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Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Directorial Debut ‘Don Jon’s Addiction’ Heads To Berlin International Film Festival

Joseph Gordon-Levitt ‘s directorial debut Don Jon’s Addiction will be among the headliners at the Berlin International Film Festival ‘s Panorama program. Starring Gordon-Levitt along with Scarlett Johansson , Julianne Moore and Tony Danza, the feature revolves around a modern-day Don Juan who attempts to change his ways. The film will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival next month. The film joins the lineup in Panorama along with fourteen other fiction titles and seven documentaries announced Tuesday. Also in the roster is Noah Baumbach’s acclaimed Frances Ha with Greta Gerwig and Rob Epstein’s Lovelace . Berlinale Panorama titles follow with information provided by the festival: Fictional films in the Main Programme and Panorama Special (15)   Baek Ya (White Night) – Republic of Korea 
By Hee-il LeeSong
With Tae-hee Won, Yi-kyung Yi 
European premiere   Chemi Sabnis Naketsi (A Fold in My Blanket) – Georgia
 By Zaza Rusadze
With Tornike Bziava, Tornike Gogrichiani, Zura Kipshidze, Avtandil Makharadze, Giorgi Nakashidze 
World premiere   Dduit-dam-hwa: Gam-dok-i-mi-cheot-eo-yo (Behind the Camera) – Republic of Korea
 By E J-Yong
With Yuh-jung Youn, Hee-soon Park, Hye-jung Gang, Jung-se Oh, Min-hee Kim
 International premiere   Deshora (Belated) – Argentina/Columbia/Norway
By Barbara Sarasola-Day
 With Luis Ziembrowski, Alejandro Buitrago, Maria Ucedo
 World premiere   Don Jon’s Addiction – USA 
By Joseph Gordon-Levitt
With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore
 International premiere   Frances Ha – USA 
By Noah Baumbach 
With Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Charlotte D’Ambiose, Adam Driver 
European premiere   Habi, la extranjera (Habi, the Foreigner) – Argentina/Brazil 
By Maria Florencia Alvarez
With Martina Juncadella, Martin Slipak, Maria Luisa Mendonça, Lucia Alfonsin 
World premiere   Inch´Allah – Canada
 By Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
With Evelyne Brochu, Sabrina Ouazani, Yousef Sweid, Sivan Levy, Carlo Brandt 
International premiere   Kashi-ggot (Fatal) – Republic of Korea
 By Don-ku Lee
With Yeon-woo Nam, Jo-a Yang, Jeong-ho Hong, Ki-doong Kang 
European premiere   La Piscina (The Swimming Pool) – Cuba/Venezuela
 By Carlos Machado Quintela 
With Raul Capote, Monica Molinet, Felipe Garcia, Carlos Javier Martinez, Marcos Costa
 International premiere   Lovelace – USA
 With Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
By Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Robert Patrick, Juno Temple 
 International premiere   Meine Schwestern (My Sisters) – Germany 
By Lars Kraume
With Jördis Triebel, Nina Kunzendorf, Lisa Hagmeister, Beatrice Dalle, Angela Winkler
 World premiere   Rock the Casbah – Israel
 By Yariv Horowitz
With Yon Tumarkin, Roy Nik, Yotam Ishay, Rave Iftach, Khawla Alhaj Debsi 
International premiere   Tanta Agua (So Much Water) – Uruguay/Mexico/Netherlands/ Germany
 By Ana Guevara Pose, Leticia Jorge Romero
With Malú Chouza, Néstor Guzzini, Joaquín Castiglioni 
World premiere   The Broken Circle Breakdown – Belgium
 By Felix van Groeningen
With Johan Heldenbergh, Veerle Baetens, Nell Cattrysse 
International premiere   
Panorama Dokumente (7)   Alam laysa lana (A World Not Ours) – Great Britain/Lebanon/Denmark 
By Mahdi Fleifel 
European premiere   Gut Renovation – USA
By Su Friedrich
 International premiere   Naked Opera – Luxemburg/Germany 
By Angela Christlieb 
World premiere   Roland Klick – The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter – Germany
 By Sandra Prechtel
 With Roland Klick, Otto Sander, Eva Mattes, David Hess, Hark Bohm
World premiere   Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You – A Concert for Kate McGarrigle – USA 
By Lian Lunson 
With Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Emmylou Harris, Norah Jones, Anna McGarrigle 
European premiere   State 194 – USA/Israel
By Dan Setton
With Yoram Millo, Daniel J. Chalfen, Ariel Setton, Margaret Yen
 European premiere   The Act of Killing – Denmark/Norway/Great Britain
 By Joshua Oppenheimer 
With Janus Billekov Jansen, Carlos Mariano Arango de Montis, Mariko Montpetit, Henrik Gugge Garnov, Charlotte Munch Bengtsen 
European premiere

