The Swedish Film Institute’s Guldbaggar were awarded this week, and the popular favorite "Så som i himmelen" ("Like In Heaven"), which went the competition with eight nominations, came out with nothing.
Long, long ago, before most Swedes had televisions, SF and others made newsreels. As in many other countries, you could get a taste of the breaking stories of the day before the feature film. SF stopped production of <i>SF-journalen</i> in 1960, and four years later sold their enormous newsreel archive to Swedish Radio. Today, it is owned by Swedish Television.
The Stockholm Film Festival began on Thursday for its fifteenth year of battle with the Gothenburg Film Festival, and this time 170 films from 40 countries will be shown during the ten day run. Dagens Nyheter offered some survival tips this week, and Göteborgs-Posten got the festival’s director to admit she’d seen Lauren Bacall in her stockings.
A book recently released in Sweden has caused quite a stir in the literary and gossip pages. It seems that a rich, famous filmmaker has had an affair. Stop the presses.
<a href="/article.php?ID=397">Lukas Moodysson’s new film</a> has punters walking out of the cinemas, and he’s being called "an uncompromising sensationalist, a politically correct fundamentalist, a trendy anticapitalistic moralist". Moodysson himself is saying that the film perhaps should not come out on video - to prevent it from falling into the untainted hands of children.
The Malmö premier of British hooligan film <i>The Football Factory</i> was cut short when a few local boys decided to show that supporter violence isn't simply a British phenomenon.
On September 17th Lukas Moodysson's new film, <i>A Hole in My Heart</i> (<i>Ett hål i mitt hjärta</i>), opens throughout Sweden. The director's fourth feature film (after <i>Fucking Åmal</i>, <i>Together</i>, and <i>Lilja 4-ever</i>) was produced under a shroud of secrecy, and few details leaked from the tightly knit cast and crew.
In a couple of weeks' time a new film called 'Super Size Me' will premier in Sweden. Written and produced by Martin Spurlock, it describes one month in his life living solely on McDonald's food.
This week's papers have been full of concern over <b>SF Bio's possible buyout of Sandrew Metronome</b>. The Swedish-based cinema and film distribution corporations together control most of the Swedish film market.
Almost everyone is on vacation, and it's been a slow week in the culture pages. One paper's entire staff decided to take a week off, and it seems only the book reviewers managed to get their articles in on time. It seems that only rock never sleeps.
One of the most talked-about Swedish films of the year, The Language of Love, opened last weekend after months of 'did they or didn't they?' speculation about its explicit sex scenes and interviews with its star, Regina Lund, banging on about what an important film it would be.
