Erik Poppe’s historical drama “The Emigrants” scored the top Andreas Award at the 50th Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund. Produced by Fredrik Wikström Nicastro, it is distributed by Sf Studios. Poppe is also known for “Utøya: July 22” and “The King’s Choice.”
Based on Vilhelm Moberg’s series of novels about Swedes who decided to leave their country and search for a better future, it “tackles deep questions about cultural and religious identity,” argued the jurors.
“Even though the events in this story are long behind us, the film reminds us of our own present,” they added.
Interestingly enough, in 1971 Jan Troell also took on the story, ending up with four Academy Awards nominations – including one for Liv Ullmann.
“She was able to see our film and she is its biggest ambassador now. She just loves this take and noticed that it’s about the refugees today. It takes place 150 years ago,...
Based on Vilhelm Moberg’s series of novels about Swedes who decided to leave their country and search for a better future, it “tackles deep questions about cultural and religious identity,” argued the jurors.
“Even though the events in this story are long behind us, the film reminds us of our own present,” they added.
Interestingly enough, in 1971 Jan Troell also took on the story, ending up with four Academy Awards nominations – including one for Liv Ullmann.
“She was able to see our film and she is its biggest ambassador now. She just loves this take and noticed that it’s about the refugees today. It takes place 150 years ago,...
- 8/25/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
This transformation will have you yelling, "Shut up!" One of our favorite men from Disney's The Princess Diaries has been enchanting our small screens and we didn't even know it. Remember the cute red-headed Grove High School student Jeremiah Hart? Well, he traded his seat on Lilly's talk show Shut Up and Listen for a spot on the Chicago police force. That's right: Jeremiah, a.k.a. Patrick John Flueger, is all grown up and stars on NBC's Chicago P.D. as Detective Adam Ruzek. Not to mention, he is hot. In a recent Tik Tok, a fan of the film made the connection and our minds have been blown ever since. "Who was going to tell me?...
- 4/27/2022
- E! Online
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Fabian: Going to the Dogs (Dominik Graf)
In the first hour of Dominik Graf’s Fabian: Going to the Dogs, we see the title character running around 1920s Berlin, bumping into eccentric characters at bars and nightclubs while the camera moves and cuts at a whirlwind pace. It’s a time of indulgence and recklessness for Fabian and other young people in Germany, and then he finds himself standing face to face with a young woman in the back of a club. The camera cuts to a rapid-fire montage of both characters together and in love, scenes from later in the film we haven’t gotten to yet. Up to this point, Fabian was living in the present; without warning he begins to see a future,...
Fabian: Going to the Dogs (Dominik Graf)
In the first hour of Dominik Graf’s Fabian: Going to the Dogs, we see the title character running around 1920s Berlin, bumping into eccentric characters at bars and nightclubs while the camera moves and cuts at a whirlwind pace. It’s a time of indulgence and recklessness for Fabian and other young people in Germany, and then he finds himself standing face to face with a young woman in the back of a club. The camera cuts to a rapid-fire montage of both characters together and in love, scenes from later in the film we haven’t gotten to yet. Up to this point, Fabian was living in the present; without warning he begins to see a future,...
- 4/15/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Have you listened to the 1938 Smackdown yet? Such a lively conversation about very memorable movies, for better and worse. We've embedded it again below but some of my personal favourite bits are Steven Weber's Jimmy Stewart impression, Joanna Robinson's reaction to the "twist" in Of Human Hearts, Glow's Britney Young talking about having a very expressive face and directors asking you to tone it down, and Claudio's deep hatred of opera voices of the 1930s via The Great Waltz.
As A Special Bonus Treat
I was the guest star on "And the Runner Up" Podcast this week discussing 1938 as well though our focus on that podcast was the Best Picture battle between Boys Town and You Can't Take It With You. You can listen to that here. Kevin is such a great guy and will be one of our panelists for the 1965 Smackdown in October.
1938 Articles
The...
