This four hour documentary looks for the exotic in the everyday life observed in just one city, the filmmaker’s own Amsterdam.Read More »
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Johan van der Keuken – Amsterdam Global Village (1996)
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Lasse Braun – Getting Off (1975)
1971-1980EroticaLasse BraunNetherlandsAfter her husband goes to work, a Dutch housewife escapes into the world of erotic dreams.Read More »
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Charles Huguenot van der Linden & Heinz Josephson – Nederlands in zeven lessen AKA Dutch in Seven Lessons (1948)
Charles Huguenot van der Linden1941-1950ComedyDocumentaryHeinz JosephsonNetherlandsA cameraman is given a week to photograph the aerial highlights of Holland for a travelogue.
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Peter Holland – De vier dochters Bennet AKA Pride and prejudice (1961)
Drama1961-1970NetherlandsPeter HollandRomanceIMDB:
Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice, and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.Read More » -
Alex van Warmerdam – Nr. 10 (2021)
Alex van Warmerdam2021-2030CrimeNetherlandsThrillerPlot: Günter, found in a German forest as a four-year old, grows up in a foster family. Four decades later, he leads a normal life: he earns a living as a stage actor, spends time with his daughter Lizzy, and has an affair with a married woman. He doesn’t start wondering about his origins until a stranger on a bridge whispers a single word in his ear.Read More »
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Frans Zwartjes – It’s Me (1976)
Frans Zwartjes1971-1980DramaExperimentalNetherlandsQuote:
First full-length experimental feature by filmmaker Zwartjes about an actress, played by Willeke van Ammelrooy, who during the whole film, in continuously changes moods, is busy in her room. Eventually, she is made an offer by telephone. But what offer does the actress get? – letterboxd.comWilleke van Ammelrooy stars in this acting tour de force, never leaving the screen for an instant. The movie follows her in her role as an actress who is trying to decide whether or not to accept a certain role. While she is worrying at the problem, she smokes, bathes, dresses, has a tantrum or two, makes phone calls, and cleans her room. – by Clarke Fountain, allmovie.comRead More »
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Robin Lutz – Escher: Het Oneindige Zoeken AKA M.C. Escher – Journey to Infinity (2018)
2011-2020DocumentaryNetherlandsRobin LutzFeature documentary about the life and work of MC Escher.
Letterboxd review
★★★★ Watched by NotASexyVamp 17 Feb 2019After a slow start, this becomes a seriously satisfying film about a great artist. Escher considered his work “a search for the endless” and this film argues he achieved that. By using the tools of cinema to bring his art to life, we can discover the way it operates, the nuanced construction behind it. By using Escher’s own words (brought to life by Stephen Fry), we see his view on his work. Awe-inspiring.Read More »
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Frank Scheffer – Conducting Mahler – Ich Bin der Welt Abhanden Gekommen (2004)
Frank Scheffer2001-2010DocumentaryMusicalNetherlandsAmazon reviews:
There are two films here. The first, ‘Conducting Mahler,’ features long segments showing several eminent Mahler conductors — Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly, Bernard Haitink and Simon Rattle — rehearsing the likes of the Royal Concertgebouw, the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, in long, lovely passages from all the Mahler symphonies (plus some of ‘Das Lied von der Erde’) interspersed with interviews (with the noted music writer, Donald Mitchell) with all five of the conductors. Not only is the music-making first class, but the insights that the conductors bring to the process, both in their conducting and in their thoughts about Mahler and his music, are exceedingly stimulating. Read More » -
Hartmut Bitomsky – Playback (1995)
Hartmut Bitomsky1991-2000DocumentaryNetherlandsLooks like an awesome Bitomsky film, deals with images on film shot between 1910-1920.Read More »