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The Celebration

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The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a devastating secret that turns the night into a battle of truth and denial. From TMDB

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  • Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 24, 2024

    Finally watched the 1998 Danish film THE CELEBRATION because I read that it was one of the inspirations for SUCCESSION (it's not a secret, the pilot was called 'Celebration'). Wow. Incredible movie. I was not expecting... that.

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  • Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    Check out some of Thomas Bangalter's great closet picks on the Criterion Channel! ✨ MODERN TIMES SISTERS MARTA GRAHAM: DANCE ON FILM THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES THE CELEBRATION

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  • Inside The Groove @insidethegroove.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2024

    Our first cut from the Celebration Tour Live film which Madonna has chosen today in honour World AIDS Day. An incredible performance from someone who has supported the LGBT+ community and the victims of AIDS throughout her entire career. youtu.be/W_eteXgf7qs

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  • Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 13, 2025

    On a roll on the general subject of trauma, abuse and speaking out--and how it's received (or isn't). Rewatching "The Celebration," an amazing Danish movie now 25 years old. For a while, I was unable to find it -anywhere-; it's now available via Criterion. *Maybe* someone uploaded to YT *koff*

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  • Inside The Groove @insidethegroove.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 21, 2024

    So, the Intel I had was that post the Celebration Tour, Madonna’s focus was the movie and the reissues. Well we now know the movie has stalled and the reissues haven’t appeared. We know she’s been in the studio. Let’s hope for some new music early 2025. What do you think?

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  • SpauldZILLA @spauldzilla.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 70s - Opening Night 80s - The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 90s - The Celebration 00s - The Piano Teacher 10s - Phantom Thread 20s - Hedda #filmsky 📽

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  • yonge @yonge.onlineBluesky · Aug 21, 2025

    movies! 1. Stalker 2. Repo Man 3. Paris, Texas 4. Pickpocket ('59) 5. Dead Ringers 6. Spoorloos 7. Jeanne Dielman 8. Suspiria ('77) 9. Rebels of the Neon God 10. An Elephant Sitting Still 11. The Wages of Fear 12. Aguirre, the Wrath of God 13. Le Bonheur ('65) 14. American Movie 15. The Celebration

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  • vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 12, 2025

    i rewatched Festen/The Celebration last night for the first time in forever and i really love how it's both about sexual abuse and a sort of stealth "eat the rich" movie at the same time. patriarchy, classism, racism - it's all there in a way that feels totally natural and not contrived. great film.

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · May 19, 2024

    Thomas Vinterberg (with scenes from his film "The Celebration") - BOTD

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  • Squidward's Tiki Land @oohahhohtikitiki.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2026

    The Transformers - The Movie Apology Tour made a stop in San Diego last night with the Celebration of Life concert. A show dedicated to the fallen Optimus Prime. The Knights of Unicron headlined with alternating vocalists. Props to @sewage666.bsky.social for the video interludes and double sets.

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  • Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2026

    Teaching is challenge these days b/c EVERYTHING so today in Film History I went silly! Topic: Dogme 95 w/ THE CELEBRATION as feature. In-class activity: students read “Vow of Chasity” + then answered some hypotheticals: their own pitch following the rules + what authors might say about recent films

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  • Jacob Harris @jacobharr.isBluesky · Jun 15, 2025

    Watching the quintessential Father’s Day film: Festen (the Celebration)

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  • The BW/DR Podcast @bwdrpod.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2025

    A brand new bite-sized podcast is here! This month, we're zooming in on the spectral perspective of Thomas Vinterburg's debut film, THE CELEBRATION. We get into: Dogme 95, family gatherings as horror movies, the generative energy of stylistic constraints, dynamic chaos, ghostly POVs, and more...

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  • Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2023

    Thomas Bo Larsen - 📽️ The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998) Vinterberg’s saga of family traumas colliding at a hotel birthday party is a great film, but it soars when Bo Larsen’s wild character is around. He’s the belligerent brother whose agitating tendencies amplify the chaos as secrets fly.

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  • Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 1, 2025

    Movies that open with a scene in which a central character travels to/arrives at the location where the remainder of the film will take place. Death in Venice (boat) The Belly of an Architect (train) The Celebration (on foot) Triumph of the Will (airplane) Dead Man (train again) Others?

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  • Core, The (DO NOT PERCEIVE) @the-core.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 16, 2024

    ABC interrupted the Celebration Bowl halftime for a “sneak peak” of this nonsense this movie is DEAD TO ME

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  • Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 29, 2023

    Movie years project Year 1998 (58/122) Now Watching 📽️ #16/17 The Celebration dir. Thomas Vinterberg rec'd by @kevinkoppes.bsky.social, @stephenage.bsky.social

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  • Drew S. @andyru86.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 28, 2024

    I’m ready for the Celebration Tour concert film and live album, please. #Madonna

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  • Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2024

    Greg Mottola: The only problem with The Celebration is that now there'll be like a thousand movies shot on videotape. Wes Anderson: It was good for that movie because it's something different than what we're used to seeing, but we don't want that to be the norm. [1999]

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  • Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 3, 2026

    (BTW, this film would've been a good template for the Madonna biopic I guess we're not getting; at least we have the Celebration tour and this great record)

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  • Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    Not a bad movie per se but Thomas Vinterberg’s “The Celebration” (at IIRC the Angelika in 1998) didn’t really help w first-date awkwardness.

