In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we take a look at Oh Land's Love You Better, directed by Kristian Levring. The music video of this week's Sound and Vision might seem like a far cry from where Kristian Levring started. He was a filmmaker who first came onto the scene with documentaries after all, and then made one of the earliest Dogme95 films, The King Is Alive. Dogme95 itself was notoriously weary of anything that could be seen as an (special) effect. The rules of Dogme95 were there to reestablish a sense of naturalism to cinema, foregoing things like props and external lighting equipment, to keep film pure. The vow of cinematic...
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- 9/18/2023
- Screen Anarchy
Norwegian cinema has been enjoying a moment lately, what with Joachim Trier’s crowdpleasing The Worst Person in the World pulling up to Drive My Car in the Oscar race and Kristoffer Borgli’s Sick of Me carving out a rep on the festival circuit. The Hypnosis, Ernst de Geer’s feature debut, sits somewhere between the two of them, fashioning a fitfully funny relationship drama that tilts at some very modern windmills within a framework similar to Kristian Levring’s 2008 Danish drama Fear Me Not, in which a man’s personality changes after he becomes addicted to an experimental drug. The Hypnosis doesn’t quite follow that film’s melodramatic course, but there are similar thoughts raised about the human mind.
The two leads are André (Herbert Nordrum) and Vera (Asta Kamma August), a young middle-class couple who are launching...
The two leads are André (Herbert Nordrum) and Vera (Asta Kamma August), a young middle-class couple who are launching...
- 7/9/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
French soccer player-turned-actor Eric Cantona (“Looking for Eric”) is set to star in “Giant With Feet of Clay” (“Le Colosse aux pieds d’argile”), a television drama about sexual harassement and abuse in sports.
The movie is about to start shooting in Southwestern France with French director Stéphanie Murat; and is being produced by Sydney Gallonde’s Make It Happen Studio and Tetra Media Studio (“Paris Police 1900”).
Aude Marcle penned the script which is loosely based on the true story of Sébastien Boueilh, who penned the book “Le Colosse aux pieds d’argile” with Thierry Vildary. The timely movie has been commissioned by French TV network TF1 which is also co-producing.
Cantona as Sébastien, a successful former rugbyman who was raped by someone close to his parents for four years when he was a teenage athlete and has been unable to tell anyone what happened to him. Torn by...
The movie is about to start shooting in Southwestern France with French director Stéphanie Murat; and is being produced by Sydney Gallonde’s Make It Happen Studio and Tetra Media Studio (“Paris Police 1900”).
Aude Marcle penned the script which is loosely based on the true story of Sébastien Boueilh, who penned the book “Le Colosse aux pieds d’argile” with Thierry Vildary. The timely movie has been commissioned by French TV network TF1 which is also co-producing.
Cantona as Sébastien, a successful former rugbyman who was raped by someone close to his parents for four years when he was a teenage athlete and has been unable to tell anyone what happened to him. Torn by...
- 10/18/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Sisse Graum Jørgensen, the Zentropa producer behind Thomas Vinterberg’s BAFTA-winning, Oscar-nominated “Another Round,” spoke to Variety about working with Vinterberg, making her TV debut, as well as opportunities and challenges ahead for independent producers.
Graum Jørgensen is primarily known for her long and successful partnerships with some of the most celebrated filmmakers in Denmark, including Vinterberg and Susanne Bier, whose film “In a Better World” won an Oscar in 2011, Anders Thomas Jensen (“Riders of Justice”), Kristian Levring (“The Salvation”), Tobias Lindholm (“A War”), and Kim Fupz Aakeson (“Perfect Sense”). Graum Jørgensen produced the top of highest-grossing Danish films during the pandemic: “Another Round” and Jensen’s “Riders of Justice,” two of which star Mads Mikkelsen. “Riders of Justice” was briefly released in Denmark in the fall before theaters shut down and will be brought back in local cinemas on time for their reopening on May 6.
You’re producing Thomas Vinterberg’s TV drama debut,...
Graum Jørgensen is primarily known for her long and successful partnerships with some of the most celebrated filmmakers in Denmark, including Vinterberg and Susanne Bier, whose film “In a Better World” won an Oscar in 2011, Anders Thomas Jensen (“Riders of Justice”), Kristian Levring (“The Salvation”), Tobias Lindholm (“A War”), and Kim Fupz Aakeson (“Perfect Sense”). Graum Jørgensen produced the top of highest-grossing Danish films during the pandemic: “Another Round” and Jensen’s “Riders of Justice,” two of which star Mads Mikkelsen. “Riders of Justice” was briefly released in Denmark in the fall before theaters shut down and will be brought back in local cinemas on time for their reopening on May 6.
You’re producing Thomas Vinterberg’s TV drama debut,...
- 4/14/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Oscar-winning Danish writer-director has just started shooting his new project on the island of Fyn and in Sweden. Anders Thomas Jensen has just started filming his new project, Riders of Justice, on the island of Fyn and in Sweden. Jensen is known for his dark humour and has over 30 feature credits under his belt; as a screenwriter, he has collaborated with directors such as Susanne Bier, Lone Scherfig, Martin Zandvliet, Tomas Villum Jensen and Kristian Levring. Furthermore, his 1998 effort Election Night was crowned Best Live-action Short Film at the Academy Awards, after he garnered two nominations in the same category in 1996 and 1997. His fifth feature, penned by the director himself, centres on Markus (played by Mads Mikkelsen), a military man on active duty who has to go home to look after his teenage daughter Mathilde (Andrea Heick Gadeberg) when his wife dies in a tragic...
Nora Twomey’s animated TV series also supported.
New projects from filmmakers Kirsten Sheridan, Ian Fitzgibbon and Mark O’Halloran are among those being backed by the Irish Film Board in its latest round of funding decisions.
A forthcoming animated TV series co-helmed by Irish Oscar nominee Nora Twomey is also being supported by the national film body, as is a new documentary featuring singer Pj Harvey.
Twomey, nominated for an Oscar this year for her film The Breadwinner, will co-direct Dorg Van Dango with Fabian Erlinghauser. The series, from a script by Nick Murphy, was awarded €250,000.
Ian Fitzgibbon’s...
New projects from filmmakers Kirsten Sheridan, Ian Fitzgibbon and Mark O’Halloran are among those being backed by the Irish Film Board in its latest round of funding decisions.
A forthcoming animated TV series co-helmed by Irish Oscar nominee Nora Twomey is also being supported by the national film body, as is a new documentary featuring singer Pj Harvey.
Twomey, nominated for an Oscar this year for her film The Breadwinner, will co-direct Dorg Van Dango with Fabian Erlinghauser. The series, from a script by Nick Murphy, was awarded €250,000.
Ian Fitzgibbon’s...
- 4/16/2018
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
There is much black humour and people getting hit with stuffed animals in this macabre comedy from the writer of In a Better World
Anders Thomas Jensen is the Danish film-maker and screenwriter best known for his script collaborations with Susanne Bier on movies such as In a Better World, The Brothers and Love Is All You Need – he also co-wrote Kristian Levring’s western The Salvation. Here is his latest credit as writer-director: a gamey, tangy and strange gothic horror comedy carried off in a deadpan macabre style.
There is something distinctly nasty in the woodshed. Mads Mikkelsen and David Dencik star as Elias and Gabriel, two middle-aged half-brothers with weird mannerisms and what can charitably be described as undiagnosed learning difficulties. From a videotaped message left to them by their late father, they discover that they are adopted, and are the progeny of an elderly geneticist living on a remote Danish island.
Anders Thomas Jensen is the Danish film-maker and screenwriter best known for his script collaborations with Susanne Bier on movies such as In a Better World, The Brothers and Love Is All You Need – he also co-wrote Kristian Levring’s western The Salvation. Here is his latest credit as writer-director: a gamey, tangy and strange gothic horror comedy carried off in a deadpan macabre style.
