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	CinemaSpeak.Com - IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE: An interview with Kitchen Stories director Bent Hamer.
		If filmmakers are supposed to be excited about the possibility of their work receiving much revered Oscar nominations, Norwegian director Bent Hamer apparently hasn't yet read the memo.
		Hamer's story isolates the friendship which blossoms between one particular researcher, Folke (Tomas Norstrom), and his at first resistant subject, Isak (Joachim Calmeyer) -- a friendship that the Research Institute strictly forbids.
		Bent Hamer manages to explore both comedic and dramatic elements in a uniquely down-to-earth movie that's as refreshing an experience (I'd imagine) as inhaling a deep breath of crisp, clean Norwegian air.
	www.cinemaspeak.com /Interviews/hamerint.html (850 words)

	Home Economics with Heart; Norway's Bent Hamer Talks About "Kitchen Stories"
		Hamer: I'm the housewife in our house so I do all the shopping and all the cooking, and I always did, before it was trendy like today.
		Hamer: Well, it's a challenge when you put two people into the same room for the whole film and they don't talk to each other for a long time.
		Hamer: In a way, moving the salt cellar is the point of no return.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_040224hamer.html (1639 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| Film-makers on film: Bent Hamer
		Bent Hamer tells Benjamin Secher why he is drawn to the isolated and distant characters in Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll's Whisky (2004)
		Hamer's films are beautifully crafted, in equal parts melancholic and tender.
		Hamer suddenly remembers a story he was told by a friend who once worked with Whisky's production company.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/11/19/bffmof19.xml (850 words)

	Eye Weekly - Home improvement - 03.25.04
		However, in an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, co-writer and director Bent Hamer is not entirely happy with being compared to the furniture superstore.
		Hamer was inspired to create Kitchen Stories from actual research that went on in the 1950s, when faith in new technology ran high and there was a sense every job could and should be revolutionized by science.
		Much of Kitchen Stories is set in Isak's kitchen, but it avoids becoming static thanks to Hamer's elaborate imagination: it opens with a shot of dozens of candy-coloured trailers moving along a frozen highway, and the rest of the film displays a similarly rich visual wit.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_03.25.04/film/kitchenstories.html (625 words)

	Cineuropa - Interviews - Bent Hamer • Director
		After the success of Kitchen Stories, Norwegian director Bent Hamer chose the US to shoot his latest film Factotum, based on a novel by Charles Bukowski.
		Bent Hamer: Factotum is an independent low-budget film, like those I usually make back home.
		For me as a director, the difference with this film is that I had the chance to work with big stars, and they were interested in working with me. Perhaps we sense the notion of hierarchy more so where the technical cast is concerned, but that also depends on the director.
	www.cineuropa.org /interview.aspx?lang=en&documentID=62848 (562 words)

	Bent Hamer photos, info and news - People
		Hamer studied film theory and literature at the University of Stockholm and the Stockholm Film School.
		The screenplay was written by Hamer and Jim Stark ("Mystery Train", "Cold Fever"), who are producing the film together with Christine Walker ("American Splendor").
		Hamer is the owner and founder of the BulBul Film Association, established in Oslo in 1994.
	people.monstersandcritics.com /archive/peoplearchive.php/Bent_Hamer/biog (275 words)

	indieWIRE: Ham-Fisted: Bent Hamer's "Factotum"
		The go-to point of comparison for Hamer's film is Schroeder's 1987 "Barfly," from an original screenplay by Bukowski, which likewise attached a contemporary A-list name to the role of Henry Chinaski, alter-ego navigator of Buk's hiccupped autobiographical aggrandizements ("Barfly" starred Mickey Rourke; "Factotum," Matt Dillon).
		One of the wage-slave gigs taken and abandoned by Hank Chinaski (Matt Dillon) in "Factotum" entails feather-dusting a gargantuan statue in the lobby of a newspaper building.
		Hamer intrudes sometimes with his propensity for flout-sketches and the well-lit, toned cinematography that for some reason has become the idiom for deadpan.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/2006/08/ham-fisted_bent.html (1203 words)

