Brandend Kalf wants more fire in Dutch cinema. But who should stoke that?

by Leo Bankersen
21 September 201729 March 2022
6 min read
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Terwijl in de Stadsschouwburg het Nederlands Filmfestival feestelijk werd geopend met Tulipani klonk elders in Utrecht gemor. Feest? Volgens Brandend Kalf, een initiatief van filmjournalist Karin Wolfs en schrijver A.H.J. Dautzenberg is er geen reden tot feest. De Nederlandse film mist het ware vuur.
Zoals tegenover het festivalpaviljoen werd gedemonstreerd door met een draagbare beamer enkele kalveren van levendige vlammen te voorzien. Een speels mini-speldenprikje, belangstellend gadegeslagen ...

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

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