Well Go USA has landed North American rights for Dutch action thriller Invasion about a daring military operation in the wake of a hostile attack on the Caribbean islands of Aruba and Curacao.
Studiocanal, which is handling international rights, said it was also in the process of closing deals to Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
The movie is a co-produced by Amsterdam-based Storytellers and Studiocanal company Dutch Film Works.
Director Bobby Boermans (Mocro Maffia, Goldon Hour) reunites with Storytellers having previously collaborated on the drama series High-Flyers teaming up with The Royal Dutch Airforce.
The drama unfolds in the wake of an unexpected attack on the Dutch overseas territories of Curaçao and Aruba by a neighbouring dictatorship.
As the conflict rapidly escalates, the barracks in Aruba come under fire and the airspace is closed, but the Dutch ambassador is yet to be evacuated. Three young marines...
Studiocanal, which is handling international rights, said it was also in the process of closing deals to Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
The movie is a co-produced by Amsterdam-based Storytellers and Studiocanal company Dutch Film Works.
Director Bobby Boermans (Mocro Maffia, Goldon Hour) reunites with Storytellers having previously collaborated on the drama series High-Flyers teaming up with The Royal Dutch Airforce.
The drama unfolds in the wake of an unexpected attack on the Dutch overseas territories of Curaçao and Aruba by a neighbouring dictatorship.
As the conflict rapidly escalates, the barracks in Aruba come under fire and the airspace is closed, but the Dutch ambassador is yet to be evacuated. Three young marines...
- 4/10/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Rising Italian star Michele Riondino, who is on the Lido with Venice Days pic “I Nostri Fantasmi,” is set to play a priest sent by the Vatican to Holland to investigate a crying statue of the Virgin Mary in “The Man From Rome,” from Dutch director Jaap van Heusden (“In Blue”).
This English, Dutch and Italian-language pic blending thriller and comedy elements is set to start shooting this month on location in the southern Dutch province of Limburg and in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia region.
The lead producers are Dutch production company IJswater Films and German’s Fiction Park.
Riondino, best known in Italy as the title character in hit Rai TV series “The Young Montalbano,” will soon be seen in Netflix’s Italian skein “Fedeltà.” He is at Venice with “Fantasmi,” a drama in which he plays a suddenly impoverished single father.
In “Man From Rome,” Riondino will play Filippo,...
This English, Dutch and Italian-language pic blending thriller and comedy elements is set to start shooting this month on location in the southern Dutch province of Limburg and in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia region.
The lead producers are Dutch production company IJswater Films and German’s Fiction Park.
Riondino, best known in Italy as the title character in hit Rai TV series “The Young Montalbano,” will soon be seen in Netflix’s Italian skein “Fedeltà.” He is at Venice with “Fantasmi,” a drama in which he plays a suddenly impoverished single father.
In “Man From Rome,” Riondino will play Filippo,...
- 9/4/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Some stories don’t leave room for a hero even if they provide ample opportunity for one to enter. And when it comes to the 1995 Bosnian genocide that occurred in the town of Srebrenica at the hands of the Serbian army, there’s hardly room for hope let alone saviors. With over eight thousand men murdered while the Un and the world looked on, what is truly left but mourning and memorial? What is there to say besides the truth of its horrors so that those who were blind and/or ignorant to these people’s plight can begin to understand? That’s ultimately writer/director Jasmila Zbanic’s goal with Quo vadis, Aida? as someone who knows all too well having survived a siege on Sarajevo. Mankind cannot afford to forget.
The star of this film is therefore desperation and the actions taken when under its power. How far...
The star of this film is therefore desperation and the actions taken when under its power. How far...
- 3/11/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Perhaps the most difficult task faced by any filmmaker attempting to commemorate an atrocity is to manage the vast disparities in scale. To communicate the extent of a war crime like the Srebrenica massacre, which saw 8,372 civilian residents of the Bosnian town, mostly men and boys, murdered by units of the Bosnian Serb Army in July of 1995, the canvas needs to be broad. But often, that scope can mean lower resolution when you zoom in, the individual human impact getting lost in the grain. But this is a perilous balance director Jasmila Žbanić achieves strikingly well in her deeply compelling, harrowing and heartbreaking “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” which reminds us that each of those 8,372 deaths is an individual, exponential multiplication of horror.
The most inspired creative decision in this sensitively fictionalized version of true events comes in the form of the film’s protagonist, Aida, a local Srebrenica resident who...
The most inspired creative decision in this sensitively fictionalized version of true events comes in the form of the film’s protagonist, Aida, a local Srebrenica resident who...
