#Danish comedy film

[doesmadssurvive]

Blinkende Lygter (2000)

Character: Arne Film: Blinkende Lygter (eng. Flickering Lights) Year: 2000 Language: Danish Lenght: 109 minutes

Is he alive at the end? YES

[silentlondon]

The Silent London Poll of 2022: And the winners are …

Well done everyone! The Silent London Poll of 2022 had a record-breaking number of votes, and the winners reflect a thriving, international silent film scene. Congratulations to all the people mentioned below, some of these categories were bursting with great nominations. Thank you for all your votes. And for making me blub a little when I was typing this up. Without further ado, let me open…

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Extreme Jødekager

A Danish remake of the Korean Extreme Job and/or the Chinese film Lobster Cop, in which a team of narcotics detectives take over a bakery as their surveillance post in order to make a case against an international drug ring. So as not to blow their cover, they begin baking what turns out to be very popular cookies. Except because it's a Danish film about the police, it's a dark, brooding film, and all the comedic elements are darkened substantially.

[seen-in-the-archives]

Carmen Jr. (1923)  

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Archive: Stumfilm by The Danish Film Institute

Director: Alfred J. Goulding

Performers: Baby Peggy, Tommy Wonder

Languages: Danish intertitles

Music: None

Runtime: 11 min.

[theaskew]

[atravesdetupantalla]

Películas sobre la realeza (parte 1).

Spencer. 📺 Prime Video.

Harry & Meghan. A royal romance.

Mary, Queen of Scotts. 📺 Netflix.

Mary: The Making of a Princess. 📺 Prime Video.

Grace of Monaco. 📺 Prime Video.

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Miss Viborg - Review

Don’t let the lush colour pops of mauve, sunshine yellow and teal fool you. Marianne Bilcher’s feature-length debut, Miss Viborg, is no light-weight comedy. It’s a film about how circumstances and fluke occurrences can change the entire course of your life. It’s about accepting or not accepting that change of direction. It’s about fear. And, in a clumsily charming way, it’s about companionship. A…

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Related related it was suggested to me by a Riget fan that i watch Klovn (Klown) if i wanted to watch more Danish comedy tv and so i ended up getting a dvd set of the first 6 seasons on Ebay so thatll be what ill be watching for a while 

[anothermillennialreviewer]

Wild Men: Haven't We All Had This Thought Before

Wild Men: Haven’t We All Had This Thought Before

Written by Luke Barnes Summary After being caught in a car crash Martin, played by Rasmus Bjerg, begins living out in the wilderness with the police on his trail. I had been looking forward to this film for a while, but have to say after watching it I feel more than a little bit disappointed with it. Mainly my issue is the same one I have with many dark comedy films and that is that one part…

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Junior Senior - Move Your Feet 2002

"Move Your Feet" is a song by Danish pop duo Junior Senior from their debut studio album, D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat (2002). The song, originally released in June 2002 in the duo's native Denmark, was issued worldwide in 2003 and became Junior Senior's biggest hit, reaching #4 in Denmark, #3 in the UK, #10 in Ireland, and #20 in Australia. In 2013, the song re-entered the French Singles Chart at #11. The song was accompanied by an animated music video by British art collective Shynola, using low-resolution (90×72) pixel art produced using Deluxe Paint. The video features animated characters of the members of Junior Senior, dancing figures, and personified inanimate objects.

The second single, "Rhythm Bandits", was featured on the soundtrack for FIFA 2004, while the third single, "Shake Your Coconuts", can be found on the Looney Tunes: Back in Action soundtrack alongside "Move Your Feet", and as background menu music in the video game Worms 3D. The song "Good Girl, Bad Boy" can be heard in the film She's the Man when Viola arrives at the private school masquerading as her brother. "Move Your Feet" was also featured in the 2004 comedy film White Chicks and the 2008 comedy film Forgetting Sarah Marshall. "Move Your Feet" received a total of 82,6% yes votes!

[silveragelovechild]

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (no spoilers)

I saw an early screening of The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. It’s the new film directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Henry Cavill. It was far better than Cavill’s previous movie this year - Argyll. (I won’t go into details but Cavill wasn’t responsible for Argyll’s failure. That distinction goes to the muddled direction by Matthew Vaughn; a script filled with plot holes; and Bryce Dallas Howard playing the frumpy and unbelievable as a master spy.

