Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)
Six past winners of the Golden Bear, the Berlinale’s top prize, Zoomed in at noon, European time, to announce that they had decided to award the 2021 Golden Bear to Radu Jude’s
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn. In a statement read by Nadav Lapid (
Synonyms, 2019), the jury, whose other members are Ildikó Enyedi (
On Body and Soul, 2017), Adina Pintilie (
Touch Me Not, 2018), Mohammad Rasoulof (
There Is No Evil, 2020), Gianfranco Rosi (
Fire at Sea, 2016), and Jasmila Žbanić (
Grbavica, 2006), explained that Jude’s film “captures on screen the very content and essence, the mind and body, the values and the raw flesh of our present moment in time. Of this very moment of human existence.”
Berlin Film Festival Unveils Lineup of Short Films
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The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the lineup of 20 shorts from 17 countries which will compete for the Golden and Silver Bear awards for short films.
The festival said the films “daringly confront the present and rewrite the past,” while imagining “a new tomorrow” in many different ways. “There is longing to understand and to be understood (running) through the selection,” said the fest.
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Among the films selected, some explore colonial history, such as “Motorcyclist’s Happiness Won’t Fit Into His Suit,” “Strange Object,” “One Hundred Steps;” others tackle political violence, such as “International Dawn Chorus Day,” and right-wing terror, like “Your Street.”
Indie Spotlight: My Darling Clementine, Jim Knable, Donal Hinely, P.J. OâConnor and others
Focusing the spotlight on releases from such indie artists as Jim Knable, My Darling Clementine, Donal Hinely, P.J. OâConnor and others.
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Jim Knable & The Randy Bandits boast a sound that lives up to the irreverent attitude inherent in the band’s handle. Their new effort,
Blue Reunion, the group’s first in 12 years following a series of side projects that trailed their last effort,
Golden Arrow, in 2009, finds the group as assured as ever, thanks to an easy approach and the unassuming attitude that defines their approach to Americana. Knable himself comes across as an affable singer, producer and front man, and while certain songs “Judas Street” in particular take a more somber tone, the album’s overall tone is ebullient, engaging and as winsome and rollicking as always. “Everything Is Not All Right” offers words of warning via a folky sin
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