Thomas Vinterberg
Summary
Thomas Vinterberg (born 19 May 1969) is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production.In 1993 he graduated from the National Film School of Denmark with Last Round (Sidste Omgang), which won the jury and producers' awards at the Munich International Festival of Film Schools, and First Prize at Tel Aviv. That year Vinterberg made his first TV drama for DR TV and his short fiction film The Boy Who Walked Backwards, produced by Birgitte Hald at Nimbus Film.This film has won awards and accolades all over the world, including Nordic Panorama in Iceland, the International Short Film Festival in Clermont-Ferrand, and the Toronto Film Festival.His first feature film was The Biggest Heroes (De Strste Helte), a road movie that received acclaim in his native Denmark.In 1995, Vinterberg formed the Dogme 95 movement with Lars von Trier, Kristian Levring, and Sren Kragh-Jacobsen.Following that dogma in 1998, he conceived, wrote and directed (and also had a small acting role in) the first of the Dogme movies, The Celebration (Festen).
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Why nonfiction writers should take a ‘Vow of Chastity’
I am about to deliver what amounts to a homily on the line between fiction and nonfiction and why that line matters.
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The BT wedding is hideous, but I've got a Polanski-inspired plan to liven it up
Anyone employed as a film reviewer has to get used to some scary and horrible experiences. But I don't think I have seen anything on the big screen recently that is quite as loathsome, creepy, icky and purely and outrageously irritating as the Plan the BT Wedding campaign that is now all over the internet.
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AFI: Every night a gala
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