Exclusive: Picture Tree International (Pti) has acquired international sales rights for Icelandic box office hit Grand Finale (Fullt hús) for an EFM launch.
The Nordic comedy is the debut feature of Icelandic actor, writer and producer Sigurjon Kjartansson who is best known internationally as the showrunner of hit series Trapped and co-creator of Netflix’s Katia.
Have premiered domestically on January 26, Grand Finale is currently at the top of Iceland’s box office charts with a ticket share of 28% on the opening weekend.
The dark comedy revolves around a chamber orchestra working out of a rundown theatre in Reykjavik on a shoe-string budget.
When the annual grant from the city comes is to an end the orchestra hires a world-renowned cellist in order to secure their future. The media goes wild and money starts to flow back in.
The cellist turns out to be an execrable character but it’s...
The Nordic comedy is the debut feature of Icelandic actor, writer and producer Sigurjon Kjartansson who is best known internationally as the showrunner of hit series Trapped and co-creator of Netflix’s Katia.
Have premiered domestically on January 26, Grand Finale is currently at the top of Iceland’s box office charts with a ticket share of 28% on the opening weekend.
The dark comedy revolves around a chamber orchestra working out of a rundown theatre in Reykjavik on a shoe-string budget.
When the annual grant from the city comes is to an end the orchestra hires a world-renowned cellist in order to secure their future. The media goes wild and money starts to flow back in.
The cellist turns out to be an execrable character but it’s...
- 2/9/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The countdown to Creepmas continues, and it’s crunch time. With three days left remaining, it’s time to cram in as much holiday cheer and fear as possible. So, for the 3rd day of Creepmas, we’re offering up three genre-bending double feature ideas for your holiday horror watchlists. These pairings delve into action-horror or fantasy or even switch tones once the holiday spirit has been established. If you’re trapped spending the holidays with family members that hate horror, these double features might do the trick.
The 12 Days of Creepmas continues on Bloody Disgusting, this time with 3 genre-bending double features that bring the holiday spirit.
Keep track of the 12 Days of Creepmas here.
Holiday Action/Horror/Sci-fi Mashups:
Horror pairs well with everything, from holiday fare to action and sci-fi. This double feature is for those that want it all.
Cobra
Director George P. Cosmatos gives a horror...
The 12 Days of Creepmas continues on Bloody Disgusting, this time with 3 genre-bending double features that bring the holiday spirit.
Keep track of the 12 Days of Creepmas here.
Holiday Action/Horror/Sci-fi Mashups:
Horror pairs well with everything, from holiday fare to action and sci-fi. This double feature is for those that want it all.
Cobra
Director George P. Cosmatos gives a horror...
- 12/23/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Valdimar Jóhannsson's Lamb is showing exclusively on Mubi in many countries starting February 25, 2022 in the series Debuts.“What the fuck is this?” “Happiness.” This exchange occurs halfway in Valdimar Jóhannsson’s debut feature, Lamb, a cautionary tale about familial integrity but one that if fuelled by the insatiable, all-too-human desire for togetherness. The happiness in question is embodied by a family of three: Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason), Maria (Noomi Rapace), and their adopted daughter Ada, whose origin prompts the bemused question to begin with. But with Lamb, Jóhannsson and his co-writer Sjón prefer to interrogate repercussions instead of genesis.The film’s opening shot is shrouded in mystique, as a herd of wild horses turn back from their path amidst a snow storm, while its hiss drenches the whole scene in ambiguity and dread. Inside a barn, not too far away,...
- 3/10/2022
- MUBI
In a new series, Variety catches up with the directors of the films shortlisted for the International Feature Film Oscar to discuss their road to the awards, what they’ve learned so far, and what’s taken them off guard.
Valdimar Jóhannsson’s feature debut “Lamb” was acquired by A24 ahead of its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prize of Originality. Starring Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason and Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, the supernatural drama follows a childless couple in rural Iceland who make an alarming discovery in their sheep barn. After defying the will of nature in an attempt to heal their pain, they soon face dark consequences.
What does it mean to you to be shortlisted for the best international feature Oscar?
It is a great honor, and it means a lot to me. I am in the company of many great filmmakers...
