The comedy Jóhannes by Thorsteinn Gunnar Bjarnason (debut feature), starring Icelandic comedy icon Laddi (Thórhallur Sigurdsson), premieres on October 16th. The film depicts the middle aged art teacher of the title, who leads a dull life until he meets a young and very beautiful woman by accident. Meeting her starts a series of hilarious events [...]
Bjarnfredarson, a movie opening at Christmas, will be the culmination of the hugely popular “Shift” series (The Night Shift, The Day Shift), who’s last season (The Jail Shift) is now running on Stöd 2 TV. Here’s the teaser with english subtitles. Check out Ben Hopkins’ review on The Night Shift here and The Day Shift [...]
The filming of Valdís Óskarsdóttir’s King’s Road 7 (Kóngavegur 7) wraps early next week in Reykjavík. The ensemble dramedy sees the cast of Óskarsdóttir’s debut film, Country Wedding, returning; including Gísli Örn Gardarsson (Children), Björn Hlynur Haraldsson (The Cliff), Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir (Parents) and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (the upcoming Stormland)…
Working Title Films plans a remake of the Icelandic thriller Reykjavik-Rotterdam, with Baltasar Kormákur as director and Mark Wahlberg as star. Kormákur produced and starred in the original, which got five Edda Awards last year and is Iceland’s foreign-language film submission for the upcoming Oscars. Kormákur’s thriller Inhale, starring Dermot…
Bragi Thór Hinriksson’s family comedy, The Big Rescue, remains number one at the box office for second week running, outdoing Nordic hit The Girl Who Played with Fire. Hinriksson’s film has raked in over 17.000 admissions so far, placing it among the most successful openings of an Icelandic film on…
The government has some explaining to do. How come it proposes a 34% cut in film funding, while only suggesting an average 4% cut in other arts funding, with none going above 6%? Yes, filmmakers are well aware of the dire financial straits we’re in. As a matter of fact,…
The 2010 Budget Bill brought bad news for the filmmaking community; the government intends to cut its funding for films by almost 34%, wiping out substantially more than all the increase since 2006. This is way above suggested cuts for other arts funding, which on average are around 4% and…
The Reykjavik edition of Nordisk Panorama, the shorts and documentary film festival now celebrating its twentieth anniversary, selected Icelandic director Rúnar Rúnarsson’s Anna as best Nordic short. The project is his graduation film from The Danish Film School. The documentary award went to Det Röde Kapel (Red Chapel) from Danish…
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