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Vinterbrødre
''Winter Brothers'' () is a 2017 Danish- Icelandic drama film written and directed by Hlynur Pálmason, in his feature-length film debut. It stars Elliott Crosset Hove and Simon Sears as a pair of limestone worker brothers, whose disparate traits collide as issues of masculinity, isolation, and brotherly love are broached. The film won numerous awards, including two Bodil Awards and nine Robert Awards—each of which resulted in victories from their respective ceremonies' highest honor, Best Danish Film. Cast Release ''Winter Brothers'' debuted in the Concorso Internazionale section at the 2017 Locarno Film Festival on 3 August 2017. It was screened in the Discovery section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. It later premiered in the USA at the 47th annual New Directors/New Films Festival at Lincoln Center in Manhattan, NYC. Reception Critical response Film critic Jessica Kiang of ''Variety magazine'' called the film "an impressively original, auspici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Sears
Simon Sears (born 25 January 1984) is a Danish actor. Early life and education Sears was born in Roskilde to an Italian father and Danish mother. He was raised in the town of Solrød Strand, and has two older siblings. When he was younger, Sears was interested in dance, training at the Solrød Centre and performing at Bella Centeret and dance championships. As his father grew up financially unstable due to his grandfather being a painter, Sears explored a few careers options before settling on theatre. He briefly moved to Hjørring before going on to train at the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen, graduating in 2014. Career In 2015, Sears had stage roles in ''Koks i kulissen'', ''Cabaret (musical), Cabaret'', and ''Ødipus Laboratoriet'' at the Royal Danish Theatre and ''Visen om sidsel'' at Grønnegårds Teatret. He starred in his first feature-length film ''9. April'' alongside Pilou Asbæk. The following year, he received the prestigious Reumert Prize, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hlynur Pálmason
Hlynur Pálmason (born 1984) is an Icelandic film director, screenwriter, and visual artist. Early life and education Hlynur Pálmason was born in 1984 in Höfn í Hornafirði, Iceland. He studied film at the National Film School of Denmark in Copenhagen, graduating in 2013. He lived in Denmark for 10 years before returning to Höfn, a town on the Hornafjörður fjord. He is also a visual artist. Career Pálmason has said he is more interested in "the narrative style and flow of films" than the actual plotline. His debut feature film '' Winter Brothers (Vinterbrødre)'', which was filmed in Denmark, debuted at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland in 2017. It went on to win the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film and the Robert Award for Best Danish Film, with Pálmason also winning the Robert Award for Best Director. His second feature film, '' A White, White Day'' (''Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur''), was filmed in Iceland, and many of the people he had worked with on ''Win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodil Award For Best Danish Film
The Bodil Award for Best Danish Film () is one of the categories for the Bodil Awards presented annually by the Danish Film Critics Association. It was created in 1948 and is one of the oldest film prizes in Europe. The jury can decide not to give out the award if no deserving films are submitted. This has occurred once, in 1974. More than one film also can receive the award in a single year, as occurred in 1955. Honorees 1940s * 1st Bodil Awards, 1948: ''Jenny and the Soldier'' directed by Johan Jacobsen * 2nd Bodil Awards, 1949: ''The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman'' directed by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr. 1950s * 3rd Bodil Awards, 1950: ''Susanne (1950 film), Susanne'' directed by * 4th Bodil Awards, 1951: ''Café Paradis'' directed by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr. * 5th Bodil Awards, 1952: ''Det Sande Ansigt'' directed by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen, Jr. * 6th Bodil Awards, 1953: ''Adam and Eve (1953 film), Adam and Eve'' directed by Erik Balling * 7th Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Hove (actor)
Anders Hove (born 16 January 1956) is a Danish-Greenlandic actor and director. Hove is best known for his role of the vampire Radu Vladislas in the five ''Subspecies''-movies, Cesar Faison in ABC's ''General Hospital'', '' Loving'', & ''Port Charles'' and in the film '' In the Middle of the Night'' as Nalle. Early life Anders Hove was born in Greenland on 16 January 1956 to Birthe Hovea, a nurse, and Anders Hove, who worked as a meteorologist. His father was politically involved in Greenland and helped the country work toward the government it has today. Spending most of his childhood there, Anders later moved with his parents to Thisted in Denmark when he was 14 years old. In the 1970s, Anders attended the Det Kongelige Teater school in Denmark to learn formal acting. Before this, he had studied law and economics, and had planned on taking over his father's business. Career Hove began his professional career in the 1980s, working mostly in Denmark before moving on to horror fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliott Crosset Hove
Elliott Crosset Hove (born 18 March 1988) is a Danish–American actor mostly known for his work with Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason Hlynur Pálmason (born 1984) is an Icelandic film director, screenwriter, and visual artist. Early life and education Hlynur Pálmason was born in 1984 in Höfn í Hornafirði, Iceland. He studied film at the National Film School of Denmark .... He is the son of Danish-Greenlandic actor Anders Hove and American dancer Ann Thayer Crosset. In 2023 he was awarded the Bodil for his role in '' Godland''. Filmography Film Television References Citations Sources * Living people 1988 births Danish male film actors Danish male television actors {{Denmark-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vic Carmen Sonne
