Directed by Julian Schnabel

“Schnabel reaped accolades for last year’s THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY, but this concert film…
is arguably superior. The film’s collision of two downtown art sensibilities results in euphoria. Wear black.”
– Time Out New York

"An exceptionally strong performance… (Lou Reed's) assured,
emotionally steady delivery sounds like that of a man who has had three decades to sing these songs to himself."
– John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter

"(Berlin) retains its icy fascination in concert...a devastating reminder of what rock can be."
– Nick Hasted, The Independent (UK)

"Berlin places Reed's natural austerity in a setting that blazes with musical excess and invention."
– Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Financial Times

“Lou Reed records the album Berlin in 1973. It was a commercial failure. Over the next 33 years,
he never performed the album live. For five nights in December 2006 at St. Ann’s Warehouse Brooklyn,
Lou Reed performed his masterwork about love’s dark sisters: jealousy, rage and loss.”
– Julian Schnabel

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USA • 2007 • 85 MINUTES • THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY