When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit star Carla Juri in her Brooklyn sweatshirt in Iceland, on her role: “I was wondering, they describe her as a bit more difficult. Ha, Ha! I like difficult!”
Carla Juri has had a number of memorable performances since 2013, from David Wnendt’s adaptation of Charlotte Roche’s novel Wetlands to Frauke Finsterwalder’s Finsterworld, co-written with Christian Kracht, Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, and in 2021 Andy Goddard’s Six Minutes To Midnight and Caroline Link’s adaptation with Anna Brüggemann of Judith Kerr’s When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.
The father Arthur Kemper (Oliver Masucci) reunited with his son Max (Marinus Hohmann), wife Dorothea (Carla Juri), and daughter Anna (Riva Krymalowski)
Carla Juri, Riva Krymalowski, Oliver Masucci (a Joseph Beuys look-alike in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Never Look Away), and Marinus Hohmann star as the Kemper family, with a terrific ensemble cast, including Ursula Werner,...
Carla Juri has had a number of memorable performances since 2013, from David Wnendt’s adaptation of Charlotte Roche’s novel Wetlands to Frauke Finsterwalder’s Finsterworld, co-written with Christian Kracht, Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, and in 2021 Andy Goddard’s Six Minutes To Midnight and Caroline Link’s adaptation with Anna Brüggemann of Judith Kerr’s When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.
The father Arthur Kemper (Oliver Masucci) reunited with his son Max (Marinus Hohmann), wife Dorothea (Carla Juri), and daughter Anna (Riva Krymalowski)
Carla Juri, Riva Krymalowski, Oliver Masucci (a Joseph Beuys look-alike in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Never Look Away), and Marinus Hohmann star as the Kemper family, with a terrific ensemble cast, including Ursula Werner,...
- 5/18/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The trailer and poster for a new drama called The Sunlit Night which stars Jenny Slate and will be releasing on VOD on July 17th from Quiver Distribution. Also starring Zach Galifianakis and Gillian Anderson, check out the preview below.
The Sunlit Night follows an aspiring painter (Slate) from New York City to the farthest reaches of Arctic Norway for an assignment she hopes will invigorate her work and expand her horizons. In a remote village, among the locals, she meets a fellow New Yorker (Sharp), who has come in search of a proper Viking funeral only to find that the Chief (Galifianakis) is but a re-enactor from Cincinnati. The eclectic crew ranges from “home” to “lost,” within the extreme and dazzling landscape of the Far North. Under a sun that never quite sets, and the high standards of an unforgiving mentor, Frances must navigate between ambition, desire, obligation, and...
The Sunlit Night follows an aspiring painter (Slate) from New York City to the farthest reaches of Arctic Norway for an assignment she hopes will invigorate her work and expand her horizons. In a remote village, among the locals, she meets a fellow New Yorker (Sharp), who has come in search of a proper Viking funeral only to find that the Chief (Galifianakis) is but a re-enactor from Cincinnati. The eclectic crew ranges from “home” to “lost,” within the extreme and dazzling landscape of the Far North. Under a sun that never quite sets, and the high standards of an unforgiving mentor, Frances must navigate between ambition, desire, obligation, and...
- 6/18/2020
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
With readers turning to their home viewing options more than ever, this daily feature provides one new movie each day worth checking out on a major streaming platform.
Even before virtually all humankind became wary of physical contact, “Wetlands” flaunted its grotesque sexual provocations with rebellious glee. Now, this icky and poignant tale of anal fissures and semen-coasted pizza — all positioned within the perspective of a young German woman taking control of her troubled world — has become the ultimate fantasy of the social distancing age.
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The 2013 adaptation of Charlotte Roche’s controversial 2008 novel stars Carla Juri in a mesmerizing, confrontational performance propelled by one of the most sexually liberated female characters in history of cinema.
Even before virtually all humankind became wary of physical contact, “Wetlands” flaunted its grotesque sexual provocations with rebellious glee. Now, this icky and poignant tale of anal fissures and semen-coasted pizza — all positioned within the perspective of a young German woman taking control of her troubled world — has become the ultimate fantasy of the social distancing age.
More from IndieWireStream of the Day: Watch the Original 'Candyman' Before Its New 'Spiritual Sequel' Comes OutStream of the Day: 'The Descent' Is a Feminist Horror Movie Not Afraid to Give Us Imperfect Women
The 2013 adaptation of Charlotte Roche’s controversial 2008 novel stars Carla Juri in a mesmerizing, confrontational performance propelled by one of the most sexually liberated female characters in history of cinema.
- 3/20/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
At a loss for what to watch this week? From new DVDs and Blu-rays, to what's streaming on Netflix, we've got you covered.
