Danish Film Resources
The Cinema of Scandinavia by ISBN: 9781904764229Date: 2005-09-29Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment of the role of the domestic sphere in modernist literature, architecture, and design. Elegantly synthesizing modernist literature with architectural plans, room designs, and decorative art, Victoria Rosner's work explores the collaborations among modern British writers, interior designers, and architects in redefining the form, function, and meaning of middle-class private life. Drawing on a host of previously unexamined archival sources and works by figures such as E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler, and Virginia Woolf, Rosner highlights the participation of modernist literature in the creation of an experimental, embodied, and unstructured private life, which we continue to characterize as "modern."
The Cinema of Small Nations by ISBN: 9780253220103Date: 2008-01-21The Cinema of Small Nations is the first major analysis of small national cinemas, comprising 12 case studies of small national--and sub national--cinemas from around the world, including Ireland, Denmark, Iceland, Scotland, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Burkina Faso, Cuba, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and New Zealand. Written by an array of distinguished and emerging scholars, the case studies provide detailed analyses of the particular cinema in question, with an emphasis on the last decade, considering both institutional and textual issues relevant to the national dimension of each cinema.- Dansk film i krydsfeltet mellem samarbejde og konkurrence byISBN: 9197798606Date: 2009Dansk film i krydsfeltet mellem samarbejde og konkurrence ser nærmere på de seneste 10-15 års udvikling i den danske filmbranche. Udviklinger som denne har sjældent en enkelt årsag eller skyldes en enkelt faktor, ligesom udviklingen sjældent er en og den samme under en periode, men snarere præget af flere og ofte modsatrettede tendenser. I denne bog samles forskellige perspektiver på hovedtendenser indenfor nutidig dansk filmproduktion og forskellige faktorer bag disse hovedtendenser diskuteres. Bogen indeholder syv bidrag, der repræsenterer forskellige perspektiver på dansk film. Den omhandler forskellige organiserings- og ledelsesmæssige problemstillinger, og diskuterer blandt andet emner som: den danske model, organiseringsmodeller i dansk film før og nu, Den Danske Filmskoles, filmlovens og Det Danske Filminstituts rolle(r) i forhold til filmbranchen, filmselskabers identitetsskabelse, samt spilleregler og metoder som kreativt værktøj.
A History of Danish Cinema by ISBN: 9781474461122Date: 2021-10-25This wide-ranging collection places well-known auteurs such as Carl Th. Dreyer, Lars von Trier and Susanne Bier in their cultural context, and introduces a number of genres and themes that are less familiar to international audiences, including film stars of the silent era, children's film, folk comedies, porn film, trends in documentary and Greenlandic cinema. With twenty-two chapters, all of them specially commissioned for this volume, A History of Danish Cinema explores the role of screen representations and film policy in shaping Denmark's cultural identity, but also emphasises just how internationally mobile Danish films and filmmakers have always been -- showcasing this small nation's extraordinary contribution to world cinema.
Inclusion in New Danish Cinema by ISBN: 9781783201938Date: 2015-09-15Often recognized as one of the happiest countries in the world, Denmark, like its Scandinavian neighbors, is known for its progressive culture, which is also reflected in its national cinema. It is not surprising, then, that Danish film boasts as many successful women film directors as men, uses scripts that are often cowritten by the director and the screenwriter, and produces one of the largest numbers of queer films directed by and starring women. Despite all this, Danish film is not widely written about, especially in English. Inclusion in New Danish Cinema brings this vibrant culture to English-language audiences. Meryl Shriver-Rice argues that Denmark has demonstrated that film can reinforce cultural ethics and political values while also navigating the ongoing and mounting forces of digital communication and globalization.
Nationale spejlinger : tendenser in ny dansk film by ISBN: 9788772898353Date: 2003Dansk film har i de seneste år oplevet en utrolig udvikling og frembragt billeder og fortællinger med både national og international gennemslagskraft. Danske film har vundet priser som Oscar, Sølvbjørn og Guldpalme, og i Danmark er filmene dagsordensættende og til stadig debat. Ikke som tidligere med udgangspunkt i, at der ikke sker noget i dansk film, men nu ud fra en forventning om konstant udvikling og succes.
