Hungarian director Judit Elek addressed the biggest controversy of her career at Intl. Film Festival Rotterdam.
Answering Variety’s question during the launch of “The Lady from Budapest,” a new book dedicated to her legacy, Elek opened up about a scene from her film “Memories of River,” which she still views as “essential” despite accusation of animal cruelty.
In the film, inspired by an actual anti-Semitic incident back in the 1880s, as well as a trial for “ritual murder,” several sheep were burnt alive in front of the camera.
“The beginning of the film is extremely brutal, because we are talking about a pogrom. The scene [depicting] sheep in flames, burning, is a representation of several millions of Jews perishing,” she noted.
“When the day came when we had to shoot the scene of Jákob’s [a shepherd played by Zoltán Mucsi] house being set on fire, it had to be done in one take.
Answering Variety’s question during the launch of “The Lady from Budapest,” a new book dedicated to her legacy, Elek opened up about a scene from her film “Memories of River,” which she still views as “essential” despite accusation of animal cruelty.
In the film, inspired by an actual anti-Semitic incident back in the 1880s, as well as a trial for “ritual murder,” several sheep were burnt alive in front of the camera.
“The beginning of the film is extremely brutal, because we are talking about a pogrom. The scene [depicting] sheep in flames, burning, is a representation of several millions of Jews perishing,” she noted.
“When the day came when we had to shoot the scene of Jákob’s [a shepherd played by Zoltán Mucsi] house being set on fire, it had to be done in one take.
- 1/29/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Szabolcs Thuróczy and young Mór Pásztor-Várady topline this feature being produced by Filmteam, Grund and Blue Duck Arts. The shoot for Daddy and Other Wolves, co-directed by Gábor Rohonyi and Csaba Vékes (2017's Beyond the Column), kicked off in Budapest on 22 June. The cast includes Szabolcs Thuróczy (giving a strong performance in Kills on Wheels and set to be seen soon in Bullhorn Lullaby), the young Mór Pásztor-Várady, Patrícia Kovács (nominated for the Best Actress Award at the 2016 Hungarian Film Week for Demimonde), Csaba Vékes himself, Anna Pálmai, Ferenc Elek, Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Scherer, Juli Básti and Bence Tasnádi. Written by Csaba Vékes, the story depicts an unexpected encounter between a writer who is popular but bereft of inspiration, and his little son, whom he has never seen before. This twisted, cheerful and emotional story...
The celluloid comeback continues. Less than three years ago, Kodak was faced with the prospect of closing its film manufacturing plant in Rochester, New York, which also would have closed the doors on filmmakers’ ability to shoot on film. Now they’re back from the dead, and a number of Hollywood biggest blockbusters are being shot on film (hello, “Dunkirk”), and going analog has become a mark of prestige for award contenders and first-rate TV.
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To highlight how integral shooting on film is to the top filmmakers, 15 films premiering at the Cannes Film Festival shot on Kodak stock, according to the company.
Seven of the 15 films are in competition, and among the most highly anticipated of the year:
“The Beguiled,” directed by Sofia Coppola, Dp Philippe Le Sourd, stars Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman and Kirsten Dunst
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To highlight how integral shooting on film is to the top filmmakers, 15 films premiering at the Cannes Film Festival shot on Kodak stock, according to the company.
Seven of the 15 films are in competition, and among the most highly anticipated of the year:
“The Beguiled,” directed by Sofia Coppola, Dp Philippe Le Sourd, stars Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman and Kirsten Dunst
“Wonderstruck,...
- 5/17/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
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“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” will be released on Blu-ray and DVD combo pack on March 20, 2012 by Universal Home Entertainment. The film also stars Mark Strong, John Hurt, Ciarán Hinds, Toby Jones, Arthur Nightingale, Stephen Graham, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kathy Burke, David Dencik, Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Kálloy Molnár, Ilona Kassai and Imre Csuja from director Tomas Alfredson and writers Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan.
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- 3/12/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
[So, yes, I am still catching up on Fantasia Reviews, but now in hindsight, the Camera Lucida program was very much a highlight of the festival, featuring the most challenging and quirky genre films including Rubber, Sell Out!, Air Doll, and this film from Hungarian production designer turned director, Pater Sparrow. Along with the Serbian Sidebar, there were lots of tasty and unusual treats that stretched even the already offbeat tastes of the massive Montreal genre festival in its 2010 edition.]
So this is one possible outcome when a film, here a science fiction think-piece, is based on an essay? That essay (or rather a short story taking the form of a piece of criticism) was penned by eastern bloc author Stanislaw Lem perhaps best known as the author of book used for Andrei Tarkovsky's Solyaris (an adaptation the author was not particularly happy with, albeit it is one of the key films of science fiction cinema). I wonder what Lem, if he were alive today would have to say about 1. Would he like the ponderously dense wordplay within the film a hybrid of voice-over narration, expository information overload and satirical potshots at a variety of societal institutions including book publishing, news-media and shady governmental secret police. 1 is a curious beast because it does make attempts to 'show-don't-tell' but cannot figure out any coherent way to do so, so it ultimately has to talk-talk-talk,...
So this is one possible outcome when a film, here a science fiction think-piece, is based on an essay? That essay (or rather a short story taking the form of a piece of criticism) was penned by eastern bloc author Stanislaw Lem perhaps best known as the author of book used for Andrei Tarkovsky's Solyaris (an adaptation the author was not particularly happy with, albeit it is one of the key films of science fiction cinema). I wonder what Lem, if he were alive today would have to say about 1. Would he like the ponderously dense wordplay within the film a hybrid of voice-over narration, expository information overload and satirical potshots at a variety of societal institutions including book publishing, news-media and shady governmental secret police. 1 is a curious beast because it does make attempts to 'show-don't-tell' but cannot figure out any coherent way to do so, so it ultimately has to talk-talk-talk,...
- 8/7/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Based on the short story/essay One Human Minute by Stanislaw Lem, 1 is a Hungarian film adaptation by director Pater Sparrow who has created a baffling, mesmerizing and beautiful film.
1 opens with a series of clips of strange found footage depicting a variety of events from mankind’s history. It then cuts to a bookstore closing for the night where suddenly all the books are seemingly magically replaced by the same book. The book is large and white and bears the title ’1′. Inside are pages and pages of statistical data that boils down everything about the current human existence into raw mathematical data.
Tasked with investigating the ‘theft’ of the original books and the appearance of these ’1′ books and their spread across the world is the mysterious Reality Defense Institute who institutionalize the people who witnessed the bookshop event and try and find out what is going on. Leading the investigation is Phil Pitch,...
1 opens with a series of clips of strange found footage depicting a variety of events from mankind’s history. It then cuts to a bookstore closing for the night where suddenly all the books are seemingly magically replaced by the same book. The book is large and white and bears the title ’1′. Inside are pages and pages of statistical data that boils down everything about the current human existence into raw mathematical data.
Tasked with investigating the ‘theft’ of the original books and the appearance of these ’1′ books and their spread across the world is the mysterious Reality Defense Institute who institutionalize the people who witnessed the bookshop event and try and find out what is going on. Leading the investigation is Phil Pitch,...
- 7/29/2010
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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