THURSDAY - BERLINALE OPENS

The 56th annual Berlin International Film Festival opens today (Thursday) with a screening of Snow Cake -- particularly appropriate since it is snowing in Berlin -- starring Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver, who are expected to be on hand for the screening at the Berlinale Palast. Among the 26 films participating in the Golden Bear competition are Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion and Sidney Lumet's Find Me Guilty. A vastly enlarged European Film Market is opening concurrently with the festival, with about 250 exhibitors -- up from 165 a year ago.

09/02/2006