Tran Anh Hung’s simmering gastro-romance is the latest dish in a cinematic feast ranging from The Godfather to The Lunchbox
The term “gastroporn” got thrown around a lot when The Taste of Things was in cinemas recently, but I’m not sure it’s quite right for Tran Anh Hung’s sumptuous culinary romance, seductive as all the cookery on display is. Though it has many a languid, exquisitely lit pan over the finished dishes created by Benoît Magimel’s 19th-century gourmet – including a giant, glistening vol-au-vent that I’ve been thinking about for months – it’s less about money shots than it is about foodie foreplay. The film’s greatest pleasures are in its extended sequences of preparation and process; the silently, adoringly intuitive collaboration between Magimel and Juliette Binoche’s fellow cook; the thrill of watching experts at work. Ok, and there’s a near-seamless match-cut from...
The term “gastroporn” got thrown around a lot when The Taste of Things was in cinemas recently, but I’m not sure it’s quite right for Tran Anh Hung’s sumptuous culinary romance, seductive as all the cookery on display is. Though it has many a languid, exquisitely lit pan over the finished dishes created by Benoît Magimel’s 19th-century gourmet – including a giant, glistening vol-au-vent that I’ve been thinking about for months – it’s less about money shots than it is about foodie foreplay. The film’s greatest pleasures are in its extended sequences of preparation and process; the silently, adoringly intuitive collaboration between Magimel and Juliette Binoche’s fellow cook; the thrill of watching experts at work. Ok, and there’s a near-seamless match-cut from...
- 4/13/2024
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
Denmark has submitted Nikolaj Arcel’s The Promised Land as its candidate for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
The epic historic drama stars Mads Mikkelsen as the real-life Ludvig von Kahlen, a former soldier who tries to make his fortune by taming the then wild and lawless heath of the Danish Jutland peninsula, so it could be turned over to cultivation following a declaration by King Frederik V.
The film world premiered at Venice and then headed to Telluride and Toronto, is currently screening at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, and will next screen at the Zurich Film Festival, Filmfest Hamburg, Hamptons International Film Festival, and the Mill Valley Film Festival.
The film was selected from a short list which also included Anders Walter’s Before It Ends and Lea Glob’s documentary Apolonia, Apolonia.
The Danish Film Institute-backed film produced by Louise Vesth for...
The epic historic drama stars Mads Mikkelsen as the real-life Ludvig von Kahlen, a former soldier who tries to make his fortune by taming the then wild and lawless heath of the Danish Jutland peninsula, so it could be turned over to cultivation following a declaration by King Frederik V.
The film world premiered at Venice and then headed to Telluride and Toronto, is currently screening at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, and will next screen at the Zurich Film Festival, Filmfest Hamburg, Hamptons International Film Festival, and the Mill Valley Film Festival.
The film was selected from a short list which also included Anders Walter’s Before It Ends and Lea Glob’s documentary Apolonia, Apolonia.
The Danish Film Institute-backed film produced by Louise Vesth for...
- 9/26/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Denmark has selected Ali Abbasi’s Cannes-winning title Holy Spider as its official submission to this year’s International Feature Oscar race.
Written by Afshin Kamran Bahrami, the film follows Rahimi, a young female journalist, who travels to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer targeting sex workers. As she draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain when the murderer is embraced by many as a hero.
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The story is based on the real-life case of the ‘Spider Killer’ Saeed Hanaei, who claimed he was on a mission from God as he killed 16 women between 2000 and 2001.
Claus Ladegaard, CEO of the Danish Film Institute who chairs the selection committee, said: “Holy Spider shows a director with a strong artistic ambition who manages to tell an important story of misogyny while simultaneously keeping his audience in suspense.
Written by Afshin Kamran Bahrami, the film follows Rahimi, a young female journalist, who travels to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer targeting sex workers. As she draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain when the murderer is embraced by many as a hero.
Best International Feature Film Oscar Winners
The story is based on the real-life case of the ‘Spider Killer’ Saeed Hanaei, who claimed he was on a mission from God as he killed 16 women between 2000 and 2001.
Claus Ladegaard, CEO of the Danish Film Institute who chairs the selection committee, said: “Holy Spider shows a director with a strong artistic ambition who manages to tell an important story of misogyny while simultaneously keeping his audience in suspense.
- 9/27/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Keep track of all the submissions for best international feature at the 2022 Academy Awards
Entries for the 2022 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
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The 94th Academy Awards will take place on March 27, 2022 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. This is the first time since 2018 that the ceremony will take place in March, having moved to avoid conflicting with the Winter Olympics.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly non-English dialogue...
Entries for the 2022 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
The 94th Academy Awards will take place on March 27, 2022 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. This is the first time since 2018 that the ceremony will take place in March, having moved to avoid conflicting with the Winter Olympics.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly non-English dialogue...
- 10/25/2021
- by Ben Dalton¬Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Denmark is the current holder of the award with ‘Another Round’.
Denmark has announced a trio of films shortlisted for its submission for the international Oscar race.
The three finalists are:
Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Flee, the animated documentary about an Afghan refugee’s journey to Denmark - winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary section at Sundance, with Neon handling North American distribution. Charlotte Sieling’s Margrete - Queen of the North – a epic drama starring Trine Dyrholm as Margrete the First, who ruled Scandinavia in the early 1400s; Samuel Goldwyn will release in the US.
Denmark has announced a trio of films shortlisted for its submission for the international Oscar race.
The three finalists are:
Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Flee, the animated documentary about an Afghan refugee’s journey to Denmark - winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary section at Sundance, with Neon handling North American distribution. Charlotte Sieling’s Margrete - Queen of the North – a epic drama starring Trine Dyrholm as Margrete the First, who ruled Scandinavia in the early 1400s; Samuel Goldwyn will release in the US.
- 9/16/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Pop the champagne – the Danish Film Institute is sending Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round to the 2021 International Oscar race.
The pic stars Mads Mikkelsen as one of a group of high school teachers who test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood. It was a Cannes label selection and screened at Toronto, going on to win awards at the San Sebastian and London film festivals.
