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Film-Related New Year’s Resolutions: 2024

Poul Bundgaard, Ove Sprogøe, and Morten Grunwald in the Olsen Gang-films (Nordisk Film) — Robert De Niro in Michael Mann’s HEAT (Warner Bros.) — George Lazenby in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (United Artists).

Whenever a new year begins, people bring up the same tired resolutions that most of them can never live up to. Some want to lose weight, some want to travel, while others want to quit smoking. Well, what I want to do is make a list of films that I want to finally watch or that I want to finally take the time to write full written reviews for. So, what is on this film nerd’s list of film-related New Year’s resolutions for 2024? Well, let’s have a look.

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Study finds that ‘Flickering Lights (2000)’ is the Most Popular Danish Film in Denmark

Top Left: Mads Mikkelsen in Flickering Lights (Scanbox; Rolf Konow). – Top Right: Poul Bundgaard, Ove Sprogøe, and Morten Grunwald in the Olsen Gang-films (Nordisk Film). – Bottom Left: Mads Mikkelsen in Another Round (Nordisk Film). – Bottom Right: Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Fares Fares in the Department Q-films (Nordisk Film; Henrik Ohsten).

The Danish news agency Ritzau reports that Anders Thomas Jensen’s 2000s dark-comedy Flickering Lights (Danish title: Blinkende Lygter) was found to be Danes’ favorite Danish film ever made. The study was conducted by the data analytics firm YouGov for the Danish streaming service Nordisk Film+. A total of 1,529 Danes in the 18 to 79 age range participated in CAWI-interviews for the study, which has ultimately resulted in a top ten list that includes two film series (each counted as a single film). Interestingly, a total of nine films (including one of the film series) that were released have all come out in the last forty years, and, incredibly, a film released during the COVID-era placed second!

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