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DE STEDELING (1984)

Jon W. — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:38:34 +0000

A young man from the city decides to travel into the Dutch countryside. There, he notices strange mound-like shapes in the fields covered by white plastic tarps. The local farmers casually explain that the mounds contain silage or hay, but the man becomes suspicious. When he secretly peeks underneath, he discovers something bizarre instead: stacks of consumer goods like sugar, canned soup, and sliced bread.

Director: Alex van Warmerdam.
Writer: Alex van Warmerdam.
Stars: Alex van Warmerdam.

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ABEL (1986)

Jon W. — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:42:47 +0000

Abel has never left home (literally). After failing with doctors and psychiatrists, Abel’s father Victor brings home Christine, a friend, in an attempt to teach Abel basic social skills. But Victor’s wife Duif accuses him of having an affair, and in the ensuing row Abel is thrown out into the street. But help is at hand when he runs into kind-hearted stripper Zus – whose show Victor is obsessed with…

Abel was the big surprise of the 1986 cinema year. Out of nowhere, the film by debut director Alex van Warmerdam drew more than 400,000 visitors to Dutch cinemas. And this despite the fact that Van Warmerdam, a theatre director at Orkater and De Mexicaanse Hond, had no film experience whatsoever. Truly everything about Abel was idiosyncratic, authentic, and unpredictable. The press praised the dialogue, the design, and the “vintage” Van Warmerdam atmosphere.

Director: Alex van Warmerdam. AKA Voyeur
Writers: Alex van Warmerdam, Otakar Votocek, Frans Weisz.
Stars: Alex van Warmerdam, Henri Garcin, Olga Zuiderhoek, Annet Malherbe, Loes Luca, Arend Jan Heerma van Voss, Anton Kothuis, Peer Mascini, Elmar Schiphorst, Marc van Warmerdam, Jan-Willem Hees, Jeroen Henneman, Mieke Verdin, Josse De Pauw, Otakar Votocek, Aat Ceelen, Dorien de Jonge, Rien Bogaart, Paul Hoehner, Vedette van de Harginahof.
Cinematographer: Marc Felperlaan.
Composer: Vincent van Warmerdam.

1986 Chicago International Film Festival – Nominated for the Gold Hugo.

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CHARLOTTE (1980)

Jon W. — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:02:15 +0000

In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents’ villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother’s depression, and her mother’s suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. “Is my life real, or is it theater?” This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.

Weisz regarded Charlotte as one of his most personal films. “I could divide my life into the period before Charlotte and after Charlotte,” he once said. To make the film, he temporarily moved to Berlin — the city where his father, Géza Weisz, spent the first thirty years of his life before fleeing to the Netherlands to escape the Nazis. “That brought me very close to my own history.”

Director: Frans Weisz.
Writers: Judith Herzberg, Frans Weisz.
Stars: Birgit Doll, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Brigitte Horney, Max Croiset, Peter Capell, Derek Jacobi, Buddy Elias, Peter Faber, Eric Vaessen, Maria Machado, Shireen Strooker, Lous Hensen, Yoka Berretty, Patricia Hodge, Irene Jarosch, Leonard Frank, Shaun Lawton, Ton Lensink, Johanna Sophia, Harke de Roos.
Cinematographers: Jerzy Lipman, Theo van de Sande.
Composer: Egisto Macchi.

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BUTTERFLY R.I.P. 1975 (1972)

Jon W. — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:34:43 +0000

In an open field, a butterfly flies from flower to flower. The charming image is interrupted by cut-out photos of apartment blocks and flats that jump into view to the rhythm of a pile driver. The butterfly is increasingly hemmed in by the buildings, until there’s no more space left, and it is finally mounted and framed on a wall. The last of its kind died in 1975.

Director: Peter Brouwer.
Writer: Gerrit van Dijk.
Cinematographer: Ted Dobson.
Composer: Hessel de Vries.
Animator: Gerrit van Dijk.

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SIENTJE (1997)

Jon W. — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:34:38 +0000

Sientje is a little girl whose mother won’t let her watch TV. She’s angry. Extremely angry: what does a little girl do when she’s so angry? Sientje takes out her aggression on everything, even her most precious stuffed animal.

Director: Christa Moesker.
Cinematographer: Peter van der Zander.
Animator: Christa Moesker.

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A STRANGE LOVE AFFAIR (1985)

Jon W. — Sun, 18 May 2025 05:22:38 +0000

Film professor Michael falls in love with one of his students and is confronted with his pupil’s father, with whom he had an affair over 15 years ago. This unexpected meeting abruptly overturns the lives of all the characters. When the tutor decides to undertake a planned trip to London, not with the son but with the father, he is once again forced to choose; this time between his wife and his friend.

Directors: Eric De Kuyper, Paul Verstraten.
Stars: Howard Hensel, Lieke Leo, Ben van Os, Ann Petersen, Pascale Petit, Karl Scheydt, Sep Van Kampen, Jacqueline Veuve, Arianne Collée, Jacky Raynall, Maarten Van Buren, Paul Verstraten, Rdeinhilde Wijers.
Cinematographer: Henri Alekan.

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SCHATJES! (1984)

Jon W. — Sat, 17 May 2025 21:12:04 +0000

Four recalcitrant teenagers come into conflict with their clumsy parents. The battle escalates when the mother tries to seduce her daughter’s tennis teacher and the children turn the villa into a heavily armed fortress. A classic theme, the battle between parents and children, gets completely out of hand in this black comedy in an idiosyncratic and brutal way, in which the authority of the parents is completely undermined.

Director: Ruud van Hemert. AKA Darlings!
Writers: Ruud van Hemert, Thys Ockersen (additional work).
Stars: Peter Faber, Geert de Jong, Akkemay Elderenbos, Frank Schaafsma, Pepijn Zomer, Olivier Zomer, Rijk de Gooyer, Erik Koningsberger, Arie van Riet, Esgo Heil, Rolf Weber, Cees van Oyen, Sue Ellen Somer, Gerbin Stet.
Cinematographer: Theo van de Sande.
Composer: Ruud van Hemert.

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KEN PARK (2002)

Jon W. — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 20:50:52 +0000

Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They’re all rather tight, or so they claim.

Directors: Larry Clark, Edward Lachman.
Writers: Harmony Korine (screenplay), Larry Clark (based on stories and characters by).
Stars: Adam Chubbuck, James Bullard, Seth Gray, Eddie Daniels, Zara McDowell, Maeve Quinlan, Stephen Jasso, Wade Williams, Tiffany Limos, Julio Oscar Mechoso, James Ransone, Patricia Place, Amanda Plummer, Mike Apaletegui, Harrison Young, Ashley Crisp, Lazavier James, Daniel Helwick, Gabe Nava, Sam Baptista, Shanie Calahan, Chelsey Earlywine, Bill Fagerbakke, Richard Riehle, Caroline Kristiahn, Loranne Maze, Luna.
Cinematographers: Larry Clark, Edward Lachman.

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