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  Thomas Vinterberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Vinterberg at 40th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Thomas Vinterberg (born May 19, 1969) is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production.
In 1995, Vinterberg formed the Dogme 95 movement with Lars von Trier, Kristian Levring, and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Vinterberg   (321 words)

  
 Thomas Vinterberg @ Filmbug UK
Thomas Vinterberg enrolled at The National Film School of Denmark in 1989 as the youngest student ever.
In 1995, Thomas Vinterberg initiated the Dogme95 movement alongside fellow director Lars von Trier.
Thomas Vinterberg's next and highly anticipated project is Dear Wendy.
www.filmbug.co.uk /db/341967   (305 words)

  
 Mermaid Lounge - May 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Thomas Vinterberg and Lars von Trier, together with a group of Danish directors three years ago issued a manifesto, which bore the challenging name of Dogma '95.
Thomas Vinterberg, until now a relatively unknown entity, has long been acknowledged as a kind of "wunderkind" in his homeland.
Thomas Vinterberg was born in 1969 in Denmark.
www.denmark.org /mermaid_May98/vinterberg.html   (424 words)

  
 Review: The Celebration (1998)
In 1995 Vinterberg allied himself with a group of directors in Copenhagen, starting a movement named 'Dogme 95,' the tenets of which promote a pure 'cinema of the moment.' Accordingly, 'The Celebration' is shot on location, with no makeup, no dubbed sound, no fixed cameras, and virtually no 'brought in' props.
(Vinterberg published a 'confession' in which he admits covering one window with a fl drape to alter the light in one scene; he also approved the construction of a hotel reception desk, though the materials were found on site.) The product of Vinterberg's vision is shot through with a fascinating, naturalistic nervousness.
Vinterberg opens another of the Klingenfeldt family's veins when Helene's boyfriend pulls up to the party in a taxi.
www.movie-page.com /reviews/c/celebration.htm   (834 words)

  
 Willamette Week| Screen Review
Vinterberg cuts to the quick with hand-held cameras, natural sound and lighting, and actors wearing their own clothes.
It is here that Vinterberg's plot and his cinematic mission meld most seamlessly: in squeezing the truth out of a deeply deceitful institution, be it Danish society or the film industry.
Likewise, when Vinterberg dispenses with background music and dubious action sequences, it leaves him and his actors free to nail the finer points of pacing and tension.
www.wweek.com /html/screenb111898.html   (692 words)

  
 Shadows on the Wall | Dear Wendy interview
Thomas Vinterberg: Initially it wasn’t the story which fascinated me as much as the idea of directing something Lars had written.
Vinterberg: No, that is because it is something you have decided, that is the way you are - here’s a guy who’s in love with a gun.
Vinterberg: I have learned a hell of a lot about handguns, and Lars is right when he says that it is an amazing instrument, which it can be fascinating to study.
www.shadows.wall.net /features/sw-dw1.htm   (1355 words)

  
 Xiibaro Reviews: It's All About Love
Thomas Vinterberg made the best of the Dogme films with his 1998 masterpiece The Celebration.
Now, Vinterberg has been working on a series of DIY movies called D-Dag, preparing scripts with von Trier for their next production (Vinterberg will direct von Trier’s screenplay for Dear Wendy) and leaving the fans of his work excited for the possibility of a new film.
Vinterberg, hopefully, just needed something to expel all this inner novice that wasn’t seen in The Celebration (however, reports on his first film, The Biggest Heroes, aren’t that pleasing either).
xiibaro.hypermart.net /archive/05/30.html   (563 words)

  
 It's All About Taking Chances   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Thomas Vinterberg wrote the script together with his former tutor at the National Film School of Denmark, Mogens Rukov, who also helped to create The Celebration.
Vinterberg's strategy is to put the knife to his character's throats, forcing them to let go of common sense and begin living life.
Thomas Vinterberg seems to be somebody with a huge amount of surplus resources, but in interviews he talks time and time again of his doubt and uncertainty, about his fear of not fulfilling the enormous expectations made of him since he got into the National Film School of Denmark at the age of 21.
www.dfi.dk /sitemod/moduler/index_english.asp?pid=9100   (1539 words)

