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I understand that "Flashbacks of a Fool" will be at the Berlin Festival. I also know it's a real "Bear" trying to get tickets to get into these festival films. Anyone from the Berlin area good luck and starting February the website said a full schedule will be posted.
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Thanks so much LR - its great to see the film there, after all. Its unfortunate though, that the screening is only on invitation - otherwise one might have been tempted...
The top notch acting in the Weisz/Craig/Spall 'Betrayal' is emotionally true, often v funny and its beautifully staged with filmic qualities..
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The schedule is up on site and they are serious about keeping "Flashbacks of a Fool" under wraps.
It did not come up under Arclights Film.
http://www.berlinale.de/en/filmmarkt/sc ... msuche.php
I'll try to comb the press when I get more time.
It did not come up under Arclights Film.
http://www.berlinale.de/en/filmmarkt/sc ... msuche.php
I'll try to comb the press when I get more time.
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This is old (2000). I'm not against old news especially since it's NEW to me. So he's been to the Berlin Festival for Hotel Splindide before in 2000. I suspect he's very busy right now filming, but, he has a dog in this fight! Meaning he's put cash up for the film so he ought to be more involved from an "investment" standpoint.
Nick Roddick, Moving Pictures veteran interviewer, will be interviewing the well-known and the budding new talent, as well as the other key players at this 50th Berlinale edition.
Daniel Craig
Shooting Star Daniel Craig takes his eyes off the road just long enough to
tell Nick Roddick about cooking, acting and the strange world of Hotel Splendide.
It wasn't just cooking style: it was sexual awakening, too," says Daniel Craig, tooling up the Harrow Road in his car.
The juxtaposition may strike you as odd, but Craig doesn't let this worry him. "I mean, you get on with it, don't you, really? I never really sat down and thought about it for that long: it would be fucking ludicrous."
So is the traffic in NW10, so Craig stops talking for a while.
The film that links cooking and sexual awakening is, of course, Hotel Splendide, which screens in the Panorama today. Craig plays Ronald Blanche, a chef who works in the
hotel which used to be owned by his late mother.
Her spirit having been somehow absorbed into the hotel's heating and waste-disposal system, she still exercises a malign influence over Ronald, his brother Dezmond (played by Stephen Tomkinson) and his sister, Cora (Katrin Cartlidge).
Craig initially took the job because he liked Terence Gross, the director, whose first feature this is after an award-winning short called The Sin Eater.
"He approached me and asked me to do it," says Craig. "We went for a drink and got rather pissed and it was, 'No, of course! I'd love to do it!' I'm a bit of a pushover like that. But I actually had no idea what he was on about when he was explaining the script to me. It was just, 'I quite like you, so let's do it!'"
He has, however, got a much clearer handle on it all now.
"It's a metaphor for a lot of things," he says. "It could be Marxism, it could be Stalinism, it could be family life. It could be Russia in the thirties and forties. Or it could be how they
'fuck you up, your mum and dad', and all that."
Craig, who is one of this year's Shooting Stars and who won the Best Actor Award in Edinburgh in 1998 for playing George Dyer, the young drifter who literally drops in on Derek Jacobi's Francis Bacon in Love Is The Devil, reckons Ronald is the straightest member of the Blanche family.
Well almost.
"He's supposed to be the sanity within the madness, but he's just mad in a different way," he says. "I appear to be very ordinary in comparison with the other characters, some of whom are almost grotesque in the literal sense of the word. Stephen, for instance, has got all this make-up: he's got the works. The only thing he hasn't got is a hump."
Craig avoids a cyclist. "He wanted a hump," he adds, "but they wouldn't give him one. I think he should have had a hump."
Ronald finally breaks free from his mother's influence when his ex-girlfriend (played by Toni Collette) turns up at the hotel, unannounced, after receiving a garbled message. She eventually joins him in the kitchen.
In fact, a lot of Hotel Splendide takes place in the kitchen, Ronald's mother's philosophy having been that properly prepared food was the key to everything else. Except her idea of proper preparation had little to do with gastronomy.
