The new Matrix movie is back in production and Keanu Reeves talks about the changes made for safety.
Each year the Berlin Film Festival’s Shooting Stars programme highlights major upcoming European acting talent. Norway’s Ine Marie Wilmann, who played Norwegian iceskater and 1930s Hollywood star Sonja Henie in Sundance entry Sonja: The White Swan, is on a career high, while Germany’s vivacious Emma Drogunova is thriving on home turf. Well known at home for her work in television and theatre, the 33 year-old Norwegian Ine Marie Wilmann has starred twice in films by Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky: 2015’s Homesick and now Sonja: The White Swan, the story of the three-time figure skating …
The graphic depiction of the gross deeds of ‘70s German serial killer Fritz Honka murdering women and dismembering their bodies in Fatih Akin’s movie The Golden Glove left Berlin Festival audiences in shock. What was the celebrated Hamburg-born director of Turkish parents thinking? He’d won the Golden Bear for Head-On in 2004 and had recently attracted worldwide praise for In The Fade, his 2016 film with Diane Kruger who won a best actress Golden Globe after returning to her native German language. It was important to hear what the affable Akin had to say about taking …