With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Bungalow (Ulrich Köhler)
Ulrich Köhler remains underseen—even by the standards of Berlin School brethren Christian Petzold and Maren Ade—and a 4K restoration of his 2002 debut Bungalow comes at the right time: its story of isolation, frayed connections, and romantic infatuation foreground an only idyllic-seeming summer getaway. 18 years on, not a shred of it feels dated or resolved, down to a conclusion that puts one in mind of ’70s American classics.
Where to Stream: Grasshopper Film
Czechoslovak New Wave
A period of creative fervor and political deconstruction like few others in cinema, Czechoslovak New Wave is now getting a spotlight on The Criterion Channel. Selections includes Black Peter (Miloš Forman,...
Bungalow (Ulrich Köhler)
Ulrich Köhler remains underseen—even by the standards of Berlin School brethren Christian Petzold and Maren Ade—and a 4K restoration of his 2002 debut Bungalow comes at the right time: its story of isolation, frayed connections, and romantic infatuation foreground an only idyllic-seeming summer getaway. 18 years on, not a shred of it feels dated or resolved, down to a conclusion that puts one in mind of ’70s American classics.
Where to Stream: Grasshopper Film
Czechoslovak New Wave
A period of creative fervor and political deconstruction like few others in cinema, Czechoslovak New Wave is now getting a spotlight on The Criterion Channel. Selections includes Black Peter (Miloš Forman,...
- 7/3/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Community isn’t the only NBC show being re-examined for racially insensitive material. The Office is also returning to the cutting room due to a controversial scene from its final season, which aired in 2012-2013. According to Variety, NBC and Netflix have removed a scene featuring a character in blackface from its season nine holiday episode, “Dwight Christmas.” The scene will no longer appear on Netflix, NBC’s Peacock (when the show hits the service in 2021), or syndication.
In the episode, Jim convinces everyone to celebrate a traditional “Schrute Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas,” ditching the traditional holiday cheer for a more…rustic approach. Enter Dwight as Belsnickel, a character from Dutch folklore presented in the episode as a more hardcore “gift-bringer” than that jolly old Santa. As Dwight says in the episode, Belsnickel was created to inspire the fear that Santa doesn’t. This makes him much “cooler” in Dwight’s opinion.
In the episode, Jim convinces everyone to celebrate a traditional “Schrute Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas,” ditching the traditional holiday cheer for a more…rustic approach. Enter Dwight as Belsnickel, a character from Dutch folklore presented in the episode as a more hardcore “gift-bringer” than that jolly old Santa. As Dwight says in the episode, Belsnickel was created to inspire the fear that Santa doesn’t. This makes him much “cooler” in Dwight’s opinion.
- 6/29/2020
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
The Grateful Dead will reissue their classic album, Workingman’s Dead, for its 50th anniversary, with the CD deluxe edition boasting a previously unreleased concert recording. That set, and a vinyl version of the reissue, will arrive July 10th.
Both the CD and vinyl reissues will boast a newly remastered version of Workingman’s Dead, and the vinyl release will be printed on a picture disc limited to 10,000 copies. Only the CD release, however, will include the Dead’s February 21st, 1971 concert at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York.
Both the CD and vinyl reissues will boast a newly remastered version of Workingman’s Dead, and the vinyl release will be printed on a picture disc limited to 10,000 copies. Only the CD release, however, will include the Dead’s February 21st, 1971 concert at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York.
- 5/6/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Czech-born Milos Stehlik, an award-winning film critic and commentator for National Public Radio station Wbez and the film curator, founder and artistic director of the pioneering media arts center Facets Multimedia in Chicago, died Saturday of cancer.
Stehlik founded Facets in 1975, screening hard-to-find international and independent films in a Chicago Lutheran church. When the non-profit organization found a permanent home on Fullerton Avenue in 1977, Stehlik branched into video distribution, eventually offering thousands of otherwise unobtainable titles for sale and rental, both over the counter and by mail. As viewing formats changed, so did the Facets catalogue, moving into dvds and streaming.
Titles that Facets first made available in the U.S. or released on its private label included Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Decalogue,” Bela Tarr’s “Satantango,” Milos Forman’s “Black Peter,” Forough Farrokhzad’s “The House Is Black,” Frantisek Vlácil’s “Adelheid,” and collections of experimentalists such as the American James Broughton,...
