli Live, Indian cienma, Bollywood, A Separation, Locarno Film Festival, Berlin, Juries, Dhobi Ghat, Kiran Rao, Anusha Rizvi, Reema Kagti, Kareena Kapoor, Zoya Akhtar, Rani Mukherjee, Doom 3, Fanaa
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A still from 'Ryuichi Sakamoto CODA' by Stephen Nomura Schible

A still from 'Ryuichi Sakamoto CODA' by Stephen Nomura Schible

The Reluctant Radical: An Interview with Ryuichi Sakamoto

E. Nina Rothe February 13, 2018

At this year's Berlinale, the iconically sophisticated Ryuichi Sakamoto serves double duty.

He is part of the official 2018 Competition Jury, and is the subject of Stephen Nomura Schible’s 'RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: async AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY', the companion piece, the B side if you will, to 'RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA', a film which screened at the Venice Film Festival in 2017.

When I met Sakamoto in person, inside the Casinò in Venice, I was awe struck. His shiny, perfectly straight silver hair, those tortoise shell eyeglasses and the stylish black suit all made for an image that is so naturally fashionable, hard to forget. Yet Sakamoto is so much more profound than just how he looks, his meticulously styled, outward persona.

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In Celebrity, Interviews, Festivals Tags Ryuichi Sakamoto, Berlinale, Venice Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Ryuichi Sakamoto CODA, Stephen Nomura Schible, Competition Jury, RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: async AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY, Cancer, Nuclear energy, Japan, Tokyo, NYC, David Bowie, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, The Sheltering Sky, Babel, The Last Emperor, The Revenant, No Nukes, Bernardo Bertolucci, composer, activist, Fukushima
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Gianfranco Rosi

Gianfranco Rosi

‘We Are Facing a Disaster’: Berlinale Winner Gianfranco Rosi Talks Fuocoammare

E. Nina Rothe February 10, 2018

Can a film change the world?

Italian filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi’s latest masterpiece Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea) was awarded the top prize at this year’s Berlinale and jury president Meryl Streep declared the film “urgent, imaginative and necessary filmmaking,” when handing him the Golden Bear. Fuocoammare also received the Ecumenical Prize and that jury released a statement saying that Fire at Sea is “a film that refuses to allow the status quo to go unquestioned.” If that isn’t changing the world through cinema, then I give up.

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In Interviews, Movies Tags Gianfranco Rosi, Fuocoammare, Fire at Sea, Berlinale, Meryl Streep, Golden Bear winner, Ecumenical Prize, migrants, refugees, Italy, Holocaust, Lampedusa, United Nations
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Photo by Ben Rothstein © 2016 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Ratpac-Dune Entertainment Llc

Photo by Ben Rothstein © 2016 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Ratpac-Dune Entertainment Llc

Actor Michael Shannon Redefines Fatherhood, Good & Evil in 'Midnight Special'

E. Nina Rothe February 7, 2018

Ladies, get a hold of some waterproof mascara, ‘cause you’ll need it!

In Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special, actor Michael Shannon gives everyone a daddy complex, by being the best father we all wished for in our youth, or that fantasy baby daddy we’ve dreamed about in the thick of the night. And the tears, well those are a fabulous byproduct of this charismatic actor’s latest, cathartic performance. 

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In Celebrity, Festivals, Interviews, Movies Tags Michael Shannon, Berlinale, Berlin, Midnight Special, Jaeden Lieberher, Jeff Nichols, Warner Brothers, 99 Homes, Ramin Bahrani, Tribeca Film Festival, Elvis & Nixon, Corporal
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Photo courtesy of the Venice International Film Festival

Photo courtesy of the Venice International Film Festival

Three Questions with Liev Schreiber

E. Nina Rothe February 2, 2018

There is something perfectly magnetic about Liev Schreiber. He's tall, strong and handsome, with clear as aquamarines blue eyes. But it goes beyond that. When he sat down in the chair next to mine in Venice, I gasped.

And now I can't wait to watch him... eh hum.... hear him play a dog in Wes Anderson's 'Isle of Dogs'. 

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In Interviews, Celebrity Tags Liev Schreiber, Isle of Dogs, Wes Anderson, Venice Film Festival, Berlinale
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