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What Happened in the Basement Season 14 Episode 12 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Dateline: Secrets Uncovered,” titled “What Happened in the Basement,” promises to be a gripping exploration of a mysterious case. Airing on Oxygen, this episode focuses on the events surrounding Amy Allan’s tragic situation. It begins with a frantic 911 call made by her husband, who claims that she has taken her own life.

As the story unfolds, police bodycam footage captures the urgency of the officers as they respond to the scene. The tension is palpable as investigators work to piece together what really happened that day. The episode highlights the critical role of forensic evidence and mobile data in uncovering the truth behind Amy’s death.

Viewers can expect a deep dive into the investigation, showcasing how detectives sift through various clues and testimonies. The episode raises questions...

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What Happened in the Basement Season 8 Episode 15 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode titled “What Happened in the Basement” of “Dateline” will air on Oxygen, providing a gripping look into a mysterious case. The episode centers around Amy Allan, whose husband called 911, claiming that she had taken her own life. The shocking nature of the call sets the stage for a detailed investigation that follows.

Viewers will witness the immediate response of the police, captured through bodycam footage, as officers rush to the scene. The episode explores the critical moments of that night, revealing the initial chaos and urgency that unfolds. As the story develops, investigators work diligently to uncover the truth behind Amy’s death. They delve into forensic evidence and analyze mobile data to piece together the events leading up to the tragedy.

“What Happened in the Basement” promises to be an intense exploration of the investigative process.

Bravo New World: Seidl Returns with Desolate Portrait of Fallen Hustler

There’s always a healthy thread of humor lurking under the despair of Ulrich Seidl’s films, both documentary and otherwise, and this is most certainly the case in his long awaited return to narrative filmmaking with Rimini, a cross-cultural portrait of a hustler hit with a karma bullet. It’s been nearly a decade since Seidl unleashed his perversely enjoyable Paradise trilogy, though his documentary features have continued to unspool, as with the surprisingly sweet In the Basement (2014) and the disturbing Safari (2016). The groundwork of his latest feature is basically the story of a failed playboy gone to seed reuniting with his daughter, though undercurrents of cultural trauma bubble up sporadically.…...

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A project which has been developing for the past several years, it would appear 2020 is finally the year in which Ulrich Seidl’s Wicked Games will at last be unveiled, the Austrian auteur’s first narrative feature since his final installment in his underrated Paradise trilogy debuted back in 2013.

Seidl bounces back and forth between narrative and documentary, and over the past several years has released 2014’s In the Basement (review) and 2016’s Safari.…...

Austrian filmmaker’s new documentary to be ready in time for Cannes.

Details have emerged during International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) of the Ulrich Seidl’s latest project, a new feature doc titled Auf Safari about trophy hunting in Africa

The film has already been shot and is expected to be completed in time for Cannes next May.

Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær of Danish Documentary Production has boarded the project as co-producer.

“He (Seidl) is following trophy hunters in Africa. But Ulrich Seidl is always Ulrich Seidl so he is doing it a bit more profoundly,” said Dyekjær.

Seidl has been shooting the project for many years but is now ready to finalise it and is completing the sound in Denmark with Mainstream, the company regularly used by Lars Von Trier.

There has been intense interest in (and condemnation of) big game hunters since a Minnesota dentist shot dead a much loved lion on a safari trip in...

Having previously released all three items his Paradise: Trilogy, Screen Daily reports that Strand Releasing have excavated Ulrich Seidl’s out of comp Venice Film Festival premiered docu. The long in the works oddity In the Basement is be pegged for a summer release.

Gist: The film is about people and their obsessions. The film is about basements and what people do in them in their free time. The film is about brass-band music and opera arias, expensive furniture and cheap men’s jokes, sexuality and sadism, fitness and fascism, whips and dolls, snakes and guns, love and the longing for love.

Worth Noting: Seidl is looking to return to fiction with Herr Grasl. We’re hopeful for a 2016 release.