Stehlik founded Facets in 1975, screening hard-to-find international and independent films in a Chicago Lutheran church. When the non-profit organization found a permanent home on Fullerton Avenue in 1977, Stehlik branched into video distribution, eventually offering thousands of otherwise unobtainable titles for sale and rental, both over the counter and by mail. As viewing formats changed, so did the Facets catalogue, moving into dvds and streaming.
Titles that Facets first made available in the U.S. or released on its private label included Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Decalogue,” Bela Tarr’s “Satantango,” Milos Forman’s “Black Peter,” Forough Farrokhzad’s “The House Is Black,” Frantisek Vlácil’s “Adelheid,” and collections of experimentalists such as the American James Broughton,...
- 7/8/2019
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
What are the odds that a boy born in the tiny town of Caslav, Czechoslovakia, who lost his parents to the Nazis around the age of 10, would go on to make a pair of Academy Award-nominated comedies about everyday Czech people in the late ’60s, escape Prague on the eve of the Russian invasion, and find his way to the United States, where he would direct two Oscar best picture winners?
Unlikely as it sounds, that is the path that brought Milos Forman to Hollywood, which enabled him to make “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus,” in addition to such films as “Taking Off,” “Hair,” and “Ragtime.” Forman was an exceptional artist in so many ways, and his death earlier this year at the age of 86 concludes a life of enormous sensitivity, insight, and good humor — traits that made his characters, whether great or small, so recognizably human.
Unlikely as it sounds, that is the path that brought Milos Forman to Hollywood, which enabled him to make “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus,” in addition to such films as “Taking Off,” “Hair,” and “Ragtime.” Forman was an exceptional artist in so many ways, and his death earlier this year at the age of 86 concludes a life of enormous sensitivity, insight, and good humor — traits that made his characters, whether great or small, so recognizably human.
- 6/27/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Above: Polish poster for Loves of a Blonde by Hannah Bodnar and a Hungarian poster for The Firemen’s Ball by Peter Merczel.Milos Forman, who passed away last week at the age of 86, was best known as the Academy Award-winning director of those ’70s and ’80s classics One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus, but he was a sensation before he left his native Czechoslovakia in 1968. His first feature, Black Peter (1964), was well received (it took the top prize at Locarno) but it was his two subsequent features, Loves of a Blonde (1965) and The Firemen’s Ball (1967), which made his name both at home and abroad and which remain two of the great fire-bursts of the Czech New Wave. Both are social satires set in small Czech towns, filmed on location, using mostly non-professional casts, in a distinctly cinema vérité style. Both were nominated for Oscars for...
- 4/20/2018
- MUBI
Milos Forman only made eight English-language features in five decades, but many of his contributions became synonymous with the legacy of American movies. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus” have a powerful resonance in popular culture, while later efforts “The People vs. Larry Flynt” and “Man on the Moon” showed a resilient filmmaker keen on exploring iconoclastic figures by pushing the boundaries of commercial cinema. However, in the wake of his death, no appreciation of Forman’s talent is complete without an acknowledgement of the masterful black comedies he made in the first stage of his career.
Less prophet of doom than a chronicler of contemporary despair, Forman meshed satire with realism and wielded irony as a cultural weapon. In the early ‘60s, Forman was a leading figure of the Czechoslovak New Wave by transforming the pratfalls of disaffected youth into punchlines. The humor emerged as a...
Less prophet of doom than a chronicler of contemporary despair, Forman meshed satire with realism and wielded irony as a cultural weapon. In the early ‘60s, Forman was a leading figure of the Czechoslovak New Wave by transforming the pratfalls of disaffected youth into punchlines. The humor emerged as a...
- 4/14/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Forman directing James Cagney in "Ragtime".
By Lee Pfeiffer
Milos Forman, the Czech immigrant to Hollywood who would be awarded two Oscars, has died at age 86. Forman was a rising star in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, directing such lighthearted, quirky films as "Black Peter" and "The Fireman's Ball". Forman's films were breaking new ground at a time when the progressive Czech government was pushing the envelope against Soviet control and enjoying new freedoms. All of that came crashing down in 1968 when the short-lived "Prague Spring" was crushed by the Soviet invasion. Forman immigrated to America and found the opportunity to make films for major studios. However, his first effort, the critically acclaimed 1971 generation gap comedy "Taking Off" failed at the boxoffice. In 1975, Forman was given another chance, this time by producer Michael Douglas to direct the film version of Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". The film...
