In 2014, Morgan Knibbe (1989) made the short film Shipwreck, about the aftermath of a horrific shipwreck on the coast of Lampedusa in which 350 refugees drowned. Shortly afterwards, he made his first feature-length documentary, also about refugee issues: 'Those Who Feel the Burning'. This very impressive, original and visually strong film was one of the best Dutch films of the last...
Hungarian composer György Ligeti (1923-2006) suffered under several dictatorships; the Nazis killed his father and brother during World War II, and after the War the Communists forced him to write sweet 'folk music'. After the 1956 Hungarian uprising, he fled to Vienna and then to Cologne. In the West, he unpopularised into an idiosyncratic composer, who already...
'Let me lament my fate in tears. And let me long for freedom.' What would my preference be: book, film or play? That question fascinated me when it turned out that Toneelgroep Maastricht had adapted Arthur Schnitzler's book Droomnovelle and Stanley Kubrick's film Eyes Wide Shut based on it into a new play. Actually, it was not a fair...
September, de maand van het Nederlands Theaterfestival en het Fringe Festival vol met oude en nieuwe voorstellingen die je moet zien. Maar ook in de rest van het land gebeurt aan het begin van het nieuwe theaterseizoen erg veel. Vijf aanraders. Toneelgroep Maastricht, Eyes wide shut (toneel) ‘De nieuwe Shakespeare’ is hij al genoemd, ik noemde hem al ‘duivelskunstenaar’. Feit…
First there was Arthur Schnitzler's book. Then Stanley Kubrick's film. And now the play. From 27 August, Toneelgroep Maastricht plays Eyes wide shut. After his wife confesses her sexual fantasies, a man searches feverishly for his own deepest hidden desires against the backdrop of carnival celebrations. "I always wanted to make psychologised drama once," says Servé Hermans, artistic director of...
Eind deze maand komt Toneelgroep Maastricht met ‘Eyes wide shut’. Het toneelstuk is een bewerking van de gelijknamige film van Stanley Kubrick. Die werd op zijn beurt geïnspireerd door ‘Droomnovelle’ van Arthur Schnitzler. Het boek verscheen negentig jaar geleden en zorgde voor een boel ophef. Seksuele lading In de loop der jaren zijn heel wat literatuurstudies aan Droomnovelle gewijd. Maar wat heeft…
Who does a film belong to? That's the theme at this year's IFFR Critics' Choice programme. From YouTube compilations to a Russian Mad Men. Is the studio the owner, the filmmaker or the viewer? With video essays as the new form of film criticism.
Vanaf 2007 werkten videokunstenaar Matthew Barney (The Cremaster Cycle) en componist Jonathan Bepler aan een vrije bewerking van Norman Mailers meest verguisde boek Ancient Evenings. Aan Mailers mythologie uit het oude Egypte voegden zij de even mythische Amerikaanse auto-industrie toe in een ambitieus en operatesk filmproject met een veeleisende lengte van 5 uur 11 minuten.
Vanaf februari is River of Fundament op wereldtournee en het Holland Festival
Stel je een ouderwets gedistingeerde komedie voor, maar dan gefilmd met moderne vaart, in de kleurrijke en barokke stijl van een rijk gedetailleerd stripverhaal vol complotten en ontsnappingen, afgerond met een parfum van melancholie. Dan kom je in de buurt van The Grand Budapest Hotel, de nieuwe film van
When Muziekcentrum Vredenburg closed its doors in 2007 for an ambitious renovation, symphonic concerts were moved from the centre of Utrecht to the emergency location Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn on the A2 motorway. The broadcasting series 'Vredenburg Friday'
Does live accompaniment with choir and orchestra make Kubrick's 2001 a different or better film? Not necessarily, but as an homage and event, it is a wonderful gesture. Even on the hard bucket seats in the Gashouder, it is once again a breathtaking experience. Last night, at the Gashouder on Amsterdam's Westergasfabriek grounds, finally revisiting Kubrick's science fiction epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. This...
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.
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),...
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