Tuesday, January 17, 2012

'Young Adult,' 'I, Anna' to unspool in Berlinale Special

BERLIN -- Jason Reitman's "Youthful Adult" and Barnaby Southcombe's "I, Anna" are some of the latest worldwide photos selected with this year's Berlin Film Festival. "Youthful Adult," with Charlize Theron and Patton Oswalt, and "I, Anna," a noir thriller starring Charlotte now Rampling, Gabriel Byrne and Hayley Atwell that got a significant boost in the fest's Co-production Market this year, will screen included in the Berlinale Special sidebar. Also unspooling within the section is Doris Doerrie's "Bliss," an appreciation story with different short story by best-selling author and Berlin defense attorney Ferdinand von Schirach that follows a youthful prostitute and her punk boyfriend away from home. The Berlinale Special is featuring 18 features and documentaries, including U.S. records "Alongside,Inch by Chris Kenneally, and Alison Klayman's "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry." Also showing are Bassam Mortada's Egyptian doc "Confirming A Revolution" Nederlander helmer Klaartje Quirijns' "Anton Corbijn ThoroughlyInch and Alvaro Longoria's The spanish language doc "Sons from the Clouds, the final Colony." To celebrate the 60th anniversary of French film journal Positif, the Berlinale Special will even present Volker Schloendorff's 1975 drama "Coup p sophistication" and all sorts of 15 hourlong instances of Mark Cousins' documentary "The Storyline of Film: An Journey." The sidebar will even unspool Ulrike Schamoni's docu "Farewell towards the Frogs" in recognition from the 50th anniversary from the Oberhausen Manifesto that brought inside a new trend in German film. Additional screeners incorporate a restored version of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1943 British drama "The Existence and Dying of Colonel Blimp." Included in Berlinale Retrospective, the Berlinale Special will even unspool a recently restored version of Sergei Eisenstein's 1928 Soviet classic "October," supported through the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra carrying out the initial score by Edmund Meisel. The 2011 Retrospective, named The Red-colored Dream Factory, examines early Soviet socialist cinema. Meanwhile, the Berlinale's Co-production Market will showcase 39 projects including three in the Rotterdam-Berlinale Express initiative with Rotterdam's CineMart and 11 in the Berlinale's Talent Campus program. The producers and company directors from the projects, which range in budget between $1.25 million and $9 million, will come across with a few 450 potential co-production and financing partners. The Berlin Film Festival runs February. 9-19. Contact Erectile dysfunction Meza at staff@variety.com

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