https://www.europesays.com/es/782533/ Estrenos online: crítica de ‘Tierra prometida’ (‘Bastarden’), de Nikolaj Arcel (Prime Video) #Cine #ElBastardo #Entertainment #Entretenimiento #ES #España #Film #MadsMikkelsen #Movies #NikolajArcel #PrimeVideo #Spain #ThePromisedLand
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Protest songs at Nationals Park
It’s been less than 14 years since I last saw Bruce Springsteen play a concert at Nationals Park, but it feels like decades have passed since those innocent days of 2012. The nation and the world have changed in unpleasant and unsettling ways, those years have left their wear on me… and somehow the Boss barely seems to have aged.
Springsteen’s music, however, resonated in new ways Wednesday night against the backdrop of the second Trump administration’s cruelty, corruption and crime–and Springsteen’s up-to-the-minute denunciations of it, including commentary on this week’s abuses of power at ICE’s Delaney Hall prison outside Newark.
So “No Surrender,” released in 1984 on an album I got on tape, sounded very much of 2026’s moment in this setting. As Springsteen said towards the end of the night: “No one is coming to save us. So we have to do it ourselves.”
Likewise, the angry words in “The Promised Land” about being lied to (about what exactly is left to the listener’s imagination) hit in a way they hadn’t before when Springsteen and the E Street Band lit into that 1978 release right after “Streets of Minneapolis”–the song he wrote in January after government agents shot and killed Renée Good and Alex Pretti on those frozen streets.
That reminder of the crimes committed by Trump’s Department of Homeland Security then made “American Skin (41 Shots)” more arresting than before. People in the Twin Cities probably have some words about how in Trump 2.0’s thuggish version of the United States, you can get killed just for living in your American skin.
A cover of the Clash’s “Clampdown” on which Springsteen and Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello took turns on vocals itself picked up a little new relevance when heard in a neighborhood that has picked up a reputation, maybe undeserved, as a Republican hangout. As Mick Jones and Joe Strummer wrote in the late 1970s: “No man born with a living soul / can be working for the clampdown.”
Hearing “Youngstown” later in the set, I had to think the protagonist would have voted for Trump three times in a row. Would that embittered man be rethinking those choices now that Trump’s promises to renew industrial America have proved as empty as his pledges to most people besides January 6 insurrectionists? Or would he still be looking for somebody to blame?
When many other boldface names in American society keep pretending that this administration is just another presidency, Springsteen is calling out Trump’s regime with the vocabulary it deserves. That is called honesty, and it’s only one of the reasons why his work keeps speaking to me more than four decades after I started listening to it.
#AmericanSkin #BruceSpringsteen #Clampdown #EStreetBand #lyrics #Music #NationalsPark #NatsPark #NoSurrender #Springsteen #StreetsOfMinneapolis #TheBoss #ThePromisedLand #Trump20 #Youngstown -
The Promised Land: Epic History, Land Cultivation, and Potatoes 🥔
The Promised Land (“Bastarden” in Danish) is based on the true story of Captain Ludvig Kahlen (1700-1774), who retired from the German Army to develop a property across desolate Danish moorland.
This Danish-German production was directed by Nikolaj Arcel and takes Kahlen’s story very seriously, delivering the goods across an often brutal epic historical drama. And if Mads Mikkelsen is in a film, you know it’s going to be worth watching.
The Precariousness of Life in The Promised Land
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9U1E9cC5is?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&w=723&h=407]Set in 1755, Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mikkelsen) retires from his career in the army and requests permission from the Royal Danish Court to build a property on the Jutland moorland.
The request is granted, although the belief is it’s such a harsh environment Kahlen has no chance of succeeding. The end goal is he wants a noble title with a manor, so he can be financially secure, and his secret weapon for success is… potatoes!
Using the hardy vegetables, he hopes to grow crops and make his name.
Helping him along on the barren landscape are the serf workers Johannes Eriksen (Morten Hee Andersen) and his wife Ann Barbara (Amanda Collin). Plus, they enlist a precocious young gypsy girl called Anmai Mus (Melina Hagberg).
The troop face many problems on the harsh landscape, but their main threat to land cultivation comes from psychotic local magistrate and landowner Frederik Schinkel (Simon Bennebjerg).
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP1fK4Wyf_w?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&w=723&h=407]Kahlen and Schinkel clash immediately, with the latter determined to make the former’s life a misery. For no real reason, of course, other than Schinkel being a complete overprivileged bastard.
