Cinematic-Berlin

29/10/2024

The Z-Inema is capping off its spooky season with Jean Rollin's REQUIEM FOR A VAMPIRE at 8pm tonight. The film is very visual and with sparse dialogue, however it is still in French with German subtitles.
However: Afterwards, they have promised screening a surprise english-language holiday classic. So if you're free and nocturnal, swing by Z-Bar, have a drink and get into the monster spirit.

https://zbarberlin.com/kino-z-inema/

28/06/2024

https://www.cinematic-berlin.com/film/en/daddio-eine_nacht_in_new_york_2023
Out this week: DADDIO by Christy Hall
Essentially a two-hander one-room piece, DADDIO puts Sean Penn and Dakota Johnson in a cab to JFK Airport. After an initial period of reluctance, they slowly open up to each other. Little by little, new revelations and conclusions are reached.

Screening at Delphi LUX, Delphi Filmpalast UCI Deutschland hackesche höfe kino Rollberg-Kinos and Kino in der KulturBrauerei

DADDIO plays in quasi real time during a cab drive from JFK airport to the center of New York. A conversation develops between the driver (Sean Penn) and the customer (Dakota Johnson) that becomes increasingly personal.

04/06/2024

https://www.cinematic-berlin.com/news/en/birds_of_a_feather_the_company_of_strangers

As final film of the current run of Birds Of A Feather, will screen Cynthia Scott's THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS (1990) about a group of women stranded in the canadian wilderness. While they are waiting for help, they are telling each other their life stories.
The films about female friendship curated by Elinor Lewy will continue at a different venue.

04/06/2024

https://www.cinematic-berlin.com/film/en/may_december
Out now: MAY DECEMBER by Todd Haynes

Actress Elizabeth (Natalie Portman) visits teacher Gracie (Julianne Moore) and her family to prepare for her next role: Gracie’s affair and later marriage to her 13 year old former student is going to be made into a movie. As she finds out more, Elizabeth finds it harder and harder to keep her distance.

Screening at Delphi Filmpalast, Delphi LUX am friedrichshain, UCI Deutschland fsk Kino SPUTNIK KINO (Höfe am Südstern) Berlin Kreuzberg Yorck Kinogruppe hackesche höfe kino IL KINO Berlin Wolf Kino in der KulturBrauerei Xenon Kino lichtspiele

Actress Elizabeth (Natalie Portman) visits teacher Gracie (Julianne Moore) for research purposes: Gracie’s affair and later marriage to her 13 year old former student is going to be made into a movie.

22/05/2024

https://www.cinematic-berlin.com/news/en/irish_film_festival_berlin_2024
On the weekend of May 24th to 26th, Irish Film Berlin Festival is taking place at ACUDkino again. There will be a fine and varied selection of shorts and features from Ireland, some of which are accompanied by Q&As. Don't miss out what may be the only opportunity to watch these special films on the big screen.

21/05/2024

https://www.cinematic-berlin.com/news/en/premiere_with_guests_corridors_of_power
The documentary CORRIDORS OF POWER shines a light on the history and the work of the institutions of US foreign policy, and examines the deliberation that goes into decisions on whether or not to get involved to potentially prevent a humanitarian atrocity, including intentions and concerns that may not be entirely humanitarian.
For the Berlin premiere on May 22nd at 8pm the film team behind director Dror Moreh will attend the screening at Filmkunst66 . There will also be a talk from a member of the German Foreign Office.

10/05/2024

https://www.cinematic-berlin.com/film/en/robot_dreams
The cutest film about a friendship you're likely to see this year ROBOT DREAMS tells the story of a lonely dog in 1980s New York who builds a mail-order robot. They spend the summer together but something happens which forces them to be friends at a distance for a while. But they can dream. They can always dream.
Told entirely without dialogue ROBOT DREAMS is something for friends of all kinds (aged 8 and up. It gets a little moving. Bring tissues.)
Screening at Delphi LUX Filmkunst66 Ladenkino am friedrichshain Kino Intimes UCI Deutschland fsk Kino SPUTNIK KINO (Höfe am Südstern) Berlin Kreuzberg hackesche höfe kino Filmrauschpalast Moabit Rollberg-Kinos Wolf Kino Spreehoefe Kino in der KulturBrauerei Zeiss-Großplanetarium Eva Lichtspiele

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10/05/2024

https://www.cinematic-berlin.com/film/en/teaches_of_peaches
Now at cinemas: TEACHES OF PEACHES
Philipp Fussenegger and his team follow the electroclash artists and her on- and backstage family during their anniversary tour. Peaches herself talks about her time as a elementary school teacher, her first band and the fact that her biggest hit is a live performance recorded to cassette. Also appearing: Chilly Gonzalez and Shirley Manson, who may well be Peaches biggest fan.
Showing at Delphi LUX Ladenkino Filmtheater am Friedrichshain Neue Zukunft babylonkreuzberg Kino Moviemento Kino Central Berlin Wolf Kino in der KulturBrauerei Lichtblick-Kino Berlin City Kino Wedding

It’s a lot of fun to follow the funny and energetic Peaches on stage and behind the scenes, and there’s quite a lot to discover about her.