There is something distinctly nasty in the woodshed. Mads Mikkelsen and David Dencik star as Elias and Gabriel, two middle-aged half-brothers with weird mannerisms and what can charitably be described as undiagnosed learning difficulties. From a videotaped message left to them by their late father, they discover that they are adopted, and are the progeny of an elderly geneticist living on a remote Danish island.
- 7/14/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
I guess killin' all those Indians for us must have addled his mind.
The title of The Salvation (2014) is inapt. There is no salvation here. Danish filmmaker Kristian Levring has, instead, created another entry in the how-living-in-the-west-really-sucked-probably subgenre of Westerns. Things get so grim, in fact, that one questions the plausibility of the exact brand of misery Levring and co-writer Anders Thomas Jensen establish here. The story begins with Jon Jensen (Mads Mikkelsen) waiting at the (implausibly busy) train station for the arrival of his wife and child from Denmark. Jon and his brother left Denmark after the Second Schleswig War and set up as hunters in the new West. Before nightfall, Jon's wife and son have been murdered and Jon has taken his revenge on the culprits. Little did he know, one of the perpetrators was the brother of the local psycho-land grabber, Delarue (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who then...
The title of The Salvation (2014) is inapt. There is no salvation here. Danish filmmaker Kristian Levring has, instead, created another entry in the how-living-in-the-west-really-sucked-probably subgenre of Westerns. Things get so grim, in fact, that one questions the plausibility of the exact brand of misery Levring and co-writer Anders Thomas Jensen establish here. The story begins with Jon Jensen (Mads Mikkelsen) waiting at the (implausibly busy) train station for the arrival of his wife and child from Denmark. Jon and his brother left Denmark after the Second Schleswig War and set up as hunters in the new West. Before nightfall, Jon's wife and son have been murdered and Jon has taken his revenge on the culprits. Little did he know, one of the perpetrators was the brother of the local psycho-land grabber, Delarue (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who then...
- 9/10/2015
- by Jason Ratigan
- JustPressPlay.net
Kristian Levring looks like one of the characters in his new film The Salvation (2014) - a distinct face, long dark hair, you could imagine him taking out someone with a rusty Victorian sniper. But the Danish director, who lives in North London, is more the intellectual than the aggro marksman, a former Dogme 95 signatory with a cineaste's mind and a political brain. That political edge comes out because his revenge western has a dynamic, multicultural element, led as it is by Mads Mikkelsen's Jon, a Dane who moves to America to start a new life - like many of his generation in the late 1800s. "The western is a weird thing for a European to do," he explains, "even though there have been good European directors. When you read about the West, the frontier was inhabited by Europeans, by immigrants."...
- 8/23/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Czech production companies partnering on new projects from the likes of Kristian Levring, Per-Olav Sørensen and Bohdan Slama.
A raft of Czech production companies are here in Cannes with a range of projects including an drama set in Afghanistan.
Prague-based Sirena Films is planning to shoot high-end, Afghan-set TV series Nobel from Norwegian director Per-Olav Sørensen (The Heavy Water War) in August. This is a coproduction with Norway’s Monster Scripted.
Sirena is also partnering with Zentropa on Kristian Levring’s Devil’s Lake, sold by Zentropa, and is in negotiations with HBO to make detective TV series Nearest And Dearest, about missing person cases.
Negativ has a new feature from festival favourite Bohdan Slama, winner of San Sebastian’s Golden Shell for Something Like Happiness. Slama’s latest project is titled Icy Mother.
Axman Production is in Cannes looking to close financing on Czech-us coproduction American Chick from Viktor Taus. Scripted by Evita...
A raft of Czech production companies are here in Cannes with a range of projects including an drama set in Afghanistan.
Prague-based Sirena Films is planning to shoot high-end, Afghan-set TV series Nobel from Norwegian director Per-Olav Sørensen (The Heavy Water War) in August. This is a coproduction with Norway’s Monster Scripted.
Sirena is also partnering with Zentropa on Kristian Levring’s Devil’s Lake, sold by Zentropa, and is in negotiations with HBO to make detective TV series Nearest And Dearest, about missing person cases.
Negativ has a new feature from festival favourite Bohdan Slama, winner of San Sebastian’s Golden Shell for Something Like Happiness. Slama’s latest project is titled Icy Mother.
Axman Production is in Cannes looking to close financing on Czech-us coproduction American Chick from Viktor Taus. Scripted by Evita...
- 5/19/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Danish director Kristian Levring (The Salvation) is set to make a new Prohibition-era drama.
Devil’s Lake is set to shoot in the Czech Republic next spring.
This will mark the latest collaboration between Danish outfit Zentropa and Sirena Film, the Prague-based prouction company that has also worked on such recent Scandinavian projects as A Royal Affair, The Shamer’s Daughter, 1864 and Us film Serena by Oscar-winning director Susanne Bier.
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Levring’s revenge western The Salvation, starring Mads Mikkelsen, was a Midnight Screening in Cannes last year
The new project was confirmed in Cannes by Sirena’s Kristina Hejdukova.
Devil’s Lake is set to shoot in the Czech Republic next spring.
This will mark the latest collaboration between Danish outfit Zentropa and Sirena Film, the Prague-based prouction company that has also worked on such recent Scandinavian projects as A Royal Affair, The Shamer’s Daughter, 1864 and Us film Serena by Oscar-winning director Susanne Bier.
TrustNordisk will be handling sales.
Levring’s revenge western The Salvation, starring Mads Mikkelsen, was a Midnight Screening in Cannes last year
The new project was confirmed in Cannes by Sirena’s Kristina Hejdukova.
- 5/17/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Thanks to Madman, we have 3 copies of The Salvation on DVD to giveaway to our Australian readers. Directed by Kristian Levring and starring Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, the film is described as a "terrific piece, a gobsmackingly enjoyable time at the cinema that also happens to be one of the best films this year" by our own Jason Gorber. Synopsis: 1870, America. Danish immigrant Jon (Mads Mikkelsen) has been waiting for years to bring his wife and son to the United States. When he finally succeeds, moments after their arrival they fall victim to a horrific crime. Out of grief and despair Jon kills the perpetrator, triggering a chain of violence and revenge. The victim's brother is the ruthless Colonel...
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- 4/19/2015
- Screen Anarchy
★★★☆☆ The first film in over eight years for director Kristian Levring, The Salvation (2014) was a much-needed outlier on the festival circuit. A rare genre piece in a field of arthouse heavyweights, it served as a timely reminder of cinema as the ultimate medium of pulp. Outside of this context it may not prove itself to be as much of a palette-cleanser, but it's still an enjoyable, down-and-dirty western. Though it talks loftily of Westward expansion and the pioneer spirit, it is in essence a picture in thrall to the masters of pulp; from the combustible Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone to the unfussy American grit of Walter Hill, no reference point is left unchecked. The Salvation is, like so many of its predecessors, a tale of revenge.
- 4/17/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Nearly Blazing Saddles without the jokes: all genre conventions with none of the fun, just your inescapable expectations met around every sun-blighted corner. I’m “biast” (pro): love Mads Mikkelsen and Eva Green
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
There’s clichés in them thar hills. A motherlode, even. Danish filmmaker Kristian Levring’s (The Intended) Western is so unabashedly crammed with stereotypes and contrivances that it’s hard to see how anyone involved kept a straight face while shooting. (The character who is both preacher and sheriff is a particular unintended hoot.) The Salvation is nearly Blazing Saddles without the jokes: it’s all genre conventions with none of the fun, just your inescapable expectations confirmed around every sun-blighted corner. It’s 1870, and cartoon villain Delarue (Jeffrey Dean Morgan: They Came Together) is running a protection racket in a...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
There’s clichés in them thar hills. A motherlode, even. Danish filmmaker Kristian Levring’s (The Intended) Western is so unabashedly crammed with stereotypes and contrivances that it’s hard to see how anyone involved kept a straight face while shooting. (The character who is both preacher and sheriff is a particular unintended hoot.) The Salvation is nearly Blazing Saddles without the jokes: it’s all genre conventions with none of the fun, just your inescapable expectations confirmed around every sun-blighted corner. It’s 1870, and cartoon villain Delarue (Jeffrey Dean Morgan: They Came Together) is running a protection racket in a...