  
 Rotten Tomatoes Forums - My review of Thomas Vinterberg's "It's All About Love"
This is Thomas Vinterberg's first English/American movie, and his first since his break-through with Festen (The Celebration).
In Vinterberg's vision of the near future, everything's cold, people are dying from loneliness, Ugandans are flying (!), it's snowing in July, water freezes to ice in matters of seconds and nobody seems to care.
Vinterberg tells us as little as possibly, we have to guess a lot - and that is both the movie's strength and its weakness.
www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=249116   (1281 words)

  
 MrJoaquin.com ~ A Joaquin Phoenix FanSite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The whole thing is thoroughly planned, Thomas Vinterberg says, who is in a surprisingly good mood in spite of the chaotic press conference half an hour earlier, where his star in the movie, Joaquin Phoenix, attracted all the negative attention.
After talking to Thomas Vinterberg in the sunshine it was time to shoot in the smaller of the two studios that the film crew is using in Trollhättan.
Thomas Vinterberg, who apparently has been watching Joaquin Phoenix for quite some time, says to Berlingske Tidene: "He is deeply charismatic, insanely clever and is at the same time a technically brilliant actor.
www.moxzii.com /joaquin/iaal/iaal2001.html   (7583 words)

  
 Emanuel Levy : Film Comment - Vinterberg and von Trier on Dear Wendy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Thomas Vinterberg: I think Lars went out hunting one day and found it interesting and amusing to conceive a love story about a man and a gun.
Thomas Vinterberg was the youngest student ever to study at the National Film School of Denmark when he began studies in 1989.
Vinterberg founded Dogme ‘95 together with his colleague Lars von Trier in 1995 and the year after that he directed his debut feature, “The Biggest Heroes,” which won three Danish Robert Awards.
www.emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=414   (3195 words)

  
 Denmark's DV Director Thomas Vinterberg Delves into "The Celebration"
It's a DV camera with a flip screen, and it's half the size of this machine [Vinterberg motions to a tape recorder that is the size of a thick hardback book].
Vinterberg: Actually, part of the manifesto is that we're not allowed to have a taste.
Vinterberg: You know, fascism is very much about the anxiety of the "foreign." And I guess this whole story is about that.
www.indiewire.com /people/int_Vinterberg_Thms_981014.html   (1935 words)

  
 Chicago Reader Movie Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Maybe this is because Vinterberg has a better story to tell--a set of strategically planted and finely calibrated revelations about a family's dark secrets during a weekend gathering at a country mansion occasioned by the father's 60th birthday.
Vinterberg frames and edits it with such eccentric yet logical abandon--cutting to sudden overhead shots, crosscutting between as many as three simultaneously unfolding scenes, and jump-cutting at regular intervals--that he counteracts the continuity of the plot with as much discontinuity as he can without losing the threads of the action.
However, it's surely a form of coquetry for Vinterberg to leave his name off the credits when he knows we'll know it anyway, and it's a similarly ironic subterfuge to use the dubious principles of Dogme 95 as a means to discipline his artistic choices as well as liberate them.
www.chireader.com /movies/archives/1998/1198/11138.html   (1108 words)

  
 Festen
Festen is the first film produced under the banner of "Dogma 95", a quasi-radical aestheticist club that was formed by Vinterberg, Lars Von Trier (The Kingdom, Breaking the Waves, Idiotern), together with a group of Danish directors three years ago.
Tension peaks are actually all the more unexpected and efficient since Vinterberg paradoxically resorts to no specific artifices to introduce them and since the cast's interpretation remains sober all along the film.
The conclusion of the film is a bit weak compared to the rest but Vinterberg is still to be praised for both his undeniable directing skills and his creative insolence.
www.geocities.com /hollywood/boulevard/5757/festen.html   (345 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Thomas Vinterberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Lars von Trier (born April 30, 1956 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism.
Dogme 95 is a movement in filmmaking developed in 1995 by the Danish directors Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring, and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen.
The Celebration (original Danish title: Festen) (1998) is an acclaimed Danish movie, directed and written by Thomas Vinterberg, which is about resolving deep family issues.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Thomas-Vinterberg   (863 words)

