The Citizen (Az állampolgár) ArtMattan Films Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Roland Vranik Screenwriter: Iván Szabó, Roland Vranik Cast: Máté Haumann, Tünde Szalontay, Tibor Gáspár, Cake-Baly Marcelo, Agnes Mahr Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 10/13/18 Opens: July 6, 2018 Why do poor people support Trump in such great numbers? Perhaps to them, what’s more important […]
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- 10/18/2018
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Review by Peter Belsito
In The Citizen, an immigrant picks a bad time to fall in love.
A very timely, relevant film exploring Europe’s, and the world’s, current crisis with immigration. The drama takes place at ground level, through the eyes and lives of the characters as they struggle to figure out what the system requires of them in order to stay where they are, and here it’s modern Hungary, in order to have peaceful lives.
Cake-Baly Marcelo as Wilson Ugabe
Love happens at a bad time for Wilson Ugabe (Cake-Baly Marcelo), the protagonist of this Hungarian film. A middle-aged immigrant from Nigeria, Wilson has a lot on his plate from the opening scene, in which he’s depicted flunking Hungary’s compulsory exam that will determine his eligibility for citizenship.
“Don’t come back for another year,” one of the exam’s proctors says to Wilson.
In The Citizen, an immigrant picks a bad time to fall in love.
A very timely, relevant film exploring Europe’s, and the world’s, current crisis with immigration. The drama takes place at ground level, through the eyes and lives of the characters as they struggle to figure out what the system requires of them in order to stay where they are, and here it’s modern Hungary, in order to have peaceful lives.
Cake-Baly Marcelo as Wilson Ugabe
Love happens at a bad time for Wilson Ugabe (Cake-Baly Marcelo), the protagonist of this Hungarian film. A middle-aged immigrant from Nigeria, Wilson has a lot on his plate from the opening scene, in which he’s depicted flunking Hungary’s compulsory exam that will determine his eligibility for citizenship.
“Don’t come back for another year,” one of the exam’s proctors says to Wilson.
- 7/30/2018
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
Review by Peter Belsito
In The Citizen, an immigrant picks a bad time to fall in love.
A very timely, relevant film exploring Europe’s, and the world’s, current crisis with immigration. The drama takes place at ground level, through the eyes and lives of the characters as they struggle to figure out what the system requires of them in order to stay where they are, and here it’s modern Hungary, in order to have peaceful lives.
Cake-Baly Marcelo as Wilson Ugabe
Love happens at a bad time for Wilson Ugabe (Cake-Baly Marcelo), the protagonist of this Hungarian film. A middle-aged immigrant from Nigeria, Wilson has a lot on his plate from the opening scene, in which he’s depicted flunking Hungary’s compulsory exam that will determine his eligibility for citizenship.
“Don’t come back for another year,” one of the exam’s proctors says to Wilson.
In The Citizen, an immigrant picks a bad time to fall in love.
A very timely, relevant film exploring Europe’s, and the world’s, current crisis with immigration. The drama takes place at ground level, through the eyes and lives of the characters as they struggle to figure out what the system requires of them in order to stay where they are, and here it’s modern Hungary, in order to have peaceful lives.
Cake-Baly Marcelo as Wilson Ugabe
Love happens at a bad time for Wilson Ugabe (Cake-Baly Marcelo), the protagonist of this Hungarian film. A middle-aged immigrant from Nigeria, Wilson has a lot on his plate from the opening scene, in which he’s depicted flunking Hungary’s compulsory exam that will determine his eligibility for citizenship.
“Don’t come back for another year,” one of the exam’s proctors says to Wilson.
- 7/30/2018
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
Other winners include China’s Van Goghs and The Citizen.
Norwegian filmmaker Arild Andresen’s Handle With Care picked up the Grand Prize at this year’s Skip City International D-Cinema Festival (July 15-23) in Japan.