New on DVD and Blu-ray
"Gone Girl"
David Fincher's latest dark 'n' twisty drama stars Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck as a pair of beautiful people who do terrible things to each other. This adaptation of Gillian Flynn's best-selling novel is worth it just for the scene in which Tyler Perry, as a high-powered lawyer who specializes in cases where men are accused of murdering their wives, throws gummy bears at Affleck's head.
"Jimi: All Is By My Side"
This Jimi Hendrix biopic got mixed reviews, but André Benjamin's performance as a young Jimi on the verge of stardom is pretty sizzling.
"Wetlands"
This German film is for those with particularly strong stomachs, but if you're up for it, this is a wild ride.
New on DVD and Blu-ray
"Gone Girl"
David Fincher's latest dark 'n' twisty drama stars Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck as a pair of beautiful people who do terrible things to each other. This adaptation of Gillian Flynn's best-selling novel is worth it just for the scene in which Tyler Perry, as a high-powered lawyer who specializes in cases where men are accused of murdering their wives, throws gummy bears at Affleck's head.
"Jimi: All Is By My Side"
This Jimi Hendrix biopic got mixed reviews, but André Benjamin's performance as a young Jimi on the verge of stardom is pretty sizzling.
"Wetlands"
This German film is for those with particularly strong stomachs, but if you're up for it, this is a wild ride.
- 1/12/2015
- by Jenni Miller
- Moviefone
I confess that my initial interest in seeing Wetlands was to test myself. Having grown up a tomboy, my childhood was rich with experiences of proving I could withstand things other girls thought too gross or ghastly, be it horror movies or spitting contests. So when this German coming-of-age comedy roared out of Sundance with critics declaring it "the most Wtf, Nsfw movie of the year," I--on some level--took seeing it as not only part of my job as a critic, but also another exciting schoolyard challenge. If you've heard of Wetlands, you either know it because of the Charlotte Roche novel on which it's based, or because of the deeply disgusting content therein. If you want your stomach tested, Wetlands will not disappoint. But beyond gross-out scenes involving menstrual blood, copious spurts of semen, and an angry (and literal) asshole, there's a purpose. Beneath thick, putrid layers of filth,...
- 9/11/2014
- cinemablend.com
The most appropriate response to the German film Wetlands — the madly explicit story of Helen, a promiscuous 18-year-old with hemorrhoids who is obsessed with sexual fluids, hers and others’, and, in the course of shaving her anus, rips it open, whereupon it becomes infected and lands her in the hospital — is “Holy shit!” No, that’s wrong. Given the way she uses her excrement to deface religious icons, it should probably be “Unholy shit!” The film, like the novel by Charlotte Roche (a longtime presenter on Viva, “the German equivalent of MTV”), wants to make you more than squirm; it wants to make you retch. Then it can say, “Ha! What a prude!” I admired its ballsiness — or, perhaps I should say, cheekiness. Carla Juri’s Helen is always smiling, always buoyant, whether discoursing on the magical olfactory properties of “pussy flora,” prodding her male nurse (Christoph Letkowski) to photograph...
- 9/5/2014
- by David Edelstein
- Vulture
Dump the kids and lock up Grandma, Wetlands is here to freak out the prudes and make "dirty" fun again. That it does. You won't find a better movie anywhere that features a teen girl using her crotch to wipe a public toilet seat. If I still have your attention, I want to point out that Wetlands, based on the hot-button bestseller by German TV personality Charlotte Roche, is way more than two hours of eww, gross. It's true that young director David Wnendt, who wrote the screenplay with Claus Falkenberg,...
- 9/4/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Soggy Bottoms: Wnendt’s Latest an Extravaganza of Delightful Perversity
German director David Wnendt’s adaptation of Charlotte Roche’s novel, Wetlands, is a bildungsroman unlike any other; a perverse, crassly uninhibited sexual memoir of aggressive note, lending itself to a select group of films that manages to be as titillating as it is genuinely and shockingly repulsive. If the dramatic tension of the narrative, which concerns an adolescent female’s struggle to cope with her parents’ messy divorce some years ago, seems a bit banal, it’s because there’s not storyline out there that could possibly combat the overriding hedonistic and gloriously unabashed sexual adventures of a young woman (and film) unfettered by sanitized attitudes toward the human body and its various functions.
A letter to the editor graces the opening credits, which addresses a reluctance to adapt the novel to film, a quick precursor to a blaring...
