Swedish writer/director Ruben Östlund (Photo: Patrik Osterberg) The Swedish film PLAY by director and writer Ruben Östlund and producer Erik Hemmendorff ( see our review here ) has won the 2012 Nordic Council Film award. The […]
Svenska Filminstitutet /Swedish Filminstitute) has decided to double the budget for documentary films with 30’000’000 SKR (last year’s budget was 14’000’000) – the new consulter Cecilia Lidin thus has more leeway than her predecessor.
“Kärlek var sann. All annat var lögn”, it says on the film poster: “Love was true – all the rest was a lie.” What’s more intriguing than a mad love story with my newly found […]
50 years, 31 films, 1 secret agent: Bond, James Bond! (I’m somewhat shaken … not stirred)
“Ich mag das, wenn Claude so durch die Gänge geistert, wie ein Engel oder ein Vampir”, sagt der Lehrer zu Claude. Claude blickt ihn an und ein Lächeln kräuselt seine Mundwinkel (Fortsetzung folgt). Der Abschlussfilm […]
Joel Kinnaman, the Swedish-American actor with the uncannily beautiful features gets to be a real big shot in Hollywood. The photo here has been published when it was still a rumour that Joel Kinnaman will […]
Apart from the fact, that I have neither seen nor reviewed* any of the films which were awarded (well, APPASSIONATA got the viewer’s award) I’m leaving the Zurich Film Festival today with very mixed feelings. […]
(c) Elisabeth Schabus