- 9/5/2020
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
The Netherland’s submission to the upcoming Academy Awards’ Best Foreign-Language Film category will be Joost van Ginkel’s The Paradise Suite.
The Paradise Suite, written and directed by Joost van Ginkel, has been chosen as the official entry from the Netherlands to the 2016 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
The film is set to premiere at Toronto International Film Festival on September 13 as part of the Discovery programme.
Starring Issaka Sawadogo (The Invader), Anjela Nedyalkova (Avé), Magnus Krepper (The Bridge), Raymond Thiry (Between 10 and 12) and Dragan Bakema (Brownian Movement), the film’s plot follows six people from varied backgrounds seeking a better life in Amsterdam.
German outfit Media Luna New Films are handling international sales. September Film are distributing theatrically in the Netherlands.
The Paradise Suite, written and directed by Joost van Ginkel, has been chosen as the official entry from the Netherlands to the 2016 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
The film is set to premiere at Toronto International Film Festival on September 13 as part of the Discovery programme.
Starring Issaka Sawadogo (The Invader), Anjela Nedyalkova (Avé), Magnus Krepper (The Bridge), Raymond Thiry (Between 10 and 12) and Dragan Bakema (Brownian Movement), the film’s plot follows six people from varied backgrounds seeking a better life in Amsterdam.
German outfit Media Luna New Films are handling international sales. September Film are distributing theatrically in the Netherlands.
- 9/9/2015
- ScreenDaily
Stars: Marwan Kenzari, Chemseddine Amar, Mark Catuogno, Steef Cuijpers, Nasrdin Dchar, Jacob Derwig, Michael Knaap, Bo Maerten, Bjorn Niessen, Raymond Thiry, Cahit Ölmez | Written and Directed by Jim Taihuttu
Maj-id (Kenzari) is a talented kick boxer from a gray, anonymous suburb in the Netherlands. Whilst trying to support his family through petty crime, his fighting prowess brings him increasing notoriety in-and outside the ring. As the worlds of kickboxing and organized crime begin to blur into each another, Maj-id begins to lose sight of what it is he really wants and also those who are closest to him as well.
Wolf is a black and white film and is entirely in Dutch so therefore, unless you speak Dutch, you will have to read the subtitles. If either of those facts cause you to recoil in horror at even the thought of watching the film, then this definitely isn’t the one for you.
Maj-id (Kenzari) is a talented kick boxer from a gray, anonymous suburb in the Netherlands. Whilst trying to support his family through petty crime, his fighting prowess brings him increasing notoriety in-and outside the ring. As the worlds of kickboxing and organized crime begin to blur into each another, Maj-id begins to lose sight of what it is he really wants and also those who are closest to him as well.
Wolf is a black and white film and is entirely in Dutch so therefore, unless you speak Dutch, you will have to read the subtitles. If either of those facts cause you to recoil in horror at even the thought of watching the film, then this definitely isn’t the one for you.
- 11/12/2014
- by Richard Axtell
- Nerdly
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! If you see something you like, click on the title to buy it from Amazon. Black Out Jos (Raymond Thiry) used to be a very bad man. But he’s reformed now, on the straight and narrow, and engaged to be married to a wonderful woman. All of that’s put at risk when he wakes up the day before his wedding in a somewhat compromising situation… namely with a dead body lying beside him and no memory of how it got there. Now he’s in a race to discover what’s happening, who’s behind it and how he can keep his bride-to-be from hearing about it all. This Dutch action/comedy has been a long time coming to our shores — we saw it back at Fantastic Fest 2012 — and it’s an absolute blast from beginning to end as it mixes a dark sense of humor with extreme...
- 6/3/2014
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Guy Ritchie, the stylish Brit behind the hyperkinetic one-two punch that was Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, hasn’t made a great crime comedy since 2008′s RocknRolla (blame Warner Bros., which keeps throwing Ritchie big fish like Sherlock Holmes and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.). It might be a while until the auteur bounces back with another instant classic but in the meantime, at least we have Black Out, a mostly clever and entertaining Dutch flick that mimics Ritchie’s furious editing technique, convoluted storytelling and zany characters so meticulously that it almost managed to convince me it was doing something original.
That’s a diss, sure, but originality has never been a requirement in cinema; on the contrary, it’s so rare that we wildly applaud whenever we do see it. And to be fair, Ritchie stood on the shoulders of other filmmakers...
That’s a diss, sure, but originality has never been a requirement in cinema; on the contrary, it’s so rare that we wildly applaud whenever we do see it. And to be fair, Ritchie stood on the shoulders of other filmmakers...