German director David Wnendt’s adaptation of Charlotte Roche’s novel, Wetlands, is a bildungsroman unlike any other; a perverse, crassly uninhibited sexual memoir of aggressive note, lending itself to a select group of films that manages to be as titillating as it is genuinely and shockingly repulsive. If the dramatic tension of the narrative, which concerns an adolescent female’s struggle to cope with her parents’ messy divorce some years ago, seems a bit banal, it’s because there’s not storyline out there that could possibly combat the overriding hedonistic and gloriously unabashed sexual adventures of a young woman (and film) unfettered by sanitized attitudes toward the human body and its various functions.
A letter to the editor graces the opening credits, which addresses a reluctance to adapt the novel to film, a quick precursor to a blaring...
- 9/4/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Girls behave very, very grossly in Wetlands, a German coming-of-age saga doused in blood, spit, and more sexually explicit excretions.
David Wnendt's adaptation of Charlotte Roche's 2008 novel is an aesthetically amped-up affair, full of segmented screens, oversaturated colors, trippy special effects, and drugged-out flashbacks and dream sequences that embellish the story of Helen (Carla Juri) and her "living-pussy-hygiene experiment."
That ongoing research involves wiping her genitals on dirty toilet seats, sharing homemade tampons with her boarding-school best friend Corinna (Marlen Kruse), and crudely shaving her hemorrhoids — the last of which lands her in the hospital, where surgery is soon required to remove part of her anus.
Stuck in bed...
David Wnendt's adaptation of Charlotte Roche's 2008 novel is an aesthetically amped-up affair, full of segmented screens, oversaturated colors, trippy special effects, and drugged-out flashbacks and dream sequences that embellish the story of Helen (Carla Juri) and her "living-pussy-hygiene experiment."
That ongoing research involves wiping her genitals on dirty toilet seats, sharing homemade tampons with her boarding-school best friend Corinna (Marlen Kruse), and crudely shaving her hemorrhoids — the last of which lands her in the hospital, where surgery is soon required to remove part of her anus.
Stuck in bed...
- 9/3/2014
- Village Voice
Never in my life have I been so engrossed in that which is gross. That’s perhaps my second thought after seeing David Wnendt’s Wetlands at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival. My first thought: “Ewww…” I wasn’t alone: Nothing at SXSW has topped Wetlands, aka Ewww Is the Warmest Color. — Britt Hayes, Esq. (@MissBrittHayes) March 13, 2014 According to the PR email accompanying this new “pink band” trailer for the film’s theatrical release, Wetlands is “an unapologetically vulgar coming-of-age tale about divorce, first love and anal fissures.” That pretty much sums it up. The story of an eighteen year-old girl named Helen (Carla Juri) who is into skateboarding and rebelling against the tenets of personal hygiene. As she explains in the film’s opening monologue, she’s decided to treat her body like an active science experiment. She’s out to break the glass ceilings of society’s taboos and we’re along...
- 9/2/2014
- by Neil Miller
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
David Wnendt's Wetlands has been turning heads and arching brows around the world for the past while now thanks to its frank, explicit and super stylish take on female sexuality. Adapted from the cult novel by Charlotte Roche this is not at all shock or shock's sake ... there's significant depth as well though, yes, it remains quite shocking in bits and also very funny.Eighteen year-old Helen Memel (Carla Juri) likes to skateboard, masturbate with vegetables and thinks that body hygiene is greatly overrated. Struggling with her parents' divorce, she spends her time experimenting and breaking one social taboo after the other with her best friend, Corinna (Marlen Kruse). When a shaving accident lands her in the hospital, she sees it as a way to...
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- 9/1/2014
- Screen Anarchy
"Sex is not erotic if it's sterilized," says 28-year-old actress Carla Juri. "I get extremely bored when films are all tidy." Nothing is sterilized or tidy in Wetlands, the year's most sexually (and scatologically) explicit film. Based on Charlotte Roche's 2008 novel, it stars the Swiss-born Juri as Helen, an 18-year-old with an overclocked sex drive, raging hemorrhoids and a mischievous taste for bodily fluids. She steps into a fetid Trainspotting-style bathroom and wipes the nasty seat clean with her bare crotch; later she masturbates with a cornucopia of produce...
- 8/28/2014
- Rollingstone.com
David Wnendt's adaptation of Charlotte Roche's cult novel Wetlands caused quite the stir at the Sundance film festival and not just for the reasons you might assume. It's a given, really, that any movie about a teen girl obsessed with her own bodily functions - particularly of the sexual variety - is going to arch a brow or two but Wnendt here delivers more than just flesh. This thing's good. Like really, really good. And with a twenty city Us launch coming September 5th we've got an exclusive - and, yes, Nsfw - clip to let you know what you're in for.Eighteen year-old Helen Memel (Carla Juri) likes to skateboard, masturbate with vegetables and thinks that body hygiene is greatly overrated. Struggling with her parents' divorce,...