Another Round was selected ahead of Malou Reymann’s A Perfectly Normal Family and Frederik Louis Hviid and Anders Ølholm’s Shorta by a Danish Film Institute committee, which wrapped its decisive meeting just now.
The committee was comprised of chairman Claus Ladegaard, Noemi Ferrer (Danish Producers), Ali Abbasi (Danish Directors), Mette Heeno (Danish Screenwriters), Jan Weincke (Danish Cinematographers), Nanna Frank Rasmussen (Danish Film Critics), Søren Søndergaard (Danish Cinema Owners...
The pic stars Mads Mikkelsen as one of a group of high school teachers who test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood. It was a Cannes label selection and screened at Toronto, going on to win awards at the San Sebastian and London film festivals.
Another Round was selected ahead of Malou Reymann’s A Perfectly Normal Family and Frederik Louis Hviid and Anders Ølholm’s Shorta by a Danish Film Institute committee, which wrapped its decisive meeting just now.
The committee was comprised of chairman Claus Ladegaard, Noemi Ferrer (Danish Producers), Ali Abbasi (Danish Directors), Mette Heeno (Danish Screenwriters), Jan Weincke (Danish Cinematographers), Nanna Frank Rasmussen (Danish Film Critics), Søren Søndergaard (Danish Cinema Owners...
- 11/18/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The Devour! The Food Film Fest has unveiled the lineup for its first-ever virtual festival amid the pandemic, with Everybody Loves Raymond creator Phil Rosenthal, Jason Priestley and Fear the Walking Dead showrunner Dave Erickson set to headline the annual cinema-culinary mash-up.
Rosenthal, a foodie enthusiast known for his Netflix series Somebody Feed Phil, will take part in a virtual Q&a for the opening night movie, Walt Disney’s Ratatouille, after it receives a drive-in screening near Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
Devour! Fest during its first nine years perfected in-person and film-inspired five-course dinners and workshops as movies like Gabriel Axel’s Babette’...
Rosenthal, a foodie enthusiast known for his Netflix series Somebody Feed Phil, will take part in a virtual Q&a for the opening night movie, Walt Disney’s Ratatouille, after it receives a drive-in screening near Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
Devour! Fest during its first nine years perfected in-person and film-inspired five-course dinners and workshops as movies like Gabriel Axel’s Babette’...
- 9/15/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Devour! The Food Film Fest has unveiled the lineup for its first-ever virtual festival amid the pandemic, with Everybody Loves Raymond creator Phil Rosenthal, Jason Priestley and Fear the Walking Dead showrunner Dave Erickson set to headline the annual cinema-culinary mash-up.
Rosenthal, a foodie enthusiast known for his Netflix series Somebody Feed Phil, will take part in a virtual Q&a for the opening night movie, Walt Disney’s Ratatouille, after it receives a drive-in screening near Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
Devour! Fest during its first nine years perfected in-person and film-inspired five-course dinners and workshops as movies like Gabriel Axel’s Babette’...
Rosenthal, a foodie enthusiast known for his Netflix series Somebody Feed Phil, will take part in a virtual Q&a for the opening night movie, Walt Disney’s Ratatouille, after it receives a drive-in screening near Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
Devour! Fest during its first nine years perfected in-person and film-inspired five-course dinners and workshops as movies like Gabriel Axel’s Babette’...
- 9/15/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The way to a man’s heart is allegedly through his stomach, but as with all things we love, this wisdom old as the patriarchy itself calls for the hashtag #itscomplicated. Whether this particular saying is true or not, many emotions are passed in our digestive system though tiny mechanisms in brain that make us crave for certain type of food, or avoid it at all costs.
“301,302” screened as part of the Korean Cultural Centre UK‘s “Trapped! The Cinema of Confinement” programme
Asian cinema has a very special relationship with food. For quite some time, dinning rooms or restaurant tables have been playing a crucial role in presenting the key movie characters, their milieus and thoughts, influencing the narrative, often turning into the main stage. It is very hard to imagine a Hong Sang-soo film without a variety of food and an impressive amount of Soju or Makgeolli flowing...
“301,302” screened as part of the Korean Cultural Centre UK‘s “Trapped! The Cinema of Confinement” programme
Asian cinema has a very special relationship with food. For quite some time, dinning rooms or restaurant tables have been playing a crucial role in presenting the key movie characters, their milieus and thoughts, influencing the narrative, often turning into the main stage. It is very hard to imagine a Hong Sang-soo film without a variety of food and an impressive amount of Soju or Makgeolli flowing...
- 8/5/2020
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
With its moments of low-key culinary joy, the Danish gem offers a vital recipe for unity in times of austere hardship
At a time when basic grocery shopping is a military operation and many people’s incomes have been cut, an invitation to watch others eat a seven-course meal including caviar, foie gras and truffles might seem a bit rich, in more than one sense of the word. However, despite the incongruous luxuriousness of its eponymous climatic meal, Gabriel Axel’s 1987 masterpiece Babette’s Feast is the ideal lockdown movie.
Most of the film shows how the puritanical Danish Lutherans in the film lived before they sat down to turtle soup, blinis and quail in puff pastry. Life for them is a lot more austere than it is for most of us now. Many depend on the local equivalent of food banks: the meal delivery service provided by the two devout sisters Martine and Filippa.
At a time when basic grocery shopping is a military operation and many people’s incomes have been cut, an invitation to watch others eat a seven-course meal including caviar, foie gras and truffles might seem a bit rich, in more than one sense of the word. However, despite the incongruous luxuriousness of its eponymous climatic meal, Gabriel Axel’s 1987 masterpiece Babette’s Feast is the ideal lockdown movie.
Most of the film shows how the puritanical Danish Lutherans in the film lived before they sat down to turtle soup, blinis and quail in puff pastry. Life for them is a lot more austere than it is for most of us now. Many depend on the local equivalent of food banks: the meal delivery service provided by the two devout sisters Martine and Filippa.
