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ADAM'S APPLES
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"A funny, politically incorrect, and somewhere deep down, thoughtful black comedy" (Variety) from Academy Award-winning Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen. Ivan (Mads Mikkelsen), a naive country priest, takes on a new helper, Adam (Ulrich Thomsen), who is doing community service for some violent neo-Nazi shenanigans. Adam is put in charge of the parish's cherished apple tree, which, in hindsight, might have been the wrong move. Nominated for an Audience Award for Best Film at the European Film Awards. In Danish with Anders Thomas Jensen---Denmark---2005---94 mins.
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AFTER THE WEDDING
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Acclaimed Danish director Susanne Bier crafted this Academy Award-nominated drama about a foreign aid worker, Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen, Casino Royale), stationed at an impoverished orphanage in Mumbai. He returns home to Denmark to meet with a wealthy potential sponsor, Jorgen (Rolf Lassgard), who invites him to his daughter's wedding. There, deep family secrets, shattering confessions, and entrenched class conflicts come to the surface. In Dogme fashion, the film was shot by hand in DV, heightening the already exhilarating plot with the kinetic camerawork. "Powerful...Emotionally complex and gripping" (Allan Hunter, Screen International). In Danish with English Susanne Bier---Denmark---2006---127 mins.
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ALFRED LIND
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These two silent films, written and directed by Alfred Lind, are the only surviving works from the Scandinavian-Russian Trading Company, an early film production house responsible for close to 100 works of documentary, educational, and narrative filmmaking. The Flying Circus (1912, 46 mins.) was the company's most famous film--a sensational circus epic about a tight-rope walker who temps fate to win the hand of a lovely snake charmer. The Bear Tamer (1912, 50 mins.), the film's sequel, stars Lind himself. With Lilli Beck, Peter Fjeldstrup, Richard Jensen, and Holger Madsen. Musical accompaniment by Neil Brand. Silent with Danish and English intertitles. Alfred Lind---Denmark---1912---96 mins.
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ALLEGRO
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After taking top prizes at Cannes and the Chicago International Film Festival with Reconstruction in 2003, Danish writer-director Christoffer Boe returned with what can best be described as a very severe, very dark reworking of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with a little metaphysical support from Tarkovsky. A dour pianist (Ulrich Thomsen, The Celebration) travels back to Copenhagen to retrieve memories of a past lover (supermodel Helena Christensen), which he somehow managed to lock away. These visions ar e trapped inside "The Zone," a bizarre transparent shell in the city center. "An existential masterpiece...one of the most memorable films ever made" (Film Threat). Grand Jury Prize Nominee at Sundance. With Henning Moritzen (Cries and Whispers). In Danish with English subtitles. Christoffer Boe---Denmark---2005---92 mins.
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APPLAUSE (2010)
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Paprika Steen (The Celebration) gives a magnetic performance in this DV-shot Danish drama about Thea, a renowned stage actress who is battling alcoholism and just about everyone around her, including family, underlings, and fans. After a drunken role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, she goes into real-life rehab, gets back on the wagon, and convinces her ex-husband (Michael Falch) to let her reconnect with the two sons she has neglected. However, due to a volatile mix of insecurity and narcissism, Thea's good behavior doesn't last long. Self-actualization is a painful process, and Thea takes her children along for the bumpy, emotional ride. "Steen never puts a foot wrong, even though she’s playing two alcoholics, wild Martha with the meat-cleaver mouth and the more alienated, calculating Thea" (The New York Times). In Danish with English subtitles.
Martin Zandvliet---Denmark---2009---85 mins.
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ASTA NIELSEN- AFGRUNDEN/ BALLE
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Four early short films featuring Danish silent movie star Asta Nielson, who went on to international acclaim with the German Hamlet from 1921. In Afrunden (The Abyss, Urban Gad, 1910, 37 mins.), she plays a goo d girl who leaves her fiance for a circus performer and turns bad. She appears alongside Valdemar Psilander in Balletdanserinden (The Ballet Dancer, August Blom, 1911, 45 mins.), playing a beautiful ballet dancer mixed up in an adulterous relationship. Then in Den Sorte Drom (Urb an Gad, 1911, 53 mins.), she plays a circus performer stuck between two men. Lastly, in Mod Lyset (Towards the Light, Holger Madsen, 1919, 55 mins.), Nielsen she's a countess ruining men's lives all around her. Silent Urban Gad/August Blom/Holger Madsen---Denmark---1910-1919---190 mins.
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AT KENDE SANDHEDEN/ FACING THE TRUTH
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Nils Malmros' autobiographical triumph. Shot in a New Wave-influenced, black-and-white style, and set in the immediate postwar period, Facing the Truth tells of a scandal involving the director's neurosurgeon father, Richard Malmros. After saving a patient with a risky brain procedure that involves a radioactive substance, the patient's widow returns decades later seeking restitution for her husband's death from cancer. More than this national controversy alone, the film reveals a very honest and complex father-son dynamic. Also trained in medicine, the filmmaker performed many of the detailed brain surgery scenes himself. In Danish with English subtitles. Nils Malmros---Denmark---2002---93 mins.
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ATLANTIS (1913)
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Adapted from a Danish novel written just after the Titanic disaster, Atlantis featured the sinking of an ocean liner as the centerpiece of its story. A film of great ambition, masterful action scenes, and beautiful photography, this silent treasure helped form the basis of film art. Silent with Danish and English intertitles. August Blom---Denmark---1913---116 mins.
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BABETTE'S FEAST
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"Subtle, funny and deeply felt...an instant masterpiece" (Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide). Stephane Audran is Babette, an exiled French cook-housekeeper for a pair of devoutly religious, elderly Danish sisters. When she wins a lottery she asks to prepare a Gallic feast for the women and their friends to show her appreciation. Based on the short story by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen). Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In Danish with English subtitles. Gabriel Axel---Denmark---1987---102 mins.
