For everyone who may be interested in European paintings, books, films and archives: you may find it here. It is major project based in the Royal Library in The Hague.
From the announcement on the site I quote:
direct access to some 2 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and [...]
Last Saturday night we went to visit the Indonesian Film Festival. “We” means a mixed company of six – in a fair distribution of men and women and of native Bahassa speakers and Bahasa illiterates. Actually we choose only one of the many movies. But it was a lucky choice. At least our [...]
An introduction.
“In Bruges” is a movie about two Irish hitmen [an agonizing, wild and boyish young man Ray ( the brilliant Colin Farrell) and the calm, genial-with-a-sting Ken ( a superb Brendan Gleeson)] who have to spend a fortnight in the old Flanders city of Brugge (Bruges in French and English) after a killing [...]
Jakarta is a very modern, urban city. Amsterdam is a very modern urban city. Jakarta citizens and Amsterdam citizens both are 100% human – the same virtues, the same vices. We all live in a global village, a distance of 12.000 km doesn’t make much difference. Or is there? Take for instance “Alles is Liefde” [...]
Tomorrow it will start again: the (37th) International Film Festival of Rotterdam. It is one of the major festivals in Europe and even in the world. It distinguishes itself from those of Cannes, Venice and Berlin in that it aims at promoting the production of relevant and high quality movies, by independent [...]