CPH:DOX 2023 online til April 2
CPH:DOX rolls over you like a strong warm pacific wave in the cold Danish springtime, and if, like most of us, you have your ordinary job to look after on the side, it can be hard to keep up, you…
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A film blog by Allan Berg Nielsen & Tue Steen Müller
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A film blog by Allan Berg Nielsen & Tue Steen Müller
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CPH:DOX 2018/ 12 Days
RAYMOND DEPARDON: 12 DAYS Wow – Raymond Depardon’s latest film 12 Days made a deep impression. It is simple, powerful, sober and precise. In France, a citizen who is involuntarily committed to psychiatric treatment has, within 12 days, the right…
CPH:DOX 2017 /Return of a President
LOTTE MIK-MEYER: RETURN OF A PRESIDENT The Danish filmmaker Lotte Mik-Meyer has made a documentary about a very important and interesting subject and a region that certainly could need our attention. Return of a President is about the fight for…
CPH:DOX 2017 /Last Men in Aleppo
FERAS FAYYAD: LAST MEN IN ALEPPO The tone is set in the opening, this story is of a universal scope. It is a film about life in a world of death and violence, of humanity surviving endless destruction. Last Men…
Amy Berg: Janis: Little Girl Blue
…Just as with Scorsese’s Dylan portrait No Direction Home, Berg owes some of Janis’ finest moments to D. A. Pennebaker. Not only with the strong scenes from his legendary concert film Monterey Pop (1968, filmed by Pennebaker, Leacock and Maysles, probably the…
Sunday in Cph: Forough Farrokhzad’s film/poetry
About three years ago I spent a magical moment at Cinemateket in Copenhagen. Gyldendal had just published the first Danish anthology of the works of the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad and the writer and translator Shadi Angelina Bazeghis, together with…
Christian Braad Thomsen: Fassbinder /2
Danish documentary master Christian Braad Thomsen’s Fassbinder portrait opens in theatres in New York today. Richard Brody praises the film in a great article in The New Yorker (April 28 2016), in which he compares it with another portrait film…
Chantal Akerman: News from Home
Chantal Akerman’s film News from Home (1977) is a collection of beautifully shot tableaux of New York (the work of the US-based French cinematographer Babette Mangolte). Because of the length of the scenes, the film has an odd photographic sense…
Copenhagen Architecture Festival CAFx 2016
The Copenhagen Architecture Festival opens this Wednesday March 9th for the third time. The festival has grown rapidly and is now the biggest festival of its kind (I guess we like it big here in Copenhagen), focusing on architecture and…
Cosima Spender: Palio
Don’t miss out on the last screening of Cosima Spender’s Palio at CPH:DOX on Sunday November 15th. It is a feast for the eyes! Il Palio is the world’s oldest horserace. It takes place at the famous Piazza del Campo in…
Nix, Bichlbaum, Bonanno: The Yes Men are Revolting
It’s not every day that a documentary makes me cry with laughter, I cherished the moment! For 20 years the social activist duo The Yes Men have performed their happenings around the world. The Yes Men are Revolting is…
Amy Berg: Janis: Little Girl Blue
Nearly two hours in company of Janis Joplin, what’s not to like! I was so ready to just lean back and enjoy and I was… disappointed. Whoa, slow down, hold your horses! I’m being bombarded with talking heads at…
Robert Frank
Thank you to Cinemateket in Copenhagen who, in collaboration with the Copenhagen Photo Festival and Danish writer, filmmaker and beat expert Lars Movin, organised the Robert Frank program here in June. And thank you to Lars Movin for sharing his…
Warm Festival 2015 Sarajevo
The second edition of the Warm Festival, (28th June-4th July), a festival on contemporary conflicts with a strong focus on film and photography, will take place in Sarajevo next week. Seven days of screenings, exhibitions, conferences and talks, gathering journalists,…
Mekas: Scenes from the Life of Raimund Abraham
First I have to make a confession, I didn’t make it to the end of the 5 hours long film! Not because I was bored, I just had a painful neck. But I did see about 240 minutes and I…
Copenhagen Architecture Festival x 2015
Denmark has a new festival. The first Copenhagen Architecture Festival took place last year and the second edition is coming up soon and has spread to the city of Aarhus as well. More than 70 events in 19 different venues:…
Manon Loizeau: Chechnya, War without Trace
French journalist and documentary maker Manon Loizeau has made a remarkable film about todays Chechnya that premiered on Arte last week and just received the Grand Prize of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) at the International Film Festival and…
News from Paris: René Vautier 1928-2015
Grand old man and enfant terrible of French militant cinema René Vautier died Sunday January 4th in his home in Cancale, Brittany, at the age of 86. Originally from Brittany, René Vautier fought the Germans as a very young member…
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait/ 2
Shame on me that I in my turbulence after the screening did not remember the beautiful review that Sara Thelle wrote when she had watched the film in connection with cph:dox. I repeat two paragraphs here: … I (Sara Thelle)…
CPH:DOX /Ossama Mohammed og Wiam Simav Bedirxan
SILVERED WATER, Syria Self-Portrait by Ossama Mohammed og Wiam Simav Bedirxan This is my recommendation of what not to miss at the CPH:DOX festival going on in Copenhagen these days. I wish I had never seen Silvered Water.…
News from Paris in Sarajevo: WARM Festival 2014
The First World WARM Festival took place in Sarajevo June 28 to July 4, concurrent with 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War. This new festival focuses on contemporary conflicts through exhibitions, film screenings and conferences. Behind…
News from Paris: Awards Cinéma du réel 2012
This years Cinéma du réel is coming to an end, here is the list of awards given Saturday: Louis-Marcorelles Award: Five Broken Cameras by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi Special mention of Louis-Marcorelles Award…
News from Paris: Cinéma du réel 2012
This years Cinéma du réel (March 22nd till April 3rd) is already more than half way through, however here is a quick overview of what the festival has to offer this year. Along with the films in competition (four categories:…
News from Paris: Goodbye Mubarak!