By Lee Pfeiffer
Milos Forman, the Czech immigrant to Hollywood who would be awarded two Oscars, has died at age 86. Forman was a rising star in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, directing such lighthearted, quirky films as "Black Peter" and "The Fireman's Ball". Forman's films were breaking new ground at a time when the progressive Czech government was pushing the envelope against Soviet control and enjoying new freedoms. All of that came crashing down in 1968 when the short-lived "Prague Spring" was crushed by the Soviet invasion. Forman immigrated to America and found the opportunity to make films for major studios. However, his first effort, the critically acclaimed 1971 generation gap comedy "Taking Off" failed at the boxoffice. In 1975, Forman was given another chance, this time by producer Michael Douglas to direct the film version of Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". The film...
- 4/14/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Milos Forman, the Czech-born filmmaker who won two Oscars for directing classics such as “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus,” died on Friday at age 86.
His wife, Martina, broke the news to the Czech news agency Ctk on Saturday, according to Reuters. After fleeing his homeland following a Communist crackdown in the late 1960s, Forman quickly established himself in Hollywood as a filmmaker gifted at telling stories of rebels and the burgeoning counterculture.
He won an Oscar for directing 1975’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” which starred Jack Nicholson as a criminal who ends up in a psychiatric facility after pleading insanity and rebels against an oppressive nurse played by Louise Fletcher.
A decade later, he directed the eight-fold Oscar winner “Amadeus,” which depicted the life of 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart through the eyes of his rival Antonio Salieri.
Also Read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2018 (Photos)
He earned a third nomination for 1996’s “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” a depiction of the porn magazine publisher’s protracted legal fight for First Amendment rights.
Other notable films include 1979’s “Hair,” based on the summer-of-love Broadway musical, 1981’s “Ragtime,” 1989’s “Valmont” and 1999’s “Man on the Moon,” a biopic of comedian Andy Kaufman starring Jim Carrey.
Born in the Czech town of Caslav in 1932, he was raised as an orphan because both of this parents were killed in concentration camps during World War II.
Also Read: Milos Forman Lands DGA's Lifetime Achievement Award
After studying at the Prague Film Academy, he became a leading figure in the Czechoslovak New Wave film movement. Several of his early films, including 1964’s “Black Peter” and the 1967 satire “The Fireman’s Ball,” were banned by Czech authorities.
He moved to the U.S. following his native country’s “Prague Spring” uprising against the Communist regime in 1968; he became a U.S. citizen in the 1970s.
In 2007, he returned to Prague to direct a revival of the comic jazz opera “A Walk Worthwhile” that had first been staged in the 1960s. He also shot a film version, released internationally in 2009.
Read original story Milos Forman, ‘Amadeus’ and ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ Director, Dies at 86 At TheWrap...
His wife, Martina, broke the news to the Czech news agency Ctk on Saturday, according to Reuters. After fleeing his homeland following a Communist crackdown in the late 1960s, Forman quickly established himself in Hollywood as a filmmaker gifted at telling stories of rebels and the burgeoning counterculture.
He won an Oscar for directing 1975’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” which starred Jack Nicholson as a criminal who ends up in a psychiatric facility after pleading insanity and rebels against an oppressive nurse played by Louise Fletcher.
A decade later, he directed the eight-fold Oscar winner “Amadeus,” which depicted the life of 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart through the eyes of his rival Antonio Salieri.
Also Read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2018 (Photos)
He earned a third nomination for 1996’s “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” a depiction of the porn magazine publisher’s protracted legal fight for First Amendment rights.
Other notable films include 1979’s “Hair,” based on the summer-of-love Broadway musical, 1981’s “Ragtime,” 1989’s “Valmont” and 1999’s “Man on the Moon,” a biopic of comedian Andy Kaufman starring Jim Carrey.
Born in the Czech town of Caslav in 1932, he was raised as an orphan because both of this parents were killed in concentration camps during World War II.