- 5/26/2020
- by Julian Baggini
- The Guardian - Film News
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Marielle Heller)
It sounds almost too perfect: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers, the beloved children’s entertainer. Of course, who else could it be, really? It is so seemingly predestined, in fact, that Hanks’s first onscreen appearance as Fred Rogers elicits knowing laughter from the audience. Yes, Tom Hanks playing Mr. Rogers looks and sounds exactly how you would imagine. Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, however, is much more than an obvious biopic. It’s not really a biopic at all. Nor is it a rehash of 2018’s much-heralded documentary profile of Fred Rogers, Won’t You Be MyNeighbor?...
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Marielle Heller)
It sounds almost too perfect: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers, the beloved children’s entertainer. Of course, who else could it be, really? It is so seemingly predestined, in fact, that Hanks’s first onscreen appearance as Fred Rogers elicits knowing laughter from the audience. Yes, Tom Hanks playing Mr. Rogers looks and sounds exactly how you would imagine. Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, however, is much more than an obvious biopic. It’s not really a biopic at all. Nor is it a rehash of 2018’s much-heralded documentary profile of Fred Rogers, Won’t You Be MyNeighbor?...
- 2/7/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
It hasn’t been an easy last few years for Alexander Payne. After his misunderstood drama Downsizing didn’t connect with audiences, he recently tried to get a few projects off the ground to no avail. Earlier this fall, his Mads Mikkelsen-led road movie for Netflix was canceled a week before production due to rights issues, then we haven’t heard any updates about his Emma Stone- and Ralph Fiennes-led horror-comedy The Menu nor his true story drama The Burial. He now looks to be back on track with a new feature and it’s one that will have him rethinking a classic.
Deadline reports he’s set to direct a “re-imagining” of Gabriel Axel’s 1987 Oscar-winning masterpiece Babette’s Feast. Scripted by comedian-writer Guy Branum, this English-language version will take place in “a religious community in small-town Minnesota, where two older, unmarried sisters accept a refugee, who...
Deadline reports he’s set to direct a “re-imagining” of Gabriel Axel’s 1987 Oscar-winning masterpiece Babette’s Feast. Scripted by comedian-writer Guy Branum, this English-language version will take place in “a religious community in small-town Minnesota, where two older, unmarried sisters accept a refugee, who...
- 12/2/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Alexander Payne has attached to direct a re-imagining of Babette’s Feast, the 1988 Oscar-winning Danish Film which Gabriel Axel wrote and directed from a story by Karen Blixen.
The project was set up by Unique Features, the production shingle that former New Line founder Bob Shaye created with his late partner Michael Lynne. Shaye will produce with Jennifer Wachtell under the Unique banner. The script will be written by Guy Branum, whose credits include The Other Two and The Mindy Project. Benni Korzen and Josi Konski will also produce.
The film will be set in a religious community in small-town Minnesota, where two older, unmarried sisters accept a refugee, who leads them to confront their regrets, over an extraordinary meal. It sounds right in the wheelhouse of Payne, Oscar winner for The Descendants and Sideways.
Payne is repped by CAA; Branum is managed by OmniPop Talent Group’s Zack Freedman.
The project was set up by Unique Features, the production shingle that former New Line founder Bob Shaye created with his late partner Michael Lynne. Shaye will produce with Jennifer Wachtell under the Unique banner. The script will be written by Guy Branum, whose credits include The Other Two and The Mindy Project. Benni Korzen and Josi Konski will also produce.
The film will be set in a religious community in small-town Minnesota, where two older, unmarried sisters accept a refugee, who leads them to confront their regrets, over an extraordinary meal. It sounds right in the wheelhouse of Payne, Oscar winner for The Descendants and Sideways.
Payne is repped by CAA; Branum is managed by OmniPop Talent Group’s Zack Freedman.
- 12/2/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Trine Dyrholm stars as a woman who seduces her teenage stepson.
Danish filmmaker May el-Toukhy’s Sundance award-winner Queen Of Hearts has been chosen as Denmark’s entry to the best international film prize at the 2020 Academy Awards.
The film was selected by the Danish Academy Award Committee.
It launched at Sundance Film Festival in January, where it won the ‘world cinema – dramatic’ audience award.
Subsequent prizes have included three awards at Göteborg Film Festival, including the event’s $110,000 Dragon award for best Nordic film, one of the most lucrative film cash prizes in the industry.
Queen Of Hearts stars...
Danish filmmaker May el-Toukhy’s Sundance award-winner Queen Of Hearts has been chosen as Denmark’s entry to the best international film prize at the 2020 Academy Awards.
The film was selected by the Danish Academy Award Committee.
It launched at Sundance Film Festival in January, where it won the ‘world cinema – dramatic’ audience award.
Subsequent prizes have included three awards at Göteborg Film Festival, including the event’s $110,000 Dragon award for best Nordic film, one of the most lucrative film cash prizes in the industry.
Queen Of Hearts stars...
- 9/24/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Above: Chinese poster for Spirited Away; artist: Zao Dao.The most popular poster to date on my Movie Poster of the Day Instagram, by a dragon’s length, with more than double the amount of likes of its closest contender, was this gorgeous Chinese poster (and its color variant which you can see here) for Miyazaki’s Spirited Away (2001), which apparently just got a Chinese theatrical release eighteen years after it was made. The posters were painted by the young Chinese comic book artist Zao Dao who you can, and should, read more about here.I was happy to see Renato Casaro’s prop poster for Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood’s film-within-the-film Kill Me Now Ringo, Said the Gringo—which I wrote about a couple of weeks ago—make such an impression, as well as another of my favorite Casaros painted forty years earlier, for Screamers, a.k.
- 8/9/2019
- MUBI
It’s been a mixed bag interviewing child and young teen stars. I remember one teenage actress throwing a hissy fit at her mother because she didn’t want to do the interview. Then there was a five-year girl who looked like a deer in the headlights. She only started to talk when I whipped out photos of my cat. And there was another time when I showed up to interview a teenage actress at her family house and felt like I walked into an episode of “The X-Files.” Of course, I have a wonderful memory with the late Anton Yelchin who was a sensitive old soul at the age of 12 when I interviewed him in 2001 for “Hearts in Atlantis.” I interviewed him one more time-the year before his tragic death and found he was just as sensitive and lovely.
And then there was Christian Bale.
I knew immediately watching...
