For three decades, the Oldenburg Film Festival has been devoted to celebrating independent cinema outside the mainstream of both Hollywood and the international art-house market.
For its 30th edition, which runs through Sunday, festival founder and artistic director Torsten Neumann continues to highlight weird, extreme and cutting-edge indie movies from around the world.
Here are five can’t-miss movies from the 2023 crop.
The Wait The Wait
After the success of his debut film Before the Fall (2008), Spanish director Javier Gutiérrez followed Hollywood’s call and directed Rings (2017), the third entry in The Ring horror franchise. Despite grossing $83 million at the box office, the film was considered a flop, and Gutiérrez returned to Spain, spending six years developing his third feature, which will have its world premiere in Oldenburg. The raw drama, about a hardscrabble family whose life slowly descends into a nightmare, looks like a return to form for one...
For its 30th edition, which runs through Sunday, festival founder and artistic director Torsten Neumann continues to highlight weird, extreme and cutting-edge indie movies from around the world.
Here are five can’t-miss movies from the 2023 crop.
The Wait The Wait
After the success of his debut film Before the Fall (2008), Spanish director Javier Gutiérrez followed Hollywood’s call and directed Rings (2017), the third entry in The Ring horror franchise. Despite grossing $83 million at the box office, the film was considered a flop, and Gutiérrez returned to Spain, spending six years developing his third feature, which will have its world premiere in Oldenburg. The raw drama, about a hardscrabble family whose life slowly descends into a nightmare, looks like a return to form for one...
- 9/13/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Oldenburg Film Festival, Germany’s leading all-indie fest, unveiled highlights for its 30th-anniversary edition, including several world premieres featuring Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard and Mission : Impossible star Ving Rhames.
Uppercut, a boxing film featuring Mission: Impossible star Ving Rhames, will close the festival on September 17. Director Torsten Ruether remade his own, German-language, debut Leberhaken, which premiered in Oldenburg in 2021. The Million Dollar Baby-style story sees Rhames as a disillusioned former boxer who gets a shot at redemption when a young woman shows up at his gym, begging him to train her.
Spanish genre director F. Javier Gutierrez will bring his latest horror tale, The Wait, to Oldenburg this year. Gutiérrez’s 2008 debut Before the Fall, an end-of-the-world sci-fi thriller, was a cross-over hit, and his follow-up was the big-budget Rings (2017) for Paramount, the third entry in the Japanese-inspired horror saga. But the film, despite grossing $83 million worldwide, was...
Uppercut, a boxing film featuring Mission: Impossible star Ving Rhames, will close the festival on September 17. Director Torsten Ruether remade his own, German-language, debut Leberhaken, which premiered in Oldenburg in 2021. The Million Dollar Baby-style story sees Rhames as a disillusioned former boxer who gets a shot at redemption when a young woman shows up at his gym, begging him to train her.
Spanish genre director F. Javier Gutierrez will bring his latest horror tale, The Wait, to Oldenburg this year. Gutiérrez’s 2008 debut Before the Fall, an end-of-the-world sci-fi thriller, was a cross-over hit, and his follow-up was the big-budget Rings (2017) for Paramount, the third entry in the Japanese-inspired horror saga. But the film, despite grossing $83 million worldwide, was...
- 8/16/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Following the lineups from Slamdance and Sundance, an early look at 2023 in cinema has come into further focus with the announcement of the competition lineup for the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Taking place January 25 through February 5, the festival will open with Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken’s Munch, an experimental biopic of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. Along with the Tiger and Big Screen competition, seen below, the festival will also Steve McQueen’s latest artwork Sunshine State, a two-channel video projection.
Check out the lineup below via THR.
Opening Film
Munch, dir. Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken
Tiger Competition
100 Seasons, dir. Giovanni Bucchieri
Gagaland, dir. Teng Yuhan
Geology of Separation, dirs. Yosr Gasmi, Mauro Mazzocchi
Indivision, dir. Leïla Kilani
Letzter Abend, dir. Lukas Nathrath
Mannvirki, dir. Gústav Geir Bollason
Munnel, dir. Visakesa Chandrasekaram
New Strains, dir. Artemis Shaw, Prashanth Kamalakanthan
Notas sobre un verano, dir. Diego Llorente
Numb, dir. Amir Toodehroosta
Nummer achttien, dir.
