Tag: The Chestnut Man
HOT IN THE TOWN: Don’t miss Mikkeller’s 13th birthday party or ‘STOMP’ in Tivoli
DRINKING: Viktoriagade Street partyThe brewery industry’s bad boys Mikkeller will take over the charming Vesterbro in Viktoriagade on April 29 to stage a beer fueled street party to mark their premises’ 13th birthday there. Enjoy live music, flea markets, wagyu burgers, killer kebabs, cocktails, IPAs and of course, delicious birthday cake. About 500 free beers…
Culture Round-Up: Bjarke Ingel’s designer car collector’s house inspired by ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’
Star architect Bjarke Ingels has designed a home to showcase Danish entrepreneur Mads Peter Veiby’s vintage car collection – and the inspiration is a classic American film about high school students who truant! Located among some rare Danish hills on the outskirts of Aalborg, it may well be the most expensive house ever built in…
Netflix is pulling the plug on Danish productions
No to better pay for artists Netflix’s decision comes in response to a rights agreement reached between producers and filmmakers last December. The agreement ensured artists better pay, and that they were paid on an ongoing basis instead of with a lump sum. The streaming service joins TV2 in saying that it is too expensive…
Culture Round-Up: Recent changes to Asger Jorn’s painting terrify the museum, but would the artist approve of it himself?
In his series ‘Modifications’, which stretched over the late 1950s and early 60s, the Danish situationist artist Asger Jorn bought kitschy paintings from flea markets and added his own graffiti: abstract or grotesque drawings, some times even added beard or mustache, along with scribbled text. At the time, it was perceived as a critique of…
Culture Round-Up: Streaming services must pay extra tax in Denmark, but is it fair?
Media analyst Claus Bülow Christensen has commented on the government’s plans to levy an additional tax on streaming services, which was revealed in the content of their new media package (see separate story below). The tax (5 percent of their earnings in Denmark) will in theory help domestic film and TV producers produce content, but…
Culture Round-Up: Women’s version of historical constitution painting from 1915 planned for the Folketing’s lobby
Visitors to the Conversation Room in the Folketing can see Herman Vedel’s painting of the 30 ‘fathers’ from the Constitution of 1915, which gave women the right to vote. Now a female version has been proposed, which will hang in the same room, which is often a welcome place for prominent foreign visitors. “Better gender…
Corona and football dominate Google searches in Denmark
Baldwin, Biden and… Tokyo? The last three in the top 10 were all culture-oriented. The big Danish TV series thriller hit ‘The Chestnut Man’ on Netflix came in eighth place, while the South Korean giga hit series ‘Squid Game’ finished in tenth place. ‘Albert Dyrlund’, the popular Danish YouTuber who tragically crashed 200 meters to…
Culture Round-Up: Comes to you like a kamikaze
Indiewire is full of praise for the performance of Marie Reuther in the new HBO Max series ‘Kamikaze’, which is just one of three Danish-language series published by streaming services this autumn, which consolidates the country’s reputation as a producer of quality TV. ‘Chestnut Man’ (‘The Chestnut Man’) was a popular Netflix release in September,…
Culture Round-Up: The notion that television kills is an old chestnut with good reason
The most popular show on Netflix in Denmark right now pays homage to a kind of children’s game. But no, it’s not the Korean show ‘Squid Game’ that poses challenges based on playground activities where the losers are horribly killed. The last weekend has knocked ‘squid games’ out of its perch and been the Danish…
On screens for September: Quentin Tarantino presents … are you sure he’s met them at all?
There is no doubt that Quentin Tarantino is one of the best instructors ever. He has made only nine films in a career spanning nearly three decades, and his lowest score on Metacritic is 64 – surprising to Jackie Brown, a film that many pretentious critics often refer to as his best work ‘Being Different…