Nu kommer bogen om, hvad der er sket i det seneste femten år: Nationale spejlinger - Tendenser i ny dansk film. I bogen analyseres de senere års udvikling i dansk film og herigennem det samfund, som filmene afspejler. Indefra og udefra.
Hvad er det for en type historier, der fortælles i filmene, hvor langt kom dogmebevægelsen, og hvilken indflydelse har globaliseringen på dansk film? Hvordan tackles vigtige emner i dagens Danmark - såsom kulturarven, sproget og immigrationen - på lærredet? Og hvordan ser dansk film ud, når man ikke ser på den fra andedammen, men fra den store verden, fra filmnationer som USA, Storbritannien, Frankrig og Japan? Det er nogle af de emner, der tages op i bogen.- 100 års dansk film byISBN: 9788762101579Date: 2001100 ÅRS DANSK FILM er historien om den danske filmskat fortalt tiår for tiår. Den begynder med Peter Elfelts film i 1890'erne og Ole Olsens grundlæggelse af Nordisk Film i 1906. Så følger dansk stumfilms gyldne tid, hvor Asta Nielsen, Carl Th. Dreyer og Fy og Bi får international opmærksomhed. I 1930'erne kommer tonefilmen, med en gemytlig Ib Schønberg og en muntert syngende Marguerite Viby. Alvorlige toner i 1940'erne med Vredens Dag og Ditte Menneskebarn afløses i 1950'erne af familiehyggen hos Morten Korch og Far til Fire. 1960'erne bliver nybølgens tid, 1970'erne kommer med sengekantsfilm og Olsen-Banden og 1980'erne er til Oscar-triumfer, mens 1990'erne præges af en ny generations gennembrud.
Short Films from a Small Nation by ISBN: 9781474424134Date: 2018-01-15For three decades, state-sponsored short filmmaking educated Danish citizens, promoted Denmark to the world, and shaped the careers of renowned directors like Carl Th. Dreyer. The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film, this book traces how Danish shorts on topics including social welfare, industry, art and architecture were commissioned, funded, produced and reviewed from the inter-war period to the 1960s. Examining the life cycle of a representative selection of films, and discussing their preservation and mediation in the digital age, this book presents a detailed case study of how informational cinema is shaped by, and indeed shapes, its cultural, political and technological contexts.
Small Nation, Global Cinema by ISBN: 0816646481Date: 2005-08-15Small Nation, Global Cinema engages the effects of globalization from the perspective of small nations. Focusing her study on the specific cultural context of the international film market, Mette Hjort argues that the New Danish Cinema presents an opportunity to understand the effects of globalization within the culture and economy of a privileged small nation. Hjort offers two key strategies underwriting the transformation and globalization of contemporary Danish cinema—the processes of cultural circulation and the psychological efficacy of heritage. Exploring the Dogma 95 movement initiated by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg as well as films by Erik Clausen, Gabriel Axel, Henning Carlsen, and Ole Bornedal, among others, Hjort examines means for cinematic globalization specific to Denmark, but then evolves her investigation into a truly comparative framework encompassing references to Hong Kong, Latin America, and Hollywood filmmaking. Providing a fresh way of looking at cultural influence in the era of globalization, Hjort’s concept of “small” nation points as much to the dynamics of recognition, indifference, and participation as it does to more common measures of population size, economic strength, or linguistic reach. Mette Hjort is professor of intercultural studies at Aalborg University.
Babette's Feast by ISBN: 1911239678Date: 2020-05-28On the face of it, Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast (1989) is a film in which the eyes - and mouths - of religious zealots are opened to the glories of the sensual world. It is a critique of what Nietzsche called life-denying religion in favour of life-affirming sensuality. But to view the film in that way is to get it profoundly wrong. In his study of the film, Julian Baggini argues that Babette's Feast is not about the battle between religiosity and secularity but a deep examination of how the two can come together. Baggini's analysis focuses on themes of love, pleasure, artisty and grace, to provide a rich philosophical reading of this most sensual of films.- Dansk film under nazismen byISBN: 8711348100Date: 2014Newly discovered documentation of the Danish film industry's collusion with the Nazis to spread propaganda through popular films.
