Paweł Łoziński started working on The Balcony Movie two years before the Covid pandemic forced people to adopt social distancing, but the air of separation between the filmmaker and his subjects in this documentary feature might feel familiar.
Łoziński’s movie is a kind of moving-picture album: a collection of passers-by he hailed from his balcony window in Warsaw. Many paused and — staring up at a camera, a boom microphone and the stranger behind both — were stunned or intrigued enough to start talking about their lives from their spot on the sidewalk.
Related: The Contenders Documentary – Deadline’s Full Coverage
The stories, disclosures and feelings that tumbled out over two years populate a documentary nominee for Cinema Eye and European Film awards. The Balcony Movie, which is streaming on Mubi, had modest beginnings, according to director, writer and co-producer Łoziński, before it found backing from a Warsaw city arts fund and HBO Europe.
Łoziński’s movie is a kind of moving-picture album: a collection of passers-by he hailed from his balcony window in Warsaw. Many paused and — staring up at a camera, a boom microphone and the stranger behind both — were stunned or intrigued enough to start talking about their lives from their spot on the sidewalk.
Related: The Contenders Documentary – Deadline’s Full Coverage
The stories, disclosures and feelings that tumbled out over two years populate a documentary nominee for Cinema Eye and European Film awards. The Balcony Movie, which is streaming on Mubi, had modest beginnings, according to director, writer and co-producer Łoziński, before it found backing from a Warsaw city arts fund and HBO Europe.
- 12/4/2022
- by Sean Piccoli
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s been five years since Nathan Fielder brought his comic stylings to television with the irreverent “Nathan for You.” But audiences won’t have to wait too much longer for writer, director, and actor’s television return. Last Wednesday, Fielder dropped a brief teaser of his new show, “The Rehearsal,” on Twitter. At only 29 seconds it showed audiences a control room where people are watching a woman and a baby from a remote location.
“The Rehearsal” stars Fielder as a man who questions how much of his life is written for himself. He’ll utilize a group of artists and other professionals to help him manufacture a life so he can “rehearse” key moments. An equally unsettling poster for the show was released soon after the teaser, showing Fielder at a dinner table surrounded by bizarre dolls acting as his family.
This isn’t Fielder’s only project in the works.
“The Rehearsal” stars Fielder as a man who questions how much of his life is written for himself. He’ll utilize a group of artists and other professionals to help him manufacture a life so he can “rehearse” key moments. An equally unsettling poster for the show was released soon after the teaser, showing Fielder at a dinner table surrounded by bizarre dolls acting as his family.
This isn’t Fielder’s only project in the works.
- 6/18/2022
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
7th edition will run from April 17-21 in Bratislava.
Visegrad Film Forum has announced a series of masterclasses to take place at its 7th edition, which will run from April 17-21 at the Film and TV Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava.
Editor Mick Audsley (Twelve Monkeys), cinematographer Slawomir Idziak (Black Hawk Down), special effects supervisor Eggert Ketilsson (Batman Begins) and director Marcel Lozinski (89mm From Europe) will all attend the event to discuss their respective fields.
Idziak will also host a workshop in which attendees will attempt to recreate Three Colours: Blue, the 1993 film he shot with director Krzysztof Kieslowski.
Visegrad Film Forum has announced a series of masterclasses to take place at its 7th edition, which will run from April 17-21 at the Film and TV Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava.
Editor Mick Audsley (Twelve Monkeys), cinematographer Slawomir Idziak (Black Hawk Down), special effects supervisor Eggert Ketilsson (Batman Begins) and director Marcel Lozinski (89mm From Europe) will all attend the event to discuss their respective fields.
Idziak will also host a workshop in which attendees will attempt to recreate Three Colours: Blue, the 1993 film he shot with director Krzysztof Kieslowski.
- 4/3/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
To begin with a disclosure: I was granted free admission to this year’s True/False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri, and the festival paid for my travel and lodging as well. I still hope that I’m able to provide insight into the films I saw there.Bitter LakeSince attending the True/False Film Festival last month, I’ve been chewing on some ideas that Adam Curtis, the gifted essay filmmaker behind The Century of the Self and All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, shared in a lecture-cum-multimedia presentation that he called “Unstoryfiable.” Over the course of an hour, Curtis identified what he considered the major philosophical problems of our time, the unifying theme being a general failure of imagination in western culture. We’ve become a civilization obsessed with data, he argued; in our determination to predict the immediate future based on patterns of past behavior,...
- 4/22/2015
- by Ben Sachs
- MUBI
Turkish director Erdem Tepegöz’s social drama The Particle (Zerre) has won the Golden George for Best Film at the 35th Moscow International Film Festival (Miff).