This blog has followed with great interest the popular uprising in the Arab world, the good news and the bad news. Coming home to Paris after the vacation, the first results of how the situation translates into films are starting…
News from Paris: Cinéma du réel
The International festival of documentary films Cinéma du réel March 23rd -April 5th 2011 opened this Wednesday in Paris at le Centre Pompidou for the 33rd time. Readers of this blog are used to a broad coverage of this festival,…
Richard Leacock 1921-2011
Sad news. Documentary pioneer Richard Leacock died this Wednesday in his home in Paris. He would have celebrated his ninetieth birthday in July. He played a crucial role in the history of documentary film, as a filmmaker and cinematographer and…
News from Paris: Richard Leacock: The Feeling…
Documentary pioneer Richard Leacock will be celebrating his 90th birthday June 18th of this year. He has been working on his memoirs for several years and now the book is finally ready to be published. The Feeling of Being There…
News from Paris: Armadillo in France/2
Janus Metz’s Armadillo has now been running in theatres in France for over 6 weeks and can still be seen on the big screen around the country until mid-March. So far, the film (originally put out in 26 copies December…
News from Paris: Armadillo in France
The Danish documentary Armadillo, Grand Prix at la Semaine de la Critique in Cannes this year, is getting ready to take in France. Distrib Films is in charge of the distribution and the film will be launched December 15th with…
News from Paris : Le Mois du film documentaire
November is the month of documentary films in France, Le Mois du Doc opens this weekend for the 11th time: More than 1200 sites, nearly 3000 showings and an audience of around 150.000. This event was created by the association…
News from Paris: Mediapart, now in English
For those who are interested in following the news in France, particularly these days, here is an excellent opportunity online. The French Internet news-site Mediapart now has an English version. Mediapart was founded in 2008 by a group of journalists,…
News from Paris : August
If you are spending time in Paris in August, here are a few ideas, which might not be in your travel guide. The Forum des images (recently renovated and situated down in Les Halles, great cinema and great program) organises…
News from Paris: Godard – Film Socialisme
While Cannes is still waiting for Godard, we had the great pleasure in Paris to spend the evening of June 18th in his company after a special screening of Film Socialisme in le Cinéma des Cinéastes near Place Clichy. The…
News from Paris: Tarkovsky for children
In France kids have Wednesdays off from school. For those who have the possibility, it is a day to discover the multiple activities Paris has to offer children. Le centre Pompidou, Beaubourg to Parisians, holds every Wednesday of the school…
News from Paris: Cannes
Every year in Cannes, at the opening of The Director’s Fortnight, la Quinzaine des réalisateurs, the international society of filmmakers, la Société des Réalisateurs de Films (SRF), hands out the award The Carosse d’Or to honour “the innovative qualities, courage…
News from Paris: Kitano
This spring Paris is under the sign of Kitano. Japanese filmmaker (Sonatine, Hana-bi, Zatoichi a. o.), actor, TV presenter, comedian, painter, singer, poet and writer Takeshi Kitano (born 1947 in Tokyo) is everywhere. He has a big exhibition at le…
News from Paris: Godard
This years festival Cinéma du reel had a program called Nous deux – Both of us, featuring films made by filmmakers in couples or pairs. Amongst those shown where The Old Place (1998) and Reportage amateur (maquette expo) (2006) by…
News from Paris: Maysles
It’s the Maysles! At this years edition of Cinéma du réel, the festival paid tribute to Albert Maysles. The Maysles Brothers: the late David on sound and Albert behind the camera, classic direct cinema. As was the case two years…
News from Paris
And the festivals continues… The festival Cinéma du réel is almost over for this year, but Paris still has more to offer. As every year following the Cinéma du réel, the Festival International Jean Rouch sets for the 29th time…