Check out the lineup below via THR.
Opening Film
Munch, dir. Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken
Tiger Competition
100 Seasons, dir. Giovanni Bucchieri
Gagaland, dir. Teng Yuhan
Geology of Separation, dirs. Yosr Gasmi, Mauro Mazzocchi
Indivision, dir. Leïla Kilani
Letzter Abend, dir. Lukas Nathrath
Mannvirki, dir. Gústav Geir Bollason
Munnel, dir. Visakesa Chandrasekaram
New Strains, dir. Artemis Shaw, Prashanth Kamalakanthan
Notas sobre un verano, dir. Diego Llorente
Numb, dir. Amir Toodehroosta
Nummer achttien, dir.
- 12/19/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Munch.International Film Festival Rotterdam have announced the lineup for their 52nd edition, which will take place between January 25 through February 5. The festival will be held in-person for the first time since 2020.Opening FILMMunch (Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken)Tiger COMPETITION100 årstider (Giovanni Bucchieri)Gagaland (Teng Yuhan)Geology of SeparationIndivision (Leïla Kilani)Letzter Abend (Lukas Nathrath)Mannvirki (Gústav Geir Bollason)Munnel (Visakesa Chandrasekaram)New StrainsNotas sobre un verano (Diego Llorente)Numb (Amir Toodehroosta)Nummer achttien (Guido van der Werve)La Palisiada (Philip Sotnychenko)Playland (Georden West)Le spectre de Boko Haram (Cyrielle Raingou)Thiiird (Karim Kassem)three sparks (Naomi Uman)Big Screen COMPETITIONAvant l’effondrementBefore the Buzzards Arrive (Jonás N. Díaz)Copenhagen Does Not Exist (Martin Skovbjerg)Drawing LotsEndless Borders (Abbas Amini)Le formiche di Mida (Edgar Honetschläger)Four Little Adults (Selma Vilhunen)La hembrita (Laura Amelia Guzmán Conde)Joram (Devashish Makhija)Luka (Jessica Woodworth)My Little Nighttime Secret (Natalya Meshchaninova...
- 12/19/2022
- MUBI
A Kid's FlickIn October 2020, Doclisboa International Film Festival was upended by a rapidly rising tide of Covid-19 infections. Like other international festivals of that unfortunate period, its fundamental identity as a fixed event—let alone one with international guests—was washed away by a devastating new wave of disease and destruction. In response, the festival fanned out across the next six months, becoming a kind of Doclisboa-on-tour whenever the epidemiological situation granted an opening for it to appear. Portugal was battered by the virus in the early months of 2021, but something of Doclisboa managed to survive intact, even if only as glowing embers nestled in a dampened fire pit. In these months, it stayed in the world in bits and pieces, online or in scattered screenings across the city, even as audiences sheltered from the devastation and had little time for movies. Fortunately, we were luckier this edition. In the meantime,...
- 12/7/2021
- MUBI
Exclusive: UTA has signed Portuguese actress Alba Baptista, who has the lead role in upcoming Netflix fantasy series Warrior Nun.
Lisbon-born Baptista most recently starred in Marco Pontecorvo’s upcoming feature Fatima opposite Harvey Keitel, as well as Gonçalo Waddington’s drama Patrick, which was in competition at San Sebastián.
In Simon Barry’s (Ghost Wars) Warrior Nun, which is inspired by Manga novels, she will play a 19-year-old woman who wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back. She discovers she is part of an ancient order that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth, and powerful forces representing both heaven and hell want to find and control her.
Additionally, Baptista has appeared in Edgar Pêra’s film Caminhos Magnétyko, Hugo Diogo’s Imagens Proibidas and had a recurring role in Portuguese telenovela Jogo Duplo.
She continues...