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BARBARA (NILS MALMROS)
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Previously brought to the screen by Frank Wisbar in 1961, Jorgen-Frantz Jacobsen's timeless novel is adapted here by Danish filmmaker Nils Malmros. Set in the mid-eighteenth century, a young pastor (Lars Simonsen) in search of a new flock arrives on the scenic shores of Torshavn in the Faroe Islands off the coast of Denmark. There, parishioners warn him of about Barbara (Anneke von der Lippe), a salacious widow two times over. But her charms are too great for the man of God to resist. Nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the 1998 Berlin Film Festival. In Danish and Faroese with optional English subtitles. Nils Malmros---Denmark---1997---138 mins.
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BENJAMIN CHRISTENSEN (1879-
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The first two films by Benjamin Christensen (Haxan), arguably the most innovative director of Danish silent cinema. Sealed Orders (1914, 85 mins.) is a Sherlockian mystery involving mistaken identities, hidden evidence, and secret passions. Christensen stars alongside Karen Sandberg, Fritz Lamprecht, and Amanda Lund. Blind Justice (1916, 100 mins.) is a romantic melodrama about an escaped criminal who goes on the run with his young child. With Christensen, Sandberg, Peter Fjeldstrup, and Jon Iverson. Silent with Danish and English intertitles. Benjamin Christensen---Denmark---1914-1915---185 mins.
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BROTHERHOOD (2009)
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In this Danish drama set amongst a neo-Nazi group, the members' macho violence and camaraderie often borders on the homoerotic. But what happens when two of the younger brutes are actually gay? "...a less talky, sexed-up European equivalent of American History X..." (Slant Magazine). Starring Thure Lindhardt and David Dencik.
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BROTHERS ( BIER )
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In this affecting Danish drama by Suzanne Bier (Open Hearts), two brothers with starkly different personalities are torn apart by the physical and emotional trials of war. Ulrich Thomsen stars as Michael, an accomplished elder son who's sent to fight in post-9/11 Afghanistan. In his absence, his misfit, alcoholic brother (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) turns his life around and takes responsibility for his brother's family. But when Michael returns from war--traumatized by his experience in a military prison--he suspects his wife (Connie Nielsen) and brother of betrayal, and grows consumed by his insecurities. In Danish with English subtitles. Susanne Bier---Denmark---2004---117 mins.
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CELEBRATION
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Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, this riveting feature, filmed in a deliberately raw fashion, veers between being the bleakest of tragedies and the most astonishing of black comedies. A well-to-do family gathers for a weekend reunion, where rivalries and insecurities pale next to the dark secret shared by the father and his favorite son. Made as part of the Dogme 95 collective (which includes Lars Von Trier), a group devoted to making movies with as little technical polish as possible--no artificial lighting, sets or props, with an emphasis on hand-held camerawork and gritty realism. This film was shot on digital video before being transferred to film. "Imagine Eugene O'Neill and Woody Allen collaborating on a screenplay about a family reunion. Now let Luis Bunuel direct it" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). In German and Danish with Thomas Vinterberg---Denmark---1998---106 mins.
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DEAR WENDY
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Like his countryman Lars von Trier (who penned the film's screenplay), Dogme 95 veteran Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration) is both fascinated and repelled by America's relationship with guns. His allegorical screed, set in a fictional mining town, follows a band of timid pacifists who are enthralled by weapons. When a police chief (Bill Pullman) asks the group to mentor a juvenile delinquent, they find that their nonviolent convictions begin to break at the seams. Jamie Bell, Michael Angarano, and Danso Gordon star. "All the more resounding for its acutely observed foreigners' perspective" (Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times). In English. Thomas Vinterberg---Denmark/Germany/France/Great Britain---2005---100 mins.
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DET FORSTE FILMARKIV
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To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Danish Film Institute, the first 70 films donated to the state were published in this collection. Released in 2002, The First Film Archive includes 20 films donated by Royal Court Photographer Pter Elfelt, 31 films from the founder of Nordisk Films, Ole Olsen, and 19 given by journalist Anker Kirkeby on behalf of the Politiken newspaper. Denmark, 1899-1913, 225 mins.
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ENEMIES OF HAPPINESS
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Eva Mulvad directs this Scandinavian documentary about Malalai Joya, a 28-year-old female politician who embraced the dangerous task of running for a parliament position in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Shot in verite style, Enemies of Happiness "quietly celebrates its heroine's fierce determination to reform her country's attitude toward women" (Variety). Winner of a Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema Documentary at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. In Dari and English with optional English, Danish, and Spanish Eva Mulvad---Denmark---2006---58 mins.
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FAMILY (AMBO/SAIF)
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Family, the first feature from Danish documentarian Phie Ambo and the second from her co-director and partner Sami Saif, is a chronicle of the filmmakers' trip to track down Saif's estranged father after the suicide of his brother and the death of his mother. Winner of a Documentary Award at the 2002 AFI Fest for "emotional courage and cinematic artistry." In Danish with optional English subtitles. Phie Ambo/Sami Saif---Denmark---2001---90 mins.
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FEAR ME NOT
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The Celebration's Ulrich Thomsen stars in this Danish psychodrama about the patriarch of a middle-class family who is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, despite having a good job, beautiful wife (Paprika Steen), and happy kids. They decide to move from busy Copenhagen to the suburbs, where his mood swings intensify.
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FLAME AND CITRON
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Thure Lindhardt (Angels & Demons) and Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale) are Flammen and Citronen, two iconic resistance fighters who are charged with taking down the head of the Gestapo in this complex, fact-based gangster picture.
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