- 4/15/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Director: Kristian Levring; Screenwriter: Kristian Levring, Anders Thomas, Jensen; Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eric Cantona, Jonathan Pryce; Running time: 92 mins; Certificate: 15
Every now and then a western will come along that threatens to revive the genre, but The Salvation - although stunningly photographed with cutting-edge technology - isn't one of those. In many ways it's resolutely old-fashioned and although putting a Dane (Mads Mikkelsen) at the heart of the story is an unconventional move, it's also an act of defiance, or indifference - a refusal to pander to a modern, mainstream audience. In short, this is a western strictly for people who love westerns.
Revenge is the spark for a traditionally simple plot that uses archetypes and clichés like a sort of cinematic comfort blanket, except that shocking bursts of violence keep it from being too warmly nostalgic. The worst of it comes at the beginning...
Every now and then a western will come along that threatens to revive the genre, but The Salvation - although stunningly photographed with cutting-edge technology - isn't one of those. In many ways it's resolutely old-fashioned and although putting a Dane (Mads Mikkelsen) at the heart of the story is an unconventional move, it's also an act of defiance, or indifference - a refusal to pander to a modern, mainstream audience. In short, this is a western strictly for people who love westerns.
Revenge is the spark for a traditionally simple plot that uses archetypes and clichés like a sort of cinematic comfort blanket, except that shocking bursts of violence keep it from being too warmly nostalgic. The worst of it comes at the beginning...
- 4/14/2015
- Digital Spy
The Salvation is a revenge film so obsessed with the “revenge” part of its plot that you can practically feel the filmmakers salivating to get to the cathartic final shootout. (And yes, a better title for it might be The Salivation. This writer is self-respecting enough not to lead with that zinger, but not above putting it in a self-aware aside.) In so doing, the film makes for a rather pointed lesson in making a good revenge movie: sure, the revenge itself had better be big and it had better be bloody, but it needs to be truly cathartic – a release of emotional energy for an interesting character. In The Salvation, it’s just one particularly concentrated explosion of cold-blooded cruelty to cap a movie that’s already dished out cold-blooded cruelty to spare.
The film opens in the 1870s, when a Danish settler’s (Mads Mikkelsen) wife and son...
The film opens in the 1870s, when a Danish settler’s (Mads Mikkelsen) wife and son...
- 3/27/2015
- by Patrick Dunn
- CinemaNerdz
Taking place April 4-19, the festival will feature over 200 films, including recent world premieres from Sundance and Berlin.
Istanbul Film Festival has unveiled the lineup to its upcoming edition, taking place from April 4-19.
This year will feature over 200 films from 62 countries, as well as free talks and workshops by film-makers and masterclasses. New sections at this year’s festival include a special focus on cinema of the Balkans and a focus on German animation.
The festival’s international competition includes the likes of Cédric Kahn’s Wild Life, Quentin Dupieux’s Reality, Francesco Munzi’s Black Souls and Thomas Vinterberg’s Far from the Madding Crowd, while the national competition will screen Ali Atay’s Lemonade, Selim Evci’s Secret and Mehmet Eryılmaz’s The Visitor, among others.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, Jc Chandor’s A Most Violent Year, Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years and Matthew Warchus’ Pride are among this year’s Akbank Gala screenings...
Istanbul Film Festival has unveiled the lineup to its upcoming edition, taking place from April 4-19.
This year will feature over 200 films from 62 countries, as well as free talks and workshops by film-makers and masterclasses. New sections at this year’s festival include a special focus on cinema of the Balkans and a focus on German animation.
The festival’s international competition includes the likes of Cédric Kahn’s Wild Life, Quentin Dupieux’s Reality, Francesco Munzi’s Black Souls and Thomas Vinterberg’s Far from the Madding Crowd, while the national competition will screen Ali Atay’s Lemonade, Selim Evci’s Secret and Mehmet Eryılmaz’s The Visitor, among others.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, Jc Chandor’s A Most Violent Year, Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years and Matthew Warchus’ Pride are among this year’s Akbank Gala screenings...
- 3/13/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
April 3
Fast & Furious 7
Director: James Wan
Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson
Running time: 140 mins
Certificate: Tbc
The Water Diviner
Director: Russell Crowe
Starring: Jai Courtney, Olga Kurylenko, Russell Crowe
Running time: 111 mins
Certificate: 15
While We're Young
Director: Noah Baumbach
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Naomi Watts
Running time: 97 mins
Certificate: 15
April 10
The Duff
Director: Ari Sandel
Starring: Bella Thorne, Mae Whitman
Running time: 110 mins
Certificate: Tbc
Cobain: Montage of Heck
Director: Brett Morgen
Starring: Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Courtney Love
Running time: 132 mins
Certificate: 15
Force Majeure
Director: Ruben Östlund
Starring: Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli
Running time: 119 mins
Certificate: 15
Good Kill
Director: Andrew Niccol
Starring: Ethan Hawke, January Jones
Running time: 102 mins
Certificate: 15
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
Director: Steve Pink
Starring: Adam Scott, Craig Robinson
Running time: 93 mins
Certificate: 15
John Wick
Director: Chad Stahelski
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist
Running time: 101 mins
Certificate: 15
Lost River
Director: Ryan Gosling
Starring: Saoirse Ronan,...
Fast & Furious 7
Director: James Wan
Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson
Running time: 140 mins
Certificate: Tbc
The Water Diviner
Director: Russell Crowe
Starring: Jai Courtney, Olga Kurylenko, Russell Crowe
Running time: 111 mins
Certificate: 15
While We're Young
Director: Noah Baumbach
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Naomi Watts
Running time: 97 mins
Certificate: 15
April 10
The Duff
Director: Ari Sandel
Starring: Bella Thorne, Mae Whitman
Running time: 110 mins
Certificate: Tbc
Cobain: Montage of Heck
Director: Brett Morgen
Starring: Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Courtney Love
Running time: 132 mins
Certificate: 15
Force Majeure
Director: Ruben Östlund
Starring: Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli
Running time: 119 mins
Certificate: 15
Good Kill
Director: Andrew Niccol
Starring: Ethan Hawke, January Jones
Running time: 102 mins
Certificate: 15
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
Director: Steve Pink
Starring: Adam Scott, Craig Robinson
Running time: 93 mins
Certificate: 15
John Wick
Director: Chad Stahelski
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist
Running time: 101 mins
Certificate: 15
Lost River
Director: Ryan Gosling
Starring: Saoirse Ronan,...
- 3/11/2015
- Digital Spy
Festival will close with Michel Hazanavicius’ The Search and runs March 25-29.
A Little Chaos will receive its Us premiere as the opening film of this year’s Sonoma International Film Festival (Siff), which runs March 25-29.
Alan Rickman’s directorial debut sees him star alongside Kate Winslet.
Michel Hazanavicius’ The Search, starring Annette Bening and Berenice Bejo, will close the film.
This year’s Siff will show over 100 films from 25 countries across eight venues. Highlights include Kristian Levring’s The Salvation, Franco Lolli’s Gente de Bien, Kim Seong-hun’s A Hard Day and the world premiere of Barnaby & Matthew O’Connor’s California High.
Kevin W. McNeely, executive director, commented: “We are very proud of this year’s program celebrating the best in film, food and wine. Films ranging from thought-provoking documentaries on environmental and social issues, to the best in animation, world cinema, art and music, coupled with panels, parties and our...
A Little Chaos will receive its Us premiere as the opening film of this year’s Sonoma International Film Festival (Siff), which runs March 25-29.
