 | 50th Berline Film Festival: A visitor leaves a Berlin Film Festival cinema, passing a giant poster. The 50th Berlin film festival begins Tuesday, with Hollywood stars and art house directors gathering in city center only recently transformed from a bombed-out wasteland. click to open  |
 | 50th Berline Film Festival: Russian actors Sergej Machoveckij (C), Mateusz Damiecki (L) and Karolina Gruska pose for photographers as they introduce their new film 'Russkij Bunt' (The Russian rebellion) at the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Feb 12th 2000. The film is based on Aleksandr Pushkin's novel 'The Captain's Daughter' and tells how the paths of guard sergeant Petr Grinev and peasant rebel Yemelya Pugacev, who has proclaimed himself czar, fatefully cross. (Reuters) click to open |
 | 50th Berline Film Festival: German director Wim Wenders, left, and movie star Mila Jovovich wait for the beginning of their film titled "The Million Dollar Hotel" to open the 50th Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin Wednesday, February 9, 2000. The romantic thriller showed just how cross-cultural filmmaking has become since the festival's early days, when directors like Ingmar Bergman and Francois Truffaut made their highly stylized marks in Berlin. (AP) click to open |
 | 50th Berline Film Festival: French movie Star Jeanne Moreau talks to newsmen during a press conference in Berlin Friday, February 11, 2000. Tonight she will be awarded with the "Golden Berlin Bear" during the 50th International Film Festival. (AP) click to open |
 | 50th Berline Film Festival: Actor Matt Damon addresses a news conference to introduce his film 'The Talented Mr Ripley' at the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Feb 13th 2000. Lies, half-truths and a carefully concocted mirage of deceit are at the heart of 'Ripley' -- so pretty much all in a day's work for a Hollywood film star, thinks Damon. click to open |
 | 50th Berline Film Festival: George Clooney is shown in the Westwood section of Los Angeles in this March 24, 1999 file photo. Clooney said that the Persian Gulf War never made much sense to him Thursday, Feb. 10, 2000 in Berlin. "I was born into a big liberal family so, for us, going to war before sanctions are tried and work seems silly," he said at the Berlin Film Festival, where his "Three Kings" is making its European debut outside of competition. click to open |
 | 50th Berline Film Festival: Actor Milla Jovovich is shown during a news conference in Berlin, Wednesday, February 9, 2000, after the film "The Million Dollar Hotel" of Wim Wenders, where Jovovich plays the main female character, was presented for the media for the first time at Berlin's 50th International Film Festival. The romantic thriller showed just how cross-cultural filmmaking has become since the festival's early days, when directors like Ingmar Bergman and Francois Truffaut made their highly stylized marks in Berlin. click to open |
 | 50th Berline Film Festival: Leonardi DiCaprio answers questions during a news conference at the Berlinale film festival in Berlin, Germany Saturday, February 12, 2000. DiCaprio stars in the movie "The Beach" which will have its German premiere Saturday. (AP) click to open |
 | 50th Berline Film Festival: French star Jeanne Moreau, right, and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder smile in the chancellor's office in Berlin Friday, Feb. 11, 2000. Veteran movie star Moreau is in Berlin to receive a special tribute for her life's work at the current 50th Berlinale Film Festival, which is paying a one week movie homage to her. (AP) click to open |
 | 50th Berline Film Festival: British actress Charlotte Rampling attends a news conference after a screening of her new film 'Signs and Wonders' at the 50th Berlin Film Festival on Feb 11th 2000. Rampling took a break from acting for much of the 1990s and is back on the big screen as an expatriate wife driven to emotional destruction by her cheating husband. click to open |
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