white night wedding ( icelandic : brúðguminn ) is a 2008 icelandic film directed by baltasar kormákur .

the bittersweet comedy , about the never-ending search for love and happiness , takes place in flatey , breiðafjörður , western iceland .

the film is loosely based on the play ivanov by anton chekhov .

white night wedding

“white night wedding is a highly entertaining film revolving around the search for happiness .
white night wedding was iceland’s entry for the oscar nominations 2009 – the foreign language film .
“by delivering white night wedding , baltasar fulfils all the promises that his earlier movies have given . ”
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directed by [ baltasar kormákur ] . . . white night wedding is perhaps his most ambitious endeavour to date .
white night wedding was opened in iceland january 18th 2008 and was first released internationally at the toronto international film festival september 7th 2008 .
pippa walked down the aisle in a beautiful white lace wedding gown by giles deacon .
i would say that white night wedding is a “feel - good” movie which leaves you pretty satisfied about yourself and life in general . ”
now this is nice to see . baltasar kormakur‘s fabulous white night wedding has been chosen as iceland’s official entry for the best foreign language film oscar derby for 2008 .
the film , white night wedding tells , the story of jon , a university teacher who is trying to figure out his life and himself during one bright summer night in the island of flatey , which lies in breidafjordur in west iceland . white night wedding , or brudguminn in icelandic , is a dramedy about the joy of life and search for happiness , although with bittersweet undertones , for there is never light without some streaks of shadow .
“white night wedding is a highly enjoyable artistic production , not only because of the beauty and joy but because of the undercurrent , so quaintly heavy and intrusive , despite all the vivacity . ”
“in a nutshell , it is fair to say that white night wedding is a flawless and enjoyable movie which comes like a fresh breath of air into the darkest and coldest part of the year . ”
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meghan markle may have missed out on pippa middleton ‘s wedding ceremony but she reportedly joined prince harry to dance the night away at the reception .
there was a brief glimpse of american actress meghan markle as prince harry drove her into the middleton family home for pippa’s wedding reception on saturday night .
the film is inspired by anton checkhov ' s stage play ivanov and was filmed in the small island flatey with an all - icelandic cast and crew . white night wedding was developed simultaneously for stage and screen with the same cast .
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wedding services include venue décor , floral arrangements , tiered wedding cakes , wedding banquets , music and dance , special romantic dining , special wedding services at the tulia spa , beauty and hair treatments at the salon , special requests for accommodation for the guests and a honeymoon suite for the newlyweds .
these problems don’t make it impossible to enjoy white night , but they do make it hard to recommend to any but existing fans of the genre . if anything its flaws can be taken as further proof of just how hard it is to make a well - balanced survival horror . and while white night doesn’t quite get things right it’s still an enjoyably frightening experience .
“the icelandic “film spring” came to an end on january 16 , and right after was followed by the outset of a long awaited icelandic film summer with the premiere of the white night wedding by baltasar kormákur – the most remarkably well done icelandic film to date . ”
people have been dying to know what meghan markle wore to pippa middleton’s wedding .
“the film white night wedding grabs the audience and never misses a beat . it gets a stronger hold as the plot unwinds and leaves a lot of good moods and things to ponder on at the end . baltasar kormákur’s film is yet another victory the already highly successful director . ”
a film by : baltasar kormákur screenplay by : baltasar kormákur & ólafur egill egilsson white night wedding was opened in iceland january 18th 2008 and was first released internationally at the toronto international film festival september 7th 2008 . at the edda awards in november 2008 the film received 7 awards .
it had been reported that meghan wore a long black dress and a white jacket to pippa’s wedding to james matthews but now it’s believed she wore something a little more like this .
she is said to have changed into an elegant , white floor - length gown for the reception .
amritpal singh and the man eventually released from custody were both arrested leaving the scene in a white maserati .
pippa’s wedding dress designer giles deacon has praised the bride’s eye when it comes to fashion .
woman wearing a black marocain dress with a white romain crepe blouse - undated , though thought to be around 1928 .
pippa and james’ wedding reportedly could have cost more than £1million - if it wasn’t for discounts .
but yesterday at pippa’s wedding to james matthews it was his younger sibling that set tongues wagging .
there ' s something pippa wore to both her own and sister kate ' s wedding . . .
pippa middleton’s uncle gary goldsmith became the unofficial source of glimpses inside the wedding of the year yesterday .
while she didn’t attend the ceremony , the suits actress reportedly joined boyfriend prince harry at the reception to dance the night away .
this is not just to help you navigate around , but to keep the ghosts at bay . there are no zombies in white night but if you’re caught in the dark by a ghost then you’ll be instantly killed , with no way to defend yourself .
interesting , unpredictable , and shadows of the white nights falls in a distance , as well as in character ' s souls .
this should be a nice time for
white night wedding
( icelandic title
brudguminn
translates as
the bridegroom
) . anton chekhov is flavor of the month on broadway (
the seagull
) and in london , via kenneth branagh ' s much - ballyhooed revival of
ivanov ,
the russian playwright ' s late - 1880s debut .
according to reports , all the staff serving food and drink at the wedding were all models and actors .
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but now he’s faced backlash on twitter for “going against family wishes at the wedding” with his social media posts .
engagement rumours have been swirling for ages and meghan’s appearance at pippa’s wedding reception has only fuelled the speculation further .
the little sister of kate , the duchess of cambridge wore a white lace giles deacon wedding dress as she tied the knot with businessman james in front of friends and family at st . mark ' s church in englefield , berkshire on saturday morning .
the biggest hit in iceland in 2008 , white night wedding is a contemporary story loosely based on anton chekhov ' s play ivanov . it was developed simultaneously for stage and screen , with the same cast of nine top icelandic actors including hilmir snær guðnason ( the quiet storm ) , margrét vilhjálmsdóttir ( thicker than water ) , and ólafur egil egilsson , who co - wrote the script with kormákur .
at kate middleton’s wedding in 2011 , it was her younger sister pippa who was the unlikely star of the show .
it costs a staggering £3 , 000 a night to stay in a thatched beachside lodge – complete with their own personal swimming pool - on the island .
the main point that adiga makes about corruption in the novel , the white tiger , is that corruption and violence can only breed more corruption and violence .
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trailer for film white night wedding by baltasar kormakur . jon , a middle - aged professor is going to get married tomorrow , for the second time , to one of his ex - students half his age . but its not all roses . firstly , theres his cranky mother - in - law - to - be who violently opposes the marriage and who demands repayment of jons loan before the wedding night . secondly , his plans to build a golf course on the little island of flatey where they live arent going at all to plan . thirdly his extremely drunk best man is on the loose without any shoes and lastly , the continual presence of his emotional first wife is haunting his every move . . . when the guests start flocking to the island , jon starts getting cold feet . . . after a very long night of drinking and thinking , will jon be able to make it to the church on time ?
pippa middleton and james matthews’ wedding reportedly could have cost more a huge £1million - if it wasn’t for a number of hefty discounts .
white night is by new french studio osome games , and while it has plenty of new ideas of its own its influences are very obvious . this is old school survival horror that harkens back to the original alone in the dark , the french classic which started the whole genre and was such an influence on the first resident evil .
on and on it went , one plot explosion after another — bran spilled the beans ! samwell made him re - examine those beans , and the legumes became even more spillable ! — ending with the night king’s freshly minted night dragon using that hot blue breath of his to blow a hole in humanity’s centuries - old first line of defense .
giles deacon , who crafted pippa’s stunning bespoke white lace gown , is the boyfriend of game of thrones actress gwendoline christie , better known to millions as brienne of tarth .
according to the telegraph , she wore her hair down , in a similar style to the duchess of cambridge at her wedding in 2011 .
it was widely rumoured that a social media ban had been enforced so no insider pictures of the church service or wedding reception surfaced online .
fremont — a man left comatose after being badly beaten at a wedding reception brawl saturday has shown signs of improvement , authorities said thursday .
