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1981-2010

– The inaugural Dutch Film Festival takes place. [MORE] [ADD]

Paul Verhoeven’s international art-house success, De vierde man (The Fourth Man), is released.   Jeroen Krabbe stars as a semi-alcoholic writer who becomes sexually involved with the girlfriend (Christine Halslag) of a stranger he encountered at a train station (Thom Hoffman) with whom he is obsessed. [MORE] [ADD]

George Sluizer's terrifying thriller of obsession, Spoorloos (The Vanishing), is released.   Gene Bervoets stars as a man who becomes obsessed with discovering the fate of his girlfriend, who went missing at a motorway service station. [MORE] [ADD]

Films of Note

Evenings (Rudolf van den Berg) [MORE] [ADD]

The Dutch Film Museum finds what it believes to be the only surviving copies of six early Walt Disney silent cartoons made between 1923 and 1927. [MORE] [ADD]

– The NBB is restructured and renamed the Nederlandse Federatie voor Cinematografie. [MORE] [ADD]

Films of Note

Karakter (Mike van Diem) [MORE] [ADD]

Films of Note

Costa! (Johan Nijenhuis) [MORE] [ADD]

Father and Daughter (Michael Dudok de Wit) [MORE] [ADD]

Films of Note

Volle Maan (Johan Nijenhuis)  [MORE] [ADD]

A print of the 1922 silent film Beyond the Rocks, starring Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson, is discovered in Haarlem.   The Amsterdam Film Museum announces that the film, which was believed to have been lost, is undergoing restoration and will be screened during the second Filmmuseum Biennial in April 2005 with a new score. [MORE] [ADD]

28/2 -

Al-Qaeda issues a fatwa calling for the execution of filmmaker and politician Geert Wilders, producer of a 15-minute anti-Koran film called Fitna (Discord). [MORE]

19/3 -

General John Craddock, NATO’s Supreme Commander for Operations, voices his concern that Geert Wilder’s Fitna, a short documentary criticising the Koran will provoke attacks on the 43,000 NATO soldiers serving in Afghanistan. [MORE]

22/3 -

Geert Wilder’s plans to screen Fitna, his controversial short film about the Koran, are jeopardised when Network Solutions, the US-based host web service, shut down his site due to complaints. [MORE]

28/3 -

Geert Wilder’s Fitna is released on the Internet after he finds a new web host following the closure of his site by previous host Network Solutions. [MORE]

28/3 -

Geert Wilders’ anti-Koran film Fitna is pulled from the internet after Liveleak.com receives threats it believes ‘could directly lead to the harm of some of our staff.  The website issues a statement proclaiming it is a ‘sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else.’ [MORE] [ADD]

31/3 -

The British-based Liveleak.com website puts Geert Wilders’ anti-Koran film Fitna back on its site, stating it has upgraded security for its staff and their families following threats received the previous week. [MORE]

A court rules that internet access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay in the Netherlands must be blocked within 10 days for a period of two months. [MORE]

The country’s submission for the foreign language Academy Award is changed from Jean van de Velde’s The Silent Army to Martin Koolhoven’s Oorlogswinter (Winter in Wartime) after the Academy rejects the original film because it is not considered an original work.  The Silent Army is a re-cut version of the 2008 film Wit Licht. [MORE] [ADD]

The comedy film Gooische vrouwen (Women from Gooi) tops the domestic box office after making €2.2m over its opening weekend (11^th-13^th March).   The film, based on a popular TV series, stars Linda de Mol as the wife of a singer who struggles to fit in with her new neighbours when he hits the big time. [ADD]