"It's like using jellied eels and aspic and vegetables cooked until they're grey," says Craig. "It's completely the lack of anything: no taste whatsoever. The point about it is that it shouldn't actually touch the sides ¬ it should just go straight through you."
But, as far removed as this sounds from haute cuisine, some kitchen training ¬ in, of all places, the Savoy Hotel ¬ was necessary for the actor to play the role of Roland.
"I used to work in kitchens a lot, as everybody does at some stage," he says. "I used to be a kitchen porter and a salad chef ¬ never anything posh! I remember going into the Savoy the first day we arrived and I said, 'I don't want to be here! I don't like it!' It's fucking hard work!
"But, to be a chef, you have to have discipline," he adds. "Just chopping ¬ it seems sort of a silly thing to say, but using a knife properly is very important. I can't do it, but I certainly learned to look like I knew how to."
"Using real knives?" I ask.
"Oh yeah," he says. "And we did have one accident. Poor old Toni got it."
"I read somewhere that she has a phobia about knives," I say. Actually, I read it in the press kit.
"Well, if she didn't, she's got one now," notes Craig dryly.
Hotel Splendide, as you will gather, is not your run-of-the-mill modern British film, about clubbing and doing drugs and diamond geezers robbing minicab offices.
"I would rather put needles in my eye," he says of the latter kind of role. "I've got no interest in them at all. They've got no relevance to me and they're not what I'm about. And anyway, I'm 33 now, so I'm a bit long in the tooth for that."
But he does like to take risks. "People always say, 'That stuff you did in Love Is The Devil must have been difficult'," he notes. "But I say, 'No, it wasn't really: that was some of the easier stuff to do', because it was always clear and made a lot of sense. It's when things are unclear and when you don't know what you're doing ¬ that's when things are difficult.
"But I actually quite like that process," he adds. "I like being like a rabbit caught in the headlights. If you're not feeling like that, then you've got to question why you're
not feeling like that, because you should be scared.
"As soon as a job gets boring, as soon as you get into a situation where it's, 'Oh, fuck, here we are again', then you've got to start thinking, well, 'Get out and do something else'. Either that or make it interesting."
http://www.filmfestivals.com/berlin_200 ... lendid.jpg[/img]
Nick Roddick, Moving Pictures veteran interviewer, will be interviewing the well-known and the budding new talent, as well as the other key players at this 50th Berlinale edition.
Daniel Craig
Shooting Star Daniel Craig takes his eyes off the road just long enough to
tell Nick Roddick about cooking, acting and the strange world of Hotel Splendide.
It wasn't just cooking style: it was sexual awakening, too," says Daniel Craig, tooling up the Harrow Road in his car.
The juxtaposition may strike you as odd, but Craig doesn't let this worry him. "I mean, you get on with it, don't you, really? I never really sat down and thought about it for that long: it would be fucking ludicrous."
So is the traffic in NW10, so Craig stops talking for a while.
The film that links cooking and sexual awakening is, of course, Hotel Splendide, which screens in the Panorama today. Craig plays Ronald Blanche, a chef who works in the
hotel which used to be owned by his late mother.
Her spirit having been somehow absorbed into the hotel's heating and waste-disposal system, she still exercises a malign influence over Ronald, his brother Dezmond (played by Stephen Tomkinson) and his sister, Cora (Katrin Cartlidge).
Craig initially took the job because he liked Terence Gross, the director, whose first feature this is after an award-winning short called The Sin Eater.
"He approached me and asked me to do it," says Craig. "We went for a drink and got rather pissed and it was, 'No, of course! I'd love to do it!' I'm a bit of a pushover like that. But I actually had no idea what he was on about when he was explaining the script to me. It was just, 'I quite like you, so let's do it!'"
He has, however, got a much clearer handle on it all now.
"It's a metaphor for a lot of things," he says. "It could be Marxism, it could be Stalinism, it could be family life. It could be Russia in the thirties and forties. Or it could be how they
'fuck you up, your mum and dad', and all that."
