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André Cavens Award
The André Cavens Award (french: Prix André-Cavens) is an accolade presented annually by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC), an organization of film critics from publications based in Brussels. The André Cavens Award was introduced in 1976 by the organizing committee to honor cinematic achievement in Belgium. The name of the award comes from film director André Cavens. The most awarded filmmakers are Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne with five awards, followed by Jaco Van Dormael, Joachim Lafosse, and Fien Troch with three. Other multiple winners are Jean-Jacques Andrien, André Delvaux, and Lukas Dhont with two awards each. As of 2022, ''Close'' is the most recent winner. Winners 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s References External linksAndré Cavens Awardsat RTBF The ''Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française'' (RTBF, ''Belgian Radio-television of the French Community'', branded as rtbf.be) is a public service broadcaster delivering radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgian Film Critics Association
The Belgian Film Critics Association (french: Union de la critique de cinéma, UCC) is an organization of film critics from publications based in Brussels, Belgium. History The Belgian Film Critics Association was founded in the early 1950s in Brussels. Its membership includes film reviewers from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers and magazines from Belgium. In December of each year, the organization meets to vote on awards for films released in the previous calendar year. To determine the UCC's annual awards, ballots are sent in by the members – select knowledgeable film enthusiasts, academics, filmmakers, and students – and subsequently tabulated in order to decide the winners. Since 1954, the Belgian Film Critics Association has presented the Grand Prix (Belgian Film Critics Association), Grand Prix award to the film of the year "that contributed the most to the enrichment and influence of film, cinema". Since 1976, the organization has presented the André Cavens Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Akerman
Chantal Anne Akerman (; 6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and Film studies, film professor at the City College of New York. She is best known for films such as ''Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles'' (1975), ''News from Home'' (1977), and ''Les Rendez-vous d'Anna'' (1978); the former was ranked the greatest film of all time in ''Sight & Sound'' magazine's 2022 The Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022, "Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time" critics poll. According to film scholar Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Akerman's influence on feminist and avant-garde cinema is substantial. Early life and education Akerman was born in Brussels, Belgium, to Holocaust survivors from Poland. She was the older sister of Sylviane Akerman, her only sibling. Her mother, Natalia (Nelly), survived years at Auschwitz concentration camp, Auschwitz, where her own parents were murdered. From a young age, Akerman and her mother were exceptiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Cammermans
Paul Cammermans (10 July 1921 – 22 January 1999) was a Belgian film director and actor. His 1986 film ''The van Paemel Family'' was entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''Dirk van Haveskerke'' (1978) * ''The van Paemel Family ''The van Paemel Family'' ( nl, Het gezin van Paemel) is a 1986 Belgian historic drama directed by Paul Cammermans, based on a play written by Cyriel Buysse. The film received the André Cavens Award for Best Film by the Belgian Film Critics Assoc ...'' (1986) References External links * 1921 births 1999 deaths 20th-century Belgian male actors Belgian film directors Belgian male film actors People from Berlare {{Belgium-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Van Paemel Family
''The van Paemel Family'' ( nl, Het gezin van Paemel) is a 1986 Belgian historic drama directed by Paul Cammermans, based on a play written by Cyriel Buysse. The film received the André Cavens Award for Best Film by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC). It was also entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival. Cast * Senne Rouffaer as Mr. van Paemel, the patriarch * Chris Boni as Mrs. van Paemel, his wife * Marijke Pinoy as Romanie van Paemel, the youngest daughter * Jos Verbist as Désiré van Paemel, a son * Marc Van Eeghem as Kamiel van Paemel, a son * Ronny Waterschoot Ronny is a given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Ryan. It may refer to: * Ronny (footballer, born 1986), Brazilian footballer Ronny Heberson Furtado de Araújo * Ronny (footballer, born 1991), Brazilian footballer Ronieri da Silva Pin ... as Eduard van Paemel, the oldest son Plot The family patriarch Van Paemel is a farmer on baron de Wilde's estate. His mild-mannered son Dés ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Storck
Henri Storck (5 September 1907 – 17 September 1999) was a Belgian writer, filmmaker and documentarist. In 1933, he directed, with Joris Ivens, ''Misère au Borinage'', a film about the miners in the Borinage area. In 1938, with Andre Thirifays and Pierre Vermeylen, he founded the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique (Royal Belgian Film Archive). Storck was an actor in two key films of the history of the cinema: Jean Vigo's ''Zéro de conduite'' (1933) in the role of the priest, and Chantal Akerman's '' Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quay Commercial, 1080 Brussels'' (1975) in the role of a customer of the prostitute. Jacqueline Aubenas wrote about him, in her expository work, ''It's been going on for 100 years: a history of the francophone cinema of Belgium'': "There emerges forcefully the personality of a cineaste who is not a militant in the sense that this term had in the 1930s for Soviet directors who held an ideology, but in the sense of a generous man who will never choose the wron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Conrad