25/04/2024

Out now: CHALLENGERS
Luca Guadagnino takes the rivalry between two men over a woman (Zendaya, DUNE), and uses the tennis court as a metaphor.
Our reviewer, Hendrike Bake was uncertain about how serious the film was meant to be taken but with a Guadagnino's eye for striking images and a score by Reznor/Ross (SOUL, Nine Inch Nails), it's bound to be a thrilling experience.

A woman, two men who fight over here, a second-rate tennis game as the simplest possible metaphor for their competition: Luca Guadagnino directs this essentially banal farce, as if it were a matter of life and death, with grand gestures and rousing ...

16/04/2024

Still at cinemas: BACK TO BLACK
Sam Taylor-Johnson's portrait of singer Amy Winehouse is discrete and uninterested in dishing any dirt. And in the end its Marisa Abela who walks on with the film, making Amy more than just a huge beehive and some impressively high shoes.

Screening at Delphi LUX, Kino Union Filmtheater, Filmtheater am Friedrichshain, UCI Luxe Mercedes Platz, Moviemento, SPUTNIK KINO (Höfe am Südstern) Berlin Kreuzberg, Kino Central Berlin, Cubix Alexanderplatz, Kino International Neues Off-Kino Rollberg-Kinos, Kino in der KulturBrauerei, Odeon Cinema Berlin, Cinemax Potsdamer PlatzCineplex Alhambra

BACK TO BLACK is a biopic about Amy Winehouse and her fatal relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil.

29/02/2024

Out this week: THE ZONE OF INTEREST by Jonathan Glazer
Using a colour palette inspired by the film stock of the period and shooting sections of the film using a fly-on-the-wall-technique, this gripping film takes place in a domestic space where the horrors of the Shoah are out of sight, but never out of mind. As much as the camp commander's wife (Sandra Hüller) may try to shut them out, they always encroach on her idyllic garden.

The film screens with english subtitles at Delphi LUX, Ladenkino, Kino Moviemento, hackesche höfe kino, Kino International, IL KINO Berlin, Passage Kino, Wolf and Filmkunst66 (March 4th only)

With a color palette oriented on the cool German color scale of Agfa/Orwo, Glazer depicts the life of the family of the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, Rudolf Höß.

16/02/2024

Sean Erickson is giving first impressions from this year's Berlinale. As further dispatches roll in, the blog will be updated.

A steadily updated blog of impressions from the 2024 Berlin Film Festival

19/12/2023

Telling ghost stories at Christmas was a tradition in Victorian England, which the BBC revived for a number of legendary features like THE SIGNALMAN and WHISTLE AND I'LL COME TO YOU.
Which of these the Filmrauschpalast Moabit will show tomorrow at 9pm is - obviously - a mystery but a lovely spooky atmosphere is guaranteed. And as ghosts rarely have small change on them, admission will be free to all.

Diesen Mittwoch, um 21:00, wird es besinnlich beim Sneak Review DVD Abend. 😌 Kommt vorbei! Der Eintritt ist frei!

08/12/2023

Out this week: HOW TO HAVE S*X, Molly Manning Walker's exploration of three young womens' holiday where the plan is to party, have fun and possibly also s*x. But navigating the minefield of desire, social expectations and peer pressure is difficult and the summer will not be all fun and sunshine.
https://www.cinematic-berlin.com/film/en/how_to_have_s*x_2023

Playing at Delphi LUX Ladenkino Filmtheater am Friedrichshain Babylon Kreuzberg Kino Moviemento SPUTNIK KINO (Höfe am Südstern) Berlin Kreuzberg hackesche höfe kino Wolf and City Kino Wedding

Teenagers Tara, Skye, and Em throw themselves into party life during a Mediterranean vacation and have borderline experiences.

08/12/2023

Out this week: BLACKBERRY by Matt Johnson.
A throwback to the times when the proto-Smartphone was *the* gadget for business types. A bunch of Canadian geeks developed what was meant to be a revolutionary step in telecommunications and soon found themselves over their heads when success set in.
https://www.cinematic-berlin.com/film/en/blackberry_2023

The charming historical comedy is playing at Kino Intimes, fsk Kino Kino Central Berlin Cubix Alexanderplatz IL KINO Berlin und Kino in der KulturBrauerei

Using a nice low-fi aesthetic, Matt Johnson depicts this story of the rise of the nerds who did big business for a few years – until Apple came on the market with the iPhone and introduced the now ubiquitous touch screen.

24/11/2023

Out this week:
SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD by Anna Hints
https://www.cinematic-berlin.com/film/en/smoke_sauna_sisterhood_2023

A portrait of the special female tradition in Estonia centered around the smoke sauna.

