Monday, May 25, 2009

The Silver Screen

When I was fresh in Berlin last September (2007), I signed up for a gig as an extra in the film version of “The Reader.” I finally saw the film and spotted myself in the background during the scene at the beach. NOTE: the scene was supposed to be much longer than it is in the final cut of the film, as much to my dismay the deleted footage that we shot is not included in the DVD release. Here’s a screen capture from the scene as it exists. David Kross is sprinting across the beach and I’m strolling with a German girl (named Petra) to his left.

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Monday, March 2, 2009

Live! from the Berlin Film Festival

My wrap-up of the 59th International Berlin Film Festival is up at the Anthem Magazine site:

With an astonishing number of recent and soon-to-be released films being shot in Berlin (including The Reader, Valkyrie, The International and Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming Inglorious Bastards) the German city seems to be enjoying a renaissance as one of Europe’s film capitals. Indeed, the mood carried over to this year’s installment of the International Berlin Film Festival, which unreeled from February 5 – 15….READ FULL ARTICLE HERE

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Germany reacts to The Reader

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The Weinstein bros. produced “The Reader,” which recently earned Kate Winslet her first Oscar, has been coming attack for being morally confused, simplistic or just plain schwach for some time now. The film opened last week in Germany and is being heralded as a much more serious-minded entertainment…

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BERLIN — Kate Winslet took home Oscar gold a week ago for The Reader. But while Winslet may be the actress of the hour, American critics responded tepidly to her film, an adaptation of the best-selling novel by German author Bernard Schlink. In Germany, where the movie just opened nationwide, The Reader is earning high praise as a penetrating exploration of the nature of German postwar guilt…

Read full story at USA Today

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