Ben Hopkins
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| OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from text | Film director, screenwriter, novelist |
| Years active | 1996–present |
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Ben Hopkins (born 1969) is a British film director, screenwriter and novelist.[1]
His film Simon Magus entered the 49th Berlin International Film Festival competition in 1999.[2] His 2008 film, The Market: A Tale of Trade (Template:Langx) won awards at film festivals in Locarno, Ghent and Antalya, where it was the first film directed by a foreigner to win an award in the national competition.[3]
In 2021, Ben Hopkins wrote a novel called Cathedral. David Wiley in a review on the Rain Taxi, writes that Hopkins as a screenwriter and filmmaker, Hopkins also employs far more filmic allusions than literary ones, such as stone facedly referencing Monty Python at two very unfunny moments and making a few glancing nods toward The Princess Bride, another work of a great screenwriter/novelist. Nicknaming his jejune stonecutter “Rettich” and placing great stress on the association with the word radish, Hopkins almost certainly invokes the celebrated Chartres scene in F for Fake, during which Welles mistily refers to the contemporary human as a “poor forked radish,” an allusion to Thomas Carlyle's riff on Falstaff's description of Robert Shallow in Henry IV, Part 2. That's quite a thread of association from film to architecture to literature, and Hopkins dispenses with that thread on the novel's first page. Otherwise largely literature free in its associative language and aesthetic order, this brilliantly imagined, gorgeously designed, and deeply profound novel is nonetheless a magnificent work of literature itself.[4]
His other notable films include Lost in Karastan, written with Paweł Pawlikowski, and Inside, starring Willem Dafoe.
Selected filmography
| Year | Title | Director | Writer |
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| 1999 | Simon Magus | Yes | Yes |
| 2000 | The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz | Yes | Yes |
| 2008 | The Market: A Tale of Trade | Yes | Yes |
| 2014 | Lost in Karastan | Yes | Yes |
| 2023 | Inside | No | Yes |
| 2025 | Fuze | No | Yes |
Bibliography (selection)
- Cathedral: a novel (2021)[5]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sarah Bower (August 2020). "God & Mammon: Ben Hopkins's Cathedral". review. Historical Novel Society (Historical Novels Review), England. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Berlinale: 1999 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."A Question Of Identity In Turkish Film: The 45th Antalya Film Festival". indiewire. 21 October 2008. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.David Wiley (2021). "Cathedral". Rain Taxi (Summer 2021). Minneapolis, USA: Rain Taxi, Inc. ISSN 1943-4383. OCLC 939786025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ben Hopkins (21 January 2021). Cathedral: a novel. Europa Editions. ISBN 978-1787702516.
External links
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