Alan Rickman’s directorial debut sees him star alongside Kate Winslet.
Michel Hazanavicius’ The Search, starring Annette Bening and Berenice Bejo, will close the film.
This year’s Siff will show over 100 films from 25 countries across eight venues. Highlights include Kristian Levring’s The Salvation, Franco Lolli’s Gente de Bien, Kim Seong-hun’s A Hard Day and the world premiere of Barnaby & Matthew O’Connor’s California High.
Kevin W. McNeely, executive director, commented: “We are very proud of this year’s program celebrating the best in film, food and wine. Films ranging from thought-provoking documentaries on environmental and social issues, to the best in animation, world cinema, art and music, coupled with panels, parties and our...
- 3/9/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
The new Film Comment features pieces on Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent, Virgil Vernier's Mercuriales, Riley Stearns's Faults, Guillaume Nicloux's The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, Kornél Mundruczó's White God, Robert Kenner's Merchants of Doubt, Noah Baumbach's While We’re Young, Rupert Goold's True Story, Richard Laxton's Effie Gray, Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground, David Zellner and Nathan Zellner's Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter, Kristian Levring's The Salvation and more. Also in today's news: Sight & Sound on women film critics, Adrian Martin on Ernst Lubitsch, David Bordwell on Strange Interlude (1932), the Paris Review on John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) and lots more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/9/2015
- Keyframe
The new Film Comment features pieces on Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent, Virgil Vernier's Mercuriales, Riley Stearns's Faults, Guillaume Nicloux's The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, Kornél Mundruczó's White God, Robert Kenner's Merchants of Doubt, Noah Baumbach's While We’re Young, Rupert Goold's True Story, Richard Laxton's Effie Gray, Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground, David Zellner and Nathan Zellner's Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter, Kristian Levring's The Salvation and more. Also in today's news: Sight & Sound on women film critics, Adrian Martin on Ernst Lubitsch, David Bordwell on Strange Interlude (1932), the Paris Review on John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) and lots more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/9/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The new Film Comment features pieces on Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent, Virgil Vernier's Mercuriales, Riley Stearns's Faults, Guillaume Nicloux's The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, Kornél Mundruczó's White God, Robert Kenner's Merchants of Doubt, Noah Baumbach's While We’re Young, Rupert Goold's True Story, Richard Laxton's Effie Gray, Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground, David Zellner and Nathan Zellner's Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter, Kristian Levring's The Salvation and more. Also in today's news: Sight & Sound on women film critics, Adrian Martin on Ernst Lubitsch, David Bordwell on Strange Interlude (1932), the Paris Review on John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) and lots more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/9/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The new Film Comment features pieces on Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent, Virgil Vernier's Mercuriales, Riley Stearns's Faults, Guillaume Nicloux's The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, Kornél Mundruczó's White God, Robert Kenner's Merchants of Doubt, Noah Baumbach's While We’re Young, Rupert Goold's True Story, Richard Laxton's Effie Gray, Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground, David Zellner and Nathan Zellner's Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter, Kristian Levring's The Salvation and more. Also in today's news: Sight & Sound on women film critics, Adrian Martin on Ernst Lubitsch, David Bordwell on Strange Interlude (1932), the Paris Review on John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) and lots more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/9/2015
- Keyframe
Westerns have been very few and far between over the last few years, and with the exception of Django Unchained, they haven't really found a place with modern audiences. That could all change with The Salvation, a tribute to classic westerns of years past, that perfectly captures the classic and mythic nature of this beloved genre. The above trailer does a great job of showing exactly what director Kristian Levring wants to achieve with The Salvation, and couples a strong lead performance from Mads Mikkelsen with an impressive supporting cast, including Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Eric Cantona (yes, really. He's proven himself a competent actor since he gave up football). I have a feeling, years from now, this could be said in the same breath as other classic westerns, like Once Upon a Time in the West, Tombstone, and Unforgiven. Released: 17th April Synopsis: In the 1870s, among new settlers and outlaws,...
- 3/4/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
The Salvation
Written by Anders Thomas Jensen and Kristian Levring
Directed by Kristian Levring
Denmark, 2015
Westerns have never recovered from the oversaturation of the genre that killed off viewer interest decades ago, but every now and then a gem pops up. Recent successes like The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, 2007’s 3:10 to Yuma and the Coen brothers adaptation of True Grit all did well because they tweaked the genre slightly, but director Kristian Levring goes with an old school approach. A faithful recreation of those revenge Westerns made so popular in the 1970s, The Salvation envelopes many elements of previous Clint Eastwood classics and wraps it into a tidy package.
The Salvation starts in on the central dilemma, joining Jon (Hannibal‘s Mad Mikkelsen) at the train station where he awaits the arrival of his wife and son. Jon and his brother, Peter (Mikael Persbrandt...
Written by Anders Thomas Jensen and Kristian Levring
Directed by Kristian Levring
Denmark, 2015
Westerns have never recovered from the oversaturation of the genre that killed off viewer interest decades ago, but every now and then a gem pops up. Recent successes like The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, 2007’s 3:10 to Yuma and the Coen brothers adaptation of True Grit all did well because they tweaked the genre slightly, but director Kristian Levring goes with an old school approach. A faithful recreation of those revenge Westerns made so popular in the 1970s, The Salvation envelopes many elements of previous Clint Eastwood classics and wraps it into a tidy package.
The Salvation starts in on the central dilemma, joining Jon (Hannibal‘s Mad Mikkelsen) at the train station where he awaits the arrival of his wife and son. Jon and his brother, Peter (Mikael Persbrandt...
- 2/27/2015
- by Colin Biggs
- SoundOnSight
With his tough, chiseled face, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen has one of world cinema’s best mugs. The actor carries so much of the weight of his many characters in his face, whether it be Hannibal Lecter’s suave cunning on television or anguished despair in his triumphant role in Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt. Naturally, as a stoic settler trying to get retribution on a bloodthirsty baddie in The Salvation, a pastiche to the westerns of John Ford and Sergio Leone, Mikkelsen is magnetic, expressing deep hurt and pain with just a glower or grimace.
As recent Danish immigrant Jon, Mikkelsen’s bloodied and blistered face is a wall to show just how resolute he can be. Jon crossed the Atlantic with his brother (Mikael Persbrandt) in the 1860s with the hopes of making a living in a frontier town. He learned the customs and language, as did the...
As recent Danish immigrant Jon, Mikkelsen’s bloodied and blistered face is a wall to show just how resolute he can be. Jon crossed the Atlantic with his brother (Mikael Persbrandt) in the 1860s with the hopes of making a living in a frontier town. He learned the customs and language, as did the...
- 2/26/2015
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
As much as we love the western genre, it appears Danish director Kristian Levring, (who was the fourth signatory of the Dogme95 movement, film history fans) loves it more. His "The Salvation" is a testament to that — a loving and in fact overly adulatory genre film which is not so much a take on the revenge Western as a deeply faithful recreation of it — is at times so faithful as to veer dangerously close to pastiche. Despite the casting of 2012 Cannes Best Actor Mads Mikkelsen, who is as effortlessly compelling and committed as ever in the central role, there is something inauthentic about the whole endeavor, as the film wastes its one true claim to originality — the Danish angle — in favor of mouthing the words, wearing the clothes and walking the swagger of the John Ford, Howard Hawks and Sergio Leone movies Levring and co. clearly worship. And so, as intermittently fun,...
- 2/26/2015
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Two Bond villains and Eva Green walk into a western, and they emerge with a rugged — if far from revolutionary — old-school horse-opera throwback. Having long since ditched the Dogme 95 precepts that guided his breakout 2000 feature, The King Is Alive, Danish director Kristian Levring employs a bounty of CG-enhanced Sergio Leone–isms for The Salvation, the story of a Danish soldier-turned-settler named Jon (Casino Royale's Mads Mikkelsen) who's reunited with his wife and child in 1871 America, only to have them raped and murdered. Jon exacts bloody revenge for this crime, which in turn makes him the target of a bandit leader (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) in league with a mayor (Tomorrow Never Dies' Jonathan Pryce) and in love with ...