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- 8/22/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Wetlands has released a new trailer.
David Wnendt's scatological German film won critical acclaim when it screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
Based on Charlotte Roche's novel Feuchtgebiete, the film centres around Helen (Carla Juri), a young woman proudly disinterested in hygiene.
When a shaving accident sees her confined to hospital, she uses her time to mix fantasy and reality and flirt with a handsome nurse.
Christoph Letkowski, Meret Becker, Axel Milberg, Marlen Kruse and Edgar Selge also star in the film.
Wetlands will receive a limited release in the Us from September 5. It is yet to announce a UK release date.
David Wnendt's scatological German film won critical acclaim when it screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
Based on Charlotte Roche's novel Feuchtgebiete, the film centres around Helen (Carla Juri), a young woman proudly disinterested in hygiene.
When a shaving accident sees her confined to hospital, she uses her time to mix fantasy and reality and flirt with a handsome nurse.
Christoph Letkowski, Meret Becker, Axel Milberg, Marlen Kruse and Edgar Selge also star in the film.
Wetlands will receive a limited release in the Us from September 5. It is yet to announce a UK release date.
- 8/18/2014
- Digital Spy
Helen doesn’t care about hygiene. At all. That’s the simplest, most-safe-for-work description of Wetlands, a German sex comedy that premiered at Sundance this year. Any more detail, and we veer into some uncomfortable descriptions.
The film’s based on the extremely successful, if critically debated, book Wetlands by Charlotte Roche, which follows Helen (who calls herself “my own garbage disposal”) as she gives herself an anal lesion in a shaving accident and recovers in the hospital.
The film, directed by David Wnendt, and starring Carla Juri happily embraces gross-out in its latest trailer—there’s blood and garbage...
The film’s based on the extremely successful, if critically debated, book Wetlands by Charlotte Roche, which follows Helen (who calls herself “my own garbage disposal”) as she gives herself an anal lesion in a shaving accident and recovers in the hospital.
The film, directed by David Wnendt, and starring Carla Juri happily embraces gross-out in its latest trailer—there’s blood and garbage...
- 8/14/2014
- by Jackson McHenry
- EW - Inside Movies
Have you ever seen a movie where the lead character cheerfully describes herself as "a living pussy-hygiene experiment"? No, you haven't, because there's never been a movie quite like Wetlands, the insanely outrageous sex comedy that lit up Sundance earlier this year. Based on the novel by Charlotte Roche, this German-language film follows 18-year-old Helen (Carla Juri), who sticks a finger up her ass in the very first scene and spends the next one curiously rubbing her nether regions all over a pee-stained public toilet. "My mother told me it's really hard to keep a pussy clean," Helen explains, and after that, who could argue? Unabashed in her exploratory pursuit of pleasure, Helen engages in several sex romps: one with an anonymous food-stand patron, another with some food itself. (Cucumbers are a decent masturbatory aid, though nothing compares to a carrot). Helen has to put the hookups on hold, however,...
- 8/14/2014
- by Kyle Buchanan
- Vulture
The 8th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival is a power-packed event featuring outrageous cult films, provocative documentaries and wild short films that will run September 4-7 at its usual haunt, The Factory Theater.
Opening Night: The fest opens with Housebound, a New Zealand horror comedy by Gerard Johnstone about a woman in trouble with the law who comes to believe that her family home is haunted. The film will be preceded by a performance by Renny Kodgers and a free pizza party; and followed by an after party.
Closing Night: The fest will close with the controversial German teen sex comedy Wetlands directed by David Wendt. The film will then be followed by a late-night after party.
Highlights: Usama Alshaibi‘s must see documentary American Arab — an intimate, socially relevatory and essential film — screens at 4 p.m. on Sept. 6. Read the Underground Film Journal review of American Arab.
Jorge Torres-Torres...
Opening Night: The fest opens with Housebound, a New Zealand horror comedy by Gerard Johnstone about a woman in trouble with the law who comes to believe that her family home is haunted. The film will be preceded by a performance by Renny Kodgers and a free pizza party; and followed by an after party.
Closing Night: The fest will close with the controversial German teen sex comedy Wetlands directed by David Wendt. The film will then be followed by a late-night after party.
Highlights: Usama Alshaibi‘s must see documentary American Arab — an intimate, socially relevatory and essential film — screens at 4 p.m. on Sept. 6. Read the Underground Film Journal review of American Arab.
Jorge Torres-Torres...
- 8/7/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Continued from yesterday’s countdown….