Digital Babylon by ISBN: 1580650368Date: 2001-10-01A film writer explores the influence and technologies of the Dogme 95 cinematic movement through essays and interviews with the likes of Wim Wenders, Lars Von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Miquel Arteta, Scott Macaulay, Rick Linklater, and others. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).- Indvandreren: i dansk film og litteratur byISBN: 8792381146Date: 2013I Danmark og Skandinavien er indvandreres rolle i film og lit- teratur stadig forholdsvis jomfrueligt territorium i akademisk henseende. En væsentlig grund er, at empirien så at sige synes at have manglet, og det er spørgsmålet – som denne bog på forskellig vis blandt andet forsøger at besvare – om indvandrerforfatteren og -instruktøren samt den kunst, der omhandler indvandring og kulturmøder, er et forholdsvis nyt fænomen i Danmark, eller om disse kunstnere og denne kunst rent faktisk har været en del, om end en mere eller mindre usynlig del, af den danske kultur i mange år.
Men hvorfor overhovedet beskæftige sig med indvandrerens rolle i dansk film og litteratur? Kan vi overhovedet tale om kunstnere med præfikset ”indvandrer” foran, er ”indvandrerforfatter” ikke en begrænsende og ekskluderende, ja måske ligefrem en chauvinistisk, betegnelse? Jo, på sin vis måske, men dette bringer os til den næste forudsætning. Den er af mere indholdsmæssig karakter og går på, at hvis det overhovedet skal give mening at beskæftige sig med indvandrerkunst, så må det være fordi denne kunst gør noget andet og mere (eller mindre), end den kunst, der traditionelt dominerer kanonlisterne og boghandlernes hylder. Og hvis den gør det, så vinder begrebsligheden legitimitet, for uden kategoriseringer kan vi som forskere ikke skabe overblik og opspore mønstre i de overordnede kulturelle og kunstneriske tendenser. Begge forudsætninger – begrebet ”indvandrer” i rela- tion til kunstneren og kunsten og ideen om at denne kunstner og denne kunst gør noget andet, noget nyt – er centrale diskussions- punkter i denne bogs ni fyldige artikler om indvandreren i dansk film og litteratur. 
Motherhood in the Danish Welfare State on Screen by ISBN: 9783030885786Date: 2021-11-20This book combines content analysis of film and television cases, the examination of policy documents, and first-hand interview material with Danish industry professionals, tracing the pivotal moments in media and welfare state history to unite these two overlapping spheres: welfare state social policy and media imagery. In doing so, it addresses a gap in existing academic and policy documents to demonstrate how motherhood and femininity are presented in contemporary state-supported Danish screen fiction. As an industry premised on state funding and public service values, Danish screen fiction plays a cogent role in shaping and communicating cultural norms and provides a space for the cultivation of belonging and a sense of a shared identity. For this reason, it is vital to identify and examine representational trends and patterns in popular media formats. This book argues that the political narrative of gender equality, democracy and universal social support that permeates Danish state policy is undermined in screen fiction, wherein working mother characters are problematised and the welfare system's integrity is challenged. This book asserts that the framing of femininity, motherhood and citizenship in many contemporary Danish films and television dramas indicates a cultural concern about the welfare state's institutionalisation of caregiving and presents absent mothers as an indirect cause of crime, trauma or social unrest.
Nordisk Films Kompagni 1906-1924, Volume 5 by ISBN: 9780861967315Date: 2017-10-01Nordisk Films Kompagni 1906-1924: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Bear is the first comprehensive study of the Danish film company, Nordisk Films Kompagni, in the silent era. Based on archival research, primarily in the company's surviving business archives, this volume of KINtop describes and analyzes how Nordisk Film became one of the leading players in the world market and why the company failed to maintain this position. This volume is written from perspective of Nordisk Film as a business and organization, from its establishment in 1906 until 1924 when founder Ole Olsen stepped back. Among the many topics and themes this volume examines are the competitive advantages Nordisk Film gained in reorganizing the production to multiple-reel films around 1910; the company's highly efficient film production which anticipated the departmentalized organization of Hollywood; Nordisk Film's aggressive expansion strategy in Germany, Central-Europe and Russia during the First World War; and the grand plans for taking control of UFA in association with the American Famous Players in the post-war years.