Lisbon-born Baptista most recently starred in Marco Pontecorvo’s upcoming feature Fatima opposite Harvey Keitel, as well as Gonçalo Waddington’s drama Patrick, which was in competition at San Sebastián.
In Simon Barry’s (Ghost Wars) Warrior Nun, which is inspired by Manga novels, she will play a 19-year-old woman who wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back. She discovers she is part of an ancient order that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth, and powerful forces representing both heaven and hell want to find and control her.
Additionally, Baptista has appeared in Edgar Pêra’s film Caminhos Magnétyko, Hugo Diogo’s Imagens Proibidas and had a recurring role in Portuguese telenovela Jogo Duplo.
She continues...
- 3/4/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Thirty Years of Motion Pictures (The March of the Movies)The breadth of programming at the International Film Festival Rotterdam allows something glorious: room for others to build their own domains, unique pockets of how to view cinema and, through it, the world. Sound//vision is one such place, a corridor of exciting, variable programming happening each night in such a way that an attendee could only do that and have a rich, expanded festival experience. There are other pockets of curation in the 2019 program as well: a profile of African-American artist Cauleen Smith, profiles of directors Charlotte Pryce (which included two lovely live slideshow performances) and Edgar Pêra, and a tantalizing section devoted to spy cinema which adroitly ranges over the mainstream to the arthouse, from Hollywood to the Czech Republic to South Korea, from 1928 to 2018. And then there is the “Laboratory of Unseen Beauty,” a series whose code word,...
- 1/31/2019
- MUBI
Includes three world and international premieres.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has announced Portuguese filmmaker Edgar Pêra as the subject of the retrospective at its 48th edition (January 23 – February 3).
The retrospective will feature 24 titles by the director, including three world and international premieres, as well as Pêra’s most significant works and several smaller films.
Amongst the premieres is the international bow of Lovecraftland, a 3D concert film inspired by the writing and legacy of author H.P. Lovecraft. A live score will be provided by Portuguese musician Randolph Carter.
Also having its international premiere is Magnetick Pathways (Caminhos Magnéticos), exploring...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has announced Portuguese filmmaker Edgar Pêra as the subject of the retrospective at its 48th edition (January 23 – February 3).
The retrospective will feature 24 titles by the director, including three world and international premieres, as well as Pêra’s most significant works and several smaller films.
Amongst the premieres is the international bow of Lovecraftland, a 3D concert film inspired by the writing and legacy of author H.P. Lovecraft. A live score will be provided by Portuguese musician Randolph Carter.
Also having its international premiere is Magnetick Pathways (Caminhos Magnéticos), exploring...
- 1/18/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
We're mourning the loss of Peter von Bagh along with countless others in the world cinema community. Many are sharing past articles on or by von Bagh. Here's Jonathan Rosenbaum's piece on the man, and his extraordinary film Helsinki, Forever:
"We’ve met at various times in Paris, London, New York, Southern California, Chicago, Helsinki, Sodankylä, and Bologna — and probably in other places as well, although these are the ones I currently remember. The first times were in Paris in the early 1970s, when he looked me up, and it must have been either in San Diego in 1977 or 1978 or in Santa Barbara between 1983 and 1987 that he convinced me to buy a multiregional Vcr. Most likely it was the latter, where I was mainly bored out of my wits apart from my pastime of taping movies from cable TV, and Peter maintained that if we started swapping films through the mail,...
"We’ve met at various times in Paris, London, New York, Southern California, Chicago, Helsinki, Sodankylä, and Bologna — and probably in other places as well, although these are the ones I currently remember. The first times were in Paris in the early 1970s, when he looked me up, and it must have been either in San Diego in 1977 or 1978 or in Santa Barbara between 1983 and 1987 that he convinced me to buy a multiregional Vcr. Most likely it was the latter, where I was mainly bored out of my wits apart from my pastime of taping movies from cable TV, and Peter maintained that if we started swapping films through the mail,...