20. Tessa Louise-Salome (Mr. Leos Carax)
19. Janicza Bravo (Gregory Goes Boom)
18. Michael Rossato-Bennett (Alive Inside)
17. Andrew Droz Palermo & Tracy Droz Tragos (Rich Hill)
16. Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard (20,000 Days on Earth)
15. Maya Forbes (Infinitely Polar Bear)
14. David Cross (Hits)
13. Justin Simien (Dear White People)
12. Kat Candler (Hellion)
11. Sydney Freeland (Drunktown’s Finest)
#10. Peter Sattler (Camp X-Ray)
After working as a graphic artist and designer for the past decade, Peter Sattler makes a remarkable screenwriting and directorial debut with Camp X-Ray. Even with some dubious reservations after the announcement of Kristen Stewart being cast as a Guantanamo Bay guard, the role isn’t an ungainly fit, and Sattler has created a genuinely moving and captivating feature. Stewart’s name will attract a whole audience of people potentially unaware of the controversial subject matter, making this an excellent conversation starter. But beyond all that, Sattler gets an amazing performance from Peyman Mooadi,...
20. Tessa Louise-Salome (Mr. Leos Carax)
19. Janicza Bravo (Gregory Goes Boom)
18. Michael Rossato-Bennett (Alive Inside)
17. Andrew Droz Palermo & Tracy Droz Tragos (Rich Hill)
16. Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard (20,000 Days on Earth)
15. Maya Forbes (Infinitely Polar Bear)
14. David Cross (Hits)
13. Justin Simien (Dear White People)
12. Kat Candler (Hellion)
11. Sydney Freeland (Drunktown’s Finest)
#10. Peter Sattler (Camp X-Ray)
After working as a graphic artist and designer for the past decade, Peter Sattler makes a remarkable screenwriting and directorial debut with Camp X-Ray. Even with some dubious reservations after the announcement of Kristen Stewart being cast as a Guantanamo Bay guard, the role isn’t an ungainly fit, and Sattler has created a genuinely moving and captivating feature. Stewart’s name will attract a whole audience of people potentially unaware of the controversial subject matter, making this an excellent conversation starter. But beyond all that, Sattler gets an amazing performance from Peyman Mooadi,...
- 2/4/2014
- by IONCINEMA.com Contributing Writers
- IONCINEMA.com
“What the hell just happened?!” asked the man in the seat next to me as the lights came up on a Sundance screening of Wetlands. He was laughing, and so was I, because, quite frankly, we were both totally baffled. And in love with what we’d just seen. And a little embarrassed to be in love with it. There were a lot of feelings.Wetlands, based on Charlotte Roche’s debut novel, Feuchtgebiete — which was derided as porn while also becoming one of the world’s best-selling novels in 2008 — had gained instant notoriety as soon as the Sundance catalogue came out. “Oh, is that the one with the picture of the girl with the finger up her butt?” is the usual response when I tell people I’ve seen it. The catalogue description (it’s in the World Dramatic Competition) begins: “Meet Helen Memel. She likes to experiment with...
- 1/23/2014
- by Jada Yuan
- Vulture
The 2014 Sundance Film Festival is right around the corner, and the Sundance Institute has released the full line-up for the competition films that will be premiering!
This year there were 12,218 total submissions, and 117 films were accepted from 37 countries around the world. It looks like there's a lot of good selection of films this year.
The Sundance Film Festival 2014 runs from January 16th to the 26th, and the GeekTyrant team will be there to cover as many movies as we possibly can.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
The 16 films in this section are world premieres and, unless otherwise noted, are from the U.S.
“Camp X-Ray” — Directed and written by Peter Sattler. A young female guard at Guantanamo Bay forms an unlikely friendship with one of the detainees. Cast: Kristen Stewart, Payman Maadi, Lane Garrison, J.J. Soria, John Carroll Lynch.
“Cold in July” — Directed by Jim Mickle, written by Nick Damici.
This year there were 12,218 total submissions, and 117 films were accepted from 37 countries around the world. It looks like there's a lot of good selection of films this year.
The Sundance Film Festival 2014 runs from January 16th to the 26th, and the GeekTyrant team will be there to cover as many movies as we possibly can.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
The 16 films in this section are world premieres and, unless otherwise noted, are from the U.S.
“Camp X-Ray” — Directed and written by Peter Sattler. A young female guard at Guantanamo Bay forms an unlikely friendship with one of the detainees. Cast: Kristen Stewart, Payman Maadi, Lane Garrison, J.J. Soria, John Carroll Lynch.
“Cold in July” — Directed by Jim Mickle, written by Nick Damici.
- 12/5/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Sundance Film Festival continues to be one of the most popular, and arguably one of the most important, events on the industry calendar, launching as it does some of the most prominent independent films at the start of each year.