Purity and Provocation: Dogma '95 by ISBN: 0851709524Date: 2003-08-24This volume brings together leading scholars from a number of disciplines - film studies, literature, philosophy - in order to focus on some of the key historical and conceptual issues associated with Dogme 95's original formulation.- Realismen i dansk film byISBN: 8759315989Date: 2012Realismen er en central strømning i dansk film fra 1940erne og til i dag, der rummer mange af periodens filmiske hovedværker. Den tæller film fra Ditte Menneskebarn over Balladen om Carl-Henning til Pelle Erobreren og En kærlighedshistorie. Det er typisk seriøse (frem for muntre) film, men alligevel også filmfortællinger der engagerer et forholdsvis stort publikum. Realismen skaber billeder af en aktuel eller historisk virkelighed, men samtidig udfolder den sig også inden for en række grundlæggende temaer knyttet til mennesket som et socialt og identitetssøgende individ. Herved bliver filmene til mere almene fortællinger om det at være menneske. I bogen argumenteres der for, at der gennem dansk filmhistorie og parallelt med internationale filmbevægelser udvikles tre prototyper: Den sociale realisme, den eksistentielle realisme og den psykologiske realisme. Realismen er således en bestemt måde at lave film på, der sammen med folkekomedien har domineret dansk film i over et halvt århundrede. Realismen i dansk film analyserer film af instruktører såsom Bjarne og Astrid Henning-Jensen, Henning Carlsen, Nils Malmros, Bille August, Per Fly, Ole Christian Madsen m.fl. Derved markerer Realismen i dansk film sig som en uomgængelig publikation om en central æstetisk tradition i dansk film med en stadig aktualitet.
Scandinavian BlueISBN: 9780786444885Date: 2009-12-30This book traces the development of modern Scandinavian erotic cinema as it evolved in Denmark and Sweden, from the gentle Swedish naturalist films, starting with One Summer of Happiness in the 50s, to the controversial groundbreakers like I Am Curious (Yellow) of the 60s and on through to the dawn of ""Liberated Denmark,"" where, in the early 70s, the abolition of censorship was celebrated in films like 24 Hours with Ilse and the production of a number of other films that were blatantly pornographic..Also considered is the influence of these films on other countries, particularly the United States, where Scandinavian erotic cinema helped to set in motion the sexual revolution and contributed to the end of film censorship.- Virkelighedsbilleder byISBN: 9788759397459Date: 2012-01-01Virkelighedsbilleder er den første samlede fremstilling af den danske dokumentarfilms historie med vægt på perioden efter 1960, men med bredt historisk perspektiv til både den tidlige danske og internationale dokumentarfilm. Fremstillingen har de filmiske genrer, instruktører og institutioner i centrum, men bogen fortæller også kultur- og socialhistorie. Bogen analyserer dokumentarfilmens vilkår og udvikling i lyset af samfundsudviklingen, filmpolitikken og filmkulturen generelt – fra traditionsrige nationale institutioner som Statens Film Central fra 30’erne til den moderne, digitale og globaliserede filmkultur. Bogen analyserer desuden en lang række væsentlige dokumentarfilm med vægt på stil og genre og på filmenes skildring og fortolkning af udviklingen i danskernes og det danske samfunds historie. Gennem analysen af dokumentarfilmene skildrer bogen udviklingen i periodens hverdagsliv, politik, kultur og historie, og den tegner et billede af et samfund, hvor udviklingen går fra mere traditionelle nationale billeder til globale billeder.
Carl Theodor Dreyer's Gertrud by ISBN: 0295988541Date: 2008-01-01If there is one film in the canon of Carl Theodor Dreyer that can be said to be, as Jacques Lacan might put it, his most "painfully enjoyable," it is Gertrud. The film's Paris premier in 1964 was covered by the Danish press as a national scandal; it was lambasted on its release for its lugubrious pace, wooden acting, and old-fashioned, stuffy milieu. Only later, when a younger generation of critics came to its defense, did the method in what appeared to be Dreyer's madness begin to become apparent. To make vivid just what was at stake for Dreyer, and still for us, in his final work, James Schamus focuses on a single moment in the film.