As that psychodrama plays out, Kahlen must also try and cultivate the desolate landscape. He turns to increasingly risky means to achieve results.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25SNjK6qlrI?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&w=723&h=407]You get a great sense of the precariousness of life several hundred years ago, where everything depended on crops growing. Scenes such as the morning frost threatening crops.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yISskS2St8?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&w=723&h=407]The Promised Land is methodical across its first two hours, but does rush through its final 30 minutes. That may have been for a variety of reasons (studio pressure to shorten the running time etc.), so maybe a director’s cut will emerge eventually. As there’s no reason this couldn’t be a full three hours or so.
We mention that as the ending does feel a bit rushed, with several key events unfolding at speed. And out of step with the rest of the film’s pacing. It doesn’t dent the film’s excellence, but we did feel it unusual.
But it is an excellent film. It’s brutal, with some particularly nasty scenes in it. But then that’s life for you, with Kahlen and Ann Barbara’s stories playing out to much chaos before, eventually, offering a message of hope at the end.
The Production of The Promised Land
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUIZ28pQlCc?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&w=723&h=407]A lot of great films came in 2023, it’s arguably the best year of films this decade. The Promised Land kind of got lost amongst big awards contenders like Zone of Interest and Anatomy of a Fall (basically, anything with Sandra Hüller in it).
Denmark selected The Promised Land as its entry into the 2024 Oscars (in Best International Feature Film), but it didn’t make the final cut. Critically acclaimed, then, but not a major commercial success (only making $2,246,680 at the box office).
The film was shot out in Germany, Sweden, and Czechia across September to November 2022.
It was adapted from the book The Captain and Ann Barbara (2020) by Ida Jessen, which was loosely based on Captain Ludvig Kahlen’s life. The real life Kahlen spent eight years attemtping to cultivate the land, but then gave up. Whereas in the film, he’s depicted as becoming highly successful (just after many trials and tribulations).
Also, the landscape is depicted as bleak during the story. But when filming, the cast and crew actually had a great time out there. It was treated as a camping trip with all the modern comforts Kahlen didn’t get to enjoy.
Interestingly, the focus of the shoot was influenced by David Lean’s classic Lawrence of Arabia (1962), with director Nikolaj Arcel noting:
“I remember once watching an interview with Steven Spielberg where he said that, when he saw Lawrence of Arabia for the first time, he thought, ‘I probably don’t need to do movies, because nobody can top this.’ I feel the same way. I watch Lawrence of Arabia once a year, and every time I watch it, I’m like, ‘Oh, my God!’ I mean, the complexity of the characters and the adventurous nature of the storytelling is just amazing. You’re gripped for 3-plus hours. That film means a lot to me, and we even tried to borrow from it a bit in terms of the way that we used our lenses and cameras, and the way we manipulated the lighting and the depth of field.”
The Promised Land isn’t as good as Lean’s film (not many are), but it’s definitely a more than worthy effort at epic historical stuff.
#Bastarden #CaptainLudvigKahlen #Cinema #Denmark #Drama #Films #historicalEpic #History #Lifestyle #MadsMikkelsen #NikolajArcel #ThePromisedLand -
Ok, finished season one of #ThePromisedLand...
The show has some endearing points, especially when touching on the issue of failure and forgiveness, but I hate the format. :/
Also, I kinda want to punch Caleb in the face. What an absolute brat, and what absolute character assassination of a well-known figure to make him out to be such an incompetent, feckless dingbat. He has his moments later on, but I still despise the character.
I guess I'm a little older than the target audience.
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CW: CW: Unpopular opinion, silly tv rant, mild language
#UnpopularOpinion: I strongly dislike the faux-documentary/faux-reality-tv style of TV shows like The Office.
Something dumb/unexpected/embarrassing happens, then a character looks directly into the camera with a stupid/mocking expression, and I'm like, "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME FOR, IDIOT?!"
This reaction got strongly triggered recently when watching the new bible-ish-based-ish series, #ThePromisedLand, although it did have some genuinely funny moments (well, a couple in the three episodes I've watched so far. XD )
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Das Buch #Exodus ist voller Gewalt, Krankheiten, Plagen und Machtkämpfen. Kann diese Geschichte durch die Linse einer #Comedy #Mockumentary erzählt werden? Der Kulturkritiker Joseph Holmes interviewt Mitch Hudson, Regisseur der neuen TV-Serie #ThePromisedLand:
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#ThePromisedLand ist vielversprechend – hat aber noch einen langen Weg vor sich:
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #TVNews #ThePromisedLand #TheChosen #YouTube Workplace Comedy Goes Old Testament in Trailer for New Biblical Sitcom From ‘The Chosen’ Director [Exclusive] http://dlvr.it/TN78Zr
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New publication (in Dutch) about the history of antisemitism in Europe. The book takes 43 instances, ranging from Classic Antiquity to the decade before the Second World War, in which the authors trace latent or blatant antisemitism.
