Jack Nicklaus 6 : Golden Bear Challenge
Variety.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Film News: Julie Delpy's 'Countess' also picked -- New works by Jose Padilha, who won the Golden Bear last year with “The Elite Squad,” Julie Delpy and cult filmmaker Ulli Lommel are among the films selected for the Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama section this year, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Blu-Ray News: Optimum Home Entertainment have announced the UK Blu-ray Disc release of Elite Squad on 19th January 2009 priced at £24.99 RRP. Winner of the 2008 Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Elite Squad presents an intimate look at Rio de Janeiro's vast...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
News: Optimum Home Entertainment have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Elite Squad on 19th January 2009 priced at £19.99 RRP. Winner of the 2008 Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Elite Squad presents an intimate look at Rio de Janeiro's vast...
The Indypendent (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Everyone in Elite Squad, which won the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, works the system of pervasive drug trafficking that extends its stranglehold out of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas to implicate even the members of BOPE (Special Police Operation Battalion), the roughest, toughest and least corruptible ranks of the city’s police corps.
PSFK Trend: PSFK (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Winner of this year’s Golden Bear Award for Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival, “Elite Squad” is one of those movies that few people can feel indifferent about. “Elite Squad” takes a closer look at police brutality in combating favela violence in Brazil. Director José Padilha spent two years investigating Rio de Janeiro’s Special Police [...]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Film News: 'Squad' director set for WB film -- Jose Padilha, whose "Elite Squad" won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear this year, is set to direct a Jason Keller-scripted action thriller for Warner Bros.
Defamer (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
Jose Padilha's Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad) took home the Golden Bear prize for Best Film at the 58th Annual Berlin Film Festival this weekend. The film is described by Beyond Hollywood as "a kind of...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
Message films duly delivered at the Berlin Film Festival Saturday as the top Golden Bear award went to the Brazilian film The Elite Squad about a corrupt and violent ...
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
After the reported confusion about the many happy, entertaining and openly non-political films taking part in this year’s Berlin Film Festival competition, it was at first not at all clear if the jury would krieg die Kurve (make that sharp corner) and settle on giving the Golden Bear to a highly-political and therefore politically correct [...]
The First Post (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
The English film director Mike Leigh, one of the favourites to win the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday for his comedy Happy-Go-Lucky, lost out to Jose [...more]
Entertainment - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/17/2008
Deutsche Welle reported the movie won the festival's Golden Bear trophy for its depiction of police corruption and violence in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro....
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 02/17/2008
Filed under: Drama , Foreign Language , Awards , Berlin , Cinematical Indie The 2008 Berlin International Film Festival awards have been announced , and while I've only seen one of the films that picked up prizes, I'm very excited about the results. The top honor, the Golden Bear, went to Tropa de Elite ( The Elite Squad ) , which is the first fiction film directed by Brazilian filmmaker José Padilla...
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 02/17/2008
A police political thriller by Brazilian director Jose Padilha won the Berlin Film Festival's coveted Golden Bear for best film.
France24 (Free subscription) | 02/16/2008
A blood-soaked Brazilian drama about police brutality, "The Elite Squad", beat out favourites from Hollywood and Britain to win the Golden Bear for best picture Saturday at the 58th Berlin Film Festival.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 02/16/2008
The Elite Squad, the story of corrupt police in Brazil, wins the main prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