Carl Theodor Dreyer and Ordet by ISBN: 9780813136189Date: 2012-04-20Regarded by many filmmakers and critics as one of the greatest directors in cinema history, Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889--1968) achieved worldwide acclaim after the debut of his masterpiece, The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), which was named the most influential film of all time at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. In 1955 Dreyer granted twenty-three-year-old American student Jan Wahl the extraordinary opportunity to spend a unique and unforgettable summer with him during the filming of Ordet ( The Word [1955]). Carl Theodor Dreyer and Ordet: My Summer with the Danish Filmmaker is a captivating account of Wahl's time with the director, based on Wahl's daily journal accounts and transcriptions of his conversations with Dreyer. Offering a glimpse into the filmmaker's world, Wahl fashions a portrait of Dreyer as a man, mentor, friend, and director. Wahl's unique and charming account is supplemented by exquisite photos of the filming and by selections from Dreyer's papers, including his notes on film style, his introduction for the actors before the filming of Ordet, and a visionary lecture he delivered at Edinburgh. Carl Theodor Dreyer and Ordet details one student's remarkable experiences with a legendary director and the unlikely bond formed over a summer.
Danish Directors by ISBN: 1841500356Date: 2001-01-01Profiling the canonized figures alongside recently-established filmmakers, this collection features interviews with Lars von Trier, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Thomas Vinterberg and Henning Carlsen among many others. It poses questions that engage with ongoing and controversial issues within film studies, which will stimulate debate in academic and filmgoing circles alike. Each interview is preceded by a photograph of the director, biographical information, and a filmography. Frame enlargements are used throughout to help clarify particular points of discussion and the book as a whole is contextualised by an informative general introduction. A valuable addition to the growing library of books on Scandinavian film, national cinema and minority cinema.
Danish Directors 2 by ISBN: 9781841502717Date: 2010-08-15Over the last two decades or so, the New Danish Cinema has established itself as an important source of cinematic renewal and innovation, and as a model for how small, minor or peripheral cinemas can survive in an industry dominated by Global Hollywood. Following in the footsteps of critically-acclaimed The Danish Directors (also published by Intellect), The Danish Directors 2 provides a practitioner?s perspective on the social, cultural, and economic milieus in which Danish ?lm-makers have been able to develop their practice, and to thrive. With insider information about the making, marketing and distribution of award-winning ?lms, and interviews with seminal directors such as Anders Thomas Jensen, Annette K. Olesen, and Lone Scher?g, The Danish Directors 2 allows readers entry into what might seem to be a forbidding body of work. The editors are knowledgeable and sensitive interrogators, and their appreciation of the speci?c qualities of each director?s work elicits thoughtful replies. This volume will appeal to students, scholars, and cinephiles alike.
The Danish Directors 3 by ISBN: 9781783200412Date: 2014-05-15Following the two previous volumes in this series of practitioner interviews with Danish directors, Danish Directors 3 focuses on Danish documentary cinema. Although many of the directors interviewed here have ventured successfully into the terrain of fiction, their main contributions to the thriving post-80s milieu lie in the interconnected areas of documentary film and television. Emphasizing the new documentary cinema, this book features filmmakers who belong to the generation born in the 1970s.nbsp;Many of the interviewees were trained at the National Film School of Denmark's now legendary Department of Documentary and Television. The term "new" also captures tendencies that cut across the work of the filmmakers. For example, for the generation in question, internationalization and the development of a new digital media culture are inevitable aspects of everyday life, and, indeed, of the professional environments in which they operate. A comprehensive overview of documentary directors currently working in Denmark, this is the only book of its kind about this growing area of Danish cinema.
