In the old nursery rhyme, Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. In the Samuel Van Grinsven drama “Went Up the Hill,” characters named Jack and Jill have their own business on that ...
Maybe because so many of them were cautionary tales, but traditional nursery rhymes can be unnerving as hell when you unpack the meaning beneath the cheery tune. Among the strangest of them all ...
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EVERYBODY remembers singing the famous nursery rhyme Jack and Jill when they were children. The song depicts the exploits of ...
Writer-director Samuel Van Grinsven says that his new film “Went Up the Hill” was inspired by a single image of two people in a room, a coffin between them, both equally mourning the person inside, ...
The new film “Went Up the Hill” deals with some serious subjects, yet its cinematic calling card isn’t realist drama but horror. Set in a wintry landscape on New Zealand’s South Island, the feature in ...
Evocative of the familiar nursery rhyme Jack and Jill, New Zealand-born filmmaker Samuel Van Grinsven’s Went Up the Hill is a hauntingly tender play on the “ghost story” genre. Went Up the Hill ...
What does a children’s nursery rhyme and astronomy have in common? Plenty, and the former is quite helpful in understanding one aspect of the latter: the moon’s phases. Everyone is familiar with the ...