But back to TMUW, it’s a heavily fictionalized version of an actual mission to thwart German submarines off the western coast of Africa during WW2. It’s an action movie with some comedy but never over the top. And it revels in killing Nazis. On a scale of Hated-it/Liked-it/Loved-it, I liked-it-plus. It kept my interest and I never felt bored.

A minor character in the film is future spy novelist Ian Fleming (Freddie Fox). It’s suggested that the mission was the inspiration for James Bond (a role that Cavill narrowly lost out to Daniel Craig).

But TMUW is more like Mission Impossible (the TV show, not the Tom Cruise movies). Cavill, with his wild curly hair and lumberjack style beard, leads a team with special skills.

Alan Ritchson (from “Reacher”) plays a Danish soldier who is a master archer. The real Dane who wasn’t nearly as muscular in real life. I enjoyed Ritchson’s performance, and I’d love to see him and Cavill work together again.

The film also stars:

Babs Olusanmokun (doctor on Star Trek Strange New Worlds).

Mexican actress Eiza González, a femfatal that might recognizer from Netflix’s 3 Body Problem.

Til Schweiger, the German-Brad-Pitt, plays the Nazi commandant.

Rory Kinnear is unrecognizable as Winston Churchill.

The movie is rated a hard R due to all the Nazis killed with guns, machine guns, arrows, knives, daggers, and bombs. After a while it’s like shooting fish in a barrel or shooting ducks at a carnival arcade.

If Guy Ritchie makes a sequel, I’d watch it.

[fuckyeahelijahwoodfan]

A great interview and lots of photos for ensemble magazine

Adored honorary Kiwi Elijah Woods is excited. His second film with Kiwi director (and husband of Ensemble’s co-founder Rebecca Wadey) Ant Timpson is about to be released and he’s fantasising about the meals he ate in Aotearoa while shooting here last year. 

Unlike the first film they made together (Come to Daddy, an R18 dark, comedy horror filmed on Vancouver Island in 2018), Bookworm brought Elijah back to the filming location he’ll be long associated with.

Part Bigfoot genre movie and part a touching examination of parenthood, it’s a film that combines subject matter close to both Ant’s and Elijah’s heart, this time wrapped up in a wholesome PG rating.

A man of impeccable taste, Elijah has in the past worked with friend, photographer and filmmaker Autumn de Wilde on a Prada campaign, DJs with his friend Zach Cowie under the moniker Wooden Wisdom, and is friends with Kate and Laura Mulleavy of LA fashion brand Rodarte. He’s regarded by many – except perhaps Jared Leto – as one of the nicest people in show business.

Another example of his incredible taste? Early next year Elijah will marry long-term partner Mette-Marie Kongsved, one of the most beautiful (in every sense of the word) human beings we’ve ever met – and the person who named Ensemble.

Elijah and Mette-Marie were friends for several years, before falling in love while making the Sundance award-winning film I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore, which Mette-Marie produced, starring Elijah and Melanie Lynskey. When asked the best thing about the Danish producer, who also worked on Come to Daddy and Bookworm, Elijah brightens. “There's too many to name. She speaks seven languages. She is a bright shining light that makes a huge impression on everyone that she meets. She's very funny. She loves adventure. She loves food as much as I do. We share a lot of the same interests. She loves the Danish hotdog.”

What’s the best meal you've ever eaten?

It's a hard question to answer, but I would probably say it was at Fäviken in Sweden. Mette-Marie and I went there for New Year’s when we’d just started dating. We built our entire trip around eating there; we’d seen a profile on it and the chef, Magnus Nilsson, on Chef's Table. It’s remained one of my favourite meals, both in terms of an experience and the food. It was just totally all encompassing. 

There were a few guest rooms so we opted to stay there and it  was just magical. It was snowing, we drove up, there were these fire pits outside and a gentleman in a beautiful suit came to our car and he's like, ‘Elijah, Mette-Marie welcome.’ We were in the experience from that moment and the meal hadn't even started. 

The meal itself was incredible. And the environment, it was like two tiered. You started the meal downstairs in this one area by a fireplace, and then moved up to this main dining room, in this old rustic, almost barn-like building. It was just magical. 

The meal ended with cigars and cognac in a teepee outside. It was unbelievable. Oh my god. Then there was breakfast the next morning. It was totally magical and insane. That’s hard to top. The restaurant doesn't exist anymore. Magnus stepped down. He has an apple orchard now.

