OPEN AGAIN FROM SEPTEMBER 18th 2021 The SICK SMELL OF SUCCESS is back from vacation from September 18 just in time for the Wallen Open Dagen and het Buurtfestival. WALLEN OPEN DAGEN: B-MOVIES For the Open Wallen dagen we are open both on Saturday and Sunday. For this occasion we …
DEFERRED MAINTENANCE – VIVE LA DIFFERENCE!
I must admit I neglected this blog somewhat. HEY PEOPLE, I’VE BEEN BUSY OKAY!? Anyway I will put that right as there’s good news in the offing. MOVIE★INK. AMSTERDAM will rise again in a new gallery space sometime in early 2018. To catch up I will post my past columns for Schokkend …
THE HORSE ATE THE ITALIAN STRAW HAT
I love old movies. However talking with friends about old movies I find myself in discussions on the Ferrari in Risky Business or the DeLorean in Back to the Future. Come on people, I’m talking about old movies, not yesterday’s fare. It’s lonely sometimes, sniff. Who for example has heard of …
GOODFELLAS 2: REVENGE OF THE WHITE COLLAR NERDS
Managed to avoid the early reviews of WOLF OF WALL STREET, hurray! Just walked out of the cinema, the beautiful Tuschinski. Going to watch it another time to and find some more flavours as you all know that a Scorsese movie is something to taste over and over again. Okay …
The secret was always in the clockwork – Scorsese’s own Tales Of Hoffmann
Finally, finally, finally I saw HUGO. I’ve been rather expectant of this since October 2010. Those of you have read my blogs earlier, probably know what I’m on about. If not, here a few links: Million Dollar Weekend, Scorsese In Osdorp, Seeing Is Believing and Seeing Is Believing Visited – …
Kotoko, slow talking mirrors and Brazilian snuff
That’s the joy of a festival, the sheer international diversity. In Rotterdam the focus on young directors and cinema in non-developing countries brings an always interesting programme of hits and misses. Yesterday I saw three very different films. One of them I had picked beforehand. I really wanted to know …
Seeing Is Believing Visited – Hugo and Georges
As I’ve written earlier in Seeing is Believing, I went to the discussion session on Magic In Cinema at the Rotterdam Film Festival. As it happened I should have taken that literally. Focal point of the discussion was the magic being used in HUGO and the authenticity of the film …
Seeing is believing
If all goes well I’ll be in Rotterdam tonight for the International Film Festival. My friend Rick is “moderating” a discussion about magic in film and it looked like a good plan to go together and discuss several aspects of this theme. I’d like to go into more detail, but …
Scorsese In Osdorp (4)
Last part of the article for the Filmjaarboek 2010-2011 Crappy English Marijke Boonstra’s first film for Pim en Wim, Obsessions aka Bezeten – het gat in de muur from 1969, is the second link between Scorsese and Amsterdam. Obsessions was the first feature of de la Parra as a director …
Scorsese In Osdorp (3)
THE CROSSROADS Scorsese has become the ultimate smuggler, after a brief early period of icon clashing. In that period he made mean streets, taxi driver and raging bull, founded in the New York of his younger years with the rules of the Italian community, the church and the local underworld. …
Scorsese In Osdorp (2)
Here part 2 of my article for the Filmjaarboek 2010-2011. MUSE “One could have an aspiration of making a film about impressions or feeling, emotions. But they have to be translated through a very primitive piece of equipment and they have to be as ephemeral as your dreams. Yet, it …
Scorsese In Osdorp
I wrote this article for the Dutch Filmjaarboek 2010-2011 which is published a short time ago. I’ve translated it in English. As it is quite long I will post in chapters, so I can add pics and stuff later on. For you guys who do read Dutch here is one …