on thursday night , 12 - year - old ananya vinay won the scripps national spelling bee after correctly spelling the word “marocain . ” but what exactly does that word mean ?
to prove its old school credentials white night even uses fixed camera views , although often it will also pan around so you can see most or all of an area at once . since most of the mansion is cast in pitch black much of the gameplay revolves around navigating the darkness and finding some sort of light source , even if it’s just more matches .
gebhardt said they were part of a group of 700 that had been attending a wedding reception at the hall , which had hired four security guards .
the bride said she didn’t know how the outsiders found out about the party , but she suspects some of the wedding guests may have told them .
so there was one thing that she wore on her own wedding day that was exactly the same as her look for the duchess of cambridge’s nuptials .
the wedding reception , which was was attended by an estimated 700 people , according to police , was saturday night but it was not known how many were officially invited . the bride has told this newspaper the fighting was started by several uninvited guests who showed up , were asked to leave and then began attacking people early sunday in the parking lot .
the film is inspired by anton checkhov ' s stage play ivanov and was filmed in the small island flatey with an all - icelandic cast and crew . white night wedding was developed simultaneously for stage and screen with the same cast . to this date the film has received the following international nominations : 1 . iceland´s entry for the oscar nominations 2009 - foreign language film . 2 . nominated for the 2008 nordic film council prize white night wedding was iceland ' s entry for the oscar nominations 2009 – the foreign language film . synopsis : jon , a middle - aged professor is about to get married for the second time . this time to a young woman , half his age . there are those who oppose to the marriage , including his future parents - in - law . when the guests start flocking to the island where the marriage is to be held , the groom starts getting cold feet . his mind goes back to the year before , when he moved to the island with his first wife . subtitles : english genre : drama audio : icelandic published : 2008 region 2 dvd
bergen - - after 2006 ' s smart policier
jar city
translated awards and critical acclaim into international art - house success , iceland ' s leading writer - director baltasar kormakur stumbles with his over - ambitious follow - up , white night wedding .
a loose chekhov update awkwardly combining comic and tragic elements , iceland ' s foreign - language oscar candidate has scored runaway domestic success . overseas audiences are unlikely to be wooed , however , and festival - exposure will derive more from kormakur ' s name than the picture ' s own uneven merits .
as people around the world talk about how beautiful pippa middleton looked on her wedding day , this morning viewers were given some workout tips inspired by her amazing arms .
acting as maid of honour for kate’s royal wedding to prince william back in april 2011 – she made a name for herself as one of the country’s most stylish socialites .
and she’s got a thumbs up from david emanuel , one half of the emanuel design team who created princess diana’s iconic wedding dress for her nuptials to prince charles in 1981 .
as you creep through the darkness , hoping to make it to the safety of the next pool of light , getting jumped by a spectre never happens quite when you expect it and the panic is always genuine . not least because of how widely space apart the save points are . white night definitely replicates the feeling of old school resident evil , where you carefully plot your next sortie according to how far you think you can make it with your current supplies .
big sister kate and husband prince william took a breather after their wedding before jetting off on honeymoon , waiting a month between their nuptials at westminster abbey and their travels to the seychelles .
when pippa middleton was maid of honour for her sister kate’s royal wedding to prince william back in april 2011 – she made a name for herself as one of the country’s most stylish socialites .
harry and meghan are said to have made a joint decision to not upstage bride on her wedding day , which is why no photos of the american actress’ involvement in the reception have emerged .
that night , balram woke dharam by shrieking when a gecko landed in the bed . surprised by his uncle’s intense fear , dharam easily disposed of the lizard . repeating the line of poetry he learned earlier , balram then lulled himself to sleep .
being scared of the dark is the most primal fear we humans have , but utilising that fact in games creates some obvious problems . if you can’t see what you’re doing or where you’re going then you’ve got real problems if you’re to make anything that’s even remotely action - orienated . that doesn’t mean it’s impossible though , and white night uses the fear of the unseen to create some interestingly unique puzzles and visuals . even if the end result is less than the sum of its parts .
the couple are said to have made a joint decision to not upstage bride on her wedding day – and it now seems that this even extended to her choice of outfit for the evening do .
with bruoguminn ( aka white night wedding ) , icelandic cause - célébré director baltasar kormákur updates the chekhov play + ivanov and geographically transports it to the island of flatey , just off the icelandic coast . at the outset of the tale , literature professor jon prepares to wed onetime student thora , the daughter of the region ' s most prosperous clan . sadly , however , disadvantageous circumstances threaten to stand in the way of the couple ' s happiness , including a fiscal dispute between the family of the bride and the family of the bridegroom , and by jon ' s complicated past - a past that involves a prior marriage that gave the young man grave self - doubts and made him feel deeply unworthy .
an unorthodox wedding caper in which , if you google image search the name of the town , you can see a real slice of life : the houses are all there , it truly is a piece of icelandic culture ( i presume . . . what do i know about icelandic culture ) . someone in iceland must agree , too , it took home seven of that country ' s national film awards including best picture . the story focuses on a professor entering his second marriage , this time with one of his students , and the upheaval it causes given the circumstances : he owes her parents a lot of money , and the mysteries around the end of his first marriage , among other things . the professor spends the night before the wedding getting drunk with his friends , and many realizations are made before the wedding is to take place . very interesting movie , well worth checking out .
one us fan , kourteney coleman , also lined the streets for kate and william’s wedding in london in 2011 and said being a fan of prince harry’s girlfriend , actress meghan markle , was added incentive to come to englefield .
and jon snow was even bolder , knock - knock - knocking on daenerys’s bedchambers door late at night , after the big meetings with cersei were over . was that 1970s porno music i detected playing in the background or just tyrion humming outside their door so he wouldn’t hear too much ?
with the wedding guests making their way home - no doubt nursing several sore heads - it looks like workmen have started to take apart the £100 , 000 marquee that housed the reception in the grounds of the middleton family home .
“they ruined our party , ’’ said kaur . “it was a huge disappointment . and we’re especially angry with royal palace at how badly they ruined our wedding by not having enough security guards on hand . they had no backup plan . ’’
fremont — the bride whose wedding last weekend was marred by a massive parking lot brawl that left two people with critical injuries , including one in a coma , said wednesday the melee was sparked by party - crashers who were asked to leave .
sarova whitesands beach resort & spa has hosted many special weddings and is well geared to create a spectacular wedding event . the resort has many interesting venues such as the palms pool island , on the beach or even in a glass bottomed boat .
daily mail estimates £100 , 000 for the marquee , £40 , 000 for the giles deacon wedding gown , £40 , 000 on russian caviar , £15 , 000 on the cake , and £2 , 000 bridal shoes helped contribute to the overall total .
this frock is among the creations ( schiaparelli ) chosen by mrs . wallis simpson , to be worn after her 1937 marriage to the duke of windsor . mrs . simpson ' s flair for sport clothes is demonstrated in the above . it is a crepe marocain , boldly printed in blue , black and white .
jon , a middle - aged professor is going to get married tomorrow , for the second time , to one of his ex - students half his age . but it ' s not all roses . first , there ' s his cranky mother - in - law - to - be who violently opposes the marriage and who demands repayment of jon ' s loan before the wedding night . second , his plans to build a golf course on the little island of flatey where they live aren ' t going at all to plan . third , his extremely drunk best man is on the loose without any shoes and lastly , the continual presence of his emotional first wife is haunting his every move . when the guests start flocking to the island , jon starts getting cold feet . after a very long night of drinking and thinking , will jon be able to make it to the church on time ?
jon , who has always believed himself to be ned stark’s bastard son , “needs to know the truth , ” bran said to samwell tarly , jon’s old night’s watch pal , newly arrived at winterfell . “jon isn’t really my father’s son . he’s the ( bastard ) son of rhaegar targaryen and my aunt lyanna stark . ”
lying in bed one night , balram convinced himself that his employers owed him enough money to hire thousands of golden - headed prostitutes . over the next two weeks , balram employed several of the techniques to steal money from his master . the more he stole from ashok , the more his resentment and feelings of vindication grew .