And then there was Christian Bale.
I knew immediately watching...
- 12/11/2018
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Screen’s regularly updated list of foreign language Oscar submissions.
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
- 9/20/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Screen’s regularly updated list of foreign language Oscar submissions.
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
- 9/20/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Bille August’s 1987 award winner is yet another full cinema meal, a deeply satisfying drama about working conditions among Scandinavian immigrants back when being poor was a life sentence. Max von Sydow’s performance is stunning, as an aging stock tender forced to begin again as a veritable serf. He and his good son Pelle are surrounded by little dramas dealing with injustices among the workers and servants, as well as between the landholders in the big farmhouse.
Pelle the Conqueror
Blu-ray
Film Movement Classics
1987 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 150 min. / Pelle erobreren / Street Date May 30, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Bjorn Granath, Astrid Villaume, Axel Strobye, Troels Asmussen, Kristina Tornqvist, Karen Wegener, Sofie Grabol, Lars Simonsen, Buster Larsen, John Wittig, Troels Munk, Nis Bank-Mikkelsen.
Cinematography: Jörgen Persson
Film Editor: Janus Billeskov Jansen
Original Music: Stefan Nilsson
Written by Bille August, Per Olov Enquist, Max Lundgren, Bjarne Reuter
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Pelle the Conqueror
Blu-ray
Film Movement Classics
1987 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 150 min. / Pelle erobreren / Street Date May 30, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Bjorn Granath, Astrid Villaume, Axel Strobye, Troels Asmussen, Kristina Tornqvist, Karen Wegener, Sofie Grabol, Lars Simonsen, Buster Larsen, John Wittig, Troels Munk, Nis Bank-Mikkelsen.
Cinematography: Jörgen Persson
Film Editor: Janus Billeskov Jansen
Original Music: Stefan Nilsson
Written by Bille August, Per Olov Enquist, Max Lundgren, Bjarne Reuter
from...
- 5/16/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
NEWSRaoul Coutard shooting BreathlessThe great cinematographer Raoul Coutard, legendary for his work shooting Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, and also a collaborator of Philippe Garrel, Nagisa Oshima, Costa-Gavras and François Truffaut, has died at the age of 92.Keep film alive! The New York non-profit film organization Mono No Aware has launched a Kickstarter to fund "the nation's first ever non-profit motion picture lab." An ambitious and worthy goal!Two film projects in the works we're very excited about: Claire Denis' High Life, starring Robert Pattinson and Patricia Arquette and co-written by Zadie Smith, and Leos Carax's Annette, a musical to star Adam Driver (everywhere these days!) and Rooney Mara.The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the first part of its retrospective devoted to exiled Chilean fabulist Raúl Ruiz, which will include new digital restorations of Bérénice (1983) and The Golden Boat (1990), as well as 35mm prints of such...
- 11/29/2016
- MUBI
Nils Malmros’ Sorrow and Joy has been submitted by Denmark for the Academy Awards.
Sorrow and Joy, known in Denmark as Sorg og glæde, has been submitted for the Best Foreign-Language Film category at the 87th Academy Awards.
Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award submissions 2015
The Danish Oscar Committee chose the film directed by Nils Malmros from a shortlist that also included Niels Arden Oplev’s Speed Walking (Kapgang) and Pernille Fischer Christensen’s Someone You Love (En du elsker).
“It was a difficult decision, with three very personal films from well-known directors were are proud of, but it was an unanimous choice” said committee chairman Henrik Bo Nielsen, MD of the Danish Film Institute.
“After a long career, Malmros is still a strong narrator, who dares stand out – he is not afraid of approaching taboos, he deals with universal themes and gently touches us all.”
Launched at last year’s Rome Film Festival, Sorrow and [link...
Sorrow and Joy, known in Denmark as Sorg og glæde, has been submitted for the Best Foreign-Language Film category at the 87th Academy Awards.
Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award submissions 2015
The Danish Oscar Committee chose the film directed by Nils Malmros from a shortlist that also included Niels Arden Oplev’s Speed Walking (Kapgang) and Pernille Fischer Christensen’s Someone You Love (En du elsker).
“It was a difficult decision, with three very personal films from well-known directors were are proud of, but it was an unanimous choice” said committee chairman Henrik Bo Nielsen, MD of the Danish Film Institute.
“After a long career, Malmros is still a strong narrator, who dares stand out – he is not afraid of approaching taboos, he deals with universal themes and gently touches us all.”
Launched at last year’s Rome Film Festival, Sorrow and [link...
- 9/18/2014
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
Title: Tasting Menu Menú degustació) Magnolia Pictures Director: Roger Gual Screenplay: Roger Gual, Javier Calvo based on an original idea by Sílvia González Laá Cast: Jan Cornet, Claudia Bassols, Vicenta N’dongo, Andrew Tarbet, Fionnula Flanagan, Stephen Rea, Togo Igawa, Marta Torné, Akihijo Serikawa, Timothy Gibbs, Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 4/3/14 Opens: April 18, 2014 “Tasting Menu” might be compared by some to “Babette’s Feast,” Gabriel Axel’s film about a remote, 19th Century Danish community whose religious views forbid them to eat more than gruel but who are upended by a fantastic meal prepared by their French housekeeper. But Roger Gual’s movie does not center on food. That’s too bad. [ Read More ]
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- 4/15/2014
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
We move into the top 20 now, where the films become incredibly spiritual. One major component seen in many of these religious films: the overtones meant to instill a sense of mystery and wonder. You see it in films set in both sweeping landscapes and intimate settings. Whether or not any of the films on this list are condoning the acceptance or rejection of faith and religion is almost beside the point. The real point is that it is so influential on our culture that movies will always be made about it.
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20. Babette’s Feast (1987)
Directed by Gabriel Axel
The 1987 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner (beating Au Revoir Les Enfants), Babette’s Feast is the story of two devout Christian sisters whose father – the leader of a small Christian sect in Denmark – has died. Unfortunately, Martine (Birgitte Federspiel) and Philippa (Bodjil Kjer) find they have no way to gain new members,...
