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Bewegend beeld. Te zien op tv, in een museum, in een bioscoop. Op een iphone.

Those who are not already become Kubrick fans now. Exhibition and all films at EYE, kicking off on #HF12 with 2001 plus orchestra

by Leo Bankersen
20 June 20128 July 2016
4 min read
FILM, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Hear Vera Lynn sing as the atomic bombs explode in Dr Strangelove. Stanley Kubrick did wondrous things with the music in his films. Rightly so, the Holland Festival is making space for a special screening of 2001 with orchestra. Space ships to Strauss' waltzes, prelude to a Kubrick summer. Much has been written and speculated about the films of Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999),...

EYE on the IJ - a spaceship with allure

by Leo Bankersen
4 April 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Tonight the queen may officially open the new home of the EYE Film Institute Netherlands, last night director Sandra den Hamer did it herself in advance at an opening party for relations. In doing so, she spoke of a historic moment for film culture in the Netherlands. Seen from a distance, the building, conveniently referred to as "the new film museum", is most reminiscent of a...

Wednesdays winner of Dutch competition Go Short

by Leo Bankersen
18 March 201230 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Last night the awards for best short films were presented at festival Go Short in Nijmegen. Winner of the Dutch competition is Woensdagen by Aaron Rookus, a small feature film that approaches the heavily charged subject of sexual abuse in the most subtle way. What begins as an emotionally stunningly well-struck impression of eight-year-old Kris' weekly outing...

CineCrowd shows at short film festival Go Short that crowdfunding works

by Leo Bankersen
17 March 201230 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

In the short Dutch film Ceci n'est pas un rêve, which premiered at the festival Go Short (Nijmegen, 14-18 March), the cityscape of Paris slowly transforms into a dreamscape. You could call it a surrealist documentary, in which filmmaker Amos Mulder has incorporated influences from early German film pioneer Walter Ruttmann as well as modern computer animation. With further...

Originaliteit beloond bij Oscars 2012

by Leo Bankersen
27 February 201230 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Je kan moeilijk beweren dat het een verrassende uitslag was, want al wekenlang – wat zeg ik, maanden – werd The Artist genoemd als geheide Oscarfavoriet. Toch is de bekroning van deze grotendeels zwijgende Franse zwartwit-film die een ode brengt aan het einde van het tijdperk van de stomme film in Hollywood het bewijs dat originaliteit nog altijd telt in…

Awards for Dutch Chewboy

by Leo Bankersen
18 February 201229 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Towards the end of this Berlinale, it could be heard in the corridors that the Danish costume piece A Royal Affair about a nipped-in-the-nippled revolution was surely going to win the Golden Bear. However, the jury did not care about that and designated Caesar Must Die by the Taviani brothers as the best film. The jury chaired by...

Berlin 2012 - Dutch debut Hemel wins Critics Award

by Leo Bankersen
18 February 201230 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Dutch film Hemel was chosen as best film in the Forum section for young cinema by the jury of international critics at the Berlin festival. This is a fine success for director Sacha Polak who delivers her first feature-length film with this drama about a young woman who has lost her way in search of love. Heaven, after a...

Berlin 2012 - Shakespeare knew it all

by Leo Bankersen
16 February 201230 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Would today's revolution makers even study Shakespeare? In Cesare deve morire (Caesar Must Die), the competition entry by the Italian Taviani brothers, we witness the preparation and performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Anyone watching this with the world's noise in mind will often feel a shock of recognition. The tragedy about a coup in ancient Rome shows...

Berlijn 2012: Christian Petzold gooit hoge ogen met beklemmend DDR-drama Barbara

by Leo Bankersen
14 February 201230 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Kan een cineast die in West-Duitsland geboren en getogen is precies de juiste toon treffen in een film die in het voormalige Oost-Duitsland speelt? Ik had daar nog niet zo bij stil gestaan, maar de Berliner Zeitung wierp die vraag op naar aanleiding van Christian Petzolds Barbara, over een Berlijnse kinderarts die na een verzoek naar het westen te mogen…

Berlijn 2012: Finse SF-komedie en Nazi-parodie Iron Sky met gejuich ontvangen

by Leo Bankersen
11 February 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Timo Vuorensola heeft het hem geflikt. Misschien gaat u bij het lezen van de naam van deze Finse regisseur en videoclipmaker nog geen licht op, maar dan behoort u niet tot de uitgebreide internetfanclub die al enkele jaren de wordingsgeschiedenis van de potentiële culthit Iron Sky op de voet volgt. De wereldpremière op het festival van Berlijn is nu de…

Berlin Film Festival opens with a messy Versailles

by Leo Bankersen
9 February 201230 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

The 62nd Berlinale opened tonight with Benoït Jacquot's Les adieux à la reine, a French costume piece that does not play by the rules. The dresses worn by Queen Marie Antoinette's servants get dirty and one of the main characters stumbles in her haste and passes out twice. As the film begins we write 14 July 1789, and the...

IFFR 2012: Raw and sensitive Serbian debut awarded twice

by Leo Bankersen
3 February 201230 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Smiling, she lets a boy film her with his mobile phone and she happily wriggles into lascivious curves in the process. But when he really wants to see her breasts she flinches. Yet later she will go much, much further and she gets staggeringly little in return. Jasna, the rebellious protagonist from Cliff (Clip), is a Serbian teen...