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  • Scotty Holiday Star Wars @scottyholidaysw.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2025

    Check out my video going over everything you need to know about The Mandalorian & Grogu movie prior to the Celebration panel next month✨ #StarWarsCelebration

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  • Lord Juiblex @lordjuiblex.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 4, 2025

    Every few years I watch the movie "The Celebration" directed by Thomas Vinterberg. It's a Dogme 95 movie. It's a film about how a family responds to someone speaking the truth. Highly recommend. Currently streaming on Criterion.

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  • Ciri the Film Enjoyer 🏳️‍⚧️ @cirikino.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 12, 2025

    time to see my first Dogme 95 film -- The Celebration from Thomas Vinterberg. 📽️ NW:

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  • jaci skellington @wickedjaws.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 15, 2024

    Just turned a heel while watching a Spanish film, a real knitting ninja situation. (These are the Celebration socks.)

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  • The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 12, 2026

    Man, The Celebration (1998) sure is a lot. Fantastic film, but I really wanted to see retribution carried out towards nearly everyone seated at that table. Obviously the actual perp is the most deserving of it, but The Mob is absolutely vile in its complicity/apathy.

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  • Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 13, 2025

    Vinterberg's THE CELEBRATION is the greatest garbage-looking movie of all time

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  • MekareMadness @mekaremadness.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 13, 2025

    watched The Celebration (1998) so you know my day is ruined cinema tho

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  • bulldog @harpua.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 9, 2025

    The Celebration (1998) my favorite film I've seen so far this year. Such a delicious upper class satire combined with a dramatic story #filmsky

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  • Zaybak @zaybak.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 28, 2024

    This week I've written about The Celebration (1998). Warning: the film includes mention of some potentially traumatic material. This thread will not mention it, but see the full content warning in the essay (link below) for details.

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  • The Dapper DM @jarrettsullivan.comBluesky · Aug 25, 2026

    I have the collector's edition of the RotS novel. (perhaps the best novel adaptation of a film ever? I like it so much more than the movie itself...) & the Celebration exclusive High Republic phase 1 collection. So this one & the blue edge Thrawn are the special editions I don't have.

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  • Birdy @birdydownunder.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 15, 2026

    Just watched ‘The Celebration’ again recently, what a great film.

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  • Old Hobbit🐸 @oldhobbit.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2026

    Yes, make it so. I would also like to see The Celebration of the Lizard, the bizarre Doors epic, turned into a film.

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  • Robert @guydebored.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 20, 2026

    @horrorfilms101.bsky.social Are you a Refn fan? IIRC you like Vinterberg. I finally got around to The Celebration, which I really enjoyed. Also, what is the low-budget movie you said was one of your favorites of the last few years? You posted a still or gif of a guy in a gas mask, lots of color.

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  • Abe El-Raheb / Editor & Writer @eldashraheb.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2026

    About to watch my first Dogma 95 movie, The Celebration (1998).

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  • Aaron Button @aaronbutton.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 31, 2026

    Just watched this movie off of that silly list, called The Celebration. I think it broke me.

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  • isinqueens.bsky.social @isinqueens.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 31, 2026

    Oh, wow, The Celebration. Such a great film, so raw...

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  • bill @halcyonfeature.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 15, 2025

    The Celebration is such an amazing film, adore Vinterberg

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  • Glitzabella Bartuny @chronocross.bsky.socialBluesky · May 25, 2026

    I'm watching The Celebration and this movie is so good and kind of crazy

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  • DJ Joe D / DJ Mr D @djjoed.bsky.socialBluesky · May 9, 2026

    QUEERTY reports: In the midst of a nonstop, dance-fueled rollout for 👑 Madonna's upcoming album Confessions II, we’re getting fed with dazzling, high-quality concert footage from The Celebration Tour. There is also a trailer for the concert film. Question is: [when] will it be released? 🧐

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  • Grand Rapids Michigan News @grandrapidsnews.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyBluesky · Apr 24, 2026

    New restaurant and bar opens at West Michigan mall movie theater. Oscar's Restaurant & Bar is part of a $5.8 million renovation that includes heated recliners and upgraded sound systems at the Celebration Cinema’s RiverTown Crossings movie theater […]

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  • CinemaSerf @Geronimo1967TMDB reviews · Jan 1, 2026

    I have always loathed, and avoided, family gatherings though none of mine ever became quite so toxic as this one. It’s “Helge” (Henning Moritzen) who has reached sixty years old, and so has assembled his family and friends at a luxury hotel to celebrate. We can tell that we are in for a bumpy ride when son “Michael” (Thomas Bo Larsen) arrives with brother “Christian” (Ulrich Thomsen) to discover that he hasn’t been invited. No oversight, either, it appears so his brother has to intercede and…

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