As A Special Bonus Treat
I was the guest star on "And the Runner Up" Podcast this week discussing 1938 as well though our focus on that podcast was the Best Picture battle between Boys Town and You Can't Take It With You. You can listen to that here. Kevin is such a great guy and will be one of our panelists for the 1965 Smackdown in October.
1938 Articles
The...
- 9/19/2020
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Fame knocks the hell out of Becky Something (Elisabeth Moss in a five-alarm fire blaze), a ’90’s indie punk rocker who leads a riot grrrl band that she bombards with near-constant verbal abuse. Those backstage tantrums can do damage to anyone who gets too close. Narcotics or narcissism? Pick your poison. Becky chooses both — and you don’t want to get in her way. Can you really commit to a movie that makes you want to bolt for the exits? You can if it’s this one.
How Elisabeth Moss...
How Elisabeth Moss...
- 4/10/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Despite what his “Hacksaw Ridge” Oscar nod and appearance in the commercially successful “Daddy’s Home 2” might have you believe, Mel Gibson isn’t exactly in the good graces of everyone in Hollywood. His infamous misogynistic, racist, and anti-Semitic rants set back the former A-lister’s career pretty substantially for years, and there is still significant pushback against the comeback he appears to have already begun. That’s why it makes sense that in remaking Nancy Meyers’ “What Women Want,” in which Gibson plays a man who finds himself able to hear the thoughts of all the women around him.
Continue reading Listen Up, As*holes, The Red Band ‘What Men Want’ Trailer Is Here at The Playlist.
Continue reading Listen Up, As*holes, The Red Band ‘What Men Want’ Trailer Is Here at The Playlist.
- 11/23/2018
- by Jake Naturman
- The Playlist
Showrunner Kenya Barris offered a glimpse of one of the projects he is pursuing now that he has relocated to Netflix during a wide-ranging discussion Saturday night held as part of the USC Comedy Festival.
“I can say this,” Barris teased. “I want to reboot what a family show is.”
Barris spoke with filmmaker Tim Story during the packed session at USC’s Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre.
The showrunner was on campus to take part in the Jack Oakie and Victoria Horne Oakie Masters of Comedy Lecture Series at the fourth edition of USC’s School of Cinema Arts gathering focused on comedy. Attendees at Barris’ session heard an inspiring discussion about the future of the industry, the power of comedy and a tiny glimpse of what to expect from the “Black-ish” creator now that he’s relocated to Netflix. Students in the crowd were buzzing about the $100 million pact...
“I can say this,” Barris teased. “I want to reboot what a family show is.”
Barris spoke with filmmaker Tim Story during the packed session at USC’s Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre.
The showrunner was on campus to take part in the Jack Oakie and Victoria Horne Oakie Masters of Comedy Lecture Series at the fourth edition of USC’s School of Cinema Arts gathering focused on comedy. Attendees at Barris’ session heard an inspiring discussion about the future of the industry, the power of comedy and a tiny glimpse of what to expect from the “Black-ish” creator now that he’s relocated to Netflix. Students in the crowd were buzzing about the $100 million pact...
- 11/4/2018
- by Sean Fitz-Gerald
- Variety Film + TV
Fans of A.A. Milne’s delightful stories about an industrious, honey-obsessed bear named Winnie the Pooh and his gang of forest-dwelling droogs — Kanga and her child Roo, pragmatic Rabbit, wise old Owl, anxious Piglet, the emo-dour donkey Eeyore, the manic and possibly Meth-addicted dynamo that is Tigger — may recall that, at the end of The House at Pooh Corner, there’s a farewell party. Christopher Robin, their young human friend, is saying goodbye; he’s heading off to a world far beyond the land of heffalumps and woozles. The scene...
- 8/3/2018
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
It’s not easy getting by in a world overrun by zombies, but if you’ll just follow these simple rules, you, too, might make it out alive. Maybe. Who knows, you may be some kind of idiot, in which case you probably won’t survive. Anyways, Jesse Eisenberg with some help from his buddy Woody Harrelson have some helpful advice on how to survive the coming zombie-pocalypse. Find out more when Ruben Fleischer’s movie hits theaters October 2, 2009.