- 2/20/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Are we destined to keep making copies of copies of copies? And is this always going to make us all feel old? The knee-jerk temptation is to react to Arne Toonen’s “Black Out” in much the same way naysayers treated Guy Ritchie’s crime pictures of the late nineties for jacking an aesthetic (specifically Tarantino’s): disdain for a naked reappropriation of an aesthetic that already borrowed from earlier trends and ideas. Ritchie has gone on to validate the supporters of those earlier films by broadening his aesthetic and assembling a tidy, respectable body of work, with few genuine standout pictures. Toonen, who seems a bit more desperate in his naked theft and references, still can’t seem to shake his own crowd-pleasing tendencies. Ritchie wanted to stretch out his aesthetic. Toonen just wants you to laugh. Desperately. “Black Out” begins in a familiar place, as retired crook...
- 2/19/2014
- by Gabe Toro
- The Playlist
Black and Mild: Toonen’s High Octane Adaptation a Bit Derivative
If you could imagine The Hangover remade as a drug fueled action thriller with stylizations that mimic rather than pay homage to early Guy Ritchie flicks, then you’d have something like Aren Toonen’s sophomore film, Black Out on your hands. While it’s slickly paced, this Dutch adaptation of a Swedish novel by Gerben Hellinga may satisfy pulp hounds that prize quick cuts and torrential tangents of backstory and flashback to insistently command their wandering attention, but there’s not much by way of innovation. Sexy babes with tough attitudes and nonsensical outfits stretch the limits of its tenuous believability, but its hyperkinetic design reveals the film to be a simple sugar, a quick burn whose buzz wears off well before the end credits.
Waking up next to a bloodied corpse in his bed, Jos Vreeswijk (Raymond Thiry...
If you could imagine The Hangover remade as a drug fueled action thriller with stylizations that mimic rather than pay homage to early Guy Ritchie flicks, then you’d have something like Aren Toonen’s sophomore film, Black Out on your hands. While it’s slickly paced, this Dutch adaptation of a Swedish novel by Gerben Hellinga may satisfy pulp hounds that prize quick cuts and torrential tangents of backstory and flashback to insistently command their wandering attention, but there’s not much by way of innovation. Sexy babes with tough attitudes and nonsensical outfits stretch the limits of its tenuous believability, but its hyperkinetic design reveals the film to be a simple sugar, a quick burn whose buzz wears off well before the end credits.
Waking up next to a bloodied corpse in his bed, Jos Vreeswijk (Raymond Thiry...
- 2/19/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The U.S. will soon experience a black out, and that's a very good thing. Arne Toonen's Black Out is a darkly comic Dutch film that quickly asserts its own personality in a smart and jolting manner. Here's the official synopsis: On the morning before his wedding, retired criminal Jos (Raymond Thiry) wakes up next to a murdered man with no memory of the previous night or how he and the body got there. Jos soon discovers that a group of gangsters have pinned him as the lone suspect in the theft of 20 kilos of cocaine...and he's got 24 hours to get it back, or the life of his bride will be in serious danger. Now Jos has no choice but to creep back into...
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- 1/23/2014
- Screen Anarchy
The distributor has picked up Us rights to Jim Taihuttu’s Dutch crime thriller. Xyz Films will continue international sales at Afm.
Wolf tells of an ex-con whose fighting skills suck him into a savage world of organised crime.
Marwan Kenzari, Nasrdin Dchar, Raymond Thiry, Chemseddine Amar, Cahit Olmez, Bo Maerten, and Slimane Dazi star and Julius Ponten of Habbekrats produced.
Wolf recently received its world premiere in the New Directors section of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, where it won the Youth Award.
IFC Midnight and Xyz Films brokered the deal.
Wolf tells of an ex-con whose fighting skills suck him into a savage world of organised crime.
Marwan Kenzari, Nasrdin Dchar, Raymond Thiry, Chemseddine Amar, Cahit Olmez, Bo Maerten, and Slimane Dazi star and Julius Ponten of Habbekrats produced.
Wolf recently received its world premiere in the New Directors section of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, where it won the Youth Award.
IFC Midnight and Xyz Films brokered the deal.
- 10/29/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Xyz Films has closed a raft of key European deals on Dutch crime thriller Wolf ahead of the film’s release in the Netherlands on September 19.
Xyz Films introduced sales in Toronto on the story, written and directed by Jim Taihuttu, about a recently released man whose Mma skills suck him into a violent and lawless world.
Deals closed with StudioCanal in the UK, Capelight Pictures in Germany and Movies Inspired in Italy.
Wolf is set to receive its festival premiere in the New Directors section of San Sebastian and its North American premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas.
Marwan Kenzari, Nasrdin Dchar, Raymond Thiry and Slimane Dazi star.
