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McBurney's The Encounter points visitor #HF16 to a different way of life

The Encounter, a large-scale solo performance by British multi-talent Simon McBurney, had its Dutch premiere at the Holland Festival on Thursday. The Encounter combines the dramatic power of a Hollywood blockbuster with the polished simplicity of 20th-century, stripped-down, edited - call it Brechtian - theatre.

The Linda. but about beheadings and suicide bombings

That there is an extremist magazine about burnings and beheadings, and that rich Britons have four-storey basements built under their houses for a private cinema or bowling alley - we learned a lot last night at the International Literature Festival Utrecht (ILFU). The programme of the Saturday night of the ILFU was as richly varied as that of the first evening. The... 

#OscarsSoWhite? Yes. But Europe is no better.

Things have been rumbling in the film world for some time: Why is the silver screen so, er, white? And where are all the women anyway? #OscarsSoWhite but also #OscarIsADude! Many people in the industry have already expressed their displeasure at this. At the previous Oscar ceremony, actresses aimed their arrows at equal pay, or rather, the lack of it. This year, many an African-American actor and... 

Dutch Film Special (3): Beauty film, eh! Dutch in Toronto

How is Dutch film doing beyond its borders? Just before the Dutch Film Festival breaks loose, its big international brother in Toronto (TIFF) kicked off. Red carpets, big stars and ditto premieres. It may be slightly less well-known here than Cannes, but TIFF is at least as important. For example, in the run-up to the Oscars. Not a bad thing, then... 

Rotterdam's Gergiev Festival delivers a brand new masterpiece

'Rachmaninov's melodic gift is impressive and makes the composer very popular'. This is how Valery Gergiev pithily sums up the quality of Rachmaninov's music. The Gergiev Festival that centred around this composer this weekend emphatically sticks to the popular works: the piano concertos and symphonies . Yet it omits many compositions that could have given these works more framework.... 

Where did Rachmaninov's success come from?

Actually, Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) was a bit of an oddity, an anachronism. He bit into the composition style of his great example Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who died in 1893. When contrasting Rachmaninov with some of his contemporaries (Dmitri Shostakowich, Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Strawinsky and overseas Charles Ives, George Antheil and Edgard Varèse), it is only right to notice... 

The 10 best films to get in the mood for SAIL

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.... 

Farce around The Interview turns into thriller - Sony succumbs to threat from unknown source

Het wordt steeds gekker met The Interview, de Amerikaanse komedie waarin de CIA twee televisiejournalisten wil inschakelen bij een moordaanslag op de leider van Noord-Korea.
You could almost say that film has once again been overtaken by reality.
Al is nog niet glashelder wat er precies aan de hand is. Zeker lijkt wel dat de Amerikaanse bioscoopbezoeker met de kerst een vermoedelijk mallotige komedie wordt onthouden. Of bespaard is gebleven. Dat zal een kwestie van smaak zijn.
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'My advice: make the joke earlier.' The speech doctor reviews 3 speech actors

(In Harry Potter, True Detective and Juno, they were better) Actors are like people when they go on a stage as themselves. And just like with ordinary people, I occasionally think 'that could really be better'. Soon we can check it out with the Dutch actors at the Gala of the Dutch Film Festival. With those calves. But first the... 

Robin Williams, loved yet misunderstood

Geliefd was de Amerikaanse acteur Robin Williams zeker. Dat blijkt wel uit de overvloedige reacties na zijn onverwachte overlijden. Extra tragisch dat het vermoedelijk zelfmoord betreft, na geworsteld te hebben met depressie en drank- en drugsproblemen. Maar het is ook wrang dat de zo geliefde Williams sinds 2002 niet meer de kans kreeg om te schitteren in een gedenkwaardige hoofdrol.… 

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

Zou Gilles Jacob, de directeur van het filmfestival van Cannes, het als een buitenkansje zien of een knieval voor Amerikaanse studio's? Dat Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby woensdag de openingsfilm is betekent zeker spektakel en veel aandacht. Maar het is geen wereldpremière, en dat is niet wat we gewend zijn van het belangrijkste filmfestival ter wereld. The Great Gatsby, met Leonardo DiCaprio in de titelrol, ging op 10 mei al in première in de Verenigde Staten, Canada en enkele andere landen. H...

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

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),... 

Originality rewarded at Oscars 2012

You can hardly claim it was a surprise result, because for weeks - what do 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... 

Drama is much more suited to interpret history than film. @RvanH writes essay on Hannah and Martin at #TF2010

Hannah and Martin by Mugmetdegoudentand is not only a heartwarming performance, played by one phenomenal actress and one inimitable theatre personality, it is also a brainteaser. Trouw reviewer and theatre scholar Robbert van Heuven felt challenged to write a short essay in response to this performance.

Door Robbert van Heuven
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