The opening of the Berlin Film Festival was somewhat overshadowed by the untimely death from a suspected drug overdose of Philip Seymour Hoffman.<br /><br />Festival Director Dieter Kosslick said there would be a special showing of the film for which the actor won an Oscar: “On Tuesday, we will show ‘Capote’ and we will commemorate him because he was here with ‘Capote’ the last time. And he was one of the greatest actors we had in the world.”<br /><br />Hoffman had been due to be in Berlin to promote his Sundance festival film ‘God’s Pocket’.<br /><br />The Berlin festival opened with Wes Anderson’s new movie ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’.<br /><br />Ralph Fiennes, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Jeff Goldblum and Tilda Swinton were all on the red carpet for the premier. <br /><br />Tilda Swinton is pleased with the film, though she couldn’t categorise it: “Whenever somebody says a film is one thing you feel like arguing that it is the opposite. It’s a fairytale, it’s also political, but it is super-beautiful and full of love.” <br /><br />Edward Norton expressed his pleasure at working with Wes Anderson: “He’s very unique, you know there is not many directors that if you see a film one minute you know it’s his film, he’s just a very original voice.”<br /><br />‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ is the first in a 20-strong lineup of movies competing for the main Golden Bear award at Berlin.