Valdimar Jóhannsson’s feature debut “Lamb” was acquired by A24 ahead of its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prize of Originality. Starring Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason and Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, the supernatural drama follows a childless couple in rural Iceland who make an alarming discovery in their sheep barn. After defying the will of nature in an attempt to heal their pain, they soon face dark consequences.
What does it mean to you to be shortlisted for the best international feature Oscar?
It is a great honor, and it means a lot to me. I am in the company of many great filmmakers...
- 2/1/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
It took eight years and a very enticing look book before Lamb co-writer and director Valdimar Jóhannsson got Iceland’s current Oscar entry off the ground.
The A24 theatrical release follows a childless couple, Maria (Noomi Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason), who are desolate sheep farmers in the cold countryside. Then something wonderful happens — you could call it divine – and without spoiling too much a special someone comes into their lives. They name her Ada.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo actress told us during during the film’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: International that Jóhannsson’s pitch was of few words, but rather a bulk of pictures in a heavy volume of illustrations he created. “I was drawn into the universe of Lamb,” Rapace said.
The filmmaker co-penned the screenplay with Icelandic poet Sjón. Jóhannsson even created a clay scale model of the farm he yearned to create for the film.
The A24 theatrical release follows a childless couple, Maria (Noomi Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason), who are desolate sheep farmers in the cold countryside. Then something wonderful happens — you could call it divine – and without spoiling too much a special someone comes into their lives. They name her Ada.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo actress told us during during the film’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: International that Jóhannsson’s pitch was of few words, but rather a bulk of pictures in a heavy volume of illustrations he created. “I was drawn into the universe of Lamb,” Rapace said.
The filmmaker co-penned the screenplay with Icelandic poet Sjón. Jóhannsson even created a clay scale model of the farm he yearned to create for the film.
- 11/20/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Comedian W.C. Fields coined the often-repeated adage, “Never work with children or animals.” One would assume that aphorism extends to hybrids of the two as well. Cinematographer Eli Arenson learned the difficulty of that amalgamation on the new A24 film Lamb, while also braving a petting zoo’s worth of critters, including horses, dogs, cats and, of course, sheep. Set in the remote north of Iceland, the film finds a sheep farming couple (Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Guðnason) pulled from the depths of grief when one of their ewes gives birth to a part human/part sheep child they christen Ada. With […]
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The post 20,000 Kelvin at 9 Pm: Dp Eli Arenson on Lamb first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 11/2/2021
- by Matt Mulcahey
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Guðnason star in Valdimar Jóhannsson’s A24 drama “Lamb” as a couple, Maria and Ingvar, who live on a remote farm in Iceland and discover that one of their sheep has given birth to a lamb that is half human. The two decide to raise the half-lamb half-human creature as their own child. Their life is disrupted when Ingvar’s brother Pétur (Björn Hlynur Haraldsson) unexpectedly shows up at their door.
I caught up with Rapace for this week’s “Just for Variety” podcast.
When people say to you, “What is ‘Lamb’ about?” what do you tell them?
It’s a love story. It’s the story about motherhood, grief, and how far you’ll go to heal and to protect your child, sort of. And what I love about the film is it has so many layers. People see different stories in it. And for me,...
I caught up with Rapace for this week’s “Just for Variety” podcast.
When people say to you, “What is ‘Lamb’ about?” what do you tell them?
It’s a love story. It’s the story about motherhood, grief, and how far you’ll go to heal and to protect your child, sort of. And what I love about the film is it has so many layers. People see different stories in it. And for me,...
- 10/15/2021
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Spoilers Ahead: Do not read until you have seen “Lamb,” in theaters now.
Director Valdimar Jóhannsson deliberately kept the ending of “Lamb” vague, wanting audiences to open up discussions.
The film, a viral sensation after its trailer debut follows a childless couple who discover a hybrid lamb baby — half-human, half lamb. They take her in and raise her as their own child, but as Jóhannsson says: When you take from nature, it takes from you.
Jóhannsson talks about the film’s ending, the birthing scene and his reaction to “Lamb” baby going viral.
What was your reaction to the trailer going viral when it first dropped?
I have to admit, I was not expecting that. We wanted to make a film that we wanted to see and had not seen. I wasn’t sure how people would like it or even be interested in it.
