A film blog by Allan Berg Nielsen & Tue Steen Müller
A film blog by Allan Berg Nielsen & Tue Steen Müller
The title of the film is actually ”Pale Peko Bantu Mambo Ayikosake” which in swahili means ”Where there are people there will be problems”. And problems there are in Katanga, the location of this fresh and direct film that manages…
Ud fra et dokumentar-synspunkt er serien om Quatraro (for sagen som sådan se tidligere indlæg) et tv-program, som viser to journalisters research. Man kunne så være fræk og spørge, hvorfor pokker vi skal se researchen og ikke en velturneret undersøgende…
OBS! Especially for Danish and Swedish readers : On this site the great film of Dragan Nikolic has often been mentioned and praised (go to “search” and write the title). Here is another piece of promotion on the occasion of…
Flemish language broadcasting company Lichtpunt in Belgium introduces itself like this: ”The aim of Lichtpunt is creating informative programmes on subjects from a humanistic point of view. Above all we attempt to approach our television viewers as being open minded…
Som stor beundrer af ”Den 11. Time” satte jeg mig for at se første afsnit af ti (på DR2) af makkerparrets nye serie om EU embedsmanden Antonio Quatraro, som i 1993 faldt eller blev skubbet ud af et vindue i…
Football is creative! When Barcelona plays like they did tonite. In Madrid, against Real. No, not creative. Artistic. Pure pleasure. As they write on the website of FC Barcelona: Now that’s what you call football! (2-6). Barça have won at…
472 pages. Full of illustrations – still from films, photos from award ceremonies at festivals all over the world, the 45th edition of the International Film Guide is available. With ”Directors of the Year”, a ”World Survey”, info/reports/highlights country by…
More than 700 million people are voting in India from April 16 till May 13. The vote goes for the election of members to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India. The French-German cultural channel has…
20 years have gone since the architect I.M. Pei could show his Louvre pyramid to the public. Heavily discussed back then, but now in general considered as an architectural masterpiece of our time, one of the many monuments decided by…
URTI stands for Université Radiophonique et Télévisuelle Internationale, and for the 28th time the organisation will give an award, the International Grand Prix for Author’s Documentaries (what is equivalent to ”creative documentaries” or ”author driven documentaries, ed.) in connection with…
Hvor herligt at blive positivt overrasket! Jeg havde forventet endnu ét af disse holdningsløse historien-bag-filmen pr-programmer, men fik med denne journalistiske dokumentar om Nils Malmros et klogt og velunderbygget og fokuseret indblik i instruktørens perfektionistiske måde at arbejde på og…
It’s one of those great documentary moments. Barack Obama walks with Gordon Brown towards Downing Street. Obama stretches out his hand to say hello to the policeman in front of the building, they shake hands, Brown moves in the same…
Yves Jeanneau, well known character in French documentary, ex-television editor and ex-producer at Films d’Ici, now producer and CEO of the Sunny Side of the Docs, was interviewed by le Monde (March 29-30). One of the questions went like this:…
German public channel Das Erste (”The First”) currently runs a four part series (of each 45 minutes) about and with war (WW2) children. The series made through the MDR, that is based in Leipzig, and produced by local company LE…
I forbindelse med udgivelsen af Why Democracy-serien anmeldtes Alex Gibneys film, som blev vist på Dokumania i går: Det vigtigste bidrag til filmserien er Alex Gibneys dybt rystende moralske pamflet vendt imod indførelsen af tortur i USA’s krigsfangelejre. Med den…
I’ve been photographed enough, she answers, when Maximilian Schell asks her, why she does not want to appear visually in his documentary. Indeed she had and it does not matter as Schell makes a point out of this, organises a…
Nedturen fra høje forventninger er i sig selv forstærkende på skuffelsen. Og jeg skal tage mig sammen, jo.. det er.. det ER da en fin film. På mange måder. Og i hvert fald er den en vigtig landvinding i Christoffer…
Se, det var en smuk tv-dokumentar. Set på SVT i går og udsendt i anledning af hovedpersonens død. Om én af de store bokse-legender, svenske Ingo = Ingemar Johansson. Med fine spørgsmål fra instruktøren, journalisten Tom Alandh, stillet til Ingo’s…
It is not very often you feel like praising the programming of a public broadcaster when it comes to documentaries. But what DR, the Danish public broadcaster, has done by introduction of the prime time slot (8.40pm every tuesday) Dokumania…
It is one of those films that is a must for documentary addicts like me, and why not for people who in general are interested in the examination of the relationship between the filmmaker and his/her victims, their protagonists, their…
Nu kommer så filmen fra Kofoeds Skole igen i tv. Denne gang tidligere på aftenen. På mandag aften, tyve minutter i ti. Og vi kan glæde os, den er så sjov på den alvorlige måde. Lattermilde Ulla Boye laver jo leende…
Yesterday commercials disappeared from French public television from 8pm in the evening until 6am next morning. Tomorrow the French Senate starts the examination of the text for a reform of “l’audiovisuel public”, initiated by president Sarkozy. The French independent producers…
Maj Wechselmann har en imponerende filmografi, se hendes hjemmeside, hvor filmene også kan bestilles. Jeg havde lejlighed til at se hendes sidste udgivelse i går på SVT1, en film om Barbro Alving, journalist og verdensborger, som Maj Wechselmann politisk engageret,…