keeping with the highly symbolic landscape that adiga uses to characterize balram ' s mental state in this chapter , two central events here have a strong symbolic significance . first is balram ' s trip to the national zoo , where he confronts another of his doubles : the actual white tiger . this almost spiritual experience emboldens balram to embrace his white tiger identity and triumph over ashok , the lamb . it is telling that he has a mini - resurrection , losing himself and then waking with an unshaken certainty . it is a type of re - birth , exactly what he needs to truly achieve the luxury and respect that he dreams of .
manjeet kaur , 25 , of fremont , told this newspaper that the fight started after a group showed up during the reception and , after being asked to leave , waited outside and attacked the wedding guests in the parking lot of the royal palace banquet hall .
the royal palace banquet hall is photographed in fremont , calif . , on wednesday , may 10 , 2017 . a brawl at a wedding reception involving almost 70 people broke out at the banquet hall on saturday . ( anda chu / bay area news group )
i’ve been skeptical about last week’s mission north : capturing a zombie soldier to prove their reality to cersei so she would join the greater cause didn’t seem worth risking the lives of jon snow , his buddies and , as it turned out , one of dany’s dragons , who died and was resurrected as the night king’s lizard steed .
this became especially true when the episode ended with the undead dragon vs . wall fiery fly - by . the men of the night’s watch , guardians of the wall for eons , plummeted to their deaths , fresh recruits for the ghostly fighting corps that walked through that new breach and toward winterfell , lurching straight into season 8 .
here is a new video of the fremont wedding brawl provided from a second anonymous source . it was originally posted on facebook tuesday and has been viewed extensively . it shows some of the mayhem more clearly than the original video obtained by the bay area news group linked here .
if either you or your partner are under 21 years of age on the date of your marriage , and will not be accompanied by a parent or guardian : an affidavit , granting permission for the wedding to be prepared and sworn in your country of residence , prior to your date of travel .
two days later , balram eavesdropped on a conversation between mr . ashok and ms . uma as he drove them to the mall . their relationship was becoming more serious , and she pressured him to tell his family about their wedding plans , while he insisted he still needed time to get over the divorce .
that evening , balram told ashok that his family has sent him a helper , and ashok welcomed the boy . noticing that dharam was obedient and polite , balram felt guilty for hitting him . he brought the boy to a tea shop , where vitiligo - lips demanded 500 rupees he still owed from his night with anastasia , and threatened to tell mr . ashok if he did not pay .
the next morning , a guilty balram almost confessed his murderous thoughts when ashok entered the car . he stumbled to speak , and ashok assumed he was asking for money with which to be married . he gave balram a hundred rupee note towards wedding expenses , but balram also noticed the man deciding not to give him more .
as you can see the visuals are portrayed solely in black and white , in a style similar similar to frank miller’s sin city and wii game madworld . at their best the visuals are stunning , with great art design that creates a great sense of foreboding without having to resort to any gore or overt violence . ( at their worst the colour scheme just seems to be hiding some very low tech graphics , with the character’s face never looking quite right . )
raja singh , who owns a fremont photography studio , said he was hired by the groom to shoot the wedding . he said he arrived at the royal palace around 4 p . m . saturday afternoon and set up his equipment as guests started to arrive . singh said that shortly after midnight , when around 200 guests were still at the event , the fight broke out .
he and dharam took a bus to the zoo , a place balram genuinely appreciated for its beauty . while there , he stared at the old fort in the distance , remembering a line from the iqbal poem which stated that one ceases to be a slave when one discovers what is beautiful in the world . at the white tiger ' s cage , balram made eye contact with beast , thinking ahead to making eye contact with ashok before the murder . overcome with feelings , he fainted .
further , this moment continues the motif of dualities . at the characters see each other in the mirror , their roles reverse . ashok is no longer the stronger , richer , more elite version of the poor , uneducated servant balram . instead , the white tiger has gained dominion over his weaker , inferior double , the lamb . it is appropriate that this reversal takes place while out in the indian capital , since balram has established it as a city of dualities , uniting both parts of india . as balram observes , “the light and the darkness both flow into delhi” ( 215 ) .
that night , a distraught mr . ashok asked balram to drive him to the imperial hotel . on the way , he placed many frantic phone - calls , lamenting that their “income - tax mess” would only get worse ( 231 ) . after a meeting with two politicians at the imperial hotel , mr . ashok asked balram to drive two men around town , while ashok stayed behind . one of the men was vijay , balram’s childhood hero , who had risen in the political ranks . in the car , vijay and his colleague drank ashok’s whiskey while laughing about the bribe he was to pay them .
the third big fake out came after tyrion seemed to talk cersei into coming back to the arena of negotiation she had walked out of . “i will march north to fight alongside you in the great war , ” cersei said , and viewers gasped at the ice queen finally demonstrating humanity . psych ! it was all a mega - ruse , we later learned , three - dimensional chess or 16 - square tic - tac - toe or some such . cersei had no intention of joining and instead would let jon and daenerys try to fight the white walkers so that she could take on their weakened forces should they win .
further escalating this sense of tension is yet another highly meaningful exchange between balram and ashok in the rearview mirror . watching his own reflection in the mirror , balram experiences a moment of dissociation from his own features , seeing himself as the white tiger , “a cat watching its prey” ( 208 ) . simultaneously , balram convinces himself that the money is rightfully his . this moment is arguably the first in which he fully commits to his plan . what adiga suggests is that the rage born of fear and resentment would never have overpowered balram ' s traditional morality , which the reader knows continues to resonate within him . instead , he had to rationalize the murder , to fit it within his moral framework .
this icelandic comedy takes part on an island outside the northwest coast . they have a church , a priest , german tourists , a grocery , a white trasher who wants to start a golf business and most of all . . . they ' ve got this middle - aged philosophy teacher , who wants to start a new life with his mentally weak wife . but he meets this young girl and the circus is on . or the chaos . the first half of this film is full of flashbacks . the content is both very tragical and most comical , but in this case , they don ' t match . a good try perhaps , but not enough of it to make this a good movie . and the flashback technique could have been used with some moderation .
icelandic film that would appear to be your typical romantic comedy judging by the movie poster . there ' s a whole lot more happening than the goofy mess that can be found in the u . s . theaters almost every weekend . this is art house goodness in almost every sense . what a beautiful , unique location this takes place in : a small , car - less island just off the coast of iceland . a man is about to marry a woman half his age and has flashbacks to his previous wife and what happened in that marriage in the year leading up to this wedding . there are so many emotions going through several of these characters . the story almost seamlessly flips back and forth between past and present . blink and you might miss which time frame it ' s in . a pretty interesting story that so easily helps establish the fact that foreign ( to me ) cinema is often much better than typical american trash ! ( oh , and there ' s a great joke included about big burger butt americans ! haaa ! ! ! ) 7 . 1 / 10 stars - - zoooma , a kat pirate screener
hmmmmm . and an admiring hmm at that . first thing i thought of is the same kind of emotional juxtaposition or almost confusion that rings through this movie as reykevik 101 ( the director ' s first film ) . back then i was very uncomfortable with that , now still not normal per se but more manageable yet kind of refreshing . base on an chekhov ' s ivanov , the film alters back and forth wonderfully over time on events before and immediately leading up to a wedding on an island between an professor and a young girl . while the story ' s theme obviously stated in the movie and told by the director in q & a , is about searching for happiness and doing the
right
thing , many hilarious moments are interjected directly with the dramatic moments and vice versa . and these moments of emotional swings are very immediate creating a push and pull effect . and this might affect some audience immersing into the story . q & a also brought out the same cast also acted in a stage production of the same play during the same time as the film ' s release in iceland and was a very successful run . at times though , i did find a certain
lecturing
aspect in a few of the scenes . so although good , still a very idealistic or somewhat protruding kind of meandering .
