Don’t feel bad if you haven’t heard of the name Hilma af Klint until recently — or before finding your way to “Hilma,” Lasse Hallström’s somewhat syrupy, conventional yet still respectable attempt to broaden the general public’s knowledge of, and affection for, the Swedish abstract artist. If so, you can hardly be blamed for your unawareness, considering af Klint’s longtime (and only recently reversed) obscurity in art circles.
Hers is a story as old as time: A brilliant, ahead-of-her-time woman goes largely ignored despite significant contributions to her field, while her male counterparts claim the spotlight and all the glory. In that regard, it was af Klint herself who invented the notion of abstract painting years before Wassily Kandinsky, one of the most regarded Modernists and abstract painters of all time. And when she died in 1944, her magnificent work was locked away and kept from the public eye for years.
Hers is a story as old as time: A brilliant, ahead-of-her-time woman goes largely ignored despite significant contributions to her field, while her male counterparts claim the spotlight and all the glory. In that regard, it was af Klint herself who invented the notion of abstract painting years before Wassily Kandinsky, one of the most regarded Modernists and abstract painters of all time. And when she died in 1944, her magnificent work was locked away and kept from the public eye for years.
- 3/30/2023
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
Croatia’s 4Film has joined France’s Ciné Sud Promotion and Italy’s Kineofilm on Italian director Rodolfo Bisatti’s next feature film, “On Life,” starring Andree Ruth Shammah and Paolo Bonacelli.
Bisatti, who co-wrote and helmed the acclaimed 2020 drama “To the Unknown God,” will direct “On Life” from a screenplay he his writing with actress-producer Laura Pellicciari.
The film, which is set to start shooting in northeastern Italy on Aug. 7, centers on an aging countess (Shammah) who sets up a new type of school with a group of disenfranchised yet gifted children in her spacious villa.
Palazzo Panigai-Ovio in Pordenone
The producers have found an ideal 17th-century villa — the Palazzo Panigai-Ovio — in the northeastern province of Pordenone, about 100 kilometers west of Trieste, where Kineofilm is based. Bisatti also plans to shoot outdoor scenes in nearby Veneto.
The film’s cast includes Valeria Cavalli and Pamela Villoresi as well as Pellicciari.
Bisatti, who co-wrote and helmed the acclaimed 2020 drama “To the Unknown God,” will direct “On Life” from a screenplay he his writing with actress-producer Laura Pellicciari.
The film, which is set to start shooting in northeastern Italy on Aug. 7, centers on an aging countess (Shammah) who sets up a new type of school with a group of disenfranchised yet gifted children in her spacious villa.
Palazzo Panigai-Ovio in Pordenone
The producers have found an ideal 17th-century villa — the Palazzo Panigai-Ovio — in the northeastern province of Pordenone, about 100 kilometers west of Trieste, where Kineofilm is based. Bisatti also plans to shoot outdoor scenes in nearby Veneto.
The film’s cast includes Valeria Cavalli and Pamela Villoresi as well as Pellicciari.
- 2/20/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Hilma is a 2022 drama movie written and directed by Lasse Hallström starring Tora Hallström and Lena Olin and Tom Wlaschiha.
The film is scheduled to release in the U.S. April 14, 2023.
Premise
Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) is an important part of art history and one of the first ever painters of abstract art. However, unlike the work of many of her peers at the time hers was misunderstood and neglected until long after her death. This is a story about Hilma and the circumstances which made her paintings possible. The film picks up during her early life and ends today; when her art connects with people of all religions and cultures. Just as she intended.
Hilma (2022) Director
Lasse Hallström
Cast
Lena Olin / Hilma af Klint
Tora Hallström / Young Hilma
Lily Cole / Mathilda
Tom Wlaschiha / Rudolf Steiner
Emmi Tjernström
See full credits >>...
The film is scheduled to release in the U.S. April 14, 2023.