Do We Care?: Reviewed at London BFI, we called this item “distinctive in its revelations about its subjects and steering clear of the notorious imprisonment cases that shocked Austrians and the world alike,...

Strand Releasing has acquired all Us rights from Coproduction Office to Ulrich Seidl’s In The Basement.

The documentary premiered in Venice Film Festival last year and uncovers the secret lives and passions of a group of Austrian people.

Jon Gerrans of Strand Releasing brokered the deal with Philippe Bober of the Coproduction Office.

Strand plans a summer release. The distributor released Seidl’s Paradise: Trilogy in 2014.

Herr Grasl

Director: Ulrich Seidl // Writer: Ulrich Seidl

After premiering his monolithic Paradise trilogy across 2012 and 2013, along with the long gestating documentary project In the Basement in 2014, Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl has been a bit more chatty about plans for his next project, titled Herr Grasl. A labor of love for the director, he’s funding it himself and seeking additional funding from his home country, and it’s rumored to be his most expensive project to date. A period piece set in the late 18th century, the film concerns a real-life Robin Hood-like figure who lived in the northern part of Austria fought back against the authorities and was eventually hanged at the age of 26. Seidl is quoted as saying “We had to deal with monarchy, meaning a very repressive state: a state as criminal as criminals themselves. A bit like today.” Sounds exactly like the cheery tone we...

How would you program this year's newest, most interesting films into double features with movies of the past you saw in 2014?

Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2014—in theatres or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2014 to create a unique double feature.

All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2014 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch...

Director Ulrich Seidl (left) in the documentary Ulrich Seidl – A Director at Work

Ascent is a passage towards holiness, and descent, towards darkness and fear. Although phenomenological experience takes place on the horizontal plane, the spiritual experience, wishing to mimic heavenly life, is ordered on the vertical one. Even when this spirituality is secularized into psychology, this vertical arrangement of space remains unchanged—the enlightened self sits aflame atop the mountain, and down below in the bowels of obscurity the impenetrable subconscious hangs heavy like a black mist.

This dense opacity is a great temptation to cinema which has always yearned to seize the unfilmable (be it violence, love, god, terror). And what better place to hunt for this unfilmable than in the gloom of cellars, both symbol and representation of repressed desire? The true darkness which exists only in the most horrific of basements, where actual enslavement, rape, murder are carried out repel representation.

Austria's Ulrich Seidl is finding the odd in the everyday with his latest documentary, Im Keller (In The Basement) in which he explores the basements of Austria to very strange effect.The film sketches Austrians' relationships with their basements, and also looks for answers to the questions of what makes them different and whether such special characteristics exist at all. This film tour through the everyday lives of Austrian cellars managed to find answers and even ask some new questions, thereby shining a little light on facts normally hidden beneath the ground.Unfortunately there does not appear to be an English subtitled version of the trailer available yet but the visuals here - from bondage lairs, to shooting ranges, to mass taxidermy - are so striking that...

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Cph:dox has broken its own audience record for the 12th consecutive year.

This year’s tally was 83,900 visitors, up 20% from 70,100 last year. Of those, 3,586 were online views.

There were 1,356 delegate industry visitors.

Tine Fischer, festival director at Cph:dox, said: “Cph:dox has both audience- and industry-wise experienced an outstanding year. We are extremely happy, but hands down the most important thing that has happened this year without comparison, is that the festival has really taken the documentary into an active social and political space with its new project Megatrends. The project is not limited to journalistic criticism and analysis, but puts more focus on how we can get an active dialogue going on some of the most important global issues and challenges. The interaction, innovation and strengthening of an active democratic dialogue have been the objectives and we think it has had a flying start. The project is intended as a recurring initiative and we are looking forward...

Midway through International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Idfa), the In the Basement director has talked about his period drama; while George Takei has revealed details on his WWII project and Autlook and picked up new titles.

Speaking at Amsterdam’s Eye centre, controversial Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, whose latest doc In The Basement (sold by Coproduction Office) is screening at the festival, revealed further details of his forthcoming costume film.

