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Extremely imaginative Master and Margarita gets cheering reception on #HF12

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 June 20128 July 2016
4 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Shakespeare had it, Oscar savage had it, Monty Python had it and Simon McBurney has trucks full of it. So it is British and it is called humour, or rather the ability to show the absurdity of life as simultaneously hilarious and deeply tragic. And let that also apply to Russian Mikhail Bulgakov. So his unfinished novel The Master and Margarita has now had to wait almost 75 years for a director like Simon McBurney to turn it into theatre.

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Originality rewarded at Oscars 2012

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

You can hardly claim it was a surprise result, because for weeks - what shall I say, months - The Artist had been mentioned as a surefire Oscar favourite. Still, the crowning of this largely silent French black-and-white film that pays tribute to the end of the silent film era in Hollywood is proof that originality still counts in...

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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...

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Jacob Derwig and Elsie de Brauw receive 2011's top drama awards

by one of our members
11 September 20118 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

On Sunday evening 11 September, the VSCD Drama Awards, the VSCD Mime Prize, the VSCD Youth Theatre Awards and the AVRO Toneel Publieksprijs 2011 were presented at the Gala van het Nederlands Theater. And that you then know that VSCD stands for the Association of Theatre and Concert Hall Directors and AVRO for General Free Radio Broadcasting. The award for the best male lead of the past...

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Four Oscars for The King's Speech - the Academy couldn't make it more adventurous

by Leo Bankersen
28 February 20118 July 2016
1 min read
FILM

Of course, not every award needs to be high-profile, but still... Four Oscars (best film, director, actor, screenplay) for the already lavishly praised stutter drama in other places The King's Speech, would anyone there

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Two idols and lots of cute girls at Saturday's Autumn Collection #njc10

by one of our members
31 October 20108 July 2016
4 min read
SPECIALS

It stood out: what a lot of cute girls in Theatre Kikker. Could it be because of the programming? Now there were a lot of cute men to choose from on Saturday night. The tough acting beasts of FC Bergman, for instance, or the androgynous Nik van den Berg, or perhaps the seemingly sweet Bert Hana. And if not, there was always DJ Oscar Kocken,...

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Bouncing along with the funny, touching, uncontrollable Ray in Renske van den Broek's musical theatre performance Fast Car #njc10

by one of our members
30 October 20108 July 2016
5 min read
SPECIALS

Irrepressible, funny, touching Fast Car Ray. A boy whose head is never still, who does not sleep, to whom everything comes in and who just cannot manage to love himself. His illness, Tourette's Syndrome, makes him delusional and desperate. Tick-tock. On and on, on and on. Like a racing car.

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Dutch actors relive emotional childhood memories during Shelley Mitchell's Method Acting Masterclass #tf2010

by one of our members
4 September 201030 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

"We are artists. Acting is a vocation. Not everyone understands that. Sometimes it's a lonely existence." Understanding, almost motherly, Shelley Mitchell addresses a group of Dutch actors at De Balie. The American actress and founder of The Actors Centre of San Francisco introduces them to 'method acting' during a three-day master class. Not pretending, but becoming one with your character. A way of acting that has won many famous actors an Oscar. Think of Robert De Niro, Juilette Binoche, Al Pacino and Kate Winslet.

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Tirza is Dutch Oscar entry

by Leo Bankersen
3 September 20108 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Tirza by Rudolf van den Berg based on Arnon Grunberg's novel of the same name has been chosen as the film that will be sent to Los Angeles as the Dutch entry for the Oscars in the best foreign film category. Holland Film announced today. In this grim drama, Gijs Scholten van Aschat plays a man who, after a failed marriage,...

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