as the film opens we watch a bride and a groom exchanging wedding vows . at a crucial moment , a cellular phone rings . it belongs to jon , the groom , who excuses himself to answer . the call is from his parents , who seem to be lost and want directions . we suddenly realize it is not the real thing , but a rehearsal for the event . the action takes place in a small island off the coast of iceland . jon , a former college professor , has escaped to this isolated spot after being fed up with his life . he came with anna , an artist , with whom he has been living . anna shows signs of depression , or perhaps another affliction that keeps her emotionally apart from jon . one of jon ' s students , thora , arrive with a group of friends in flatey . she has ties to the island . her parents own the main store . it appears she was always attracted to her teacher , who is about twenty years her senior . their affair plays heavily into anna , who becomes even more despondent , leading ultimately to her own demise . director baltasar kormakur , whose
the sea
made an impression , is at it again . the film is not exactly easy to sit through . the narrative may confuse his audience , but we realize there are two situations taking place at different times . the film was co - written by the director and ogaful egilsson . the creators tried to give the film a lighter pace , what with the idea of the golf course running through one small island into flatey and different holes running among the residential area . the result is a film that needs to be viewed with an open mind because mr . kormakur has proved worthy of our attention . the icelandic cast does justice to the director ' s intentions .
after seeing this film , i wanted to see it again . the characters were so complicated . there was the middle aged professor , who had grown weary of his mentally ill wife and had fallen for a young student of his . there was his friend , a big oaf and church organist , who had never found true love in his life . there was the repressed priest , who was a step away from realizing that he had found the wrong calling . there were the future in - laws . the father of the bride is a working man , who has the voice of luciano pavrotti , and regrets he never tried to be a great tenor . there is the cynical and jealous mother of the bride , whose main reason for hating her future son - in - law is that he never has repaid a debt that he owes . this is all on an island in northern iceland . it is a small island where everyone knows everyone else ' s dirty laundry , yet somehow fools still believe that they can hide their lives . there are the tourists from all over , who come to this island where there is basically nothing . still , to scare up tourism , the locals foolishly believe that they can advertise the place as a tourist mecca . the groom and his childhood friend dream of the money that they will make when they build their golf course ( basically , teeing off from the a rock out in the water ) . the movie is sad . the professor groom really hurt his wife , driving her to suicide by bringing his bride to be to the island for a wedding . in his perverse guilt , the groom believes that somehow he will bring peace over his adultery and abandonment of his wife . while not as good as the sea , this is still a delightful movie that is filled with good witticism .
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jon , a middle - aged professor is about to get married for the second time . this time to a young woman , half his age . there are those who oppose to the marriage , including his future parents - in - law . when the guests start flocking to the island where the marriage is to be held , the groom starts getting cold feet . his mind goes back to the year before , when he moved to the island with his first wife .
seljavegur 2 is - 101 reykjavík iceland . tel . + 354 511 7060 fax . + 354 511 7061 blueeyes @ urltoken
blueeyes productions / sögn ehf . was founded by baltasar kormákur and lilja pálmadóttir in 1999 and has its headquarters in downtown reykjavík . the productions have included feature films , quality stage productions and a 6 - part tv series , but for the last two years the key focus has been solely on feature films . to this date the company has produced six feature films ; additionally two are in post - production , one of which will be premiered in january 2008 . furthermore , four other feature films are in development .
blueeyes productions has throughout the years collaborated with some of iceland’s finest and most creative artists and professionals within the field , as well as internationally acclaimed artists . these successful collaborations have brought home a large number of both national and international awards and nominations , and have furthermore inspired the company to continue its search for innovative ways of storytelling and film - making .
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brúðguminn is a movie starring hilmir snær guðnason , margrét vilhjálmsdóttir , and laufey elíasdóttir . jon , a middle - aged professor is going to get married tomorrow , for the second time , to one of his ex - students half his age . but it ' s not all roses . first , there ' s his cranky . . . see full summary »
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a rich father in a fisher village plans to take on the project of writing his life story . but first he has to take on his own family , and everybody wants something . . .
thirty - year - old hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking , watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks . a girl is interested in him , but he . . . see full summary »
a murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad .
based on actual events , a fisherman tries to survive in the freezing ocean after his boat capsizes off the south coast of iceland .
a husband and wife tangle with an investigator over her dead brother ' s million - dollar insurance policy .
icelandic auteur baltasar kormákur ( contraband , 2 guns , everest ) directs and stars in this psychological thriller about a father who tries to pull his daughter out of her world of drugs and . . . see full summary »
georg tries to get his life back on track after a five year stint in jail .
a reykjavik pre - school teacher struggles to raise her daughter while selling casual sex to help make ends meet .
páll is an artistic and sensitive young man . getting dumped by his girlfriend , dagny , triggers his descent into madness . we follow him on his way to what seems like inevitable doom ; at home . . . see full summary »
a couple goes to dangerous lengths to find a lung donor for their daughter .
an art - house comedy about an ordinary family running the unusual business of elf tourism and spiritual sessions . their house is built around an elf stone , which is sacred to the wife lara , . . . see full summary »
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the films uneasy shifts in tone disrupt the sense of rhythm needed for the comic elements to work .
. . . it ' s almost impossible work up any enthusiasm for the foibles of the various characters thanks to an emphasis on eye - rolling instances of quirkiness and melodrama .
kormakur , in collaboration with co - writer olafur egilsson , transplants the story to iceland ' s bleakly scenic second - largest island flatey , which looks just great via bergsteinn bjorgulfsson ' s cinematography . here we find self - absorbed college - lecturer jon ( hilmir snaer gudnason ) preparing to marry his former student thora ( laufey eliasdottir ) and morosely pondering his previous relationship with mentally - unstable artist anna ( margret vilhjalmsdottir ) .
deploying some flashily jagged editing techniques , kormakur cuts between past and present , building up to the predictably ( and rather heavy - handedly ) chaotic nuptials . these center on the island ' s atmospheric church , which features murals painted 40 years ago by kormakur ' s own catalan - artist dad . another notable visual moment involves an outdoor midnight - sun feast that concludes with myriad banknotes fluttering away on the breeze - - an image given savagely ironic significance in the light of iceland ' s economic woes .
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i liked the first half of the movie because of the beautiful scenery of iceland . the island is beautiful , the small community on it is interesting and one can easily start to dream how it might be to live in there . some characters are really funny and definitely likable ( the huge viking - looking friend of the lead character is definitely someone who would be very cool to party with ) . and the
development project
for the island is funny and crazy as well . on the other hand the story was somewhat hard to understand for me . it took me half of the movie to actually understand that the movie is basically a big pile of mess assembled from scenes from
the past
and scenes from
the present
. these scenes are blended so homogeneously that they actually seem to be single linear yet surreal story . actually i was not sure if there is one lead character who has one wife and tries to marry another one or if there are identical twins or what the hell happens . i was confused . the cuts basically do not give any clues about temporal relations of individual scenes . so i have started to untangle the storyline mess only at the end - and the resulting story was not something i would like . especially the lead character is very ugly in the resulting picture - cold , weak and immoral . his first wife was much more interesting and true character . maybe it would be better for me if i spent the rest of the movie in false idea that it is just visually beautiful , surreal , experimental movie .
i ' ve loved iceland since my layovers in rekjavik on the way to france a couple times so i was looking forward to a film that would allow me to return to this beautiful place . and , as it turned out , the scenery was the best part of this frustrating tragicomedy . am i the only one who thought jon was attempting bigamy for much of this film ? it was only toward the end that i realized the stuff about his first wife was only a flashback and not a concurrent soap opera . i found this to be the archetypal movie that doesn ' t know what it wants to be - - a profound mediation on the idiocy of irresponsible men going through menopause ( a la bergman ) or a zany romp about love conquering all . all the stuff about jon ' s mentally ill first wife was both heart - wrenching and tedious . i sympathized with her plight and i tired of watching her strew seaweed all over the place . one character i did enjoy was jon ' s future mother - in - law . i understood her extreme skepticism toward a graying deadbeat marrying her young daughter . i don ' t think she was obsessed with money ; rather , she was identifying a critical flaw in the match . the final scene was both ridiculous and sad . maybe the whole movie was . i ' m just glad i got to see my dear iceland again . . .
hi i ' m icelandic ( this comment is biist because i hate the director ) this movie is an insult to all movie ' urltoken ' s a tragedy tale were the only remotely enjoyable characters are in the background , you don ' t feel for the main character because most of the time your ' e just too bored . the main character is in a dangerous situation he owes his soon - to - be - in - laws money and knows that if he leaves his fiancé her parents are gonna make him own so he ' s in a challenging situation to stay with the fiancé when he doesn ' t like her and being trapped or leave having to confront his debt . the character has no character he just goes in a depressed state considers suicide he stays with her trapped , sad then a depressing urltoken over
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taxi zum klo is a 1981 film written by , directed by , and starring frank ripploh .

