Mohammad Rasoulof's There Is No Evil took the top prize. the Golden Bear, from the just concluded Berlin International Films Festival. The award came from the Jury led this year by Jeremy Irons.
Rasoulof was a recipient of a tribute from the Telluride Film Festival in 2013 during TFF #40. That included a screening of Manuscripts Don't Burn. Rasoulof was back in Telluride in 2017 with A Man of Integrity.
Rasoulof was not allowed to attend the Berlin Fest by the Iranian government.
The Golden Bear win doesn't guarantee that There Is No Evil ends up at Telluride but it also likely doesn't harm its potential. The last Golden Bear winner to play TFF was Fire at Sea in 2016. Other recent Golden Bear winners that went on to play TFF include Asghar Farhadi's A Separation and Jafar Panahi's Taxi.
THE CRITICS BERLIN
Returning to the massive database of critical response to the films screened at Berlin that is compiled by Reini Urban; here is the final look at films that I have highlighted as possible considerations for TFF #47 (on a 10 point scale)
Pinocchio 7.39
The Woman Who Ran 7.17
Undine 6.89
There Is No Evil 6.76
Charlatan 6.20
The Salt of Tears 5.49
Irradiated 5.43
Siberia 4.95
The complete rundown is here.
Metacritic also had a critical compilation post over the weekend for Berlin films and among the films they mentioned from the above list were (on a 100 point scale):
There Is No Evil 79
The Woman Who Ran 81
Charlatan 65
Undine 69
The Salt of Tears 57
Metacritic's article is linked here.
And finally, Indiewire's Eric Kohn and Anne Thompson talk about the Berlinale in this week's episode of their podcast Screen Talk. Both Pinocchio and Undine are specifically mentioned.
The link to Screen Talk is here.
Thompson, Kohn and David Ehrlich collaborated to also publish an article detailing the films that they thought were the 10 best of Berlin. That list included: Charlatan, Last and First Men, Pinocchio, There Is No Evil and The Woman Who Ran.
I have linked that article here.
Last word on Berlin, for now...look out for Johann Johannsson's Last and First Men. The late Icelandic composer's first attempt at directing a feature film. Johannsson was Oscar nominated for the scores for Sicario and The Theory of Everything. Just got a feeling.
MORE ADDITIONS TO TFF HISTORY
I added the 2011, 2012 and 2013 Telluride Film Festivals to the Extended Telluride History Part Two: 1996-Present page.
2011 notable films included: Albert Nobbs, The Artist, A Dangerous Method, Into the Abyss, A Separation, Shame and We Need to Talk About Kevin.
2012: Notable films included:The Act of Killing, Amour, Argo, The Central Park Five, Frances Ha, No, Rust and Bone and Stories We Tell.
2013 notable films included: 12 Years a Slave, All Is Lost, Blue Is the Warmest Color, Gloris. Gravity, Ida, Inside Llewyn Davis, Manuscripts Don't Burn, The Missing Picture, Nebraska, The Past, Prisoners and Under the Skin.
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