Also Read: Milos Forman Lands DGA's Lifetime Achievement Award
After studying at the Prague Film Academy, he became a leading figure in the Czechoslovak New Wave film movement. Several of his early films, including 1964’s “Black Peter” and the 1967 satire “The Fireman’s Ball,” were banned by Czech authorities.
He moved to the U.S. following his native country’s “Prague Spring” uprising against the Communist regime in 1968; he became a U.S. citizen in the 1970s.
In 2007, he returned to Prague to direct a revival of the comic jazz opera “A Walk Worthwhile” that had first been staged in the 1960s. He also shot a film version, released internationally in 2009.
Read original story Milos Forman, ‘Amadeus’ and ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ Director, Dies at 86 At TheWrap...
- 4/14/2018
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
The death of Milos Forman has triggered tributes to the iconic two-time Oscar-winning director from the film community in many parts of the world.
Homages to the Czech-born filmmaker, who won Academy Awards for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” in 1975 and “Amadeus” in 1984, began springing up on social media soon after Forman’s death Friday was revealed by his wife, Martina.
Former Cannes president Gilles Jacob described Forman as the “only director who went from the Czech New Wave (‘Black Peter’) to big American films which won flurries of Oscars (‘Amadeus’). Immense body of work. He loved beer, tennis, Cannes, he spoke the truth, that’s all. Milos will remain dear in my heart,” Jacob tweeted in French.
Forman, le seul réalisateur à être passé de la nouvelle vague tchèque (L'as de pique) aux grands films d'auteur populaire américain couverts d'Oscars (Amadeus).Oeuvre immense. Il aimait la bière,...
Homages to the Czech-born filmmaker, who won Academy Awards for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” in 1975 and “Amadeus” in 1984, began springing up on social media soon after Forman’s death Friday was revealed by his wife, Martina.
Former Cannes president Gilles Jacob described Forman as the “only director who went from the Czech New Wave (‘Black Peter’) to big American films which won flurries of Oscars (‘Amadeus’). Immense body of work. He loved beer, tennis, Cannes, he spoke the truth, that’s all. Milos will remain dear in my heart,” Jacob tweeted in French.
Forman, le seul réalisateur à être passé de la nouvelle vague tchèque (L'as de pique) aux grands films d'auteur populaire américain couverts d'Oscars (Amadeus).Oeuvre immense. Il aimait la bière,...
- 4/14/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Two-time Oscar winning Czech director Milos Forman has died at the age of 86, according to Reuters and reports. Forman’s wife Martina informed Czech news agency Ctk that the filmmaker passed after a brief illness in the Us.
Part of the Czech new wave, Forman graduated from the Prague Film Faculty of the Academy of Dramatic Arts, and caught global attention with such titles as Black Peter (1964), The Loves of a Blonde (1965) and The Firemen’s Ball(1967). The latter two were Oscar nominees for best foreign film.
In 1968, he fled Czechoslovakia during the Prague spring for the Us. The Fireman’s Ball, about an ill-fated event in a provincial town, was a knock on Eastern European Communism and created a stir in his homeland with the regime. His 1971 comedy, Taking Off, his first American title, won the 1971 Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and starred Buck Henry and Lynn Carlin...
Part of the Czech new wave, Forman graduated from the Prague Film Faculty of the Academy of Dramatic Arts, and caught global attention with such titles as Black Peter (1964), The Loves of a Blonde (1965) and The Firemen’s Ball(1967). The latter two were Oscar nominees for best foreign film.
In 1968, he fled Czechoslovakia during the Prague spring for the Us. The Fireman’s Ball, about an ill-fated event in a provincial town, was a knock on Eastern European Communism and created a stir in his homeland with the regime. His 1971 comedy, Taking Off, his first American title, won the 1971 Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and starred Buck Henry and Lynn Carlin...
