Tag: netherlands
Venice 2023 Review: FOREVER-FOREVER, Post-Soviet Young and Restless
Anna Buryachkova's feature debut offers a female-centric lens on post-communist adolescence in Eastern Europe.
Cannes 2023 Review: YOUTH (SPRING), Chronicle of China's Working Class Youth
Chinese director Wang Bing makes his Cannes Competition debut with a stunning, expansive work about China's youth working in the country's garment industry.
Berlinale 2023: Exclusive SILVER HAZE Poster Premiere for Coming of Age Drama
Berlinale Film Festival is bracing for its 73rd edition from February 16 to February 26, 2023, and has begun gradually revealing its lineup. The festival has now announced the latest crop of titles for its Panorama section. The section is...
Review: NR. 10, Mysterious, Diabolical, Delectable, Quite Wonderful
A new film by writer/director Alex van Warmerdam ('Borgman'), starring Tom Dewispelaere, Frieda Barnhard and Hans Kesting.
Review: SPEAK NO EVIL, Politeness Can Often Backfire
Some people -- your humble critic included -- can find it very difficult to say no in social situations. Extricating oneself from uncomfortable circumstances can be a challenge, especially when it seems like the end of the unease is in...
Fantasia 2022 Review: MOLOCH, Dark Whispers of Intergenerational Trauma
The camera glides up the stairwell of an old home at the edge of the bog, there are several portraits on the wall of trios of generations of just the women, grouped into trios: Grandmother, mother, daughter. A low rumble...
Sundance 2022 Review: SPEAK NO EVIL, When Being Polite Goes Horribly Wrong
Some people - your humble critic included - can find it very difficult to say no in social situations. Extricating oneself from uncomfortable circumstances can be a challenge, especially when it seems like the end of the unease is in...
Review: BENEDETTA Reimagines A Nun's Life As a Softcore Thriller
Directed by Paul Verhoeven, the biographical drama stars Virginie Efira, Daphne Patakia and Charlotte Rampling.
Review: QUO VADIS, AIDA?, Searing Indictment of War From Not So Distant Past
Writer/director Jasmila Zbanica presents a powerful, harrowing film, with a stellar performance by Jasna Djuricic in the title role.
Exclusive LEGACY OF LIES Clip: Scott Adkins, I Need Your Help
We are big fans of Mr. Scott Adkins. Period. Full stop. His new action action movie, Legacy of Lies, directed by Adrian Bol, looks likely to keep up his streak of entertaining pictures that fairly well explode on the screen....
LILI Trailer: #MeToo Horror Short Film From Yfke Van Berckelaer
Dutch filmmaker Yfke Van Berckelaer's latest short film Lili has been making the festival rounds this past Summer and we have the trailer to share with you this morning. Lili (Lisa Smit – Netflix’s Ares) knows she has to...
Behold The Wonders Of Steffen And Flip's RANDOM SHIT
We've made no secret of our love for the work of Dutch comedy duo Steffn Haars and Flip Van der Kuil here in these pages over the years. The writing and directing duo first came to prominence as part of...
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THE CLEANER Exclusive: New Concept Art Emerges Ahead of EFM
Back in 2017 one of my favorite pitches from the Frontieres coproduction market was for Jan van Gorkum's horror comedy The Cleaner. In the Dutch production The Cleaner, a dark comedy and horror flick, the central character Barry, a...
Rotterdam 2019: DIRTY GOD Clip - Nice Monster
Set to enjoy its world premiere on the opening night of the International Film Festival Rotterdam -- that's tonight! -- is Dirty God, directed by Sacha Polak. And the fact that it is also scheduled to have its U.S. premiere...
Jackie Chan's POLICE STORY 1 & 2 Headline Action-Packed Slate from Eureka Entertainment
Hong Kong action classics Police Story and Police Story 2 are coming to Blu-ray in gorgeous new 4K restorations, as part of a loaded slate of upcoming releases from Eureka! Entertainment. It’s been a little while since we checked...
Review: HIERONYMUS BOSCH: TOUCHED BY THE DEVIL, A Fascinating Look at Dutch Master's Dark Imagination
To mark the 500th year of his death, Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil follows a team of Dutch Bosch scholars and experts, headed by art historian Matthijs Ilsink, as they try to shore up existing paintings by the Dutch...
Cannes 2016 Review: ELLE, A Sordid, Provocative Masterwork
Paul Verhoeven is one of the more unique directors in cinema history. As perhaps the most famous Dutch auteur, he's gone from ribald little European films to the biggest of Hollywood bangs, incorporating his unique wit, visual sense and narrative...
Possibly The Most Low Risk, Low Reward Heist Film Ever In Dutch Comedy HALLO BUNGALOW
It would appear the protagonists of Anne de Clercq's upcoming Dutch comedy Hallo Bungalow believe in managing expectations. Having grown up in the trailer park - technically a vacation bungalow complex, but it's the local equivalent - where they now...
THE WINDMILL: Check The First Images From The Dutch Horror Film
It was all the way back in 2013 when we first caught wind of Nick Jongerius' horror film The Windmill. Back then the film was still known as The Windmill Massacre and existed only as a proof of concept but...
PASSAGE: Watch Victor Ponten's Short Film Now
It was just last week that we ran the teaser for Victor Ponten's short crime film Passage and we return now with your first chance to see the complete film. Coming from the same production team behind Jim Taihuttu's acclaimed...