Jeg lukkede op for programmet/dokumentaren/filmen, fordi Mads Baastrup har lavet den. Jeg respekterer Baastrup meget, en alvorlig, højt begavet og dygtig tv-mand, som vist altid koncentrerer sig om tv-arbejdets indhold frem for den formodede smag hos seerne. Og jeg fortryder ikke,…
Det begyndte med en klump i halsen og en lille tåre i øjenkrogen, da 1500 tilskuere klappede i et par minutter efter at have set Pernille Rose Grønkjærs mesterværk ”The Monastery”. Instruktøren var på scenen i Beograds store koncertsal, hvor…
Her på redaktionen prøvede vi at starte en debat om DFI’s støtte- og distributionspolitik. Jeg prøvede at sige, at DFI forsømmer at udvikle FilmKunsten til fordel for den journalistiske dokumentar – og såvel kollega Allan Berg og jeg havde indlæg…
… is the name of the hyper active French president, very much disliked by the French film people I know, for his law proposal, his ”réforme de l’audiovisuel” that (according to le Monde 18.12) now has passed through the Parliament…
Below – in Danish – a critical text about yesterday’s broadcast produced by DR, our public broadcaster in Denmark. Today I met some of the participants at the party for European films, organised by European Film Academy, EFA. They had…
Jeg vidste jo godt, at det ville være umuligt for DR/TV at hylde europæisk film på en værdig måde. Jeg vidste, at Mikael Bertelsen ville være mindre plat end de sædvanlige presenters, og han havde også flere fine indslag, som…
The last day of the Forum at idfa in Amsterdam. For those who have never heard about it, let this text be the introduction, taken from the site of idfa: ”The FORUM is Europe’s largest gathering of filmmakers, television commissioning…
It is without any doubt absolutely fantastic to see all these documentary professionals gather in one room to exchange ideas, catch up from the last gathering, offer new projects, comment on the last films which have been watched or broadcast…
I know that I am biased in the following – working for the Institute for Documentary Films (IDF) in Prague that organises the Ex Oriente Film training Programme and the East European Forum in Jihlava – but I have to…
Here we come, monday morning, entering the arena in Amsterdam. Big room, round table, space for audience. They are all looking at us, when we react to the pitching. For many of us the body language communicates fatigue, another pitching…
Filmen sendes i aften på DR1 kl. 20. Genudsendes 22.11. 14:00 og 27.11. 09:00. Se Tue Steen Müllers anmeldelse (søg på titlen) her på FILMKOMMENTAREN.DK
This year’s Top 10 at the coming IDFA festival in Amsterdam is put together by Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter. He has chosen films that have impressed him and that have played a role in his own development. Here is a…
You might sigh when you hear about another training programme for documentary producers in Europe… but this one is different and adds to Discovery Campus, Ex Oriente, Eurodoc and many others supported by the EU MEDIA Programme. In a very…
The best – according to this blog writer – Danish documentary for years, “The Monastery”, is now to be seen or re-seen on French/German cultural channel arte on the following days: 9/10 (22.25), 21/10 (01.20), 24/10 (09.55) arte has changed…
The article below includes words about one of the most prominent Danish tv documentarians, Poul Martinsen, employed at DR for decades as the director of documentary programmes and films that are still remembered by the Danish viewers. Both because they…
At Poul Martinsen er en fin og klog dokumentarist, som har lavet et væld af seværdige dokumentarprogrammer og – film for Danmarks Radio vidste vi jo godt. Os der har alderen til at have været tv-seere tilbage fra tresserne eller…
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…
Jeg kan selvfølgelig ikke lide stilen, men det er da ligemeget. Imidlertid ser jeg, at det ikke er godt nok. Jeg er faktisk ikke tilfreds fagligt. Mikkel Munch-Fals er ikke anmelder, men kunstner, siger han. Og han vil med sit…
I (Tue) wrote from Riga about the theme in the headline after a pitch at the Baltic Sea Forum. I made Iikka Vehkalahti comment on it and now there is a contribution from Marje Jurtshenko at Estonian Television, who was…
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…
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…
I attended the first handful of projects that were pitched at the Baltic Sea Forum. Before I had to leave back to Copenhagen. Again I heard a sentence that is often expressed at pitching sessions by the commissioning editors present.…
Den tredje soldat, som kommer hjem, Michael Ulrich, er den tilsyneladende mest upåvirkede. Han er befalingsmand, og det har han været god til derude. Han er rask, trænet, solbrændt, ser godt ud som han hurtigt skridter gennem ankomsten i lufthavnen og styrer…
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…
Der er for meget flødeskum på fødselsdagslagkagen, for meget falsk iscenesættelse af en jovial vikingehøvding, for mange billedpåstande om at soldaten er glad for børn (mere end andre), for lidt om, hvad han læser (når det nu er næsten det eneste…
Normally documentaries about actors are built around anecdotes, told by the actor in question him/herself or by people with whom the actor has been working. With Isabelle Huppert it is different. She says herself in this tv documentary that she…
Musikken bygger på visen om de tre små soldater, der vender hjem fra krigen. Det er da smukt og fangende, men dokumentaren taber hurtigt denne stramhed i kompositionen og dynger sine fragmenter af et stof op i en uaflæselig fortælling, som…