- 2/25/2015
- Village Voice
Following up his Best Actor win at Cannes for The Hunt, Mads Mikkelsen returned last year in a far different genre. The western The Salvation, directed by Kristian Levring, also stars Eric Cantona, Eva Green, Mikael Persbrandt and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and the U.S. trailer recently arrived. Selling a handsomely crafted period piece, we’re looking forward to it later this month, particularly […]...
- 2/4/2015
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
IFC Films has unveiled the trailer for its upcoming "The Salvation" western thriller, starring Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen) and Eva Green (300: Rise of an Empire). Check it out below. Plot: In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler and former Danish soldier (Mikkelsen) kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader (Morgan), hellbent on hunting him down for the death of his brother. The new movie is directed by Kristian Levring and is set to be released on VOD and in select theaters on February 27th. Trailer:...
- 2/3/2015
- WorstPreviews.com
Since there wasn't much to do in the Old West, it seems like there's always a tale of revenge to be told. And that's just what we get with The Salvation, a story that follows a Danish ex-soldier (Mads Mikkelsen) who takes down the men who killed his wife and son. But then the revenge table is turned when one of the dead men's brother (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) wants his own vengeance. And just in case seeing Mikkelsen in the west isn't enough to tickle your fancy, Eva Green is also in the film, who seems to be the wife of Morgan's deceased brother. This doesn't look like uncharted territory, but it doesn't look bad either. Watch! Here's the Us trailer for Kristian Levring's The Salvation from IFC Films: You can still watch the previous Cannes trailer for The Salvation right here. The Salvation is directed by Danish...
- 2/2/2015
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Do I even have to say anything other than Mads Mikkelsen and Eva Green made a western called "The Salvation"? That alone should be more than enough to get you to put this on your movie watching list, but should you need an extra push, a new U.S. trailer has arrived, along with a handful of new images. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jonathan Pryce, Eric Cantona, and Mikael Persbrandt round out the ensemble in the film directed by Kristian Levring, which takes audiences to the 1870s, where a mild-mannered settler in America gets armed for vengeance after a ruthless gang leader murders his family. A familiar premise, sure, but this got a midnight slot at Cannes of all places, and while Jessica called it a "slavish devotion to great films that have gone before" and "little more than an extremely affectionate fake," I'm still very curious to check it out.
- 1/30/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Chicago – The 50th Chicago International Film Festival of 2014 gets into gear this week, with a line-up of films from all over the world. The festival breaks down these films in several categories, including the Main Competition, New Directors, Docufest, Out-Look (Lgbt), World Cinema, After Dark and Spotlight Scandinavia.
HollywoodChicago.com contributors Nick Allen and Patrick McDonald have been sampling the best of the festival, and offers this preview of the first midweek selections in the two week cinema extravaganza. Each capsule is designated with Na (Nick Allen) or Pm (Patrick McDonald), to indicate the author.
Centerpiece Film “The Last 5 Years”
Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick in ‘The Last 5 Years’
Photo credit: Chicago International Film Festival
The musical is back, featuring Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick belting out tunes! Based on an Off-Broadway hit that had its roots in Chicago, this all-singing look at a dissolving marriage has moments of inspiration.
HollywoodChicago.com contributors Nick Allen and Patrick McDonald have been sampling the best of the festival, and offers this preview of the first midweek selections in the two week cinema extravaganza. Each capsule is designated with Na (Nick Allen) or Pm (Patrick McDonald), to indicate the author.
Centerpiece Film “The Last 5 Years”
Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick in ‘The Last 5 Years’
Photo credit: Chicago International Film Festival
The musical is back, featuring Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick belting out tunes! Based on an Off-Broadway hit that had its roots in Chicago, this all-singing look at a dissolving marriage has moments of inspiration.
- 10/14/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Screen International has teamed with BFI London Film Festival and British Council to present the UK Stars of Tomorrow – one of several industry events unveiled today.
The first Screen International UK Stars of Tomorrow at Lff dinner is to be held on Oct 14 during the BFI London Film Festival (Oct 8-19).
The event will bring together a selection of this year’s Stars of Tomorrow, including Aimee Ffion-Edwards and Phoebe Walller-Bridge, with casting directors, packaging agents, festival programmers, producers and financiers.
It will be preceded by a masterclass led by Us casting agent Deborah Aquila, whose credits include The Shawshank Redemption and TV series Dexter and The Shield.
The event is supported by British Council and Casting Society of America (Csa), and will be held in association with We Are UK Film.
The dinner is by invitation only and is not an open event.
Lff industry events
The 58th edition of the festival has restructured its industry...
The first Screen International UK Stars of Tomorrow at Lff dinner is to be held on Oct 14 during the BFI London Film Festival (Oct 8-19).
The event will bring together a selection of this year’s Stars of Tomorrow, including Aimee Ffion-Edwards and Phoebe Walller-Bridge, with casting directors, packaging agents, festival programmers, producers and financiers.
It will be preceded by a masterclass led by Us casting agent Deborah Aquila, whose credits include The Shawshank Redemption and TV series Dexter and The Shield.
The event is supported by British Council and Casting Society of America (Csa), and will be held in association with We Are UK Film.
The dinner is by invitation only and is not an open event.
Lff industry events
The 58th edition of the festival has restructured its industry...
- 10/1/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Screen International has teamed with BFI London Film Festival and British Council to present the UK Stars of Tomorrow – one of several industry events unveiled today.
The first Screen International UK Stars of Tomorrow at Lff dinner is to be held on Oct 14 during the BFI London Film Festival (Oct 8-19).
The event will bring together a selection of this year’s Stars of Tomorrow, including Aimee Ffion-Edwards and Phoebe Walller-Bridge, with casting directors, packaging agents, festival programmers, producers and financiers.
It will be preceded by a masterclass led by Us casting agent Deborah Aquila, whose credits include The Shawshank Redemption and TV series Dexter and The Shield.
The event is supported by British Council and Casting Society of America (Csa), and will be held in association with We Are UK Film.
The dinner is by invitation only and is not an open event.
Lff industry events
The 58th edition of the festival has restructured its industry...
The first Screen International UK Stars of Tomorrow at Lff dinner is to be held on Oct 14 during the BFI London Film Festival (Oct 8-19).
The event will bring together a selection of this year’s Stars of Tomorrow, including Aimee Ffion-Edwards and Phoebe Walller-Bridge, with casting directors, packaging agents, festival programmers, producers and financiers.
It will be preceded by a masterclass led by Us casting agent Deborah Aquila, whose credits include The Shawshank Redemption and TV series Dexter and The Shield.
The event is supported by British Council and Casting Society of America (Csa), and will be held in association with We Are UK Film.
The dinner is by invitation only and is not an open event.
Lff industry events
The 58th edition of the festival has restructured its industry...
- 10/1/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Coverage of International Sales Agents (ISAs) has resumed for the Toronto International Film Festival. This segment covers inspirational companies that have officially selected films in the festival. SydneysBuzz features ISAs, as they play an instrumental and necessary role in helping filmmakers to share their visions and voices with the world.
