Mike Leigh – next president of Berlin Film Festival
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British director Mike Leigh has been elected as a president of the jury the main competition program of the 62nd Berlin Film Festival, which runs from 9 to 19 February 2012.
Leigh is working in film industry for almost 40 years and during that time became one of Britain's leading directors, as well as one of the most prominent representatives of copyright movies. Thanks to his approach to directing, actors are free to set at liberty to improvise and to reveal better their characters. Mike Leigh reveals the lives of British society with strict realism, but his films are filled with a kind of humor.
Mike Leigh made his film debut in 1971 with drama "Bleak Moments", which produced the famous British actor Albert Finney. The film won the "Golden Leopard" at Locarno Festival.
Pictures of the director repeatedly received the highest film awards in the world. He has three prizes at the Cannes Festival for the film "Naked" (Best Direction) and "Secrets and Lies" ("Golden Palm" and the Ecumenical Jury Prize). Venice has bestowed Lee with the "Golden Lion" for his film "Vera Drake" and in this year's "Oscar" has been nominated his screenplay melodrama "Another year." A total of seven nominations for the director's "Oscar". In addition, Lee got several awards of British Academy (BAFTA), including for contribution to British cinema.
In Berlin for the last time Leigh arrived with his painting "Carefree", which participated in the contest. Sally Hawkins won the prize for best actress, and later received another award and the "Golden Globe".
Since the sixties, Mike Leigh works in the theater as a director and playwright. On his account there are over 20 performances.
Berlin film festival has announced its program
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Coen brothers with "True grit" will open 61th Berlin Film Festival on Feb. 10. Among the films participating in the contest, the directorial debut of Ralph Fiennes "Coriolanus", the drama of Alexander Mindadze "In Saturday", "Margin Call" with Kevin Spacey and Jeremy Irons. Their three-dimensional projects in non-competitive program will introduce Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog.
For a long time it was thought that Terrence Malick will bring its "Tree of Life" in Berlin, but this did not happen. However, in the program will be another famous unfinished - film Bela Tarr "Turin horse". This is a simple story about how a horse disease darkens life and work of the farmer and his daughter. In 2008 a film was repeatedly postponed due to weather. In 2010, waiting for the tape to film festivals, but it never came. The director said that this film will be the last in his filmography.
Directed by "Maria full of grace" Joshua Marston will bring his new film "The Forgiveness of Blood", filmed in the Albanian language and tells about the family feud in Albania.
From unusual: Scandinavia, so beloved by the German festival, this year is not represented in the competition Berlinale. For Asian cinema is puffing drama "Come Rain Come Shine" Jon-Ki Lee, whose directorial debut "This pretty girl" was awarded prizes in Berlin and Pusan.
German masters Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog in this time were in the non-competitive program. Their new projects - documentaries, shot in 3D. "Pina" by Wenders is dedicated to choreographer Pina Bausch, while "The Cave of Forgotten Dreams" by Herzog tells about the Chauvet cave in southern France. It was found the most ancient examples of rock art. Age figures ranging from 33,000 to 30,000 years.
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Brothers Coen will open the next Berlin Film Festival
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New tape by Coen brothers' “True grit” will open Berlinale 2011. The film will be shown during the non-competitive program. This movie is a new adaptation of the book by Charles Portis, had already incarnated on screen by Henry Hathaway. Version in 1969 became the only tape, for the work in which John Wayne has gotten an Oscar in the category "Best Actor".
In the center of the story the young Mattie Ross, seeking the killers of his father. Her companion is an assistant county sheriff (marshal) named Rooster Cogburn. In a tape also stars Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper and country singer Glen Campbell. Later, the film got a continuation of the "Rooster Cogburn" “Stuart Millar and True Grit: A Further Adventure”, where the main role has played Marshal Warren Oates. In the film of Coens will act Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin.
Berlin Film Festival director Dieter Kosslick, commenting on the choice of the jury: "Joel and Ethan are in the front row of American independent cinema. With their penchant for irony and an unusual characters and stories these directors can always capture the imagination of the audience. "
"True grit" not so long ago was awarded by the American National Board of Review of the ten best films of 2010.
Berlinale 2011 will take place from 10 to 20 February.