- 9/25/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
It's great that Barry Jenkins has been making so many shorts these past few years, but what we've really wanted to see is a feature to followup on 2008's terrific Medicine for Melancholy. Good news: He's working on Moonlight, in which "two Miami boys navigate the temptations of the drug trade and their burgeoning sexuality in this triptych drama about black queer youth." More projects in the works: Edgar Pêra is working on a comedy about a guy who simply forgets his sexual orientation; Nathan Silver's shooting Stinking Heaven; plus Jim Sheridan and more. » - David Hudson...
- 7/26/2014
- Keyframe
It's great that Barry Jenkins has been making so many shorts these past few years, but what we've really wanted to see is a feature to followup on 2008's terrific Medicine for Melancholy. Good news: He's working on Moonlight, in which "two Miami boys navigate the temptations of the drug trade and their burgeoning sexuality in this triptych drama about black queer youth." More projects in the works: Edgar Pêra is working on a comedy about a guy who simply forgets his sexual orientation; Nathan Silver's shooting Stinking Heaven; plus Jim Sheridan and more. » - David Hudson...
- 7/26/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
"Film or art?" was the first question I was greeted with upon arrival at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, a question essentially inquiring whether I was attending to watch "films" or "art" (i.e. video art) at the festival. But since no such demarcation really exists in the program, the question therefore expanded beyond its modest confines to provoke all kinds of immediately doubting self-inquiry such as: (1) Oh God, what if I'm here just for film?; (2) Wait, who says film isn't art?; (3) Is this person picking a fight?; and (4) How come no one asks me this in Cannes?
Still, it was a question I should have expected, since a festival dedicated to short moving image media—now; it had "just" films to consider—implicitly posits a number of questions about its chosen subject. As someone with a cinephile background in, let's say, traditional cinema, it is both frightening and...
Still, it was a question I should have expected, since a festival dedicated to short moving image media—now; it had "just" films to consider—implicitly posits a number of questions about its chosen subject. As someone with a cinephile background in, let's say, traditional cinema, it is both frightening and...
- 5/9/2014
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2013—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2013 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2013 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch in that perfect world we know doesn't exist but can keep dreaming of every time we go to the movies.
How...
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2013 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch in that perfect world we know doesn't exist but can keep dreaming of every time we go to the movies.
How...
- 1/13/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Adam Cook:
Favorites
01
The Immigrant (James Gray, USA)
Les trois désastres (Jean-Luc Godard, France/Portugal)
02
North, the End of History (Lav Diaz, Philippines)
Shield of Straw (Takashi Miike, Japan)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, France)
03
Bastards (Claire Denis, France/Germany)
Blind Detective (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, China)
04
The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh, Cambodia/France)
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola, USA)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan)
Tip Top (Serge Bozon, France)
Grigris (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, France/Chad)
The Rest
You and the Night (Yann Gonzalez, France)
Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam, Netherlands)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne, USA)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
The Past (Asghar Farhadi, France/Italy)
Bends (Flora Lau, Hong Kong/China)
Jimmy P. (Arnaud Desplechin, USA)
Grand Central (Rebecca Zlotowski, France/Austria)
Just in Time (Peter Greenaway, UK/Portugal)
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch,...
Favorites
01
The Immigrant (James Gray, USA)
Les trois désastres (Jean-Luc Godard, France/Portugal)
02
North, the End of History (Lav Diaz, Philippines)
Shield of Straw (Takashi Miike, Japan)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, France)
03
Bastards (Claire Denis, France/Germany)
Blind Detective (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, China)
04
The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh, Cambodia/France)
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola, USA)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan)
Tip Top (Serge Bozon, France)
Grigris (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, France/Chad)
The Rest
You and the Night (Yann Gonzalez, France)
Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam, Netherlands)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne, USA)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
The Past (Asghar Farhadi, France/Italy)
Bends (Flora Lau, Hong Kong/China)
Jimmy P. (Arnaud Desplechin, USA)
Grand Central (Rebecca Zlotowski, France/Austria)
Just in Time (Peter Greenaway, UK/Portugal)
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch,...