Denmark based TrustNordisk has sold the rights of Kristian Levring’s western "The Salvation" to Universal Pictures International Entertainment (Upie) in a number of international territories, including Latin America, Eastern Europe and South Africa. The deal was negotiated by Susan Wendt, Head of Sales, on behalf of TrustNordisk. “There is no doubt that "The Salvation" has found a perfect home at Upie who we are sure will give the film the best possible launch. This also strongly indicates that the international market place is more than ready for a western of Scandinavian origin”, says Susan Wendt, Head of Sales at TrustNordisk. Officially selected for Out of Competition, midnight screening at the Cannes International Film Festival, "The Salvation" is a large scale western rooted in Scandinavia – a tale of revenge, blood feud, lost love and greed. "The Salvation" is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Kristian Levring (The King Is Alive, 2000), written by Academy Award-winner Anders Thomas Jensen (In A Better World, 2010 and Love Is All You Need, 2012) together with Kristian Levring. Featuring an all-star cast consisting of Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Mikael Persbrandt, Eric Cantona and Jonathan Pryce among others and led by Mads Mikkelsen "The Salvation" tells the story of a Danish settler in 19th century North America, who sets out to avenge his family. "The Salvation" is produced by Sisse Graum Jørgensen for Zentropa Entertainments33 ApS in co-production with Spier Films from South Africa and Forward Films from UK with the support of The Danish Film Institute, Danish Broadcasting Corporation (Dr) and Nordisk Film & TV Fond. Developed with support from Film I Väst and the Media programme of the European Union. Nordic theatrical distribution in collaboration with NordiskFilm Distribution.
Learn more about the TrustNordisk slate.
More About TrustNordisk:
With over 35 years of expertise and know-how in international film sale, TrustNordisk market and sell feature films and TV-series worldwide.
Representing one of the largest film catalogues in Europe – a feature film catalogue of more than 600 films from highly acclaimed directors such as Lars von Trier, Susanne Bier, Thomas Vinterberg, Lone Scherfig, Lukas Moodysson, Daniél Espinosa, Jan Troell and David Mackenzie – our genres range from animation to crime, from drama to family and we collaborate with both large production companies as well as independent producers within all of Europe.
We put great effort in embracing the different films we have; both niche-specialized auteur-titles, which travel as prizewinning festival darlings and big-budgeted crime-blockbusters based on bestsellers from authors such as Jo Nesbø, Camilla Läckberg and Jussi Adler-Olsen amongst others.
We are represented at all major film festivals and markets world-wide and we continuously keep ourselves updated on new market trends, exploiting media-platforms on the look for new and alternative ways of distributing films world-wide, so all business opportunities within all windows, being theatrical, DVD, TV, VOD, are considered. Currently TrustNordisk are represented globally on several online platforms including iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, indieMoviesOnline.com and Mubi.com.
Welcome to our world of films.
Denmark based TrustNordisk has sold the rights of Kristian Levring’s western "The Salvation" to Universal Pictures International Entertainment (Upie) in a number of international territories, including Latin America, Eastern Europe and South Africa. The deal was negotiated by Susan Wendt, Head of Sales, on behalf of TrustNordisk. “There is no doubt that "The Salvation" has found a perfect home at Upie who we are sure will give the film the best possible launch. This also strongly indicates that the international market place is more than ready for a western of Scandinavian origin”, says Susan Wendt, Head of Sales at TrustNordisk. Officially selected for Out of Competition, midnight screening at the Cannes International Film Festival, "The Salvation" is a large scale western rooted in Scandinavia – a tale of revenge, blood feud, lost love and greed. "The Salvation" is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Kristian Levring (The King Is Alive, 2000), written by Academy Award-winner Anders Thomas Jensen (In A Better World, 2010 and Love Is All You Need, 2012) together with Kristian Levring. Featuring an all-star cast consisting of Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Mikael Persbrandt, Eric Cantona and Jonathan Pryce among others and led by Mads Mikkelsen "The Salvation" tells the story of a Danish settler in 19th century North America, who sets out to avenge his family. "The Salvation" is produced by Sisse Graum Jørgensen for Zentropa Entertainments33 ApS in co-production with Spier Films from South Africa and Forward Films from UK with the support of The Danish Film Institute, Danish Broadcasting Corporation (Dr) and Nordisk Film & TV Fond. Developed with support from Film I Väst and the Media programme of the European Union. Nordic theatrical distribution in collaboration with NordiskFilm Distribution.
Learn more about the TrustNordisk slate.
More About TrustNordisk:
With over 35 years of expertise and know-how in international film sale, TrustNordisk market and sell feature films and TV-series worldwide.
Representing one of the largest film catalogues in Europe – a feature film catalogue of more than 600 films from highly acclaimed directors such as Lars von Trier, Susanne Bier, Thomas Vinterberg, Lone Scherfig, Lukas Moodysson, Daniél Espinosa, Jan Troell and David Mackenzie – our genres range from animation to crime, from drama to family and we collaborate with both large production companies as well as independent producers within all of Europe.
We put great effort in embracing the different films we have; both niche-specialized auteur-titles, which travel as prizewinning festival darlings and big-budgeted crime-blockbusters based on bestsellers from authors such as Jo Nesbø, Camilla Läckberg and Jussi Adler-Olsen amongst others.
We are represented at all major film festivals and markets world-wide and we continuously keep ourselves updated on new market trends, exploiting media-platforms on the look for new and alternative ways of distributing films world-wide, so all business opportunities within all windows, being theatrical, DVD, TV, VOD, are considered. Currently TrustNordisk are represented globally on several online platforms including iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, indieMoviesOnline.com and Mubi.com.
Welcome to our world of films.
- 9/10/2014
- by Erin Grover
- Sydney's Buzz
TrustNordisk sells rights to Kristian Levring’s western starring Mads Mikkelsen.
Universal Pictures International Entertainment (Upie) has secured rights to Kristian Levring’s western The Salvation for territories including Latin America, Eastern Europe and South Africa.
The deal was negotiated by Susan Wendt, head of sales, on behalf of TrustNordisk.
The film received its world premiere in official selection at Cannes, screening in out of competition as a Midnight screening.
Interview: Kristian Levring
Directed by Levring, who co-wrote the feature with Oscar-winner Anders Thomas Jensen (In a Better World, Love is All You Need), the film stars Mads Mikkelsen as a Danish settler in 19th century North America, who sets out to avenge his family.
It co-stars Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Mikael Persbrandt, Eric Cantona and Jonathan Pryce.
The film is produced by Sisse Graum Jørgensen for Zentropa Entertainments33 ApS in co-production with Spier Films from South Africa and Forward Films from UK with the support...
Universal Pictures International Entertainment (Upie) has secured rights to Kristian Levring’s western The Salvation for territories including Latin America, Eastern Europe and South Africa.
The deal was negotiated by Susan Wendt, head of sales, on behalf of TrustNordisk.
The film received its world premiere in official selection at Cannes, screening in out of competition as a Midnight screening.
Interview: Kristian Levring
Directed by Levring, who co-wrote the feature with Oscar-winner Anders Thomas Jensen (In a Better World, Love is All You Need), the film stars Mads Mikkelsen as a Danish settler in 19th century North America, who sets out to avenge his family.
It co-stars Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Mikael Persbrandt, Eric Cantona and Jonathan Pryce.
The film is produced by Sisse Graum Jørgensen for Zentropa Entertainments33 ApS in co-production with Spier Films from South Africa and Forward Films from UK with the support...
- 9/10/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Fury (David Ayer)
[via the BFI]
The programme for the 58th BFI London Film Festival launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. The lineup includes highly anticipated fall titles including David Ayer’s Fury, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, the Sundance smash Whiplash, Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language 3D, The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, Jason Reitman’s Men, Women and Children and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Wild.
As Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals, it introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience, offering a compelling combination of red carpet glamour, engaged audiences and vibrant exchange. The Festival provides an essential profiling opportunity for films seeking global success at the start of the Awards season, promotes the careers of British and...
[via the BFI]
The programme for the 58th BFI London Film Festival launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. The lineup includes highly anticipated fall titles including David Ayer’s Fury, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, the Sundance smash Whiplash, Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language 3D, The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, Jason Reitman’s Men, Women and Children and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Wild.
As Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals, it introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience, offering a compelling combination of red carpet glamour, engaged audiences and vibrant exchange. The Festival provides an essential profiling opportunity for films seeking global success at the start of the Awards season, promotes the careers of British and...
