Tag: Holiday
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Isabella Eklöf Follows ‘Holiday’ with ‘Potentially Provocative’ ‘Kalak,’ Talks ‘Personal Quest to Have Truth in Filmmaking’
Sweden’s Isabella Eklöf has followed up her acclaimed debut “Holiday” with the Greenland-set “Kalak,” this time around opting for a male protagonist.“He’s a guy, but the story is exactly the same,” she says.“It’s still about sexual assault and ‘restaging’ your trauma, or looking for family and connection, but I have never explored that perspective before.…
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‘Holiday’ Review – Margherita Corradi Anchors Throwaway Thriller
Courtroom dramas have been a staple of the screen for decades, giving audiences some of the most compelling stories ever put to screen. From To Kill a Mockingbird to A Few Good Men, there are a whole host of iconic films set within the confines of a courthouse. Very few of these films, however, have…
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‘Pee-wee’s Big Holiday’ Is A Perfect Comedy Legacy Sequel
There is no phrase in Hollywood’s recent history that’s been more popular than the “legacy sequel.” Films like Creed, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, and David Gordon Green’s Halloween essentially remade the first film in their respective franchises, but used it to usher in a new generation of heroes and play on the…
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Streaming: the best jazz films
A new Billie Holiday documentary prompts a look at the films that best capture the spirit of the jazz greatsThe first thing anyone ever heard in the movies was jazz – in cinema’s first sound film, The Jazz Singer, of course, a creaky 1927 backstage drama that now only really has historical-milestone status to recommend…
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Iceland, Greenland producers join forces for one-stop shop in Greenland (exclusive)
Nuuk-based Polarama Greenland working on ‘Kalak’, the new film from Isabella Eklöf.Four Icelandic and Greenlandic producers have joined forces to launch a new production, co-production, production service, and casting company called Polarama Greenland.The new outfit, based in Nuuk, hopes to be a one-stop shop for the international industry who want to shoot in Greenland as…
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HBO Europe orders first Danish original ‘Kamikaze’
Drama based on Erlend Loe’s Norwegian novel, ‘Muleum’.HBO Europe has greenlit eight-part drama Kamikaze, marking its first Danish original series.Based on Erlend Loe’s Norwegian novel, Muleum, the series will be produced by Ditte Milsted from Copenhagen-based Profile Pictures with a script by Johanne Algren, who wrote Sundance 2018 feature Holiday.All episodes will be directed by…