Friday, February 29, 2008

Dining with Films and Michelin Stars


My article on the Culinary Cinema event at the Berlin Film Festival has been posted (finally) on the Gourmet website. It's short and sweet, so enjoy!

"Lovers of food and film might want to mark their calendars for next February 5–15, when for the third year in a row, the Berlin Film Festival will offer Culinary Cinema, a series of screenings paired with dinners inspired by the films and prepared by hotshot chefs. This year, after reliving the thwarted dinner party of Luis Buñuel’s 1972 classic The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie...[READ FULL ARTICLE]
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Operalinks

While the quality opera at Berlin's three full-time opera houses isn't nearly as consistant as one finds at the Met,  the way opera is done here is a helluva lot more exciting performance-to-performance.

Since September, I've been a Berlin correspondant for the New-York-based Opera News Magazine. My reviews of Hans Werner Henze's Phaedra, Telemann's Geduldige Sokrates and a double-header of Strauss' Elektra and Gnecchi's Cassandra are already on the website (www.operanews.com).

Stay tuned for evaluations of Don Giovanni and Ballo in Maschera at the Staatsoper, Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Deutsche Oper and the Komische's Theseus.
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Monday, February 25, 2008

Berlinale Pics

Here are some memorable images from this year's Berlin Film Fest! - Enjoy

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The CineStar in the Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz


Stargazers wait by the entrance of the Grand Hyatt



An installation of one of Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno videos



Actress Tilda Swinton and director Julien Issac at the press conference for their documentary Derek, about the British filmmaker Derek Jarman.



Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai and French actress Jeanne Moreau after the press screening of "Plus tard, tu comprendras"



Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz pose for papparazzi at the press conference for "Elegy"


Isabella Rossellini, Guy Maddin and Jody Shapiro discuss "Green Porno" and "My Winipeg"


The 55-year-old Rossellini
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Sounds of Silence



If the Feuilletonist has of late been more silent than God, it is the fault not of laziness or fatigue, but rather competing obligations. As of a week ago, I was reporting on the 58th Annual Berlin International Film Festival, zipping around town to attend screenings, fight my way into crowded press conferences, and beg press agents for the rare interview.

My coverage of the 10-day festival is divided among various magazines. To start, there's a lenghty festival overview / wrap-up at Anthemmagazine.com.

Secondly, I contributed a story on Isabella Rossellini's small screen directorial début, "Green Porno," for Wired.com.

Visit the website of The New Republic for an in-depth analysis of the film and video work of French director Michel Gondry, whose new film "Be Kind, Rewind," opened nationwide this past Friday.

As a supplement to that feature, a Q&A I conducted with the quirky and charming filmmaker has been posted as well.

On the horizon is a feature on a food and film series that brought Michelin chefs to cater gourmet meals inspired by films with gastronomic themes, which should appear sometime this week at Gourmet.com.


Even though I was not accredited as a photographer at this year's Berlinale, I still managed to steal a few surreptitious shots of the festival's stars. I'll be posting a selection of photos from this year's Berlinale shortly. So, stay tuned!

-Adam
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