What did you want to...
Director Valdimar Jóhannsson deliberately kept the ending of “Lamb” vague, wanting audiences to open up discussions.
The film, a viral sensation after its trailer debut follows a childless couple who discover a hybrid lamb baby — half-human, half lamb. They take her in and raise her as their own child, but as Jóhannsson says: When you take from nature, it takes from you.
Jóhannsson talks about the film’s ending, the birthing scene and his reaction to “Lamb” baby going viral.
What was your reaction to the trailer going viral when it first dropped?
I have to admit, I was not expecting that. We wanted to make a film that we wanted to see and had not seen. I wasn’t sure how people would like it or even be interested in it.
What did you want to...
- 10/15/2021
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
[Editor’s note: This interview contains major spoilers for the film “Lamb.”]
The latest entry in A24’s evolving canon of European folk horror is “Lamb,” the feature directorial debut of Icelandic filmmaker Valdimar Jóhannsson. In the vein of “The Witch” and a more dour “Midsommar,” Jóhannsson brings a moody sensibility to this disturbing fairy tale about a pair of shepherds, Maria and Ingvar (Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Guðnason), who make a startling discovery in their barn one day: a half-human, half-lamb hybrid child.
The film is a visual effects feat as the baby is performed partly by actual children, with the VFX-engineered head of a lamb and puppeteers working in tandem. IndieWire spoke to the filmmaker and Stockholm-based visual effects supervisor Fredrik Nord about bringing this strange creature to life.
The film, as even Johannsson would argue, is far closer to a drama than outright horror, and that comes from the director’s own cinematic DNA. Before working as...
The latest entry in A24’s evolving canon of European folk horror is “Lamb,” the feature directorial debut of Icelandic filmmaker Valdimar Jóhannsson. In the vein of “The Witch” and a more dour “Midsommar,” Jóhannsson brings a moody sensibility to this disturbing fairy tale about a pair of shepherds, Maria and Ingvar (Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Guðnason), who make a startling discovery in their barn one day: a half-human, half-lamb hybrid child.
The film is a visual effects feat as the baby is performed partly by actual children, with the VFX-engineered head of a lamb and puppeteers working in tandem. IndieWire spoke to the filmmaker and Stockholm-based visual effects supervisor Fredrik Nord about bringing this strange creature to life.
The film, as even Johannsson would argue, is far closer to a drama than outright horror, and that comes from the director’s own cinematic DNA. Before working as...
- 10/11/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
There's a certain expectation that comes with an A24 horror film. Haunting. Creepy. Eerie. Unsettling. But while these words can be used to describe the latest A24 horror outing, "Lamb," none of them wholly encompass this strangely gentle Icelandic folk tale about motherhood. Directed and co-written by Valdimar Jóhannsson, "Lamb" is as curious a creature as the weird hybrid lamb at the center of its story, like a fantastical tale dreamed up by Jóhannsson in the odd hours of the morning.
"Lamb" unfolds quietly and slowly, following Maria (a superb Noomi Rapace) and her husband Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason) as they peacefully go about life in...
The post Lamb Review: Noomi Rapace Shepherds a Gentle Folk Horror Film appeared first on /Film.
"Lamb" unfolds quietly and slowly, following Maria (a superb Noomi Rapace) and her husband Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason) as they peacefully go about life in...
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- 10/8/2021
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
It’s the briefest of pauses—the moment where Noomi Rapace’s Maria becomes totally besotted with the sheep-human hybrid at the heart of Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb. In the dark of night, and at the tail end of a new crop of sheep being born, Maria and her husband Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason) have welcomed into this world any number of baby lambs, each being lovingly licked and doted on by their mothers. And yet, when the final creature to be born turns out to be not quite lamb, nor quite human, it takes only an instant for Rapace to decide she’ll claim the child as her own, nuzzling her face into its wool like any other parent. Audiences are thus immediately asked to consider just how thin the line is between human and animal, man and nature. It is minuscule but, given the disapproving stares of the other sheep,...