Victoria "Vic" Carmen Sonne (born 23 April 1994) is a Danish actress. She is best known for her roles in the films '' Winter Brothers'' (2017), ''Holiday'' (2018), '' Godland'' (2022), and '' The Girl with the Needle'' (2024). She has won two Bodil Awards and two Robert Awards. Biography Sonne was born and raised in Copenhagen. She is of Polish, Persian, and Russian descent. She attended the and was admitted to the Danish National School of Performing Arts at the age of 17. She graduated in 2016. She auditioned for Simon Staho's 2011 film '' Love Is in the Air'' after seeing an ad in ''MetroXpress'' seeking out actors. She has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, and emotional dysregulation that are excessive and pervasive, impairing in multiple con .... Filmography Film Television Awards and nominations Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Awards
The Robert Award () is a Danish film prize awarded each year by the Danish Film Academy since 1984. Description The Robert-Prisen (Robert Award) is an annual award given by the Danish Film Academy, launched in 1984. It is the Danish equivalent of the American Oscars, British BAFTAs for films, Australian AACTA Awards or French César. The award—voted only by academy members—is an acknowledgment by Danish industry colleagues of a person's or film's outstanding contributions during the previous year. Since 2013, awards have been given to television series and actors as well. The Robert was awarded for the first time in 1984 and is named after the statuette's creator, the Danish sculptor Robert Jacobsen. ''Scope Film Guide''. Retrieved 27 March 2010 Categories Current Discontinued ...
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Film Criticism
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: Academic criticism by film studies, film scholars, who study the composition of film theory and publish their findings and essays in books and journals, and general Journalism, journalistic criticism that appears regularly in press newspapers, magazines and other popular mass-media outlets. Academic film criticism rarely takes the form of a review; instead it is more likely to analyse the film and its place in the history of its genre, the industry and History of film, film history as a whole. Film criticism is also labeled as a type of writing that perceives films as possible achievements and wishes to convey their differences, as well as the films being made in a level of quality that is satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Film criticism is also associated with the journalistic type of criticism, which is grounded in the media's effects being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manhattan
Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, largest, and average area per state and territory, smallest county by area in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Located almost entirely on Manhattan Island near the southern tip of the state, Manhattan constitutes the center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metropolitan area. Manhattan serves as New York City's Economy of New York City, economic and Government of New York City, administrative center and has been described as the cultural, financial, Media in New York City, media, and show business, entertainment capital of the world. Present-day Manhattan was originally part of Lenape territory. European settlement began with the establishment of a trading post by Dutch colonization of the Americas, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 million visitors annually. It houses performing arts organizations including the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Ballet, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Juilliard School. History Planning A consortium of civic leaders and others, led by and under the initiative of philanthropist John D. Rockefeller III, built Lincoln Center as part of the "Lincoln Square Renewal Project" during Robert Moses's program of New York's urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s."Rockefeller Philanthropy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Directors/New Films Festival
The New Directors/New Films Festival is an annual film festival held in New York City, organized jointly by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Established in 1972, the Festival generally selects films from first-time directors, some of whom have become renowned in their later careers. The festival and its films have been covered by ''The New York Times'' and ''Variety Variety may refer to: Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats * Variety (radio) * Variety show, in theater and television Films * ''Variety'' (1925 film), a German silent film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont * ''Variety'' (1935 film), ...''. References Further reading * Film festivals in New York City {{US-film-festival-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TheWrap
''TheWrap'' is an American online news organization that covers the business of entertainment and media. It was founded by journalist Sharon Waxman in 2009 and is based in Los Angeles. The site features original reporting, analysis, and editorial coverage of the entertainment industry, with particular focus on Hollywood film, television, and streaming media. History ''TheWrap'' was launched in January 2009 by Sharon Waxman, a former Hollywood correspondent for ''The New York Times'' and ''The Washington Post''. The site was created to offer in-depth business coverage of the entertainment industry, including breaking news, analysis, and opinion. In November 2015, TheWrap expanded its editorial and digital operations with a series of key hires. Tim Molloy rejoined as Deputy Managing Editor, joining Thom Geier in leading editorial operations. Andrew Curry was named Director of Audience Development, overseeing editorial partnerships, social media strategy, and audience engagemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