the story of a schoolteacher and the contrasts between his public and private lives , the film documents pre-aids gay culture in west berlin in the early 1980s .

the name literally means taxi to the toilet ( or " taxi to the john " , etc. ) , that being a place for casual gay sex .

taxi zum klo

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' ' taxi zum klo ' ' will be shown tonight at 9 : 30 and sunday at 2 at the new york film festival .
taxi zum klo treats sex seriously without sacralizing it ; throughout the film , ripploh reveals a wry intelligence about the eternal dilemma of monogamy versus promiscuity .
taxi zum klo is screening as part of metrograph a to z , a collection of films we think everybody should see . click here for more info .
in 2011 , taxi zum klo was resubmitted to the bbfc for a cinema and dvd re - release and was passed 18 uncut , with all previous cuts waived .
a refreshingly non - judgemental and amusing portrait of homosexuality in the pre - aids era , taxi zum klo matter - of - factly addresses the mundane and the perverse .
the village voice hailed it as ' the first masterpiece about the mainstream of male gay life ' . taxi zum klo tied with beau - père in winning the 1981 boston society of film critics award for best foreign language film .
the village voice hailed it as ' the first masterpiece about the mainstream of male gay life ' . taxi zum klo tied with beau - père in winning the 1981 boston society of film critics award for best foreign language film . ( wikipedia )
taxi zum klo is a truthful film , revolutionary in its time , about love , the pleasures of promiscuity and the fears of the fading of desire . shot just before the great aids scare of the early 1980s , it now has a peculiar place in social and cultural history .
a ground breaking film to challenge the taboo of the german culture . made with a shoestring budget , taxi zum klo is a marvelous film looking at the struggles ripploh himself faces as a public school teacher in the day , but an active hustler at night . the explicit content was sure to shock many , i thought the use of jumpcuts with vintage pornography was quite a clever twist in terms of editing . taxi zum klo was also hilarious to watch with its use of awkward comedy . perhaps not for everyone but certainly an interesting piece of art house gem .
frank ripploh emerges from ' ' taxi zum klo ' ' ( ' ' taxi to the john ' ' ) as a funny , cheerful , sympathetic fellow . in view of the fact that mr . ripploh , who directed the film while also starring in it , has graphically filmed himself doing such things as undergoing a rectal examination at a vd clinic , this is no small accomplishment .
taxi zum klo
does not contain much explicit sex , but the sex it does portray is graphic and will probably shock some viewers . ripploh believes he could not make an honest film of his life without showing us all of it , and his frankness redeems even his most scatological scene .
ripploh wrote , directed , and starred as himself in taxi zum klo , a movie documenting the life of mr . ripploh in west berlin . a schoolteacher by day , and sexually free and obsessed homosexual by night and sometimes day . the film opens with frank waking up naked and sneaking across the…
' ' taxi zum klo , ' ' which is very sexually explicit even by pornomovie standards , is also a believable and sometimes touching portrait of a german homosexual schoolteacher and his circle of friends and lovers . it ought to be believable , because mr . ripploh acknowledges it to be almost entirely autobiographical .
on its first release , taxi zum klo ( 1980 ) was seized by us customs . the film ( its title translates as taxi to the toilet ) was written and directed by frank ripploh who also takes the lead role of a schoolteacher who likes sex . he marks student essays while sitting on cottage toilets , picks up garage attendants , tells his homebody boyfriend that he’s going to clubs to pick up strangers .
aside from making this a film not recommended to the puritanical or fainthearted , the nudity and explicit sexual activity in ' ' taxi zum klo , ' ' although not gratuitous , do constitute a failure of imagination . like any kind of explicitness , the kind on which mr . ripploh relies is the most obvious representation of attitudes and behavior that might have also been represented in other ways . the sex and nudity will undoubtedly account for part of the film ' s popularity with some audiences , but they will also put off others . and ' ' taxi zum klo ' ' is of sufficient quality and interest for that to be a shame .
german native frank ripploh directs and stars in his 1980 feature taxi zum klo , which follows the public and domestic life of a gay schoolteacher residing in west berlin in the eighties . frank ripploh stars as the eponymous protagonist , along with bernd broaderup as bernd , orpha termin , and hans - gerd mehrtens as the leather boy . urltoken
taxi to the john ( taxi zum klo ) , directed by frank ripploh ; screenplay ( german with eng - lish subtitles ) by mr . ripploh ; photography by hor st schier and johannes geyer ; edited by gela - marina runne and mathias von gunten ; music by hans wittstadt ; produced by mr . ripploh , horst schier and laurens straub ; a promovision international films ltd . release . at alice tully hall , part of the 19th new yo rk film festival . running time : 92 minutes . thi s film is not rated .
the intention was that the new category would allow ' sex ' films to be shown in sex clubs , such as those in soho , as well as allowing more explicit material than usual to be shown in more serious cinema clubs . the effect of this legislation was that , from 1983 , it would be necessary for taxi zum klo to obtain an r18 certificate if it were to continue screening in cinema clubs .
in watching a 33 year old movie about homosexuality , i realized just how old some of the struggles within gay culture are . it ' s easy for a younger generation to think that certain struggles are newer because some of the situations and adaptations that have developed are newer . but , by recording a specific culture so personally , as frank ripploh did in taxi zum klo , the macroscopic problems show up in different forms .
taxi zum klo
wird auch unter dem genre komödie eingeordnet , was beim ( heutigen ) publikum wohl eine falsche hoffnung wecken könnte . wer dumpfen heteronormativen
tuntenhumor
erwartet ( looking at you ,
( t ) raumschiff surprise
) , der wird ebenso enttäuscht wie jene , die meinen , mit solch einem label würde es nicht zur sache gehen . hier ist der sex echt , ungeschönt und eben schwul . heutzutage ist man geneigt , diesem umstand nicht allzu viel bedeutung beizumessen , aber mit dem blick des ( mainstream - ) publikums des jahres 1980 rückt sich
taxi zum klo
in eine andere perspektive . am ende des tages ist eine sexszene zwar
nur
eine sexszene , egal , welches geschlecht die beteiligten haben , aber die selbstverständlichkeit , mit der der geschlechtsakt hier gezeigt wird , entbehrt nicht des
muts
, der dem film…
taxi zum klo ( translated
taxi to the toilet
) brushes right past sexual freedom , unquestioned as vital , and starts with the question : now what ? as men unrestrained by traditional structures of marriage , children , religion and monogamy ( let alone ideas of shame and self - loathing that dominated american queer films of the era being seen as completely in the rear - view ) the world is wide open but you still need to pick a direction . to try to do everything you want at the same time is for the children , and leads to madness .