The film, which premiered at Goteborg film festival this year, follows a Norwegian widower who takes his adopted son back to Colombia to look for his biological mother. Hilde Susan Jaegtnes, who co-write the film with Andresen, was on hand to collect the Grand Prize Sony D-Cinema Award from jury president and leading Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Skip City’s best director award went to Chinese filmmakers Yu Haibo and Kiki Tianqi Yu for feature-length documentary China’s Van Goghs. The film follows a man who paints replicas of Van Goghs artworks in Shenzhen and travels to Amsterdam to see the originals.
The special jury prize went to Hungarian filmmaker Roland Vranik’s The Citizen, about an African...
Norwegian filmmaker Arild Andresen’s Handle With Care picked up the Grand Prize at this year’s Skip City International D-Cinema Festival (July 15-23) in Japan.
The film, which premiered at Goteborg film festival this year, follows a Norwegian widower who takes his adopted son back to Colombia to look for his biological mother. Hilde Susan Jaegtnes, who co-write the film with Andresen, was on hand to collect the Grand Prize Sony D-Cinema Award from jury president and leading Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Skip City’s best director award went to Chinese filmmakers Yu Haibo and Kiki Tianqi Yu for feature-length documentary China’s Van Goghs. The film follows a man who paints replicas of Van Goghs artworks in Shenzhen and travels to Amsterdam to see the originals.
The special jury prize went to Hungarian filmmaker Roland Vranik’s The Citizen, about an African...
- 7/24/2017
- ScreenDaily
Other winners include Sand Storm, American Honey, Old Stone, Hooligan Sparrow.
The jury of the 27th Stockholm International Film Festival has given the top award, the Bronze Horse, to Bulgarian director Ralitza Petrova for Godless.
The film previously won the Golden Leopard in Locarno as well as the New Talent Grant Pix in Copenhagen last week. It tells the story of a young physiotherapist struggling to survive in an economically depressed mountain town in post-Communist Bulgaria, who forms an unlikely bond with one of her elderly patients.
The jury — comprised of producer Annika Rogell, directors Roland Vranik, Wayne Roberts and Frida Kempff, and actress Julia Ragnarsson – said the film was “an astonishing masterpiece. This is filmmaking of the highest order and marks the arrival of a new great within cinema. A film that will forever live in the hearts and minds of viewers. It is a true work of art and, simply put, is...
The jury of the 27th Stockholm International Film Festival has given the top award, the Bronze Horse, to Bulgarian director Ralitza Petrova for Godless.
The film previously won the Golden Leopard in Locarno as well as the New Talent Grant Pix in Copenhagen last week. It tells the story of a young physiotherapist struggling to survive in an economically depressed mountain town in post-Communist Bulgaria, who forms an unlikely bond with one of her elderly patients.
The jury — comprised of producer Annika Rogell, directors Roland Vranik, Wayne Roberts and Frida Kempff, and actress Julia Ragnarsson – said the film was “an astonishing masterpiece. This is filmmaking of the highest order and marks the arrival of a new great within cinema. A film that will forever live in the hearts and minds of viewers. It is a true work of art and, simply put, is...
- 11/20/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Retrospective to include films from Danis Tanovic, Cristi Puiu, Mira Fornay and more.
A total of 50 films are to make up the retrospective Eastern Promises: Autobiography of Eastern Europe at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27).
The line-up includes movies produced since 2000 in the countries that lived under Soviet influence after the Second World War and include some that were never released theatrically in Spain.
Several directors of films in the retrospective will attend the festival to present their works including Sarunas Bartas (Lithuania), Kristina Buožytė (Lithuania), Marian Crisan (Romania), Mira Fornay (Slovakia), Bohdan Sláma (Czech Republic), Malgorzata Szumowska (Poland) and Anna Viduleja (Latvia).
A book will be published to accompany the retrospective with contributions from journalists and critics across Europe.
The titles are:
Kruh In Mleko / Bread And Milk
Jan Cvitkovic (Slovenia) 2001
A modern classic of Slovenian cinema, the tale of a man who went out for bread and milk and lost himself to alcohol...
A total of 50 films are to make up the retrospective Eastern Promises: Autobiography of Eastern Europe at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27).