Premise
Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) is an important part of art history and one of the first ever painters of abstract art. However, unlike the work of many of her peers at the time hers was misunderstood and neglected until long after her death. This is a story about Hilma and the circumstances which made her paintings possible. The film picks up during her early life and ends today; when her art connects with people of all religions and cultures. Just as she intended.
Hilma (2022) Director
Lasse Hallström
Cast
Lena Olin / Hilma af Klint
Tora Hallström / Young Hilma
Lily Cole / Mathilda
Tom Wlaschiha / Rudolf Steiner
Emmi Tjernström
See full credits >>...
- 12/29/2022
- by Movies Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
Exclusive: Juno Films has picked up North American rights to Hilma — the latest film written and directed by three-time Academy Award nominee Lasse Hallström (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape), which is poised to make its North American premiere at the Palm Springs Film Festival.
The cinematic portrait of the Swedish artist and feminist pioneer Hilma af Klint — who’s played at different ages by Tora Hallström and Oscar nominee Lena Olin — will premiere theatrically at the Quad Cinema in NYC on April 14 before expanding nationwide.
Hilma brings to the big screen the life story of a woman who defied conventions and revolutionized the art world when her work was exhibited in its entirety in 2019 at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. The artist died in 1944, unknown and unrecognized as the woman who invented abstract painting, displacing Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian as the initiators of abstract painting and Modernism. From her adoration of...
The cinematic portrait of the Swedish artist and feminist pioneer Hilma af Klint — who’s played at different ages by Tora Hallström and Oscar nominee Lena Olin — will premiere theatrically at the Quad Cinema in NYC on April 14 before expanding nationwide.
Hilma brings to the big screen the life story of a woman who defied conventions and revolutionized the art world when her work was exhibited in its entirety in 2019 at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. The artist died in 1944, unknown and unrecognized as the woman who invented abstract painting, displacing Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian as the initiators of abstract painting and Modernism. From her adoration of...
- 12/7/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Writer / Director / Actor Halina Reijn discusses some of her favorite movies with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Rrr (2022)
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
Gothic (1986)
Warlock (1989)
Annie (1982)
Midsommar (2019) – Dennis Cozzalio’s 2019 year-end movie roundup
Bambi (1942) – Brian Trenchard-Smith’s trailer commentary
Annie (2014)
A Woman Under The Influence (1974)
Husbands (1970) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Opening Night (1977)
The Piano Teacher (2001) – Charlie Largent’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Black Book (2006)
Elle (2016) – Charlie Largent’s Blu-ray review, Dennis Cozzalio’s 2016 year-end movie roundup
The Fourth Man (1983)
Basic Instinct (1992) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary
Showgirls (1995)
Indecent Proposal (1993)
Fatal Attraction (1987) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
9 ½ Weeks (1986)
Fifty Shades Of Grey (2015)
365 Days (2020)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Last Tango In Paris (1972) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
Chinatown (1974) – Ernest Dickerson’s trailer commentary
Marathon Man (1976)
The Abyss (1989)
Apocalypse Now (1979) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Rrr (2022)
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
Gothic (1986)
Warlock (1989)
Annie (1982)
Midsommar (2019) – Dennis Cozzalio’s 2019 year-end movie roundup
Bambi (1942) – Brian Trenchard-Smith’s trailer commentary
Annie (2014)
A Woman Under The Influence (1974)
Husbands (1970) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Opening Night (1977)
The Piano Teacher (2001) – Charlie Largent’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Black Book (2006)
Elle (2016) – Charlie Largent’s Blu-ray review, Dennis Cozzalio’s 2016 year-end movie roundup
The Fourth Man (1983)
Basic Instinct (1992) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary
Showgirls (1995)
Indecent Proposal (1993)
Fatal Attraction (1987) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
9 ½ Weeks (1986)
Fifty Shades Of Grey (2015)
365 Days (2020)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Last Tango In Paris (1972) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
Chinatown (1974) – Ernest Dickerson’s trailer commentary
Marathon Man (1976)
The Abyss (1989)
Apocalypse Now (1979) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?...
