Neisse Film Festival 2024: Call for Submissions in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic

Neisse Film Festival 2024: Call for Submissions in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic

The Neisse Film Festival in the border triangle of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic is still looking for films for the 21st edition. Feature films, documentaries and short films can still be submitted until December 31st, as organizer Michael Lippold announced on Wednesday. Productions from 2023 and 2024 that were produced or co-produced in … Read more

Why Hollywood Fails with New Heroine Characters and the Rise of Reluctant Heroines

Why Hollywood Fails with New Heroine Characters and the Rise of Reluctant Heroines

Contents Read content on one page Page 1 — We need more reluctant heroines Page 2 — Why does Hollywood fail so badly when it comes to new heroine characters? Page 3 — Classic femininity is apparently to be overcome Now you can take this as a funny clap-back; The only problem is that you … Read more

Netflix Releases ‘What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report’ with Historic Viewing Numbers

Netflix Releases ‘What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report’ with Historic Viewing Numbers

After years of secrecy and a first opening in 2021 with the publication of the top ten, Netflix arrives at what Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos defines in a remote press conference as “a milestone for our industry” and announces that from today the numbers of the titles with the most hours of global viewing will … Read more

Snowboarders 20 years later: A candid interview with Vojtěch Kotek and Jiří Mádl on fame, parenting, and freedom

Snowboarders 20 years later: A candid interview with Vojtěch Kotek and Jiří Mádl on fame, parenting, and freedom

“It was a huge cut in the lives of both of us,” says actor Vojtěch Kotek twenty years after filming the comedy Snowboarders. “We both experienced the same impact and one had to deal with it somehow,” adds his fellow actor and director Jiří Mádl about how the film affected their teenage lives at the … Read more

Holland failed, the European film of the year is Anatomy of a Fall

Holland failed, the European film of the year is Anatomy of a Fall

Anatomy of a Fall won the European Film Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year. The work of the French director Justine Triet completely dominated Saturday’s gala evening in Berlin. The author also received statuettes for directing and for the screenplay she wrote with Arthur Harari. Sandra Hüllerová, the actress of the main role, … Read more

Anatomy of a Fall Wins Big at European Film Awards: Director Justine Triet and Actress Sandra Hüller Take Home Top Honors

Anatomy of a Fall Wins Big at European Film Awards: Director Justine Triet and Actress Sandra Hüller Take Home Top Honors

AFP director Justine Triet (L) and actress Sandra Hüller NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 00:17 The French film Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomy of a fall) is the big winner this year at the European Film Awards, the most important prizes for the European film industry. The film follows the court trial of a woman suspected of killing … Read more

Actor Ryan O’Neal: From Love Story to Hollywood Stardom

Actor Ryan O’Neal: From Love Story to Hollywood Stardom

American actor Ryan O’Neal, best known for his role in the romantic film Love Story, for which he earned an Oscar nomination, died at the age of 82. Citing his son Patrick, the BBC and other media reported on it. The family did not disclose the cause of death. However, the actor was diagnosed with … Read more

Timothée Chalamet loved the script for “Wonka”

Timothée Chalamet loved the script for “Wonka”

Timothée Chalamet told GamesRadar+ that before agreeing to play the famous chocolatier in Wonka, he was prejudiced against prequels and remakes, which they saw as potential “cynical money-grabbing opportunities.” “Like many people, when there are remakes, I feel very protective of the original character and the versions that we love,” confided the actor. But his … Read more

Review of the film Perinbaba and two worlds by Juraj Jakubisk

Review of the film Perinbaba and two worlds by Juraj Jakubisk

It is enough to watch the first few minutes of the original film Perinbaba from 1985 to understand why it is as important to Slovaks as the Three Nuts is to Cinderella. Wild orgies in the snow imbued with circus anarchist energy will immediately take you back to the times when movie fairy tales presented … Read more