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An off-kilter black comedy about a New York yuppie on a nighttime odyssey through Manhattan’s downtown subculture, where he is befallen by a series of misadventures and disagreeable encounters.
Akademie der Künste
HKW 2 - Safi Faye Hall
A provocative and visually stunning appraisal of Mexican society’s social divide. After causing the death of a baby, a kidnapper seeks redemption in sex and Catholicism.
Akademie der Künste
With this film version of the book that was a movie industry takedown in the 1930s, New Hollywood used grand sets and costumes to bring the glamour of the “dream factory” to the screen – before letting it all go down in flames in an apocalyptic finale.
Akademie der Künste
A straightforward thriller about three young men and a young woman engaged in armed robbery in Madrid. A testimony of the era after the Franco dictatorship and a classic of the cine quinqui genre, the film won the 1981 Golden Bear.
Akademie der Künste
HKW 2 - Safi Faye Hall
Atomic bomb tests rouse a sea monster that lays ruin to Tokyo. This Japanese classic of the monster movie genre has often been truncated and shown in various permutations. On its 70th anniversary, the original has now enjoyed a 4K restoration.
Akademie der Künste
HKW 2 - Safi Faye Hall
Farmer needs a wife. And marries a bristly betty… Based on Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”, this antic film stars Henny Porten in a double role. Featuring a new score by Diego Ramos Rodríguez, performed by members of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
HKW 1 - Miriam Makeba Auditorium
A take on “The Taming of the Shrew” as a musical. The prince consort in an operetta-style country rebels against his lack of rights in the marriage. Lubitsch’s first talkie had a lasting stylistic influence on film’s operetta genre.
Akademie der Künste
HKW 2 - Safi Faye Hall
Set at the start of a nuclear apocalypse, film philosopher Andrei Tarkovsky’s drama is a powerful pictorial parable of human (mis)behaviour in the face of war and environmental destruction.
Akademie der Künste
HKW 2 - Safi Faye Hall
A precisely observed, black-and-white drama of everyday life in Berlin’s working-class district of Wedding. The fatherless nine-year-old son of a prostitute must prematurely bow to the rules of the grown-up world.
Akademie der Künste
HKW 2 - Safi Faye Hall
Set during the hot summer nights in Taipei, the film is about the romance between a young Korean woman and a porn actor, and about love, sex and desire. It won the Silver Bear in 2005.