13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Read More »
Tag Archives: Netherlands
Mother Dao, the Turtlelike (1995) Vincent Monnikendam
In a span of ninety minutes the film aims to show how the Netherlands administered its colony as a colonial enterprise and what the relations were like at the time. Read More »
Habitat (1997) Rene Daalder, Balthazar Getty, Tchéky Karyo, Alice Krige
In a future world where Earth’s ozone layer has been completely destroyed, a brilliant but obsessed scientist Read More »
The Paradise Suite (2015) Joost van Ginkel, Anjela Nedyalkova, Boris Isakovic, Erik Adelöw
The Paradise Suite is a story about six people finding each other and, sometimes with just one glance, influencing each other’s lives irreversibly. Read More »
The Dress (1996) Alex van Warmerdam, Henri Garcin, Ingeborg Elzevier, Khaldoun Elmecky
The Dress is a tale filled with sex, violence, comedy and drama as it follows the life of a dress. Read More »
Tokyo Sonata (2008) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi
An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company. Read More »
The Outsider (1979) Tony Luraschi, Craig Wasson, Sterling Hayden, Patricia Quinn
Idealistic Vietnam veteran Michael Flaherty (Wasson), enthralled by the stories told to him by his grandfather (Hayden) and disillusioned by the lack of a clear cut cause in Vietnam Read More »
Pentimento (1979) Frans Zwartjes, Helen Hedy, Moniek Toebosch, Trix Zwartjes
Scientists subjected women to dark and inhuman experiments, in which sexuality and cruelty are fused together. Read More »
Daens (1992) Stijn Coninx, Jan Decleir, Gérard Desarthe, Antje de Boeck
In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible Read More »
Lyrical Nitrate (1991) Peter Delpeut, Lyda Borelli, Henny Porten, Anni Timm, Documentary
This film is a compilation of scenes from silent films made between 1905 and 1915 that sat in storage in an Amsterdam cinema for many years. Read More »