Dutch film press picks La La Land, Toni Erdmann and Tonio as best films 2016
Bij de verkiezing van beste film 2016 door de Nederlandse filmpers eindigden La La Land en Toni Erdmann op een gedeelde eerste plaats. Tonio is de Nederlandse favoriet.
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.
Migrants get rock-hard Europe lesson in staggering 'Stranger in Paradise'
For his documentary on the refugee issue, Guido Hendrikx chose an unusual form. In a schoolroom in Sicily, a teacher played by an actor confronts the migrants with the hard facts about Europe.
Netherlands Film Festival invites bickering film sector for constructive debate
The 2016 Autumn Consultation. This annual evening of debate around burning issues in the film industry revealed above all that the industry is far from being on the same page.
Master class Sergei Loznitsa makes one long for even more knowledge about how film works
With Austerlitz, Sergei Loznitsa made a documentary about tourists in former concnetration camps that was as rigorous as it was unsettling. This year, he is guest of honour at IDFA and gave a master class there.
IDFA's DocLab: I walked blind through a splendid day in cyberspace
IDFA's tenth DocLab shows the state of the art in interactive documentaries, virtual reality and other media art. Juggle the artist's body or experience what it is like to be (colour) blind.
New 'Birth of a Nation' makes short work of famous predecessor
Het veelbesproken The Birth of a Nation over een Amerikaanse slavenopstand krijgt een preview op twee Nederlandse festivals. Debuterend regisseur Nate Parker leende brutaalweg de titel van beroemde en omstreden klassieker.
Women and girls in film world still worse off. Cinekid talks about it
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30th Cinekid: Versatile youth film festival must look for new director
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Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016) - Polish cinema has lost a father
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Issaka Sawadogo: 'Those who ignore diversity do themselves an injustice' #NFF2016
The opening day of the National Film Conference at the Netherlands Film Festival offered the prospect of 'urgent' developments, but flames were not yet willing. Despite Issaka Sawadogo's engaging outpouring on the subject of diversity.
'The hero': shaky book adaptation opens Dutch Film Festival #NFF2016
Book adaptations set the tone at the Netherlands Film Festival 2016. The Hero after Jessica Durlacher's novel opened the Utrecht film festival.
Fringe notes (5): Brexit, Britsheid en het geheim van 2,5 miljoen #edfringe
Door Brexit hebben veel programma’s op de Fringe een extra lading gekregen. Maar wat is Brits eigenlijk, en waar hoor je thuis?
Fringe notes (4): De politiek van bakstenen en hoelahoep #edfringe
Twee heel verschillende vormen van politiek theater op de Edinburgh Fringe: feministisch varieté en een onderdompelingsode aan de Maidan. Je gooit bakstenen voor je het weet.
Fringe notes (3): 5 Questions to Tim Honnef, Dutchman at the Fringe #edfringe
Tim Honnef is one of the few Dutch with a performance at the Fringe. How did he end up here?
Fringe notes (2): Choice stress, tinder appeals and a Fringe thriller #edfringe
How to avoid choice stress at the Edinburgh Fringe bursting at the seams on all sides? We do an experiment: a day on the flow of flyers.
Fringe notes (1): Hard lessons in comedy at Edinburgh Fringe festival #edfringe
Amazing how more than a thousand performers at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival are willing to try their hand at the most difficult genre: comedy
Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016), the great humanist of Iranian cinema
Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) zette de Iraanse cinema op de kaart met diep doorleefd humanisme in een minimalistische vorm.
You need to see this to get to know Louis van Gasteren (1922-2016) better.
Filmmaker Louis van Gasteren, who died on 10 May 2016, was initially an electrician but still found his calling as a filmmaker, producer, bohemian, visual artist and sleeper by conviction. The creator of a distinctive documentary oeuvre put much of himself into his work.
'Dormant Dutch film world needs kick from Brandend Kalf'
Good news for anyone who also thinks the Dutch film world could use a bit more spice. On 29 September, film theatre Springhaver in Utrecht will host the Evening of the Burning Calf organised. Rounded off with the presentation of the Brandend Kalf, the new film award for the most sensational, daring, cheeky or inspired Dutch film initiative. At least, if enough crowdfunders are those who want to support this project by film journalist Karin Wolfs and writer A.H.J. Dautzenberg.
Yes, you see, this event takes place, not entirely coincidentally, on the evening preceding the presentation of the Golden Calf awards. And no, the Brandend Kalf is not a side programme of the Dutch Film Festival. When we ask Karin Wolfs to explain, she first of all wants to emphasise that it is an entirely independent project. Nor a private party of Wolfs and Dautzenberg. Hence also that crowdfunding. If it succeeds
Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad is fan of Wim T. Schippers and wants to fight with beauty
The Cinéma Arabe festival (from 19 April) is showing a rich palette of new work from the Arab World. Interview with director Hany Abu-Assad who sets a new tone with The Idol. And he has plans for a film about William of Orange. 'That will be my parting gift to the Netherlands.'
The woman on the beach and why virtual reality film is not a film
For one evening, EYE was all about virtual reality. What will remain of VR when the hype is gone we don't yet know. But maybe we will understand the phenomenon better if we stop comparing it to existing media like films or games.
HAFF 2016 proves that animation can do anything: from abstract art to documentary
At the 19th edition of the Holland Animation Film Festival, versatility celebrates. From abstract to documentary. Special attention also to the connection between animation and installation art.
Unprecedented building fever and optimism at Dutch cinemas
The cinema industry in the Netherlands is aiming for new construction and is convinced there is still a lot of growth potential. But it won't happen without foreign capital. That is why the new multiplex in Alkmaar is now called Vue.
#IFFR Tigercheck (1): Mythical tales and charming doubts
With the revamped, more compact Tiger competition, IFFR aims to show what the festival stands for. Nurturing new talent with a voice of its own. Is the Tiger roaring again?
Me, the robot and the others on #IFFR
Can a robot understand our feelings? Can we know others. Japanese drama Sayonara and American stop-motion animation Anomalisa have an unexpected common ground.
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