Paradise: Love
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Win a DVD Copy of Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Love
In the past year or so, austere Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl has unspooled his Paradise trilogy at major festivals: Paradise: Love premiered at Cannes last year, Paradise: Faith at Venice later that fall, and Paradise: Hope bowed at the 2013 Berlinale. Strand Releasing has picked up the trilogy for distribution in the U.S., and the first installment has just hit the home entertainment market, with Love coming out on August 6. Courtesy of Strand, we have copies of Paradise: Love to give away on DVD to the first five (5) people who email nick AT filmmakermagazine DOT com with the […]
by Nick Dawson on Aug 8, 2013 -
AFI Fest 2012: A Hijacking and Paradise: Faith
Between A Royal Affair, The Hunt, Eat Sleep Die, and now A Hijacking, it might be wise to start thinking of 2012 as something of a banner year for Scandinavian film—Denmark in particular. (Let’s call Klown the exception that proves the rule and leave it at that.) An impressively restrained thriller about a cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates, Tobias Lindholm’s second feature has the kind of ripped-from-headlines premise one would expect Hollywood to have capitalized on by now. In an early sign of his rather un-Hollywood approach, however, the frequent Thomas Vinterberg collaborator shows us extremely little of the […]
by Michael Nordine on Nov 5, 2012 -
VIFF Critics Notebook #2
The Dragons & Tigers section has been the richest part of VIFF’s legacy, dating back to 1994. Each year, the Award for Young Cinema has highlighted an as yet unrecognized talent of East Asian cinema. This year the Dragons & Tigers jury was made up of Shinozaki Makoto, Joao Pedro Rodrigues and Chuck Stephens. I was able to see a few films from the competition, including the winner Emperor Visits the Hell, directed by Li Luo. An often perplexing, but always interesting film, Li’s movie transports a story (three chapters) from the Ming Dynast novel Journey to the West to […]
by Adam Cook on Oct 15, 2012
