Biografía

Martin Koolhoven

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Often casts actress Carice van Houten
Uses no capitals in his closing titles and ends his final credits with: xxx!
Often has stylistic references to spaghetti westerns (and other Italian genre movies)..
Often has what he calls 'point of view' scenes. People eavesdropping, peeping through doorways, looking through binoculars, etc.
His characters often end up in other people's clothes.

His first film AmnesiA got a small theatrical release in New York. I was his first movie to get a commercial release in the United States.
Graduated Dutch Film Academy as a Fiction Film Writer & Director in 1996
All his films have won awards at the Dutch Film Festival. His films also won at several festivals abroad in such countries as France, England, Egypt, Japan and Spain.
Signs off his fiction films with: xxx! End credits of his fiction films are non-capital.
The triple-mark is not included in the end credits of Grot, De (2001). Some people say this is because this is his first fiction film where he does not have a writing credit.

[on his Hollywood ambitions] I was asked a couple of times to direct something in Hollywood, but so far it wasn't interesting enough to say yes. I would like to make an international movie, but not necessarily in The United States. It's also possible to do it here (in the Netherlands). We'll see. If the right project comes along I'll consider going, but for now I'm happy here.
[on David Lean's Brief Encounter] The best romantic film there is. There's nothing more beautiful then impossible love.
[on Brimstone] I consider it my second film. When I started I said I wanted to make a movie a year to learn the craft. How many movies did Hitchcock make before he made a good one? Or John Ford? So I see all movies before Winter in Wartime as practicing. I'm proud of them and everything, but I found my voice when I made Winter in Wartime, which in a way is my debut. So then I stopped being in a hurry, I don't want to just practice, I want to make the movies I was put on earth for.