- 9/6/2022
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Tom Wlaschiha and Jazzy de Lisser (“Game of Thrones”) have joined the cast of Viaplay’s major English-language original feature “Hilma.” The film is written and directed by Lasse Hallström, the Oscar-nominated director of “The Cider House Rules” and “My Life as a Dog.”
The biopic, which explores the life of revolutionary Swedish artist and feminist pioneer Hilma af Klint, will bow this fall in theaters and on Viaplay, Scandinavia’s leading streaming service.
Wlaschiha stars as Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian artist and founder of the anthroposophical spiritual movement. Steiner became a key figure and mentor for Hilma af Klint who created more than a thousand striking paintings, sketches and watercolors that remained largely unknown until decades after her death.
The film explores the enigmatic life of Klint, who navigated through a male-dominated artistic scene to eventually become one of the Western world’s first abstract artists.
“Rudolf Steiner´s...
The biopic, which explores the life of revolutionary Swedish artist and feminist pioneer Hilma af Klint, will bow this fall in theaters and on Viaplay, Scandinavia’s leading streaming service.
Wlaschiha stars as Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian artist and founder of the anthroposophical spiritual movement. Steiner became a key figure and mentor for Hilma af Klint who created more than a thousand striking paintings, sketches and watercolors that remained largely unknown until decades after her death.
The film explores the enigmatic life of Klint, who navigated through a male-dominated artistic scene to eventually become one of the Western world’s first abstract artists.
“Rudolf Steiner´s...
- 7/5/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Chef Mauro Colagreco: “When you work with a product from nature you try to make it something beautiful. It’s my way of creation.”
A highlight of the 21st edition of the Tribeca Film Festival is Vérane Frédiani and Franck Ribière’s brilliant documentary Reinventing Mirazur, executive produced by Yuji Shimoyama and Quentin Ransohoff, on Argentinian Chef Mauro Colagreco and his team working on a new menu for the reopening of his restaurant following the removal of the lockdown in France.
Chef Mauro Colagreco with Anne-Katrin Titze on the Lunar Calendar: “It was Rudolf Steiner, who was the father of Biodynamics who worked on it. And then Maria Thun …”
According to the Lunar Calendar there are flower days, root days, leaf days, and fruit days. This enchantingly poetic concept, based on cosmic changes and the position of the planet, decides the menu daily in one of the greatest restaurants of the world.
A highlight of the 21st edition of the Tribeca Film Festival is Vérane Frédiani and Franck Ribière’s brilliant documentary Reinventing Mirazur, executive produced by Yuji Shimoyama and Quentin Ransohoff, on Argentinian Chef Mauro Colagreco and his team working on a new menu for the reopening of his restaurant following the removal of the lockdown in France.
Chef Mauro Colagreco with Anne-Katrin Titze on the Lunar Calendar: “It was Rudolf Steiner, who was the father of Biodynamics who worked on it. And then Maria Thun …”
According to the Lunar Calendar there are flower days, root days, leaf days, and fruit days. This enchantingly poetic concept, based on cosmic changes and the position of the planet, decides the menu daily in one of the greatest restaurants of the world.
- 6/15/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In “Feast of the Epiphany,” a narrative-documentary hybrid, the line between fiction and reality is demarcated quite clearly, even as those two modes remain in constant dialogue — and the conceit is entrancing precisely because of its elusiveness. Beginning as the overtly make-believe story of a dinner party before segueing into surprising verité terrain, this unique feature from directors Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman is too unconventional to court more than an art-house audience. Still, those interested in experimental works that incite contemplation and debate will find much to chew on throughout the course of this concise, canny effort, which recently premiered at BAMcinemaFest.
