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Will Thomas Vinterberg’s ‘Another Round’ Be Latest Foreign-Language Film to Win Best Director Oscar?
TheWrap awards magazine: The first Danish filmmaker ever nominated in the category talks about the “hubbub” he’s caused in “the humble kingdom of Denmark” By Joe McGovern | April 15, 2021 @ 12:10 PM
A version of this story about “Another Round” first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
When the Oscar nominations were announced on March 15, Thomas Vinterberg was sitting with a small group of friends in Denmark. The 51-year-old director, a fixture in world cinema since his 1998 sensation “The Celebration,” raised a glass of champagne after his 2020 release “Another Round” was nominated for Best International Feature Film. A buoyant drama about midlife crisis and day-drinking starring Mads Mikkelsen, it marks Vinterberg’s second film to be honored in the category, after 2013’s
The Follow-Through Is Everything
“A great deal in life depends on who smacked your hand at breakfast when you were a child.” Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993
“Don’t make me turn this car around!”
Who, having been confined to the backseat of the family wagon, hasn’t heard those words uttered in frustration from the front seat? They’re part of the lore of the family trip.
But who in reality has experienced dad or mom actually turning the car around and canceling the vacation?
As children, we’re trained to believe that the worst threats would be fulfilled, with devastating results. Intimidation by corporal punishment (“the belt”) has given way to the terror of revoked screen time generations separated by virtue of disparate physical objects evocative of a horrible, dreadful outcome.
Doc Talk: Pilgrims of several sorts, Hindu nationalism, life in Lodz then and now
By Peter Keough Globe Correspondent,Updated March 17, 2021, 3:39 p.m.
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As recent history has shown, people pick the oddest idols to worship.
One day while touring Vatican City in 1999, filmmaker Annie Berman spotted lollipops with the image of Pope John Paul II on them being sold at a kiosk. She learned that these and numerous other likenesses of the Holy See on T-shirts, mugs, snow globes and ashtrays were also on sale, duly licensed by the Vatican which took a share of the proceeds. This put her in mind to visit Graceland, in Memphis, Elvis Presleyâs last home, his gravesite, and a place of worship for millions of fans since the Kingâs death, in 1977. Another figure adored posthumously that came to her attention was Princess Diana, whose faithful followers annually honor her death, in 1997, and continue to stockpile memorabilia.
Is organizational culture the hero or villain of your pandemic story?
It’s time to test whether cultures that are better aligned to strategy execution are helping companies respond to COVID-19.
Photograph by Natalia Shabasheva
Corporate culture, enabled by strong leadership, has never been more important for organizations than in this past year, as COVID-19 forced drastic changes in the workplace. That leadership, though, wasn’t just from the people at the top; equally important were the informal leaders down through the ranks who embody an organization’s culture, help hold teams together, and motivate people to get things done. As the Polish film director and screenwriter Krzysztof Kieślowski once said, “If culture is capable of anything, then it is finding that which unites us all.”
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Julie Delpy s son has just wandered in to the Zoom call. We are in the midst of talking about her labor of love new film, My Zoe, which she wrote, directed and stars in. It s wild in my home, she says, as she shoos him gently away. I wrote it on a notepad, I put it on the thing. My office is my office today, she explains, Nothing.
In other words, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter s pandemic is going a lot like yours and mine. Yet somehow, despite distractions, she s managing to stay incredibly productive.
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Though she s known best in the U.S. for her role in the generation-defining Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight trilogy and 2 Days in New York and 2 Days in Paris, Delpy has acted in, written, directed, produced and composed for dozens of projects over her 30-year career in the entertainment industry. And if you know her solely for comedic and romantic work, My Zoe (which costars Daniel Brühl and Richard Armitage) may come as a surprise. In i