The upcoming Berlin Film Festival has added titles to its Berlinale Special 2012 program including Jason Reitman’s Young Adult and Barnaby Southcombe’s I, Anna. Restored versions of classics like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1943 The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp will also screen. According to the festival, discussions will be held following some Special screenings including Werner Herzog’s documentary series Death Row and Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut In The Land Of Blood And Honey, which were previously announced as Special titles. A talk will also be held after the screening of the Keanu Reeves-produced documentary Side By Side that includes interviews with Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, the Wachowskis and Lars von Trier among others. In a European premiere, Mark Cousins will show his 900-minute-long documentary The Story Of Film: An Odyssey. Berlin runs Feb 9-19. A full list of the just-added titles follows:
Berlinale Special Gala screenings at the Friedrichstadt-Palast:
Young Adult
USA
By Jason Reitman
With Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Elisabeth Reaser
German premiere
Berlinale Special screenings at the Kino International:
Glück (Bliss)
Germany
By Doris Dörrie
With Alba Rohrwacher, Vinzenz Kiefer, Matthias Brandt, Oliver Nägele
World premiere
I, Anna
Great Britain/Germany/France
By Barnaby Southcombe
With Charlotte Rampling, Gabriel Byrne, Hayley Atwell, Eddie Marsan
World premiere
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp
Great Britain
By Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
With Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook
Restored version
Berlinale Special screenings at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele:
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
USA
By Alison Klayman
International premiere
Althawra… Khabar (Reporting … A Revolution)
Egypt
By Bassam Mortada
International premiere
Anton Corbijn Inside Out
Netherlands
By Klaartje Quirijns
World premiere
Hijo de las nubes, La última colonia (Sons Of The Clouds, The Last Colony)
Spain
By Alvaro Longoria
World premiere
Side by Side
USA
By Chris Kenneally
World premiere
To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the film journal “Positif”:
Der Fangschuss (Le Coup De Grâce, 1975)
Germany
By Volker Schlöndorff
With Matthias Habich, Margarethe von Trotta, Rüdiger Kirschtein, Mathieu Carriere, Valeska Gert
The Story Of Film: An Odyssey
Great Britain
By Mark Cousins
European premiere
For the “50th Anniversary of the Oberhausen Manifesto”:
Abschied von den Fröschen (Farewell To The Frogs)
Germany
By Ulrike Schamoni