One of the instances is publisher Joan Blaeu’s description of The Promised Land in his renowned Atlas Maior (1664).
Published by Uitgeverij Prometheus.
#antisemitisme #newpublication #joanblaeu #thepromisedland #jewishhistory #cartography #bookhistory #atlasmaior
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Barack Obama Lists His Top 10 Movies Of 2024
#News #Politics #ACompleteUnknown #AllWeImagineAsLight #Anora #BarackObama #Conclave #Didi #DunePartTwo #Lists #Sugarcane #ThePianoLesson #ThePromisedLand #TheSeedoftheSacredFig #YearEndhttps://deadline.com/2024/12/barack-obama-list-top-10-movies-2024-1236239944/
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Check out my review of the stunning historical drama with strong performances and a thought-provoking message, THE PROMISED LAND (2023). https://ontherunmovies.com/the-promised-land-2023/ #thepromisedland #thepromisedlandmovie #thepromisedland2023
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Acabo de ver The Promised Land (2023) https://trakt.tv/movies/the-promised-land-2023 #ThePromisedLand #trakt
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Viendo The Promised Land (2023) https://trakt.tv/movies/the-promised-land-2023 #ThePromisedLand #trakt
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King’s Land
(Bastarden)
2023Im 18. Jh. nimmt sich der ehemalige Hauptmann Ludvig Kahlen der für unvorstellbar gehaltenen Aufgabe an, die wilde dänische Heide zu disziplinieren und ertragreich zu machen. Dabei muss er gegen Witterung, Aberglauben und den intriganten Gutsherrn de Schinkel bestehen.
#KingsLand #Bastarden #ThePromisedLand #Film #Filmfan #FilmReview #Filmastodon #FilmMastodon #SoilentFilm #FilmtheaterAmFriedrichshain
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The Box Office Allure Of ‘Poor Things’ And ‘American Fiction’ – Specialty Preview
#News #AmericanFiction #FittingIn #Howtohavesex #PoorThings #Scrambled #SkinKeep #SpecialtyPreview #ThePromisedLand #TheZoneOfInterest -
Mads Mikkelsen Reveals Why ‘The Promised Land’ Means So Much to Him
#Collider #Interviews #ThePromisedLand #MadsMikkelsen #NikolajArcelhttps://collider.com/mads-mikkelsen-the-promised-land-oscars/
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‘The Promised Land’ Director on Taming the Wild With Mads Mikkelsen
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#BASTARDEN #ThePromisedLand
Retired Captain Ludvig dreams of cultivating moorland and earning a noble title. But his ambition clashes with a local magistrate.
⚔️ https://pradt.co/bastardenA film by Nikolaj Arcel, starring Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg, Kristine Kujath Thorp, and Gustav Lindh.
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#ThePromisedLand orjinal adı ile #Bastarden Danimarka tarihi filmi. Gerçek mi araştırmadım üşendim. Sert, kalpsiz ama mangal yürekli şefkatli rolünde gördüğümüz #MadsMikkelsen yine. Filmin bir iddiası yok ama hikayesi iyi. Klasik şaşırtacak bir durumu da yok. Kont unvanı almak isteyen ekmeğini taştan çıkaran adamın hayatta neyin değerli olduğunu anlaması diyebiliriz. İzleyin mi, izleyin. Yormaz
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'The Promised Land' FYC Screening With Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Arcel Q&A
#Collider #MovieNews #MadsMikkelsen #ThePromisedLand #Screeninghttps://collider.com/the-promised-land-fyc-screening-mads-mikkelsen/
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THE PROMISED LAND (2024) Movie Trailer: Mads Mikkelsen Fights a Merciless Land Ruler in Nikolaj Arcel's Drama Film
#FilmBook #AmandaCollin #GustavLindh #KristineKujathThorp #MadsMikkelsen #MagnoliaPictures #MovieTrailer #NikolajArcel #SimonBennebjerg #ThePromisedLand
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Nikolaj Arcel’s The Promised Land gets a new poster. Trailer and details here https://bit.ly/3veEFen
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I recently watched 2 films featuring Danish actor Simon Bennebjerg. He is the supremely villainous supporting actor in Nikolaj Arcel's 2023 The Promised Land (Bastarden) and Lead actor in Bille August's 2021 film The Pact (Pagten).