in 1994 , taxi zum klo was formally submitted for video classification . on this occasion , the distributor was more amenable to cuts and cuts were therefore made to remove the material that had proven legally problematic in 1981 as well as to the more explicit sexual and genital detail . ultimately the film was passed 18 for video release after one minute 43 seconds of cuts . subsequent to this , the film was submitted for video classification by film four channel in 2005 .
the triumph of
taxi zum klo
is that , in the midst of its portrait of isolation , frank ripploh himself emerges as a cheerful , open man , willing to reveal his weakness , willing to hope that things will take a turn for the better . the movie is about a person , not about his sex life . it understands that all of our identities and lifestyles are just hopeful strategies in the search for a sense of belonging , usefulness and love .
taxi zum klo
is an unsparingly honest film , documentary matched with ( i assume ) docudrama , in which ripploh reveals himself fearlessly . the revelations that must have taken the most courage are not the ones about his homosexuality , but the ones about his unhappiness , his sense of inadequacy . he appears in this film to be seeking a life of openness , love , beauty and loyalty to a lover - - and at the same time he marches on a treadmill of futile promiscuity .
disc # 1 - - taxi zum klo 1 . rough morning [ 8 : 49 ] 2 . cruising [ 7 : 12 ] 3 . a woman in trouble [ 11 : 33 ] 4 . a future together [ 7 : 15 ] 5 . parent teacher conference [ 8 : 40 ] 6 . dealing with infidelity [ 4 : 17 ] 7 . doctor ' s appoitment [ 8 : 33 ] 8 . third - class patient [ 5 : 57 ] 9 . from the taxi to the toilet [ 7 : 28 ] 10 . coffee at irmchen ' s [ 6 : 33 ] 11 . queen ' s ball [ 5 : 36 ] 12 . roll the dice [ 8 : 13 ]
taxi zum klo , perhaps the best semi - autobiographical gay german film of 1982 , is being re - released to satisfy what we can only presume is a horny and unfazeable public desperate to see more ultra - realistic ( yet grainy ) shots of bearded men screwing in public toilets . ho hum . lent a desperately sad innocence by its pre - aids dismissal of the health risks of going at it with whoever turned up , this has aged unusually but very well . worth a watch if it happens to be on in your area .
meanwhile , ripploh gets fired from his job ( for staying out too late after a drag ball and imprudently turning up in his classroom in drag ) . he contract hepatitis , is hospitalized , and , in the movie ' s saddest scene , leaves the hospital bed in his patient ' s gown , and hails a taxi to take him to a rendezvous with an anonymous stranger ( hence the title ' s english translation ,
taxi to the toilet
) .
taxi is an unusual film which demands a lot of its viewers . some will resent those demands . but it ' s a film that is too uninhibited , too honest , too good , too well made , to ignore or dismiss . it deserves to be seen .
i watched ' taxi zum klo ' in 1985 , at my uni times , at age of 18 . that version was a wildly mutilated one , but i had the option of getting the complete version of it much later . back in 1985 , it was the first time i realized i could live a regular life being gay , enjoying it , sharing it . after watching it i told my friends , family and people i loved . never regretted it . so , this film made a huge impact in my life . i guess there is a small chance of anybody who toke part in the making of this film to read this comment ( sadly , not it ' s director ) . if yes , thanks for this film . twenty years later , i ' m more a frank than a bernd ( lol ) , but . . . thanks anyway .
i suspect bruce labruce ' s take on taxi to the toilet is the one most worth reading if you ' re interested in knowing just what this movie is about , and how well it is handled , by someone with a familiarity with the time and what was being expressed .
frank ripploh ' s autobiographical study of a homosexual teacher was first submitted to the bbfc in september 1981 . the film focusses on the tension between the central character ' s professional life as a school teacher and his personal life in which he engages in gay sex with strangers , often in and around public lavatories ( the film ' s title translates as ' taxi to the toilet ' ) .
i ' m at a point where i wonder if reading this against ( the almost certainly directed by wes craven ) the fireworks woman , an explicitly ( straight ) pornographic film from a half - decade prior , would be fruitful . the fireworks woman is about a brother and sister who have sex until the brother enters the priesthood , at which point the sister wanders through sexual encounters ( including an extended rape scene ) before reuniting with him . taxi to the toilet is…
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best film editing ( awarded in memory of karen schmeer ) - daniel p . hanley and mike hill for rush
note : this year ' s awards are dedicated to the memory of robin dougherty , a former boston phoenix film critic who passed away this summer .
note : this year ' s awards are dedicated to the memory if david brudnoy , one of the society ' s founding members and gracious host of the meetings for many years .
best cinematography - olli barbé ; michel benjamin , sylvie carcedo - dreujou , laurent charbonnier ( i ) , luc drion , laurent fleutot , philippe garguil , dominique gentil , bernard lutic . thierry machado , stéphane martin ( i ) , fabrice moindrot , ernst sasse , michel terrasse and thierry thomas ( i ) for peuple migrateur , le
best actor - tie : brian cox ( i ) for l . i . e . and denzel washington for training day
best supporting actor - tie : william h . macy for pleasantville and billy bob thornton for a simple plan
best screenplay - curtis hanson ( i ) and brian helgeland for l . a . confidential
best supporting actor - edward norton ( i ) for the people vs . larry flynt ( and for primal fear and everyone says i love you )
special award - liane brandon , boston independent filmmaker ( how to prevent a nuclear war , et al . ) special award : richard williams , animation director on who framed roger rabbit ? best discovery or rediscovery : the manchurian candidate ( frankenheimer ) , frankenweenie ( burton ) , lacombe , lucien ( malle ) , the magic garden of stanley sweetheart ( johnson ) , blood feast ( lewis ) best film series : hollywood b . c . / before the code ( brattle ) , the hollywood musical : a tribute to irving berlin ( boston public library ) , dennis hopper : from method to madness ( ica ) , re : vision film festival ( brattle , ica , hfa , and boston film / video foundation )
special commendation - orson welles cinema , cambridge . for making available to the public controversial films that might otherwise not have been shown in the boston area , such as ' je vous salue , marie ' ( 1985 ) and the gay and lesbian film festival . jean - luc godard ' s
je vous salue , marie
was removed from the sack theatres schedule last fall after protestors objected to its present - day treatment of the nativity story . scheduling difficulties were cited as the reason the gay and lesbian film festival was dropped from the nickelodeon lineup . brazil , norman garwood . for achievement in production design , recognizing its nightmarish depiction of a disintegrating totalitarian city .
special commendation to george mansour - the
repo man award
to the film booker for the nickelodeon cinema , for repossessing repo man from consignment to television .
best director - steven spielberg ( i ) for e . t . the extra - terrestrial
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a powerful testimonial to a fading way of life . rating : * * * *
18 cert , 94 min . dir : frank ripploh ; starring : frank ripploh , bernd broaderup and orpha termin .
these adventures , intercut with scenes of vintage porn , are shot naturalistically with ( literally ) warts - and - all candour and a good deal of droll humour . the film , far from being degenerate filth , is a loving document of pre - aids berlin , and a touching comedy about the human desire for and struggle to achieve intimacy .
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was shown in several cinemas under club conditions without a bbfc certificate , i was lined up to give evidence for the defence were it to be prosecuted for obscenity . my services were not required and the film now stands as a milestone in the history of both free speech and the representation of gays in the cinema .
what helps it retain its vitality is that writer - director frank ripploh ( who died of cancer in 2002 at the age of 52 ) treats his life as
a normal , tired , neurotic polymorphous - perverse teacher
in berlin with the same witty , generous , self - denigratory honesty as clive james and simon gray brought to their heterosexual exercises in confessional autobiographies .