Julius Ponten of Habbekrats produced for Production Partners Ntr in association with Nederlands Filmfonds, Mediafonds, CoBO-Fonds, Fei Productions and TopNotch.
Xyz Films and Gareth Huw Evans’ Pt Merantau Films are in post-production on The Raid 2, which reunites the Indonesian-based UK director Evans his The Raid: Redemption star Iko Uwais...
Xyz Films introduced sales in Toronto on the story, written and directed by Jim Taihuttu, about a recently released man whose Mma skills suck him into a violent and lawless world.
Deals closed with StudioCanal in the UK, Capelight Pictures in Germany and Movies Inspired in Italy.
Wolf is set to receive its festival premiere in the New Directors section of San Sebastian and its North American premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas.
Marwan Kenzari, Nasrdin Dchar, Raymond Thiry and Slimane Dazi star.
Julius Ponten of Habbekrats produced for Production Partners Ntr in association with Nederlands Filmfonds, Mediafonds, CoBO-Fonds, Fei Productions and TopNotch.
Xyz Films and Gareth Huw Evans’ Pt Merantau Films are in post-production on The Raid 2, which reunites the Indonesian-based UK director Evans his The Raid: Redemption star Iko Uwais...
- 9/19/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Real-time ensemble drama begins filming in Rotterdam.
Peter Hoogendoorn’s debut feature, a real time ensemble drama produced by Keren Cogan Films and Phanta Film and co-producers Limited (France), Mindsmeet (Belgium) and Dutch broadcaster Avro has begun.
The film will be released in Dutch cinemas by Amstelfilm in 2014.
Set on a typical summer’s day, a devastating piece of news is delivered by two officers in a police car that changes the lives of a family forever. As the journey progresses, the vehicle becomes more crowded with family members and reveals their inner turmoil.
Hoogendoorn developed the script at the Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam. The project was presented at the CineMart at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2010. The film is supported by Eurimages, the Dutch Film Fund, Screen Flanders, Region Alsace and CoBO and will be distributed by Amstelfilm.
The ensemble cast is made up of well known Dutch actors Raymond Thiry, Nasrdin Dchar, [link...
Peter Hoogendoorn’s debut feature, a real time ensemble drama produced by Keren Cogan Films and Phanta Film and co-producers Limited (France), Mindsmeet (Belgium) and Dutch broadcaster Avro has begun.
The film will be released in Dutch cinemas by Amstelfilm in 2014.
Set on a typical summer’s day, a devastating piece of news is delivered by two officers in a police car that changes the lives of a family forever. As the journey progresses, the vehicle becomes more crowded with family members and reveals their inner turmoil.
Hoogendoorn developed the script at the Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam. The project was presented at the CineMart at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2010. The film is supported by Eurimages, the Dutch Film Fund, Screen Flanders, Region Alsace and CoBO and will be distributed by Amstelfilm.
The ensemble cast is made up of well known Dutch actors Raymond Thiry, Nasrdin Dchar, [link...
- 9/16/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Los Angeles-based company has taken on all rights excluding Benelux to Jim Taihuttu’s Dutch crime thriller and will start talks with buyers in Toronto.
Wolf will premiere in New Directors at the San Sebastian International Film Festival and stars Marwan Kenzari, Nasrdin Dchar, Raymond Thiry and Slimane Dazi.
The story follows an ex-con who enters the world of mixed martial arts.
Julius Ponten of Habbekrats produced for Production Partners Ntr with Nederlands Filmfonds, Mediafonds, CoBO-Fonds, Fei Productions and TopNotch.
“We are absolutely thrilled to be representing Wolf,” said Xyz co-founder Aram Tertzakian. “It’s a visually stunning, emotionally charged, and deeply human crime thriller with powerful performances all around.
“Jim Taihuttu is an enormous talent, and we expect Wolf to be the first of many collaborations with Jim and Habbekrats.”...
Wolf will premiere in New Directors at the San Sebastian International Film Festival and stars Marwan Kenzari, Nasrdin Dchar, Raymond Thiry and Slimane Dazi.
The story follows an ex-con who enters the world of mixed martial arts.
Julius Ponten of Habbekrats produced for Production Partners Ntr with Nederlands Filmfonds, Mediafonds, CoBO-Fonds, Fei Productions and TopNotch.
“We are absolutely thrilled to be representing Wolf,” said Xyz co-founder Aram Tertzakian. “It’s a visually stunning, emotionally charged, and deeply human crime thriller with powerful performances all around.
“Jim Taihuttu is an enormous talent, and we expect Wolf to be the first of many collaborations with Jim and Habbekrats.”...
