A film blog by Allan Berg Nielsen & Tue Steen Müller
A film blog by Allan Berg Nielsen & Tue Steen Müller
Per Kirkeby og Poul Erik Tøjner mødtes før åbningen af udstillingen af Kirkebys værker nu og tilbageskuende tre dage i maj. Til en samtale. Deres samtale de tre dage er blevet til en smuk, klog og meget vigtig film. De to taler…
Its been an interesting weekend, politically speaking, in South Africa. I had been away travelling for a week and came back on Saturday to find out that the President of South Africa – Thabo Mbeki – had been deposed. He…
I had hoped for more from this film about a journalist legend that I had heard so much about, read so much about, but never seen a film about. A journalist whose work I had read only a little of,…
Jeg lærte i skolen, at Digte 1803 er en stor bog, måske den største i dette dengang nye århundrede, som vi er nogle, der aldrig rigtigt har forladt. Jeg hørte om samtalen med Steffens og jeg lærte Guldhornene udenad, det…
The BFI (British Film Institute) celebrates its 75th birthday by publishing a collection of dvd’s including one of documentaries from the golden period 1930-1950. What a discovery for those who dont know about it, and what a revisit for us,…
Thure Munkholm writes in the booklet in the box-set: “At first glance, it might seem to be quite a leap from these two fictional travel stories to Leth’s earlier TV production of A Midsummer Night´s Play, a classic from 1803…
Jeg mener ikke, jeg har set filmen siden den var ny. 25 år er gået. Og man spørger naturligvis: holder den? Og jeg svarer lige med det samme efter at have set DVD-versionen: Om den holder! Omsider en ligetil og…
The Danish director Christoffer Boe writes in the box booklet: ” For one scene alone Interference is a must see. The scene: an extended medium close shot of Hanne Uldal, as The Woman, lying naked on the metal floor of a…
Så kom den! Og jeg satte mig og genså efter de mange år Traberg, som hele tiden smutter væk fra fortælleren og derved forbliver uforståelig og alligevel i alle scener og referencer så genkendelig. Så let at forstå alligevel, en…
Three persons are presented in a parallel montage. An Englishman in his garden preparing for his trip to Ukraine. Henry Marsh is the surgeon, as is the man he is to visit in Kiev, Igor Kurilets, and the patient to…
I nogen tid har man kunnet søge film i en særlig funktion på bibliotek.dk og vel at mærke bestille dem og låne dem, vist nok fra alle biblioteker, ligesom bøger. Men nu meddeler AVM, at systemet er langt mere sofistikeret. Læs her:…
It is more than 30 years ago. I remember it vaguely. I remember that he did it. The tightrope walking between the the twin towers in New York in 1974. But I did not remember the story behind it. That…
Jeg tror den kommer i overmorgen! En af mine yndlingsfilm, måske afgjort min favorit, Jørgen Leths Traberg er på vej. DVD-boksen, hvor den er sammen med to andre Lethfilm, har været forsinket. Min boghandler har et par gange ringet til forlaget,…
Salome Jashi is from Georgia. She is here for the Baltic Sea Forum. She has an interesting documentary project called ”Restaurant Bakhmaro and Those Who Work There” that is to be pitched in this coming weekend to television editors and film…
Jeg holder med, når jeg ser film. En af dem. Sådan har det altid været. Og nu holder jeg med Traberg. Ikke med stemmen. Erik Mørks, som fortæller om sin ven på fotografiet i det første filmbillede. Jeg holder med…
Why is it that I – without really reflecting upon it – always choose helvetica as my font when I write emails or write a text on this site? Why don’t I take Lucida Bright or TrueOfficinaSansBooKItalic or Times New…
At the tv festival in Copenhagen, organised by Danish Producers, there was again a prize for “Enemies of Happiness”, directed by Eva Mulvad. We have before pointed to the excellent dvd sales site initiative of directors Mulvad, Pernille Grønkjær and…
… presented by Slavoj Zizek, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst, is simply a gift to all film teachers. In three parts Zizek takes us on a Freudian, but not only, trip through wonderful clips that he comments on from his point…
Forleden hyldede vi os selv i anledning af ét års fødselsdagen for filmkommentaren. På skrift. Samme aften blev der sagt skål i Haut-Médoc og i Vecchia Romagna hjemtaget fra Italien. Det blev vådt og langt her i Allinge, hvor redaktionen…
… with the subtitle, The Journey of Muhammad Asad. Who was originally Leopold Weiss, Jewish, born in Austria, but converted to islam in the 1920’s and became, as said by a Palestinian on the West Bank, ”an enlightened Islamic thinker,…
What a charming film, full of Life and Love! Taking place in a small town in Burkina Faso, it is built as a film for cinema release with several parallel stories circling around the St. Valentine´s Day. Old people´s love,…
A short piece of observation that was done by one of Bulgaria´s most talented young documentary directors – in connection with the shooting of a feature film by Stephan Komandarev. The characters are extras from the film, the village is…
Some documentaries get a lot of publicity even before they are ready to be seen. Not surprisingly a film about Barack Obama made by a producer, who is characterised as the direct opposite of Michael Moore, is talked about on…
This two part series is made by the famous British company Brook Lapping that has made countless high-budget series for television, broadcast all over the world. About the Vietnam war, about the crisis in the Middle East, about many other…
CAMERAWORK. “The French preserved the ruins of Oradour just as the Germans left it. The local cemetary held the graves of those who died, their names and photographs set in stone. I walked the length of of the village, deserted,…