The line-up includes movies produced since 2000 in the countries that lived under Soviet influence after the Second World War and include some that were never released theatrically in Spain.
Several directors of films in the retrospective will attend the festival to present their works including Sarunas Bartas (Lithuania), Kristina Buožytė (Lithuania), Marian Crisan (Romania), Mira Fornay (Slovakia), Bohdan Sláma (Czech Republic), Malgorzata Szumowska (Poland) and Anna Viduleja (Latvia).
A book will be published to accompany the retrospective with contributions from journalists and critics across Europe.
The titles are:
Kruh In Mleko / Bread And Milk
Jan Cvitkovic (Slovenia) 2001
A modern classic of Slovenian cinema, the tale of a man who went out for bread and milk and lost himself to alcohol...
- 8/8/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
From the few details available, this looks like it's going to be a quiet, reminiscing, character focused drama somewhat akin to Roland Vranik's Transmission which is much loved here at Quiet Earth. Emerging 37 years after self imposed exile, 6 people wander aimlessly in the remnants of civilization going mad. The film is directed, written, scored, shot, edited and narrated by Alexander Voulgaris and stars Argyris Thanasoulas, Ioanna Stavropouou, Giannis Laspias, Dafni Manousou, Leonardo Sfontouris, and Angeliki Karistinou.
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- 1/23/2012
- QuietEarth.us
Sitges, Spain -- Ryan Reynolds-starrer "Buried," the new film from Spanish director Rodrigo Cortes, picked up the Melies d'Or for best film at the 43rd Sitges Fantastic Film Festival late Thursday.
"I'd like to thank the jury for their good judgment in choosing the winner," Cortes joked as he picked up the award to a packed auditorium.
The European Fantastic Film Festival Federation (Effff) chooses one of the films that has earned the Melies d'Argent honor at each of the nine fantastic film festivals from all of Europe and awards the Melies d´Or to the best film screened. "Buried" won at the Strasbourg Festival.
The other nominated movies were: Anna Saul's "The Door," Philip Ridley's "Heartless" Roland Vranik's "Transmission," Faye Jackson's "Strigoi," Conor McPherson's "The Eclipse," Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani's"Amur" Tom Shankland's "The Children" and Simon Rumley's "Red White & Blue.
"I'd like to thank the jury for their good judgment in choosing the winner," Cortes joked as he picked up the award to a packed auditorium.
The European Fantastic Film Festival Federation (Effff) chooses one of the films that has earned the Melies d'Argent honor at each of the nine fantastic film festivals from all of Europe and awards the Melies d´Or to the best film screened. "Buried" won at the Strasbourg Festival.
The other nominated movies were: Anna Saul's "The Door," Philip Ridley's "Heartless" Roland Vranik's "Transmission," Faye Jackson's "Strigoi," Conor McPherson's "The Eclipse," Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani's"Amur" Tom Shankland's "The Children" and Simon Rumley's "Red White & Blue.
- 10/15/2010
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Every year the European Federation of Fantastic Film Festivals gives a pair of awards - the Golden Melies - to the best European Fantastic Films of the year with one prize going to a feature and the other to a short. And it has just been announced that this year's prizes are going to Rodrigo Cortes' Buried and Chema Garcia Ibarra's The Attack of the Robots From Nebulon Five. Here's the official announcement:
Buried wins the 2010 Méliès d'Or Award - Best European Fantastic Film
The 2010 Méliès d'Or Award - for Best European fantastic film went to Buried a Spanish thriller starring Ryan Reynolds. The award was handed out at the Méliès d'Or award ceremony during the 43rd Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival in Spain on the evening of October 14th 2010, with director Rodrigo Cortés in attendance.
Buried:
Paul Conroy is not ready to die. But when he wakes up...
Buried wins the 2010 Méliès d'Or Award - Best European Fantastic Film
The 2010 Méliès d'Or Award - for Best European fantastic film went to Buried a Spanish thriller starring Ryan Reynolds. The award was handed out at the Méliès d'Or award ceremony during the 43rd Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival in Spain on the evening of October 14th 2010, with director Rodrigo Cortés in attendance.
