IndieWIRE's Wendy Mitchell reports from Europe on the legacy of Dogme95. The occasion is
a 10th anniversary retrospective of Dogme films at the Curzon Soho Cinema in London, programmed by the Danish Film Institute.
... "Dogme isn't dead, of course. Dogme #34, Annette K. Olesen's Berlinale hit
In Your Hands, [pictured right], will hit screens in the U.K. later this month from Metrodome, and Newmarket plans a U.S. release. [Newmarket's theatrical division was recently acquired by New Line and HBO, so presumably the film will be released through the new entity.] The film is about Anna, a recent theology school graduate who takes a job as a prison priest. Five other films after Olesen's are self-certified Dogme at the group's
website -- those films come from Italy, Denmark, the U.K, the U.S. and Mexico.
"The Dogme [founders] themselves, [however,] have clearly moved away from the vows of chastity in their more recent work. 'I don't see evidence that Dogme left any lasting impression on their subsequent work, outside of the fact that Dogme is a diffuse concept and its fingerprints can be seen on almost any film. [Thomas] Vinterberg's
It's All About Love and [Lars] von Trier's
Dogville were very much anti-Dogme films,' said Jack Stevenson, a Denmark-based film journalist and the author of the books
Lars von Trier (BFI) and
Dogme Uncut (Santa Monica Press). Vinterberg even told a Danish magazine, 'I spit in the face of Dogme,' with his film
It's All About Love."
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# posted by Steve Gallagher @ 4/14/2005 01:29:00 PM
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