Night Sea Journey, directed by Tina Feyrer, is a thriller made in Austria. It uses surrealistic elements and makes use of antique myths and psychoanalytic symbols of death and libido. Neeve spends the evening with Julius and Marianne. But an unsettling call from a stranger quickly changes the atmosphere. While trying to determine the stranger’s identity, Neeve steps into a world beyond the mirror. A world where the irrational rules reality. The border between the state of dream and being awake become blurred. Dreamlike, ambivalent and haunting, Tina Feyrer’s images explore the darker side of existence. Beginning her career as an assistant director in theatre, Feyrer moved into film making following a stint assisting the Viennese film and theatre maker Paulus Manker. Going on to work...
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- 2/23/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Every week, a bevy of new releases (independent or otherwise), open in theaters. That’s why we created the Weekly Film Guide, filled with basic plot, personnel and cinema information for all of this week’s fresh offerings.
For August, we’ve also put together a list for the entire month. We’ve included this week’s list below, complete with information on screening locations for films in limited release.
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Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, August 19. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.
Wide
Ben-Hur
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: Jack Huston, Morgan Freeman, Nazanin Boniadi, Rodrigo Santoro, Toby Kebbell
Synopsis: The epic story of Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston), a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother Messala (Toby Kebbell), an officer in the Roman army. Stripped of his title,...
For August, we’ve also put together a list for the entire month. We’ve included this week’s list below, complete with information on screening locations for films in limited release.
See More: Here Are All the Upcoming Movies in Theaters for August 2016
Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, August 19. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.
Wide
Ben-Hur
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: Jack Huston, Morgan Freeman, Nazanin Boniadi, Rodrigo Santoro, Toby Kebbell
Synopsis: The epic story of Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston), a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother Messala (Toby Kebbell), an officer in the Roman army. Stripped of his title,...
- 8/19/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Screened at the Berlin International Film Festival
BERLIN -- "Slumming" has odd moments of wry, dark humor. Ultimately, though, darkness overshadows humor with characters that are either so overbearing or misanthropic that they destroy any enjoyment of its quirky nature. Director/co-writer Michael Glawogger, who has worked on both documentaries and features, says he pulled the story together from here and there -- a long-ago dialogue in a bar with a drunk, another character he met while making a docu, a teacher he knows all too well and travels through Viennese dives while making yet another movie. This shows in the patchwork nature of the screenplay with two virtually separate story lines and characters you wouldn't want to spend time with even in a bar.
Reportedly the first Austrian film to screen in competition at the Berlinale in 20 years, "Slumming" appears headed for a few European play dates, mostly in German-speaking territories, and possibly a European TV sale. It's not a film that travels well internationally.
Initially, it's hard to tell which set of characters is the greater turnoff. Two Viennese yuppies -- Sebastian (August Diehl), a slick rich kid who holds most people and especially women in contempt, and his easily manipulated roommate Alex Michael Ostrowski) -- fight off boredom by "slumming." This involves cruising Viennese bars, clubs, casinos and video arcades in search of people easily tricked or made to appear foolish. Sebastian especially enjoys surfing the Internet for dates he meets in a cafe where he surreptitiously takes digital photos of their panties under the table. Don't you just love these guys?
Then there is the street poet, Kallmann (Paulus Manker), a disheveled ruin of a man who gets so drunk as to seem mentally challenged. Staggering down a street, he aggressively pushes his pathetic poems on people, swears at everyone and even accosts and beats one fellow to steal his backpack. Another lovable character, no?
Finally, there is Sebastian's latest "date," Pia (Pia Hierzegger), a schoolteacher who talks too much and says too little. Somehow she gets under Sebastian's skin. Some of these characters briefly converge in the boys' latest cruel trick. Sebastian and Alex discover Kallmann drunkenly passed out on a bench one snowy night. Sebastian prevails upon a reluctant Alex To help him load Kallmann into his car trunk. They then drive the poet across the border into the Czech Republic, where they dump him without an ID. Kallman awakens in the morning in a land whose language he does not speak and with no idea how to get back home.
The two stories now forge ahead on parallel tracks. Kallmann struggles through a frozen landscape to sneak back over the border, while Sebastian pursues Pia with something like dedication but certainly not love. When Sebastian confesses his latest cruel joke to Pia, she angrily dumps him and goes in search of the lost poet.