[desperatelyseekingcannibals]

A Mads poll with a difference!

A poll of Mads Mikkelsen movies where the selection is based on range of factors, including but not limited to: genre, writer/director, country of release, date of release and 🎉vibes 🎉

Some of the movies may fit in more than one category, so vibes have mostly informed those decisions.

Round One:

Choose your fave!

First, starting off with Mads in a supporting role.

I Am Dina is a 2002 Norweigian-Swedish-Danish film. Set in the 1860s, it's about a girl - Dina - who accidentally causes her mother's death. Mads plays Niels, the stepson of Dina's husband and a total dick.

Torremolinos 73 is a 2003 Spanish-Danish comedy. Set in 1973, Alfredo and his wife Carmen's change in financial circumstances results in them publishing and distributing pornographic movies. Mads plays Magnus, a virile young porn star.

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself is a 2002 Danish-Scottish dramedy-romance. Harbour, and his suicidal brother Wilbur, inherit a bookshop, and romance changes Wilbur's life. Mads plays Dr Horst, Wilbur's psychologist who suspects Harbour has a serious illness.

At Eternity's Gate is a 2018 French-UK-US biopic of the painter Vincent van Gogh, chronicling his final years. Mads plays a priest at the mental asylum where van Gogh is placed after cutting off his ear.

Cast your votes on this serious matter!

[volleypearlfan]

Follow up to cringe culture essay: animated film edition

My post about cringe culture, fandoms, and kids media, which you can read here, briefly mentioned how outsiders mock animation fans for using animated kids shows to say that animation is for everyone. I want to follow up on that point.

I had the displeasure of seeing an awful post on my Twitter timeline that went “the ‘animation IS cinema’ people always pick the dweebiest movies to make their argument. Just post Beavis and Butt-Head Do America guys, nobody would disagree” Wow okay mr edgelord. You sound like a stereotypical Disney Channel bully.

The ‘animation is cinema’ image comes from The Mitchells vs the Machines, which is a family-friendly movie that many hold up as a good example of an animated movie, and how animation is for everyone. This gets mocked by outsiders (usually snooty Letterboxd types) who think that this movie uses the “Grubhub art style” or some BS like that. As you can see, people who act like that think animation is only for children, and plug their ears and go LALALA when you bring up good animated kids’ films with mass appeal. Whether you like it or not, animation always has and always will be cinema.

This brings us to another problem: a lack of mainstream adult animated films. Thanks to the stigma that animation is only for children, we never get mass-marketed animated movies for adults these days, and any movies that ARE for adults are only shown at art house theaters. Sausage Party was a mass-marketed adult movie, but it alienated its audience with its crass humor and kiddie appearance (Silly Rabbit, CGI animation is for kids! /s)

I feel like if adult animated films were marketed more, they would reach a wider audience. As much as I love Mitchells and most of Pixar’s output, animation fans should definitely check out movies specifically aimed at adults. Expand your palate a bit. It’s okay to watch kids stuff, and it’s okay if you only like kids stuff, but adult animation needs to be appreciated more, since it suffers a stigma that it’s all low-brow, poorly animated, offensive comedy.

ADULT ANIMATED FILMS TO CHECK OUT:

Beavis and Butthead Do America (as well as Beavis and Butthead Do the Universe) - These are more teen movies then adult movies, and they are low brow, but they do it (badumtsh) in the best possible way

Heavy Metal (1981)

Watership Down*

Fantastic Planet

Akira

Ghost in the Shell

Perfect Blue

Paprika

The End of Evangelion

Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer

Princess Mononoke*

Princess (2006 danish movie)

The Plague Dogs

Entergalactic

The works of Ralph Bakshi

I Lost My Body

The Spine of Night

Pink Floyd - The Wall

The Prince of Egypt*

*these are technically aimed at kids, but I mean it when I say that they deserve higher ratings and feel more adult than family-friendly

Feel free to add more suggestions

EDIT: Bringing this back because Twitter is hating on animation once again, and acting like snobs by saying that Puss in Boots is bad. ANIMATION AIMED AT CHILDREN IS STILL CINEMA. CHILDRENS ≠ BAD. I hate Letterboxd bros

[seen-in-the-archives]

The ABC of Love / Das Liebes ABC (1916)  

[letterboxd | imdb | Danish Film DB]

Archive: Stumfilm by The Danish Film Institute

Director: Magnus Stifter

Director of Photography: Carl Ferdinand Fischer

Performers: Asta Nielsen, Magnus Stifter, Ludwig Trautmann

Languages: Danish intertitles, English subtitles

Music: Kamila Olas

Runtime: 43 min.

