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All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 25
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Festival chief Bergdahl exits Gothenburg
Gunnar Bergdahl is steeping down as head of Sweden's Gothenburg Film Festival, the most important meeting place for the Nordic film industry.Bergdahl has been involved with the festival since 1987 and has been responsible for its diverse programme since 1994. The festival, which celebrated its 25th anniversary this year, will ...
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Cool & Crazy bags Jensen first ever repeat award
The multiple-award-winning Norwegian documentary Cool & Crazy, which generated more than half a million admissions in its home territory last year, has secured filmmaker Knut Erik Jensen his second national Film Critics Award, the first time a director has ever won the prize twice. Jensen first picked up the prize ...
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Denmark's NatFilm dedicated to Stroheim
This year's NatFilm Festival, the biggest film event in Denmark, will feature a special tribute to Austrian director and actor Erich von Stroheim (1885-1957). The non-competitive event, now in its 13th edition, runs from April 5-21 in Copenhagen and three other cities around the country and will present ...
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Danish film panned by critics, loved by audiences
Despite getting a critical mauling from the local press, Danish comedy, Polle Fiction, had the third highest ever opening in Denmark with 80,473 admissions, behind Anja & Viktor (157,000) and Olsen-Bandens Sidste Stik (100,000). The first ever feature based on a TV commercial concept, Danish comedy, Polle Fiction, has made ...
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Pusher director Refn shoots English-language debut
Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn starts shooting his long-anticipated English-language debut Fear X today, with John Turturro signed up to star and backing from the UK's Moviehouse Entertainment.(March 11).The cast includes US veteran James Remar, Canada's Deborah Kara Unger and Sweden's Jacqueline Ramel. Tom Sizemore signed up last year but ...
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UK actors cast for Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself
Denmark's Lone Scherfig is following her Berlin Silver Bear-winning Italian For Beginners with Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, which started shooting on location in Glasgow on Monday March 4. The director's first English-language film features a number of young UK actors including Jamie Sieves (Mean Machine) as the main character ...
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Lauren Bacall hands out Denmark's Bodil Awards
Lauren Bacall was the guest of honour at Sunday's Bodil Awards in Denmark, where she handed the best film prize to director Ole Christian Madsen for Kira's Reason.Hollywood-legend Bacall was fresh off the shoot of Lars von Trier's Dogville, which wrapped on Friday in Sweden, and her presence added ...
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Lauren Bacall to present Denmark's top film award
Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall will add extra glamour to this weekend's award ceremony in Copenhagen, when the Danish association of film critics hands out its prestigious Bodil awards on March 3. 77 year-old Bacall, who is presently starring opposite Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany and fellow veterans Ben Gazzara and Philip ...
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Special Oscar for Sweden's Super-16 inventor
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood has decided to give an Award of Commendation (a special Academy Award) to the Swedish cinematographer Rune Ericson, who invented the Super 16-system in the early 70s. The Award has only been given out 5 times since it was introduced ...
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Denmark's DFL to develop system for Microsoft
Denmark's Digital Film Lab (DFL) has moved into a new direction with a contract from Microsoft Corp./LA to develop the implementation of High Definition in a future version of the Windows Media Player. 'To be recognised as the right partner to carry out development for Microsoft has been a very ...
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Two major Nordic industry events join forces
The Nordic region's two major festival and market events have joined forces to increase their international profile. The two festivals, in Gothenburg (Sweden) and Haugesund (Norway), have long been the favourite meeting places for the Nordic industry, but in recent years have also succeeded in attracting buyers and festival programmers ...
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Sweden's Film I Vast lines up topnotch local slate
Film I Vast, Sweden's successful regional film fund, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in January, has lined up another busy schedule, including highly anticipated new films from Jalla! Jalla! director Josef Fares, Executive Protection's Anders Nilson and Dan Ying (Home Sour Home).Fares will shoot his as yet untitled action comedy ...
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Costa Gavras defends Amen against Vatican critics
At a Berlinale press conference for his controversial film Amen, the film's director, Constantin Costa-Gavras, was tackled by a priest from the Vatican who accused him of digging up the past without adequate research. Having responded, he left Rolf Hochhuth, the playwright who wrote the book on which the film ...
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Danish Roberts ruled by Kira's Reason
Ole Christian Madsen's acclaimed Dogme title Kira's Reason (En Kaerlighedshistorie) bagged five major prizes at the Danish Oscars, the 19th Robert Film AwardsKira's Reason won best direction, best film and best script (Ole Christian Madsen, Mogens Rukov) as well as best actress for Stine Stengade, making her feature debut as ...
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Fall in govt funds ahead for Danish film industry
The thriving Danish film industry could be in for an unpleasant shock when the new rightwing government's financial policy comes into action next year. While state financial support remains unchanged for 2002, support from the Danish Film Institute is expected to be cut by up to 20% from 2003. The ...
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Pippi Longstocking creator dies, aged 94
Astrid Lindgren the godmother of Swedish children's literature and creator of world-famous characters like Pippi Longstocking, Emil From Lonneberga, Ronja Robber's Daughter and The Brothers Lionhearth has died after suffering from a serious virus infection for a month. The beloved and respected author was born in 1907 in Vimmerby in ...
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Japan's Go is the pick of Palm Springs
Among the 45 of the 51 Oscar submissions which screened at the 13th Palm Springs International Film Festival which wrapped Sunday (Jan 25), Japan's Isao Yukisada's coming-of-age drama Go was the pick of the FIPRESCI jury, which this year consisted of film critics from Yugoslavia, Germany, Denmark, Australia and the ...
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Scherfig commits to English-language Suicide
Lone Scherfig, director of Denmark's foreign-language Oscar hopeful Italian For Beginners, is to make her first English-language film.Vilbur Wants To Commit Suicide will be produced by newcomer Sisse Graum Olsen, who recently made her debut with Niels Arden Oplev's black comedy Chop Chop (Fukssvansen) for Zentropa. The film will shoot ...
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Shake It All About stirs up Danish awards list
First-time director Hella Joof's crowd-pleasing romantic comedy Shake It All About (En Kort En Lang) heads the list of nominations for the Robert awards, a prize giving ceremony that will cap off a sparkling year for Danish film.The film garnered 13 nominations, including best film, best direction, best actor (Mads ...
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Danish Film Institute appoints Geertsen
The Danish Film Institute has appointed 45-year-old Anders Geertsen new area manager for distribution and marketing. Geertsen comes from a job as MD of publisher Munksgaards Forlag, and takes the long-vacant seat left by former DFI manager Peter Wolsgaard from April 1. "Anders Geertsen has a very interesting and diverse ...