Schneider Vs. Bax
Director: Alex van Warmerdam // Writer: Alex van Warmerdam
Steadily working Dutch auteur Alex van Warmerdam has been systematically making bizarre, offbeat features since 1986’s Voyeur (aka Abel), with titles like 1992’s The Northerners or 2003’s Grimm reaching a wider international audience. But at Cannes 2013, Warmerdam’s eighth feature, Borgman, was a breakout success. Though it went home empty handed, it certainly increased Warmerdam’s profile with a delightfully strange film. His latest, Schneider Vs. Bax, sees the director with his usual set cast of returning characters, including Pierre Bokma and his wife, Annet Malherbe, who starred in nearly all his features. A hitman is assigned the simple task of killing a solitary writer before the night is through. Of course, things don’t go as planned.
Cast: Alex van Warmerdam, Annet Malherbe, Pierre Bokma
Production Co.: Graniet Film Bv, Czar, Verenigde Arbeiders Radio Amateurs (Vara)
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Director: Alex van Warmerdam // Writer: Alex van Warmerdam
Steadily working Dutch auteur Alex van Warmerdam has been systematically making bizarre, offbeat features since 1986’s Voyeur (aka Abel), with titles like 1992’s The Northerners or 2003’s Grimm reaching a wider international audience. But at Cannes 2013, Warmerdam’s eighth feature, Borgman, was a breakout success. Though it went home empty handed, it certainly increased Warmerdam’s profile with a delightfully strange film. His latest, Schneider Vs. Bax, sees the director with his usual set cast of returning characters, including Pierre Bokma and his wife, Annet Malherbe, who starred in nearly all his features. A hitman is assigned the simple task of killing a solitary writer before the night is through. Of course, things don’t go as planned.
Cast: Alex van Warmerdam, Annet Malherbe, Pierre Bokma
Production Co.: Graniet Film Bv, Czar, Verenigde Arbeiders Radio Amateurs (Vara)
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- 1/8/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Ushered forth as the Netherlands’ submission for Best Foreign Language Film this year, Alex van Warmerdam’s hilarious Borgman may prove to be a bit too offbeat for the mainstream tastes of the Academy, at least if judging by its business at the Us box office bears any indication. Arriving on blu-ray from Drafthouse Films, word of mouth may continue to bolster its growing reputation, selected by a number of critics as a standout title for the first half of 2014. Whatever the case, it’s granted considerable attention to the underrated Dutch director whose next little bit of weirdness should arrive next year.
Alex van Warmerdam’s Borgman has to be the steadily working director’s most accomplished work to date. Known mostly for his droll, sometimes perverse films dealing with families or communities tested by strange situations that range anywhere from a maintained weirdness to potential violence, his latest...
Alex van Warmerdam’s Borgman has to be the steadily working director’s most accomplished work to date. Known mostly for his droll, sometimes perverse films dealing with families or communities tested by strange situations that range anywhere from a maintained weirdness to potential violence, his latest...
- 9/16/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Bas van der Ree will take up the job at the beginning of July.
As the Dutch seek to attract international movies to shoot in the region, the Netherlands Film Fund has appointed veteran industry figure Bas van der Ree as Netherlands Film Commissioner. He will take up the job at the beginning of July.
It follows an inaugural call for applications for a new 30% cash rebate incentive, which saw 37 projects looking to access the rebate, which was launched in Cannes last month. These included both minority and majority Dutch coproductions. A decision on which will receive support should be taken by mid-July.
“Van der Ree is very experienced with production of feature films, documentaries, television films and also commercials,” said Doreen Boonekamp, CEO of the Netherlands Film Fund, of the new commissioner.
“He has a broad experience within different kinds of media production. That’s important for a Film Commission to have. It is not...
As the Dutch seek to attract international movies to shoot in the region, the Netherlands Film Fund has appointed veteran industry figure Bas van der Ree as Netherlands Film Commissioner. He will take up the job at the beginning of July.
It follows an inaugural call for applications for a new 30% cash rebate incentive, which saw 37 projects looking to access the rebate, which was launched in Cannes last month. These included both minority and majority Dutch coproductions. A decision on which will receive support should be taken by mid-July.