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20. Babette’s Feast (1987)
Directed by Gabriel Axel
The 1987 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner (beating Au Revoir Les Enfants), Babette’s Feast is the story of two devout Christian sisters whose father – the leader of a small Christian sect in Denmark – has died. Unfortunately, Martine (Birgitte Federspiel) and Philippa (Bodjil Kjer) find they have no way to gain new members,...
- 4/14/2014
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
Screwball comedy movies, rare screenings of epic box office disaster: Library of Congress’ Packard Theater in April 2014 (photo: Cary Grant and Irene Dunne in ‘The Awful Truth’) In April 2014, the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus Theater in Culpeper, Virginia, will celebrate Hollywood screwball comedy movies, from the Marx Brothers’ antics to Peter Bogdanovich’s early ’70s homage What’s Up, Doc?, a box office blockbuster starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal. Additionally, the Packard Theater will present a couple of rarities, including an epoch-making box office disaster that led to the demise of a major studio. Among Packard’s April 2014 screwball comedies are the following: Leo McCarey’s Duck Soup (Saturday, April 5) — actually more zany, wacky, and totally insane than merely "screwball" — in which Groucho Marx stars as the recently (un)elected dictator of Freedonia, abetted by siblings Harpo Marx and Chico Marx, in addition to Groucho’s perennial foil,...
- 3/27/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies who have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Gabriel Axel (1918-2014) - Danish director whose Babette's Feast won the 1987 Oscar for Best Foreign Film (see the win below). His other work includes Royal Deceit and a part of Lumiere and Company. He died on February 9. (THR) Sid Caesar (1922-2014) - Comic actor and writer and legendary TV host who appears in the movies Grease, Grease 2, Cannonball Run II, Silent Movie, History of the World, Part 1 and It's a Mad, Mad...
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- 3/1/2014
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Shirley Temple dead at 85: Was one of the biggest domestic box office draws of the ’30s (photo: Shirley Temple in the late ’40s) Shirley Temple, one of the biggest box office draws of the 1930s in the United States, died Monday night, February 10, 2014, at her home in Woodside, near San Francisco. The cause of death wasn’t made public. Shirley Temple (born in Santa Monica on April 23, 1928) was 85. Shirley Temple became a star in 1934, following the release of Paramount’s Alexander Hall-directed comedy-tearjerker Little Miss Marker, in which Temple had the title role as a little girl who, left in the care of bookies, almost loses her childlike ways before coming around to regenerate Adolphe Menjou and his gang. That same year, Temple became a Fox contract player, and is credited with saving the studio — 20th Century Fox from 1935 on — from bankruptcy. Whether or not that’s true is a different story,...
- 2/11/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Oscar-winning Danish director of Babette's Feast
In April 1988, a week before his 70th birthday, the film director Gabriel Axel, who has died aged 95, walked up on stage at the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles to receive the best foreign language film Oscar for Babette's Feast (1987), the first Danish movie to achieve that honour. In a mixture of Danish and French, the slim, grey-bearded, bespectacled Axel quoted a line from the character of the General in the film: "Because of this evening, I have learned, my dear, that in this beautiful world of ours, all things are possible."
It was the pinnacle of Axel's long career and marked the beginning of a resurgence of Danish cinema. (Another Danish film, Bille August's Pelle the Conqueror, won the foreign language Oscar the following year.) Despite several fine films, there was previously little in Axel's oeuvre to predict the perfection of Babette's Feast.
In April 1988, a week before his 70th birthday, the film director Gabriel Axel, who has died aged 95, walked up on stage at the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles to receive the best foreign language film Oscar for Babette's Feast (1987), the first Danish movie to achieve that honour. In a mixture of Danish and French, the slim, grey-bearded, bespectacled Axel quoted a line from the character of the General in the film: "Because of this evening, I have learned, my dear, that in this beautiful world of ours, all things are possible."
It was the pinnacle of Axel's long career and marked the beginning of a resurgence of Danish cinema. (Another Danish film, Bille August's Pelle the Conqueror, won the foreign language Oscar the following year.) Despite several fine films, there was previously little in Axel's oeuvre to predict the perfection of Babette's Feast.
- 2/11/2014
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Gabriel Axel, the writer and director of Babette’s Feast, the first Danish picture to win the Oscar for best foreign-language film, died Sunday in Copenhagen. He was 95. Babette’s Feast (1987), based on the novel of the same name by Danish author Karen Blixen, revolves around two sisters and their housekeeper. The film also won a BAFTA award and was honored at Cannes. Axel divided his time between France and Denmark, where he directed television series and movies. He also acted in several films. Story: Oscar-Winning Danish Film at Center of Tug-of-War Dutch films have been
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- 2/10/2014
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gabriel Axel, director of the film Babette’s Feast which made him the first Dane to win an Oscar for best foreign film, has died. He was 95.
His daughter, Karin Moerch, said in a statement that he died on Sunday. She did not say where he died or the cause of death.
Axel divided his time between France and Denmark, where he directed television series and movies. He also acted in several films.
Axel had his big international breakthrough in 1987 with Babette's Feast, based on the novel of the same name by Danish author Karen Blixen. It starred French actress Stephane Audran.
His daughter, Karin Moerch, said in a statement that he died on Sunday. She did not say where he died or the cause of death.
Axel divided his time between France and Denmark, where he directed television series and movies. He also acted in several films.
Axel had his big international breakthrough in 1987 with Babette's Feast, based on the novel of the same name by Danish author Karen Blixen. It starred French actress Stephane Audran.
- 2/10/2014
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside Movies
Halifax -- Hollywood's most fattening movies point the camera at compelling chefs. Recall Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia, Tony Shalhoub in Big Night and Catherine Zeta-Jones in No Reservations. Those movies brought audiences into gilded pantries, while also bringing dirty pots and pans into the open. But European and other foreign food-themed movies mostly feature the big dinner, where eating well is the best revenge against life's woes and ills. Remember the mighty gorge in Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast, Alfonso Arau's Like Water for Chocolate, Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman, Lasse Hallstrom's Chocolat and Juzo Itami's Tampopo.