Absolutely One to Watch
#simonbennebjerg #onetowatch #actor #danishactor #supportingactor #leadactor #thepromisedland #film # #filmworld #kino #cinema #cinéma #bastarden #thepact #pagten #billeaugust #nikolajarcel #danskskuespiller
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Another great performance from #SimonBennebjerg after seeing his villainous performance in #ThePromisedLand. From #director #BilleAugust - The odd friendship between author #KarenBlixen + poet #ThorkildBjørnvig
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#Bastarden, Denmark's submission for #BestInternationalFilm #Oscar. With great performances by #MadsMikkelsen, #GustavLindh, #AmandaCollin, #KristineKujathThorp + an exceptionally villainous #SimonBennebjerg
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‘The Promised Land,’ ‘Society of the Snow’ Top EFA Excellence Awards
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Watch Mads Mikkelsen in the trailer for Nikolaj Arcel’s The Promised Land here https://bit.ly/412b8AL
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Mads Mikkelsen Shares Theory On Why He’s Cast As The Bad Guy In U.S. Movies – Marrakech Masterclass
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Mads Mikkelsen: The Danish Star On His International Oscar Contender ‘The Promised Land’, Saying Goodbye to Indiana Jones in ‘The Dial Of Destiny’ And Becoming A New Grandfather
#News #BryanFuller #CasinoRoyale #IndianaJonesandtheDialofDestiny #MadsMikkelsen #ThePromisedLandhttps://deadline.com/2023/11/the-promised-land-mads-mikkelsen-interview-1235629360/
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In Brutal Oscar Entry ‘The Promised Land,’ Star Mads Mikkelsen Says Plenty with Near-Silence
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Oscars: Denmark Submits ‘The Promised Land’ For Best International Film Feature
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Icon Takes Mads Mikkelsen’s ‘The Promised Land’ for U.K.
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Mads Mikkelsen Fires Back At Reporter Who Confronts ‘The Promised Land’ Star & Director Nikolaj Arcel With “Lack Of Diversity” Questions
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‘The Promised Land’ Review: Mads Mikkelsen At His Staunch, Heroic Best In Nikolaj Arcel’s Classic Drama About Human Frailty – Venice Film Festival
#BreakingNews #Festivals #Reviews #Bastarden #MadsMikkelsen #NikolajArcel #ThePromisedLand #Venice #VeniceFilmFestival -
‘The Promised Land’ Review: Mads Mikkelsen Grows Potatoes When the Chips Are Down in a Rip-Roaring Historical Drama
#Variety #Festivals #Reviews #MadsMikkelsen #NikolajArcel #ThePromisedLand #VeniceFilmFestivalhttps://variety.com/2023/film/festivals/the-promised-land-review-mads-mikkelsen-1235709566/
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‘The Promised Land’ Review: Mads Mikkelsen Smolders Magnificently in Nikolaj Arcel’s Gripping Historical Epic
#MovieReviews #Movies #International #MadsMikkelsen #MagnoliaPictures #Nikolajarcel #Thepromisedland #Venice2023 #VeniceFilmFestival #Venicefilmfestivalreviews -
Mads Mikkelsen & Nikolaj Arcel On Reteaming For Danish Drama ‘The Promised Land’ & The Challenges Of U.S. Studio Movies – Venice
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‘The Promised Land’ Trailer: Mads Mikkelsen Plays Danish Explorer in Nikolaj Arcel’s Venice Competition Film From TrustNordisk (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #Global #News #MadsMikkelsen #ThePromisedLandhttps://variety.com/2023/film/global/promised-land-trailer-mads-mikkelsen-venice-1235702750/
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Worldwide there is a growing commitments to swimmable rivers and clean natural waterways.
https://theconversation.com/olympic-swimming-in-the-seine-highlights-efforts-to-clean-up-city-rivers-worldwide-210714The case of the Bellingen's scenic swimming hole
Bellingen just smashed in a "$5.2M “gate way to the Promised Land” so that mass tourism can speed along the new 'highway' (Gleniffer Road) to the Never Never Creek. It is the town's main 'tourist destination' (but has no public toilet).In January the Promised Land swimming hole near Bellingen recorded faecal contamination of water. "Council advised swimmers to stay out of the Never Never River.” Humans and dogs were blamed for the faecal matter. "It has been very popular over the holiday period and there are certainly indications that people have been using the riparian area there along the banks for toileting purposes”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-18/promised-land-swimming-hole-bellingen-faecal-contamination/101844606“Tell the city you want your river back”
https://popupcity.net/insights/the-renaissance-of-urban-swimming/#swimming #SwimmingHole #Bellingen #rivers #OverTourism #SocialMedia #roads #traffic #climate #holidays #stormwater #wastewater #runoff #dogs #pets #EnterococcusBacteria #FecalContamination #ArthurKeoghReserve #NeverNeverRiver #ThePromisedLand #TheDrive #TuckersNobStateForest #wildlife #biodiversity #platypus