- 5/27/2013
- by Notebook
- MUBI
"The digital medium is a dictatorship," intones Jean-Luc Godard as images flash over text, which flashes over more images, ultimately demonstrating how, ironically, 3-D is actually the perfectly-suited to Godard's recent information-overload collage-style filmmaking. But just because the enfant-terrible-turned-bitter-recluse is going to use the technology doesn't mean he supports it. Perhaps I should back up. Godard made Three Disasters as part of a 3-D triptych called 3X3D, but as the other two shorts by Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pêra are more or less failed experiments at best, I'm going to focus solely on Godard's mind-blowing, twenty-minute contribution. The short is warm-up of sorts for his in-progress 3-D feature, Farewell to Language, a title which I'm honestly surprised he hasn't used for a film already. Several...
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- 5/27/2013
- Screen Anarchy
News.
A more than welcomed alternative to Rotten Tomatoes, Critics Round Up is "the first movie review aggregator to select critics and publications based on merit instead of popularity." We're proudly among the publications cited and this is a space that will likely be a valuable source for cinephiles trying to get a sense of critical consensus amongst writers they trust (and will likely be especially handy come Cannes). Some additions to the Cannes lineup: Jim Jarmusch's vampire film, Only Lovers Left Alive, is now in the Official Competition. Claude Lanzmann's Le dernier des injustes will play Out of Competition and Un Certain Regard has added three titles from Hiner Saleem, Katrin Gebbe and Lucia Puenzo. Meanwhile, Cannes Classics has unveiled its selection of restorations and docs. Finally, 3x3D, featuring 3D shorts from Jean-Luc Godard (pictured above), Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pêra, will close Semaine de la Critique.
A more than welcomed alternative to Rotten Tomatoes, Critics Round Up is "the first movie review aggregator to select critics and publications based on merit instead of popularity." We're proudly among the publications cited and this is a space that will likely be a valuable source for cinephiles trying to get a sense of critical consensus amongst writers they trust (and will likely be especially handy come Cannes). Some additions to the Cannes lineup: Jim Jarmusch's vampire film, Only Lovers Left Alive, is now in the Official Competition. Claude Lanzmann's Le dernier des injustes will play Out of Competition and Un Certain Regard has added three titles from Hiner Saleem, Katrin Gebbe and Lucia Puenzo. Meanwhile, Cannes Classics has unveiled its selection of restorations and docs. Finally, 3x3D, featuring 3D shorts from Jean-Luc Godard (pictured above), Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pêra, will close Semaine de la Critique.
- 5/1/2013
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
A film that explores 3D cinema and its evolution against the backdrop of the Portuguese city of Guimarães, has been selected as the closing choice for Cannes Critics' Week (May 16-24).
Three world renown directors - Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pêra - have collaborated on the portmanteau project 3X3D which looks at how the special effects altert the audience’s perception of images.
The production comprises three short films with Greenaway dealing with the superimposition of images, Jean-Luc Godard looking at the historical background and Pèra lightening up the atmosphere with a playful glance at the history of 3D.
The screening will be on 23 May. The rest of the programme has already been announced....
Three world renown directors - Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pêra - have collaborated on the portmanteau project 3X3D which looks at how the special effects altert the audience’s perception of images.
The production comprises three short films with Greenaway dealing with the superimposition of images, Jean-Luc Godard looking at the historical background and Pèra lightening up the atmosphere with a playful glance at the history of 3D.
The screening will be on 23 May. The rest of the programme has already been announced....
- 4/29/2013
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
#75. Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, & Edgar Pêra’s 3x3D
Gist: Three directors world-renowned directors explore 3D and its evolution in the field of cinema. Jean-Luc Godard’s dive into the controversial format has been on every cinephile’s must-see list since it was announced a couple of years ago, while Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pera make ostensibly their first stabs at the third dimension in this omnibus project, in which all three films are set to explore the evolution of the spectator and time. Godard’s The Three Disasters is a film about the historical memory of the 3D; Greenaway’s Just in Time One crosses space with 900 years of compiled history; and Pera’s Cinesapiens will be a short history of the Cinema viewer, from the cave to silent cinema, through sound to color and from stereoscopic 3D to holocinema.
Prediction: À la last year’s atrocious, near genre-ending septet,...