Perhaps if more time where spent by Glawogger and co-screenwriter Barbara Albert developing the intricacies and backgrounds of these characters -- what makes them tick and what possibly redeems them as human beings -- then more humor could have been mined from their situations. As it is, Kallmann, now sober and almost resourceful, makes the more interesting story as he trudges bravely ahead. How much more interesting these sections would be, though, if we understood how he arrived at this pathetic stage of life.
Sebastian's story line goes dead once Pia flees from him. The filmmakers then make the odd decision to send him off to Indonesia, where he appears more lost than Kallmann.
So the movie just sits there, a collection of unraveled story lines, off-putting characters and little dramatic impetus. Production values are solid as the film provides a glimpse of Vienna that makes the film intriguing even when its stories do not.
SLUMMING
Bavaria Film International presentsa Lotus-Film production in co-production with Dischoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, coop99 and Abraxas
Credits:
Director: Michael Glawogger
Screenwriters: Michael Glawogger, Barbara Albert
Producer: Erich Lackner
Director of photography: Martin Gschlacht
Production designer: Maria Gruber
Music: Peter Von Siebenthal, Daniel Jakob, Till Wyler, Walter W. Cikan
Costumes: Martina List
Editor: Christof Schertenleib
Cast:
Franz Kallmann: Paulus Manker
Sebastian: August Diehl
Alex: Michael Ostrowski
Pia: Pia Hierzegger
Herta: Maria Bill
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 100 minutes...
BERLIN -- "Slumming" has odd moments of wry, dark humor. Ultimately, though, darkness overshadows humor with characters that are either so overbearing or misanthropic that they destroy any enjoyment of its quirky nature. Director/co-writer Michael Glawogger, who has worked on both documentaries and features, says he pulled the story together from here and there -- a long-ago dialogue in a bar with a drunk, another character he met while making a docu, a teacher he knows all too well and travels through Viennese dives while making yet another movie. This shows in the patchwork nature of the screenplay with two virtually separate story lines and characters you wouldn't want to spend time with even in a bar.
Reportedly the first Austrian film to screen in competition at the Berlinale in 20 years, "Slumming" appears headed for a few European play dates, mostly in German-speaking territories, and possibly a European TV sale. It's not a film that travels well internationally.
Initially, it's hard to tell which set of characters is the greater turnoff. Two Viennese yuppies -- Sebastian (August Diehl), a slick rich kid who holds most people and especially women in contempt, and his easily manipulated roommate Alex Michael Ostrowski) -- fight off boredom by "slumming." This involves cruising Viennese bars, clubs, casinos and video arcades in search of people easily tricked or made to appear foolish. Sebastian especially enjoys surfing the Internet for dates he meets in a cafe where he surreptitiously takes digital photos of their panties under the table. Don't you just love these guys?
Then there is the street poet, Kallmann (Paulus Manker), a disheveled ruin of a man who gets so drunk as to seem mentally challenged. Staggering down a street, he aggressively pushes his pathetic poems on people, swears at everyone and even accosts and beats one fellow to steal his backpack. Another lovable character, no?
Finally, there is Sebastian's latest "date," Pia (Pia Hierzegger), a schoolteacher who talks too much and says too little. Somehow she gets under Sebastian's skin. Some of these characters briefly converge in the boys' latest cruel trick. Sebastian and Alex discover Kallmann drunkenly passed out on a bench one snowy night. Sebastian prevails upon a reluctant Alex To help him load Kallmann into his car trunk. They then drive the poet across the border into the Czech Republic, where they dump him without an ID. Kallman awakens in the morning in a land whose language he does not speak and with no idea how to get back home.
The two stories now forge ahead on parallel tracks. Kallmann struggles through a frozen landscape to sneak back over the border, while Sebastian pursues Pia with something like dedication but certainly not love. When Sebastian confesses his latest cruel joke to Pia, she angrily dumps him and goes in search of the lost poet.
Perhaps if more time where spent by Glawogger and co-screenwriter Barbara Albert developing the intricacies and backgrounds of these characters -- what makes them tick and what possibly redeems them as human beings -- then more humor could have been mined from their situations. As it is, Kallmann, now sober and almost resourceful, makes the more interesting story as he trudges bravely ahead. How much more interesting these sections would be, though, if we understood how he arrived at this pathetic stage of life.
Sebastian's story line goes dead once Pia flees from him. The filmmakers then make the odd decision to send him off to Indonesia, where he appears more lost than Kallmann.