This year will be no different, with Sundance announcing last night the initial line-up of films screening in competition, led by Song One, starring Anne Hathaway; Camp X-Ray, starring Kristen Stewart; Infinitely Polar Bear, with Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana; Joe Swanberg’s Happy Christmas, starring Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Mark Webber, Lena Dunham, and Swanberg himself; The Skeleton Twins, with Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Luke Wilson, and Ty Burrell; Life After Beth, with Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, and John C. Reilly; Listen Up Philip, with Jason Schwartzman and Elisabeth Moss; Whiplash, starring Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons; and many, many more.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Presenting the world premieres of 16 narrative feature films,...
This year will be no different, with Sundance announcing last night the initial line-up of films screening in competition, led by Song One, starring Anne Hathaway; Camp X-Ray, starring Kristen Stewart; Infinitely Polar Bear, with Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana; Joe Swanberg’s Happy Christmas, starring Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Mark Webber, Lena Dunham, and Swanberg himself; The Skeleton Twins, with Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Luke Wilson, and Ty Burrell; Life After Beth, with Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, and John C. Reilly; Listen Up Philip, with Jason Schwartzman and Elisabeth Moss; Whiplash, starring Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons; and many, many more.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Presenting the world premieres of 16 narrative feature films,...
- 12/5/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
God’S Pocket
Sundance Institute announced today the films selected for the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions and the out-of-competition section of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, January 16-26 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
Robert Redford, President & Founder of Sundance Institute said, “That the Festival has evolved and grown as it has over the past 30 years is a credit to both our audiences and our artists, who continue to find ways to take risks and open our minds to the power of story. This year’s films and artists promise to do the same.”
For the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, 118 feature-length films were selected, representing 37 countries and 54 first-time filmmakers, including 34 in competition. These films were selected from 12,218 submissions (72 more than for 2013), including 4,057 feature-length films and 8,161 short films. Of the feature film submissions, 2,014 were from the U.S. and 2,043 were international. 97 feature films at...
Sundance Institute announced today the films selected for the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions and the out-of-competition section of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, January 16-26 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
Robert Redford, President & Founder of Sundance Institute said, “That the Festival has evolved and grown as it has over the past 30 years is a credit to both our audiences and our artists, who continue to find ways to take risks and open our minds to the power of story. This year’s films and artists promise to do the same.”
For the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, 118 feature-length films were selected, representing 37 countries and 54 first-time filmmakers, including 34 in competition. These films were selected from 12,218 submissions (72 more than for 2013), including 4,057 feature-length films and 8,161 short films. Of the feature film submissions, 2,014 were from the U.S. and 2,043 were international. 97 feature films at...
- 12/5/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It’s among the two sections that we usually don’t put much focus on (yes, we love subtitles, but we’re more concerned, naturally more inclined to cover the deluge of American Indie film offerings) but among the dozen film selections in the World Cinema Dramatic Comp section we find the latest from Argentinean director Natalia Smirnoff (she gave us the Berlin Film Fest winner The Puzzle) who returns with Lock Charmer, we find the highly anticipated film from Hong Khaou (Lilting) and a title which we start speculating on last year in Stuart Murdoch’s God Help the Girl which stars Emily Browning, Olly Alexander and Hannah Murray (see pic above). Also worth the mention is the directing debut from writer Eskil Vogt – who co-wrote Reprise and Oslo, August 31st for Joachim Trier. Here are the dozen selected.
“52 Tuesdays” (Australia) — Directed by Sophie Hyde, written by Matthew Cormack.
“52 Tuesdays” (Australia) — Directed by Sophie Hyde, written by Matthew Cormack.
- 12/4/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competition lineups for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival were announced today and just below I have featured pictures from the 16 films that will be competing in the U.S. Dramatic competition and they feature a lot of names you're going to recognize. The titles begin with Camp X-Ray, which stars Kristen Stewart as a guard in Guantanamo Bay, where she forms an unlikely friendship with one of the detainees. Jim Mickle made an impact earlier this year with We Are What We Are and he returns with Michael C. Hall with Cold in July. Fishing Without Nets looks to tell a story similar to that of Captain Phillips, only this time from the Somali side of things; God's Pocket is "Mad Men" star John Slattery's writing and directorial debut and he's lined up an impressive cast including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Jenkins,...
