Wednesday, 28 January 2009

Madrid's matadero or slaughterhouse

El Matadero’s facilities which cover approximately 148,000 square metres are designed to accommodate all types of art: painting, sculpture, photography, design, fashion, concerts, debates, film, architecture, urban design, landscaping, workshops, dance and theatre.

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Thursday, 22 January 2009

Bread & Butter 2009

Wie in jedem Jahr findet in Barcelonavom 21. bis zum 23. Januar die wichtigste Messe der unkonventionellen und urbanen Modewelt statt. Am Mittwoch wird die Herbst- und Wintersaison des Bread&Butter eingeweiht und Tausende von Besuchern der ganzen Welt eilen in die Stadt, um sich nicht das im Moment trendigste Spektakel entgehen zu lassen. Viele habe diese Messe schon mehrmals besucht, denn es handelt sich um die wichtigste und bekannteste Versammlung im Bereich des Urbanwear.

Read more here at Apartments Blog

Friday, 16 January 2009

Berlin adds more films to competition line-up

Three films starring Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer and Demi Moore are among the final 14 included in the 26-film competition line-up for February's Berlinale, festival director Dieter Kosslick said.

Jones features in In The Electric Mist by French director Bertrand Tavernier, about a detective hunting a serial killer in America's deep south, while Pfeiffer headlines in British director's Stephen Frears's period romance Cheri.

In independent production Happy Tears, Moore is launching a comeback to the cinema in a small budget family drama along with Ellen Barkin and Rip Torn .

The Berlinale, which runs from February 5-15, is Europe's first major film festival of the new year.

"With their very distinctive artistic styles, the films in competition provide evidence of living conditions in our globalised world," Kosslick said in a statement.

He added that 25 of the 26 films in the competition have now been confirmed.

The festival had already announced that The International, a thriller about the funding of war and terror by German director Tom Tykwer that features Clive Owen and Australia's Naomi Watts, will open the 59th annual festival.

Britain's Tilda Swinton , who won the Academy Award for best supporting actress last year for her performance in legal thriller Michael Clayton, will be jury president.

Swinton has appeared in 14 past Berlinale films.

Source Reuters

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Wednesday, 7 January 2009

Berlinale 2009

Berlin is a cosmopolitan and multicultural city and as such, every year (since 1951) it celebrates one of the most important film festivals in the world: The Berlin International Film Festival, this year being its 59th edition. More than 19,000 film professionals from 120 different countries will gather in the German capital next February (5th to 15th) to celebrate this epic event. With more than 200,000 tickets sold, this festival is much more than just a film event.

Read more about the Berlinale here.