Patrick Conrad (born 16 July 1945 in Antwerp) is a Flemish poet, screenwriter and novelist, and one of the founders of The Pink Poets. He also directed about twenty movies for cinema and television, including – selected for the Cannes Festival – ''Mascara'' with Charlotte Rampling and Michael Sarrazin. He is also working as a painter and had two retrospective exhibitions of his work: in 1975 (Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp) and 2005 (Museum Elzenveld, Antwerp). He lives in Provence, in the south of France. Bibliography * ''Cezar and Jezabel'' (poems) (1963) * ''Ik lig in de dalai-lama'' (poems) (1964) * ''Rose mon chameau'' (poems) (1965) * ''Een pop van Patrick Conrad met Pola Negri in de rol van Eleonora'' (poems) (1966) * ''Mercantile marine engineering'' (poems) (1967) * ''11 Sad Songs for Edward Kienholz'' (poems) (1971) * ''De kleine dood van Kasper Q.'' (novel) (1971) * ''Allegria! Allegria!'' (short stories) (1972) * ''Continental Hotel of De duisternis der dingen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Permeke (film)
''Permeke'' is a 1985 documentary film directed by Patrick Conrad and Henri Storck. It tells the story of Anna, a 20-year-old photographer, who becomes interested by the works of Constant Permeke, Belgian painter and sculptor considered the leading figure of Flemish expressionism. ''Permeke'' was produced by Conrad, Storck and Pierre Drouot, and features appearances by Jan Decleir, Jean-Michel Arnold, and Hugo Claus, among others. In December 1985, ''Permeke'' received the André Cavens Award for Best Film given by the Belgian Film Critics Association The Belgian Film Critics Association (french: Union de la critique de cinéma, UCC) is an organization of film critics from publications based in Brussels, Belgium. History The Belgian Film Critics Association was founded in the early 1950s in Br ... (UCC). References External links * 1985 films Belgian documentary films Films directed by Henri Storck 1980s Dutch-language films 1985 documentary films Dutch-language Belg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Didden
Marc Didden (born 28 July 1949) is a Belgian film director. He and his family moved to Brussels when he was age 2. He grew up in Brussels and studied Film Direction and Playwriting there. Didden was rock journalist and critic for the Flemish magazine HUMO for many years, before he started directing movies in the 1980s. Filmography As director * ''Brussels By Night'' (1983) * ''Istanbul'' (1985) * '' Sailors don't cry'' (1988) * '' Mannen maken plannen'' (1993) * ''Cheb'' (short film) As actor * ''Het Sacrament'' (1989) - Gigi TV * '' Tip Toe Thru The Tulips'' (1994), with Hugo Claus Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (; 5 April 1929 – 19 March 2008) was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, the novel, and poetry; he also l ... * '' 't Bolleken'' (1988) Bibliography * '' May I Quest You an Askion'' (2000) * '' Enkele Interviews'' (1980) External links * 1949 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brussels By Night
Brussels by Night is a Belgian drama film from 1983, directed by former HUMO, Humo journalist Marc Didden. The low budget picture was financed partly by Herman Schueremans, organizer of the Flemish rock festival Rock Werchter. The film was named after a 1979 song by Raymond van het Groenewoud, who also wrote the soundtrack for the movie. ''Brussels by Night'' was important in Belgian film history because its bleak, grey atmosphere and stream of consciousness (narrative mode), stream of consciousness structure were a sharp contrast with the more conventional films the country produced up to then. Plot Brussels 1983. Max is seriously depressed. He tries to commit suicide by sticking a gun in his mouth, but when the gun jams, he cries nevertheless. We follow him as he travels through Brussels without any goal and provokes everyone he meets. His mood changes at the most unpredictable moments. Max meets two people, Alice, a bar keeper, and Abdel, her customer of Moroccan descent. Bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Hänsel
Marion Hänsel (née Ackermann; 12 February 1949 – 8 June 2020) was a French-born Belgian , producer, actress and . Her film '' Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea'' was entered into the |
Le Lit
''Le Lit'' is a 1982 drama film directed by Marion Hänsel and based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Dominique Rolin. The film starred Heinz Bennent, Natasha Parry, and Johan Leysen. ''Le Lit'' received the André Cavens Award for Best Film given by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC). Cast * Heinz Bennent as Martin * Natasha Parry as Eva * Johan Leysen as Dr. Bruno Nanteuil * Francine Blistin as Caroline * Patrick Massieu as Tardif * Marion Hänsel Marion Hänsel (née Ackermann; 12 February 1949 – 8 June 2020) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Grand Paysage D'Alexis Droeven
''Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven'' is a 1981 Belgian drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Andrien. It was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival where it won an Honourable Mention. It also received the André Cavens Award for Best Film by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC). The film was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 54th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cast * Jan Decleir as Jacob * Nicole Garcia as Elizabeth * Maurice Garrel as Alexis * Jerzy Radziwilowicz as Jean-Pierre See also * List of submissions to the 54th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Belgian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Belgium has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1967. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