So the movie just sits there, a collection of unraveled story lines, off-putting characters and little dramatic impetus. Production values are solid as the film provides a glimpse of Vienna that makes the film intriguing even when its stories do not.
SLUMMING
Bavaria Film International presentsa Lotus-Film production in co-production with Dischoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, coop99 and Abraxas
Credits:
Director: Michael Glawogger
Screenwriters: Michael Glawogger, Barbara Albert
Producer: Erich Lackner
Director of photography: Martin Gschlacht
Production designer: Maria Gruber
Music: Peter Von Siebenthal, Daniel Jakob, Till Wyler, Walter W. Cikan
Costumes: Martina List
Editor: Christof Schertenleib
Cast:
Franz Kallmann: Paulus Manker
Sebastian: August Diehl
Alex: Michael Ostrowski
Pia: Pia Hierzegger
Herta: Maria Bill
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 100 minutes...
- 2/13/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Screened at the Berlin International Film Festival
BERLIN -- "Slumming" has odd moments of wry, dark humor. Ultimately though, darkness overshadows humor as characters that are either so overbearing or misanthropic that they destroy any enjoyment of its quirky nature. Director/co-writer Michael Glawogger, who has worked on both documentaries and features, says he pulled the story together from here and there -- a long-ago dialogue in a bar with a drunk, another character he met while making a doc, a teacher he knows all too well and travels through Viennese dives while making yet another movie. This shows in the patchwork nature of the screenplay with two virtually separate storylines and characters you wouldn't want to spend time with even in a bar.
Reportedly, the first Austrian film to screen in competition at the Berlinale in 20 years, "Slumming" appears headed for a few European play dates, mostly in German-speaking territories, and possibly a European TV sale. It's not a film that travels well internationally.
Initially, it's hard to tell which set of characters is the greater turn-off. Two Viennese yuppies, Sebastian (August Diehl), a slick rich kid who holds most people and especially women in contempt, and his easily manipulated roommate Alex Michael Ostrowski), fight off boredom by "slumming." This involves cruising Viennese bars, clubs, casinos and video arcades in search of people easily tricked or made to appear foolish. Sebastian especially enjoys surfing the Internet for dates he meets in a cafe where he surreptitiously takes digital photos under the table of their panties. Don't you just love these guys?
Then there is the street poet, Kallmann (Paulus Manker), a disheveled ruin of a man who gets so drunk as to seem mentally challenged. Staggering down a street, he aggressively pushes his pathetic poems on people, swears at everyone and even accosts and beats one fellow to steal his backpack. Another loveable character, no?
Finally, there is Sebastian's latest "date," Pia (Pia Hierzegger), a schoolteacher who talks too much and says too little. Somehow she gets under Sebastian's skin.
Some of these characters briefly converge in the boys' latest cruel trick. Sebastian and Alex discover Kallmann drunkenly passed out on a bench one snowy night. Sebastian prevails upon a reluctant Alex To help him load Kallmann into his car truck. They then drive the poet across the border into the Czech Republic where they dump him without an I.D. Kallman awakens in the morning in a land whose language he does not speak and with no idea how to get back home.
The two stories now forge ahead on parallel tracks. Kallmann struggles through a frozen landscape to sneak back over the border while Sebastian pursues Pia with something like dedication but certainly not love. When Sebastian confesses his latest cruel joke to Pia, she angrily dumps him and goes in search of the lost poet.
Perhaps if more time where spent by Glawogger and co-writer Barbara Albert developing the intricacies and backgrounds of these characters -- what makes them tick and what possibly redeems them as human beings -- then more humor could have been mined from their situations. As it is,
Kallmann, now sober and almost resourceful, makes the more interesting story as he trudges bravely ahead. How much more interesting these section would be though if we understood how he arrived at this pathetic stage of life.
Sebastian's storyline goes dead once Pia flees from him. The filmmakers then make the odd decision to send him off to Indonesia, where he appears more lost than Kallmann.
So the movie just sits there, a collection of unraveled story lines, off-putting characters and little dramatic impetus. Production values are solid as the film provides a glimpse of Vienna that makes the film intriguing even when its stories do not.
