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Goodbye movie house, longing for museums: (my) insights after corona

What does culture visit after corona look like? The topic came up regularly on this site in recent months. I myself wrote two personal contributions on it. Now that cultural institutions may almost reopen their doors, the crystal ball is giving way to reality. In my article on 'the promise of the empty hall', I noted a reluctance to... 

'This new law means even more hurdles and restrictions for visiting culture.'

Honourable members of the House of Representatives, It is with great concern that we look at the Temporary Test Act that will be voted on in your House on Tuesday 11 May. This new law means even more hurdles and restrictions for visiting culture. Restrictions that will be introduced but where the end date is not given. This new testing law could be a godsend for... 

Godfried Bomans: respectively loved, vilified, misunderstood and forgotten

Godfried Bomans died half a century ago. Almost immediately afterwards, the Netherlands' best-loved writer sank into oblivion. It is time for a reappraisal of Bomans' literary work and even his political views. I delved into the archives, also looking for the few traces of Bomans in Amersfoort. First some round figures. Seventy years ago, he delivered a lecture... 

Film tip this week: Festival of short film Go Short goes online

The short film is the poetry of cinema. This statement by a Berlinale programmer is cited with approval by Go Short. This internationally highly regarded festival for short films - stepping stone for the Oscar and other awards - was supposed to have taken place in Nijmegen in early April. But, unsurprisingly, corona drew a line under it.... 

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Artists show Albania the way to EU accession

An artists' protest in Albania deserves extra attention. Especially as EU accession negotiations resume. Indeed, the protest action is impressive and offers a view of EU accession from an interesting perspective. That of a people who are committed to democratic values, who value their own history and culture, who do not want to give way to... 

A morale boost for when you're feeling down. Top 5 indie film streams from a true fan

Last week, my in-box and my social media feed were full of cancellations. Screenings, film festivals and museums: everything I was looking forward to or contributing to was cancelled or shelved. Understandable and sensible. But also maddening, and a loss of income for me and many others in the cultural sector. Still, there are things that... 

Comfort in times of Corona - Why adult animated films are so effective. (With Podcast)

Last year it was suddenly buzzing around: Dutch animation film is going to break through, a real animation industry has emerged. The occasion was the premiere of Heinz, Piet Kroon's whimsical and out-of-print film version of Windig and De Jong's comics. Not a children's film. And certainly not a Disney clone. We are talking about feature-length animated films, and there are many of those in the Netherlands.... 

Ready or not: Forum Groningen is open, maar is het ook voor iedereen?

Controversieel en een doorn in het oog van velen: Forum Groningen. Het heeft de gemoederen flink bezig gehouden de afgelopen jaren. Vrijdag 29 november werd het cultuurcentrum in Groningen eindelijk geopend voor het grote publiek. De interesse voor Forum is er zeker, want de teller stond dinsdagmorgen al op 50.000 bezoekers. Het prestigeproject dat de Groninger aardig wat belastingcentjes heeft… 

No Time To Die? The New Cinema Conference is all about marketing - and hardly about Netflix.

What will shake up the cinema world the most in the coming years? The new James Bond film? Or a personal film tip tailored to your previous cinema visits that just pops up on your smartphone? Or perhaps a technical innovation that creates a whole new cinematic experience? Just a few things that loom around the topic of this week's New Cinema conference. A day and a half... 

Dutch youth film in dire straits too? Plenty to talk about during the Cinekid festival

The Cinekid youth film festival opens this week with Binti, a catchy, highly topical youth film brimming with optimism. That sounds good, because optimism is what the Dutch youth film can use right now. Too bad, then, that Binti, about a girl from Congo who does everything in her power to be allowed to stay in Belgium with her father, is a largely Belgian production.... 

“‘Wel aardig’ is niet goed genoeg, dat valt gelijk af.” Filmcriticus Jan Pieter Ekker over mogelijk het laatste Forum van de Regisseurs op het Nederlands Filmfestival

Het Nederlands Film Festival staat op het punt van losbarsten. Een ruime week met een breed overzicht van alles wat beweegt op de Nederlandse schermen, van publieksfilm tot korte studentenfilm. Het afgelopen jaar was rumoerig: regisseurs, editors en cameramensen toonden zich somber over de kwaliteit en het lef van de vaderlandse film. Bezoekersaantallen lijken ook niet over te houden, hoewel… 

New Lights in Filmclub Hyena – hoe jonge makers de documentaire leven inblazen

Goed nieuws voor iedereen die Als je later groot bent, de dubbel bekroonde afstudeerfilm van Max Baggerman, tot nu toe heeft gemist. Deze even poëtische als maatschappijkritische documentaire blik op de werkende mens is op 1 augustus weer te zien als onderdeel van New Lights. Deze avond is de tweede aflevering van een nieuw tweemaandelijks evenement dat ons kennis laat… 

She became famous for things she didn't want. Doris Day may have been bigger than we think

My generation probably immediately gets the famous Doe Maar song in its head at the obituary of Doris Day. There is no ball on TV, only a film with Doris Day. And you really didn't want that, your mother's goody-goody heroine. The wholesome star with whom you think of a glass of milk rather than wild... 

‘We kunnen de concurrentie met Disney aan.’ Waarom de lange Nederlandse animatiefilm gaat doorbreken met Heinz en Bunuel

‘Heinz’ en ‘Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles’, beide uit op 18 april, signaleren een belangrijke ontwikkeling op gebied van de lange Nederlandse animatiefilm. Een doorbraak hangt in de lucht. Over eigenwijsheid en coproducties, Anne Frank en Miss Moxy. En wat er nog meer in aantocht is.

Another day of life: a film experience that continues to irritate under the skin long after leaving the movie house.

Het blijft wonderlijk hoeveel emotie intelligente animatie kan genereren. In Another day of life (vanaf 14 maart in de bioscoop) wordt de Angolese verslaggeving door de legendarische Poolse journalist Ryszard Kapuściński groots in getekende beelden gevat. In combinatie met live footage en welgekozen archiefmateriaal levert dat een hellevaart van 85 minuten op die op meerdere niveau’s valt te waarderen. Kapuściński… 

'A murder of a whore that involved all the high-ups.' Tomas Ross on the never-explained murder of Blonde Dolly from The Hague

How did the Hague prostitute Blonde Dolly make her millions? And why was her killer never caught, when it was abundantly clear who must have strangled her? That smells like a conspiracy, and conspiracies are like grist to writer Tomas Ross' mill. In Blonde Dolly, he tackles one of the oldest and most mysterious cold cases in the Netherlands. Until it... 

Sacha Polak over de gehavende maar sterke vrouw in Dirty God, openingsfilm 48ste IFFR. Emotie is dit jaar het motto

‘Feel IFFR’ is dit jaar het motto van het International Film Festival Rotterdam. De emotie achter het beeld en bij de toeschouwer als leidraad bij onze interpretatie. De openingsfilm Dirty God is een mooie testcase. Regisseur Sacha Polak vertelt waarom ze een film over een door littekens gehavende vrouw wilde maken.

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