In the sixties, the spaghetti western, according to Martin Koolhoven the most beautiful genre, became a real craze. It started with A fistful of dollars by Sergio Leone, the greatest director in the genre.
Filming on open water is asking for trouble, the sea is impossible to direct. Martin Koolhoven notes that beautiful films have nevertheless been made: Jaws, The Abyss and Dead Calm, among others.
The European version of horror is traditionally always slightly 'nastier' than the American one. And Martin Koolhoven is looking for an answer to the question: what should blood look like?
It is the wet dream of many film directors: to be able to build a whole new world on the old one, keeping only those elements from the past that are useful to you.
Film noir is the world of raw detectives, dirty cops and femme fatales. With a focus on films such as Touch of Evil by Orson Welles and modern classics such as Lost Highway and Drive.
Sex and film, it's still an awkward marriage. Martin Koolhoven shows successful examples from Tarzan and his mate, Amarcord, 800 Balas, A history of violence and Dressed to kill.