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basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him . riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you . …
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…
roger ebert ' s speech on empathy for the
11th hour
series on april 9th , 1994 , being republished here in honor of his birthday june 18 .
roger ebert was born on this day in 1942 , and died a little over five years ago . i owe a good part of my success…
a look back at robert zemeckis ' half - animated classic , who framed roger rabbit , on its 30 - year anniversary .
a tribute to the late tab hunter , a gay matinee idol and hollywood trailblazer .
as the film opens , ripploh is a schoolteacher in west germany . he seems to be a pretty good teacher , cheerful and frank with his students . after hours , he cruises the gay bars and public meeting places , seeking anonymous sex , often with a sadomasochistic flavor . he ' s particularly drawn to gay sleaze , to the bars specializing in the theatrical flaunting of sexual identity , to the places in the big city where sex is mixed with danger .
he meets a young man , berndt , whom he values more than most of his partners . they become lovers . they move in together , and ripploh tries to break his pattern of addictive sex and to be faithful to one person . the movies best scenes involve frank and berndt trying to work out the ground rules of a relationship .
how does he feel about his sex life ? judging by the movie , he finds the sex itself an exciting addiction , but fears his promiscuity is training him to see persons as objects . the end of the process is clearly a great , bleak loneliness , and it is against his loneliness that he seeks protection with berndt .
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the film has the candor of a journal , as it details the daily routine of the teacher , called ' ' frank ' ' by some of his friends and ' ' peggy ' ' by others , and affects an intentionally humdrum tone . but it also has the artfulness to shape seemingly unremarkable incidents in a telling manner . the way in which a jigsaw puzzle that bernd , frank ' s faithful and fastidious lover , has been working on is inadvertently knocked over or bernd ' s irritation at frank ' s messy table habits reveal as much about their relationship as a more direct and emphatic narrative might .
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most unnecessary line of dialogue any recent film has had to offer : frank ' s telling bernd , while putting on his black leather regalia and swallowing a tablet of lsd : ' ' and don ' t wait up for me . i ' ll be late tonight . ' '
with : frank ripploh , bernd broaderup , gitte lederer , hans - gerd mertens , irmgard ladem - acher , beate springer , ulla topf , franco papadou , hans jurgen moller , tabea blumensche in and magdalena montezuma .
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the distributor indicated that their intention was to show the film in cinema clubs ( to which members only were admitted and for which no bbfc certificate was required ) and then , when club distribution was exhausted , to exhibit the film in commercial cinemas , for which a bbfc classification would be required .
the bbfc examined the film carefully , also seeking input from legal advisers including qcs . an extensive list of cuts was drawn up that would be required before an x certificate could be granted ( mainly to remove sight of erections , penetration , whipping and close up sight of an anal examination ) . however , the bbfc also informed the distributor that its legal advisers had flagged up two scenes as potentially problematic , even if the film were shown without a certificate in members only cinema clubs .
( 2 ) another scene showing unsimulated urolagnia ( urination onto another person during sex ) .
these laws applied equally to club screenings and to screenings in public cinemas . accordingly , the distributor cut these two scenes on the board ' s advice before releasing the film ( without a certificate ) in cinema clubs . however , given the extent of additional cuts required to obtain an ' x ' classification for national distribution , the distributor decided not to proceed with formal bbfc classification at that time .
in 1982 , the local government ( miscellaneous provisions ) act was introduced . amongst other things , the purpose of the legislation was to close down the existing loophole that allowed members only cinema clubs to exhibit films without the permission of the relevant local council or the bbfc . in future , any cinema club would have to be licensed by the relevant local authority and exhibit only films permitted by the council or by the bbfc .
given the specialised and self - selecting membership of such cinema clubs it was recognised that films shown in such clubs might legitimately be more explicit than those permitted in a public cinema , although what was shown would still have to remain within the law . in accordance with this , the bbfc introduced a new classification of r18 ( restricted 18 ) in 1982 which would allow more explicit material than what was permitted in the x category ( simultaneously renamed the 18 category ) , provided that the film was shown only in licensed clubs .
initially the bbfc had felt that it would be possible to pass the more graphic sexual material in the film at r18 . however , discussions with the relevant enforcement agencies quickly showed that any sight of unsimulated sex was likely to be considered obscene under the
. accordingly , when the film was resubmitted to the bbfc in 1983 in order to obtain an r18 classification , the bbfc had little alternative but to offer a long list of cuts similar to that originally demanded for an x classification .
although some of the more borderline material ( such as the whipping ) was allowed to remain at r18 , all sight of erections and sexual penetration would have to be removed . however , given that the film had already been showing in club cinemas for over a year without legal intervention , neither the film ' s distributor nor its director could understand the need for additional cuts . therefore the film was withdrawn altogether from the classification process and from club cinemas . in the meantime , the film had been released on vhs in its marginally cut club version and remained available on video , nearly uncut , until after the introduction of the
vanished from the shelves of video shops and from the repertoire of licensed cinema clubs . contrary to the original intention of club licensing , it was found that only sex films ( as opposed to ' arthouse ' films ) were commercially viable in a club environment and that the prohibition on more explicit material at the r18 category ( under the terms of the
) ultimately led to the death of cinema clubs in favour of illegal distribution on the more convenient medium of vhs .
rules , film four were not allowed to show uncut versions of films that had been cut by the bbfc . however , if the bbfc would pass the film uncut according to contemporary standards - and this could be demonstrated by resubmitting the film to the bbfc - it would be possible to screen the film .
. given that explicit sight of real sex had been passed at 18 in those films it would be indefensible to require cuts in the case of a similarly serious and worthwhile film . the explicit images were justified by the wider content of the film , which comprised a serious and compassionate examination of one man ' s sexual life and the tensions this created . in terms of the other material previously censored ( even for club screenings ) the bbfc similarly felt that legitimate arguments could be made for their retention .
was unlikely to be found obscene . whereas a sex work with similar material might be found to be in breach of the law , the fact that
had a different purpose to a ' sex work ' ( ie its purpose was not merely to sexually arouse ) meant that , as an illustration of a particular lifestyle ( rather than an attempt to ' sell ' or eroticise that lifestyle ) , it was unlikely to render the work as a whole obscene .
and managed to obtain assurances from the relevant german educational authorities that no child had been mistreated in the making of that film . in fact , an adult woman had been used in the close shots showing hands on thighs and a hand entering a man ' s trousers . so there was no breach of the
was passed ' 18 ' uncut in 2005 , albeit only for television screening .
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this very frank german film is a study of the life of gay elementary school teacher frank ripploh . the teacher ' s multitude of sexual adventures are thoroughly and explicitly detailed . those willing to tough it out will be in for a remarkable experience , laced with wit , humor , and poignancy .
[ a ] strong current of humour belies a serious engagement with the general , perhaps intractable problem of whether our impulses toward intimacy and unaccountability can ever be reconciled .
ripploh left teaching when disciplinary action was taken against him , and devoted himself full - time to filmmaking . this , his first feature , was made on a shoestring but the result is a mature work , perfectly controlled and finely photographed .
first released three decades ago , this self - produced portrait of frank ripploh ' s excursions into berlin ' s gay world is curiously sexless seen in 2011 .
a milestone in the history of both free speech and the representation of gays in the cinema .
three decades ago , this was seen as a challenging
issue
movie . now it looks more like a daring , acid black comedy filmed on the hoof .
a loving document of pre - aids berlin , and a touching comedy about the human desire for and struggle to achieve intimacy .
now , post - aids , the film is a museum piece , but nonetheless enjoyable . sadly , after making an unsuccessful sequel , ripploh faded from view .
this isn ' t a moral tale : it ' s rather a frank and open appraisal of the german gay scene of the time , sometimes roughly made yet invested with humour and irony .
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frank ripploh is a bit of a rascal : he ' s a bearded and shaggy - haired teacher , and he ' s gay with a very active sex life and an interest in making films . he keeps his personal life and teaching separate , but he sometimes corrects student papers in public toilets as he waits to score . he cruises constantly , and one evening , he meets bernd . they become lovers . while bernd is attentive and caring , frank gets bored and continues his polymorphously perverse ways . for how long will bernd and frank tolerate each other ' s habits , and for how long can frank keep his sexual orientation out of the classroom ? things come to a head during berlin ' s annual queen ' s ball and the morning after .
banned in britain upon its original release due to its graphic gay sex scenes .
