Berlin Golden Bear winner Radu Jude (“Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn”) is set to begin production in Romania on his next feature, Variety can reveal.
“A Case History” analyzes the relations between individuals and multinational companies in the mad dash of new Romanian capitalism, starting from the real story of preparing and shooting a problematic work safety video. Principal photography is slated to begin in summer or early fall.
“The film is composed of two parts which respond to each other, forming a diptych of sorts,” Jude told Variety. “Each of them explores a certain aspect of the main theme, and the final picture is obtained by juxtaposing the two of them in what we can call ‘a tale of cinema and economy.’” It is a film about work relations, but also a film about images and the way they are made and their place in society.
The first...
“A Case History” analyzes the relations between individuals and multinational companies in the mad dash of new Romanian capitalism, starting from the real story of preparing and shooting a problematic work safety video. Principal photography is slated to begin in summer or early fall.
“The film is composed of two parts which respond to each other, forming a diptych of sorts,” Jude told Variety. “Each of them explores a certain aspect of the main theme, and the final picture is obtained by juxtaposing the two of them in what we can call ‘a tale of cinema and economy.’” It is a film about work relations, but also a film about images and the way they are made and their place in society.
The first...
- 2/10/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka shares memories of his native city of Lagos, Nigeria, as part of Newsweek International's series "The City."
City of Lagos, Nigeria, circa 1967
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How does one translate Oge? Reluctantly, I had agreed to receive the newly crowned, new-generation Sisi Oge-Lady of Chic?-of Lagos. She wanted my advice on the social agenda for her year on the throne. With her "court" -photographer, chaperone, press secretary, etc.-she turned up in a small convoy of cars, head framed in a tiny coronet. As we sat in my home of dense foliage, any semblance of which had long vanished from most of Lagos, I listened to their dreams, wistfully pondering-were these young enthusiasts the hidden spirit of Lagos, a butterfly seeking to break free of its cocoon?
The Lagos of my childhood was a well-laid-out maritime city. The...
City of Lagos, Nigeria, circa 1967
Related story on The Daily Beast: 20 Brainiest Cities in America
How does one translate Oge? Reluctantly, I had agreed to receive the newly crowned, new-generation Sisi Oge-Lady of Chic?-of Lagos. She wanted my advice on the social agenda for her year on the throne. With her "court" -photographer, chaperone, press secretary, etc.-she turned up in a small convoy of cars, head framed in a tiny coronet. As we sat in my home of dense foliage, any semblance of which had long vanished from most of Lagos, I listened to their dreams, wistfully pondering-were these young enthusiasts the hidden spirit of Lagos, a butterfly seeking to break free of its cocoon?
The Lagos of my childhood was a well-laid-out maritime city. The...
- 3/14/2011
- by Wole Soyinka
- The Daily Beast
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