- 9/3/2014
- by John
- SoundOnSight
Browse all the sections of the 58th London Film Festival (Oct 8-18) including the galas, competition titles and individual sections.
Alphabetical list of titles by section including feature premiere status
Wp = Wp
Ep = European Premiere
IP = International Premiere
UK = UK Premiere
Opening Night
The Imitation Game (UK-us)
dir. Morten Tyldum
Closing Night
Fury (Us)
dir. David Ayer
GalasTitlePremFoxcatcher (Us)
dir. Bennett MillerUKWhiplash (Us)
dir. Damien ChazelleUKMen, Women And Children (Us)
dir. Jason ReitmanEPWild (Us)
dir. Jean-Marc ValleeEPTestament Of Youth (UK)
dir. James KentWPMr. Turner (UK)
dir. Mike LeighUKThe Battles Of Coronel And Falkland Islands (UK)
dir. Walter Summers Rosewater (Us)
dir. Jon StewartEPMommy (Can)
dir. Xavier DolanUKA Little Chaos (UK)
dir. Alan RickmanEPWild Tales (Arg)
dir. Damián SzifrónUKThe Salvation (Den)
dir. Kristian Levring The White Haired Witch Of Lunar Kingdom (Chi)
dir. Jacob CheungIPWinter Sleep (Tur)
dir. Nuri Bilge CeylanUKBjork: Biophilia Live (UK)
dir. Nick Fenton, Peter StricklandUKSong Of The Sea (Ire)
dir. Tomm MooreEPOfficial...
Alphabetical list of titles by section including feature premiere status
Wp = Wp
Ep = European Premiere
IP = International Premiere
UK = UK Premiere
Opening Night
The Imitation Game (UK-us)
dir. Morten Tyldum
Closing Night
Fury (Us)
dir. David Ayer
GalasTitlePremFoxcatcher (Us)
dir. Bennett MillerUKWhiplash (Us)
dir. Damien ChazelleUKMen, Women And Children (Us)
dir. Jason ReitmanEPWild (Us)
dir. Jean-Marc ValleeEPTestament Of Youth (UK)
dir. James KentWPMr. Turner (UK)
dir. Mike LeighUKThe Battles Of Coronel And Falkland Islands (UK)
dir. Walter Summers Rosewater (Us)
dir. Jon StewartEPMommy (Can)
dir. Xavier DolanUKA Little Chaos (UK)
dir. Alan RickmanEPWild Tales (Arg)
dir. Damián SzifrónUKThe Salvation (Den)
dir. Kristian Levring The White Haired Witch Of Lunar Kingdom (Chi)
dir. Jacob CheungIPWinter Sleep (Tur)
dir. Nuri Bilge CeylanUKBjork: Biophilia Live (UK)
dir. Nick Fenton, Peter StricklandUKSong Of The Sea (Ire)
dir. Tomm MooreEPOfficial...
- 9/3/2014
- ScreenDaily
World premieres include Wwi drama Testament of Youth, Carol Morley’s The Falling and sci-fi sequel Monsters: Dark Continent.
The line-up for the 58th London Film Festival (Oct 8-19) has been revealed this morning and it is packed with awards contenders and the best of this year’s festivals.
Click here for full line-up
Titles already generating awards buzz that will receive gala screenings at Lff include Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo, and Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, which proved the breakout hit at Sundance.
Other galas will give European premieres to Jason Reitman’s Men, Women & Children, starring Adam Sandler and Ansel Elgort with a racy voiceover by Emma Thompson, and biopic Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon and directed by Jean-Marc Vallee.
Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner will also feature among the main gala screenings as will the world premiere of Testament of Youth, a First World...
The line-up for the 58th London Film Festival (Oct 8-19) has been revealed this morning and it is packed with awards contenders and the best of this year’s festivals.
Click here for full line-up
Titles already generating awards buzz that will receive gala screenings at Lff include Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo, and Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, which proved the breakout hit at Sundance.
Other galas will give European premieres to Jason Reitman’s Men, Women & Children, starring Adam Sandler and Ansel Elgort with a racy voiceover by Emma Thompson, and biopic Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon and directed by Jean-Marc Vallee.
Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner will also feature among the main gala screenings as will the world premiere of Testament of Youth, a First World...
- 9/3/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Name change follows move into co-production among other developments
Wild Bunch Benelux has been renamed September Film Distribution, effective today (Sept 1).
The film distribution company, founded nearly six years ago by Paris-based Wild Bunch and Pim Hermeling, has since become a leading arthouse distributor with titles such as The Hunt, Melancholia, The Broken Circle Breakdown and Nymphomaniac.
The distributor ended its collaboration with the French company in 2010 but retained the name.
However, several development at the firm have led to the decision to rebrand.
September Film Distribution will continue to focus on the acquisition of director-driven films and release arthouse productions theatrically and on DVD, VOD and other platforms.
But it recently set up a film distribution office in Belgium; purchased the Cartoons movie theatre in Antwerp; and developed large arthouse cinema complex Da Kade in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
It has also set up a production company and has a growing slate of films including Nicole van Kilsdonk’s Ventoux...
Wild Bunch Benelux has been renamed September Film Distribution, effective today (Sept 1).
The film distribution company, founded nearly six years ago by Paris-based Wild Bunch and Pim Hermeling, has since become a leading arthouse distributor with titles such as The Hunt, Melancholia, The Broken Circle Breakdown and Nymphomaniac.
The distributor ended its collaboration with the French company in 2010 but retained the name.
However, several development at the firm have led to the decision to rebrand.
September Film Distribution will continue to focus on the acquisition of director-driven films and release arthouse productions theatrically and on DVD, VOD and other platforms.
But it recently set up a film distribution office in Belgium; purchased the Cartoons movie theatre in Antwerp; and developed large arthouse cinema complex Da Kade in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
It has also set up a production company and has a growing slate of films including Nicole van Kilsdonk’s Ventoux...
- 9/1/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Very well received in its Cannes premiere, Kristian Levring's Mads Mikkelsen starring western The Salvation is gearing up for its release in French cinemas which can only mean one thing: A new trailer.Mads Mikkelsen plays John, a former soldier and immigrant from Scandinavia who has come to the American West in search of a new life for him, his wife and child. But when he kills the man who killed his family, it raises the anger and revenge of the murderer's brother Delarue (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). When John seeks the help of locals, he instead finds that in their cowardice they would rather hand him over to Delarue, and so John must become violent himself in order to survive.Given the advance buzz from Cannes and...
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- 7/9/2014
- Screen Anarchy
What happens when you put together Mads Mikkelsen and Eva Green in a western? Well, you capture our attention, that's for sure. And while our Jessica Kiang didn't quite fall for "The Salvation" at Cannes—calling it in her review a genre movie that's "so faithful as to veer dangerously close to pastiche"—it's still got enough intriguing ingredients to make it one the rest of us will catch up with anyway, if only to see Mikkelsen playing cowboy. Co-starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jonathan Pryce, Eric Cantona and Mikael Persbrandt, and directed by Kristian Levring, the film follows a mild-mannered settler, new to America, who's out for blood when a gang leader murders his wife and child. And these six new clips from the movie are extensive and perhaps spoilery, going deep into the movie, and circling around what seems to be some pretty major plot points. So fair warning.
- 6/4/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Shine International Launching Branded On-Demand Channel In a first for Shine International, the sales and distribution division of Shine Group is launching a branded on-demand streaming channel. Initially going out in the U.S. via Roku, the channel will offer more than 200 hours of multi-genre programming including The School, Got To Dance, The Magicians, Eternal Law and The Sandhamn Murders. Content is available for free with advertising, or can be rented ad-free. ‘Small Time Gangster’ Heads To Romania As ‘Umbre’ HBO Europe will start production next month in Romania on Umbre, a local version of Australian series Small Time Gangster. The eight-parter is set to air on HBO Romania in early 2015, Film News Europe reports. The dark comedy follows a taxi driver whose side job is working for a Bucharest mobster. After he accidentally kills someone, he can’t extricate himself from the mob. Igor Cobileanski (The Unsaved) is directing...