“Van der Ree is very experienced with production of feature films, documentaries, television films and also commercials,” said Doreen Boonekamp, CEO of the Netherlands Film Fund, of the new commissioner.
“He has a broad experience within different kinds of media production. That’s important for a Film Commission to have. It is not...
- 6/20/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Bas van der Ree will take up the job at the beginning of July.
As the Dutch seek to attract international movies to shoot in the region, the Netherlands Film Fund has appointed veteran industry figure Bas van der Ree as Netherlands Film Commissioner. He will take up the job at the beginning of July.
It follows an inaugural call for applications for a new 30% cash rebate incentive, which saw 37 projects looking to access the rebate, which was launched in Cannes last month. These included both minority and majority Dutch coproductions. A decision on which will receive support should be taken by mid-July.
“Van der Ree is very experienced with production of feature films, documentaries, television films and also commercials,” said Doreen Boonekamp, CEO of the Netherlands Film Fund, of the new commissioner.
“He has a broad experience within different kinds of media production. That’s important for a Film Commission to have. It is not...
As the Dutch seek to attract international movies to shoot in the region, the Netherlands Film Fund has appointed veteran industry figure Bas van der Ree as Netherlands Film Commissioner. He will take up the job at the beginning of July.
It follows an inaugural call for applications for a new 30% cash rebate incentive, which saw 37 projects looking to access the rebate, which was launched in Cannes last month. These included both minority and majority Dutch coproductions. A decision on which will receive support should be taken by mid-July.
“Van der Ree is very experienced with production of feature films, documentaries, television films and also commercials,” said Doreen Boonekamp, CEO of the Netherlands Film Fund, of the new commissioner.
“He has a broad experience within different kinds of media production. That’s important for a Film Commission to have. It is not...
- 6/20/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
White Child Above the Clouds: Warmerdam’s Dark Classist Comedy a Winner
Alex van Warmerdam’s Borgman has to be the steadily working director’s most accomplished work to date. Known mostly for his droll, sometimes perverse films dealing with families or communities tested by strange situations that range anywhere from a maintained weirdness to potential violence, his latest treat is poised to broaden his appeal to a larger audience. His 1992 film, The Northerners, perhaps his most celebrated film, deals with a group of people living in a 1960’s housing development, while 2003’s Grimm is an off kilter retelling of Hansel and Gretel. Warmerdam’s latest, which also seems to have roots in the fairy tale parable, plays like the strange, neglected cousin to a host of other considerable cinematic references, and yet, it’s a delectable concoction all its own. Incredibly, often wickedly funny, it’s filled with memorable moments,...
Alex van Warmerdam’s Borgman has to be the steadily working director’s most accomplished work to date. Known mostly for his droll, sometimes perverse films dealing with families or communities tested by strange situations that range anywhere from a maintained weirdness to potential violence, his latest treat is poised to broaden his appeal to a larger audience. His 1992 film, The Northerners, perhaps his most celebrated film, deals with a group of people living in a 1960’s housing development, while 2003’s Grimm is an off kilter retelling of Hansel and Gretel. Warmerdam’s latest, which also seems to have roots in the fairy tale parable, plays like the strange, neglected cousin to a host of other considerable cinematic references, and yet, it’s a delectable concoction all its own. Incredibly, often wickedly funny, it’s filled with memorable moments,...
- 6/13/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Borgman is a difficult film to categorize, let alone explain exactly what happened once the credits roll. Just when it’s starting to make sense something changes and everything you thought you had figured out transforms. Utilizing several dramatic and horror genre characteristics, Alex van Warmerdam makes this occasionally confused film into a flowing mix of sinister, mystical, comical, and metaphorical content.
A priest leads a manhunt into the forest carrying sharpened and loaded weaponry. The men arrive at an indiscriminate location and the priest gives them a signal to start digging. Underneath the forest floor is a cavern, home to a disheveled bearded man named Borgman (Jan Bijvoet) who barely escapes and relocates into a high-end suburb. After sustaining a vicious beating at the hands of homeowner named Richard (Jeroen Perceval), Borgman manipulates his way into the lives of the man’s family and carefully introduces mayhem into their lives.
