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The Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) celebrated its 60th year in 2010. Join host Roger
Garcia as he takes a look at some of the films on offer and some of his picks. Japan emerges as strong with new films from
Yoji Yamada and Koji Wakamatsu, and Roger watches one of the best films to come out of Korea in the past year, EJ Yong's
THE ACTRESSES. And best of all, enjoy the acerbic insights of Cinepod's favorite commentator, Olaf Moeller (European
Editor, Film Comment magazine).
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Japanese veteran Yoji Yamada (now nearing his 80th year) takes a well deserved bow for two great movies in Berlin: ABOUT HER
BROTHER, and KYOTO STORY (co-directed with Tsutomo Abe). KYOTO STORY is one of the great films from Japan this year, astonishing
in its freshness and a new definition of image, space and signs. Roland Barthes would have been excited!
The return of Olaf Moeller!
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Goebbels, watched by the complicit Ferdinand Marian, rallies his fascist friends for the Final Solution of "Jew
Suss" in the new German film by Oskar Roehler, JEW SUSS HIS RISE AND FALL, a surprising addition to the canon of kitschy
Nazi films in the Euro Trash tradition.
Koji Wakamatsu's CATERPILLAR based on the story by Edogawa Rampo produces a scathing critique of Japanese Imperialism
through the loathesome figure of a soldier who returns from raping and killing Chinese peasants in the Sino-Japanese War bereft
of arms, legs and speech - fascism (unlike Roehler's film above) is rendered impotent.
After all that war and ideology, thank you EJ Yong who has made one of the best films to come out of Korea in several years,
the luminous THE ACTRESSES which follows (in fake documentary form) a Vogue Magazine Korea photoshoot with six of the hottest
and most famous actresses in Korea today. A great movie but will US audiences ever see it?
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