IFFR 2012 - Sobering report from Egypt hit with festival audience

by Leo Bankersen
1 February 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

That Martin Scorsese's mesmerising Hugo was number one in the audience rating for a while at the Rotterdam festival is not so surprising. What is surprising, however, is the film that emerged as number two yesterday and has now ousted Hugo from first place: the documentary Back to the Square in which filmmaker Petr Lom looks at how things stand in Egypt after the...

IFFR 2012 – Een klein mirakel in 3D

by Leo Bankersen
29 January 201230 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Gisteravond waren de Rotterdamse festivalbezoekers in zaal 4 van Pathé getuige van een klein wonder. Enkele filmfragmenten uit 1906 van de legendarische Georges Méliès werden nu voor het eerst vertoond in stereoscopisch 3D. Zodat je je als het ware zelf aanwezig kon wanen op de set van deze Franse pionier die als eerste begrepen had dat cinema er niet is…

41e International Film Festival Rotterdam opent met verontrustend Frans drama 38 Témoins

by Leo Bankersen
25 January 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Vergeleken met eerdere edities zou je de keus van de openingsfilm waarmee het Rotterdams Filmfestival vanavond van start gaat bijna on-Rotterdams willen noemen. Geen wild jong debuut, exotische Aziaat of artistieke dwarsliggerij deze keer. De Franse boekverfilming 38 Témoins, die vanavond in Rotterdam zijn wereldpremière beleeft, is de zevende speelfilm van de Waalse acteur/regisseur Lucas Belvaux en is al aangekocht…

IDFA awards Planet of Snail

by Leo Bankersen
26 November 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

IDFA's jury neatly balanced poetry and politics by awarding among the feature-length documentaries the moving Planet of Snail (South Korea), alongside the Palestinian village-set 5 Broken Cameras, a Palestinian/Israeli/French/Dutch co-production. Planet of Snail by Seung-Jun Yi received the main award, the VPRO IDFA Award for best feature-length documentary. The fireworks of...

IDFA screens Tahrir 2011, eyewitness account of Egyptian revolution

by Leo Bankersen
21 November 201130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

A bit alienating it is. Watching at IDFA the eventful account of Egypt's February Tahrir 2011 revolution while at the same time, in Tahrir Square, the second phase of resistance against the dictatorship is in full swing. A kind of 'back to the future' feeling. Tahrir 2011 is a relatively unpolished, but with a sense of urgency in...

IDFA 2011: Ramon Gieling, Frank Scheffer and the magic of music

by Leo Bankersen
20 November 201130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Coincidence? The two Dutch documentaries in the main competition of the IDFA documentary festival both explore what music can mean to people. Two films that also complement each other perfectly - one starts from the perspective of the listener, the other from the musician. In About Canto, Ramon Gieling outlines the profound influence that Simeon ten Holt's Canto Ostinato...

IDFA 2011 kicks off with Danish documentary stunt work: The Ambassador

by Leo Bankersen
16 November 201130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

The crisis rages on and the Arab world is in flux, but in the documentary world, the time for big stories is over. At least that was the conclusion drawn by festival director Ally Derks at a press conference ahead of the 24th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (16-27 November). Unlike a decade ago, documentary filmmakers now focus...

According to US film magazine, our Oscar entry does not stand a chance

by Leo Bankersen
14 October 201130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

It is not very often that Dutch films attract the attention of the film trade magazine Screen International. Now that the web edition ScreenDaily happens to publish two reviews in a row, it is nice to quote something from them. Screen editor-in-chief Mike Goodridge saw Dutch Oscar contender Sonny Boy and Marco van Geffen's debut film Onder ons (international title Among Us) and came to the...

Dutch Film Festival - Three uncompromising auteur films

by Leo Bankersen
25 September 201130 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, FILM

The Netherlands Film Festival is only halfway through, but let's list three notable premieres anyway. Three films that may not be big crowd pleasers, but three uncompromising auteur films that bear witness to a vision that goes beyond entertaining storytelling. Three films that have also received attention abroad...

Netherlands Film Festival - Tuschinski Award for If I didn't have you

by Leo Bankersen
23 September 201129 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

The Tuschinski Award for best graduation film of the Film Academy was awarded this afternoon at the Dutch Film Festival to Anne-Marieke Graafmans for her documentary If I didn't have you. What is special about the presentation of this award for up-and-coming talent is that the commercial cinema business and independent film criticism are here together for a while. The Tuschinski Award will be presented and with 5000 euro...

31st edition Dutch Film Festival - Cinema or iconoclasm

by Leo Bankersen
21 September 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Will classic cinema survive the digital iconoclasm of the future? The question is not new, but it comes to mind again upon seeing the programme of the Netherlands Film Festival, which opens tonight with André van Duren's De bende van Oss. Put that opening film next to Iconoclasm, the festival's main theme, and you see what...

Even Lucebert no longer impresses

by Leo Bankersen
7 July 201129 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

YXIE has been shot down. It may not be big national news, but it is yet another of those many harrowing examples that show how bleak the wind is blowing through the cultural landscape. YXIE, the word comes from the quiver of poet-painter Lucebert, one of the artists of the COBRA movement. It was also to become the name of a...

You'd be interested to know what Spalding Gray and Christoph Schlingensief would have had to say to each other.

by Leo Bankersen
24 May 20118 July 2016
4 min read
FILM, SPECIALS

Cover of Spalding Gray At the Holland Festival, two minds wander. The loudest is that of Christoph Schlingensief, Germany's most independent filmmaker, theatre-maker, activist and enfant terrible, always good for controversy. After being diagnosed with lung cancer in 2008, he processed his anger and fear in Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir, presented in 2009 at...

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