- 12/4/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Those familiar with director David Wnendt and his previous feature Combat Girls aren't likely to think 'sex comedy' when they hear his name. Combat Girls, after all, was a dark and gritty character study, so moving from that to a glossy sex comedy would not be what most consider a typical move. But then, Wetlands (Feuchtgebiete) does not appear to be a typical sex comedy. Adapted from the hit novel by Charlotte Roche and freshly premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, this is by all accounts a brash and bold film - the synopsis for which strikes me as an extremely unlikely (and very compelling) fusion of Catherine Breillat and Judd Apatow. Here's how Wikipedia describes the novel:Set in an anonymous German city, Wetlands is...
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- 8/21/2013
- Screen Anarchy
The first words to appear onscreen in “Wetlands,” director David Wnendt’s cheerfully profane adaptation of Charlotte Roche’s German-language bestseller, immediately engage with its controversy. "This book shouldn’t be adapted to a film," reads a quote from a letter to the editor. Wnendt not only proceeds to run against that advice but makes a solid case against it. Anchored by a believable performance by Carla Juri, "Wetlands" has the agreeable rhythms of a sleekly made teen angst dramedy…except that this one involves a young woman with an anal fissure. Though fans of the first-person book may find plenty of ways to nitpick, when viewed on its own terms, Wnendt has made a sharply executed coming of age story that’s actually enlivened by its grotesqueries. At its core, ebullient fetishist Helen (Juri) leads a happily promiscuous existence while still coping with the divorce of her parents, but...
- 8/15/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Social media platforms ban explicit trailer for Wetlands.
Wetlands stirs controversy
As if Charlotte Roche’s eponymous novel hadn’t already attracted enough controversial reaction on its publication, David Wnendt’s adaptation of Wetlands (Feuchtgebiete) is now generating its own kind of headlines after its world premiere in Locarno’s Competition on Sunday evening.
Ahead of its German theatrical release by Majestic Filmverleih on August 22, Facebook, Google and You Tube have removed the film’s trailer from their platforms ¨due to sexually explicit and provocative content.¨
The 12-rated trailer for the 16-rated film has now been replaced by a censored version which, Majestic assures cinema-goers, is “100% G-rated.”
“Out of consideration for our American friends, but also for all those people who sicken at very sight of their own body, we want to help protect our youth,” the distributor declared with tongue firmly in cheek.
The trailer in its original uncensored glory with an array of bodily fluids...
Wetlands stirs controversy
As if Charlotte Roche’s eponymous novel hadn’t already attracted enough controversial reaction on its publication, David Wnendt’s adaptation of Wetlands (Feuchtgebiete) is now generating its own kind of headlines after its world premiere in Locarno’s Competition on Sunday evening.
Ahead of its German theatrical release by Majestic Filmverleih on August 22, Facebook, Google and You Tube have removed the film’s trailer from their platforms ¨due to sexually explicit and provocative content.¨
The 12-rated trailer for the 16-rated film has now been replaced by a censored version which, Majestic assures cinema-goers, is “100% G-rated.”
“Out of consideration for our American friends, but also for all those people who sicken at very sight of their own body, we want to help protect our youth,” the distributor declared with tongue firmly in cheek.
The trailer in its original uncensored glory with an array of bodily fluids...
- 8/12/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Social media platforms ban explicit trailer for Wetlands.
Wetlands stirs controversy
As if Charlotte Roche’s eponymous novel hadn’t already attracted enough controversial reaction on its publication, David Wnendt’s adaptation of Wetlands (Feuchtgebiete) is now generating its own kind of headlines after its world premiere in Locarno’s Competition on Sunday evening.
Ahead of its German theatrical release by Majestic Filmverleih on August 22, Facebook, Google and You Tube have removed the film’s trailer from their platforms ¨due to sexually explicit and provocative content.¨
The 12-rated trailer for the 16-rated film has now been replaced by a censored version which, Majestic assures cinema-goers, is “100% G-rated.”
“Out of consideration for our American friends, but also for all those people who sicken at very sight of their own body, we want to help protect our youth,” the distributor declared with tongue firmly in cheek.
The trailer in its original uncensored glory with an array of bodily fluids...
Wetlands stirs controversy
As if Charlotte Roche’s eponymous novel hadn’t already attracted enough controversial reaction on its publication, David Wnendt’s adaptation of Wetlands (Feuchtgebiete) is now generating its own kind of headlines after its world premiere in Locarno’s Competition on Sunday evening.
Ahead of its German theatrical release by Majestic Filmverleih on August 22, Facebook, Google and You Tube have removed the film’s trailer from their platforms ¨due to sexually explicit and provocative content.¨
The 12-rated trailer for the 16-rated film has now been replaced by a censored version which, Majestic assures cinema-goers, is “100% G-rated.”
“Out of consideration for our American friends, but also for all those people who sicken at very sight of their own body, we want to help protect our youth,” the distributor declared with tongue firmly in cheek.
