X-Men spinoff and Trainspotting sequel to play Out of Competition.
A further 13 films have been invited to screen in the Competition and Berlinale Special section at the 67th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival.
The festival has added commercial clout to its Out Of Competition lineup in the shape of Danny Boyle’s T2 Trainspotting and X-Men spinoff Logan.
There are also competition berths for new films by Hong Sangsoo, Thomas Arslan, Volker Schlöndorff, Sabu, Álex de la Iglesia and Josef Hader.
Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha’s latest, Viceroy’s House, will have its world premiere out of competition at the festival. Starring Hugh Bonneville alongside Gillian Anderson, the period drama set in 1947 India depicts Lord Mountbatten, the man charged with handing India back to its people.
Also having its world premiered out of competition will be Álex de la Iglesia’s The Bar, a comedy-thriller about a group of strangers who get...
A further 13 films have been invited to screen in the Competition and Berlinale Special section at the 67th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival.
The festival has added commercial clout to its Out Of Competition lineup in the shape of Danny Boyle’s T2 Trainspotting and X-Men spinoff Logan.
There are also competition berths for new films by Hong Sangsoo, Thomas Arslan, Volker Schlöndorff, Sabu, Álex de la Iglesia and Josef Hader.
Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha’s latest, Viceroy’s House, will have its world premiere out of competition at the festival. Starring Hugh Bonneville alongside Gillian Anderson, the period drama set in 1947 India depicts Lord Mountbatten, the man charged with handing India back to its people.
Also having its world premiered out of competition will be Álex de la Iglesia’s The Bar, a comedy-thriller about a group of strangers who get...
- 1/10/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman) tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
After an initial line-up that included Aki Kaurismäki‘s The Other Side of Hope, Oren Moverman‘s Richard Gere-led The Dinner, Sally Potter‘s The Party, and Agnieszka Holland‘s Spoor, the Berlin International Film Festival have added more anticipated premieres. Highlights include one of two (maybe three) new Hong Sang-soo films this year, On the Beach at Night Alone, along with Volker Schlöndorff‘s Return to Montauk with Stellan Skarsgård and Nina Hoss, as well as the high-profile world premiere of James Mangold‘s Logan and the international premiere of Danny Boyle‘s T2: Trainspotting.
With Paul Verhoeven serving as jury president for the 67th edition of the festival, check out the new additions below.
Competition
Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja (On the Beach at Night Alone)
South Korea
By Hong Sangsoo (Nobody’s Daughter Haewon, Right Now, Wrong Then)
With Kim Minhee, Seo Younghwa, Jung Jaeyoung, Moon Sungkeun,...
With Paul Verhoeven serving as jury president for the 67th edition of the festival, check out the new additions below.
Competition
Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja (On the Beach at Night Alone)
South Korea
By Hong Sangsoo (Nobody’s Daughter Haewon, Right Now, Wrong Then)
With Kim Minhee, Seo Younghwa, Jung Jaeyoung, Moon Sungkeun,...
- 1/10/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Aldabra: Once Upon An Island will have two market screenings at Cannes following its domestic release in the Czech Republic.
Visions films has picked up worldwide sales rights for the 3D family film Aldabra: Once Upon An Island, with planned market screenings at Cannes.
The company has also closed a deal with Russia’s Luxor Group for a theatrical release in the summer.
Aldabra, one of The Seychelles’ 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, is largely inaccessible to humans, and has fully sunken into the sea and resurfaced six times in its history.
The largely documentary film, which has English narration from Czech actor Oldrich Kaiser and CGI rendered footage, follows the island’s marine and animal inhabitants as they try to survive on one of nature’s last remaining untouched paradises.
Aldabra was the subject of Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s Palme d’Or and Oscar-winning documentary A Silent World.
The film was released in its native Czech Republic...
Visions films has picked up worldwide sales rights for the 3D family film Aldabra: Once Upon An Island, with planned market screenings at Cannes.
The company has also closed a deal with Russia’s Luxor Group for a theatrical release in the summer.
