Tag: The Painted Bird
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‘Swan Song’ Trailer: Udo Kier Is Fabulous as a Hairdresser on a Mission
Surely one of the most fabulous movies to emerge out of the virtual SXSW Film Festival earlier this year was Todd Stephens’ “Swan Song.” This prickly dark comedy stars German cult movie icon Udo Kier as a retired hairdresser who escapes his humdrum nursing home to honor one of his favorite client’s dying wishes. Check…
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European Film Award Winners: Thomas Vinterberg Takes Best Director for ‘Another Round’ (Updating Live)
The European Film Awards, unfolding virtually this year, reveals its major winners during a ceremony on Saturday, December 12. The European Film Academy previously doled out prizes for below-the-line crafts, short films, and more throughout the week. The 33rd annual European Film Awards this year are being emceed by German TV host Steven Gätjen out…
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When art films attack: why The Painted Bird’s try-hard horrors fail to land | Ryan Gilbey
From Haneke to Von Trier, the arthouse provocateur has a long, grim history. But there’s a thin line between trauma and tediumLooking back, it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when it was during The Painted Bird that I got the giggles. Most likely it happened somewhere between the child being buried up to his neck to…
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Julian Sands: ‘My worst job? Father Christmas at a department store’
The actor on Derek Jarman, his wife’s right eye and the birthday party he wasn’t invited toBorn in Yorkshire, Sands, 62, studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He had a role in Derek Jarman’s Broken English and went on to appear in The Killing Fields, A Room With A View…
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‘The Painted Bird’ Trailer: Director Vaclav Marhoul Tells A Story Of Hope In The Face Of The Holocaust
Just last month, ABC News’ David Muir traveled back to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz with a number of individuals who had survived its incomprehensible horrors as children. 75 years have passed since the camp’s liberation. In all likelihood, the most profound moments of the journey back were the grown children venturing back into where…
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Goteborg Festival to Open With ‘Psychosis,’ Pay Tribute to Stellan Skarsgård
Goteborg Film Festival, the biggest showcase of local and international movies in the Nordics, will kick off its 43rd edition with Maria Bäck’s “”Psychosis,” and will close with actor-turned-director Mårten Klingberg’s “My Father Mary Anne.”Both timely Swedish dramas dealing with trauma post-sexual abuse, and the experience of a transgender priest, respectively, “Psychosis” and “My Father…
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Quentin Tarantino Makes Heartfelt Appearance to Celebrate Dp Robert Richardson in Poland
Camerimage, the festival in Toruń, Poland dedicated to the art of cinematography, handed out its prestigious Frog prizes this evening. The big winner was “Joker” cinematographer Lawrence Sher, who won the top prize, the Golden Frog, in addition to the Audience Prize. The Bronze Frog was awarded to “The Painted Bird” Dp Vladimír Smutný, while…
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Stellan Skarsgard Discusses Venice Festival Drama ‘Painted Bird’
No stranger to the world of prestigious film festivals, Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard drew notice almost from the very beginning of his film career when he won the best actor award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1982 for his role in Hans Alfredson’s “Simple-Minded Murderer.” Next stop for the Emmy-nominated star of HBO’s “Chernobyl”…