  
 "'The Go-To Guy": Film Freak Central Interviews Actor Bill Pullman
People that have Thomas and Lars on their radar, I think they're the ones really watching the world cinema, the things that are happening that are important to where films will go in the future.
Vinterberg is a young guy and Lars is the older guy, but they have a very curious friendship.
He and Thomas had spent quite a bit of time in development of this film and they had decided on a very specific kind of look that they wanted for this film and that HD digital video was the way that they were going to achieve that look.
www.filmfreakcentral.net /notes/bpullmaninterview.htm   (2169 words)

  
 clevescene.com | Film | Wag the Dogma | 1999-01-07   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Von Trier has been the flashiest of the new generation of Danish directors, yet his connection with Thomas Vinterberg's film The Celebration is so self-effacing that it may be a practical joke.
Vinterberg has published a confession of his breaches--one instance of covering a window to change the lighting, another of helping to pay for the actors' clothing, plus a few other misdemeanors.
He cheats on his wife; he insists on attending the party, although he knows he is unwelcome in his father's house; and he's such a lout that he throws his wife and children out of his car so he can drive his brother the last few hundred yards to the house.
www.clevescene.com /issues/1999-01-07/film/film2.html   (714 words)

  
 It's All About Love : About The Filmmakers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
He was co-writer on Festen (The Celebration) together with the director Thomas Vinterberg and was co-writer on Kira's Reason - A Love Story together with director Ole Christian Madsen.
Has since 1993 been producing for director Thomas Vinterberg; from the award winning short The Boy Who Walked Backwards, the debut feature film The Greatest Heroes, the first and highly acclaimed Dogme film The Celebration to the international feature film It's All About Love.
Anthony Dod Mantle has worked with Thomas Vinterberg since The Greatest Heroes in 1996 and was D. o.
www.cinema.com /article/item.phtml?ID=2183   (910 words)

  
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SYNOPSIS Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All About Love takes place in the near future and tells the story of two lovers fighting for their love, and ultimately for their lives, in a world out of balance.
One of the major sources of Vinterberg’s inspiration for the story was the tumultuous period that followed the making of Festen (The Celebration), where he travelled the world promoting the film.
Thomas Vinterberg, October 2002 BEHIND THE CAMERA THOMAS VINTERBERG — Director & Screenwriter Thomas Vinterberg enrolled at The National Film School of Denmark in 1989 as the youngest student ever.
www.strandrel.com /pressroom/Presskits/IAAL_PK.doc   (4351 words)

  
 Foul Play: Thomas Vinterberg's "Dear Wendy"
Like Leth, Vinterberg is a willing foil (and to some degree, tool), and in discussing the film in Moscow he used the von Triers–ian term "experiment" about as often as he soft-shoed around questions of race and anti-Americanism.
Thomas Vinterberg knows how to talk out of both sides of his mouth.
It's a testament to Vinterberg's direction that he manages both to vividly dramatize what must on the page read as bone-dry allegory and humanize von Trier's typically cartoonish participants.
www.indiewire.com /movies/2005/09/foul_play_thoma.html   (1486 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Version - We've seen the future, & 'All' is lost   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The funniest scene in Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's "It's All About Love" shows a bunch of Ugandans floating high above their village, tethered to the ground like so many helium balloons.
Surely, Vinterberg was high on some inert gas when he embarked on it.
Vinterberg is a co-founder of Dogma 95, the Danish filmmakers' creed whose Vow of Chastity forswears the use of sets, artificial lighting, soundtrack music, tripods, optical effects and all other accoutrements of modern movie technology.
www.nydailynews.com /10-29-2004/entertainment/col/v-pfriendly/story/247374p-211707c.html   (414 words)

  
 Celebration
It is also characteristic of Vinterberg that he always focuses on the script and on the acting and the actors often using the same actors.
The made for tv-movie is minor work in the ouevre of Vinterberg, but it does show him from his humouristic side and also tells us, that he knows his popular Danish film, such as the famous Olsen Banden.
Director Thomas Vinterberg, hovewer, explained in an interview that he gave up that idea at a very early stage (Jensen 1998: 15).
www.staff.hum.ku.dk /schantz/celebration.htm   (4469 words)