Gist: Three directors world-renowned directors explore 3D and its evolution in the field of cinema. Jean-Luc Godard’s dive into the controversial format has been on every cinephile’s must-see list since it was announced a couple of years ago, while Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pera make ostensibly their first stabs at the third dimension in this omnibus project, in which all three films are set to explore the evolution of the spectator and time. Godard’s The Three Disasters is a film about the historical memory of the 3D; Greenaway’s Just in Time One crosses space with 900 years of compiled history; and Pera’s Cinesapiens will be a short history of the Cinema viewer, from the cave to silent cinema, through sound to color and from stereoscopic 3D to holocinema.
Prediction: À la last year’s atrocious, near genre-ending septet,...
- 4/3/2013
- by Blake Williams
- IONCINEMA.com
Our Deaths, in memoriam was the project title of Lav Diaz' Kagadanan sa Banwaan Ning mga Engkanto (2007). For the Ferroni Brigade, it became the motto of Venice 2011—specters of dear lives gone seemed to roam the event, the Mostra internazionale d’arte cinematografica as well as the Esposizione internazionale d'arte, and beyond.
We always commemorate the murder of Nika Bohinc and Alexis Tioseco on September 1st 2009, quietly, invariably in Venice; it was here that we heard about the crime; now, whenever we go to the press room to check our e-mails, deep down something inside us is afraid of getting another message like that one; fittingly, one of the last films we saw this year was Diaz' latest, Siglo ng Pagluluwal (Century of Birthing, 2011), which ends with a dedication to them, and talks about the way our loved ones, just like cherished ideas, notions and visions are essentially eternal,...
We always commemorate the murder of Nika Bohinc and Alexis Tioseco on September 1st 2009, quietly, invariably in Venice; it was here that we heard about the crime; now, whenever we go to the press room to check our e-mails, deep down something inside us is afraid of getting another message like that one; fittingly, one of the last films we saw this year was Diaz' latest, Siglo ng Pagluluwal (Century of Birthing, 2011), which ends with a dedication to them, and talks about the way our loved ones, just like cherished ideas, notions and visions are essentially eternal,...
- 2/7/2012
- MUBI
“The Baron” is a Portuguese film shot in retro-modern-scope, in glorious high contrast Black and White, boasting to be “a 2-D film by Edgar Pêra”. One could say that it is modern precisely in its anti-modernity. It is almost impossible to describe this film without relying on comparisons: The Baron looks and feels like a weird re-enactment of a 1930s horror film through the arty lense of a very talented modern director – something along the lines of Almereyda’s “Nadja”, Merhige’s “Begotten” and Maddin’s “Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary”. There are also droning soundscapes and grotesquely nightmarish non-sequitur situations in which humor and horror are disquietingly close reminiscent of David Lynch. The key overall effect is instability. Nothing in the world directed by Edgar Pêra is permanent: the images dissolve or overlap, the lights and darkness come and go, a huge room is suddenly shrunk to a black solitary cell…...
- 11/24/2011
- by Dejan Ognjanovic
- Beyond Hollywood
Wed 9th Nov Cork Opera House | 11:30am International Shorts Programme 5 more info »buy tickets Gate Multiplex | 12:00pm Two Portraits more info »buy tickets Cork Opera House | 2:00pm Stranger Things more info »buy tickets Triskel Christchurch | 2:00pm Focus On Romania Programme 3 more info »buy tickets Gate Multiplex | 2:30pm Wiebo's War more info »buy tickets Cork Opera House | 4:00pm The Snow Queen (Lumekuninganna) more info »buy tickets Triskel Christchurch | 4:00pm Edgar PÊRA Prog. 3 more info »buy tickets Gate Multiplex | 5:00pm Off The Beaten Track more info »buy tickets Cork Opera House | 6:00pm Weekend more info »buy tickets Guest House | 6:00pm ‘Seesound’ At The Guesthouse more info »buy tickets Triskel Christchurch | 7:00pm Jiro Dreams Of Sushi more info »buy tickets ...
