Joining the titles already announced—including films by Alain Resnais and Dominik Graf—the following films complete the lineup for the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival's Competition section.
Bai Ri Yan Huo (Black Coal, Thin Ice)
People’s Republic of China
By Yinan Diao (Night Train, Uniform)
With Fan Liao, Lun Mei Gwei, Xuebing Wang
World premiere
Boyhood
USA
By Richard Linklater (Before Midnight, Me & Orson Welles)
With Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater
International premiere
Chiisai Ouchi (The Little House)
Japan
By Yoji Yamada (Tokyo Family, About Her Brother)
With Takako Matsu, Haru Kuroki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Chieko Baisho
International premiere
Historia del miedo (History of Fear)
Argentina / Uruguay / Germany / France
By Benjamin Naishtat - feature debut
With Jonathan Da Rosa, Claudia Cantero, Mirella Pascual, Cesar Bordon, Tatiana Gimenez
World premiere
Jack
Germany
By Edward Berger
With Ivo Pietzcker, Georg Arms, Luise Heyer, Vincent Redetzki, Jacob Matschenz,...
Bai Ri Yan Huo (Black Coal, Thin Ice)
People’s Republic of China
By Yinan Diao (Night Train, Uniform)
With Fan Liao, Lun Mei Gwei, Xuebing Wang
World premiere
Boyhood
USA
By Richard Linklater (Before Midnight, Me & Orson Welles)
With Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater
International premiere
Chiisai Ouchi (The Little House)
Japan
By Yoji Yamada (Tokyo Family, About Her Brother)
With Takako Matsu, Haru Kuroki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Chieko Baisho
International premiere
Historia del miedo (History of Fear)
Argentina / Uruguay / Germany / France
By Benjamin Naishtat - feature debut
With Jonathan Da Rosa, Claudia Cantero, Mirella Pascual, Cesar Bordon, Tatiana Gimenez
World premiere
Jack
Germany
By Edward Berger
With Ivo Pietzcker, Georg Arms, Luise Heyer, Vincent Redetzki, Jacob Matschenz,...
- 1/15/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
After nearly four years grappling with the Chinese censorship board, Ning Hao's darkly comic crime caper finally comes to the screen and proves largely worth the wait.Back in 2009, Shanxi-born filmmaker Ning Hao was shaping up to be one of China's most exciting young filmmakers. His 2005 feature, Mongolian Ping Pong, had proved a hit on the festival circuit, and his follow-up, the comedy caper Crazy Stone, was produced by Andy Lau and became a surprise domestic hit at the Chinese box office. The film helped launch the career of comedian Huang Bo, who also starred in Ning's next film, Crazy Racer, in which Ning continued to develop his style of employing different regional dialects, witty wordplay, slapstick humour and riffing heavily on well known Chinese...
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- 12/12/2013
- Screen Anarchy
With its North American premiere happening this Saturday, July 7th at the 2012 New York Asian Film Festival, we now revisit James Marsh's review of Guns n' Roses from May.Wunderkind and enfant terrible are both labels that have been regularly applied to mainland director Ning Hao, who first began turning heads on the festival circuit with his debut Mongolian Ping Pong back in 2005. It was his sophomore feature, however, that really caused a splash. Crazy Stone was a surprise hit at the Chinese box office - an independent low budget caper movie with no stars and a labyrinthine plot of small time crooks and part time security guards all with their eyes on a valuable jewel. Ning's followed this success with Crazy Racer,...
- 7/5/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Wunderkind and enfant terrible are both labels that have been regularly applied to mainland director Ning Hao, who first began turning heads on the festival circuit with his debut Mongolian Ping Pong back in 2005. It was his sophomore feature, however, that really caused a splash. Crazy Stone was a surprise hit at the Chinese box office - an independent low budget caper movie with no stars and a labyrinthine plot of small time crooks and part time security guards all with their eyes on a valuable jewel. Ning's followed this success with Crazy Racer, which took the same model even further with frenetic pacing, madcap humour, multiple characters and half a dozen different story strands that had critics drawing comparisons to Quentin Tarantino and...
- 5/4/2012
- Screen Anarchy
By Michael Atkinson
Perhaps, with the cataract of Dvd'd Méliès mania besetting us . the new comprehensive Flicker Alley box "George Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913)," the new, more modest and affordable Kino sampler "The Magic of Méliès," both piling atop Facets' standard "Méliès the Magician" disc . we can begin to consider the French pioneer as something other than a film history staple and an oddity for scholars. It'd be a brand new tact to take for films that, being over a century old, reach right back to the form's infancy, movies' equivalent of cave painting and hieroglyph carving. But there's something effervescent and seductive there, a spirit of high innocence and ceaseless invention that has made several of Méliès's elaborate images . most obviously, the man in the moon with the ship-bullet in his eye, from "A Trip to the Moon" (1902) . undying cultural icons, familiar to the masses who...
Perhaps, with the cataract of Dvd'd Méliès mania besetting us . the new comprehensive Flicker Alley box "George Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913)," the new, more modest and affordable Kino sampler "The Magic of Méliès," both piling atop Facets' standard "Méliès the Magician" disc . we can begin to consider the French pioneer as something other than a film history staple and an oddity for scholars. It'd be a brand new tact to take for films that, being over a century old, reach right back to the form's infancy, movies' equivalent of cave painting and hieroglyph carving. But there's something effervescent and seductive there, a spirit of high innocence and ceaseless invention that has made several of Méliès's elaborate images . most obviously, the man in the moon with the ship-bullet in his eye, from "A Trip to the Moon" (1902) . undying cultural icons, familiar to the masses who...
- 3/19/2008
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
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