To celebrate the home entertainment release of Videoman, available on DVD and Digital 18th February 2019, we have a copy of the DVD up for grabs, courtesy of Signature Entertainment. The feature film debut from award-winning Swedish director Kristian A. Söderström, and one of Time Out’s top picks to see at FrightFest 2018, Videoman celebrates the golden days of VHS, the Italian giallo and the films of Mike Leigh.
Ennio (Stefan Sauk), a giallo-obsessed VHS collector with a drinking problem finds a highly collectable video tape that could solve his money problems and save him from eviction. He makes a deal with a shady, anonymous collector before realising the video has been stolen. So begins Ennio’s desperate hunt for the black-gloved perpetrator while, along the way, he meets Simone (Lena Nilsson), an alcoholic woman obsessed with the 80s. As Ennio searches for the tape and begins to lose a grip on reality,...
Ennio (Stefan Sauk), a giallo-obsessed VHS collector with a drinking problem finds a highly collectable video tape that could solve his money problems and save him from eviction. He makes a deal with a shady, anonymous collector before realising the video has been stolen. So begins Ennio’s desperate hunt for the black-gloved perpetrator while, along the way, he meets Simone (Lena Nilsson), an alcoholic woman obsessed with the 80s. As Ennio searches for the tape and begins to lose a grip on reality,...
- 2/13/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
After successfully collaborating on 2015’s fact-inspired “The Fencer,” Finnish director Klaus Haro and scenarist Anna Heinamaa reteam for another low-key wade into feel-good dramatic terrain with “One Last Deal.” This wholly fictive tale centers on an elderly Helinski gallery owner, whose attempt to pull off a final sales coup before retiring, ends up enlisting help from — and mending relations with — his semi-estranged daughter and grandson. Restraint early pays off in emotional rewards later for what’s essentially a formulaic curmudgeon-redeemed-despite-himself tearjerker. Among the more popular titles this year among Palm Springs’ older-skewing festival-goers, it could capitalize on that appeal in offshore sales while also offering remake potential to overseas admirers.
Olavi is a widower who devotes all his time to his business, and probably always has. But that business is not doing particularly well: Online sales have seriously cut into storefront enterprises such as his own, and he’s so...
Olavi is a widower who devotes all his time to his business, and probably always has. But that business is not doing particularly well: Online sales have seriously cut into storefront enterprises such as his own, and he’s so...
- 2/12/2019
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Stefan Sauk in Videoman
One of the most unusual choices at this year’s Frightfest is a Swedish film called Videoman, which stars Stefan Sauk as an obsessive VHS collector trying to recover a rare tape that could change his fortunes, and simultaneously embarking on a new relationship. It’s a downbeat, thoughtful film shot in a realist style and it really stands out amid the rest of the selection. On the second day of the festival I spoke to director Kristian A Söderström, and started by asking him how he was finding Frightfest.
“I had a great night yesterday,” he told me. “ I saw the opening film, The Ranger, and was at the opening party.”
Videoman is a very different kind of film from most of those showing at Frightfest. How did it find its way into the selection?
Videoman director Kristian A Söderström
“I think it was mainly because of Alan Jones.
One of the most unusual choices at this year’s Frightfest is a Swedish film called Videoman, which stars Stefan Sauk as an obsessive VHS collector trying to recover a rare tape that could change his fortunes, and simultaneously embarking on a new relationship. It’s a downbeat, thoughtful film shot in a realist style and it really stands out amid the rest of the selection. On the second day of the festival I spoke to director Kristian A Söderström, and started by asking him how he was finding Frightfest.
“I had a great night yesterday,” he told me. “ I saw the opening film, The Ranger, and was at the opening party.”
Videoman is a very different kind of film from most of those showing at Frightfest. How did it find its way into the selection?
Videoman director Kristian A Söderström
“I think it was mainly because of Alan Jones.
- 8/27/2018
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
So Kristian A. Söderström, who are you, where do you come from and what’s your creative arts background?
I grew up in Gothenburg Sweden and was a film fanatic from the start. I got me an education in film directing from UCLA in Los Angeles, but I’ve studied film theory and psychology as well. For many years now, I’ve been making short films and commercials while trying to finance feature films. I write and direct.
What’s the Swedish horror movie scene like? Is it a vibrant culture? Or has it been very limiting and hard for you to break through?
I would say that the Swedish horror and genre scene is almost non existent. I’ve had a lot of problems financing films. Some years ago I was asked by a commissioner at the Swedish film institute if a script I submitted was supposed to be...
