This looks like a hoot - The Troll Hunter. It's a Norwegian horror film and would no doubt go over well in Mt. Horeb and Stoughton. It opens in April.
Shot in a vérité style, THE TROLL HUNTER is the story of a group of Norwegian film students that set out to capture real-life trolls on camera after learning their existence has been covered up for years by a government conspiracy. A thrilling and wildly entertaining film, THE TROLL HUNTER delivers truly fantastic images of giant trolls wreaking havoc on the countryside, with darkly funny adherence to the original Norwegian folklore.
Rutger Hauer does grindhouse! Hobo With a Shotgun.
Sundance has finally posted the Screening Room Calendar for the winter. It leaked earlier this month and Dane101 had the skinny. I'm glad to see Kings of Pastry as it's by D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, pioneers of direct cinema. I'm also looking forward to Four Lions, a spoof which looks at some bumbling British jihadists. White Material also looks good.
The Cinematheque season has been announced. Lots of good stuff to be had. The series "Patterns of Shadow: Hollywood Film and the Art of Lighting" puts on display the work of the most important/coolest person on a set: the cinematographer. There will also be films from Nigeria, Taiwan, Portugal, and elsewhere.
One film that I'm glad to see being shown is Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today.
Not only is it interesting to me because of the subject matter but also because Madison's commercial theatres basically ignore restorations and re-releases. Or, at least, that's been my experience of the past few years. The Metropolis restoration screened in Milwaukee last fall but failed to appear here. Obviously I don't know why it didn't. It's possible we were victims of the vagaries of film distribution but I'm more inclined to think that no theatre wanted to bring it here. Let's hope I'm just too cynical. There's also a restoration of Battleship Potemkin coming out but it's unlikely to come to Madison. (Hey Meg Hamel! Are you listening?)
Another film I'm looking forward to this year is Black Death but this is mainly because it takes place in The Middle Ages. Sean Bean stars as does Eddie Redmayne who was in Pillars of the Earth. Looks like some folks are being typecast as medieval characters.
Now that Dogtooth has secured an Oscar nomination, it will surely be screened beyond New York and hopefully even here in Madison. It sounds perverted and strange and was described thusly by Matt Zoller Seitz:
In "Dogtooth," a black comedy from Greek filmmaker Giorgos Lanthimos, a well-to-do businessman creates his own garden of Eden. He and his wife live in a secluded compound and raise their son and two daughters -- now in their 20s -- free of influence from the fallen world outside. The air starts to leak out of the bubble when the father starts bringing in women to satisfy his son's sexual urges
Throw in a couple Philip K. Dick-related films and Terrence Malick's new one and 2011 looks pretty good.
For the sake of Kilgore Trout, the screening room calendar I wrote about over on dane101 didn't come in the form of "a leak," but a press release. I don't want anyone to assume I have any insider knowledge on the programming at Sundance that isn't widely available to the rest of Madison media.
ReplyDeleteBad choice of word, I guess. I wasn't trying to imply that you had insider knowledge that wasn't available to the rest of the press but rather knowledge not widely available to those of us not in the media.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't really being critical. I like to take advantages of opportunities to reference Kilgore Trout.
ReplyDeleteThis is a solid list by the way. We should team up and open a cinema.
Fair enough.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks. Some good films coming out. I think opening a cinema is beyond me but I am in the process of trying to get a movie series going and have an idea for another.