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- 11/14/2013
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The title Babette's Feast doesn't immediately jump out at me as a film I need to see immediately, but to know this Danish film bested Au Revoir Les Enfants (read my Blu-ray review here) at the 1988 Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film certainly causes me to change my mind. While I wouldn't say director Gabriel Axel's film is better than Malle's Enfants, which is a personal all-timer of mine, but it is a multi-layered story with drama in corners you can't expect heading in. Adapted from the 1950 short story of the same name (read it here) by Karen Blixen (writing as Isak Denisen who also wrote the story that inspired Out of Africa), the film takes place in a small village in 19th century Denmark, a town Denisen described as a "child's toy-town of little wooden pieces". The story centers on two sisters who grew up here under the watchful eye of their father,...
- 8/16/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
This weekend I have a lot of work on my "to do" list and among that work is the goal to review three Criterion titles -- Lord of the Flies, Seconds and Babette's Feast -- the last of that bunch I still have to watch and am actually planning on watching it tonight. Here's the description from Criterion.com: At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a deeply beloved treasure of cinema. Directed by Gabriel Axel and adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen, it is the lovingly layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark. Babette's Feast combines earthiness and reverence in an indescribably moving depiction of...
- 8/10/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Babette’s Feast won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1987 and was the first Danish production to ever take the prestigious award. It started a hot streak of sorts, when the following year Bille August’s Pelle the Conqueror pretty much ran the table, claiming the Oscar, the Palme d’Or and the Golden Globe, further confirming to the world that the Danish film industry had arrived. While the Danes would not win another Oscar until 2010, for Susanne Bier’s In a Better World, this tiny nation of just under six million souls has become a capital of cinematic creativity, boasting such talented filmmakers as Lars van Trier, Per Fly, Anders Thomas Jensen and Nicolas Winding Refn, to name a few. If the grand moralist dirges of Carl Th. Dreyer define Danish cinema of the WWII generation, then Babette’s Feast must be considered the nation’s inspirational...
- 7/23/2013
- by David Anderson
- IONCINEMA.com
Trance Eh, Trance was a film that felt like it thought it was more clever than it actually is and I really have no desire or need to see it again. I had little to say when I wrote my review back in April and I have even less to say about it now. You can read my theatrical review right here.
Welcome to the Punch Hey, it's a double dose of James McAvoy, though unlike Trance, I haven't seen Welcome to the Punch but I'd be up for giving it a spin as it seems like a perfect at-home kind of film. Here's the plot: Former criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London from his Icelandic hideaway when his son is involved in a heist gone wrong. This gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to catch the man he has always been after. As they face off,...
Welcome to the Punch Hey, it's a double dose of James McAvoy, though unlike Trance, I haven't seen Welcome to the Punch but I'd be up for giving it a spin as it seems like a perfect at-home kind of film. Here's the plot: Former criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London from his Icelandic hideaway when his son is involved in a heist gone wrong. This gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to catch the man he has always been after. As they face off,...
- 7/23/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 23, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
The 1987 Danish film drama Babette’s Feast, an Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Language Film, is at once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food.
Directed by Gabriel Axel and adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen, the movie relates the layered tale of a French housekeeper (Stephane Audran) with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th Century Denmark.
Babette’s Feast combines earthiness and reverence in its mouth-watering depiction of fooooooooood! It’s quite a pleasure to digest…!
Presented in Danish with English subtitles, the Criterion Blu-ray and DVD editions of Babette’s Feast contain the following features:
• New 2K digital film restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-hd Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray...
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
The 1987 Danish film drama Babette’s Feast, an Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Language Film, is at once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food.
Directed by Gabriel Axel and adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen, the movie relates the layered tale of a French housekeeper (Stephane Audran) with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th Century Denmark.
Babette’s Feast combines earthiness and reverence in its mouth-watering depiction of fooooooooood! It’s quite a pleasure to digest…!
Presented in Danish with English subtitles, the Criterion Blu-ray and DVD editions of Babette’s Feast contain the following features:
• New 2K digital film restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-hd Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray...
- 4/24/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
A couple of key new photos starting with the first photo of Ben Stiller in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. There's also a shot of "Castle" star Nathan Fillion in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, and some more photos from Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring.
Posters for R.I.P.D., Aftershock, The Wolverine, The Heat, Filth, Tarzan 3D, Much Ado About Nothing, The Way Way Back, The Bling Ring, Hummingbird, The Hangover Part III, and The Lone Ranger.
"William Friedkin, the director behind the original 'The Exorcist', says that 'there isn't one sequel to 'The Exorcist' that's worth a bucket of warm spit… I had nothing to do with them. If I had, I would be ashamed'…" (full details)
"Anthony Mackie says his character of Sam 'The Falcon' Wilson will be more than a cameo in the upcoming sequel 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'.
Posters for R.I.P.D., Aftershock, The Wolverine, The Heat, Filth, Tarzan 3D, Much Ado About Nothing, The Way Way Back, The Bling Ring, Hummingbird, The Hangover Part III, and The Lone Ranger.
"William Friedkin, the director behind the original 'The Exorcist', says that 'there isn't one sequel to 'The Exorcist' that's worth a bucket of warm spit… I had nothing to do with them. If I had, I would be ashamed'…" (full details)
"Anthony Mackie says his character of Sam 'The Falcon' Wilson will be more than a cameo in the upcoming sequel 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'.
- 4/16/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
An international copyright struggle has broken out over the 1987 Danish film, Babette’s Feast, which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Picture. The film was directed by Gabriel Axel, who according to a lawsuit filed in California federal court this week, now claims to own the movie. That's caused Josi Konski, a Cuban-born film producer who lives in Beverly Hills and operates Astrablu Media, to object. Konski believes that in 2007, he acquired rights to Babette’s Feast from the film's original producer. What makes this lawsuit intriguing is that two weeks ago, upon word that Babette’s Feast was going
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- 4/5/2013
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Criterion has revealed the following piece of art revealing clues as to what they will be offering in 2013. Commenters have already clued in to a few of the more obvious titles such as Harold Lloyd's Safety Last!, Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone, David Lynch's Eraserhead and Delmer Daves's 3:10 to Yuma as well as speculation on titles such as Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai, Federico Fellini's La Strada, Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata, David Cronenberg's Scanners, Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies and Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast. What titles do you see and what clues match your guesses?...
