Steven Yates

Steven Yates se graduó en Cine y Letras en la Universidad de Kent y obtuvo un M.A. en Estudios cinematográficos y de televisión en la Universidad Westminster de Londres. Ha trabajado como periodista freelance desde 1998, publicando en todo el mundo, tanto libros para Wallflower Press, como en revistas y webs, incluyendo Film International, theartsdesk.com, Vertigo y Afterimage. Vive en Berlín desde 2008, es miembro de FIPRESCI (Federación internacional de críticos de cine), ha sido jurado de numerosos festivales de cine, desde 2002, y también es editor supervisor de su web.

Author's Articles

The 66th Berlinale: Second Impressions

Film & Series Berlin Kultur

After the high profile events that were centered on Hail, Caesar! and Midnight Special in the first couple of days, the attention at the weekend moved towards less commercial films and the international competition in all its varieties. The first weekend of this year’s Berlinale came across as quite a relaxed affair despite the huge number of press and […]

Letter from Berlin: The 66th Berlinale… A “Seven-Year Itch”?

Film & Series

The 66th Berlinale began on Thursday evening with the world premiere of the Coen Brothers new film Hail, Caesar! More of that shortly but, looking at the program for this year, it is something of a “same festival, different year” feeling. There’s nothing wrong with keeping a consistent formula but, for the regulars, all the recent […]

Letter from Thessaloniki – Take Four

Film & Series Berlin Kultur

The main competition of the 56th Thessaloniki International Film Festival this year comprised 15 very different films which, paradoxically, had a common narrative strain of loneliness and isolation. Four of these films from Latin America were consistently very varied and innovative, thereby reminding us of the vastness and divisions of a world too often assimilated conveniently for […]

Viva Victoria

Film & Series Berlin Kultur

Although something of a now typical festival entry that would fit into any related sub-genre canon of EU Citizen displaced or experimental film, Victoria is one of those that stands alone in terms of quality, not least for its one-take camerawork by Sturla Brandth Grøvlen. Director Sebastian Schipper also scripted the film and his actors evidently knew […]

Berlinale 2015: The Opening Film and Competition Highlights

Film & Series Berlin Kultur

The 65th Berlinale (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin/The Berlin International Film Festival) will begin on 5th February and run for ten days to 15th February. In that time the programmers will hope that audiences once again enjoy all the very best that World Cinema has to offer from the last 12 months. The opening film Nobody Wants […]

Letter from Berlin (via Paris) #2

Film & Series Berlin Kultur

Cinema Paris A 10-minute stroll from Berlin’s recently re-opened Zoo Palast (see here) is another legendary Berlin Cinema called Cinema Paris, housed in the cultural center that is the Institut Francais on Kurfürstendamm, just one of many cinemas in Berlin currently screening Yves Saint Laurent. Built in 1897, after a first reconstruction in the 20s […]

Letter from Berlin (via Paris) #1

Film & Series Berlin Kultur

Yves Saint Laurent, directed by Jalil Lespert, has just been released into cinemas in Berlin. Co-written with Jacques Fieschi, Jérémie Guez and Marie-Pierre Huster, the film is based on the life of the famous French fashion designer and stars Pierre Niney as Yves Saint Laurent, Guillaume Gallienne as Pierre Bergé, Charlotte Le Bon, Laura Smet, […]