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WATCH: ‘Charlie’ Gives Louis C.K.’s Life To Charlie Brown For Christmas

Need something to help you get over the taste left by last weeks revelation that Charles Schulz was really bad at sending adulterous love letters to women half his age? Why not watch proof that the future for the neurotic, preternaturally mature children of Peanuts is as utterly bleak as you always pictured it would be! Charlie is A Charlie Brown Christmas re-imagined as an episode of Louie , and just like Louis C.K.’s weekly ode to mediocrity, it features a middle-aged Charlie Brown returning to the old neighborhood for Christmas amid constant reminders of age and lack of accomplishment. Well that was brill. I approve of Linus as a reclusive hoarder and Lucy as a bitter divorcee. Yeah, making Peppermint Patty and Marcie a lesbian couple is an old joke, but envisioning Schroeder as a Jake Shears-style house musician in a gay club more than makes up for it. Best of all, Charlie Brown finally tells Lucy off for her years of football-related bullying by taking the damn ball from her and kicking it, like a real bitter, middle-aged man would. Go team Chuck! Now of course, you know what this means: all other Peanuts parodies are now moot. Please update your schedule accordingly. [via ADHD ] Ross Lincoln is a LA-based freelance writer from Oklahoma with an unhealthy obsession with comics, movies, video games, ancient history, Gore Vidal, and wine. Follow him on twitter (@rossalincoln). Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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AARP Gives Its Top 10 ‘Movies For Grownups’

Popular culture may suffer from youth obsession and the movies may be front and central in perpetuating it all, but older folks have made strides this year in capturing the box office dollar with titles like The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Hope Springs . So, why not have the nation’s most prominent organization for people hitting their Golden Years weigh in on the year’s best movies? AARP — less popularly known as the American Association of Retired Persons — gave its Top Ten films of the year, joining a chorus of other groups this time of the year giving their lists. The interest group noted that 2012 was “hot for both older movie-goers and movie-makers,” citing Golden Globe nominations for Helen Mirren, Richard Gere, Denzel Washington, Bill Murray and Judi Dench. AARP’s picks include titles by directors such as Ben Affleck, David O. Russell and Kathryn Bigelow which feature stars that aren’t exactly on the cusp of receiving Social Security benefits, but their picks seem to indicate themes of maturity over age. AARP dubbed their 2012 best films list as a “Year-end Top Ten Movies for Grownups.” Their picks follow:          Argo         Amour        Best Exotic Marigold Hotel         Hitchcock        Les Miserables         Lincoln         Quartet         The Sessions         Silver Linings Playbook         Zero Dark Thirty Movies made for older audiences became an issue earlier this year after comments by an actress perfectly comfortable embracing senior citizenry in roles such as the Dowager Countess of Grantham on Downton Abbey and as Muriel Donnelly in box office hit The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel . Maggie Smith made waves criticizing Hollywood’s youth obsession, pointing out that films that portray older people have historically performed well. “It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see,” she said. “I can only hope that’s correct, because there’s an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others. I don’t think films about elderly people have been made very much. But I think of [films like] Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy and they always seem to be fairly successful, so it’s a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five years old.”

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