Koresky and Reichert are the co-founders of Reverse Shot, an online New York film journal to which Zaman is a contributor. Koresky is also director of editorial and creative strategy at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and Reichert and Zaman co-directed 2013 doc “Remote Area...
Koresky and Reichert are the co-founders of Reverse Shot, an online New York film journal to which Zaman is a contributor. Koresky is also director of editorial and creative strategy at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and Reichert and Zaman co-directed 2013 doc “Remote Area...
- 7/3/2018
- by Nick Schager
- Variety Film + TV
The way Justin Theroux sees things, mornings are for writing, not for running, and a bunny is the best animal to describe the perfect girl. The Leftovers star sat down with longtime friend Amy Sedaris for the new issue of Interview magazine and discussed his early learning (or lack there of), his love for fiancée Jennifer Aniston, and his biggest pet peeves. Check out his funniest revelations (and strangest quirks): 1. He went to an "experimental school" until he was in the fourth grade."I went to a Rudolf Steiner school - they're awful. It was all knitting and beeswax-making - s--- like that.
- 7/9/2014
- by Zakiya Jamal
- PEOPLE.com
The way Justin Theroux sees things, mornings are for writing, not for running, and a bunny is the best animal to describe the perfect girl. The Leftovers star sat down with longtime friend Amy Sedaris for the new issue of Interview magazine and discussed his early learning (or lack there of), his love for fiancée Jennifer Aniston, and his biggest pet peeves. Check out his funniest revelations (and strangest quirks): 1. He went to an "experimental school" until he was in the fourth grade."I went to a Rudolf Steiner school - they're awful. It was all knitting and beeswax-making - s--- like that.
- 7/9/2014
- by Zakiya Jamal
- PEOPLE.com
Guy Garvey, Isaac Julien, Martha Wainwright and other artists give their top tips for unleashing your inner genius
Guy Garvey, musician
• For fear of making us sound like the Waltons, my band [Elbow] are a huge source of inspiration for me. They're my peers, my family; when they come up with something impressive, it inspires me to come up with something equally impressive.
• Spending time in your own head is important. When I was a boy, I had to go to church every Sunday; the priest had an incomprehensible Irish accent, so I'd tune out for the whole hour, just spending time in my own thoughts. I still do that now; I'm often scribbling down fragments that later act like trigger-points for lyrics.
• A blank canvas can be very intimidating, so set yourself limitations. Mine are often set for me by the music the band has come up with. With The Birds,...
Guy Garvey, musician
• For fear of making us sound like the Waltons, my band [Elbow] are a huge source of inspiration for me. They're my peers, my family; when they come up with something impressive, it inspires me to come up with something equally impressive.
• Spending time in your own head is important. When I was a boy, I had to go to church every Sunday; the priest had an incomprehensible Irish accent, so I'd tune out for the whole hour, just spending time in my own thoughts. I still do that now; I'm often scribbling down fragments that later act like trigger-points for lyrics.
• A blank canvas can be very intimidating, so set yourself limitations. Mine are often set for me by the music the band has come up with. With The Birds,...
- 1/3/2012
- by Anthony Neilson, Ian Rickson, Martin Parr, Laura Barnett
- The Guardian - Film News
Jennifer Aniston insists she's lucky to have found a career in acting because she was a terrible student and spent a lot of time in the principal's office growing up.
The former Friends star moved to New York City with her family when she was a young child and enrolled in the prestigious arts-driven Rudolf Steiner School.
However, during an appearance on Inside the Actors Studio, which aired in the U.S. on Monday, Aniston admitted she wasn't always a focused learner.
When asked by host James Lipton how she did academically, she responded, "Terribly... I would drift a lot. I kind of day dreamed. I would constantly be sent to the principal's office for goofing around."
But the actress is grateful for her education because the alternative school suited her desire for creative expression.
She recalls, "You're drawing and you're sculpting and you're whittling and you're playing with clay and you're playing an instrument. You're doing plays. I can't really tell you where, like, Indonesia is but you... (get to be) really crafty and you don't have to look stuff up."...