[sarthak2405]

Unveiling Nightmares: The top 10 most Anticipated Horror Movies of 2024

Greetings from a spine-tingling voyage into the future of terror, horror enthusiasts! The horror genre threatens to unleash a tsunami of fear unlike anything seen before as we approach 2024. The list for this year is sure to have you on the edge of your seat, with titles ranging from otherworldly horror to psychological thrillers. Let's explore the most anticipated horror films that will make you shudder in 2024 as we go deeper into the shadows.

1- Lisa Frankenstein(Release date 9th February 2024)

Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse star in this horror comedy about a misunderstood adolescent goth girl who uses a broken tanning machine in her garage to reanimate a handsome Victorian corpse during a lightning storm and begins to rebuild him into the man of her dreams. The amorous couple undergoes a hilariously horrifying transformation before setting out on a homicidal quest to discover real love, happiness, and a few missing body parts.

source - Universal Pictures

2-Imaginary (Release date: 8th March 2024)

The forthcoming supernatural horror film Imaginary is an American production that was written, produced, and directed by Jeff Wadlow, together with Greg Erb and Jason Oremland. DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Taegen Burns, Pyper Braun, Veronica Falcón, and Betty Buckley are among the movie's stars. It was produced by Jason Blum under the names Blumhouse Productions and Tower of Babble, and Lionsgate is set to release it on March 8, 2024.

source Youtube.com

3-A Quiet Place: Day One (Release date: June 28th 2024)

The planned American post-apocalyptic horror movie A Quiet Place: Day One is written and directed by Michael Sarnoski and is based on an original story by Sarnoski and John Krasinski. It is meant to be the third full film in the A Quiet Place film series as well as a spin-off prequel. On June 28, 2024, the movie is slated for theatrical release.

source Warner Bros

4- Speak No Evil (Release Date: August 9th 2024)

James Watkins is the writer and director of the upcoming psychological horror-thriller Speak No Evil in the United States. It is a reimagining of the Danish movie of the same name from 2022. James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, and Scoot McNairy are the film's main stars. Producer Jason Blum operates under the Blumhouse Productions name.

Source - Blumhouse Productions

5- The Watchers (Release Date: June 7th,2024)

Artist Mina, 28, becomes lost in a vast, uninhabited forest in western Ireland. After taking cover, she unintentionally finds herself stuck with three strangers who are being followed and observed by enigmatic beings every night.

Warner Bros

6- Saw XI (this film is expected to be released in September 2024)

John Kramer goes to Mexico for a dangerous and experimental medical treatment in the hopes of receiving a miracle cure. However, he finds out that the entire procedure is a hoax designed to deceive the most vulnerable. Equipped with a renewed determination, the notorious serial murderer employs bizarre and clever traps to subvert the scam artists.

Source - Lionsgate

7- Beetlejuice (Release date September 6th 2024)

Beetlejuice 2 is an upcoming American fantasy horror comedy film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by the writing team of Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on a story by Seth Grahame-Smith.

Source-Warner Bros

8 Alien:Romulus (Release Date: August 16th 2024)

An upcoming science fiction horror movie in the United States titled Alien: Romulus is a stand-alone entry in the Alien franchise that takes place in between the events of Alien and Aliens. Fede Álvarez, who co-wrote it with Rodo Sayagues, is the director.

Source - 20th century productions

9-Nosferatu(Release Date: December 25th 2024)

Nosferatu will arguably be one of the biggest releases of 2024, horror or not. Written and directed by Robert Eggers, the film stars Lily-Rose Depp, Bill Skarsgård, Willem Dafoe, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Nicholas Hoult, and serves as a remake of the 1922 film of the same name. Fans of Eggers' previous films—including The Northman, The Lighthouse, and The VVitch—should be in for another treat

Source Universal studios

10 The Crow (This film is expected to be released in 2024)

Bill Skarsgård will also star in a reboot of The Crow, alongside musician FKA Twigs. The film follows a murdered musician who is resurrected to avenge his death and his fiancée's.

Source- Lionsgate