Buried:
Paul Conroy is not ready to die. But when he wakes up...
- 10/14/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Disclaimer: These films are in no particular order and aren't all films I like. I wrote this post to be a companion piece to Kurt Halfyard's wonderful Brave New Worldview – 30 Science Fiction Films of the 21st Century posted over at Row Three, so read this and then piece it together with his and we think you'll have a pretty comprehensive list of important genre stuff from the new millennium to catch up with.
Here's the thing; we love the post apocalypse around here. No foolin'. For those of you just tuning in, Quiet Earth started life as a site dedicated to the genre. And while we cover the whole gamut of weird and wonderful genre film from around the globe now, we still like to think of ourselves as the go-to-guys on the subject. From Panic in the Year Zero, to Planet of the Apes, to The Postman, we've seen...
Here's the thing; we love the post apocalypse around here. No foolin'. For those of you just tuning in, Quiet Earth started life as a site dedicated to the genre. And while we cover the whole gamut of weird and wonderful genre film from around the globe now, we still like to think of ourselves as the go-to-guys on the subject. From Panic in the Year Zero, to Planet of the Apes, to The Postman, we've seen...
- 6/21/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Year: 2009
Directors: Roland Vranik
Writers: Roland Vranik / András Barta
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Ben Austwick
Rating: 7 out of 10
[Editor's note: We also have another review Rick wrote from August of 2009 here]
Post-apocalyptic worlds are often of familiar type – dusty wasteland, warring tribes and a desperate struggle for survival. While anyone who has read The Road or played Fallout 3 will know this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's a shame that the broad possibilities the genre opens up have been pushed out by this convention. Transmission harks back to a time when authors like Jg Ballard and John Wyndham took a What If? approach, removing or adding factors that send society on a new course, exploring the possibilities thrown up on the way. Furthermore it does so with real style.
The premise of Transmission is simple at first glance: data can no longer be transmitted. There is no TV, no radio, no computers. People charge batteries from makeshift generators, but there is no national grid.
Directors: Roland Vranik
Writers: Roland Vranik / András Barta
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Ben Austwick
Rating: 7 out of 10
[Editor's note: We also have another review Rick wrote from August of 2009 here]
Post-apocalyptic worlds are often of familiar type – dusty wasteland, warring tribes and a desperate struggle for survival. While anyone who has read The Road or played Fallout 3 will know this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's a shame that the broad possibilities the genre opens up have been pushed out by this convention. Transmission harks back to a time when authors like Jg Ballard and John Wyndham took a What If? approach, removing or adding factors that send society on a new course, exploring the possibilities thrown up on the way. Furthermore it does so with real style.
The premise of Transmission is simple at first glance: data can no longer be transmitted. There is no TV, no radio, no computers. People charge batteries from makeshift generators, but there is no national grid.
- 5/4/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Yes we announced the partial lineup a ittle while back, and now we have the exclusive full lineup to share, and boy, is it a doozy. The festival runs April 28th to May 3rd so get your tickets now!
Opening night film: Splice by Vincenzo Natali.
Cosing night film: Cargo (which we loved, review)
TiMER (UK Premier)
Hunter Prey (International Premier) (teaser)
2033 (UK Premier) (Another film we loved, review)
1 The Stanislaw Lem adaptation (UK Premier) (Yes, we loved this too review)
Transmission (A Ballardian telecom malfunction, UK Premier) (review)
Drones
Eraser Children (International Premier, finally I get to see this tonight!) (trailer)
Radio Free Albemuth (Sneak Preview of this Philip K. Dick adaptation! We should have a trailer soon)
Earthling (International Premier) (review)
Depositarios (International Premier, more Mexican scifi) (teaser)
Plug & Pray (UK Premier, documentary)
8th Wonderland (UK Premier)
and much more! You can head over to the festival website for more details and tickets,...
Opening night film: Splice by Vincenzo Natali.
