LONDON -- Denmark threw its hat into the Academy Awards derby Friday, picking The Five Obstructions to enter the race for a foreign-language Oscar nomination. Directed by Jorgen Leth and Lars von Trier, Obstructions was selected by reps from the Danish movie industry. The movie's selection is supported by the Danish Film Institute, DR TV, the Nordic Film and TV Fund and Eurimages. The movie details Leth's recreation of one of his first films, The Perfect Human, five times while von Trier sets obstructions, limitations and prohibitions on Leth's filmmaking on the five separate occasions. Obstructions is produced by Carsten Holst of Zentropa Real.
- 8/28/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
COLOGNE, Germany -- Red-hot political issues, the problems of cinematic adaptation and the origins of mankind are among the themes of the films nominated for best European documentary, to be presented during the upcoming European Film Awards. This year's nominees include Rithy Panh's S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, which looks inside Pol Pot's genocide prisons; The Five Obstructions from Danish directors Jorgen Leth and Lars von Trier, in which Leth adapts his 1967 film The Perfect Human under strict directorial guidelines set out by von Trier; and Jacques Malaterre's A Species' Odyssey, which follows the evolution of man from the first primate to the 21st century.
- 11/4/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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