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frank ripploh is a bit of a rascal : he ' s a bearded and shaggy - haired teacher , and he ' s gay with a very active sex life and an interest in making films . he keeps his personal life and . . . see more »
frank ripploh is a bit of a rascal : he ' s a bearded and shaggy - haired teacher , and he ' s gay with a very active sex life and an interest in making films . he keeps his personal life and teaching separate , but he sometimes corrects student papers in public toilets as he waits to score . he cruises constantly , and one evening , he meets bernd . they become lovers . while bernd is attentive and caring , frank gets bored and continues his polymorphously perverse ways . for how long will bernd and frank tolerate each other ' s habits , and for how long can frank keep his sexual orientation out of the classroom ? things come to a head during berlin ' s annual queen ' s ball and the morning after . written by
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frank ripploh tries to keep his professional and personal life separate . during the day , he is a dedicated school teacher . at night and on the weekends , he is a gay man who is always on the prowl for anonymous sex often in public places . things may change when he meets bernd , a movie theater clerk . bernd quickly moves into frank ' s flat and the two talk of their future life together , bernd dreaming of them living together on a farm . but frank , despite loving bernd , feels restless and continues his quest for anonymous gay sex .
ah , the evergreen gay storyline : two men get into a relationship , but one can ' t deal with the other ' s cruisey compulsions .
i ' ve seen this story dozens of times , but what stands out here is the way that ripploh uses myra breckinridge - esque stag inserts to seemingly present these urban gay mainstays - - gloryholes , leather , stand - up sex - - as learned behaviors . i don ' t know much about german gay culture , but there ' s probably some truth to that idea - - that sex films , if just by being the only medium that allowed gay men to see themselves and their sexuality on the screen , shaped the progression of gay culture in the lead - up to the simultaneous outbreaks of aids and home video . is he saying that ' s a bad thing , though ?
i don ' t think i ' ve ever seen a piss scene that long in any other ' arthouse ' movie .
queer couples complaining about the number of straights at gay events ; mocking the neo - nazis on tv who wish them harm . the more things change .
week 30 . a film featured in the new queer cinema : the directors cut by b . ruby rich .
the experimental touches were hit or miss and motivations were sometimes difficult to follow , which i find annoying in a character study , but it was so exhilarating to see a movie older than me where a queer character is living unapologetically outside the boundaries of cis / hetero respectability and isn ' t punished for doing so .
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it shocked and delighted audiences the world over . it was seized by us customs , restricted to screenings in private clubs in london and paris and terrified the mary whitehouse establishment . welcome to the aftermath of frank ripploh–school teacher , film director and insatiable sex addict !
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i love how this film has a satirical vibe to it : at the same time it goes deep into underground gay life , it goes graphic and stereotypical . tell me about brave lgbt films that were way ahead their times - this must have been a shock . i ' m impressed , it ' s definitely a must see in cinema .
a curiously beguiling exercise in honesty and frankness . it ' s very much of its time and provides a bolder and more interesting variant on the similarly themed nighthawks made around this time .
like the perfect woody allen movie , only with water - sports and a graphic ( medical ) anal exam .
falls into a lot of 70s gay cliches , but it ' s entertaining , it ' s got heart , and i found it really invigorating . it doesn ' t hurt that the last 30 minutes or so are easily the strongest part of the film .
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writer - director ripploh also inhabits the lead role in this landmark film of german queer cinema , playing an elementary school teacher whose days in the classroom are followed by seamy nights cruising the public toilets for anonymous hook - ups , grading papers in the john as he waits for his next likely prospect—a cozily compartmentalized arrangement that’s shaken up when he meets commitment - minded bernd .
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at the irish box office , the golden rule is that comedy trumps darker subject matter every time , writes tara brady . but will your vote support her theory ?
never mind the awards and the critical wows : once again the great irish film love tester has demonstrated our undying love for broad comedy . this year , national patron saint colin farrell moved into the banana - skin sector with no little elan fright night and horrible bosses , bridesmaids became the indisputable box - office champ in the republic , and the guard became the biggest - grossing independent irish production of all time . budding film - makers take note : the guard’s high concept , folkloric antihero and potty - mouthed comedy proved an irresistible draw .
it’s not rocket science ; most of the indigenous titles that have made mainstream waves – man about dog , intermission , the guard – are big , sweary carry - ons . not to be confused with native black comedies . put people on a train at gunpoint and they still won’t go to those . don’t say it won’t happen . have you seen the new begging laws ?
elsewhere , hot stuff coming through : that’s the official irish times health warning on michael fassbender . the actor straddling – and we believe that is the right word – the tippy top of the love tester may well make the oscar shortlist for his performance as a sex addict in steve mcqueen’s shame . an academy award would make a fitting encore to a year that’s seen fassebnder play magneto in x men : first class and rochester in jane eyre .
in recent times ireland has sunk manpower and money into european co - productions with little to show for it . finally , however , the country’s questionable long - distance relationships have yielded gongs and festival hits in as if i am not there and the cannes - conquering this must be the place .
it’s nice to be part of the european movieverse when we’re not exactly the continent’s choice in other realms , but this year we’re really missing those smaller kissable irish titles . austerity ireland calls for smarter , austerity pictures . where have all the micro - budget initiatives gone when we need them most ? the best things about irish film have , in recent years , been found in tiny packages such as once and his & hers . would it kill somebody to cook up a decent indigenous found - footage flick ?
as if further proof were needed , 2011 demonstrated that if you want irish audiences to say “ho hum” , give them a black comedy or social commentary . like adam and paul and a film with me in it before , sensation was the latest ill - deserving victim of the curse of the irish black comedy . if you want even fewer friends at the box office , then by all means , start banging on about the state of the nation . it’s the golden rule of irish movie products : shut up and don’t mention the housekeeping .
seriously . for more than five years the irish movie punter has carefully steered clear of films pontificating about , well , ireland . so it doesn’t matter that parked should have spoken to the masses . darragh byrne’s fine debut feature was greeted with the same chilly reception once afforded the tiger’s tail , alarm and 8 . 5 hours . global economic meltdown and empty political promises are all very well on the wireless but , in this country , folks have decided they’re not putting up with this sort of thing at the multiplex . the people have spoken . again . cinemas are for going to see bridesmaids , not for speechifying .
our biggest cold - fish turn - offs are costing the nation cold , hard cash , diddling us out of choice at the cinema and wasting valuable resources . arthouse projects in cork and galway are stuck in various stages of development hell ( we’re told that work is set to resume on the latter after a whopping 16 - month delay ) .
at least in the capital we have the lovely light house cinema , right ? wrong . it’s bad enough that light house operators neil connolly and maretta dillon fell foul of unrealistic pre - recession rent agreements in april . but it’s worse that tumbleweed continues to blow across smithfield square . as long ago as last august , curzon artificial eye cinemas submitted the highest bid to reopen ireland’s most kubrickian picture house . so why are we still waiting for the doors to open again ?
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in the period in which it was made . ripploh has stated that much of the film was autobiographical .
hailed it as ' the first masterpiece about the mainstream of male gay life ' .
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all things considered , our predictions for march were pretty much bang on the money – we were perhaps too optimistic about the tempest and the adjustment bureau , and a turtle’s tale definitely had us fooled , but we didn’t do too bad a job . therefore , you should definitely continue to tentatively put your faith in us and see approximately 75 % of the films we approve in this blog . cool ? cool .
april gets off to a fine start with a weekend of releases including harrowing drama oranges and sunshine . based on the true story of the social worker who discovered that hundreds of thousands of british children had been uprooted from ‘unfit’ families and fostered abroad , it boasts not only a stellar cast ( emily watson , hugo weaving ) and ken loach’s son jim in the director’s chair ; it’s also packing a coveted 5 * rating from bff . we’re not messing around , this is one to watch even if you have to , for example , kill bono to do it .