- 4/14/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
ZamaThe programme for the 2017 edition of the Venice Film Festival has been unveiled, and includes new films from Darren Aronofsky, Lucrecia Martel, Frederick Wiseman, Alexander Payne, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Abdellatif Kechiche, Takeshi Kitano and many more.COMPETITIONmother! (Darren Aronofsky)First Reformed (Paul Schrader)Sweet Country (Warwick Thornton)The Leisure Seeker (Paolo Virzi)Una Famiglia (Sebastiano Riso)Ex Libris - The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)Angels Wear White (Vivian Qu)The Whale (Andrea Pallaoro)Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz)Ammore e malavita (Manetti Brothers)Jusqu'a la garde (Xavier Legrand)The Third Murder (Hirokazu Kore-eda)Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (Abdellatif Kechiche)Lean on Pete (Andrew Haigh)L'insulte (Ziad Doueiri)La Villa (Robert Guediguian)The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro)Suburbicon (George Clooney)Human Flow (Ai Weiwei)Downsizing (Alexander Payne)Out Of COMPETITIONFeaturesOur Souls at Night (Ritesh Batra)Il Signor Rotpeter (Antonietta de Lillo)Victoria...
- 7/27/2017
- MUBI
Above: Us poster for Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1965).As the 53rd New York Film Festival ends today, I thought I would go back half a century and take a look at the 3rd edition of the festival. Curated by Amos Vogel and Richard Roud, the then fledgling fest comprised 17 new features, 6 retrospective selections (ranging from Feuillade’s 1915 Les vampires to Godard’s 1960 Le petit soldat), and a number of shorts or demi-features (including Chris Marker’s The Koumiko Mystery). The main slate was chock-full of masterpieces (Gertrud, Alphaville, Charulata) and films by masters (Franju, Visconti, Kurosawa) and young turks on the rise (Straub, Bellocchio, Forman, Penn, Skolimowski). And there is only one film in the list—Laurence L. Kent’s Canadian indie Caressed—that I had never heard of before.In his introduction to the festival catalog Amos Vogel wrote:“Several fascinating, contradictory facts stand out in the 1965 New York film scene.
- 10/11/2015
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Saint (Sint)
Stars: Huub Stapel, Egbert Jan Weeber, Caro Lenssen, Bert Luppes | Written and Directed by Dick Maas
Ah Christmas, a time for getting together with family and loved ones, sharing gifts, enjoying a good meal and getting slaughtered by an evil St. Nicholas… Wait, hold on. That last one doesn’t sound right. Getting slaughtered at Christmas and not in the good (drunk) sense of the word? That doesn’t happen right? But wait, I forgot, this is the movies – if there’s a holiday that can be exploited by a serial killing psycho it will be!
Valentines Day (My Bloody Valentine), New Years Day (New Year’s Evil), even birthdays (Bloody Birthday), filmmakers really know how to spoil the festivities. Christmas is no different, we’ve had films such as Black Christmas, Christmas Evil, and Silent Night, Deadly Night and its sequels, but all those films have seen...
Stars: Huub Stapel, Egbert Jan Weeber, Caro Lenssen, Bert Luppes | Written and Directed by Dick Maas
Ah Christmas, a time for getting together with family and loved ones, sharing gifts, enjoying a good meal and getting slaughtered by an evil St. Nicholas… Wait, hold on. That last one doesn’t sound right. Getting slaughtered at Christmas and not in the good (drunk) sense of the word? That doesn’t happen right? But wait, I forgot, this is the movies – if there’s a holiday that can be exploited by a serial killing psycho it will be!
Valentines Day (My Bloody Valentine), New Years Day (New Year’s Evil), even birthdays (Bloody Birthday), filmmakers really know how to spoil the festivities. Christmas is no different, we’ve had films such as Black Christmas, Christmas Evil, and Silent Night, Deadly Night and its sequels, but all those films have seen...
- 11/3/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ring ting tingling too. Come on, it’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you…It’s going to be that time again: Christmas, or if you’re from Holland, on December 5th it’s the Sinterklaas tradition (Sinterklaas-avond – here). If you’re rogue Dutch filmmaker Dick Maas, you’re sick of this crap and that my friends is the fuel behind Saint (Sint), his new horror film about the Sinterklaas tradition.
The film darkly and humorously distorts the popular traditions of Sinterklaas and portrays him as a ghost who murders large numbers of people when his annual celebration night coincides with a full moon. It’s not unlike many of our own Yuletide slashers as seen in Christmas Evil and Silent Night, Deadly Night, and director Dick Maas takes some time away from the Tribeca Film Festival to talk with Killer Film about the film,...
