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FILM

Moving image. To be seen on TV, in a museum, in a cinema. On an iphone.

Hans van Beers is no more - another loss for Dutch cultural life

by Thea Derks
26 August 201526 August 2015
3 min read
ACTUAL, VISUAL, FILM, MUSIC

On Tuesday afternoon, 25 August, Hans van Beers (Eindhoven, 1941) passed away. He was an important figure in our cultural life, his curriculum is seemingly endless. Among other things, he was alderman of culture in Den Bosch, co-founder of Pinkpop, chairman of the Mondriaan Fund, interim director of the Stedelijk Museum, director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the VPRO and the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music, board member...

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Sex rightly splashes off the canvas in 'Love': yes/no

by Leo Bankersen
24 August 201524 August 2015
4 min read
FILM

Utility and necessity of explicit sex in 'Love' and other cinema films.

The 10 best films to get in the mood for SAIL

by Helen Westerik
18 August 201530 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, FILM

Boats and film, they have been linked since the very earliest cinema. The first moving shot is shot from a gondola in Venice, Georges Méliès already made Les haleurs de bateaux in 1896 and the much more sophisticated 20000 lieues sous les mers in 1907. With SAIL about to break loose, it is time to list the best nautical films....

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Greece Special (3): How is the film festival in Thessaloniki going?

by Helen Westerik
30 July 20153 August 2015
5 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

If all goes well, the 56th Thessaloniki International Film Festival will kick off on 6 November. Less well-known than Rotterdam, Berlin or Locarno, but the most important festival in southern Europe. And they have quirky and broad programming, where you can discover all kinds of new filmmakers. But is it going well? The first festival dated back to 1960 and was...

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Dolby Cinema is really going to be it: M:i5 now also in laser-sharp image. More on the way.

by Leo Bankersen
29 July 201529 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

More titles available for Dolby Cinema. Mission: Impossible 5 and other Hollywood blockbusters will be shown in this format.

Greece special (2): snail, sex and skateboard - new Greek cinema holds up a subversive mirror

by Leo Bankersen
21 July 2015
5 min read
FILM, Greece, SPECIALS

In the midst of all the Greek calamity, something beautiful has blossomed: a new inspired cinema that makes us blink.

Is 3D already old-fashioned? Inside Out even brighter with Dolby Cinema

by Leo Bankersen
17 July 2015
4 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

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.

Greek special (1): Our Greek is still called Zorba

by George Vermij
15 July 201520 July 2015
6 min read
ACTUAL, FILM, Greece

Following the euro crisis, Culture Press focuses on Greece in a series of articles. In the first part, George Vermij looks at how film has influenced our image of the Mediterranean country. Is there not a more striking image of Greece than Antony Quinn as Zorba dancing the Sirtaki and finding resignation despite the harsh setbacks life offers? The...

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Pixar's Inside Out in five emotions

by Henri Drost
7 July 201530 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, FILM

Pixar set the bar high. So high, in fact, that its recent output was downright disappointing. But Inside Out exceeds all expectations. It may be taking it a bit far to say that Pixar single-handedly revived the animated film. But ever since the software company founded by George Lucas started making great films, the competition was blown away. Toy Story broke all records in 1995,...

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Film Academy Masters 2015: put on those VR glasses!

by Leo Bankersen
30 June 2015
3 min read
FILM

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

by Leo Bankersen
30 June 201530 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, FILM

Film Academy's 2015 batch presents the final exam films.

Five good reasons to go see Blade Runner (again)

by Leo Bankersen
17 June 2015
3 min read
FILM

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.

One Lulu is not the other

by Helen Westerik
14 June 201530 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Eye organised a Lulu Marathon as part of the William Kentridge exhibition at the Holland Festival. Kentridge directed Alban Berg's opera Lulu. As part of that, Eye screened the two main Lulu films that inspired him. The first was Leopold Jessner's Erdgeist (1923) and the second was G.W. Pabst's Die Büchse der Pandora (1929). Two iconic Weimar...

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Letter Bussemaker: butts in seats or artistic recognition?

by Helen Westerik
8 June 20158 June 2015
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Minister Jet Bussemaker's letter will keep tongues wagging for a long time to come. There are considerable gaps here and there between the Culture Council's advice and the minister's letter. Also in the field of film and media. A list of differences. Bussemaker notes that the film sector is changing considerably. Media consumption is changing due to the rapid rise...

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Jurassic Art! - 10 times art with dinosaurs

by Frans van Hilten
6 June 20151 January 2017
4 min read
FILM

Twenty-two years after Jurassic Park the fourth instalment of the well-known dinosaur films enters Dutch cinemas on Thursday 11 June. In Jurassic World we see in 3D how the dreamed theme park with live dinosaurs is finally realised, and how things go grandly wrong when overambitious showmen start genetically manipulating dinosaurs. In each new volume, the plot is thinner, the special effects become more dominant and the scientific pretensions less so, but no one can deny that the Jurassic Park-films have revolutionised. Also in the arts.

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Spring 2015 - Will Bero Beyer give the Rotterdam Film Festival its heart back?

by Leo Bankersen
4 June 201524 March 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

I am an idealist, said Bero Beyer, the new director of the Rotterdam Film Festival at the Spring Consultation.

Arab women conquer Eye

by Helen Westerik
3 June 20153 June 2015
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

A special film programme opens at Eye on 5 June: Where do we go now? Arab women behind the camera. Those who think of the Middle East and North Africa may think of conflicts and IS, perhaps of the origins of algebra, but probably not of women filmmakers. Yet they are rising considerably. In 1994, Moufida's Les Silences du Palais was...

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Holland Festival: 4 ways to look to the future

by Leo Bankersen
1 June 20151 June 2015
3 min read
FILM, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Metropolis at Holland Festival: 4 ways to look at the future.

Movie theatres get extra room online

by Leo Bankersen
29 May 201529 May 2015
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

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...

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Holland Festival - Back to the future with Metropolis

by Leo Bankersen
29 May 201530 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, FILM, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

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,...

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Film festival around WWI, the first war with cameras on the battlefield

by Leo Bankersen
25 May 201529 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

World War I film festival at De Cacaofabriek, Heerlen.

Movies that Matter on tour: Burden of Peace

by George Vermij
5 May 2015
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

The Movies that Matter film festival offers a programme of engaged and socially critical films not only in March. With Movies That Matter On Tour, special films are screened throughout the year throughout the Netherlands. In May, it is the Dutch documentary Burden of Peace. Burden of Peace tells the impressive story of Claudia Paz y Paz, the first woman to...

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Ajami - delusional reality and 4 more stances Israeli-Palestinian regime duo

by Leo Bankersen
2 May 201529 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Jewish-Palestinian film duo Yaron Shani and Scandar Copti on their blistering drama Ajami

Chapman for president- a film without images.

by Brechtje Roos
1 May 201530 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, FILM, MUSIC, PERSONAL

Is that possible? Picture-less film? Sure, just see-or better-listen to Chapman for President by the Eef van Breen Group on 2 May during LISFE: a cinematic sound project based on a personal story. An encounter with political refugee Chapman gave trumpeter, singer & composer Eef van Breen new eyes, ears and the idea for this film without images....

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Ryan Gosling's mind-blowing debut Lost River - art or kitsch?

by Leo Bankersen
29 April 201530 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Opinions on Ryan Gosling's directorial debut Lost River vary widely.

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