Aldabra, one of The Seychelles’ 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, is largely inaccessible to humans, and has fully sunken into the sea and resurfaced six times in its history.
The largely documentary film, which has English narration from Czech actor Oldrich Kaiser and CGI rendered footage, follows the island’s marine and animal inhabitants as they try to survive on one of nature’s last remaining untouched paradises.
Aldabra was the subject of Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s Palme d’Or and Oscar-winning documentary A Silent World.
The film was released in its native Czech Republic...
- 4/1/2016
- ScreenDaily
Movie Jungle is pleased to provide you with a chance to win a copy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's "I Served the King of England" on DVD! The film is a winner of the Fipresci Prize at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival as well as a nominee of the Golden Berlin Bear. The romantic comedy war film stars Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch, Martin Huba, Marián Labuda and Milan Lasica. Jirí Menzel, helmer of "Larks on a String" and "The Beggar's Opera," directs the film as well as adapting from the novel by Bohumil Hrabal. What's it about? Dreaming of becoming a millionaire, a short but ambitious Czech works his way into a posh pre-war luxury spa, where his marriage to a Hitler-loving fräulein provides him with a golden opportunity to make his fondest wish come true. Enter now! ...
- 2/11/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Movie Jungle is pleased to provide you with a chance to win a copy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's "I Served the King of England" on DVD! The film is a winner of the Fipresci Prize at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival as well as a nominee of the Golden Berlin Bear. The romantic comedy war film stars Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch, Martin Huba, Marián Labuda and Milan Lasica. Jirí Menzel, helmer of "Larks on a String" and "The Beggar's Opera," directs the film as well as adapting from the novel by Bohumil Hrabal...
- 2/11/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Movie Jungle is pleased to provide you with a chance to win a copy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's "I Served the King of England" on DVD! The film is a winner of the Fipresci Prize at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival as well as a nominee of the Golden Berlin Bear. The romantic comedy war film stars Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch, Martin Huba, Marián Labuda and Milan Lasica. Jirí Menzel, helmer of "Larks on a String" and "The Beggar's Opera," directs the film as well as adapting from the novel by Bohumil Hrabal...
- 2/11/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Take one renegade Japanese director, set him to work on a Spaghetti Western, add a cameo by a talkative American filmmaker, and what do you get? First place in the indie four-day weekend box office race. Sukiyaki Western Django, directed by the prolific and extremely versatile Takashi Miike and featuring Quentin Tarantino in a small role, tore it up at the single Manhattan theatre where it opened, grossing $13,100, according to estimates compiled by Box Office Mojo. The version released in the Us does not represent Miike's original vision, however. Distributor First Look edited 20 or so minutes for the bastardized edition currently playing, so this is a muted triumph. *
The light-hearted I Served the King of England had the right stuff to average $8,487 per screen at eight locations. Directed by Jirí Menzel, the film stars Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, and the always wonderful Julia Jentsch. Naked Penélope Cruz outdrew mostly-clothed Penélope Cruz,...
The light-hearted I Served the King of England had the right stuff to average $8,487 per screen at eight locations. Directed by Jirí Menzel, the film stars Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, and the always wonderful Julia Jentsch. Naked Penélope Cruz outdrew mostly-clothed Penélope Cruz,...
- 9/2/2008
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
By Neil Pedley
This week finds Shakespeare meeting Sexy Jesus, a crash course in Czech history alongside a totalitarian demolition derby, apocalyptic sea monsters and Fred Durst trying to get in touch with his fuzzy side.
"Cthulhu"
Director Dan Gildark certainly isn't lacking for confidence. Whereas most first-time filmmakers would turn to the well-worn territory of twentysomethings and their quirky quarterlife crises for subject matter, Gildark has opted to tackle H.P Lovecraft's sprawling, heady, quasi-religious mythos from the short story "Shadow over Innsmouth" instead. Jason Cottle stars as Russ, a history professor who returns home to Oregon to execute his late mother's will and discovers his father is the leader of the coastal town's apocalyptic cult that centers on the fabled Cthulhu, an extraterrestrial deity that exists in a state of torpor at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. When Russ learns a mass sacrifice may be in the offing,...
