Tag: Ruben Östlund
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French Palme d’Or winner in the lineup for the Cannes Film Festival jury
The jury members for the 2023 Cannes Film Festival were announced on Thursday. Among them Oscar winner Brie Larson, American actor Paul Dano and French director Julia Ducournau who won the 2021 Palme d’Or for “Titane”. The nine-man group, led by Swedish director Ruben Östlund, is responsible for the awarding of the top prize at…
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American actor John C. Reilly heads the jury for Un Certain Regard
American actor John C. Reilly, who has appeared in films by Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson and Jacques Audiard, will chair the international jury for Un Certain Regard. Un Certain Regard is part of the film festival in Cannes, which runs parallel to the competition for the Palme d’Or. The 57-year-old actor takes over from…
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Screen goddess Catherine Deneuve graces the Cannes Festival poster
The official poster for the Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled. In elegant black and white, French actress Catherine Deneuve is shown on a film set in 1968. Her daughter, Chiara Mastroianni, has hosted the opening and closing ceremonies for the 76th edition, which runs from May 16-27. Standing on Pampelonne beach, near Saint-Tropez, Deneuve…
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Malian director awarded Carrosse d’Or in Cannes
The Carrosse d’Or will be awarded to Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cisse on May 17 in Cannes, at the opening of the Directors’ Fortnight, the Society of Film Directors announced this week. The Carrosse d’Or – referring to a film by Jean Renoir – celebrates filmmakers for “the innovative qualities of their work, for their audacity…
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Ruben Östlund’s unknown game to win an Oscar
The US Correspondent Roger Wilson tells about the game that is being talked about before the Oscars, which will be decided on Sunday. Swedish Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Sadness” has a chance at three prizes. But to win, it takes more than just a good film – behind every award is persistent campaigning. The news…
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Tarik Saleh – wants to “drill into the real”
Tarik Saleh has been acclaimed for his films and they have taken him to the world. At the Cannes Film Festival last summer, his “Boy from Heaven” won the award for best screenplay, which is “hard to top”, according to himself. But now he has a chance to win at another French film gala, having…
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Right now: Ruben Östlund’s film Triangle of Sadness is triple nominated for the Oscars
Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s film Triangle of Sadness is nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay, best director and best film. It is the first time a Swedish film has been nominated for it since Utvandrarna and Viskningar og rop in the early 70s. Ruben Östlund has never before won an Oscar but was…
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The Danish Presentation – the prank that went off the rails
Don’t miss Love’s insanely funny, uncomfortable but also inspiring story. Karl Bertil Jonsson on acid, a tribute to the pointless and a guaranteed bad atmosphere à la Ruben Östlund is guaranteed! By: Gustav Asplund.Final mix: Astrid Ankarkrona.The reality is made by the production company Filt.
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On screens in September: Why reboot is one of the ugliest words in cinema
Let us start again” … in the 1820s it sounded like mission impossible from a doctor to a gout sufferer; in the 1960s, as something Nancy Sinatra might say during a flip-flop break; and since the 1980s, our most common office announcement. Usually it is followed by moaning. Perhaps that’s why the TV and film…
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Ruben Östlund – the king of bad mood
Ruben Östlund grows up with his mother and cat Bilbo on Styrsö. His love of skiing and the camera eventually takes him all the way to film directing training in Gothenburg. Together with his newfound friend and co-worker Erik Hemmendorff, Ruben decides that they will make a film entirely according to their own motto. They…
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Victory interview with Ruben Östlund after the Palme d’Or in Cannes
Hear the conversation immediately after the award ceremony, where Ruben Östlund talks about the legacy of Roy Andersson and how he feels after the gala
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Ruben Östlund’s film wins the Palme d’Or
Ruben Östlund’s film “Triangle of sadness” wins the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Gala. Considered one of the world’s most prestigious film awards. Hear Kulturnytt’s Björn Jansson about the winner.