SLUMMING
Bavaria Film International presents a Lotus-Film production in in co-production with Dischoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, coop99 and Abraxas
Credits:
Director: Michael Glawogger
Writers: Michael Glawogger, Barbara Albert
Producer: Erich Lackner
Director of photography: Martin Gschlacht
Production designer: Maria Gruber
Music: Peter Von Siebenthal, Daniel Jakob, Till Wyler, Walter W. Cikan
Costumes: Martina List
Editor: Christof Schertenleib.
Cast:
Franz Kallmann: Paulus Manker
Sebastian: August Diehl
Alex: Michael Ostrowski
Pia: Pia Hierzegger
Herta: Maria Bill
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 100 minutes...
BERLIN -- "Slumming" has odd moments of wry, dark humor. Ultimately though, darkness overshadows humor as characters that are either so overbearing or misanthropic that they destroy any enjoyment of its quirky nature. Director/co-writer Michael Glawogger, who has worked on both documentaries and features, says he pulled the story together from here and there -- a long-ago dialogue in a bar with a drunk, another character he met while making a doc, a teacher he knows all too well and travels through Viennese dives while making yet another movie. This shows in the patchwork nature of the screenplay with two virtually separate storylines and characters you wouldn't want to spend time with even in a bar.
Reportedly, the first Austrian film to screen in competition at the Berlinale in 20 years, "Slumming" appears headed for a few European play dates, mostly in German-speaking territories, and possibly a European TV sale. It's not a film that travels well internationally.
Initially, it's hard to tell which set of characters is the greater turn-off. Two Viennese yuppies, Sebastian (August Diehl), a slick rich kid who holds most people and especially women in contempt, and his easily manipulated roommate Alex Michael Ostrowski), fight off boredom by "slumming." This involves cruising Viennese bars, clubs, casinos and video arcades in search of people easily tricked or made to appear foolish. Sebastian especially enjoys surfing the Internet for dates he meets in a cafe where he surreptitiously takes digital photos under the table of their panties. Don't you just love these guys?
Then there is the street poet, Kallmann (Paulus Manker), a disheveled ruin of a man who gets so drunk as to seem mentally challenged. Staggering down a street, he aggressively pushes his pathetic poems on people, swears at everyone and even accosts and beats one fellow to steal his backpack. Another loveable character, no?
Finally, there is Sebastian's latest "date," Pia (Pia Hierzegger), a schoolteacher who talks too much and says too little. Somehow she gets under Sebastian's skin.
Some of these characters briefly converge in the boys' latest cruel trick. Sebastian and Alex discover Kallmann drunkenly passed out on a bench one snowy night. Sebastian prevails upon a reluctant Alex To help him load Kallmann into his car truck. They then drive the poet across the border into the Czech Republic where they dump him without an I.D. Kallman awakens in the morning in a land whose language he does not speak and with no idea how to get back home.
The two stories now forge ahead on parallel tracks. Kallmann struggles through a frozen landscape to sneak back over the border while Sebastian pursues Pia with something like dedication but certainly not love. When Sebastian confesses his latest cruel joke to Pia, she angrily dumps him and goes in search of the lost poet.
Perhaps if more time where spent by Glawogger and co-writer Barbara Albert developing the intricacies and backgrounds of these characters -- what makes them tick and what possibly redeems them as human beings -- then more humor could have been mined from their situations. As it is,
Kallmann, now sober and almost resourceful, makes the more interesting story as he trudges bravely ahead. How much more interesting these section would be though if we understood how he arrived at this pathetic stage of life.
Sebastian's storyline goes dead once Pia flees from him. The filmmakers then make the odd decision to send him off to Indonesia, where he appears more lost than Kallmann.
So the movie just sits there, a collection of unraveled story lines, off-putting characters and little dramatic impetus. Production values are solid as the film provides a glimpse of Vienna that makes the film intriguing even when its stories do not.
SLUMMING
Bavaria Film International presents a Lotus-Film production in in co-production with Dischoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, coop99 and Abraxas
Credits:
Director: Michael Glawogger
Writers: Michael Glawogger, Barbara Albert
Producer: Erich Lackner
Director of photography: Martin Gschlacht
Production designer: Maria Gruber
Music: Peter Von Siebenthal, Daniel Jakob, Till Wyler, Walter W. Cikan
Costumes: Martina List
Editor: Christof Schertenleib.
Cast:
Franz Kallmann: Paulus Manker
Sebastian: August Diehl
Alex: Michael Ostrowski
Pia: Pia Hierzegger
Herta: Maria Bill
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 100 minutes...
- 2/10/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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