	DVDBeaver.com - Review "Kitchen Stories" Svensk Filmindustri - Region 2 - PAL
		Hamer has often been compared to Aki Kaurismaki, and while there are similarities, Norway and Finland are very different in humour and personality.
		In the early 50s, the Swedish institute for housekeeping are doing research in the patterns of activities in the kitchen, with the intention to ease and increase efficiency in housekeeping activities.
		Where the Swedes follow Taylorism as a religion (the caravan of Volvo’s, driving on the left side of the road as it is scientifically safer, the approach to the study), they break down when unable to live by it.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDReviews5/kitchenstories.htm (731 words)

	Film Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The story unfolds at a leisurely pace as a series of incidents and anecdotes that are at times amusing, and at others gut wrenching.
		Writer/director Bent Hamer displays an unusually pleasing faithfulness to the peculiar spirit of Bukowski's writing and worldview, and Matt Dillon gives one of his best performances as Chinaski; his deadpan delivery and raw physicality pump life into the gnarled character.
		Norwegian director Bent Hamer's last feature, Kitchen Stories, as well as his first feature, Eggs, premiered in the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes International Film Festival.
	festival.sundance.org /filmguide/popup.aspx?film=6584 (309 words)

	CinemaSpeak.Com - Kitchen Stories
		Directed by Bent Hamer (Eggs), Kitchen Stories possesses a deceptive sensitivity that greatly reaps the rewards of the film's unhurried pace.
		Timing is a big key to the effectiveness of the movie's humor, and the spare dialogue and abundant silences work in tandem successfully.
		Hamer also takes playful shots -- such as when Malmberg expresses his discomfort over having to drive on the other side of the road in Norway by vomiting-- at Sweden's superiority complex as it pertained to the country's view of presumably all other Scandinavian countries in the 1950s.
	www.cinemaspeak.com /Reviews/kitchenstories.html (574 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: Kitchen Stories
		Isak allows Folke to do his research, and the old man's attempts to frustrate Folke are funny enough, but then Kitchen Stories turns into a male weepie with a serious case of the cutes.
		Hamer understands the clinical nature of Folke's domestic experiment (the impossibility of two people living in a room together without ever talking to each other), but he doesn't use this interaction to question the perils of modernism or misguided notions of nationalism.
		Hamer hints at tensions between Norwegians and Swedes, but the quirks in the script dutifully subjugate all serious thought.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=979 (212 words)

	Le Web de l’Humanité: Bent Hamer Le bonheur concentré dans une cuisine - Article paru le 17 décembre 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bent Hamer Le bonheur concentré dans une cuisine
		Bent Hamer raconte : " Même si les scientifiques ne sont jamais allés dans les cuisines pour observer les célibataires, l’histoire est basée sur des faits réels.
		Ce troisième film de Bent Hamer rappelle également les rapports complexes entre la Suède et la Norvège.
	www.humanite.presse.fr /journal/2003-12-17/2003-12-17-384646 (917 words)

	Exploring Idiosyncratic Male Relationships in Bent Hamer's "Kitchen Stories" and François Dupeyron's "Monsieur ...
		Set in rural Norway in the early 1950s, Bent Hamer's "Kitchen Stories" (opening in select theaters Friday from IFC Films) is a droll, exceptionally pleasant exercise that won't be to everyone's taste.
		Toward the end, director Hamer seems to panic a bit, ratcheting up the emotion by turning his film into a more sentimental drama about friendship, and while this will help many viewers to cozy up to it more readily, it also works against its hard-won uniqueness.
		Director Hamer gets lots of mileage out of Swedish/Norwegian intercultural jokes, but these, inevitably, will play better in Scandinavia than in the U.S. He's adept at sight gags (for example, when we first see Folke perched hilariously high above Isak in a corner of the kitchen, silently taking notes).
	www.indiewire.com /movies/movies_040218expl.html (830 words)

