Clive Owen joins star-studded Berlin film festival panel

The 66th annual Berlinale, as a eventuality is known, will flog off on Feb 11 with a screening of Joel and Ethan Coen’s “Hail, Caesar!”, a send-up of Hollywood’s Golden Age starring George Clooney.

The foe among 18 general productions will start a following day and a quarrel led by three-time Oscar leader Streep, whose appointment was formerly announced, will name a winners of a Golden and Silver Bear tip prizes on Feb 20.

Owen, a star of cinema including “Children of Men” and “Inside Man”, is now appearing in Steven Soderbergh’s radio array “The Knick”.

He will be assimilated on a jury by Lacombe, a New York-based print portraitist whose iconic work appears frequently in Vanity Fair, Vogue and a Financial Times.

The quarrel will be dull out by British film censor Nick James, Italian singer Alba Rohrwacher, German film and theatre actor Lars Eidinger and Polish executive Malgorzata Szumowska, who won a festival’s Teddy Award for happy and lesbian-themed cinema in 2013 for “In a Name Of” about a closeted priest.

Berlinale executive Dieter Kosslick announced a special Berlin Camera esteem for US actor and executive Tim Robbins, who will be celebrated with a screening of his 1995 genocide quarrel play “Dead Man Walking”.

The festival will also compensate reverence to 3 luminaries who died final month:

British actor Alan Rickman, who will be commemorated with a display of Ang Lee’s 1995 play “Sense and Sensibility”; Italian executive Ettore Scola, whose 1983 film “Le Bal” will be shown; and stone fable David Bowie, who lived in West Berlin in a late 1970s.

“Bowie was a extensive musician, an fashionable artist who voiced his creativity in many disciplines,” Kosslick said. The festival will shade Bowie’s 1976 film “The Man Who Fell to Earth”.

Among a many keenly awaited premieres in foe this year are “Alone in Berlin”, an instrumentation of a Nazi-era general bestseller starring Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson, and “Genius”, a British-US biopic starring Colin Firth as mythological literary editor Max Perkins. The expel includes Jude

Law, Nicole Kidman, Dominic West and Guy Pearce.

Other titles sketch hum are an brazen eight-hour-long Filipino film, Lav Diaz’s “A Lullaby for a Sorrowful Mystery”, that will be shown in a singular screening, and a underline entrance by Tunisian executive Mohamed Ben Attia, “Hedi”, a adore story set opposite a issue of a Arab Spring.