- 8/29/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
“A splitting headache, a dead gangster, twenty kilos of missing coke and 24 hours to sort it all out before getting married. Jos is about to have a very bad day.” The above comes as the official brief summary of Black Out from the Fantastic Fest program guide. It’s the most appropriately succinct way to describe what director Arne Toonen delivers in his sophomore effort. His first film, Dik Trom, was a lighthearted family comedy. This time around, he’s going in a far more devious and delightfully violent direction. It all hangs on the gruff elegance of leading man Raymond Thiry, whose Jos is a puzzle meant to be pieced together over the course of the film. When we meet him, he’s confused and frightened by the situation in which he find himself. He’s an ex-con, but he’s since cleaned up his life and met the woman of his dreams, who...
- 9/24/2012
- by Neil Miller
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Films centering around a protagonist attempting to fill in the blanks of his/her past run the gamut from The Hangover to Memento, and in my opinion have been quite overdone. However, Dutch fillmmaker Aren Toonen delivers a fresh take with his comedic crime drama, Black Out. Toonen effectively weaves wickedly funny humor into a crime thriller that keeps viewers engaged.
Jos Vreeswijk (Raymond Thiry) wakes up with more than a hangover, as he finds a dead body in his bed the day before his wedding. Despite the realization that he has no memory of the last two to three days, Jos assesses and addresses his situation very quickly, as he is no stranger to dealing with a crime scene. Through the use of voiceover narration by Jos, we learn that 10 years ago he was a shakedown henchman for drug dealers, but he gave up a life of crime and...
Jos Vreeswijk (Raymond Thiry) wakes up with more than a hangover, as he finds a dead body in his bed the day before his wedding. Despite the realization that he has no memory of the last two to three days, Jos assesses and addresses his situation very quickly, as he is no stranger to dealing with a crime scene. Through the use of voiceover narration by Jos, we learn that 10 years ago he was a shakedown henchman for drug dealers, but he gave up a life of crime and...
- 9/24/2012
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
Winter in Wartime is one of those truly well-crafted motion pictures that rarely get made in today’s dismal movie climate. It is a taut human drama that focuses heavily on the plight of vulnerable and emotional people. Winner of numerous well-deserved awards such as the 2009 Netherlands Film Festival Golden Calf award, Winter in Wartime is quite sensational and now yours to own in a special Blu-ray/DVD combo pack.
The story revolves around Michiel van Beusekom (Martijn Lakemeier), a 13-year-old boy living in Nazi-occupied Holland circa winter of 1945. He belongs to a typical Dutch family consisting of his parents and an older sister. His father Vader (Raymond Thiry) is a mayor who sucks up to the Nazis to ensure the safety of their village. The mother Moeder (Anneke Blok) is passive and content with her station in life and the sister Erica (Melody Klaver) is also rather blasé about everything that’s going on.
The story revolves around Michiel van Beusekom (Martijn Lakemeier), a 13-year-old boy living in Nazi-occupied Holland circa winter of 1945. He belongs to a typical Dutch family consisting of his parents and an older sister. His father Vader (Raymond Thiry) is a mayor who sucks up to the Nazis to ensure the safety of their village. The mother Moeder (Anneke Blok) is passive and content with her station in life and the sister Erica (Melody Klaver) is also rather blasé about everything that’s going on.
- 8/7/2011
- by Randall Unger
- JustPressPlay.net
Winter in Wartime, the award-winning 2008 Dutch World War II drama directed by Martin Koohoven and based on the book by Jan Terlouw, will be released on June 23 as a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. It will carry a list price of $45.99.
Martijn Lakemeier experiences the harsh realities of war in Winter in Wartime.
The movie unfolds in Nazi-occupied Holland in 1945, where 13-year-old Michiel (Martijn Lakemeier) is drawn into the Resistance movement after he helps a British paratrooper. What begins as an adventure quickly turns into a life of desperation and danger as Michiel becomes wary of the adults and townspeople around him, many of whom he’s not sure he can trust. Welcome to childhood innocence slamming into the harsh realities of wartime adulthood!
The winner of the Golden Calf Award at the 2009 Netherlands Film Festival as well as Best Actor (Lakemeier), Best Supporting Actor...
Martijn Lakemeier experiences the harsh realities of war in Winter in Wartime.
The movie unfolds in Nazi-occupied Holland in 1945, where 13-year-old Michiel (Martijn Lakemeier) is drawn into the Resistance movement after he helps a British paratrooper. What begins as an adventure quickly turns into a life of desperation and danger as Michiel becomes wary of the adults and townspeople around him, many of whom he’s not sure he can trust. Welcome to childhood innocence slamming into the harsh realities of wartime adulthood!
