Tag: Philippe Bober
An Unfinished Film | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Act of Watching: Lou Ye Mixes Picture Lock Dreams & Lock Down Nightmares
Does a film exist if it was never completed? It’s a...
Rimini | Review
Bravo New World: Seidl Returns with Desolate Portrait of Fallen Hustler
There’s always a healthy thread of humor lurking under the despair of Ulrich Seidl’s...
35th European Film Awards: A Cannes Comp rematch for Ali Abbasi, Lukas Dhont & Ruben Ôstlund
Three huge winners at this year's Cannes Film Festival lead the noms for the 35th European Film Awards. Lukas Dhont’s Close, Ali Abbasi’s Holy...
Triangle of Sadness | Review
Voyage of the Damned: Östlund Frowns Down Upon Hardwired Human Folly in Devious Satire
Ruben Östlund has built an impressive filmography satirizing social norms, with...
Class Is In Session: Hausner’s “Club Zero” Adds Sidse Babett Knudsen, Amir El-Masry, Elsa Zylberstein & Mathieu Demy
There'll be a whole load of people in the Club Zero camp as we learned via the Screen Daily folks that Limbo pairing Sidse...
Il Buco | Review
Frammartino Digs Deep, But Barely Scratches the Surface
Michelangelo Frammartino’s Il Buco (“The Hole”) is a meditative journey into the center of the earth,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #6. Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness
Triangle of Sadness
Produced by Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober
Directed by Ruben Östlund
Written by Ruben Östlund
Starring: Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Woody Harrelson
Cinematographer: Fredrik Wenzel
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #31. Ulrich Seidl’s Böse Spiele
Böse Spiele (Wicked Games)
With filming taking place in portions between April 2017 to May 2018, it's been a painstakingly long post-production process for Austrian...
About Endlessness [Video Review]
Beauty & Banality: Andersson Ponders the Void in Potential Final Film
There might be no greater spiritual absurdist than Sweden’s premiere arthouse auteur Roy Andersson,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #8. Ulrich Seidl’s Böse Spiele
Böse Spiele
Produced by Philippe Bober, Elisabetta Pilia, Ulrich Seidl
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Written by Veronika Franz, Ulrich Seidl
Starring: Michael Thomas, Georg Friedrich, Hans Michael...
Little Joe | Review
Stamen Alive: Hausner Examines the Pursuit of Happiness in Cerebral Sci-Fi
It was “the nightmare that threatened the world” and something that came from “deep...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Jessica Hausner’s Little Joe
A staple figure of the Un Certain Regard section with three trips dating back to 2001's Lovely Rita and 2004's Hotel with her last...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #16. Dau – Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Dau
It looks as if 2019 will be the year we see Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s insane recuperation of Stalinist era Russia with the infamous Dau. Some...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #19. Little Joe – Jessica Hausner
Little Joe
Austrian director Jessica Hausner returns to the essence of genre with her fifth feature Little Joe, which deals with issues of reality vs....
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #19. Ruben Ostlund’s The Square
The Square
Director: Ruben Ostlund
Writer: Ruben Ostlund
While plans are underway for an English language remake of Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s internationally lauded Force Majeure (2014),...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #50. Jessica Hausner’s Amour Fou
Amour Fou
Director: Jessica Hausner
Writer: Jessica Hausner
Producers: Martin Gschlacht, Antonin Svoboda, Bruno Wagner, Bady Minck, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Philippe Bober
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Christian Friedel, Birte...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #17. Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Hope
Paradise: Hope
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Writer(s): Seidl & Veronika Franz
Producers: Seidl, Christine Ruppert, Philippe Bober
U.S. Distributor: Strand Releasing
Cast: Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer, Joseph Lorenz, Michael...