- 9/10/2009
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Who's the private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks? Well, as all blaxploitation fans know, that would be Shaft (damn right!), the cool-as-they-come detective Richard Roundtree originally portrayed in the 1971 movie of the same name. But the description pretty much also applies to the titular character in the new blaxploitation spoof Black Dynamite, a lady-attracting, drug gang-battling, ex-cia agent played by, at least according to the trailer below, "all-star running back Ferrante Jones." In fact, the role of Mr Dynamite is actually essayed by actor and martial arts expert Michael Jai White, and the clip's Grindhouse-style attention to period detail (it claims that the film is also being presented in something called "cinemaphonic quadrovision") is just one of its many charms. (Others include an encouraging number of funny lines and the fact that at times it actually looks like a more competently put-together piece of work than...
- 9/10/2009
- by Clark Collis
- EW.com - PopWatch
Ugo is going to London to talk to Daniel Craig about the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, and we’re taking you with us! Well, sort of. Send us your questions for Daniel and director Marc Forster. We’ll choose the best ones and ask them for you (I wish we could take you, but you don’t fit in a suitcase. Plus, they charge for extra baggage.) This is all about you, the James Bond uber-fans. It’s your questions, not mine. (Which is good, because I’d probably ask Daniel Craig to take off his shirt...just kidding...ok, not kidding at all.) So get cracking on your questions...we head to the UK the week of September 15th. Send them to jordan@ugo.com and make sure the subject line reads “007 Questions”. And check back with Ugo throughout September and October for exclusive pics and fan surprises.
- 8/28/2008
- UGO Movies
Primetime's biggest nights could be due for a shake-up when the fall schedules are unveiled this month. As broadcast network executives huddle inside their respective headquarters this week to screen series pilots, their decisions might well alter the most established lineups on television, including CBS on Monday, NBC on Thursday and ABC on Sunday. Although Everybody Loves Raymond has yet to end its run, the network's Monday lineup already is seeing attrition. The 8-9 p.m. combo of Still Standing and Listen Up has never caught fire, and it's unclear if the latter sitcom will live to see a second season. It's tempting to interpret the network's decision to give Wednesday comedy The King of Queens a Monday 8 p.m. outing tonight as a trial run for it to return there next season, perhaps pushing Standing to 8:30 p.m. The smart money is on Two and a Half Men -- which has continued to impress at 9:30 p.m. in its sophomore season -- to take over for Raymond at 9 p.m., where it could help launch a new comedy before CSI: Miami.
Primetime's biggest nights could be due for a shake-up when the fall schedules are unveiled this month. As broadcast network executives huddle inside their respective headquarters this week to screen series pilots, their decisions might well alter the most established lineups on television, including CBS on Monday, NBC on Thursday and ABC on Sunday. Although Everybody Loves Raymond has yet to end its run, the network's Monday lineup already is seeing attrition. The 8-9 p.m. combo of Still Standing and Listen Up has never caught fire, and it's unclear if the latter sitcom will live to see a second season. It's tempting to interpret the network's decision to give Wednesday comedy The King of Queens a Monday 8 p.m. outing tonight as a trial run for it to return there next season, perhaps pushing Standing to 8:30 p.m. The smart money is on Two and a Half Men -- which has continued to impress at 9:30 p.m. in its sophomore season -- to take over for Raymond at 9 p.m., where it could help launch a new comedy before CSI: Miami.
It was a near photo-finish in Monday's primetime for three networks, with NBC, CBS and Fox separated by only one-tenth of a rating point in the adults 18-49 demo. NBC squeaked by in the demographic but CBS won by far in total viewers. At 8 p.m., NBC's Fear Factor (9.7 million, 3.8/10) beat ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (8.8 million, 3.4/9), Fox's Nanny 911 (9.6 million/3.6/10) and repeats of CBS' Still Standing (9.1 million, 2.8/8) and Listen Up (8.1 million, 2.6/7), according to preliminary estimates from Nielsen Media Research.