Playing with english subtitles at Wolf

The documentary follows a group of Estonian women at the traditional smoke sauna ritual.

24/11/2023

Out this week: THE OLD OAK by Ken Loach
https://www.cinematic-berlin.com/film/en/the_old_oak_2023
When a group of syrian refugees is sent to a former mining town in the North of England, many of the locals are less than enthusiastic about the new arrivals.
It is up to pub landlord TJ to make connections and stress that the only way forward is if both groups become a new, more diverse community.

TJ is the owner of “The Old Oak,“ the last pub in the former mining village in Durham. When he makes his back room available as a meeting room for Syrian refugees, he finds himself in the firing line of the resentful locals.

24/10/2023

Out now:
INGEBORG BACHMANN - JOURNEY INTO THE DESERT
https://www.cinematic-berlin.com/film/en/ingeborg_bachmann_reise_in_die_wueste-ingeborg_bachmann_journey_into_the_desert
Margarethe von Trotta shows how the relationship between the Austrian author Ingeborg Bachmann (Vicky Krieps) and Swiss Max Frisch (Ronald Zehrfeld) was also a struggle between vastly different characters not always at ease with the social roles they were meant to play.

Screening with english subtitles at IL KINO Berlin

INGEBORG BACHMANN is primarily a film about how the traditional understanding of roles can kill love and art.

24/10/2023

Out Now: KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Martin Scorsese's epic presenting a social panorama of Osage County at the start of the 20th century.

Martin Scorsese displays a social panorama of Osage County at the beginning of the 20th century, when white “soldiers of fortune“ did everything they could to exploit the Osage, who owned the land and the oil in it, and didn‘t shy away from ...

12/10/2023

Out this week; FEARLESS FLYERS
https://www.cinematic-berlin.com/film/en/fearless_flyers-fliegen_fuer_anfaenger_2023
A group of people who suffer from fear of flying attend a training programme to rid themselves of it. Needless to say, things do not go to plan and shenanigans occur.
Landing at Ladenkino Filmtheater am Friedrichshain and SPUTNIK KINO (Höfe am Südstern) Berlin Kreuzberg

A group of people want to overcome their fear of flying in a training program. In the final test flight to Iceland, the travel group gets stranded.

12/10/2023

Out this week I: DOGMAN
https://www.cinematic-berlin.com/film/en/dogman_2023_2023
Luc Besson's latest film deals with the story of a young man from a pious family who finds that dogs are far more trustworthy and affectionate than people, and who sets out to become an avenger of the downtrodden and attain his own form of salvation.
Stylish, silly fun with plenty of very good boys and girls, screening at Ladenkino Kreuzberg CinemaxX Kino Titania Palast Cinestar Cubix am Alex Filmkunst66 (OV with engl. subs Mon 16th only) hackesche höfe kino IL KINO Berlin International Kino in der KulturBrauerei Rollberg-Kinos SPUTNIK KINO (Höfe am Südstern) Berlin Kreuzberg UCI Luxe Mercedes Platz and Xenon Kino

DOGMAN deals with a similar brand of incel teen misanthropy as Todd Phiillip‘s JOKER (2019), but approaches it in a less serious and thereby more honest way.

07/10/2023

Out this week (no pun intended): BLUE JEAN
In Northern England of the late 1980s le***an PE teacher Jean is struggling with the effects of "Section 28", which ostensibly bans the "promotion of homos*xuality" but in effect makes it impossible for Jean and her friends to live open and honestly, as well as provide counselling to her pupils.
But Jean is not the type to roll over and play dead in this gripping drama. Two years later, Thatcher was out (of office) but her "legacy" stayed in effect until 2003.

Screening at Delphi LUX Tilsiter Lichtspiele Babylon Kino Kreuzberg (right next to Möbel Olfe. Smart move.), Kino Moviemento IL KINO Berlin Passage Kino Wolf and Xenon Kino (right inside the Xenon Kino. Even smarter move. ;-) )

1988 in Newcastle, northern England: Jean (Rosy McEwen) is a le***an PE teacher while the Tory act “Section 28“ bans the “promotion of homos*xuality“ at schools and other public institutions.

07/10/2023

https://www.cinematic-berlin.com/film/en/the_lost_king_2023
Out this week: THE LOST KING
In Stephen Frear's new film a hobby archaeologist (Sally Hawkins) feels a kinship to Richard III and makes it her mission to find out if he was unjustly represented as a villain by history. Based on a real archaeological find from 2012.

Screening at Ladenkino Filmkunst66Filmtheater am Friedrichshain Yorck-Kino Kino International Passage Kino, Kino in der KulturBrauerei and Odeon Cinema Berlin

Stephen Frears directs the true story of how Richard III‘s body was found under a parking lot in Leicester in 2012 due to the dogged research of hobby archeologist Philippa Langley (Sally Hawkins).