dinsdag 24 januari 2023

OCEAN'S TWELVE

Date: 2004

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Production Companies: Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures, Jerry Weintraub Productions

Stars:
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ed Kross, Don Tiffany, Anne Jacques, David Sontag, Larry Sontag, Andy Garcia, Casey Affleck, Dina Connolly, Scott Caan, Nelson Peltz, Mini Anden, Shabo Qin, Jennifer Liu, Leah Zhang

Storyline:
They pulled one of the biggest heists ever and now they have another job to complete. Ocean’s Eleven which consisted off Danny Ocean (George Clooney), Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt) and Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon) and others, all thought they would be able to enjoy their money, but someone has other plans. Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) is still fuming after losing his money and he wants it back. The team now has the job of getting all the money they spent back, or risk being thrown in jail. How are they going to get it all back? By pulling off another amazing plan.

2004 2022

Location: Intersection Amstel and Bakkerstraat. Shot has been taken from 's Gravenlandseveer, Amsterdam

Location: Corner Reguliersgracht and Prinsengracht, Amsterdam

Location: Intersection Singel and Oude Leliestraat, Amsterdam

Location: Oudezijds Acherburgwal 187 - 199, Amsterdam

Location: Intersection Geldersekade and Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam

Location: Nieuwmarkt 12 and 14, Amsterdam

Location: Corner Spuistraat and Molsteeg, Amsterdam

Location: Gravenstraat, Amsterdam

Location: Stationsplein, Centraal Station, Amsterdam

Location: Intersection Reestraat and Keizersgracht, Amsterdam

Location: Keizersgracht 460, Amsterdam

Location: Heiligeweg, Amsterdam

Location: Handboogstraat, Amsterdam

Location: In front of Handboogstraat 29, Amsterdam

Location: Nieuwe Doelenstraat, Amsterdam

Location: Aluminiumbrug, Amsterdam

Location: Herengracht 476, Amsterdam

Location: In front of Herengracht 476, Amsterdam

Location: Eerste Weteringdwarsstraat, Amsterdam

Location: Intersection Reestraat and Keizersgracht, Amsterdam

Location: Reestraat, Amsterdam

vrijdag 13 januari 2023

MUSIK IM BLUT

Date: 1955
Director: Erik Ode
Production Companies: Central Cinema Company Film (CCC), Central-Europa Film

Stars:
Victor de Kowa, Nadia Gray, Walraut Haas, Walter Gross, Ruth Stephan, Loni Heuser

Storyline:
Jazz musician Kurt Wildmann (Viktor de Kowa) has to put up with a few strokes of fate. He survives the last hours of the war in a bunker with his wife Angela Jäger (Walraut Haas) and their little daughter, but the bad years are not over yet. After an extremely hot concert in 1953, his leg had to be amputated. Only a year later he can perform on stage again with a prosthesis. However the joy does not last long….

1955 2023

Location: Majoor Bosshardtbrug - Molensteeg, Amsterdam

Location: Armbrug and looking at the Zeedijk, Amsterdam

maandag 9 januari 2023

SVEGLIATI E UCCIDI

Also known as: Wake Up And Die

Date: 1966
Director: Carlo Lizzani
Production Companies: Sanson Film, Castoro, CIPRA

Stars:
Robert Hoffmann, Lisa Gastoni, Gian Maria Volonte, Claudio Camaso, Renato Niccolai, Ottavio Fanfani, Pupo De Luca, Corrado Olmi

Storyline:
Luciano Lutring is a dangerous fugitive in Italy. He meets Candida, a nightclub singer and they fall in love. On their back is Candida’s lover Franco Magni, a two-bit gangster. Powered by his new-found fame and reputation, Lutring increasingly becomes more and more reckless, robbing as many jewelry stores as he can and pawning them before the cops catch up with him.

Additional information:
This is one of the first movies of the time and based on the life of real-life criminal Luciano Lutring; the infamous jewelry thief known as the ‘machine gun soloist’, a name he acquired by the media by keeping his weapon in a violin case.

1966 2023

Location: Verbindingsdam, Amsterdam

Location: Verbindingsdam and looking at Leventkade, Amsterdam

Location: Stationsplein Zuid-West, Schiphol Oost, Amsterdam

donderdag 29 december 2022

HOGE HAKKEN ECHTE LIEFDE

Date: 1981
Director: Dimitri Frenkel Frank
Production Company: Verenigde Nederlandsche Filmcompagnie (VNF)

Stars:
Rijk de Gooyer, Monique van de Ven, Geert de Jong, Dolf de Vries, Hannah de Leeuwe, Leen Jongewaard, Olga Zuiderhoek, Johan Ooms, Max Croiset, Gees Linnebank, Marina de Graaf, Huib Broos

Storyline:
A bored director (magnificently performed by Rijk de Gooijer), stuck in his mid-life crisis, becomes in love with the well-shaped working class cashier (young Monique van de Ven). He wants to become part of the working class and gets in all kind of tricky situations (Jackel/Hyde syndrome). He hates it but loves it at the same time and can't choose which character he has to become. One of them must die.

1981 2022

Location: Centraal Station seen from Amsterdam North, Amsterdam

Location: Keizersgracht 351, Amsterdam

Location: Hilton Hotel, Apollolaan 138, Amsterdam

Location: Albert Cuypmarket, Amsterdam

Location: Deymanstraat and looking at the Swammerdamstraat, Amsterdam
Location identified by Arjan Doolaar

Location: Deymanstraat 4, Amsterdam
Location identified by Arjan Doolaar

Location: Van Hogendorpstraat, Amsterdam
Location identified by Arjan Doolaar

maandag 19 december 2022

MOORD IN EXTASE

Date: 1984
Director: Hans Scheepmaker
Production Company: Maggan Films

Stars:
Joop Doderer, Ron Brandsteder, Manouk van der Meulen, Toon Agterberg, Eric van der Donk, Hero Muller

Storyline:
The film begins with the shocking robbery of a money transport truck, the driver of which is brutally liquidated. Detective De Cock and his assistant Vledder open the hunt for the murderer. They roll from one perilous adventure to another. Based on the crime novel of the same name by A.C. Baantjer.

Additional information: Eleven years later, the television series Baantjer (1995 to 2006) started, starring Piet Römer and Victor Reinier.