A priest leads a manhunt into the forest carrying sharpened and loaded weaponry. The men arrive at an indiscriminate location and the priest gives them a signal to start digging. Underneath the forest floor is a cavern, home to a disheveled bearded man named Borgman (Jan Bijvoet) who barely escapes and relocates into a high-end suburb. After sustaining a vicious beating at the hands of homeowner named Richard (Jeroen Perceval), Borgman manipulates his way into the lives of the man’s family and carefully introduces mayhem into their lives.
- 5/7/2014
- by Monte Yazzie
- DailyDead
Alex van Warmerdam's Borgman is an odd duck. A modern fantasy, it features the dark undertones of the original Grimm Brother's fairy tales before Disney got a hold of them. It's wonderfully dark, occasionally funny with a decisively violent streak throughout.
Jan Bijvoet stars as the titular Borgman, a long haired, bearded hippy type who preys on the goodwill of Marina (Hadewych Minis), a well to do woman who feels sorry for the guy and allows him to bathe and eat in her lavish home. He eventually talks his way into a job as the family gardener but what follows is a strange and progressively violent tale of a man who exercises a strange power over the family.
The trailer has been cut to beautifully capture the mood and oddity of the story but I'm a bit surprised it gives away [Continued ...]...
Jan Bijvoet stars as the titular Borgman, a long haired, bearded hippy type who preys on the goodwill of Marina (Hadewych Minis), a well to do woman who feels sorry for the guy and allows him to bathe and eat in her lavish home. He eventually talks his way into a job as the family gardener but what follows is a strange and progressively violent tale of a man who exercises a strange power over the family.
The trailer has been cut to beautifully capture the mood and oddity of the story but I'm a bit surprised it gives away [Continued ...]...
- 4/8/2014
- QuietEarth.us
Alex van Warmerdam's Borgman slipped in and out of Cannes 2013 under our radar, but Drafthouse Films honed in on the disturbing and apparently utterly unique flick, snapping it for North America and including it in the "Drafthouse Alliance." Read on for more details along with a new still.
From the Press Release:
Drafthouse Films, the film distribution arm of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, announced the acquisition of North American rights to the bizarro domestic thriller Borgman from this year's Cannes Film Festival. Directed by award-winning auteur Alex van Warmerdam (Grimm, Abel), Borgman is the first Dutch film in Cannes competition in almost 40 years. A Us theatrical and VOD/digital release is planned for 2014, and Films We Like in Toronto will handle Canadian distribution. Us fans who enroll in the "Drafthouse Alliance" subscription program can guarantee their pre-order of the film.
Like Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth and Michael Haneke's Funny Games,...
From the Press Release:
Drafthouse Films, the film distribution arm of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, announced the acquisition of North American rights to the bizarro domestic thriller Borgman from this year's Cannes Film Festival. Directed by award-winning auteur Alex van Warmerdam (Grimm, Abel), Borgman is the first Dutch film in Cannes competition in almost 40 years. A Us theatrical and VOD/digital release is planned for 2014, and Films We Like in Toronto will handle Canadian distribution. Us fans who enroll in the "Drafthouse Alliance" subscription program can guarantee their pre-order of the film.
Like Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth and Michael Haneke's Funny Games,...
- 6/1/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Drafthouse Films has picked up rights to domestic thriller "Borgman" from this year's Cannes Film Festival. Helmed by Alex van Warmerdam ("Grimm," "Abel"), and in the tonal vein of Yorgos Lanthimos' "Dogtooth" and Michael Haneke's "Funny Games," it is the first Dutch film to play in competition at the fest in nearly 40 years. Here's a more in-depth synopsis, which makes the film intriguingly sound like a horror version of Renoir's "Boudu Saved from Drowning":"Borgman" is an allegorical tale exploring the nature of evil in unexpected places. A vagrant enters the lives of an upper-class family, igniting a descent from darkly comic dream to maddening psychological nightmare. “I wanted to show evil through the abnormal behaviour of normal people,” says Warmerdam at the film’s Cannes press conference, “the kind that you can come across in the street.” A stateside theatrical and VOD release is planned for...
- 5/31/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Cannes, France — There's something nasty lurking in the woods – and inside the characters' heads – in darkly comic Cannes Film Festival entry "Borgman."
In Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam's supernaturally-tinged psychological drama, a mysterious interloper emerges from a forest and knocks on the door of a wealthy family's modernist mansion.
Borgman, the titular stranger played by Flemish actor Jan Bijvoet, insinuates himself into the outwardly idyllic life of the clan, which quickly begins to implode.
Van Warmerdam established a distinctive vein of macabre humor in previous films including the fairy tale-inspired "Grimm" and acerbic old-age portrait "The Last Days of Emma Blank." But the mix of deadpan comedy and growing menace in "Borgman" takes it into even darker territory.
"I'm a little disappointed about how nasty this film became," the 60-year-old director told reporters Sunday.
"I think is has something to do with the fact that I'm getting old," he said.
In Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam's supernaturally-tinged psychological drama, a mysterious interloper emerges from a forest and knocks on the door of a wealthy family's modernist mansion.
Borgman, the titular stranger played by Flemish actor Jan Bijvoet, insinuates himself into the outwardly idyllic life of the clan, which quickly begins to implode.
Van Warmerdam established a distinctive vein of macabre humor in previous films including the fairy tale-inspired "Grimm" and acerbic old-age portrait "The Last Days of Emma Blank." But the mix of deadpan comedy and growing menace in "Borgman" takes it into even darker territory.
"I'm a little disappointed about how nasty this film became," the 60-year-old director told reporters Sunday.
"I think is has something to do with the fact that I'm getting old," he said.
- 5/19/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Borgman – Alex Van Warmerdan
Section: Main Competition
Buzz: Alex Van Warmerdan’s latest film is immediately of note because it’s the first Dutch film to play the Main Comp in thirty eight years. But more excitingly, its inclusion here should bring a wider audience to the offbeat Dutch filmmaker who has been consistently making wonderously weird films since his 1986 debut, Voyeur (aka Abel). Enthusiasts may be familiar with some of his well known titles, such as The Northerners (1992), which features Theo Van Gogh in an acting role, or Grimm (2003), but the preview of his latest feature promises that Borgman may be one of the highlights of Cannes 2013.
The Gist: Borgman is the central character in Alex van Warmerdam’s dark, malevolent fable. Is he a dream or a demon, a twisted allegory or an all-too-real embodiment of our fears? Borgman is a sinister arrival in the sealed-off streets of modern suburbia.
Section: Main Competition
Buzz: Alex Van Warmerdan’s latest film is immediately of note because it’s the first Dutch film to play the Main Comp in thirty eight years. But more excitingly, its inclusion here should bring a wider audience to the offbeat Dutch filmmaker who has been consistently making wonderously weird films since his 1986 debut, Voyeur (aka Abel). Enthusiasts may be familiar with some of his well known titles, such as The Northerners (1992), which features Theo Van Gogh in an acting role, or Grimm (2003), but the preview of his latest feature promises that Borgman may be one of the highlights of Cannes 2013.
The Gist: Borgman is the central character in Alex van Warmerdam’s dark, malevolent fable. Is he a dream or a demon, a twisted allegory or an all-too-real embodiment of our fears? Borgman is a sinister arrival in the sealed-off streets of modern suburbia.
- 5/15/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
In the lead up to this year’s Cannes Film Festival a common thread through much speculation was how many high profile directors had new films coming and how some of them would, inevitably, be left out. There’s a lot of stuff out there that would normally be expected to premiere in Cannes this year that isn’t simply because there’s not space for it. Enter Alex Van Warmerdam.
The Dutch director would normally be considered a likely candidate for Cannes play. He’s a long standing favorite on the festival circuit thanks to titles like Waiter, Grimm and Little Tony and his latest film - the dark comedy The Last Days Of Emma Blank - is not only gearing up for release at precisely the right time but is also represented by top tier sales agent Fortissimo Films who typically place a handful of titles in each...
The Dutch director would normally be considered a likely candidate for Cannes play. He’s a long standing favorite on the festival circuit thanks to titles like Waiter, Grimm and Little Tony and his latest film - the dark comedy The Last Days Of Emma Blank - is not only gearing up for release at precisely the right time but is also represented by top tier sales agent Fortissimo Films who typically place a handful of titles in each...
- 4/28/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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