- 10/5/2021
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
As you'd expect from a horror movie released by A24, "Lamb" is bleak, unsettling, and designed to leave audiences wondering what the hell they just watched. But it's also surprisingly funny, and somehow, frequently adorable. If you speak to the folks who made it, this combination starts to make sense.
"Lamb" stars Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Guðnason as a couple living on a remote Icelandic farm, tending to sheep and grappling with a recent tragedy. Then, a miracle: one of their sheep gives birth to a lamb that is ... unlike other lambs. It's half-lamb, half-human, and while some would recoil in horror, the...
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"Lamb" stars Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Guðnason as a couple living on a remote Icelandic farm, tending to sheep and grappling with a recent tragedy. Then, a miracle: one of their sheep gives birth to a lamb that is ... unlike other lambs. It's half-lamb, half-human, and while some would recoil in horror, the...
The post A Surprisingly Wholesome Conversation With the Minds Behind A24's Lamb [Fantastic Fest] appeared first on /Film.
- 9/28/2021
- by Jacob Hall
- Slash Film
Sneaking up on the Karlovy Vary Film Festival audience following its Cannes debut, Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Icelandic-Swedish-Polish drama “Lamb” has some surprises in store. Luckily, according to its first-time director, the reviews of the film that sees Noomi Rapace as a woman living in complete isolation with her husband in rural Iceland, dreaming of becoming a mother, has been largely spoiler-free.
“I felt they were fair,” he says. “They were just teasing something, mentioning ‘some kind of a creature.’ I remember some were just saying you should know as little as possible before seeing the film and I think that it’s true.”
Produced by Go to Sheep, Black Spark Film & TV and Madants with New Europe Film Sales and A24 on board, its mix of the supernatural and the mundane certainly drew attention, but Jóhannsson doesn’t see himself as a genre filmmaker.
“What’s interesting is that now,...
“I felt they were fair,” he says. “They were just teasing something, mentioning ‘some kind of a creature.’ I remember some were just saying you should know as little as possible before seeing the film and I think that it’s true.”
Produced by Go to Sheep, Black Spark Film & TV and Madants with New Europe Film Sales and A24 on board, its mix of the supernatural and the mundane certainly drew attention, but Jóhannsson doesn’t see himself as a genre filmmaker.
“What’s interesting is that now,...
- 8/28/2021
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Lamb Trailer — Valdimar Jóhannsson‘s Lamb (2021) movie trailer has been released by A24. The Lamb movie trailer stars Noomi Rapace, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, and Ester Bibi. Crew Sjón and Valdimar Jóhannsson wrote the screenplay for Lamb. Þórarinn Guðnason created the music the film. Eli Arenson crafted the cinematography for the film. Plot [...]
Continue reading: Lamb (2021) Movie Trailer: Noomi Rapace’s Sheep Gives Birth to a Unique Lamb in Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Folktale Film...
Continue reading: Lamb (2021) Movie Trailer: Noomi Rapace’s Sheep Gives Birth to a Unique Lamb in Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Folktale Film...
- 7/31/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
As a logline, it almost sounds like a comedy—the type of gonzo horror-laugh hybrid Troma would’ve made back in the day. Yet by all accounts, co-writer and director Valdimar Jóhannsson is as serious as a heart attack in his creepy new folk horror tale, Lamb, which now has a trailer to back up its premise about a young, childless couple adopting a creature that is neither lamb or human.
Framed in an eerie slow-boiling dread, as per critics who saw the movie at the Cannes Film Festival while likening it to Robert Eggers’ The Witch and Ari Aster’s Hereditary, Lamb appears to be bathed in an unnatural eeriness. Perhaps then it shouldn’t be a surprise the movie has been picked up by indie tastemaker studio A24 for distribution.
The pic stars Noomi Rapace—an actress we’d argue is still the best Lisbeth Salandar out there,...
Framed in an eerie slow-boiling dread, as per critics who saw the movie at the Cannes Film Festival while likening it to Robert Eggers’ The Witch and Ari Aster’s Hereditary, Lamb appears to be bathed in an unnatural eeriness. Perhaps then it shouldn’t be a surprise the movie has been picked up by indie tastemaker studio A24 for distribution.
The pic stars Noomi Rapace—an actress we’d argue is still the best Lisbeth Salandar out there,...
