Filmtips week 21
Kosmorama recommends quality films for this week.
You can catch these titles either on the big screen or on various streaming services.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Where: Trondheim Kino
Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth star in George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the highly anticipated return to the iconic, dystopian world Miller created with the groundbreaking Mad Max films over 30 years ago.
Miller now presents an original and standalone action-adventure that will unveil the origins of the fierce Furiosa from the Oscar-winning success Mad Max: Fury Road. The new film from Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures is produced by Miller and his longtime partner, Oscar-nominated Doug Mitchell (Mad Max: Fury Road, Babe).
As the world fell into ruin, young Furiosa was taken from the Green Place of Many Mothers and ended up in the clutches of a biker gang led by the warlord Dementus. They sweep through the wasteland and come across the citadel led by Immortan Joe. As the two tyrants battle for dominance, Furiosa must survive numerous trials while trying to find her way home.
Miller co-wrote the screenplay with Mad Max: Fury Road co-writer Nico Lathouris. Miller's creative team behind the camera includes assistant director PJ Voeten and stunt coordinator Guy Norris, cinematographer Simon Duggan (The Great Gatsby), composer Tom Holkenborg, sound designer Robert Mackenzie, editor Eliot Knapman, visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson, and colorist Eric Whipp. The team also includes Miller's longtime collaborators production designer Colin Gibson, editor Margaret Sixel, sound mixer Ben Osmo, costume designer Jenny Beavan, and makeup designer Lesley Vanderwalt, all of whom won Oscars for their work on Mad Max: Fury Road.
Network
Where: Cinemateket
At the Network TV station, you keep your job as long as your ratings are good. But when news anchor Howard Beale gets fired, he announces it live on air and also declares that he intends to take his own life. This, of course, sends the ratings through the roof, and Beale, who must be kept alive at all costs, is given his own TV show.
Sidney Lumet's nearly 50-year-old satire is a pointed critique of commercial media, but unfortunately, it is more relevant than ever.
12 Angry Men
Where: Streaming
Follow up Sidney Lumets Network at Cinemateket with his critically acclaimed film from 1957, 12 Angry Men.
Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley and Jack Klugman lead in this tense, courtroom drama -- nominated for three Oscars including Best Picture -- about one juror determined to sway the opinions of eleven others.
