Ryan Gosling's mind-blowing debut Lost River - art or kitsch?
Opinions on Ryan Gosling's directorial debut Lost River vary widely.
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A vital and pitiful procession: William Kentridge at EYE
With its latest retrospective If We Ever Get To Heaven, EYE again convincingly and confidently presents itself as a museum that looks beyond film history. This was already evident in previous exhibitions such as Expanded Cinema, which showcased visual artists working at the intersection of film and art. Now William Kentridge has been given the honour of...
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Culture Ministry prevented screening of the documentary Bakur at the Istanbul Film Festival, Turkish filmmakers have withdrawn their films in protest.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
Met zoveel robots en zelfs een masterclass robotontwerp (Mark Setrakian, 16 april) op het Imagine Festival kan het geen kwaad weer even in de ‘uncanny valley‘ te duiken. Hoe zat dat ook al weer? Een robot hoeft volstrekt niet op een mens te lijken om toch schattig te zijn en echte emoties op te roepen. Zie bijvoorbeeld Pixar’s vuilnisrobot Wall-E. En…
Here come the Robots! Imagine Film Festival 2015
Lately, the media has been flooding you with predictions about the increasing impact of artificial intelligence on our lives. Take for instance Nicholas Carr's book The Glass Cage, which analyses the revolutionary impact of new technology in the workplace. These are developments that have not passed Imagine programmers by. The 31st edition of the film festival, which...
CinemAsia 2015: a continent of new film
The sixth edition of CinemAsia kicks off on 1 April in Amsterdam. The festival offers a broad and surprising overview of films from Asia. Ranging from anime from Japan to a documentary on Indonesian action films or a contemporary Filipino relationship comedy. Culture Press already dived into the programme. In itself, of course, there is plenty to choose from when you look at all those prolific studios in China, Japan, South Korea,...
This is a must-see at the STRP Biennial!
Eindhoven is the mecca of experimental electronica for a while every two years with the STRP Biennial. In the Brabant city of lights, you can enjoy no less than nine days of leading dance acts. In addition, experimental performances explore the intersection between film, art and technology. Culture Press makes a preselection. Hypnotic dance swell The British Factory Floor has one foot in the past, but looks musically to the future. Their...
Engagement on the big screen: Movies that Matter 2015
The latest edition of the Movies that Matter festival kicks off in The Hague on Friday 20 March 2015. A fitting location for a festival that occupies a unique position with its focus on human rights and cinema. On Culture Press for a preview of the programme. Movies that Matter, like previous years, offers an interesting mix of documentaries and fiction films that will give you a...
Chinese animation art between experiment and tradition at Holland Animation Film Festival
You haven't seen this before: stop-motion animation with figures made of Chinese porcelain. In the short film Mr Sea Chinese artist Xue Geng has depicted an ancient legend about an explorer, a prostitute and a snake
On the death of a peerless jazz legend: Clark Terry 1920 - 2015
Clark Terry was a legend and is no more. The American jazz trumpeter died on Saturday at the age of 94. He began his musical career with jazz greats Count Basie and Duke Ellington, who soon recognised his extraordinary talent. He said of the two: "Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school." [Tweet ""Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was ...
From Urban to softerotica: The remarkable career of Sam Taylor-Wood/Johnson
The critical commotion that has emerged around the film adaptation of E.L. James's book Fifty Shades of Grey seems to focus mainly on the good-natured tameness of the final product. Something that contrasts with the supposedly edgy nature of the book, where a virginal young woman allows herself to be sexually initiated by a rich SM yuppie. Film critic Antony Lane listed...
5 reasons to come see short films in Rotterdam now
We write day 6 of the IFFR and take an intermediate view. In the deluge of films, the short films (1 to 60 minutes) always fall away a little in attention. This is a shame, because there is a lot to discover within this format. We list for you. 1 - The IFFR is the festival with one of the...
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...
The scene that made film history
This morning, Anita Ekberg died in a hospital in Italy. She turned 83. But for us, she actually always remained 28 and stood forever in the Trevi Fountain. Ekberg began her career as Miss Sweden and left for the US armed with that title. There, she played a number of small film roles in which she was mostly beautiful and...
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...
They are going to pay. Cable operators on their knees for screenwriters
Tonight many drunk screenwriters on the streets, and in Leiden a few very happy older journalists. Lira, the organisation that has to collect money for them from the big, wealthy, and non-paying guys, has won twice. They already had, of course, but the cable companies didn't want to get rid of the gold plating on their luxury yachts. So they ignored the judge's ruling and...
Farce around The Interview turns into thriller - Sony succumbs to threat from unknown source
It gets crazier and crazier with The Interview, the US comedy in which the CIA wants to implicate two television journalists in an assassination attempt against the leader of North Korea.
You could almost say that film has once again been overtaken by reality.
Former Culture Secretary screws writers
The producers of film and television, who colluded with cable companies not to pay writers for their work, are coming up with a plan. Unwilling to agree to the creators' just demand to just do what the courts have ordered, they set up a fund. Into that, they put the money they feel should...
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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