- 7/28/2021
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Directed and co-written by Valdimar Jóhannsson, and starring Noomi Rapace, we have a look at the trailer for Lamb:
"A childless couple in rural Iceland make an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn. They soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature, in this dark and atmospheric folktale, the striking debut feature from director Valdimar Jóhannsson."
Lamb will be released to theaters on October 8th and also stars Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, and Ingvar E. Sigurðsson.
The post Watch the Trailer for Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb appeared first on Daily Dead.
"A childless couple in rural Iceland make an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn. They soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature, in this dark and atmospheric folktale, the striking debut feature from director Valdimar Jóhannsson."
Lamb will be released to theaters on October 8th and also stars Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, and Ingvar E. Sigurðsson.
The post Watch the Trailer for Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb appeared first on Daily Dead.
- 7/27/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
"It's not a child. It's an animal." Someone loves their little lamb a bit too much. A24 has revealed an official US trailer for an unsettling film from Iceland called Lamb, which just premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival earlier this month. A childless couple in rural Iceland make an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn. They will soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature, in this dark and atmospheric folktale. This one is described in reviews as a "highly original take on the anxieties of being a parent, a tale in which nature plus nurture yields a nightmare." The film stars Noomi Rapace (who is actually Swedish but she moved to Iceland as a child where she spent some time growing up), Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, and Hilmir Snær Guðnason. This looks like it starts out as an intriguing story about connecting with a little lamb,...
- 7/27/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Things get wild in the trailer for A24’s “Lamb,” premiering in theaters on Oct. 8.
Starring Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson and Ingvar Sigurðsson, the film follows a childless couple in rural Iceland who makes an alarming discovery in their sheep barn. After defying the will of nature in an attempt to heal their pain, they soon face dark and malevolent consequences.
The film, a supernatural folktale that debuted at Cannes Film Festival, has made critics wary to disclose information, as even simple descriptions of the story threaten to spoil the movie. But those who have reviewed “Lamb” have praised it as “mesmerizing,” “bizarre” and “bracingly original.”
Making his feature debut is director Valdimar Jóhannsson, who also wrote the script with Icelandic poet Sjón. “Lamb” is produced by Hrönn Kristinsdóttir, Sara Nassim, Piodor Gustafsson, Erik Rydell, Klaudia Smieja-Rostworowska and Jan Naszewski.
When Rapace...
Starring Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson and Ingvar Sigurðsson, the film follows a childless couple in rural Iceland who makes an alarming discovery in their sheep barn. After defying the will of nature in an attempt to heal their pain, they soon face dark and malevolent consequences.
The film, a supernatural folktale that debuted at Cannes Film Festival, has made critics wary to disclose information, as even simple descriptions of the story threaten to spoil the movie. But those who have reviewed “Lamb” have praised it as “mesmerizing,” “bizarre” and “bracingly original.”
Making his feature debut is director Valdimar Jóhannsson, who also wrote the script with Icelandic poet Sjón. “Lamb” is produced by Hrönn Kristinsdóttir, Sara Nassim, Piodor Gustafsson, Erik Rydell, Klaudia Smieja-Rostworowska and Jan Naszewski.
When Rapace...
- 7/27/2021
- by Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
A tribute to the Nordic film industry’s resilience, four Nordic titles have made it through to Cannes’ Official Selection. And unlike previous years, when Denmark or Sweden (Rüben Östlund) drew most of the worldwide attention, audiences should watch out for new and established voices from Norway, Finland and Iceland.
“Compartment No. 6”
Juho Kuosmanen’s sophomore feature marks Finland’s return to competition after a decade away (the previous Finnish film in competition was Aki Kaurismäki’s “Le Havre”). The Finnish director won Un Certain Regard back in 2016 with his black-and- white debut, “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki.” The story of a young Finnish student and a misanthropic Russian miner who share a journey along the Soviet Union’s trans-Siberian railway in the late 1980s, “Compartment No. 6” stars Seidi Haarla, one of the Berlinale’s 10 Shooting Stars.
“The Gravedigger’s Wife”
Finland makes history this year...
