With Box completed (starring filmmaker Catalin Mitulescu and actresses Fatma Mohamed and Hilda Péter who are both from Peter Strickland’s Katalin Varga and Berberian Sound Studio) and simply awaiting a film festival premiere (our Nicholas Bell is thinking Cannes is a strong possibility), Florin Şerban in already settings his sights on his third film for a 2016 shoot. Picking up grant funds, Cineuropa reports that the Romanian filmmaker should be visiting America next. The helmer who broke out at the 2010 Berlin Film Fest with a pair of awards for If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, has been chipping away at the screenplay since Y2K.
Gist: Taking place in the during the 1990s, this is about a high-school teacher named Anton who lives in a provincial town. His dream is to emigrate to the United States.
Worth Noting: The Columbia University grad saw his debut film play well on...
Gist: Taking place in the during the 1990s, this is about a high-school teacher named Anton who lives in a provincial town. His dream is to emigrate to the United States.
Worth Noting: The Columbia University grad saw his debut film play well on...
- 3/25/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Hippies, vampires and the spirit of David Lynch loom large
Writer-director Peter Strickland cites a viewing of David Lynch's nightmarish Eraserhead ("this strange, beautiful piece of atmosphere"), followed by years of triple bills at the King's Cross Scala ("New York underground, sleazy European art porn, creepy Italian horror"), as his cinematic inspiration. It's easy to imagine the creator of Katalin Varga (2009, Artificial Eye, 15) gorging himself on such exotica. From the brooding, amorphous guilt of Lynch's industrial noisescapes to the emotive violence of so much "exploitation" fare, Strickland clearly appreciates the strange mysteries of cinema's most dark and troubling dreams.
His eye-opening first feature is a gothic-inflected Romanian tragedy in which the vampiric spectre of Transylvania's prince of darkness is replaced by an altogether more human monster. Hilda Péter is mesmerising as the innocent outcast, banished from her village when her husband discovers that he is not the father of her son.
Writer-director Peter Strickland cites a viewing of David Lynch's nightmarish Eraserhead ("this strange, beautiful piece of atmosphere"), followed by years of triple bills at the King's Cross Scala ("New York underground, sleazy European art porn, creepy Italian horror"), as his cinematic inspiration. It's easy to imagine the creator of Katalin Varga (2009, Artificial Eye, 15) gorging himself on such exotica. From the brooding, amorphous guilt of Lynch's industrial noisescapes to the emotive violence of so much "exploitation" fare, Strickland clearly appreciates the strange mysteries of cinema's most dark and troubling dreams.
His eye-opening first feature is a gothic-inflected Romanian tragedy in which the vampiric spectre of Transylvania's prince of darkness is replaced by an altogether more human monster. Hilda Péter is mesmerising as the innocent outcast, banished from her village when her husband discovers that he is not the father of her son.
- 2/21/2010
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
The 12th annual British Independent Film Awards announced their nominations for the 2009 awards this morning and Duncan Jones’ Moon and Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank lead the way with 7 and 8 nominations respectively.
Looking down the list, which you can find after the jump, the variety of talent being honoured here is truly astounding and shows the British Film Industry is very good health. Armando Iannucci’s In The Loop has a number of nominations for its cast and crew, Peter Capaldi and director Iannucci as well as a nomination for its exceptional script in Best Screenplay catergory.
One of my favourite films of the year, Lone Scherfig’s An Education, has a host of nominations for its script, actors and Scherfig herself as Best Director. The ceremony takes place on the 6th of December and HeyUGuys hope to on hand to help celebrate what has been as outstanding year for British film.
Looking down the list, which you can find after the jump, the variety of talent being honoured here is truly astounding and shows the British Film Industry is very good health. Armando Iannucci’s In The Loop has a number of nominations for its cast and crew, Peter Capaldi and director Iannucci as well as a nomination for its exceptional script in Best Screenplay catergory.
One of my favourite films of the year, Lone Scherfig’s An Education, has a host of nominations for its script, actors and Scherfig herself as Best Director. The ceremony takes place on the 6th of December and HeyUGuys hope to on hand to help celebrate what has been as outstanding year for British film.
- 10/27/2009
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Year: 2009
Directors: Peter Strickland
Writers: Peter Strickland
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 7 out of 10
Something of a feminist revenge movie, set in rural Hungarian-Romanian Transylvania, Katalin Varga is Peter Strickland’s feature debut, and it’s impressive. Hilda Péter plays the titular character, banished by her husband after a dark secret is revealed in the opening scenes; she takes her horse and cart, and her young son, and tracks down two men responsible for a violent act from her past.
The nature of the plot is such that I can’t describe it fully without revealing a big spoiler, so I’ll stick to what makes the film work as a whole. First, the performance by Péter is strong and convincing; she’s desperate, lonely and anxious to protect her 10-year-old boy, lying to him about the journey by explaining that it’s a trip to visit Grandma.
Directors: Peter Strickland
Writers: Peter Strickland
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 7 out of 10
Something of a feminist revenge movie, set in rural Hungarian-Romanian Transylvania, Katalin Varga is Peter Strickland’s feature debut, and it’s impressive. Hilda Péter plays the titular character, banished by her husband after a dark secret is revealed in the opening scenes; she takes her horse and cart, and her young son, and tracks down two men responsible for a violent act from her past.
The nature of the plot is such that I can’t describe it fully without revealing a big spoiler, so I’ll stick to what makes the film work as a whole. First, the performance by Péter is strong and convincing; she’s desperate, lonely and anxious to protect her 10-year-old boy, lying to him about the journey by explaining that it’s a trip to visit Grandma.
- 6/24/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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