- 1/1/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Gabriel Axel was 70 when, in 1987, he rose above accomplished run-of-the-mill movies to make this cinematic, gastronomic treat starring Stéphane Audran, Claude Chabrol's former wife, as a great French cook fleeing from the confusions of the Franco-Prussian war and the Paris commune in 1870, and settling in a remote corner of Scandinavia. Her kindly hosts run an austere community for the elderly that rejects all worldly pleasures, and Babette proves a devoted servant. But after winning a lottery she decides to tickle their palates with the meal of a lifetime, a blowout that makes most TV gourmet programmes look like a Bowery soup kitchen. It's a flawless adaptation of the story Isak Dinesen (pseudonym of Karen Blixen) wrote for a bet that she could be published in the popular middlebrow Saturday Evening Post. She lost, but the story was accepted by the more discerning Ladies' Home Journal. The film version, re-released here for the 25th anniversary,...
- 12/16/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Smashed | Neil Young Journeys | Chasing Ice | Love Crime | Dead Europe | UFO | False Trail | Code Name: Geronimo | Tinkerbell And The Secret Of The Wings | Babette's Feast | Baraka | What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (12A)
(Peter Jackson, 2012, Us) Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Andy Serkis. 169 mins
So the three-movie idea is more likely down to financial demands than creative ones, and the now-notorious higher frame rate reduces cinematic spectacle to pin-sharp TV movie, but this is terrifically wrought escapism. Freeman is the perfect lead, too. But what could have, should have been a masterpiece ends up a fantasy epic with too much epic and not enough fantasy.
Smashed (15)
(James Ponsoldt, 2012, Us) Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul. 81 mins
Winstead shows impressive range as a young alcoholic teacher trying to get back on track. The familiar subject feels fresh applied to a new demographic.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (12A)
(Peter Jackson, 2012, Us) Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Andy Serkis. 169 mins
So the three-movie idea is more likely down to financial demands than creative ones, and the now-notorious higher frame rate reduces cinematic spectacle to pin-sharp TV movie, but this is terrifically wrought escapism. Freeman is the perfect lead, too. But what could have, should have been a masterpiece ends up a fantasy epic with too much epic and not enough fantasy.
Smashed (15)
(James Ponsoldt, 2012, Us) Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul. 81 mins
Winstead shows impressive range as a young alcoholic teacher trying to get back on track. The familiar subject feels fresh applied to a new demographic.
- 12/15/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Gabriel Axel's film about a giant repast bequeathed on a 19th-century Danish religious community still charms 25 years on
The complacent and nauseating word "foodie" is often used in connection with Gabriel Axel's 1987 film, now rereleased in cinemas. But if you're salivating over the food, you're missing the point. The film is based on a short story by Danish author Karen Blixen, whose memoirof Out of Africa was famously adapted for the cinema in 1985. In 19th-century Denmark, spinster sisters Filippa (Bodil Kjer) and Martine (Birgitte Federspiel) are honouring the memory of their late father, a stern preacher, by doing good works and hosting prayer groups, having long since rejected the pleasures of love, marriage and children. Into these old women's lives comes a mysterious Frenchwoman, Babette (Stéphane Audran), an acquaintance of a former dejected suitor, a refugee from the French civil war.
Babette agrees to work as their cook and housekeeper; and,...
The complacent and nauseating word "foodie" is often used in connection with Gabriel Axel's 1987 film, now rereleased in cinemas. But if you're salivating over the food, you're missing the point. The film is based on a short story by Danish author Karen Blixen, whose memoirof Out of Africa was famously adapted for the cinema in 1985. In 19th-century Denmark, spinster sisters Filippa (Bodil Kjer) and Martine (Birgitte Federspiel) are honouring the memory of their late father, a stern preacher, by doing good works and hosting prayer groups, having long since rejected the pleasures of love, marriage and children. Into these old women's lives comes a mysterious Frenchwoman, Babette (Stéphane Audran), an acquaintance of a former dejected suitor, a refugee from the French civil war.
Babette agrees to work as their cook and housekeeper; and,...
- 12/14/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★☆☆ A modest yet elegantly constructed period drama, Babette's Feast is a curiously middlebrow choice for a BFI rerelease. Winner of the 1987 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this is just about as genteel as Oscar recipients come. Adapted by director Gabriel Axel from an Isak Dinesen short story, the narrative drifts innocuously along, but is ultimately creditable due to the poignancy and compassion at its core. Its optimistic view of the human condition, as well as its infectiously joyous celebration of culinary creativity, make it a winning, albeit slight, crowd-pleaser.
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- 12/13/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The fifth edition of the Bengaluru International Film Festival will hold retrospectives of Girish Kasaravalli and Jahnu Barua among others. Five of Kasaravalli’s films: Tabarana Kathe (1986), Kraurya (1996), Thaayi Saheba (1997), Dweepa (2003) and Hasina (2004)will be screened. While Barua’s Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai (1987), Banani (1990), Firingoti (1992) and Hkhagoroloi Bohu Door(1995) will be screened.
Besides, three other sections are dedicated to Indian cinema. Chitrabharathi – Indian Cinema Competition, Kannada Cinema (competition and screening of films in other dialects in Karnataka) and 100 years of Indian Cinema (screening of 14 films).
Complete line up:
Retrospective
Chan-Wook Park (South Korea)
1. J.S.A.: Joint Security Area (Chan-Wook Park/110/2000/South Korea)
2. Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park/129/2002/South Korea)
3. Old boy (Chan-Wook Park/120/2003/South Korea)
4. Lady Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park/112/2005/South Korea)
5. Thirst (Chan-Wook Park/133/2009/South Korea)
Fatih Akin (Germany)
1. Short Sharp Shock (Fatih Akin/100/1998/Germany)
2. In July (Fatih Akin/99/2000/Germany)
3. Solino (Fatih Akin/124/2002/Germany)
4. Head On (Fatih Akin/121/2004/Germany/Turkey...
Besides, three other sections are dedicated to Indian cinema. Chitrabharathi – Indian Cinema Competition, Kannada Cinema (competition and screening of films in other dialects in Karnataka) and 100 years of Indian Cinema (screening of 14 films).