- 5/28/2014
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
TrustNordisk sells Western starring Mads Mikkelsen into Europe and Asia.
In the wake of the Cannes Film Festival, TrustNordisk has closed a number of deals on Kristian Levring’s Western The Salvation.
New sales of the film include to Germany and Austria (Concorde Filmverleih), Japan (Tohokushinsha Film Corporation), Korea (Cinema Republic) and Russia (Cinema Prestige) with negotiations going on in a large number of territories, according to TrustNordisk
Last week it was announced that IFC took the North American rights for the film and among previously announced deals are Benelux (Wild Bunch), Australia/New Zealand (Madman Entertainment), France (Chrysalis/Jour2Fete), Greece (Hollywood Entertainment) and Estonia (Estin Film).
The film received its world premiere in Official Selection at Cannes, screening in out of competition as a Midnight screening.
Directed by Kristian Levring, who co-wrote the feature with Oscar-winner Anders Thomas Jensen (In a Better World, Love is All You Need), the film stars Mikkelsen as a Danish...
In the wake of the Cannes Film Festival, TrustNordisk has closed a number of deals on Kristian Levring’s Western The Salvation.
New sales of the film include to Germany and Austria (Concorde Filmverleih), Japan (Tohokushinsha Film Corporation), Korea (Cinema Republic) and Russia (Cinema Prestige) with negotiations going on in a large number of territories, according to TrustNordisk
Last week it was announced that IFC took the North American rights for the film and among previously announced deals are Benelux (Wild Bunch), Australia/New Zealand (Madman Entertainment), France (Chrysalis/Jour2Fete), Greece (Hollywood Entertainment) and Estonia (Estin Film).
The film received its world premiere in Official Selection at Cannes, screening in out of competition as a Midnight screening.
Directed by Kristian Levring, who co-wrote the feature with Oscar-winner Anders Thomas Jensen (In a Better World, Love is All You Need), the film stars Mikkelsen as a Danish...
- 5/27/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Buyers are hot for Danish Western The Salvation, one of the surprise hits of this year's Cannes Film Festival. The feature, from director Kristian Levring and starring Mads Mikkelsen and Eva Green, has been picked up by Concorde for Germany and Austria, Tohokushinsha for Japan, Cinema Prestige for Russia and Cinema Republic for Korea. Review: The Salvation': Cannes Review IFC snapped up North American rights to The Salvation last week. The film premiered as a Midnight Screening in Cannes. Sales group TrustNordisk has also closed deals for France, Benelux, Australia/New Zealand, Greece and Estonia.
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- 5/26/2014
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
THR is reporting that IFC Films have acquired the rights for Kristian Levring's Western The Salvation, starring Mads Mikkelsen and Eva Green. "Kristian Levring has assembled an incredible cast and created a classic Western that keeps you on the edge of your seat," Sundance Selects/IFC Films president Jonathan Sehring said. "We are ecstatic to have the opportunity to work again with Kristian and our friends at TrustNordisk on this stunning and stirring film."Added TrustNordisk CEO Rikke Ennis: "We are so happy to be working with IFC Films again and feel their enthusiasm and ambition for this great film. We can't wait to see the reactions from the American audiences."Our own Jason Gorber caught the film at Cannes and in his eloquent way said this about it in...
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- 5/23/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Kristian Levring’s Western received its world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival
IFC Films has acquired North American rights from TrustNordisk to Kristian Levring’s Western The Salvation.
The deal was negotiated by TrustNordisk head of sales Susan Wendt and Sundance Selects/IFC Films svp of acquistion Arianna Bocco. TrustNordisk is handling all international sales.
Previously announced deals on the film include Benelux (Wild Bunch), Australia/New Zealand (Madman Entertainment), France (Chrysalis/Jour2Fete), Greece (Hollywood Entertainment) and Estonia (Estin Film).
IFC Films is a sister label to IFC Midnight and Sundance Selects, and is owned and operated by AMC Networks.
The Salvation, with a screenplay by Levring and Anders Thomas Jensen, stars Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. It was produced by Sisse Graum Jørgensen, and executive produced by Peter Aalbæk Jensen and Peter Garde.
The film made its world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in the Out...
IFC Films has acquired North American rights from TrustNordisk to Kristian Levring’s Western The Salvation.
The deal was negotiated by TrustNordisk head of sales Susan Wendt and Sundance Selects/IFC Films svp of acquistion Arianna Bocco. TrustNordisk is handling all international sales.
Previously announced deals on the film include Benelux (Wild Bunch), Australia/New Zealand (Madman Entertainment), France (Chrysalis/Jour2Fete), Greece (Hollywood Entertainment) and Estonia (Estin Film).
IFC Films is a sister label to IFC Midnight and Sundance Selects, and is owned and operated by AMC Networks.
The Salvation, with a screenplay by Levring and Anders Thomas Jensen, stars Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. It was produced by Sisse Graum Jørgensen, and executive produced by Peter Aalbæk Jensen and Peter Garde.
The film made its world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in the Out...
- 5/21/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Kristian Levring’s Western received its world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival
IFC Films has acquired North American rights from TrustNordisk to Kristian Levring’s Western The Salvation.
The deal was negotiated by TrustNordisk head of sales Susan Wendt and Sundance Selects/IFC Films svp of acquistion Arianna Bocco. TrustNordisk is handling all international sales.
Previously announced deals on the film include Benelux (Wild Bunch), Australia/New Zealand (Madman Entertainment), France (Chrysalis/Jour2Fete), Greece (Hollywood Entertainment) and Estonia (Estin Film).
IFC Films is a sister label to IFC Midnight and Sundance Selects, and is owned and operated by AMC Networks.
The Salvation, with a screenplay by Levring and Anders Thomas Jensen, stars Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. It was produced by Sisse Graum Jørgensen, and executive produced by Peter Aalbæk Jensen and Peter Garde.
The film made its world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in the Out...
IFC Films has acquired North American rights from TrustNordisk to Kristian Levring’s Western The Salvation.
The deal was negotiated by TrustNordisk head of sales Susan Wendt and Sundance Selects/IFC Films svp of acquistion Arianna Bocco. TrustNordisk is handling all international sales.
Previously announced deals on the film include Benelux (Wild Bunch), Australia/New Zealand (Madman Entertainment), France (Chrysalis/Jour2Fete), Greece (Hollywood Entertainment) and Estonia (Estin Film).
IFC Films is a sister label to IFC Midnight and Sundance Selects, and is owned and operated by AMC Networks.
The Salvation, with a screenplay by Levring and Anders Thomas Jensen, stars Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. It was produced by Sisse Graum Jørgensen, and executive produced by Peter Aalbæk Jensen and Peter Garde.
The film made its world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in the Out...
- 5/21/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
IFC Films announced today from the Cannes Film Festival that the company has acquired all North American rights to Kristian Levring's Western "The Salvation." Set in 1870s America, the story begins when settler named Jon kills his family’s murderer, which unleashes the fury of notorious gang leader Delarue. Betrayed by his corrupt and cowardly community, the peaceful pioneer must turn vengeful hunter, slay the outlaws, and cleanse the town’s black heart. Read More: Watch: Trailers for Cannes 2014 Titles Including 'Maps to the Stars,' 'Foxcatcher' and 'The Rover'The film, with a screenplay by Levring and Anders Thomas Jensen, stars Mads Mikkelsen as the lead character Jon, with the rest of the cast rounded out by Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eric Cantona, Mikael Persbrandt, Jonathan Pryce and Douglas Henshall. "Kristian Levring has assembled an incredible cast and created a classic Western that keeps you on the edge of your seat,...
- 5/21/2014
- by Casey Cipriani
- Indiewire
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