The winner of the Golden Calf Award at the 2009 Netherlands Film Festival as well as Best Actor (Lakemeier), Best Supporting Actor...
- 5/16/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Michiel lives in a small village in the Netherlands during World War II. He lives a life of relative privilege as the son of the Mayor, a man Michiel has come to lose respect for because of the Mayor’s acceptance of the Nazis that occupy their village. But Michiel’s eyes open to the realities of war when a friend’s brother asks Michiel to deliver a letter. He meets Resistance fighter/Raf soldier Jack, and realizes that not everything in his small village is as it seems.
Winter in Wartime works on many levels; a story about how Nazi Germany’s invasion of other countries affected a small village in Holland, a coming-of-age story about a boy who takes his first steps towards becoming a man, and an intimate father-son story. This could become a jumbled mess of colliding themes, but in this movie they blend into a satisfying experience.
Winter in Wartime works on many levels; a story about how Nazi Germany’s invasion of other countries affected a small village in Holland, a coming-of-age story about a boy who takes his first steps towards becoming a man, and an intimate father-son story. This could become a jumbled mess of colliding themes, but in this movie they blend into a satisfying experience.
- 4/22/2011
- by Denise Kitashima Dutton
- Atomic Popcorn
Chicago – When life collides with history, human beings are often both the perpetrators and the victims. In the excellent film “Winter in Wartime,” a boy grows up quickly when confronted with the realities of that history and life in the last days of World War II.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
What happens to a childhood when the serious implications of wartime becomes the wolf at the door is the main premise of the film. There are bound to be secrets, distrust, intrigue and the unfortunate tragedy. The absorbing story has all of this, and is rendered by the sincere performances of a great cast, especially the young boy at the center of the conflict.
That boy is Michiel (Martijn Lakemeier), a 13 year old boy living in a Nazi-occupied Dutch village in the last months of World War II. His father (Raymond Thiry) is the mayor of the town, and appeases the occupiers in...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
What happens to a childhood when the serious implications of wartime becomes the wolf at the door is the main premise of the film. There are bound to be secrets, distrust, intrigue and the unfortunate tragedy. The absorbing story has all of this, and is rendered by the sincere performances of a great cast, especially the young boy at the center of the conflict.
That boy is Michiel (Martijn Lakemeier), a 13 year old boy living in a Nazi-occupied Dutch village in the last months of World War II. His father (Raymond Thiry) is the mayor of the town, and appeases the occupiers in...
- 4/1/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Reviewed by Chris Allsop
(March 2011)
Directed by: Martin Koolhoven
Written by: Paul Jan Nelissen, Mieke de Jong and Martin Koolhoven
Starring: Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Raymond Thiry and Melody Klaver
“Winter in Wartime” arrives in U.S. theaters already laden with accolades: Short-listed for the 2009 Academy Award for Foreign Language Film, it’s also won multiple Golden Calves at the Netherlands Film Festival. And, incredibly for a foreign arthouse movie, it also managed to outgross “Twilight.”
Okay, so that was only in the Netherlands. And the marketing edge provided by the longstanding fame of Jan Terlouw’s best-seller of the same name — on which “Winter in Wartime” is based — probably helped propel director Martin Koolhoven’s movie to its impressive commercial showing. But another contributing factor was — and will no doubt continue to be — the broad appeal of this coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Holland.
(March 2011)
Directed by: Martin Koolhoven
Written by: Paul Jan Nelissen, Mieke de Jong and Martin Koolhoven
Starring: Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Raymond Thiry and Melody Klaver
“Winter in Wartime” arrives in U.S. theaters already laden with accolades: Short-listed for the 2009 Academy Award for Foreign Language Film, it’s also won multiple Golden Calves at the Netherlands Film Festival. And, incredibly for a foreign arthouse movie, it also managed to outgross “Twilight.”
Okay, so that was only in the Netherlands. And the marketing edge provided by the longstanding fame of Jan Terlouw’s best-seller of the same name — on which “Winter in Wartime” is based — probably helped propel director Martin Koolhoven’s movie to its impressive commercial showing. But another contributing factor was — and will no doubt continue to be — the broad appeal of this coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Holland.
- 3/18/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Chris Allsop
(March 2011)
Directed by: Martin Koolhoven
Written by: Paul Jan Nelissen, Mieke de Jong and Martin Koolhoven
Starring: Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Raymond Thiry and Melody Klaver
“Winter in Wartime” arrives in U.S. theaters already laden with accolades: Short-listed for the 2009 Academy Award for Foreign Language Film, it’s also won multiple Golden Calves at the Netherlands Film Festival. And, incredibly for a foreign arthouse movie, it also managed to outgross “Twilight.”