Lars Von Trier by ISBN: 0851709028Date: 2002-09-26With the international success of Breaking the Waves (1996) and Dancer in the Dark (2000), Lars von Trier has established himself as a one of the most provocative and daring film directors working today. The founding father of Dogma 95, he made the movement's most controversial film, The Idiots (1998), and has played a leading role in the recent resurgence of Danish cinema. Yet despite his success, von Trier remains something of an polarising and enigmatic figure hailed as the new Godard by some and a charlatan by others. In this new study, Jack Stevenson explores the achievements as well as the paradoxes of Lars von Trier, assessing his life, work, and critical reception. The book follows von Trier from his early life as a troubled son of 'Cultural Radical' parents through to his student days at the Danish Film School, diligently spent making films that were as innovative and disturbing as his later features have proved to be. These films (consisting of the Europa and Gold-Hearted trilogies) are fully examined together with considerations of his creative detours into other media and his current work in progress, Dogville. Based in Denmark, the author brings a unique perspective to Lars von Trier creating a multi-dimensional portrait of the director. Utilising sources heretofore unavailable in English, Stevenson's lively yet fact-filled narrative is accessible to students and film enthusiasts alike. The book is indispensable to anyone interested in Lars von Trier and the broader issues that surround modern Danish film and its current renaissance.
Lars Von Trier by ISBN: 9780252035913Date: 2011-02-24Scandinavia's foremost living auteur and the catalyst of the Dogme95 movement, Lars von Trier is arguably world cinema's most confrontational and polarizing figure. Willfully devastating audiences, he takes risks few filmmakers would conceive, mounting projects that somehow transcend the grand follies they narrowly miss becoming. Challenging conventional limitations and imposing his own rules, he restlessly reinvents the film language. The Danish director has therefore cultivated an insistently transnational cinema, taking inspiration from sources that range from the European avant-garde to American genre films. This volume provides a stimulating overview of Trier's career while focusing on the more recent work, including his controversial Gold Heart Trilogy (Breaking the Waves, The Idiots, and Dancer in the Dark), the as-yet unfinished USA Trilogy (Dogville and Manderlay), and individual projects such as the comedy The Boss of It All and the incendiary horror psychodrama Antichrist. Closely analyzing the films and their contexts, Linda Badley draws on a range of cultural references and critical approaches, including genre, gender, and cultural studies, performance theory, and trauma culture. Two revealing interviews that Trier granted during crucial stages of Antichrist's development are also included.
Lone Scherfig's Italian for Beginners by ISBN: 9780295990446Date: 2010-10-06Lone Scherfig was the first of a number of women directors to take up the challenge of Dogme, the back-to-basics, manifesto-based, rule-governed, and now globalized film initiative introduced by Danish filmmakers Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg in 1995. Entitled Italiensk for begyndere (Italian for Beginners), Scherfig's Dogme film transformed this already accomplished filmmaker into one of Europe's most noteworthy women directors. Danish and international critics lavished praise on Scherfig and her film, and their reactions harmonized with those of festival juries. Battered by life, but by no means defeated or destroyed, the characters in Italian for Beginners are all in touch at some deep intuitive level with the truth that is the film's basic message: that happiness and a sense of self-worth are sustained by love--whether romantic love or that of a community of like-minded people. The film struck an important chord with viewers precisely because it took Dogme in a new direction, one that reflects Scherfig's sensibilities and preferences as a woman. The book includes the Dogme manifesto and draws on interviews with the filmmaker as well as with the cast and crew. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch'v=gk7SGfrIHGA
ReFocus: the Films of Susanne Bier by ISBN: 9781474428729Date: 2018-04-24The award-winning Danish director Susanne Bier has become increasingly known for her generic innovations and industrial fluidity, moving confidently between cinema and television at a time where the scarcity of women directors has become a subject of major critical and popular attention. Refocus: The Films of Susanne Bier is a dynamic, scholarly engagement with Bier's work, and a timely consideration of her impressive authorial achievements. Featuring essays from both recognized and up-and-coming scholars in Scandinavian, transnational and feminist film and media studies, this book also includes an original interview with Bier, addressing some of the provocative readings of her films advanced by the volume's contributors.
