Tag: Ulrich Seidl
The Devil’s Bath (Des Teufels Bad) | Review
Agnes of God: Franz & Fiala’s Bleak Portrait of Women & Madness
“A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” wrote...
Moon | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
Bitter Moon: Ayub Concocts a Taut Domestic Thriller
“It takes time for a bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its...
Veni Vidi Vici | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
Destroy Everything You Touch: Hoesl & Riemann Come to Conquer with Dark Satire
As ABBA once succinctly stated, “Money, money money/Must be funny/In a rich...
2024 Sundance: Daniel Hoesl, Klaudia Reynicke & Thea Hvistendahl in World Cinema Dramatic Comp
Daniel Hoesl's Veni Vidi Vici, Klaudia Reynicke's Reinas and Thea Hvistendahl's Handling the Undead are among the ten titles selected for the needle in...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala’s The Devil’s Bath
It's entirely possible that Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala would have waited it out for another Park City showing - Sundance launched...
The Sonne and then the “Moon”: Kurdwin Ayub Begins Production on Sophomore Narrative Feature
Iraq-born Austrian filmmaker Kurdwin Ayub has just begun work on Mond (the translation of the word Moon). She is re-teaming with Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion...
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...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #169. Daniel Hoesl’s Veni Vidi Vici
Veni Vidi Vici
After checking in with the powerful elite with the '20 docu Davos, Daniel Hoesl moved into a screenplay that is not that...
2022 TIFF: Honoré, Seidl, Pálmason, Mungiu & Gueret+Akoka in the Contemporary World Cinema Program
After front-loading the section with Canadiana last week, we now know the entire make-up of the Contemporary World Cinema Program and there are plenty...
2022 Venice Film Festival: 70 Predictions (Part II) Aroonpheng, Lindholm, Hogg & Rolf de Heer
Only hours before TIFF unveil what should be a sizeable amount of their line-up (and in the same sweeping motion confirm a lot of...
2022 Cannes Film Festival: Eight Possible 11th Hour Film Options
Critics' Week made their line-up public yesterday. Directors' Fortnight topper Paolo Moretti mentioned that there is one title from Asia that they are still...
Sonne | 2022 Berlin International Film Festival Review
The Sun Also Scheisse: Ayub Explores Identity Politics in Modern European Diaspora
For her directorial debut, Sonne, director Kurdwin Ayub draws on her background as...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
We've looked at the non-competing sections (10 predictions). We've visited (20 predictions) the possible Critics' Week programme. We explored (20 predictions) options for the...
Piccolo Fratello: Seidl’s Wicked Games Project Spawned “Rimini” and then… “Sparta”
Minutes before Ulrich Seidl's is set to premiere his long-awaited feature, we now learn that there is a companion film that is in the can...
2022 Berlinale: Seidl, Sangsoo, Hers, Meier, Taviani, Denis Cote & Clare Denis in Golden Bear Comp
Several of the names that figured in our most anticipated list and a new Hong Sangsoo project (The Novelist’s Film) are among the eighteen...
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...
IndieSponge Episode: 14 – 2020 Venice Film Festival Predictions
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, I invited Tommaso Tocci to discuss the possible titles that might make it into the 2020 edition of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #11. Wicked Games – Ulrich Seidl
Böse Spiele
A project which has been developing for the past several years, it would appear 2020 is finally the year in which Ulrich Seidl’s...
The Conversation: Vying for Venice 2019 – Predictions!
Once again, Venice seems poised to make a killing by featuring a number of high-profile US auteurs in its line-up. Like last year’s program,...
The Conversation: Last But Not Least for Cannes 2019
With the main competition and the sidebar programs all unveiled, we await news of one or potentially two last-minute titles added to the competition,...
The Conversation: 2019 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
For several reasons, the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival was something of a slight progression, if at least for the number of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #24. Wicked Games (Böse Spiele) – Ulrich Seidl
Wicked Games
Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl returns to his first piece of narrative filmmaking since the unspooling of his phenomenal Paradise Trilogy six years ago...
The Conversation: Bring Forth Berlin (Possible Contenders for the Competition)
As has been the Berlinale’s custom of years past, several early competition titles have been confirmed along with the 2019 opener, Lone Scherfig’s The...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions III: Italy’s Sorrentino, Garrone & Rohrwacher Lead Europa Europa
It’s less than a week before the official program is unveiled for Cannes 2018 and this year’s festival already promises to be one of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #32. Ulrich Seidl’s Evil Games
Evil Games
Since premiering his masterpiece Paradise trilogy across 2012 and 2013, the Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl has returned to heavy documentary subjects with 2014’s...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Theo Anthony’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we...
