Greece special (2): snail, sex and skateboard - new Greek cinema holds up a subversive mirror
In the midst of all the Greek calamity, something beautiful has blossomed: a new inspired cinema that makes us blink.
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.
Is 3D already old-fashioned? Inside Out even brighter with Dolby Cinema
Laser projection opens new vistas for digital film screening. On Wednesday, the JT cinema in Hilversum had the European premiere of Dolby Cinema with the screening of Inside Out.
Film Academy Masters 2015: put on those VR glasses!
Fifth batch of Masters graduating from Film Academy shows experimentation drive.
Film Academy 2015: The commercial, the ecstasy, the key maker and the sex doll
Film Academy's 2015 batch presents the final exam films.
Five good reasons to go see Blade Runner (again)
From 18 June, the digitally restored Blade Runner: The Final Cut runs in Dutch cinemas. This final edit of Ridley Scott's most important film has not been seen here before.
Spring 2015 - Will Bero Beyer give the Rotterdam Film Festival its heart back?
I am an idealist, said Bero Beyer, the new director of the Rotterdam Film Festival at the Spring Consultation.
Holland Festival: 4 ways to look to the future
Metropolis at Holland Festival: 4 ways to look at the future.
Movie theatres get extra room online
Summer at home. Six film theatres are experimenting with an extra room online from 4 June. Here's how it works. Suppose you would like to see Summer. The modest but atmospheric coming-of-age drama that earned Sigrid ten Napel a Golden Calf best actress nomination. About a summer in which, for a 16-year-old village girl, everything changes. But you are unlucky. Your favourite movie theatre does show Summer, but just not on that night...
Holland Festival - Back to the future with Metropolis
During the Holland Festival, theatre company La Fura dels Baus lets us experience the city of the future with the interactive performance M.U.R.S. As an overture, HF has programmed the film Metropolis, Fritz Lang's magisterial 1927 dystopian vision, which rightly became known as the mother of all future films. Iconic imagery, biblical influences, Marxist dialectics and actually still surprisingly modern. New York,...
Film festival around WWI, the first war with cameras on the battlefield
World War I film festival at De Cacaofabriek, Heerlen.
Ajami - delusional reality and 4 more stances Israeli-Palestinian regime duo
Jewish-Palestinian film duo Yaron Shani and Scandar Copti on their blistering drama Ajami
Ryan Gosling's mind-blowing debut Lost River - art or kitsch?
Opinions on Ryan Gosling's directorial debut Lost River vary widely.
35-year-old Film Yearbook still watches analogue television
The 2014/2015 Film Yearbook pays attention to the rapprochement between cinema and television.
Istanbul film festival joins protest against censorship
In protest against the screening ban on the Kurdish documentary Bakur, the Istanbul Film Festival has cancelled all competitions.
Turkish filmmakers protest against censorship
After the Turkish Culture Ministry prevented screening of the documentary Bakur at the Istanbul Film Festival, Turkish filmmakers have withdrawn their films in protest.
If Mama Ain't Happy also wins awards again at Go Short
If Mama Ain't Happy, Nobody's Happy by Mea de Jong gets prize from the youth jury at the Go Short Festival.
Life is short - watch films, is the motto of Go Short short film festival
Short film lovers rush to Lux in Nijmegen for the seventh edition of Go Short (8 - 12 April). The annual short film festival with European and Dutch competition, alongside this year's surprising work from the Baltic states, a summer in the Balkans, an hour and a half of cat films, and much, much more. Short films offer creators much more freedom...
Find the 'uncanny valley' at the Imagine Festival
With so many robots and even a robot design master class (Mark Setrakian, 16 April) at the Imagine Festival, it can't hurt to delve into the 'uncanny valley' again. How was that again? A robot needs to look absolutely nothing like a human to still be cute and evoke real emotions. See, for instance, Pixar's rubbish robot Wall-E. And...
Critics' Choice back at IFFR 2015 with new tools for the film critic
Film and film criticism. Image versus the word. But what happens when the critic starts using visual language too? Well, something like this, for example: Transformers: The Premake, by Kevin B. Lee. Romance or amour fou It seems so obvious in today's digital online world. Is the video essay an answer to the crisis, perceived or otherwise, in art criticism? Film critics...
Gooische Vrouwen beat Hobbit. Cinematic year 2014, eerily stable, with five caveats
Stable, stable, stable. That refrain sounded again and again at the announcement of the cinema industry's annual figures at the New Year meeting in Tuschinski. Hajo Binsbergen, vice-chairman of the Netherlands Association of Film Distributors, informed that in 2014, with the high number of 30.8 million visitors, the passage to the cinema was almost the same as 2013. The Dutch market share was with again...
Director Wolfson bids farewell to Film Festival Rotterdam - three puzzles in advance for successor
Today, the International Film Festival Rotterdam announced that director Rutger Wolfson is handing over the baton after the 2015 edition. About his decision, Wolfson says in the press release: "Eight years is a long time to lead an important film festival and with the 44th edition, which will be very strong, I have achieved everything I wanted to achieve. Together with my family, I have...
Thumbs up for Morgan Knibbe - Those Who Feel the Fire Burning nominated at IDFA
Morgan Knibbe doesn't do that badly at all. Graduated from the Film Academy two years ago, already on equal footing with the world's best documentary filmmakers at IDFA. Those Who Feel the Fire Burning is his unconventional portrayal of the world of refugees who ventured across to Europe. Now nominated for IDFA's top prize, the award for best feature-length documentary. It...
IDFA 2014: Do women look at the world differently? 9 sides of a documentary puzzle
Film-making used to be a man's business. Men made films about men watching women - something like that. In 1975, film scholar Laura Mulvey launched the famous notion of 'The Male Gaze'. Last year, it resurfaced in the heated debate surrounding La vie d'Adèle, that wonderful film by Abdellatif Kechiche (male) about a lesbian love affair. So how about before? This year, IDFA has...
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