The film darkly and humorously distorts the popular traditions of Sinterklaas and portrays him as a ghost who murders large numbers of people when his annual celebration night coincides with a full moon. It’s not unlike many of our own Yuletide slashers as seen in Christmas Evil and Silent Night, Deadly Night, and director Dick Maas takes some time away from the Tribeca Film Festival to talk with Killer Film about the film,...
- 4/28/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
Tribeca: Tell us a little about Saint, in your own words: Dick Maas: Saint is about the legend of St. Niklas. Whenever there is a full moon on the 5th of December, he will come to Holland to murder children. I wanted to make a dark brooding horror/thriller, with lots of suspense and some gore. I didn't want to make a spoof, though like always in my movies, I put in some comedic elements. Tribeca: Can you explain how St Nicholas and Black Peter are normally regarded by the Dutch? (Their story is somewhat different from our jolly Santa Claus icon, with his merry elves.) Dick Maas: St. Nicholas (Sinterklaas) is a very popular tradition each year in Holland. He's sort of a Santa Claus. Instead of a sleigh with reindeer, he rides a horse over the rooftops. Every year, children put their shoes in front of...
- 4/8/2011
- TribecaFilm.com
Becoming Santa was a documentary that left a giant grin on my face (read my review to find out why) and I jumped at the chance to interview the filmmakers. What follows is a transcription of the two on one interview with director Jeff Myers and subject Jack Sanderson about their documentary. We discuss deciding to take this route, the pains and pleasures of being what is essentially a Christmas rock star, the differences between documentary filmmaking and narrative filmmaking, and even the lack of respect children are getting in the country at large. The film also won the award for Best Spotlight Feature at SXSW. Check out our talk below and I’ve included the trailer first for some background on the film.
The Film Stage: So, obviously I saw it and really dug it. Where did the concept come from?
Jeff Myers: Jack came up with the...
The Film Stage: So, obviously I saw it and really dug it. Where did the concept come from?
Jeff Myers: Jack came up with the...
- 3/26/2011
- by Jonathan Sullivan
- The Film Stage
Becoming Santa, a documentary by Jeff Myers is something I would have passed over if it was playing in a theater nearby or on television. And it’s a shame, because this documentary tells one of the sweetest, most engaging stories I’ve seen in quite some time.
The main subject of Becoming Santa is a California man named Jack Sanderson. Sanderson has lost his Christmas spirit after the death of his parents and is looking for a way to get it back. So he decides, for the holiday season, he will become a professional Santa Claus. Now, this isn’t a simple process where he can don a fake beard and just “ho ho ho” until his voice goes hoarse; the process is a lot more involved, including dying his beard and hair completely white and going to Santa School in order to learn how to be a better Jolly St. Nick.
The main subject of Becoming Santa is a California man named Jack Sanderson. Sanderson has lost his Christmas spirit after the death of his parents and is looking for a way to get it back. So he decides, for the holiday season, he will become a professional Santa Claus. Now, this isn’t a simple process where he can don a fake beard and just “ho ho ho” until his voice goes hoarse; the process is a lot more involved, including dying his beard and hair completely white and going to Santa School in order to learn how to be a better Jolly St. Nick.
- 3/14/2011
- by Jonathan Sullivan
- The Film Stage
With the snow thick on the ground and the holiday season well and truly upon us you may be thinking of what movies to watch over Christmas. Do you go for old classics like White Christmas, one of the many takes on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol or one of the more modern movies that crop up at this time of year such as Home Alone, something from the Indiana Jones stable (not a Christmas movie as such but there’s bound to be one on) or even Die Hard?
If you’ve been down those well-trodden paths one too many times before and are looking for a Christmas movie that’s a bit different then let me make a suggestion.
2007 Dutch rom-com Alles is Liefde (Love is All) won the 2008 Golden Calf at the Netherlands Film Festival for Best Director and Best Film, The Rembrandt Award for Best Dutch Actor...
If you’ve been down those well-trodden paths one too many times before and are looking for a Christmas movie that’s a bit different then let me make a suggestion.
2007 Dutch rom-com Alles is Liefde (Love is All) won the 2008 Golden Calf at the Netherlands Film Festival for Best Director and Best Film, The Rembrandt Award for Best Dutch Actor...
- 12/5/2010
- by Colin Hart
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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