	Kitchen Stories (Film Review)
		Written and directed by Bent Hamer, Kitchen Stories is a uniquely subtle comedy that substitutes awkward silences for extravagant punch lines and lends itself for analysis on a number of different levels.
		It is a peek across the snow-blurred boundaries of Norway and Sweden, of male and female, and of observer and the observed.
		Hamer’s message is clear: no observer is neutral, no matter how high the chair.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/norwegian_culture/107546 (489 words)

	Bent Hamer and Factotum to Cannes
		Bent Hamer’s new film Factotum has been selected to participate in Director’s Forthnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) in Cannes.
		Factotum, Bent Hamer’s fourth feature film, is based on the American writer Charles Bukowski’s novel Factotum.
		The film is a co-production with USA and the independent producer James Stark, and the main roles are covered by the stars Matt Dillon, Lilli Taylor and Marisa Tomei.
	www.nfi.no /english/_nyheter/vis.html?id=1511 (467 words)

	Factotum
		What distinguishes it is Hamer's amusingly deadpan approach to the material and Dillon's uncanny ability to embody it in his performance.
		One of the more striking aspects of Hamer's wily adaptation is the way it undercuts the seedy glamour of the author's cult even as it reinforces it.
		Bent Hamer's deadpan adaptation of the Charles Bukowski novel has an appealing listlessness, but it begs the question: Is there anything left to learn from this material?
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/1156129-factotum (1023 words)

	Charles Bent — Infoplease.com
		Charles Bent was the senior partner of a trading firm that included Ceran St. Vrain as well as William Bent and others of the seven Bent brothers.
		Because of his high standing, Charles Bent was chosen as governor of New Mexico after the American occupation in the Mexican War.
		Bent's Fort - Bent's Fort, trading post of the American West, on the Arkansas River in present-day SE Colorado, E...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0807056.html (297 words)

	Bent Hamer - Moviefone
		Bent Hamer interview- on the Drinks with Tony radio show hosted by Tony DuShane.
		I discussed some of these issues and others with Bent Hamer during his recent...
		Bent Hamer - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Bent Hamer Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/bent-hamer/199429/main (91 words)

	Factotum (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bent Hamer directs in this brilliant and quirky tale of a man who walks through life doing odd-jobs to fund his booze, gambling and womanising habits.
		Bent Hamer has accomplished a feat pretty standard in European film-making traditions- light comedy with fl undertones outside of the rules of the usual three part formation.
		This tale could have started anywhere and ended anywhere in this man's life as the selling point it simply having Dillon on screen as this character- that is the story.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0417658 (803 words)

	Review: Kitchen Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		For the most part, director Bent Hamer is interested in Folke and Isak.
		The nature of their interaction will be familiar to those who have seen any of the countless male bonding pictures available in video stores, although the acting and writing are of a higher caliber than that which one typically discovers in Hollywood fare.
		One aspect of the film which will likely be lost to North American viewers is Hamer's tongue-in-cheek view of Swedish and Norse stereotypes, and the way he satirizes the mutual antagonism between the countries.
	www.patmedia.net /berardin/movies/k/kitchen_stories.html (644 words)

	New Line Cinema \| Press Releases \| 2005
		Based on the novel by cult author Charles Bukowski and adapted by Hamer and Jim Stark, Factotum is the story of a man living on the edge; of a writer willing to risk everything to make sure his life is his poetry.
		Henry Chinaski (Dillon) works in factories and warehouses to support what he really wants to do: drink, bet the horses, take up with women as rootless as he is and, above all write stories no one wants to publish.
		The deal was brokered on behalf of Picturehouse by Sara Rose, Senior VP Acquisitions Picturehouse and Carolyn Blackwood, Senior VP Business and Legal Affairs for New Line Cinema and on behalf of the film by the United Talent Agency, Celluloid Dreams and producer, director Bent Hamer and producer Jim Stark.
	www.newline.com /press/2005/0525_factotum.shtml (330 words)