“Compartment No. 6”
Juho Kuosmanen’s sophomore feature marks Finland’s return to competition after a decade away (the previous Finnish film in competition was Aki Kaurismäki’s “Le Havre”). The Finnish director won Un Certain Regard back in 2016 with his black-and- white debut, “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki.” The story of a young Finnish student and a misanthropic Russian miner who share a journey along the Soviet Union’s trans-Siberian railway in the late 1980s, “Compartment No. 6” stars Seidi Haarla, one of the Berlinale’s 10 Shooting Stars.
“The Gravedigger’s Wife”
Finland makes history this year...
- 7/9/2021
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
The film is screening in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.
Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has closed a further four deals for Icelandic supernatural drama Lamb, which has its world premiere in Un Certain Regard in Canens this month.
The latest buyers are Greece (Weird Wave); Mexico (Cine Canibal); Norway (Another World); and Portugal (Films4You).
Discussions are underway with buyers in Spain, Italy and Japan, the company said.
Valdimar Jóhannsson makes his feature directorial debut on the film and has written the script with Icelandic author Sjón. Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snaer Gudnason star as a couple running a remote...
Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has closed a further four deals for Icelandic supernatural drama Lamb, which has its world premiere in Un Certain Regard in Canens this month.
The latest buyers are Greece (Weird Wave); Mexico (Cine Canibal); Norway (Another World); and Portugal (Films4You).
Discussions are underway with buyers in Spain, Italy and Japan, the company said.
Valdimar Jóhannsson makes his feature directorial debut on the film and has written the script with Icelandic author Sjón. Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snaer Gudnason star as a couple running a remote...
- 7/8/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Bertrand Mandico's After Blue (Paradis sale).The lineup for the 2021 Locarno International Film Festival includes Piazza Grande screenings of Michael Mann's Heat and Gaspar Noé's Vortex, and the latest by by Bertrand Mandico, Axelle Ropert, Abel Ferrara, Salomé Lamas and more.The great filmmaker and actor Robert Downey Sr. has passed on at age 85. His incredible filmography includes Babo 73 (1964), Sweet Smell of Sex (1965), Chafed Elbows (1966), No More Excuses (1968), Putney Swope (1969), Pound (1970), and Greaser's Palace (1972).In an interview on the Armchair Expert podcast, Quentin Tarantino announced that he has purchased Los Angeles' Vista Theatre, emphasizing that though the theatre will screen both new and old movies, it will be "only film [...] the best prints." Screenwriter and filmmaker Clare Peploe has died. Though best known for her screenplays for Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged and La Luna,...
- 7/7/2021
- MUBI
Lamb International Trailer — Valdimar Jóhannsson‘s Lamb / Dyrio (2021) international teaser trailer has been released. The Lamb international teaser trailer stars Noomi Rapace, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, and Ester Bibi. Crew Sjón and Valdimar Jóhannsson wrote the screenplay for Lamb. Þórarinn Guðnason created the music the film. Eli Arenson crafted the cinematography [...]
Continue reading: Lamb (2021) International Teaser Trailer: Noomi Rapace stars in a Dark & Atmospheric Drama About Marriage, Family, and Loss...
Continue reading: Lamb (2021) International Teaser Trailer: Noomi Rapace stars in a Dark & Atmospheric Drama About Marriage, Family, and Loss...
- 7/5/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Noomi Rapace heads back to Iceland. New Europe Film Sales has released an early promo teaser trailer for an Icelandic drama titled Lamb, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Valdimar Jóhannsson. The film is premiering this month at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section, and is still looking for international distribution. A childless couple in rural Iceland make an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn. They soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature, in this dark and atmospheric folktale. The film stars Noomi Rapace (who is actually Swedish but she moved to Iceland as a child where she spent some time growing up with her father), Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, and Hilmir Snær Guðnason. It was made entirely on Iceland, and opens in Iceland first in August. This is a gorgeous, atmospheric, very mysterious first look at this film and I'm intrigued already.
- 7/5/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"I always had a feeling that she was hiding something." Film Movement has released an official Us trailer for an Icelandic drama titled A White, White Day, arriving in Us theaters in February. This premiered in Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival last year, where Ingvar Sigurdsson won Best Actor; then it played at the Karlovy Vary, Toronto, Camerimage, Helsinki, Athens, & Zurich Film Festivals. In a remote Icelandic town, an off duty police chief begins to suspect another local man had an affair with his wife, who recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth grows too big and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. "Combining classic thriller tropes with a distinctly Nordic arthouse sensibility." Starring Ingvar Sigurdsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Ingi Hilmarsson and Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir. This looks chilling and captivating, a worthy discovery. Here's...