The Conversation: Venice 2017 – Those Who Were Not Named
With Locarno and Venice’s recently announced competition line-ups, the last stand as far as 2017 festival circuit competition now sits with the soon to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #14. Ulrich Seidl’s Evil Games
Evil Games
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Writer: Ulrich Seidl
Since premiering his masterpiece Paradise trilogy across 2012 and 2013, the Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl has returned to heavy...
The Conversation: Jenkins’ Moonlight, Escalante’s The Untamed & the Totality of TIFF ’16
As far as the matter of size goes, the Toronto International Film Festival continues to astound, with close to 300 plus titles amassed for...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell – The 2016 Edition
Tis the season for fevered wish lists and constantly fluctuating prognostications concerning the soon to be revealed 2016 program at the Cannes Film Festival....
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: An Introduction
As we were putting together our projections for most anticipated films due in 2017, we noticed there were too many notable titles to be...
Goodnight Mommy | Blu-ray Review
Distributor TWC-Radius managed a difficult feat with an inspired marketing campaign for the release of foreign arthouse horror film Goodnight Mommy, the excellent directorial...
In the Basement | Review
Dungeons, Nazis and Latex Babies: Seidl Puts Modern Cave Dwellers on Display
Paradise trilogy helmer Ulrich Seidl returns to docu form in what could easily...
Goodnight Mommy | Review
Mom Without a Face: Fiala/Franz’s Fiction Debut a Mesmerizing Slice of Psychological Horror
Once you’re made aware that Goodnight Mommy is the fictional directorial debut...
Suburban Seidl: Strand Adds “In the Basement” to the Collection
Having previously released all three items his Paradise: Trilogy, Screen Daily reports that Strand Releasing have excavated Ulrich Seidl's out of comp Venice Film Festival...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: #4. Ulrich Seidl’s Herr Grasl
Herr Grasl
Director: Ulrich Seidl // Writer: Ulrich Seidl
After premiering his monolithic Paradise trilogy across 2012 and 2013, along with the long gestating documentary project...
71st Venice Film Fest: Oppenheimer, Akin, Bahrani, Andersson & Ferrara Compete for Golden Lion
Whiles the likes of Terrence Malick, Todd Haynes, Alexander Sokurov, Giorgos Lanthimos and J.C. Chandor no where to be found in the fall fest season...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #180. Ulrich Seidl’s In the Basement
In the Basement
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Producers: Martin Gschlact
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Seidl returns to his roots as a documentary filmmaker for his first feature after completing...
Paradise: Hope | Review
Grand Finale: Seidl’s Final Chapter Strikes Surprisingly Tender Notes
With Paradise: Hope, the crowning chapter of Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise Trilogy, the provocateur surprises...
Paradise: Faith | Review
Between Love and Hope: Seidl’s Second Film of Paradise Trilogy a Harrowing Hilarity
In what has to be the most significant auteur helmed cinematic motif...
TIFF 2013’s CWC Includes Latest from Spielmann, Eimbcke, Rasoulof, Seidl & Corneliu Porumboiu
Final batch of TIFF titles were announced today and among the international hodgepodge of items trickling we find Berlin (Golden Bear winner Child's Pose),...
Top 3 Critic’s Picks In Theaters this August: Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Paradise: Faith & Short Term 12
Counting the likes of James Ponsdolt's The Spectacular Now, Lake Bell's In a World... and Prince Avalanche (David Gordon Green's return to form and...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Ulrich Seidl’s In the Basement
#73. Ulrich Seidl’s In the Basement
Gist: Seidl returns to his roots as a documentary filmmaker for his first feature after completing his revered Paradise...
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...
Nicholas Bell’s Top Ten Unreleased Films of 2012: Picks 5 to 1 include Challenging Films from Seidl, Franco & Reygadas
#5. Beyond the Hills – Dir. Cristian Mungiu (Romania)
Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu returns with this doozy of a film concerning two friends who grew...
Nicholas Bell’s Top Ten Unreleased Films of 2012: Picks 10 to 6 includes Sigarev’s Living & Jude’s Everybody In Our Family
#10. Living – Dir. Vasili Sigarev (Russia)
Premiering at the 2012 Rotterdam Film Festival, this sophomore effort from Vasili Sigarev is, of course, ironically titled,...
Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Love
Originally set up to be one film with "three women, three holidays and three loves", Ulrich Seidl decided to break them apart with Paradise:...
Cannes 2012: Paradise: Love | Review
Seidl Pads out his Humanist/Colonialist Fairytale a bit too Thinly
Right off the bat, the first of Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy - this first one...
Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2012: Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Love
Paradise: Love - Ulrich Seidl
Buzz: While part of the elite class of filmmakers who’ve attained Main Competition status (now for a second time), I...
