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FILM

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Sex and populism in the seventies. How Denmark lost its innocence.

by Leo Bankersen
26 March 201429 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, FILM

Film tip for this week: Spies & Glistrup, a Danish shell comedy with a dark edge about the heyday of an illustrious anarchist duo from the 1970s. Even for the broad-minded Denmark of the time, they were extreme. According to director Christoffer Boe, they left a lasting mark on Danish society.

Because yes, the good Danes had not experienced anything like this before. Simon Spies, made stone-faced with a holiday travel empire and always surrounded by pretty girls,

World premiere in Berlin of Dutch 3D experiment Above Us All by Eugenie Jansen

by Leo Bankersen
13 February 201429 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Contrary to what some expected a few years ago, 3D in artistic film is still a rarity. So then, when something pops up in this corner again, it immediately makes one curious. And so I don't mean Cathedrals of Culture, the 3D film project by Wim Wenders and five other filmmakers starring buildings. That Wenders is a 3D believer we already knew.

I mean that other 3D premiere at the Berlin festival: Above Us All of the Dutch

Nymphomaniac Vol. I in Berlin: half an hour longer, still the same film, still just as good

by Leo Bankersen
10 February 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Lars von Trier is present at the Berlinale, wearing a T-shirt with the Cannes logo and the text 'persona non grata'. This refers to the riot at Cannes after his failed joke about Hitler. Since then, he has said nothing to the press. So we see on the monitor in the press room on Sunday afternoon

64th Berlin Film Festival opens with Wes Anderson's eccentric tragicomedy Grand Budapest Hotel

by Leo Bankersen
6 February 201429 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Imagine an old-fashioned sophisticated comedy, but filmed with modern speed, in the colourful and baroque style of a richly detailed comic strip full of plots and escapes, rounded off with a perfume of melancholy. Then you come close to The Grand Budapest Hotel, the new film by

43rd Rotterdam Film Festival celebrates 25 years of Hubert Bals Fund with opening film Qissa

by Leo Bankersen
23 January 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

9,000 euros was the amount with which Indian director Anup Singh's Qissa got off the ground a decade ago. That money came from the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) affiliated Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), which has been supporting filmmakers in developing countries for 25 years now. Last night, Qissa opened the 43rd edition of the Rotterdam festival. This makes the port city world capital for independent film for ten days, as business director Janneke Starink stated at the opening in the Doelen.

143,000 users proved too few: Video on Demand pioneer Ximon quits from 29 January

by Leo Bankersen
10 January 201411 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Video on Demand (VoD) is a growth market, we learned at the cinema industry's New Year's meeting this week. Despite this, Ximon, one of the Dutch pioneers in this field, is forced to to close shop at the end of this month.

Cinema attendance growth stagnates, Verliefd op Ibiza Dutch frontrunner

by Leo Bankersen
7 January 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Christmas saved the 2013 cinema year. While it seemed that cinema attendance was going nowhere at the beginning of December, the last three weeks of the year made up for a lot - thanks to Hobbit 2.

2013 closed with 30.8 million visitors, Wilco Wolfers, president of the Dutch Cinematography Federation announced at the cinema industry's New Year's meeting. Best-attended film

La Grande Bellezza and Borgman best films 2013 according to Dutch film press

by Leo Bankersen
27 December 201330 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Members of the Dutch Circle of Film Journalists (KNF) and other film critics reviewed the Italian tragicomedy La Grande Bellezza voted best cinematic film of 2013. According to the same critics, Borgman by Alex van Warmerdam the best Dutch film of this year, the KNF announced.

La Grande Bellezza by Paolo Sorrentino received the most points after

Marwan Kenzari Dutch Shooting Star in Berlin

by Leo Bankersen
11 December 201330 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

We congratulate Marwan Kenzari! He has been selected as one of the Shooting Stars, the ten best young European actors to be showcased at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival.

This annual showcase of new talent could, with some luck

Poetry and reflection in IDFA winner Song from the Forest

by Leo Bankersen
29 November 201311 July 2016
1 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

With the crowning of Song from the Forest by Michael Obert, the jury chose a poetic film essay that combines a very personal account with reflection on our culture. Samedi is a 13-year-old Bayaka Pygmy from Central Africa who here travels to his American father's homeland for the first time.

IDFA DocLab - Live Internet Cinema with Jonathan Harris

by Leo Bankersen
24 November 201329 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Watching the emotional pulse of the world live, designed as a screen full of dancing dots. That was possible last night at IDFA during the live cinema event, presented by internet artist Jonathan Harris.

