EYE news

07 Mar | Collection

EYE film restoration showing in Berlin

A couple of years ago EYE restored one of director Frank Scheffer’s highly individual music documentaries. The 35mm version of his Helicopter String Quartet (1996) will be shown in Ann Arbor (US) and in Berlin in March and April.
16 Feb | Collection

Cruel comedies at MoMa

EYE will be presenting 40 comedies from the early teens at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. In this exclusive episode of the Cruel and Unusual comedy series, 6 programs will be presented around the themes "sexual misconduct", "tales of madness", ''mass destruction", ''science fiction", "musical comedy" and "domestic abuse".
16 Feb | Collection

Flying A Studio in Santa Barbara

EYE is participating to the centennial anniversary exhibition of the Flying A Studio at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.
08 Feb | EYE International

EYE presents book The Dutch Touch; Vision and passion for children’s films in the Netherlands

Inspired by the interviews and research they conducted for their book Van Abeltje tot Zoop, about the history and success of Dutch children’s films, film producer Sabine Veenendaal and film marketeer Esther Schmidt have written an additional booklet on the subject for the international film audience.
31 Jan | EYE General News

EYE, the new Dutch film museum, opens on April 5, 2012

EYE, the new film museum located on Amsterdam’s waterfront, will open its doors to the public on April 5, 2012. Starting on that day, visitors can watch films on the four screens, explore the exhibition area, the interactive basement, the museum store, and the restaurant and café.
31 Jan | Collection

EYE and the latest from Martin Scorsese

It may only be a small fragment, but it’s there all the same: Martin Scorsese’s latest film Hugo includes thirty seconds of footage from Georges Méliès’ Les quatre cents farces du diable. The copy he used came from the EYE institute’s collection.
31 Jan | EYE International

Oscar nomination for Bullhead

Bullhead, the Belgian-Dutch co-production by director Michaël R. Roskam, is one of this year’s Oscar nominees for the Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday 26 February 2012.
26 Jan | EYE International

Strong Dutch presence at Berlinale

A large number of films from the Netherlands has been selected for the upcoming edition of the Berlin International Film Festival (February 9 – 19). Holland scores high with no less than 6 feature films and 3 shorts included in the Berlinale this year.
12 Jan | Programme

EYE Vondelpark closed

Now that the last screenings of EYE Moves – a Top 25 of the best hundred films ever shown at EYE – are finished, the Vondelpark Pavilion will be closing its doors to the public. EYE moves to Amsterdam-Noord this spring.
08 Nov | EYE International

Dutch films doing well at the box office

Films by Dutch filmmakers are attracting plenty of visitors. By November 2011 no less than eight Dutch films were listed in the weekly Top 20. Three Dutch feature films have reached the status of Golden Film: Bennie Stout, Furious and The Heineken Kidnapping.