- 3/30/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It was a near photo-finish in Monday's primetime for three networks, with NBC, CBS and Fox separated by only one-tenth of a rating point in the adults 18-49 demo. NBC squeaked by in the demographic but CBS won by far in total viewers. At 8 p.m., NBC's Fear Factor (9.7 million, 3.8/10) beat ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (8.8 million, 3.4/9), Fox's Nanny 911 (9.6 million/3.6/10) and repeats of CBS' Still Standing (9.1 million, 2.8/8) and Listen Up (8.1 million, 2.6/7), according to preliminary estimates from Nielsen Media Research.
- 3/29/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A special Monday edition of American Idol put Fox over the top for the nightly win while CBS was buoyed by a 90-minute edition of CSI: Miami. The WB Network had a good night with 9 p.m. drama Everwood, building on its 7th Heaven lead-in. CBS' Two and a Half Men also passed an important test with its trial run in the 9 p.m. time slot that has been home to Everybody Loves Raymond for the past seven years. Men spiked from its modest lead-in from 8:30 p.m.'s Listen Up (9.4 million viewers, 2.8 rating/6 share in adults 18-49) to bring in an average of 17.5 million viewers and 5.6 rating/12 share in the key demo, according to preliminary estimates from Nielsen Media Research.
- 2/23/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A special Monday edition of American Idol put Fox over the top for the nightly win while CBS was buoyed by a 90-minute edition of CSI: Miami. The WB Network had a good night with 9 p.m. drama Everwood, building on its 7th Heaven lead-in. CBS' Two and a Half Men also passed an important test with its trial run in the 9 p.m. time slot that has been home to Everybody Loves Raymond for the past seven years. Men spiked from its modest lead-in from 8:30 p.m.'s Listen Up (9.4 million viewers, 2.8 rating/6 share in adults 18-49) to bring in an average of 17.5 million viewers and 5.6 rating/12 share in the key demo, according to preliminary estimates from Nielsen Media Research.
- 2/22/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Monday was a night of dueling dramas in primetime. Fox and NBC parried with 24 and Las Vegas at 9 p.m., and then at 10 p.m., the peacock's hot midseason entry Medium made it a horse race with CBS' CSI: Miami. CBS and NBC tied for the nightly bragging rights in the adults 18-49 demographic (5.1 rating/13 share) while CBS had a wide margin of victory in total viewers (CBS' 15.3 million to NBC's 12.5 million), according to preliminary estimates from Nielsen Media Research. NBC easily won the 8 p.m. hour with Fear Factor (10.8 million, 4.6/12). CBS got off to a weaker-than-usual start with comedies Still Standing (9.8 million, 2.7/8) and Listen Up (9.4 million, 2.7/7). ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Family Reunion (8.7 million, 3.1/8) was competitive with Fox's Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy (7.9 million, 3.4/9).
- 2/16/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Wendy Makkena has landed the female lead opposite Jason Alexander in CBS' new comedy Listen Up. After an extensive search, Makkena was tapped to play the wife of Tony (Alexander), a columnist, sports TV show host and a father of two who is the central character in the Regency TV/CBS Prods. sitcom. "She was fantastic, just completely likable, and she milked every bit of comedy out of every scene," Regency TV president Robin Schwartz said of Makkena's test with Alexander. "Wendy and Jason had a wonderful chemistry, and there's more heat between the two characters just because their chemistry is so good."...
NEW YORK -- Look out, Law & Order: CBS is targeting the prolific New York-based crime franchise with one of its own, CSI: NY. The third iteration of CBS' reigning crime franchise will face off against L&O Wednesdays at 10 p.m. CSI: NY is one of three new dramas joining the CBS schedule this fall, along with two new sitcoms. Contrary to speculation that CSI: Miami would be moved to Wednesday to take on L&O, the series will remain in its Monday 10 p.m. slot. The rest of the night will see some changes, with sitcom Still Standing moving to the anchor slot, followed by the new Jason Alexander vehicle Listen Up at 8:30 p.m.
- 5/19/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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