Exberliner June: Snitch, Freiluft Season

Snitch

When a young man’s first drug offence lands him with a 10 year minimum sentence, his father (The Rock) enlists an ambitious judge (Susan Sarandon) to help take down a local drug dealer in exchange for his son’s reduced sentence. Any high profile film willing to point a finger at the slaughterhouse ethos of America’s drug laws deserves credit but Snitch seems lost in its naiveties; Indeed, when a desperate leading man on the verge of vigilantism types ‘Drug Cartel’ into Wikipedia we know what sort of film we’re in for. 

Freiluft Season

Freiluft season kicks up a few gears this month with the prolific folk in Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, Rehberge and Mitte all screening movies on a daily basis. Freiluft Kino Mitte will continue their stroll through the vaults with a wonderful selection from cinema’s greatest moments; the startling Americana of Wenders’ Paris Texas(02 Jun, 21:30), the chilling neo noir of Polanski’s Chinatown(21 Jun, 21:30) and the stark Neo-Realism of On the Waterfront (26 Jun, 21:30) look to be the picks of the bunch. Over in the idyllic surroundings of Volkspark Friedrichshain’s seated amphitheatre there is a bunch of this year’s best on show with Hitchcock’s shocker classic  Psycho(9 Jun,21.30) thrown in for good measure. Freiluftkino Kreuzberg in cooperation with Exberliner will show Wenders’ documentary Pina (15 Jun, 21.45), cult classic The Big Lebowski (18 Jun, 21:45) and Chaplin’s The Great Dictator (26 Jun, 21:45) amidst their packed out program. A little further out under the trees at Volkspark Rehberge there will be a chance to catch the screwball comedy of Silver Linings (21 Jun, 21:45) alongside Soderbergh’s big-pharma swansong Side Effects (26 Jun, 21:45). Ben Wheatley’s horror-in-the-great-outdoors, Sightseers takes itself to the great outdoors as it hits Cassiopeia’s open air screen (27 Jun, 22:15); and Yorck cinemas begin their summer program in Potsdamer Platz with the latest Ryan Gosling/Derek Cianfrance combo,  The Place Beyond the Pines (12 Jun, 21:45).