The former Friends star moved to New York City with her family when she was a young child and enrolled in the prestigious arts-driven Rudolf Steiner School.
However, during an appearance on Inside the Actors Studio, which aired in the U.S. on Monday, Aniston admitted she wasn't always a focused learner.
When asked by host James Lipton how she did academically, she responded, "Terribly... I would drift a lot. I kind of day dreamed. I would constantly be sent to the principal's office for goofing around."
But the actress is grateful for her education because the alternative school suited her desire for creative expression.
She recalls, "You're drawing and you're sculpting and you're whittling and you're playing with clay and you're playing an instrument. You're doing plays. I can't really tell you where, like, Indonesia is but you... (get to be) really crafty and you don't have to look stuff up."...
- 7/12/2011
- WENN
Taggart Siegel’s documentary Queen Of The Sun is a fine enough piece of work, but it’s a shame Werner Herzog didn’t get to Gunther Hauk first. Hauk’s main function is to warn viewers about the pending catastrophe of colony collapse disorder, where large numbers of honeybees suddenly and inexplicably vanish. But Hauk, a protégé of the anthroposophist philosopher Rudolf Steiner, values bees for reasons beyond the fact that without them to spread pollen from plant to plant, some 40 percent of our food supply would cease to exist. At one point, he muses how worker ...
- 6/9/2011
- avclub.com
"The Real Dirt on Farmer John" director Taggart Siegel investigates the decline in the world's bee population in his latest documentary, "Queen of the Sun." Below find an interview with Siegel where he discusses what led him to make the film and his passion for anthropology. "Queen of the Sun" opens at New York's Cinema Village on Friday, June 10th. What it's About: In 1923, Rudolf Steiner, a scientist, philosopher ...
- 6/6/2011
- Indiewire
"The Real Dirt on Farmer John" director Taggart Siegel investigates the decline in the world's bee population in his latest documentary, "Queen of the Sun." Below find an interview with Siegel where he discusses what led him to make the film and his passion for anthropology. "Queen of the Sun" opens at New York's Cinema Village on Friday, June 10th. What it's About: In 1923, Rudolf Steiner, a scientist, philosopher ...
- 6/6/2011
- indieWIRE - People
The screenwriting debut of German actor Armin Mueller-Stahl is inauspicious, but he has directed one of the most courageous and interesting films of recent times.
"Conversation With the Beast", at the Berlin International Film Festival, is about a man in present-day Berlin who claims to be Adolf Hitler and convinces an American historian -- who is Jewish -- to interview him. Hitler has miraculously survived the end of the war, possibly through dark magical powers he claims to have. Now more than 100 years old, he wants the world to know he is still around.
Writer-director-star Mueller-Stahl, one of Germany's most important actors and this year an Academy Award nominee for his supporting role in "Shine", plays Hitler as a feisty, ridiculous dictator in retirement whose power games are restricted to secretly spitting out his medicine when his wife turns her back or nostalgically burning the occasional book in a kitchen pot.
Robert Balaban ("Close Encounters of the Third Kind") plays the intimidated but vengeance-driven historian with closed-mouth intensity. Though the movie is almost entirely restricted to the Fuhrer's living quarters in a basement ("I was crazy about bunkers"), Balaban's wonderful performance manages to bring a fresh scent of humanity into the restricted confines of Hitler's bunker and brain.
Mueller-Stahl's understated comic performance makes the Beast ridiculous -- and therefore human. There may be no other portrayal of Hitler on film that makes him so human, even though here, too, we are not one step closer to understanding the world's most infamous dictator and killer.
Look out for Dieter Laser's scene stealing as one of Hitler's doubles who, after the war, tries to make a name for himself as an actor but can only act Hitler well. When he gives the "To be or not to be" soliloquy from "Hamlet" and makes it sound as if Hitler were reciting it before a million marching soldiers, it is a solitary comic gem.