Okay, so that was only in the Netherlands. And the marketing edge provided by the longstanding fame of Jan Terlouw’s best-seller of the same name — on which “Winter in Wartime” is based — probably helped propel director Martin Koolhoven’s movie to its impressive commercial showing. But another contributing factor was — and will no doubt continue to be — the broad appeal of this coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Holland.
(March 2011)
Directed by: Martin Koolhoven
Written by: Paul Jan Nelissen, Mieke de Jong and Martin Koolhoven
Starring: Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Raymond Thiry and Melody Klaver
“Winter in Wartime” arrives in U.S. theaters already laden with accolades: Short-listed for the 2009 Academy Award for Foreign Language Film, it’s also won multiple Golden Calves at the Netherlands Film Festival. And, incredibly for a foreign arthouse movie, it also managed to outgross “Twilight.”
Okay, so that was only in the Netherlands. And the marketing edge provided by the longstanding fame of Jan Terlouw’s best-seller of the same name — on which “Winter in Wartime” is based — probably helped propel director Martin Koolhoven’s movie to its impressive commercial showing. But another contributing factor was — and will no doubt continue to be — the broad appeal of this coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Holland.
- 3/18/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Austin, TX - Billy Bob Thorton’s, The King of Luck, documentary on Willie Nelson, will screen Saturday, March 19 for the Closing Night at the SXSW Film Festival.
The World Premiere film explores Willie Nelson “the man, the songwriter, the friend, the father, legendary performer and champion of the family farmer.”
Also announced today, a work-in-progress version of the Judd Apatow produced ‘Bridesmaids,’ will screen. The film is directed by Paul Feig, and stars Kristin Wig and Annie Mumolo.
Rainn Wilson’s short film, The Blitzen Trapper Massacre, will be having it’s World Premiere as well, Umshini Wam, a short film from Harmony Korine featuring South African act Die Antwoord, and Hit So Hard, P. David Ebersole’s documentary on Hole drummer Patty Schemel, among others will screen.
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SXSW Film Announces 2011 Closing Night & Additional Titles
Thornton’s The King of Luck, Work...
The World Premiere film explores Willie Nelson “the man, the songwriter, the friend, the father, legendary performer and champion of the family farmer.”
Also announced today, a work-in-progress version of the Judd Apatow produced ‘Bridesmaids,’ will screen. The film is directed by Paul Feig, and stars Kristin Wig and Annie Mumolo.
Rainn Wilson’s short film, The Blitzen Trapper Massacre, will be having it’s World Premiere as well, Umshini Wam, a short film from Harmony Korine featuring South African act Die Antwoord, and Hit So Hard, P. David Ebersole’s documentary on Hole drummer Patty Schemel, among others will screen.
Read more announced titles below.
Press Release
SXSW Film Announces 2011 Closing Night & Additional Titles
Thornton’s The King of Luck, Work...
- 3/3/2011
- by Albert Art
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: The South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival announced that Billy Bob Thornton’s “The King of Luck,” a documentary about Willie Nelson, will be thus year’s Closing Night Film, screening on Saturday, March 19.
In addition, SXSW announced more features and shorts for the 2011 event, including a work-in-progress screening of Paul Feig’s “Bridesmaids,” starring (and co-written by) Kristen Wiig and produced by Judd Apatow; “Umshini Wam,” a short film from Harmony Korine featuring South African act Die Antwoord; and “Hit So Hard,” P. David Ebersole’s documentary on Hole drummer Patty Schemel, among others.
HollywoodNews.com will be reporting from this year’s SXSW, which runs March 11-19, in Austin, Texas. For details on the complete film and conference lineup, visit www.sxsw.com/film.
Additional Films in the 2011 SXSW Film Festival include:
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“The King of Luck”
Director: Billy Bob Thornton...
Hollywoodnews.com: The South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival announced that Billy Bob Thornton’s “The King of Luck,” a documentary about Willie Nelson, will be thus year’s Closing Night Film, screening on Saturday, March 19.
In addition, SXSW announced more features and shorts for the 2011 event, including a work-in-progress screening of Paul Feig’s “Bridesmaids,” starring (and co-written by) Kristen Wiig and produced by Judd Apatow; “Umshini Wam,” a short film from Harmony Korine featuring South African act Die Antwoord; and “Hit So Hard,” P. David Ebersole’s documentary on Hole drummer Patty Schemel, among others.
HollywoodNews.com will be reporting from this year’s SXSW, which runs March 11-19, in Austin, Texas. For details on the complete film and conference lineup, visit www.sxsw.com/film.