The film, a historical drama set in the late 18th century, has a working title of Herr Grasl. It is set in “the milieu of the poorest of the poor”.

These are young people, returning from war and having to engage in criminal activities to survive. Its main character is Herr. Grasl, a real-life Robin Hood-like figure who lived in the northern part of Austria fought back against the authorities and was eventually hanged at the age of 26. The film promises to be Seidl’s most ambitious yet.[p...

Finnish documentary expert Leena Pasanen has been appointed as the first non-German in the almost 60-year history of Dok Leipzig to succeed Claas Danielsen as its festival director.

Pasanen previously worked in documentary programming at public broadcaster Yle and as the director of the European Documentary Network in Copenhagen, among others.

She will take up her post on January 1, 2015 with an initial five-year contract .

Claas Danielsen, who has headed Dok Leipzig as festival director for the past ten years, will open his swansong edition on Oct 27 with Citizenfour, the final part of Laura Poitras’ 9/11 trilogy, centred on Nsa whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Sergei Loznitsa’s Maidan and Ulrich Seidl’s Im Keller are among 12 titles selected for the International Competition for Feature Documentaries to compete for the €10,000 Golden Dove.

Other films in this competitive section include Fernand Melgar’s The Shelter, which premiered at Locarno in August; Zuzanna Solakiewicz’s 15 Corners Of The World; Giovanni Donfrancesco’s [link...

Others to take part in on-stage discussions include Susanne Bier, Frederick Wiseman Michael Ballhaus and Ulrich Seidl. Also, Nightcrawler will receive its European premiere at Zurich.

Movie music maestro Hans Zimmer is to take part in the Zff Masters series at the 10th Zurich Film Festival (Sept 25 – Oct 5).

The composer of scores for films including Rain Man, The Lion King, Gladiator and Inception will offer insight into his creative process in the chaired discussion that will include a public Q&A at the Filmpodium.

Others signed up for the Zff Masters include documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman and Danish screenwriter and director Susanne Bier, who won the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film in 2010 with In A Better World and is currently touring festivals with A Second Chance and Serena.

Zurich audiences will also be invited to attend masterclasses with veteran cinematographer Michael Ballhaus (The Departed, Goodfellas) and Ulrich Seidl, the Austrian filmmaker behind the recent Paradise trilogy and documentary...

Venice — As the festival wraps up for another year and prizes are announced, time for my final Venice 2014 report. On a personal note, I'd like to say I've had a blast writing for HitFix for the first time, and huge thanks to everyone who said that they enjoyed the coverage; it always means a lot. "A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Contemplating Existence" Grade: A+ Reaction: Given its Golden Lion-winning status, you'd be forgiven, sight unseen, for assuming that "A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Contemplating Existence" was one of those films that sends festival critics into paroxysms of delight while largely eluding a broader audience. You know, the sort of films where a pigeon actually does sit on a branch contemplating existence for a lively three-hour stint and then a jury says how refreshing it was to be freed from the shackles of conventional characterization, narrative or incident and gives it a prize.

As 19 titles are revealed for the Zabaltegi section, Danis Tanovic’s Tigers is added to the official competition and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby has entered the Pearls section.

The 62nd San Sebastian Festival has unveiled the titles for its Zabaltegi section, a non-competitive strand featuring a variety of films, documentaries, shorts and television.

This year’s line-up will include world premieres of four features made in Spain: Virginia García del Pino’s Basilio Martín Patino. The Tenth Letter; Borja Cobeaga’s Negotiator; Francisco Sánchez Varela’s Paco De Lucía: La Búsqueda; and Pedro González Bermúdez’s documentary When Bette Davis Bids Farewell.

The strand will also include the Spanish premieres of the latest works by Ulrich Seidl and Kazuyoshi Kumakiri as well as a screening of Bruno Dumont’s TV series Lil´Quinquin.

In addition, Danis Tanovic’s Tigers will compete in the Official Selection, while the Pearls section has added Ned Benson’s relationship...