	Bukowski deserves better than ‘Factotum’ - AT THE MOVIES - MSNBC.com
		Charles Bukowski deserves better than director Bent Hamer’s dismal, wearisome adaptation of his novel “Factotum,” and so do Bukowski’s fans.
		Granted, it may be a fair reflection of Bukowski’s own lifestyle, but this is a case where a thousand words of Bukowski’s playful prose is worth far more than the nasty pictures Hamer employs to capture the writer’s spirit.
		Hamer, co-writing the screenplay with Jim Stark, weaves in voice-overs of Dillon reading bits and pieces of Bukowski’s lyrical street-wise insights from various books, those sequences providing the movie’s few highlights.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/14362844 (650 words)

	Bent Hamer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bent Hamer (1956), director y guionista, estudió cine y literatura en la Universidad de Estocolmo y en la Escuela de Cine.
		Su último trabajo Historias de la cocina (Salmer fra kjøkkenet), con una gran dosis de humor, es de 2002.
		Bent Hamer escribe, dirige y produce todas sus películas.
	www.geocities.com /cine_noruego/Bent_Hamer.html (94 words)

	Moscow Film Festival - Film Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		When Konrad arrives at a small isolated house in the Norwegian countryside to stay with Moe and Pa, the two elderly brothers realise that three is indeed a crowd.
		Their peaceful universe is jeopardised by the newcomer in Eggs, Norwegian director Bent Hamer's first feature, screening in competition.
		Teaming up with cinematographer Erik Poppe and producer Finn Gjerdrum, both involved in Hamer's award-winning short, Applaus (Applause), he shot his low-budget debut almost entirely in interiors.
	www.filmfestivals.com /moscow/mfile5.htm (272 words)

	village voice > film > Kitchen Stories by J. Hoberman
		Slight but sardonic, Norwegian director Bent Hamer's deadpan Kitchen Stories makes a taciturn comedy of nothingness out of color-coordinated '50s coziness and Scandinavian social planning.
		Hamer is a restrained, visually oriented comic director—he makes the most out of a procession of egg-shaped trailers.
		Kitchen Stories is too dry to be cute but unavoidably twee in playing with the idea of the burgeoning affection and symbiotic surveillance between observer and observee.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0406/hoberman3.php (439 words)

	Bent Hamer - Photo - LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 15 - Moviefone
		Bent Hamer - Photo - LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 15 - Moviefone
		LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 15: (L-R) Actress Lili Taylor, Director/Producer Bent Hamer, Actor Matt Dillon, Actor Fisher Stevens, and Writer/Producer Jim Stark attend the special screening of the IFC Film "Factotum" at The Laemmle Sunset 5 Theaters on August 15, 2006 in Los Angeles, California.
		Bent Hamer photo of 'LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 15' on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/bent-hamer/199429/photos/l-r-actress-lili-taylor-directorproducer-bent-hamer-actor-matt-dillon/1690635 (103 words)

	Bent Hamer on Factotum - Channel 4 Film feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bent Hamer on Factotum - Channel 4 Film feature
		Norwegian Bent Hamer came across the writing of Charles Bukowski when he was a young man. Reading the poetry and prose of a man commonly seen as the link between 1950s Beat writers like Jack Kerouac and the 1960s counterculture movement is a rite of passage for many on the road to maturity.
		For those with similar artistic aspirations, Bukowski's drink-fuelled, fiercely non-conformist, tragi-comic take on life can be addictive, as Hamer is all too aware.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/feature.jsp?id=152705 (360 words)

	BBC - Movies - interview - Bent Hamer
		Norwegian director Bent Hamer made his name internationally with the quirky 2003 charmer Kitchen Stories.
		He's ventured far from the kitchen for his follow-up movie, Factotum, an adaptation of several Charles Bukowski stories set amid the downbeat barflies of America.
		Factotum is released in UK cinemas on Friday 18th November 2005.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2005/11/01/bent_hamer_factotum_interview.shtml (147 words)

	Bent Hamer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His 2003 film Kitchen Stories screened at many international festivals and was the Norwegian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
		The film premiered at the Kosmorama festival in Trondheim, Norway, on 2005-04-12.
		This page was last modified 09:50, 16 October 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bent_Hamer (288 words)

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