Way back when fast food had just been invented

IDFA 2013 opens with battle in Syria

by Leo Bankersen
21 November 201330 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

A bit decadent it was last night. In a festive mood with glass in hand to the kick-off of the 26th edition of the documentary festival IDFA in Tuschinski, and then an hour and a half of watching the fortunes of a group of Syrian rebels in the completely destroyed city of Homs.

Realistic-optimistic The Rocket wins double award at Cinekid

by Leo Bankersen
26 October 201330 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

"Children are the best judges of what makes a good children's film," a member of the Cinekid children's jury spoke confidently. There may be room for improvement on that, but the fact is that at the awards ceremony on the festive closing night of the Cinekid festival, there was remarkable agreement with the adult jury.

Not only did both juries nominate the same film twice

The tough weather in hard numbers - economic research Dutch film industry

by Leo Bankersen
29 September 201311 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Are these the figures that will make it clear to Minister Kamp that incentives for the film industry really need to happen? That hope could be heard during the discussion of a report by Oxford Economics implemented research to the economic position of the Dutch film and av industry.

Dutch Academy For Film - for a good story about Dutch cinema

by Leo Bankersen
27 September 201329 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

The Dutch film world has a new club. Dutch filmmakers can join the Dutch Academy For Film (DAFF). With the aim, in short, of raising the profile of Dutch cinema. The DAFF was founded on 24 June this year following the example of similar academies in, for example, England, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. A press conference at the Netherlands Film Festival

'Diaries of an elephant' best debut at NFF 2013

by Leo Bankersen
25 September 201311 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

The Dutch Film Festival not only kicked off tonight with the slavery drama How expensive was the sugar, but also with the presentation of the first awards. Janina Pigaht received the Filmprijs van de Stad Utrecht, the award for best debut, for her documentary Diaries of an elephant. In it, Pigaht goes in search of SS past

Borgman is Dutch entry for the Oscars

by Leo Bankersen
13 September 201329 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

It cannot have been a difficult choice. The feature film Borgman by Alex van Warmerdam had already made it through to the Cannes competition earlier this year. Now this dark, wry-comic thriller has been chosen as the Dutch entry for the 86th Academy Awards (the Oscars) in

Twelve-tone horror at KCO

by Thea Derks
12 September 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM, MUSIC

Tonight and tomorrow night, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra kicks off the fourth season of the AAA series, with film music under the title 'Suspense'. But not everyone will immediately associate composers like Bartók, Lutyens and Schoenberg with cinema.

Mondrian, Verhoeven and human rights in Netherlands-Russia year

by Leo Bankersen
11 September 20138 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

With all the critical coverage of Russia that Putin and his supporters are provoking, we would almost forget that we are in the middle of the Netherlands-Russia year sitting. A screening of Paul Verhoeven's war film will take place tonight at the Pioner Gorky Park in Moscow Black Book, as a kick-off to

Nude is main theme at 33rd edition Netherlands Film Festival, Hoe Duur was de Suiker opening film

by Leo Bankersen
27 August 20138 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Paul Verhoeven, Dick Maas, Katja Schuurman, Monique van de Ven and Kim van Kooten are all special guests at the upcoming edition of the Dutch Film Festival. Nothing special, you might think, but if you see them on the festival posters you probably won't recognise them. After all, they are namesakes of well-known film personalities who this year

3D in cinema, how common is it already?

by Leo Bankersen
12 July 20138 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Monsters University provides merry summer entertainment in 3D from this week. Last week World War Z be viewed with 3D glasses. At the end of 2009, Avatar overwhelmingly clear: 3D was back never to leave. We are now almost four years on

Curtain falls on film theatre and stage Provadja in Alkmaar

by Leo Bankersen
4 July 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

For more than a decade, Alkmaar film theatre and stage Provadja - one of the oldest Dutch film houses - has been struggling with housing that is far too cramped. Plans have been made for over a decade and last night the city council voted on relocation. And thus chose an option that Provadja's board, staff and volunteers had already categorically rejected. Namely

'What do Belgians have that we don't?" was the question at the spring meeting on burning film issues

by Leo Bankersen
13 June 20138 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Is it because of the ice age? Is it a question of money or guts? Last night, the Amsterdam cinema Het Ketelhuis hosted the so-called Spring Consultation for the tenth time.

Cannes opens with The Great Gatsby, but the novelty is already off

by Leo Bankersen
14 May 201329 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Would Gilles Jacob, the director of the Cannes Film Festival, see it as a godsend or a knee-jerk reaction to American studios? That Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby Wednesday's opening film certainly means spectacle and a lot of attention. But it is not a world premiere,

Finally another Dutch film in competition at Cannes: Borgman by Alex van Warmerdam

by Leo Bankersen
18 April 201330 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

A major frustration of the Dutch film world has come to an end. After 38 years, we again have a film in the main competition at Cannes. The new film by

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