Daniel Lindvall, Film International’s editor-in-chief runs an article on The Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF) on FilmInt.’s website. Check it out here.…
Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov has been filming his version of Faust since August in the Czech Republic and Germany. Filming has now moved to Iceland, where the production will remain for several days. Icelandic actor Sigurdur Skúlason (The Sea, Children and Astropia) appears in the film as Faust’s father. Other…
Jitters, the debut feature of ad/promo director Baldvin Z, is now shooting in Reykjavík. Based on two books by writer/actress Ingibjörg Reynisdóttir, the film is about Gabriel, a confused sixteen year old who’s trying to figure out who he is and where he stands in an ever changing and complicated…
Icelandic cinema audiences are responding well to the farcical Jóhannes, which is still on top at the Icelandic box office after its second weekend on release. The film has sold over 17.000 tickets so far and seems destined to join another local film, The Big Rescue, as one of the…
Cinemavault has acquired international sales rights to Júlíus Kemp’s English-language horror film Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre. The Toronto-based company will commence sales at AFM next week on the story of a group of whale-watching tourists aboard…
Lars von Trier’s Antichrist receives the Nordic Council’s Film Prize this year. The film’s producer Meta Foldager is quoted on the Film Prize website as saying that “it is with a great sense of pride, pleasure and honour on behalf of the film that I thank the Nordic Council for…
Thorsteinn G. Bjarnason’s comedy, Jóhannes, starring comedy icon Laddi, tops the Iceland box office this week, with well over 6.000 admissions on the opening weekend and the highest opening gross of an Icelandic film this year. The film is playing in six cinemas nationwide. This is the first time in…
Hjálmar Einarsson, an ICN Cinephile, reviews Thorsteinn G. Bjarnason comedy Jóhannes, on his blog and finds it a welcome relief from “endless negative news in the media about economical disasters”. Check out the full review here.…
Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson, an ICN Cinephile, reviews Helgi Felixson’s docu God Bless Iceland on his blog and finds it “rather shallow from a (national) political point of view (…) but the film manages to introduce the personal turmoil: the politicians that wake up in a nightmare of their own construction…
A group of almost thirty people (and counting) with varied ties to films, will write regularly for ICN on the cinema at large. Among them are filmmakers, screenwriters, film scholars, film critics and cineastes. You’ll find them on the front page just below the headline section (see The Cinephiles), were…