This week finds Shakespeare meeting Sexy Jesus, a crash course in Czech history alongside a totalitarian demolition derby, apocalyptic sea monsters and Fred Durst trying to get in touch with his fuzzy side.
"Cthulhu"
Director Dan Gildark certainly isn't lacking for confidence. Whereas most first-time filmmakers would turn to the well-worn territory of twentysomethings and their quirky quarterlife crises for subject matter, Gildark has opted to tackle H.P Lovecraft's sprawling, heady, quasi-religious mythos from the short story "Shadow over Innsmouth" instead. Jason Cottle stars as Russ, a history professor who returns home to Oregon to execute his late mother's will and discovers his father is the leader of the coastal town's apocalyptic cult that centers on the fabled Cthulhu, an extraterrestrial deity that exists in a state of torpor at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. When Russ learns a mass sacrifice may be in the offing,...
- 8/18/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
I Served the King of England
BERLIN -- Forty years after their "Closely Watched Trains" won the Oscar for best foreign-language film, director Jiri Menzel has adapted another novel by the late Bohumil Hrabal, and history could well repeat itself when Academy members get to see "I Served the King of England", which screened here In Competition.
Sharing a similar sensibility, the new picture is the picaresque tale of an ambitious but naive Czechoslovakian waiter whose gumption, opportunism and blinkered awareness of events see him thrive amid political and social upheaval. It is a sumptuously told tale of childlike wonder in the face of darkest corruption and war, mixing high comedy, surreal sequences and genuine drama viewed from a wise, jaundiced perspective.
Given time to finds its audience, which is anyone who likes the Coen brothers, "Served" could do well across all territories as its visual humor and topical significance give it mainstream grown-up appeal.
The film begins with a grizzled, aging Jan Dite (Oldrich Kaiser) being released after 15 years in a Czech prison and assigned to a job as a roadman near the German border. He's given a wrecked building to live in, and as he works cheerfully to rebuild it, flashbacks tell how the fates have conspired to bring him to this pretty pass.
As a young man, Jan (Ivan Barnev) is short, observant and quick-witted, selling frankfurters to passengers on briefly stopped trains. In the first comic sequence -- which is shot like a silent film and will be echoed throughout "Serve" -- he hangs on to a large amount of change until the train pulls out, taking the buyer with it. His innate innocence surfaces too late, and he chases the train with arm outstretched to return the cash, but to no avail.
The film switches back and forth from Jan's adventures as a young man to his later life, where his remote existence is brightened by the appearance of a lethargic but attractive young woman, Marcela (Zuzana Fialova), accompanied by a professor (Milan Lasica) seeking wood to make violins and cellos.
Young Jan makes his way from one waiting job to a better one, and these hotel and restaurant scenes are wonderfully contrived with visual comedy matched by undercurrents of shrewd political comment. In one of the cleverest, the film's title is explained. Hrabal and Menzel employ satire with the sharpest scalpel exercised within comic episodes of high wit and slapstick.
Jan's young life is full of delectably willing young women, though they are usually at the beck and call of salacious capitalists. When he falls in love, it's with a young German woman, Liza (Julia Jentsch), who believes in all things Aryan and supports the Nazi invasion.
The story then follows their passage through World War II and later the Soviet communist occupation and how Jan gets everything he wishes for and then loses it all. Barnev is sublime as the young man, gifted with the physical grace of great comedians and with expressive features that encourage sympathy despite some of the unsympathetic things he does. Kaiser is equally good as the wiser, sadder older man.
The acting throughout is of the highest order, and other standout credits include the colorful production design by Milan Bycek and Ales Brezina's jaunty piano score.