The film’s lead actress, Jale Arikan, also picked up the Best Actress Silver George for her performance as Zeynep, trying to make ends meet in the dusty and dim atmosphere of abandoned apartments evacuated for clearance.
The International Jury under the presidency of Iranian film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf awarded the Silver George for Best Director to South Korea’s Jung Young-Heon for Lebanon Emotion (Le-Ba-Non Kam-Jeong).
The Best Actor prize went to Russia’s Alexey Shevchenkov for his title role as Judas in Andrey Bogatyryov’s Judas (Iuda).
The Special Jury award went to The Ravine Of Goodbye (Sayonara Keikoku) by Japan’s Tatsushi Omori.
The Documentary Competition jury - which included Claas Danielsen, director of Dok Leipzig - gave its award to Poland’s Pawel Lozinski for Father And Son (Ojciec...
The film’s lead actress, Jale Arikan, also picked up the Best Actress Silver George for her performance as Zeynep, trying to make ends meet in the dusty and dim atmosphere of abandoned apartments evacuated for clearance.
The International Jury under the presidency of Iranian film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf awarded the Silver George for Best Director to South Korea’s Jung Young-Heon for Lebanon Emotion (Le-Ba-Non Kam-Jeong).
The Best Actor prize went to Russia’s Alexey Shevchenkov for his title role as Judas in Andrey Bogatyryov’s Judas (Iuda).
The Special Jury award went to The Ravine Of Goodbye (Sayonara Keikoku) by Japan’s Tatsushi Omori.
The Documentary Competition jury - which included Claas Danielsen, director of Dok Leipzig - gave its award to Poland’s Pawel Lozinski for Father And Son (Ojciec...
- 7/1/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The 22nd Annual European Film Awards wrapped up Saturday night in the German town of Bochum with Michael Haneke’s creepy film The White Ribbon, coming away as the night’s biggest winner.
The White Ribbon was also the winner of this year’s Palme d’Or, the biggest prize given at the Cannes Film Festival.
The haunting tale of a small German town on the eve of World War I also gave Haneke a best director win. Along with its win as best picture, The White Ribbon also won for best screenwriter and will be the German entry at this year’s Academy Awards.
According to Variety, Sony Pictures Classics will release The White Ribbon on Christmas Day in the United States.
Tahar Rahim from A Prophet, the French entry, won European Actor 2009. The film also won for best sound.
Kate Winslet won best actress for The Reader, a...
The White Ribbon was also the winner of this year’s Palme d’Or, the biggest prize given at the Cannes Film Festival.
The haunting tale of a small German town on the eve of World War I also gave Haneke a best director win. Along with its win as best picture, The White Ribbon also won for best screenwriter and will be the German entry at this year’s Academy Awards.
According to Variety, Sony Pictures Classics will release The White Ribbon on Christmas Day in the United States.
Tahar Rahim from A Prophet, the French entry, won European Actor 2009. The film also won for best sound.
Kate Winslet won best actress for The Reader, a...
- 12/13/2009
- by Reel Loop News Staff
- ReelLoop.com
Bochum, Germany -- "The White Ribbon," Michael Haneke's powerful depiction of a German village on the eve of World War I, conquered the 2009 European Film Awards, beating out Oscar champ "Slumdog Millionaire" to win the top trophies in the best film and director categories.
"I'm stunned. I'm overwhelmed," Haneke said as he hoisted his best film trophy, adding that the film was "truly an European production" as it featured funding and production teams from four countries -- Germany, Austria, France and Italy.
Haneke also won the European wcreenwriter nod for his disturbing script to "The White Ribbon," which traces the roots of fascism in the oppressive religious and civil society of Germany in 1913.
"Slumdog Millionaire" didn't go away empty-handed, picking up the Efa's people choice award as well as the European cinematographer prize for cameraman Anthony Dod Mantle, who was also honored for his lensing of Lars von Trier's shocker "Antichrist.
"I'm stunned. I'm overwhelmed," Haneke said as he hoisted his best film trophy, adding that the film was "truly an European production" as it featured funding and production teams from four countries -- Germany, Austria, France and Italy.
Haneke also won the European wcreenwriter nod for his disturbing script to "The White Ribbon," which traces the roots of fascism in the oppressive religious and civil society of Germany in 1913.
"Slumdog Millionaire" didn't go away empty-handed, picking up the Efa's people choice award as well as the European cinematographer prize for cameraman Anthony Dod Mantle, who was also honored for his lensing of Lars von Trier's shocker "Antichrist.
- 12/12/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.