Craig, who is one of this year's Shooting Stars and who won the Best Actor Award in Edinburgh in 1998 for playing George Dyer, the young drifter who literally drops in on Derek Jacobi's Francis Bacon in Love Is The Devil, reckons Ronald is the straightest member of the Blanche family.
Well almost.
"He's supposed to be the sanity within the madness, but he's just mad in a different way," he says. "I appear to be very ordinary in comparison with the other characters, some of whom are almost grotesque in the literal sense of the word. Stephen, for instance, has got all this make-up: he's got the works. The only thing he hasn't got is a hump."
Craig avoids a cyclist. "He wanted a hump," he adds, "but they wouldn't give him one. I think he should have had a hump."
Ronald finally breaks free from his mother's influence when his ex-girlfriend (played by Toni Collette) turns up at the hotel, unannounced, after receiving a garbled message. She eventually joins him in the kitchen.
In fact, a lot of Hotel Splendide takes place in the kitchen, Ronald's mother's philosophy having been that properly prepared food was the key to everything else. Except her idea of proper preparation had little to do with gastronomy.
"It's like using jellied eels and aspic and vegetables cooked until they're grey," says Craig. "It's completely the lack of anything: no taste whatsoever. The point about it is that it shouldn't actually touch the sides ¬ it should just go straight through you."
But, as far removed as this sounds from haute cuisine, some kitchen training ¬ in, of all places, the Savoy Hotel ¬ was necessary for the actor to play the role of Roland.
"I used to work in kitchens a lot, as everybody does at some stage," he says. "I used to be a kitchen porter and a salad chef ¬ never anything posh! I remember going into the Savoy the first day we arrived and I said, 'I don't want to be here! I don't like it!' It's fucking hard work!
"But, to be a chef, you have to have discipline," he adds. "Just chopping ¬ it seems sort of a silly thing to say, but using a knife properly is very important. I can't do it, but I certainly learned to look like I knew how to."
"Using real knives?" I ask.
"Oh yeah," he says. "And we did have one accident. Poor old Toni got it."
"I read somewhere that she has a phobia about knives," I say. Actually, I read it in the press kit.
"Well, if she didn't, she's got one now," notes Craig dryly.
Hotel Splendide, as you will gather, is not your run-of-the-mill modern British film, about clubbing and doing drugs and diamond geezers robbing minicab offices.
"I would rather put needles in my eye," he says of the latter kind of role. "I've got no interest in them at all. They've got no relevance to me and they're not what I'm about. And anyway, I'm 33 now, so I'm a bit long in the tooth for that."
But he does like to take risks. "People always say, 'That stuff you did in Love Is The Devil must have been difficult'," he notes. "But I say, 'No, it wasn't really: that was some of the easier stuff to do', because it was always clear and made a lot of sense. It's when things are unclear and when you don't know what you're doing ¬ that's when things are difficult.
"But I actually quite like that process," he adds. "I like being like a rabbit caught in the headlights. If you're not feeling like that, then you've got to question why you're
not feeling like that, because you should be scared.
"As soon as a job gets boring, as soon as you get into a situation where it's, 'Oh, fuck, here we are again', then you've got to start thinking, well, 'Get out and do something else'. Either that or make it interesting."
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I think you can't find it there, because FoaF will be shown by invitation only...Liverpool Rules wrote:The schedule is up on site and they are serious about keeping "Flashbacks of a Fool" under wraps.
It did not come up under Arclights Film.
http://www.berlinale.de/en/filmmarkt/sc ... msuche.php
I'll try to comb the press when I get more time.
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Re: Berlin International Film Festival
Yes, Archlights has their own schedule if you see the link. I didn't think that would stop AF from trying to generate interest and press. That's sort of Free Press.Liverpool Rules wrote: ........ starting February the website said a full schedule will be posted.
http://www.arclightfilms.com/newsletter ... /index.htm
I wonder why there is no press or activity generated to promote this film.
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Hey! What's going on in Berlin?
Those attending the Berlin Film Festival woke up to the sight of the first teaser poster for the 22nd James Bond adventure, 'Quantum of Solace,' when it was unveiled Thursday morning on the side of a building in Germany.