I grew up in Gothenburg Sweden and was a film fanatic from the start. I got me an education in film directing from UCLA in Los Angeles, but I’ve studied film theory and psychology as well. For many years now, I’ve been making short films and commercials while trying to finance feature films. I write and direct.
What’s the Swedish horror movie scene like? Is it a vibrant culture? Or has it been very limiting and hard for you to break through?
I would say that the Swedish horror and genre scene is almost non existent. I’ve had a lot of problems financing films. Some years ago I was asked by a commissioner at the Swedish film institute if a script I submitted was supposed to be...
- 8/22/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Seems like every other week we have news on Danny Glover who has to be one of the hardest working actors around. This time he’s in Dear Alice, a dramatic Swedish film by Othman Karim. The film has been described as an “intersection of emotions” as the main characters must deal with anger, kindness, violence, despair, prejudice and injustice.
This is the second feature film for the Uganda born Swedish filmmaker. His first, About Sara, won the Golden St. George Prize for Best Film at the 2006 Moscow International Film Festival.
Although Othman was educated in the United States, he’s primarily produced and directed television programs in Sweden. In fact, he sometimes produces for his younger brother Baker Karim, also a Swedish television director and producer. The brothers also have a younger sibling, Alexander Karim, who acts and writes.
Synopsis for Dear Alice:
Very different lives become inter-weaved during...
This is the second feature film for the Uganda born Swedish filmmaker. His first, About Sara, won the Golden St. George Prize for Best Film at the 2006 Moscow International Film Festival.
Although Othman was educated in the United States, he’s primarily produced and directed television programs in Sweden. In fact, he sometimes produces for his younger brother Baker Karim, also a Swedish television director and producer. The brothers also have a younger sibling, Alexander Karim, who acts and writes.
Synopsis for Dear Alice:
Very different lives become inter-weaved during...
- 12/20/2010
- by Cynthia
- ShadowAndAct
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, as is often the case with imported foreign works, is best understood through the lens of its original title: Män som hatar kvinnor, or "Men who hate women." Based on the first novel in Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy, the Swedish film is an engrossing look at the allure of obsession, but it's also a brutal, uncompromising experience meant to vividly explore the depths to which some men go to own and ultimately destroy women. There are scenes of sexual violence as uncomfortable as anything you will see in mainstream cinema, and I would be lying to say that I did anything other than suffer through them. But there's a point to such suffering, even at a fictional remove, and director Niels Arden Oplev knows it. Those dark moments aren't designed to engender pity for the women in question, or to shock the viewer,...
- 4/6/2010
- by Daniel Carlson
Director: Niels Arden Oplev Writer(s): Nikolaj Arcel (screenplay), Rasmus Heisterberg (screenplay), Stieg Larsson (novel) Starring: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Sven-Bertil Taube, Lena Endre, Peter Haber Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqysit), an aging political journalist for the magazine Millennium, has just lost a libel case brought by a Swedish industrialist named Hans-Erik Wennerström (Stefan Sauk). Mikael, with six months of freedom to enjoy prior to his prison term, is forced to take a leave of absence from the publishing world but is promptly courted by Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube) in order to solve a 40-year old cold case - the disappearance of Vanger's 16-year old niece, Harriet (Ewa Fröling/Julia Sporre). Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is a computer hacker with a penchant for black leather, piercings and tattoos (including the titular one). Thanks to a checkered (violent) past, Lisbeth has a court-ordered guardian controlling her money. Her newest guardian forces...
- 3/14/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Director: Niels Arden Oplev Writer(s): Nikolaj Arcel (screenplay), Rasmus Heisterberg (screenplay), Stieg Larsson (novel) Starring: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Sven-Bertil Taube, Lena Endre, Peter Haber The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo follows Millennium Magazine journalist Michael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), who is convicted of libel in a case following the corrupt trail of Hans-Erik Wennerström (Stefan Sauk). Blomkvist, who is now sentenced to jail time, decides to leave the magazine, only to be given a new assignment by Swedish businessman, Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube). Vanger is searching for clues in the disappearance of his niece, whose body was never found. Blomkvist is intrigued and takes the assignment. Meanwhile, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) has been researching Blomkvist for Henrik Vanger. Lisbeth is an outcast who also happens to be a genius. Her life is turbulent: she is minor whose life has been given over to a guardian that does not...
- 3/14/2010
- by Dirk Sonniksen
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
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