Stoleleg by ISBN: 9788771240672Date: 2012-06-14I Jorgen Leths vAerk bestar verden af tid og tilfAelde. Leth udfordrer vores made at lAese og se pa ved fascineret at pege pa en verden, som gar forud for fortolkning og kritik. En verden som er, og som vil os noget. Han provokerer ved at drive en Aestetisk livsholdning til det yderste. Kunsten selv er en del af denne verden af tid og tilfAelde, men den er samtidig en passioneret registrant af den og et metodisk indgreb i den. Leths vAerker befinder sig midt i foranderligheden, men hans stil er umiskendelig. Stilen formar med Roland Barthes' ord at indfore en rytme i fataliteten og at give det nodvendige udseende af frihed. Og det er maske Leths storste bedrift: Hans vAerk er frem for alt frigorende.Stoleleg handler om hele Leths vAerk: filmene, digtene, sporten, journalistikken, det hele inklusive Leth selv og de verdener han fAerde i.- Tardini: 40 forrygende år i dansk film by ISBN: 9788771184570Date: 2015Med dedikation - Den danske filmproducent Ib Tardini (f. 1948) fortæller om 40 års succeser, storhedsvanvid, fiaskoer, konkurser, brug og misbrug af børne- og ungdomsskuespillere, og om hvordan dansk film er blevet professionaliseret, internationaliseret og samtidig har gennemgået en rivende teknologisk udvikling. Illustreret med fotos i farve og sort/hvid.
Thomas Vinterberg's Festen by ISBN: 9780295992983Date: 2013-11-13Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg's searing film Festen (?The Celebration?) was the first film from the Dogme 95 stable. Adhering to Dogme's cinematic purity ? no artificial lighting, no superficial action, no credit for the director, and only handheld cameras for equipment ? Festen was a commercial and critical success, winning the Jury Prize at Cannes in 1998 and garnering worldwide attention. The film is set at the sixtieth birthday party of Helge, the wealthy patriarch of a large Danish family. The birthday festivities take a turn when Helge's son Christian raises a toast and denounces Helge for having raped and abused him as a child, along with his twin sister, who recently committed suicide. The film explores the escalating consequences of Christian's announcement, from the stunned dinner party's collective denial, to violence, to an unexpected catharsis.
The Witch and the Hysteric: The Monstrous Medieval in Benjamin Christensen's Häxan by ISBN: 0692230157Date: 2014-08-08Benjamin Christensen's 1922 Swedish/Danish film Häxan (known under its English title as Witchcraft Through the Ages) has entranced, entertained, shocked, and puzzled audiences for nearly a century. The film mixes documentary with fantasy, history with theatrics, religion and science, the medieval past and modern culture.
- "Benjamin Christensen, the genius behind 'Häxan''" (2022)"Visual tricks, great visions and an incredible ability for self-staging. Here's the story about the first real auteur in Danish cinema."
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
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- Day of Wrath (dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943)
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- Pelle the Conqueror (dir. Bille August, 1987)
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- Babette's Feast (dir. Gabriel Axel, 1987)
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- Breaking the Waves (dir. Lars von Trier, 1996)
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- Pusher I (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 1996)
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- Adam's Apples (dir. Anders Thomas Jensen, 2005)
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- Antichrist (dir. Lars von Trier, 2009)
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- Melancholia (dir. Lars von Trier, 2011)
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- A Hijacking (dir. Tobias Lindholm, 2012)
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- Nymphomaniac: Volume I (dir. Lars von Trier, 2013)
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- The Hunt (dir. Thomas Vinterberg, 2014)
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- A War (dir. Tobias Lindholm, 2016)
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- The Guilty (dir. Gustav Möller, 2018)
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- Another Round (dir. Thomas Vinterberg, 2020)
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- Danish films. The Danish Film Institute's magazine with interviews and all the basics on Danish documentaries at IDFA 2015. Vols. for issued by the Danish Government Film Foundation; by the Danish Film Institute (with the cooperation of the Press and Cultural Relations Dept. of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, 19 -73).
- Kosmorama: det Danske filmmuseums tidsskrift. Kosmorama er et dansk tidsskrift om film, der er blevet udgivet af Det danske Filmmuseum siden 1954. Kosmoramas artikler (som er søgbare) ligger nu digitalt tilgængelige og der arbejdes på at få alle ældre numre lagt på hjemmesiden også.
- MedieKultur. MedieKultur is a double-blind peer reviewed journal published by SMID (Society of Media Researchers In Denmark); it is a multidisciplinary journal that contributes to critical reflection and the development of theories and methods within media and communication research.
- P.o.v.: a Danish journal of film studies A Danish Journal of Film Studies published by the Department of Information and Media Science at Aarhus University.
