{"id":11637,"date":"2011-12-19T04:12:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T04:12:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:49:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:49:26","slug":"berlin-film-festival-picks-hanks-zhang-movies-for-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=11637","title":{"rendered":"Berlin film festival picks Hanks, Zhang movies for line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Berlin film festival unveiled its first selections on Monday including a 9\/11 drama starring Tom Hanks and new pictures from China&#8217;s Zhang Yimou and Filipino art house star Brillante Mendoza.  The 62nd annual event, running February 9 to 19, will include the hotly awaited &#8220;Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close&#8221; by British director Stephen Daldry (&#8220;The Hours&#8221;).  The movie is based on the 2005 best-selling novel by Jonathan Safran Foer in which a young boy searches New York City after the September 11, 2001 attacks for the lock matching a key left by his dead father.  It features Hanks, Sandra Bullock and Max von Sydow and will screen out of competition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zhang (&#8220;Hero&#8221;) will present &#8220;The Flowers of War&#8221; with British Oscar winner and Batman star Christian Bale as a opportunistic Westerner caught up in Japan&#8217;s bloody occupation of Nanking during World War II.<\/strong>  The picture, which has already been nominated for a Golden Globe prize in the United States, will also be shown out of competition in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Flowers of War Official US Trailer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5w9B7AidyaU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mendoza, a festival favourite who picked up the best director award in Cannes in 2009 for &#8220;Kinatay&#8221;, recruited French screen icon Isabelle Huppert to play an aid worker kidnapped by Islamist extremist group Abu Sayyaf in his Berlin competition entry &#8220;Captive&#8221;.  The Berlinale, as the event is known, which ranks with Cannes and Venice among the top European film festivals, said Spain&#8217;s Antonio Chavarrias would premiere his thriller &#8220;Childish Games&#8221; in competition.  And &#8220;Postcards from the Zoo&#8221;, billed as an Indonesian-German-Chinese production by a director identified only as Edwin, rounded out the preliminary list of contenders for the festival&#8217;s Golden and Silver Bear top prizes.  British director Mike Leigh will chair the jury, which organisers said Monday would also include Hollywood actor Jake Gyllenhaal, Franco-British actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, Dutch photographer and film-maker Anton Corbijn, French director Francois Ozon, Algerian writer Boualem Sansal and German actress Barbara Sukowa.<\/strong>  Rounding out the list is Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who took home the Golden Bear and swept the acting prizes this year for his wrenching drama &#8220;Nader and Simin: A Separation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Kinatay Trailer <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VzYSXmkbOpI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the Berlinale Special sidebar section, British Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald will unveil his keenly anticipated documentary on the life of the late reggae superstar Bob Marley.  &#8220;Death Row&#8221;, a four-part documentary series by German director Werner Herzog (&#8220;Cave of Forgotten Dreams&#8221;), will also premiere and Bollywood hero Shah Rukh Khan is expected in town for a screening of the German-India co-production &#8220;Don &#8211; The King is Back&#8221;.  Canadian surrealist Guy Maddin (&#8220;Brand Upon the Brain&#8221;) will show &#8220;Keyhole&#8221;, which the New York Times has called &#8220;a gangster ghost drama&#8221; starring Jason Patric and Isabella Rossellini.  And Mexican-born siren Salma Hayek will appear in a Spanish comedy, &#8220;La chispa de la vida&#8221;, or The spark of life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Flowers of War and Kinatay have my vote!!<em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/stories\/entertainment\/view\/1172280\/1\/.html\">SOURCE<\/a><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Berlin film festival unveiled its first selections on Monday including a 9\/11 drama starring Tom Hanks and new pictures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1009,1],"tags":[2004],"class_list":["post-11637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-news","tag-art"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Joshua","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"1","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"The Berlin film festival unveiled its first selections on Monday including a 9\/11 drama starring Tom Hanks and new pictures","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["Art","News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":174,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":3,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Joshua","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1213"},"magazine_blocks_comment":1,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1009\">Art<\/a> <a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}