Additional Films in the 2011 SXSW Film Festival include:
Headliners
“The King of Luck”
Director: Billy Bob Thornton...
- 3/2/2011
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
Attention Austin-ites: some last minute additions were just announced for the South by Southwest 2011 Film Festival lineup. They include the Closing Night Film, "The King of Luck," a documentary about musician Willie Nelson and, judging from the publicity photo, old timey Western streets, directed by actor (and musician) Billy Bob Thornton. SXSW also added a bunch of cool special events, including a work-in-progress screening of the upcoming comedy "Bridesmaids," which has an insane creative pedigree. It's directed by "Freaks and Geeks" creator Paul Feig, produced by Judd Apatow, co-written and starring Kristen Wiig, with a cast that also includes Maya Rudolph and Rose Byrne. No word on who will be in attendance on that yet, but it should be a fun event (two years ago, Sam Raimi brought his "Drag Me to Hell" while it was still a work-in-progress for a raucous screening that's become the stuff of Internet legend...
- 3/2/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Bd-25 Single-Layer Disc Video: 1080p/Avc Mpeg-4 Audio: Dutch 5.1 DTS-hd Master Audio Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Subtitles: English Run time: 103 minutes Studio: Kaleidoscope Entertainment Rating: R Region Coding: Region Free Equipment used for review: Sharp Lc-46SB57UN 46" 120Hz 1080p LCD (24fps), Onkyo TX-SR606 7.1 Receiver, Onkyo Sks-HT540 7.1, & LG BH200 Super Blu Cast/Crew Info: Martijn Lakemeier as Michiel Yorick van Wageningen as Oom Ben Jamie Campbell Bower as Jack Raymond Thiry as Johan Melody Klaver as Erica Anneke Blok as Lia Mees Peijnenburg as Dirk Jesse van Driel as Theo Dan...
- 9/28/2010
- by Shawn Bokros, Jackson Blu-ray Disc Examiner
- Examiner Movies Channel
This is the Pure Movies review of Winter in Wartime, starring Anneke Blok, Jamie Campbell Bower, Martijn Lakemeier, Mees Peijnenburg, Melody Klaver, Raymond Thiry and Yorick van Wageningen, directed by Martin Koolhoven. This story of a boy in occupied Holland during World War II was hugely successful in the Netherlands, outgrossing Twilight and The Dark Knight. It is Holland’s entry for the foreign language Oscar and is, after some time, getting a UK release.
- 5/29/2010
- by Simon Lewis
- Pure Movies
This is a competition for Winter in Wartime, also known as Oorlogswinter, directed by Martin Koolhoven and starring Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower (Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, The Twilight Saga: New Moon), Raymond Thiry, Melody Klaver, Anneke Blok and Mees Peijnenburg. From the producer of Black Book comes a beautifully crafted Dutch coming-of-age drama directed by Martin Koolhoven and starring Jamie Campbell Bower (Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, The Twilight Saga: New Moon). The film follows a young boy who becomes involved with the Dutch resistance after he helps a wounded British soldier during the final winter of World War II.
- 5/19/2010
- by Dan Higgins
- Pure Movies
Cologne, Germany -- Dutch/Irish co-production "Nothing Personal," a feature debut from Polish-born director Urszula Antoniak won big at this year's Golden Calves, the Dutch national film awards, taking four trophies, including that for best film.
The story of a woman who abandons her life and all her possessions in the Netherlands for a nomadic lifestyle in Ireland, also secured nods in the best director, best cinematography and best sound design categories. The film stars Lotte Verbeek and Stephen Rea.
Martin Koolhoven's World War II epic "Winter in Wartime" picked up three Golden Calves, for best actor Martijn Lakemeier, a 16-year-old first-timer, best supporting actor Raymond Thiry and best production design. Director Esther Rots, another first-timer, scooped three trophies for her intimate drama "Can Go Through Skin," taking Golden Calves for best actress Rifka Lodeizen and best editing prizes along with a special Jury award.
Dutch Oscar contender, Jean van de Velde...
The story of a woman who abandons her life and all her possessions in the Netherlands for a nomadic lifestyle in Ireland, also secured nods in the best director, best cinematography and best sound design categories. The film stars Lotte Verbeek and Stephen Rea.
Martin Koolhoven's World War II epic "Winter in Wartime" picked up three Golden Calves, for best actor Martijn Lakemeier, a 16-year-old first-timer, best supporting actor Raymond Thiry and best production design. Director Esther Rots, another first-timer, scooped three trophies for her intimate drama "Can Go Through Skin," taking Golden Calves for best actress Rifka Lodeizen and best editing prizes along with a special Jury award.
Dutch Oscar contender, Jean van de Velde...
- 10/5/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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