- Scandinavian film news Title from caption. Published with support from: the Nordic Council of Ministers, by: det Danske filminstitut, and other related societies.
- Danish Film Database
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Maintained by the Danish Film Institute (DFI), the Danish Film Database is a database about Danish films since 1896, which contains 22,000 titles, 106,000 names and 6,000 companies. You can find information, trailers, film clips and posters in the database.
- FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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Searches film and television articles in the International Index to Film Periodicals (1972-current) and Treasures from the Film Archives, which contains silent film-era listings from archives. - MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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Indexes worldwide publications on literature, language, linguistics, folklore, film, television, and theater from 1923 to the present. See also the MLA Directory of Periodicals. - Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
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Articles and reviews from a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, circus, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television, and more. Former database title: International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA) Full Text.
- 16:9 Founded in 2003, 16:9 is an independent Danish film magazine with an academic focus, which features in-depth articles and essays.
- Danish Silent Film Contains information on silent-era Danish directors, and selected streaming video of silent films.
- Det Danske Filminstitut The Danish Film Institute is the national agency for funding and promoting Danish film and cinema culture.
- Zentropa Zentropa is a Danish film company started in 1992 by director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen.
Selected Danish Films
The Passion of Joan of Arc (dir. Gabriel Axel, 1928)
"With its stunning camerawork and striking compositions, Carl Th. Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc convinced the world that movies could be art. Renée Falconetti gives one of the greatest performances ever recorded on film, as the young maiden who died for God and France."
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Babette's Feast (dir. Gabriel Axel, 1987)
"Directed by Gabriel Axel and adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen, it is the lovingly layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark." Winner of the 1987 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Pelle the Conqueror (dir. Bille August, 1987)
"Lasse, an elderly and widowed farmer, and his young son Pelle, join a boat-load of immigrants to escape from impoverished rural Sweden to Denmark's Baltic island of Bornholm. They are employed at a large farm in Denmark, where they are treated as the lowest of the low. It is ultimately their loving relationship which sustains them through a difficult year."
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Pusher I (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 1996)
"Frank's life as a drug dealer is perfect until the police catch him en route to deliver heroin. Just before he is arrested, he dumps the smack. Even though the police release him, his troubles are not over, for now the buyer demands his money back." Official Selection at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Pusher II (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 2004)
"Tonny (Mads Mikkelsen) is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done." Official Selection at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Pusher III (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 2005)
"In the third and final chapter of Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn's acclaimed Pusher trilogy, the focus shifts from disgraced gangster's son Tonny to feared Serbian crime lord Milo." Official Selection at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Adam's Apples (dir. Anders Thomas Jensen, 2005)
"A neo-Nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devoted minister."
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Antichrist (dir. Lars von Trier, 2009)
"A controversial, sexually provocative drama about a couple's twisted and erotic journey starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg."
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Melancholia (dir. Lars von Trier, 2011)
"Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) celebrate their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of Justine’s sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth, threatening the very existence of humankind." Nominated for the Palme d'Or and winner of Best Actress (Kirsten Dunst) at the Cannes Film Festival. Second Place Winner for Best Film and Best Director in the Indiewire Critics' Poll. Nominated for Best Foreign Film at the César Awards.
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Nymphomaniac (dir. Lars von Trier, 2013)
"A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac (Charlotte Gainsbourg), discovered badly beaten in an alley by an older bachelor (Stellan Skarsgård), recounts the erotic story of her adolescence and young adulthood as he tends to her wounds."
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The Hunt (dir. Thomas Vinterberg, 2013)
"A lie is taken as truth, and gossip, doubt, and malice ignite a witch-hunt that soon threatens to destroy an innocent man’s life."
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The Guilty (dir. Gustav Möller, 2018)
"A police officer is demoted to deskwork and answers a phone call from a kidnapped woman. Confined to the police station, the search to find the missing woman will take all his intuition and skill, as his own personal demons conspire against him."
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Another Round (dir. Thomas Vinterberg, 2020)
"Four friends, all teachers at various stages of middle age, are stuck in a rut. Unable to share their passions either at school or at home, they embark on an audacious experiment from an obscure philosopher: to see if a constant level of alcohol in their blood will help them find greater freedom and happiness." Winner of the 2021 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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