THE BASEMENT GOES DUTCH!
Hallo, goedenavond, gezellig dat jullie hier weer zijn.
With a lack of theme and some films on my harddrive, I'm excited to hereby announce to you that the next round of Basement screenings will be Dutch films! Thriller, drama, children's fun, but all certified classics (to me). This time we're only doing 3 instead of 4 screenings, due to the practical reason that a potential fourth candidate was hard to find, and also because I got a pre-premiere screening of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma happening the first weekend of July (Extremely important).
Schedule is as follows, all at usual basement time:
July 12 - Spoorloos (The Vanishing), 1988 July 19 - Turks Fruit (Turkish Delight), 1973 July 26 - Minoes (Miss Minoes), 2001
Funfacts!
Spoorloos had a 1993 remake with Kiefer Sutherland, Jeff Bridges, and Sandra Bullock in the case, the same director as the original, and it flopped massively compared to the Dutch original. The original is based on the novel Het Gouden Ei (The Golden Egg) by Tim Krabbé, a favored read amongst high schoolers for their mandatory reading list points because it's only 97 pages long.
Turks Fruit is Paul Verhoeven's (yes, indeed, mr Showgirls, Robocop, Starship Troopers, Total Recall, Basic Instinct) breakout film in the Netherlands. It stars Rutger Hauer (yes, indeed, mr Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Hobo with a Shotgun, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie) in one of his early leading roles. They knew each other from the series Floris, which Hauer had the lead in and Verhoeven also directed. Turks Fruit is also based on a novel that high schooler's favor for their mandatory reading list, but this less due to the length and more because of how much sex there is in this book (and the film).
Minoes is a children's film based on the children's book of the same name by Annie M.G. Schmidt, the greatest children's book author of the country, who most may recognize from Jip and Janneke. Minoes is one of Carice van Houten's (yes, indeed, Melisandre in Game of Thrones) earlier films and a classic of my childhood! (They used to show this in parts on TV, even though the movie is only 90 minutes in full).
Once again, more info/warnings/synopsis closer to the screening.