- 1/3/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Jane Spencer
Just over three years ago, I interviewed Jane Spencer about her film The Ninth Cloud. That film will enjoy a special screening in London, where it's set, on the12th of February, and Jane is working on a new film, South Of Hope Street. She took time out from her busy schedule to catch up and discuss her current projects.
"It's a science fiction piece. It also has a female lead. I'd compare it to a film like Alphaville," she says of South Of Hope Street. "Michael [Madsen] has a cameo role in it as a kind of hippy character, and that's funny for him. Also we have Hilmir Snær Guðnason, who was in a film called 101 Rejkjavik a while back, and he's brilliant. And an Arab actor named Zafer El-Abedin who plays an immigrant in the film, he's wonderful also. Tanna Frederick is my lead actress. She's...
Just over three years ago, I interviewed Jane Spencer about her film The Ninth Cloud. That film will enjoy a special screening in London, where it's set, on the12th of February, and Jane is working on a new film, South Of Hope Street. She took time out from her busy schedule to catch up and discuss her current projects.
"It's a science fiction piece. It also has a female lead. I'd compare it to a film like Alphaville," she says of South Of Hope Street. "Michael [Madsen] has a cameo role in it as a kind of hippy character, and that's funny for him. Also we have Hilmir Snær Guðnason, who was in a film called 101 Rejkjavik a while back, and he's brilliant. And an Arab actor named Zafer El-Abedin who plays an immigrant in the film, he's wonderful also. Tanna Frederick is my lead actress. She's...
- 1/29/2018
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: Icelandic production company gears up for first in-house production.
Truenorth, the Icelandic production company that has worked on big Us shoots such as Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, and the Wachowski’s forthcoming Netflix drama Sense8, is gearing up to shoot its first in-house production this summer.
The project, Oskar Jonasson’s In Front Of Others, is being pitched at Berlin’s Co-Production Market. Denmark’s Nepenthe is attached as co-producer and German partners are also showing interest.
Jonasson co-writes the romantic comedy (with playwright Kristjan Thordur Hrafnsson) about a shy guy who tries to impress a woman with a clever impersonation of his boss. But the relationship falters when his impersonations become out of control.
The €1.3m budgeted film is supported by the Icelandic Film Centre. Sena Distribution plans an Icelandic release at the end of 2015.
The cast will feature Svandis Dora, Snorri Engilbertsson, [link...
Truenorth, the Icelandic production company that has worked on big Us shoots such as Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, and the Wachowski’s forthcoming Netflix drama Sense8, is gearing up to shoot its first in-house production this summer.
The project, Oskar Jonasson’s In Front Of Others, is being pitched at Berlin’s Co-Production Market. Denmark’s Nepenthe is attached as co-producer and German partners are also showing interest.
Jonasson co-writes the romantic comedy (with playwright Kristjan Thordur Hrafnsson) about a shy guy who tries to impress a woman with a clever impersonation of his boss. But the relationship falters when his impersonations become out of control.
The €1.3m budgeted film is supported by the Icelandic Film Centre. Sena Distribution plans an Icelandic release at the end of 2015.
The cast will feature Svandis Dora, Snorri Engilbertsson, [link...
- 2/9/2015
- by [email protected] (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
’2 Guns’ weekend box office: Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington pairing disappointing? A limp "low $20 million" range, is what 2 Guns U.S. distributor Universal claims it’s expecting at the North American box office from the first-ever pairing of Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg — as momentous a cinematic occasion, if the American media is to believed, as the first pairing of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? back in 1962. Of course, Universal’s lowball figure is an excuse for the studio to claim, "Omigod! 2 Guns has performed way beyond what any and all of us were expecting!" — as long as the Washington / Wahlberg combo brings in $25 million or more. (Photo: Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg in 2 Guns.) Well, Universal apparently made a good p.r. movie, as the R-rated, Baltasar Kormákur-directed 2 Guns collected a barely acceptable $10 million from 3,306 North American theaters on Friday according to...
