 Austrian filmmaker Michael Glawogger (Graz, Austria, 1959) gave the documentary world a new jumpstart in 1998's Megacities, a twelve-part look at life in the world's biggest metropolis.His new documentary Workingman's Death, a five-part look at manual labourers around the world, premiered at the 2005 Venice Film Festival to great acclaim and soon after started making the rounds of cinemas around the world. It is currently playing in Italy and Germany. Lensed with panache, the documentary looks at mine workers who dig out coal in an officially closed mine in the Ukraine, sulphur carriers on an Indonesian volcano, labourers at an open-air abattoir in Nigeria, workers who dismantle a ship into heaps of scrap metal in Pakistan, employees at a steel plant in China, and an almost post-apocalytic epilogue set in a converted steel factory in Germany. Boyd van Hoeij sat down with the director to discuss his new film. |
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 Earlier this year, Briton Roger Crittenden published a very worthwhile collection of interviews with European film editors called Fine Cuts: The Art of European Film Editing, which Elsevier imprint Focal Press published simultaneously in the UK and the US. Crittenden was the first Head of Editing at the National Film and Television School in the UK, and has been associated with the school ever since, lecturing far and wide on editing, as well as writing Film and Video Editing (2nd edition, Routledge, 1995) and the entry for François Truffaut’s La nuit Américaine (Day for Night) in the British Film Institute Film Classics series. The editor of europeanfilms.net, Boyd van Hoeij, had a chat with Crittenden about his new book. |
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 One of the most anticipated new films here in the Tiger Competition at the Rotterdam Film Festival is Langer Licht (Northern Light), the first feature from the much laureled Dutch short film director David Lammers. Just last year, he won the Tiger Cub for Best Short Film here in Rotterdam for his title Veere. Langer Licht examines a father-son relationship that is broken up by unspoken feelings about the death of the other half of their once close-knit family. It is set in a popular quarter of the Dutch capital, during an extremely hot summer and benefits from superlative performances from theatre actor Raymond Thiry as the father and young acting talent Dai Carter as the son. Boyd van Hoeij, the editor of european-films.net, met with the director in Rotterdam. The film will be on general release in the Netherlands on April 20. |
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