The trailer in its original uncensored glory with an array of bodily fluids...
- 8/12/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The Match Factory has signed a raft of deals for Sam Garbarski’s Vijay And I and David Wnendt’s Wetlands ahead of their world premieres in Locarno.
Garbarski’s romantic comedy, starring Patricia Arquette, Moritz Bleibtreu and Danny Pudi, has been sold to the Cis and Baltic states (Project Manometr) and Taiwan (Encore Film), with negotiations currently underway for “a number of territories“, including Italy and Korea.
The world premiere of the Belgium-Luxembourg-Germany co-production is due to be held on Locarno’s Piazza Grande open-air venue on Thursday evening (Aug 8) after the presentation of a Pardo alla carriera to Italian actor-director Sergio Castellitto, who starred in Vijay And I co-producer Pandora Film’s Mostly Martha which premiered on the Piazza Grande in 2001.
In addition, sales have been finalised on Wnendt’s Wetlands to Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Austria (Filmladen) and for a pan-Scandinavian deal (Future Film), with further deals under negotiation.
The adaptation...
Garbarski’s romantic comedy, starring Patricia Arquette, Moritz Bleibtreu and Danny Pudi, has been sold to the Cis and Baltic states (Project Manometr) and Taiwan (Encore Film), with negotiations currently underway for “a number of territories“, including Italy and Korea.
The world premiere of the Belgium-Luxembourg-Germany co-production is due to be held on Locarno’s Piazza Grande open-air venue on Thursday evening (Aug 8) after the presentation of a Pardo alla carriera to Italian actor-director Sergio Castellitto, who starred in Vijay And I co-producer Pandora Film’s Mostly Martha which premiered on the Piazza Grande in 2001.
In addition, sales have been finalised on Wnendt’s Wetlands to Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Austria (Filmladen) and for a pan-Scandinavian deal (Future Film), with further deals under negotiation.
The adaptation...
- 8/7/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Peter Kubelka's Schwechater (1958)
Filmmaker Paul Clipson, profiled last month on the occasion of his winning a Goldie from the Bay Guardian, presents Commodified Cinema: Art, Advertising, and Commodities in Film today at noon at Sfmoma. Brecht Andersch: "Clipson is on to something here: from its inception, cinema has been seen by hoity toities as the commodified form par excellence, a cultural equivalent to advertising. As time rolls on, the bitter ironies of these notions become painfully evident: due to their relative fragility as art objects when run through a projector, celluloid artworks have never worked as collectible items of envy, and the on-going currency of critique in contemporary art has rendered much of it advertising for shallow, if politically correct ideology. In recent years, the ascendency of digital moving image technologies in all their many forms has been embraced by those with un- or semi-conscious resentment towards the photochemical...
Filmmaker Paul Clipson, profiled last month on the occasion of his winning a Goldie from the Bay Guardian, presents Commodified Cinema: Art, Advertising, and Commodities in Film today at noon at Sfmoma. Brecht Andersch: "Clipson is on to something here: from its inception, cinema has been seen by hoity toities as the commodified form par excellence, a cultural equivalent to advertising. As time rolls on, the bitter ironies of these notions become painfully evident: due to their relative fragility as art objects when run through a projector, celluloid artworks have never worked as collectible items of envy, and the on-going currency of critique in contemporary art has rendered much of it advertising for shallow, if politically correct ideology. In recent years, the ascendency of digital moving image technologies in all their many forms has been embraced by those with un- or semi-conscious resentment towards the photochemical...
- 12/8/2011
- MUBI
Cologne, Germany -- After the international art house success of Andreas Dresen's seniors sex dramedy "Cloud 9," producer Rommel Films is out to break more taboos with "Wetlands," an adaptation of the 2008 bestseller by one-time German MTV VJ Charlotte Roche.
Rommel has received $54,000 in development funding from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg to bring the book to the big screen.
The hero of "Wetlands" is an 18 year-old girl who rebels against her mother's prudery with an orgasmic embrace of all things sexual. The pages and pages of graphic sex along with explicit description of feminine excretions led many to label "Wetlands" pornographic. But that didn't hurt sales. "Wetlands" was the best-selling German novel of 2008, moving some 1.3 million copies.
Rommel has received $54,000 in development funding from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg to bring the book to the big screen.
The hero of "Wetlands" is an 18 year-old girl who rebels against her mother's prudery with an orgasmic embrace of all things sexual. The pages and pages of graphic sex along with explicit description of feminine excretions led many to label "Wetlands" pornographic. But that didn't hurt sales. "Wetlands" was the best-selling German novel of 2008, moving some 1.3 million copies.
- 11/24/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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