All articles by Ab Zagt – Page 3

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    Film by the Sea festival adds extra days, location

    2003-06-05T04:05:00Z

    Dutch film festival, Film by the Sea (5 -14 September) is adding three days to its programme and introducing a new location.This year's fifth edition will last three days longer and, in addition to the Cine City-cinema in Vlissingen in Zeeland, part of the program will be shown ...

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    Verhoeven eyes biopic of Dutch artist

    2003-04-23T04:05:00Z

    Paul Verhoeven is planning to shoot his first Dutch movie since1984's The Fourth Man.The filmmaker, who has lived for nearly 20 years in Los Angeles, has expressed interest in a biopic on the Dutch artist Jan Montyn.The movie will be based on the novel Montyn, written in 1982 by ...

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    Verhoeven, Hauer classic to be remade by van de Velde

    2003-02-17T04:05:00Z

    Classic Dutch cult TV series Floris, that first united director Paul Verhoeven and Rutger Hauer in 1969, is to be remade for the cinema. Jean van de Velde (Leak, All Stars) is set to direct the adventurous epic, about the heroic knight Floris and his sidekick Sindela. The original series ...

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    Dutch Oscar-winners lobby government for continued support

    2003-02-06T04:05:00Z

    Four Dutch Oscar-winners - Fons Rademakers (The Assault, 1986), Marleen Gorris (Antonia's Line, 1995), Mike van Diem (Character) and Michael Dudok de Wit (Father And Daughter, 2000) - have published an open letter to the next Dutch government urging for continuation of the present level of film funding.The letter, ...

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    Simon Field to quit Rotterdam film festival

    2003-02-04T04:05:00Z

    Simon Field is to resign as the director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The next edition in 2004 will be his last. His co-director, Sandra den Hamer, will remain in her position.In a statement Field said: "In 2004 I will have been with the festival for eight years, ...

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    Local Dutch market share hits all-time high

    2003-01-08T04:05:00Z

    Local Dutch films took their highest-ever market share in the Netherlands during 2002.A revived local interest in Dutch movies was one of the main reasons that national cinema admissions in the Netherlands increased by 5% last year. Local productions like Volle Maan, Minoes and Pietje Bell helped the national film ...

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    Dutch entry for foreign-language Oscar selected

    2002-10-07T04:05:00Z

    The feature Zus & Zo, directed by Paula van der Oest, has been chosen as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the Oscars.The film is loosely based on the play Three Women by Checkov and depicts the relationship between three sisters and their younger ...

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    Minoes scores with two Golden Calf awards

    2002-10-07T04:05:00Z

    With two Golden Calves - for best film and best actress for Carice van Houten, Vincent Bal's Minoes, based on a classic children's book, was the big winner at the 22nd Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht. During the closing ceremony on Friday night, director George Sluizer (The Vanishing) received a ...

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    Soldier Of Orange 2 dispute settled out of court

    2002-10-07T04:05:00Z

    Producer Rob Houwer has finally resolved the legal battle surrounding the remake of Soldier Of Orange 2, the sequel to Paul Verhoeven's 1979 war drama. The film was supposed to have been shot this summer, but a conflict about the completion bond between Houwer and the financing company Arteco, ...

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    Redford/Mirren thriller takes Dutch producer to new level

    2002-08-23T00:00:00Z

    Dutch producer Pieter Jan Brugge is to take his career to a new level when he makes his directorial debut with the thriller The Clearing. According to Dutch sources, the story of a rich businessman kidnapped by a former employee will star Robert Redford and the UK's Helen Mirren as ...

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    Dutch film festival director kills two Golden Calves

    2002-04-16T05:00:00Z

    The Dutch Film Festival (25 September - 4 October in Utrecht) will have fewer awards - the traditional Golden Calves - for this year's edition. The new director, Doreen Boonekamp, has cut the two prizes for best actor and actress in the television-drama-section.The number of films in competition will also ...

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    Dutch film festival kills two Golden Calves

    2002-04-16T00:00:00Z

    The Dutch Film Festival (25 September - 4 October in Utrecht) will have fewer awards - the traditional Golden Calves - for this year's edition. The new director, Doreen Boonekamp, has cut the two prizes for best actor and actress in the television-drama-section.The number of films in competition will also ...

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    Verhoeven receives Lifetime Award, reveals new projects

    2002-04-14T00:00:00Z

    Accepting his Lifetime Achievement Award during the 18th Festival of the Fantastic Film in Amsterdam, director Paul Verhoeven revealed his next planned project, having had his latest feature, Official Assassins, cancelled post-September 11.While he claims to have several projects up his sleeve, convincing Hollywood studios has become increasingly difficult "Since ...

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    Dutch incentive to re-make European films

    2002-04-09T18:58:00Z

    The Dutch film industry has turned to European films as a source for re-makes in an attempt to foster local production. Three titles - 14 Tage Lebenslaenglich and Sex Oder Liebe (both German) and the Swedish comedy Gossip - have been selected to be given a Dutch make-over.The Dutch industry ...

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    Verhoeven receives honorary award in Amsterdam

    2002-04-04T15:36:00Z

    Director Paul Verhoeven will receive a Life Achievement Award during the Festival of Fantasy Films in Amsterdam.Amsterdam-born Verhoeven, who made Dutch films including Turkish Delight and The Fourth Man before such Hollywood blockbusters as Total Recall and Starship Troopers, is to collect the prize during event's final weekend. Other claims ...

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    Dutch producer assembles cast for Turmoil

    2002-03-21T01:03:00Z

    Producer Rob Houwer (Soldier Of Orange, Turkish Delight) is assembling a major Dutch cast for his latest movie Het Woeden Der Gehele Wereld (The Turmoil Of The World), a thriller based on the best-selling novel by Dutch author Maarten 't Hart. Houwer is hoping to assemble a cast including: Jeroen ...