I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND
Bioscop and AQS in co-production with TV Nova, Magic Box Slovakia, Barrandov Studios, Universal Production Partners
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Jiri Menzel
Based on the novel by: Bohumil Hrabal
Producers: Robert Schaffer, Andrea Metcalfe
Director of photgraphy: Jaromir Sofr
Editor: Jiri Brozek
Production designer: Milan Bycek
Music: Ales Brezina
Costume designer: Milan Corba
Cast:
Jan Dite (young): Ivan Barnev
Jan Dite (old): Oldrich Kaiser
Liza: Julia Jentsch
Skrivanek: Martin Huba
Walden: Marian Labuda
Professor: Milan Lasica
Brandejs: Josef Abrham
Hotel Chief: Jiri Labus
Karel: Jaromir Dulava
Marcela: Zuzana Fialova
General: Pavel Novy
Running time -- 120 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Sharing a similar sensibility, the new picture is the picaresque tale of an ambitious but naive Czechoslovakian waiter whose gumption, opportunism and blinkered awareness of events see him thrive amid political and social upheaval. It is a sumptuously told tale of childlike wonder in the face of darkest corruption and war, mixing high comedy, surreal sequences and genuine drama viewed from a wise, jaundiced perspective.
Given time to finds its audience, which is anyone who likes the Coen brothers, "Served" could do well across all territories as its visual humor and topical significance give it mainstream grown-up appeal.
The film begins with a grizzled, aging Jan Dite (Oldrich Kaiser) being released after 15 years in a Czech prison and assigned to a job as a roadman near the German border. He's given a wrecked building to live in, and as he works cheerfully to rebuild it, flashbacks tell how the fates have conspired to bring him to this pretty pass.
As a young man, Jan (Ivan Barnev) is short, observant and quick-witted, selling frankfurters to passengers on briefly stopped trains. In the first comic sequence -- which is shot like a silent film and will be echoed throughout "Serve" -- he hangs on to a large amount of change until the train pulls out, taking the buyer with it. His innate innocence surfaces too late, and he chases the train with arm outstretched to return the cash, but to no avail.
The film switches back and forth from Jan's adventures as a young man to his later life, where his remote existence is brightened by the appearance of a lethargic but attractive young woman, Marcela (Zuzana Fialova), accompanied by a professor (Milan Lasica) seeking wood to make violins and cellos.
Young Jan makes his way from one waiting job to a better one, and these hotel and restaurant scenes are wonderfully contrived with visual comedy matched by undercurrents of shrewd political comment. In one of the cleverest, the film's title is explained. Hrabal and Menzel employ satire with the sharpest scalpel exercised within comic episodes of high wit and slapstick.
Jan's young life is full of delectably willing young women, though they are usually at the beck and call of salacious capitalists. When he falls in love, it's with a young German woman, Liza (Julia Jentsch), who believes in all things Aryan and supports the Nazi invasion.
The story then follows their passage through World War II and later the Soviet communist occupation and how Jan gets everything he wishes for and then loses it all. Barnev is sublime as the young man, gifted with the physical grace of great comedians and with expressive features that encourage sympathy despite some of the unsympathetic things he does. Kaiser is equally good as the wiser, sadder older man.
The acting throughout is of the highest order, and other standout credits include the colorful production design by Milan Bycek and Ales Brezina's jaunty piano score.
I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND
Bioscop and AQS in co-production with TV Nova, Magic Box Slovakia, Barrandov Studios, Universal Production Partners
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Jiri Menzel
Based on the novel by: Bohumil Hrabal
Producers: Robert Schaffer, Andrea Metcalfe
Director of photgraphy: Jaromir Sofr
Editor: Jiri Brozek
Production designer: Milan Bycek
Music: Ales Brezina
Costume designer: Milan Corba
Cast:
Jan Dite (young): Ivan Barnev
Jan Dite (old): Oldrich Kaiser
Liza: Julia Jentsch
Skrivanek: Martin Huba
Walden: Marian Labuda
Professor: Milan Lasica
Brandejs: Josef Abrham
Hotel Chief: Jiri Labus
Karel: Jaromir Dulava
Marcela: Zuzana Fialova
General: Pavel Novy
Running time -- 120 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/19/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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