Mueller-Stahl as a director is surprisingly adept, and the camera work by Gerard Vandenberg is excellent, though the entire film is held in depressingly dark tones. The only thing not up to par, sadly, is Mueller-Stahl's script. Much in it is comic, and here Mueller-Stahl tries to create a variation on Chaplin's "The Great Dictator", but it only works in places. In others, it rambles and the end is predictable.
However, cineastes, historians and many specialist groups will admire Mueller-Stahl for attempting to do to his country's most hated and embarrassing public figure what none of his countrymen could.
CONVERSATION WITH THE BEAST
Santa Monica Pictures
A Rudolf Steiner production
An Armin Mueller-Stahl film
Director Armin Mueller-Stahl
Producer Rudolf Steiner
Writer Armin Mueller-Stahl with Tom Abrams
Director of photography Gerard Vandenberg
Production designers Rainer Schaper,
Heinz Roeske
Editor Ingo Ehrlich
Costume designer Barbara Jaeger
Color/stereo
Cast:
Adolf Hitler, Andreas Kronstaedt
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Dr. Arnold Webster Robert Balaban
Hortense Katharina Boehm
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
"Conversation With the Beast", at the Berlin International Film Festival, is about a man in present-day Berlin who claims to be Adolf Hitler and convinces an American historian -- who is Jewish -- to interview him. Hitler has miraculously survived the end of the war, possibly through dark magical powers he claims to have. Now more than 100 years old, he wants the world to know he is still around.
Writer-director-star Mueller-Stahl, one of Germany's most important actors and this year an Academy Award nominee for his supporting role in "Shine", plays Hitler as a feisty, ridiculous dictator in retirement whose power games are restricted to secretly spitting out his medicine when his wife turns her back or nostalgically burning the occasional book in a kitchen pot.
Robert Balaban ("Close Encounters of the Third Kind") plays the intimidated but vengeance-driven historian with closed-mouth intensity. Though the movie is almost entirely restricted to the Fuhrer's living quarters in a basement ("I was crazy about bunkers"), Balaban's wonderful performance manages to bring a fresh scent of humanity into the restricted confines of Hitler's bunker and brain.
Mueller-Stahl's understated comic performance makes the Beast ridiculous -- and therefore human. There may be no other portrayal of Hitler on film that makes him so human, even though here, too, we are not one step closer to understanding the world's most infamous dictator and killer.
Look out for Dieter Laser's scene stealing as one of Hitler's doubles who, after the war, tries to make a name for himself as an actor but can only act Hitler well. When he gives the "To be or not to be" soliloquy from "Hamlet" and makes it sound as if Hitler were reciting it before a million marching soldiers, it is a solitary comic gem.
Mueller-Stahl as a director is surprisingly adept, and the camera work by Gerard Vandenberg is excellent, though the entire film is held in depressingly dark tones. The only thing not up to par, sadly, is Mueller-Stahl's script. Much in it is comic, and here Mueller-Stahl tries to create a variation on Chaplin's "The Great Dictator", but it only works in places. In others, it rambles and the end is predictable.
However, cineastes, historians and many specialist groups will admire Mueller-Stahl for attempting to do to his country's most hated and embarrassing public figure what none of his countrymen could.
CONVERSATION WITH THE BEAST
Santa Monica Pictures
A Rudolf Steiner production
An Armin Mueller-Stahl film
Director Armin Mueller-Stahl
Producer Rudolf Steiner
Writer Armin Mueller-Stahl with Tom Abrams
Director of photography Gerard Vandenberg
Production designers Rainer Schaper,
Heinz Roeske
Editor Ingo Ehrlich
Costume designer Barbara Jaeger
Color/stereo
Cast:
Adolf Hitler, Andreas Kronstaedt
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Dr. Arnold Webster Robert Balaban
Hortense Katharina Boehm
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/20/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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