Tag: genebervoets

Context may not be quite everything in life but it is almost always pretty damn important and so it should be noted that if I were to describe Alex Van Warmerdam's most recent feature film as a pleasant little diversion...

Welcome back for another round of ScreenAnarchy previews ahead of the Toronto International Film Fest 2015 preview series. So far we've talked Special Presentations and Galas and Midnighters and Vanguard. Now we turn our attention to the gigantic sections of...

Dutch helmer Alex van Warmerdam has won a loyal audience around the globe with his delightfully dark creations and fans of the Borgman director will soon have a new treat to feast upon with his upcoming hitman comedy Schneider vs...

Following the international success of his most recent effort, Borgman, expectations are running high for Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam's upcoming Schneider vs Bax. the veteran helmer has fused arthouse impulses with a wickedly dark sense of humor throughout his...

In October of 2012, at the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht, the famous Dutch director George Sluizer presented to the public what will quite probably be his last film: the unfinished-for-twenty-years Dark Blood. The thriller starred River Phoenix but the...

For anyone who's ever had a relative ask something unreasonable of them under the guise of familial duty, this one's for you. Like Festen, that milestone of family dysfunction, this absurdist Dutch satire on family values sounded exactly like my...

Emma Blank is dying.  And nobody seems particularly bothered, really.  Nobody except Emma herself, and for her part she's determined to milk every ounce of power she can out of her imminent demise.  She is cold, demanding, fickle.  She is...