DANIEL CRAIG will return for his sophomore outing as IAN FLEMING's secret agent in a continuation of the events set in motion by 'Casino Royale.' 'Quantum of Solace,' set for release November 7, finds 007 out for revenge on a mission that takes him to Austria, Italy and South America. The title comes from a short story by Fleming first published in the 1960 collection For Your Eyes Only.
Wish I were there. I knew something was going to happen there.
http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/02/58366/index.html
Even though Flashbacks of a Fool is by Invitation Only here is the schedule.
FLASHBACKS OF A FOOL (A):
FRI 8TH, 18:45,
CINESTAR 2
FLASHBACKS OF A FOOL (B):
TUES 12TH, 16:30,
MARTIN GROPIUS BAU
Those attending the Berlin Film Festival woke up to the sight of the first teaser poster for the 22nd James Bond adventure, 'Quantum of Solace,' when it was unveiled Thursday morning on the side of a building in Germany.
DANIEL CRAIG will return for his sophomore outing as IAN FLEMING's secret agent in a continuation of the events set in motion by 'Casino Royale.' 'Quantum of Solace,' set for release November 7, finds 007 out for revenge on a mission that takes him to Austria, Italy and South America. The title comes from a short story by Fleming first published in the 1960 collection For Your Eyes Only.
Wish I were there. I knew something was going to happen there.
http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/02/58366/index.html
Even though Flashbacks of a Fool is by Invitation Only here is the schedule.
FLASHBACKS OF A FOOL (A):
FRI 8TH, 18:45,
CINESTAR 2
FLASHBACKS OF A FOOL (B):
TUES 12TH, 16:30,
MARTIN GROPIUS BAU
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Q
Doesn't this seem like a very savvy move by Executive Producer Daniel Craig? Using his influence with James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson to unveil the first poster for QoS - the day before Flashbacks is shown at the Berlin Festival. To attract attention to FOAF. Would love to see any reviews.Liverpool Rules wrote:Hey! What's going on in Berlin?
Those attending the Berlin Film Festival woke up to the sight of the first teaser poster for the 22nd James Bond adventure, 'Quantum of Solace,' when it was unveiled Thursday morning on the side of a building in Germany.
DANIEL CRAIG will return for his sophomore outing as IAN FLEMING's secret agent in a continuation of the events set in motion by 'Casino Royale.' 'Quantum of Solace,' set for release November 7, finds 007 out for revenge on a mission that takes him to Austria, Italy and South America. The title comes from a short story by Fleming first published in the 1960 collection For Your Eyes Only.
Wish I were there. I knew something was going to happen there.
http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/02/58366/index.html
Even though Flashbacks of a Fool is by Invitation Only here is the schedule.
FLASHBACKS OF A FOOL (A):
FRI 8TH, 18:45,
CINESTAR 2
FLASHBACKS OF A FOOL (B):
TUES 12TH, 16:30,
MARTIN GROPIUS BAU
The James Bond forums are all abuzz about the "teaser" poster - that a poster has never been released so early.
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Yes, there is something very calculated going on here with the film. Well until we can get some news or figure it out here is a Flashsback of a Relationship from the Past! She's there in living colour. A treat for us.
Heike Makatsch at the 58th Berlinale International Film Festival
German actress Heike Makatsch poses at the red carpet as she arrives for the screening of the opening film 'Shine A Light' running in competition at the 58th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin February 7, 2008. The 58th Berlinale, one of the world's most prestigious film festivals, will run from February 7 to 17 in the German capital.
REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke (GERMANY)
Heike Makatsch at the 58th Berlinale International Film Festival
German actress Heike Makatsch poses at the red carpet as she arrives for the screening of the opening film 'Shine A Light' running in competition at the 58th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin February 7, 2008. The 58th Berlinale, one of the world's most prestigious film festivals, will run from February 7 to 17 in the German capital.
REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke (GERMANY)
"I'm going to want to have sex right until the very end, thank you very much" - Daniel Craig