  
 How can film art proceed? - Festen (Celebration), a film by Thomas Vinterberg, and the Dogme 95 event at the London ...
Vinterberg's Dogme 1 Festen offered a good chance to see what can be done working to the Vow of Chastity.
Whilst he is interested in the individuals, Vinterberg's film is about the milieu, what he described as "group portraits".
That Vinterberg has achieved something of note here suggests that, in the hands of the right director, the Vow of Chastity can lead on to other futures for the cinema.
www.wsws.org /arts/1998/nov1998/vin-n28.shtml   (1815 words)

  
 IAAL Review - www.ezboard.com
In that case it will be a new experience for Thomas Vinterberg, whose boyish face with the boxer nose and tousled hair has been in the media since his Dogme movie "Festen" won the Jury’s special price at the Film Festival in Cannes in 1998.
A big terrible Dane is living inside me, and that is very sad" Thomas Vinterberg says from his base with Nimbus Film which in neighbour to Zentropa in the Film city in Avedøre.
Vinterberg was suppose to go to Cannes in may 2002.
p214.ezboard.com /fjmofrm1.showMessage?topicID=23.topic   (5839 words)

  
 Telegraph | Arts | Film-makers on film: Thomas Vinterberg
"This is going to sound a bit of an excuse," says Thomas Vinterberg, "in the sense that Stalker was groundbreaking for me, but it's a while ago that I've seen it, so I cannot give you the deep analysis of it.
Vinterberg did, however, realise this a few years later, when he was putting Festen together.
The tale of a family gathering that unleashes the darkest secrets, Festen was the first (and still the best) film to be made according to Dogme rules, and was an instant classic.
www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/02/16/bfvint14.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/02/17/ixartright.html   (927 words)

  
 Dogme 95   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Festen (Celebration), a film by Thomas Vinterberg, Film, review, Festen, Celebration, Dogme 95, Thomas Vinterberg Dogme 95 is a group of Celebration), a film by Thomas Vinterberg, and the Dogme 95 event at the London Film Meta Description: Dogme 95 is a group of Danish directors, preeminently Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg.
thomas vinterberg (2nd from the right) at the press conference for the london film festival.
The Manifesto of the Dogme 95 brotherhood (mainly Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg) is both Ludditical and...
foolia.com /3news/36/dogme-95.html   (839 words)

  
 It's All About Love   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
PARK CITY -- Thomas Vinterberg's "It's All About Love" is more caught up in film methodology and reflections on the contemporary world than in coherent storytelling.
Vinterberg admits as much in his director's statement when he says, "I suppose the plot is only there to translate (co-writer Mogens Rukov's and my) thoughts."
Vinterberg calls his film a dream, which presumably justifies its defiance of logic or rationale.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/awards/sundance/reviews_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1789575   (692 words)

  
 Intense `Celebration' Descends Into Darkness
With Ulrich Thomsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Henning Moritzen, Paprika Steen and Birthe Neuman.
Instead, director Thomas Vinterberg subverts our expectations and brings to his drama a harshness of tone and gritty, stripped-down technique.
Instead, true to his vow, Vinterberg shot the sequence with candlelight from the dining tables and a single light mounted atop his camera.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/1998/10/30/DD68105.DTL&type=printable   (449 words)

  
 The Celebration . Tucson Weekly . 11-09-98
The Celebration, described by director Thomas Vinterberg as a Post-Digital Neorealist film, offers viewers a similar look at a bourgeois Danish family assembled for the 60th birthday party of the patriarch, Helge Klingenfeldt.
Vinterberg and friend Lars Von Trier (Breaking the Waves, The Idiots) received attention at Cannes last spring in part because of their filmmaking manifesto, Dogma 95, and the "Vow of Chastity" they signed with two other Danish directors.
Both documents are a response to what they consider the overuse of new technologies in contemporary moviemaking, from special effects to post-dubbed sound, as they distract from the exploration and development of the characters.
www.filmvault.com /filmvault/tw/c/celebrationthe1.html   (821 words)

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