Cosing night film: Cargo (which we loved, review)
TiMER (UK Premier)
Hunter Prey (International Premier) (teaser)
2033 (UK Premier) (Another film we loved, review)
1 The Stanislaw Lem adaptation (UK Premier) (Yes, we loved this too review)
Transmission (A Ballardian telecom malfunction, UK Premier) (review)
Drones
Eraser Children (International Premier, finally I get to see this tonight!) (trailer)
Radio Free Albemuth (Sneak Preview of this Philip K. Dick adaptation! We should have a trailer soon)
Earthling (International Premier) (review)
Depositarios (International Premier, more Mexican scifi) (teaser)
Plug & Pray (UK Premier, documentary)
8th Wonderland (UK Premier)
and much more! You can head over to the festival website for more details and tickets,...
- 3/26/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Year: 2009
Directors: Roland Vranik
Writers: Roland Vranik / András Barta
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Rick McGrath
Rating: 8 out of 10
Transmission: On
Ever wonder what it might be like to live in a world where no computer screens or TV monitors work? Ahh, you’re thinking – a snap. Who needs that stuff, anyway? Surprise… you’re going back to a basically agrarian lifestyle. And it’s not as much fun as you’d think. It could, in fact, drive you crazy.
And that’s the basis of Adás (literal translation: Transmission), a very odd little post-apocalyptic effort from Hungary, written by András Barta and Roland Vranik, who also directed. Transmission follows the unusual adventures of three brothers – Henrik, Vilmos and Ottó – as they try to adjust to this new communication-free environment.
And an odd place it is. Some things work, others don’t. There’s no electricity because power plants run on computers.
Directors: Roland Vranik
Writers: Roland Vranik / András Barta
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Rick McGrath
Rating: 8 out of 10
Transmission: On
Ever wonder what it might be like to live in a world where no computer screens or TV monitors work? Ahh, you’re thinking – a snap. Who needs that stuff, anyway? Surprise… you’re going back to a basically agrarian lifestyle. And it’s not as much fun as you’d think. It could, in fact, drive you crazy.
And that’s the basis of Adás (literal translation: Transmission), a very odd little post-apocalyptic effort from Hungary, written by András Barta and Roland Vranik, who also directed. Transmission follows the unusual adventures of three brothers – Henrik, Vilmos and Ottó – as they try to adjust to this new communication-free environment.
And an odd place it is. Some things work, others don’t. There’s no electricity because power plants run on computers.
- 8/20/2009
- QuietEarth.us
We've been following this film since June of last year and I've been eagerly awaiting it ever since. It's already screened at a couple of fests, and we posted the first trailer, but now I've found a second trailer which make the film look even better (like I needed more convincing). From Hungarian director Roland Vranik, the story revolves around all telecom and tv inexplicably stop working throwing our characters into withdrawal. We're not sure on the entire story, but we're categorizing it as post-apocalyptic as it sure looks like it.
We also have a full synopsis now:
Imagine a world where all the screens have stopped functioning: TVs don’t broadcast, computer monitors are blank, the entire telecommunication industry has disintegrated. An information breakdown plagues all the cities. People who normally spend their lives in front of these screens are now having what can only be described as withdrawal symptoms.
We also have a full synopsis now:
Imagine a world where all the screens have stopped functioning: TVs don’t broadcast, computer monitors are blank, the entire telecommunication industry has disintegrated. An information breakdown plagues all the cities. People who normally spend their lives in front of these screens are now having what can only be described as withdrawal symptoms.
- 8/6/2009
- QuietEarth.us
LONDON -- Black Brush (Fekete kefe), an arty black-and-white film about four men posing as chimney sweeps who search for answers to life's problems in a goat's stomach after a disastrous afternoon, took top honors Tuesday at the closing awards of the 36th Hungarian Film Week in Budapest. Roland Vranik's 80-minute feature won the festival's main prize, sponsored by the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage and the recently created Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation, for its "innovative use of film language and exceptional accuracy of teamwork in service of the creative aims." The film also won best cinematography (for Gergely Poharnok) in a prize sponsored by the Hungarian Film Laboratories "for the unity of style of (his) imagery and the well-handled application of black-and-white technique and his contribution as a co-creator."...
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