- 11/8/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
Tue 8th Nov Cork Opera House | 11:30am International Shorts Programme 3 more info »buy tickets Gate Multiplex | 12:30pm Tipping Point: The End Of Oil more info »buy tickets Cork Opera House | 2:00pm Dance Town more info »buy tickets Triskel Christchurch | 2:00pm Focus On Romania Programme 2 more info »buy tickets Gate Multiplex | 2:30pm Two Years At Sea more info »buy tickets Cork Opera House | 4:00pm Flamingo No. 13 (Flamingo Shomare 13) more info »buy tickets Triskel Christchurch | 4:00pm No Friend Of Mine more info »buy tickets Gate Multiplex | 5:00pm Edgar PÊRA Prog. 2 more info »buy tickets Boole 3, Ucc Campus | 6:00pm Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzumiya more info » Cork Opera House | 6:00pm International Shorts Programme 4 more info »buy tickets Tactic Gallery | 6:00pm Buharov...
- 11/7/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
Mon 7th Nov Cork Opera House | 11:30am International Shorts Programme 2 more info »buy tickets Tactic Gallery | 12:00 – 17:00 Seeing The Light more info » Gate Multiplex | 12:30pm Crime Unpunished more info »buy tickets Cork Opera House | 2:00pm Rat Trap (ROTILÕKS) more info »buy tickets Triskel Christchurch | 2:00pm Focus On Romania Programme 1 more info »buy tickets Gate Multiplex | 2:30pm Free Radical Shorts more info »buy tickets Cork Opera House | 4:00pm The House Under The Water (Khaneye Zire ÂB) more info »buy tickets Gate Multiplex | 4:00pm Buharov Brothers Prog. 1 more info »buy tickets Gate Multiplex | 5:00pm Edgar PÊRA Prog. 1 more info »buy tickets Cork Opera House | 6:00pm Mothers (Majkl) more info »buy tickets Triskel Christchurch | 6:30pm Heaven's Mirror more info...
- 11/6/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
Did you already see The Old Donkey (Lao lutou, 2010; Li Riujun)?, folks asked us day in, day out all through Rotterdam, and for most of the festival, the answer was a grumpy, No., thinking, Can't be as good as 13 kleine Esel und der Sonnenhof (1958, d.:Hans Deppe)—production title: 13 alte Esel—and that's already not really good. It wasn't, as we finally found out: Whenever the quietly cheerful donkey was out of the picture and we were forced to deal with the film as such, boredom ruled—another one of dem PRChinese Indies straight from the arthouse-for-Do-Gooders assembly line.
A donkey was also the unannounced star of Huangjiang nüxia (The Swordswoman of Huangjiang, 1930; Chen Kengran), although we're not too supportive about the way he's treated: The eponymous heroine uses it as her means of transport. Harrumph. Yet, in this case we're willing to make an exception, as the swordswoman...
A donkey was also the unannounced star of Huangjiang nüxia (The Swordswoman of Huangjiang, 1930; Chen Kengran), although we're not too supportive about the way he's treated: The eponymous heroine uses it as her means of transport. Harrumph. Yet, in this case we're willing to make an exception, as the swordswoman...
- 7/12/2011
- MUBI
Edgar Pêra is getting quite a bit of attention at Rotterdam. His film The Baron (O Barão) has already screened twice with two more screenings scheduled, one of which is already sold out. I have a feeling it may have something to do with the fact that the reviews from earlier screenings of the film have been fairly positive and though the most common complaint is that the film is one note, audiences seem to be enjoying their experience. But when I read that the film is also "a Portuguese answer to Guy Maddin," I can’t help but get giddy with joy.
Pêra is a cinematographer turned director with a flare for the experimental and The Baron seems to be a sort of culmination of his work to date. A mixture of German Expressionism and American Gothic, the story is based on a novella from Branquinho da Fonseca about...
Pêra is a cinematographer turned director with a flare for the experimental and The Baron seems to be a sort of culmination of his work to date. A mixture of German Expressionism and American Gothic, the story is based on a novella from Branquinho da Fonseca about...
- 2/1/2011
- QuietEarth.us
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