NARRATION. “When the day came to record this, Olivier did it very well. Finished, he stood up in the recording booth, respleendent in red braces, and reached for an elegant brown tweed jacket. I joined him in the booth and…
SCRIPT. “Down this road on a summer day in 1944 the soldiers came / Nobody lives here now / They stayed only a few hours / When they had gone, a community which had lived for a thousand years was…
My co-blogger Allan Berg has for weeks followed the re-run of the classic documentary series, A World at War – on Danish television. The series is available in great dvd-editions – buy it as I will do and throw away…
ET UMULIGT EMNE. Det er eftertankens øjeblik denne tidlige aftentime med dagens afsnit. I aftes det 20. af de 26. Og jeg blev helt stille.. det værste var og er, at jeg jo godt vidste det. Jeg har læst om det,…
My story has no importance, there is nothing special about me, says one of the characters in this fine social story set in Sibiu, Romania. The filmmakers have got the permission to film a group of citizens, who all come…
SYNOPSIS. Det var i aftes det 11. af de 26 afsnit. Og det var stort. Det var om krigen på østfronten 1941-1943. Det tyske angreb mod Litauen, Letland, Estland, Ukraine, Hviderusland og til sidst Rusland selv. Hele det vældige Sovjetunionen…
The start is wonderful. Young runners on the road in sunset light, in the middle of the car traffic. The narrative follows one of them home, Fassika, 14 years old – she wants to run for fame and to get…
TV-VÆRK. Det var 5. afsnit i aften. Det tyske felttog ind i Rusland til få km fra Moskva, alle byer erobret, blot Leningrad holder stand. Belejret. Jeg ved godt, at alle har set serien forlængst, har den på bånd eller…
Here everything is complicated, says one of the women in the film. It is Cuba she talks about, and she and the 11 other interviewed women in the film both talk about and demonstrate what a life means where you…
OVERRASKENDE INTERVIEWS. Nu har jeg chancen for at se i det mindste en række afsnit af denne i lang tid den ultimative tv-fortælling om 2. verdenskrig. Jeg må tage en dyb indånding, der er meget at tage stilling til. For…
The biggest part of this hommage to Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the US and nobel prize peace winner for his tireless international work for peace in the world, is about his promotion of the book ”Palestine. Peace not…
Filmen blev oprindelig lavet i 1989. Men den er nu i forbindelse med genudsendelserne og DVD (og VHS) udgivelserne remasteret. Hvert eneste klip er under dette store arbejde for eksempel farvekorrigeret for sig som det ses på billedet. Så det er…
The subtitle of this book is ”the making of the Steps for the Future documentary series”. The writers are the two key initiators of this, the most important international documentary coproduction and training initiative, I know of. To remind you…
Jeg så alligevel aftenens film. Naboen inviterede mig. Havde haft en stor oplevelse aftenen før og så den en gang til. Ville vist både høre og ikke høre, hvad jeg mente. Som filmen selv, var vi på følsomt område. Begge.…
Solveig Dommartin i barscenen (“Geschichten der Zukunft” hedder kapitlet i DVD udgaven) fortsætter sin lange replik til Bruno Ganz om at der ikke findes nogen større historie end den om os to, om kvinden og manden: “.. Nicht nur die ganze…
You watch this film with a smile on your face. You do so because you like the characters and you like them because the director likes them and is able to convey her feelings to the audience. We meet them…
Så kom manuskriptet fra Statsbiblioteket (vild luksus..) og jeg kan læse, hvad Solveig Dommartin siger til Bruno Ganz i barscenen, som er filmens femtesidste: “Es muss einmal enst werden. Ich war viel allein, aber ich habe nie allein gelebt. Wenn…
Jon Bang Carlsen castede selv Patricia Arquette i Los Angeles. Det fortæller han i sin bog Locations, valgte hende blandt en mængde helt unge skuespillere, alle dygtige og velforberedte. “Patricias rolle var svær, men jeg synes hun er strålende i…
De har gemt en VHS kopi på mit bibliotek. Hvor godt, for gad vide, om de kunne finde på at købe en DVD? Og der er nok lang tid til, den kommer som en del af Jon Bang Carlsens DVDBOX. Båndet…
Miriam Lichterman lives in Cape Town with a view to beach and sea. Jon Bang Carlsen lives in a farmhouse with a fine view to a beautiful landscape in Denmark with family, cat and dogs. She is a holocaust survivor,…
Afsnit 17 (femtesidste scene) “Fremtidens fortællinger”: Omsider møder de hinanden i en sammestedsamtid. De er begge nede på jorden nu, disse flyvende væsner. Hun fra trapezluftnummeret. Han fra engletilværelsen. De står ved baren. Men banalt kan de ikke mødes, selv…
It starts as a film about a third ”…wood” after Holly- and Bollywood: Nollywood from Nigeria. But it takes place in Antwerp, where a young man, John, wants to be a superstar in this kind of right-to-the-heart, often moralistic, home-movie…
I don’t need to write a lot about this film, do I? The winner of IDFA 2007, screened and awarded at an enormous amount of festivals, broadcast all over, including in Denmark. A well constructed dramatic story with a wonderful…
“Anja Dalhoff har modtaget Europas Kvinders Pris for sit engagement og arbejde i kampen mod menneskehandel. Anja Dalhoffs film fra 2007, “Når månen er sort”, dokumenterer for første gang, med levende billeder, problemet med trafficking af nigerianske kvinder til Danmark.…
Renata Medero, documentary film student at Zelig, Bolzano, Italy, writes this review of a neo- classic: Unforgettable images… whether you like it or not. Some films deliver images to never be forgotten, some beautiful, some not. But – what happens…