Complete line up:
Retrospective
Chan-Wook Park (South Korea)
1. J.S.A.: Joint Security Area (Chan-Wook Park/110/2000/South Korea)
2. Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park/129/2002/South Korea)
3. Old boy (Chan-Wook Park/120/2003/South Korea)
4. Lady Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park/112/2005/South Korea)
5. Thirst (Chan-Wook Park/133/2009/South Korea)
Fatih Akin (Germany)
1. Short Sharp Shock (Fatih Akin/100/1998/Germany)
2. In July (Fatih Akin/99/2000/Germany)
3. Solino (Fatih Akin/124/2002/Germany)
4. Head On (Fatih Akin/121/2004/Germany/Turkey...
- 12/7/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Thrones & Empires
Stars: Helen Mirren, Gabriel Byrne, Christian Bale, Brian Cox, Tom Wilkinson, Kate Beckinsale | Written by Gabriel Axel, Erik Kjersgaard | Directed by Gabriel Axel
King Harvendel and his son Sigurd have been murdered by the King’s evil brother Fenge who has taken the crown and Queen Geruth as his wife. But the killing has been witnessed by the other prince, who avoids his own slaughter by feigning madness. Driven by revenge, Amled in turns murders Ribold, Fenge’s closest companion. Threatened by this, Fenge sends Amled to his close friend Aethelwine, Duke of Lindsey in Scotland with a message that the prince is mad and should die. Amled manages to change the text of the message in his favour and is welcomed into the court by the Duke, and quickly falls in love with his daughter, the beautiful Ethel.
While out riding with Ehtel and her brother Aelfred,...
Stars: Helen Mirren, Gabriel Byrne, Christian Bale, Brian Cox, Tom Wilkinson, Kate Beckinsale | Written by Gabriel Axel, Erik Kjersgaard | Directed by Gabriel Axel
King Harvendel and his son Sigurd have been murdered by the King’s evil brother Fenge who has taken the crown and Queen Geruth as his wife. But the killing has been witnessed by the other prince, who avoids his own slaughter by feigning madness. Driven by revenge, Amled in turns murders Ribold, Fenge’s closest companion. Threatened by this, Fenge sends Amled to his close friend Aethelwine, Duke of Lindsey in Scotland with a message that the prince is mad and should die. Amled manages to change the text of the message in his favour and is welcomed into the court by the Duke, and quickly falls in love with his daughter, the beautiful Ethel.
While out riding with Ehtel and her brother Aelfred,...
- 10/7/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Cinematographer with a cool, austere style who linked the eras of Dreyer and Von Trier
If the Danish cinematographer Henning Bendtsen, who has died aged 85, had shot nothing else but Carl Dreyer's final masterpieces, Ordet (The Word, 1955) and Gertrud (1964), he would have been entitled to a place in the pantheon of cinema. Although he shot 57 features, it was his collaboration with the saintly Dreyer on these two films which conferred an enviable eminence on him.
"It turned out to be a very harmonious collaboration between Dreyer and me, which always will be the most valuable association I have experienced within my profession," Bendtsen recalled. "We quickly connected with each other, both as professionals and as humans."
As can be seen in Ordet and Gertrud, it is clear that Bendtsen understood what Dreyer meant by "realised mysticism". The contrasting tonality of lighting both reflects and creates the moods within the same frame,...
If the Danish cinematographer Henning Bendtsen, who has died aged 85, had shot nothing else but Carl Dreyer's final masterpieces, Ordet (The Word, 1955) and Gertrud (1964), he would have been entitled to a place in the pantheon of cinema. Although he shot 57 features, it was his collaboration with the saintly Dreyer on these two films which conferred an enviable eminence on him.
"It turned out to be a very harmonious collaboration between Dreyer and me, which always will be the most valuable association I have experienced within my profession," Bendtsen recalled. "We quickly connected with each other, both as professionals and as humans."
As can be seen in Ordet and Gertrud, it is clear that Bendtsen understood what Dreyer meant by "realised mysticism". The contrasting tonality of lighting both reflects and creates the moods within the same frame,...
- 2/18/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Rarely has half a year's wait been so richly rewarded. Early in August 2009 Jack Stevenson had promised a review copy of his forthcoming book "Scandinavian Blue," to be published by McFarland & Company, and dealing with a highly Ferronian subject: "The Erotic Cinema of Sweden and Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s." Still, I had nearly forgotten about it, when it finally arrived this March: But whatever the reasons for the delay, I'm sure they were good. Because as it turns out, Stevenson's book is not just an exhaustive and long-overdue study of a chapter in film history that by now mostly lives as a cliché of semi-trashy sixties liberation memorabilia, but doubles as one of the most timely political essays around.
Which is not to say it doesn't deliver as a connoisseur's chronicle of erotic esoterica, delving deeply into the more demented side of sexually charged filmmaking. Entire chapters are...
Which is not to say it doesn't deliver as a connoisseur's chronicle of erotic esoterica, delving deeply into the more demented side of sexually charged filmmaking. Entire chapters are...
- 4/28/2010
- MUBI
PARIS -- Organizers of the first International Festival of Cinema and Gastronomy, to take place Nov. 17-21 in the Burgundy capital of Dijon, on Monday announced a mouthwatering lineup of food-related movies and culinary events. The fest opens, appropriately, with Bertrand Tavernier's 1974 picture Que la Fete Commence (Let the Party Begin), followed by Gabriel Axel's 1987 film about a sumptuous banquet, Babette's Feast. After the evening screening, some 200 invitees will attend a re-enactment of the banquet in the celebrated Burgundy winery Chateau du Clos Vougeot, whose wine was served in the film. The first edition has only a smattering of international talent on the guest list, including Italian helmer Ettore Scola, who is due in town for a screening of his film Le Diner. Part of a day will be dedicated to Italian cuisine, and Mexican director Alfonso Arau will accompany his tale of love and cookery Like Water for Chocolate.
- 10/5/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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