- 8/4/2013
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Christo Christov, Ovanes Torosian, Eastern Plays (top); Kristbjörg Kjeld, Mamma Gogo (bottom) Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's Mamma Gogo and Kamen Kalev's Eastern Plays will have two additional Academy screenings on Dec. 26 at the Wilshire Screening Room in Beverly Hills. Iceland's entry for the 2011 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Mamma Gogo will be presented at 5 p.m; Bulgarian entry Eastern Plays will screen at 7 p.m. Starring Kristbjörg Kjeld as Mamma Gogo, an elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease and Hilmir Snær Guðnason as a film director, Mamma Gogo is a semi-autobiographical drama (with humorous touches) about how the director copes with his mother's illness. Director Fridriksson's mystical Children of Nature was shortlisted in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 1991. A study in ethnic and nationalistic bigotry, Eastern Plays tells the story of three people — two Bulgarian brothers and a Turkish immigrant — brought together by a brutal xenophobic [...]...
- 12/7/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Chicago – I love IFC Films. They release such a diverse, interesting slate of films every year that one never quite knows what they’re going to get with each individual offering. Five recent IFC titles are the subject of the latest DVD Round-Up, our regular column drawing attention to titles that may have otherwise gone unnoticed.
Titles in this very arthouse edition of the Round-Up include a stylish horror film called “Nightmare,” a twisted thriller called “Pvc-1,” a puzzle of a story known as “Fermat’s Room,” an Icelandic movie called “White Night Wedding,” and an odd flick directed by Madonna known as “Filth and Wisdom”. Art film fans should check them all out. Keep IFC going as strongly as they have lately. But if you need more information, official synopsis, cast, and tech details follow.
“Pvc-1” and “White Night Wedding” were released on September 15th, 2009.
“Fermat’s Room,” “Filth and Wisdom,...
Titles in this very arthouse edition of the Round-Up include a stylish horror film called “Nightmare,” a twisted thriller called “Pvc-1,” a puzzle of a story known as “Fermat’s Room,” an Icelandic movie called “White Night Wedding,” and an odd flick directed by Madonna known as “Filth and Wisdom”. Art film fans should check them all out. Keep IFC going as strongly as they have lately. But if you need more information, official synopsis, cast, and tech details follow.
“Pvc-1” and “White Night Wedding” were released on September 15th, 2009.
“Fermat’s Room,” “Filth and Wisdom,...
- 9/24/2009
- by [email protected] (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
A tepid DVD release day unless you like 'em hairy. Links go to Netflix.
White Night Wedding was Iceland's Oscar entry last year. The comedy, which is supposedly a riff on Chekhov's Ivanov, is from the director of 101 Reykjavik and stars his frequent collaborator, Icelandic star Hilmir Snær Guðnason (pictured left in various films) who inspires indecent thoughts and creative pronunciations in his fans.
Grace has the ickiest horror premise I've heard of in a long long time. An unborn child with a bloody appetite. Ewww. In other words, I'll only see it if I hear that it's totally brilliant. It also has one of the fastest windows to DVD ever, having opened in theaters last month.
An American Werewolf in London (1981) and The Wolf Man (1941) both get special editions today although we're currently between full moons and we're still more than a month away from Halloween. Not sure what that's about.
White Night Wedding was Iceland's Oscar entry last year. The comedy, which is supposedly a riff on Chekhov's Ivanov, is from the director of 101 Reykjavik and stars his frequent collaborator, Icelandic star Hilmir Snær Guðnason (pictured left in various films) who inspires indecent thoughts and creative pronunciations in his fans.
Grace has the ickiest horror premise I've heard of in a long long time. An unborn child with a bloody appetite. Ewww. In other words, I'll only see it if I hear that it's totally brilliant. It also has one of the fastest windows to DVD ever, having opened in theaters last month.
An American Werewolf in London (1981) and The Wolf Man (1941) both get special editions today although we're currently between full moons and we're still more than a month away from Halloween. Not sure what that's about.
- 9/15/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
If the idea of a show centered around entry-level angels that hire hookers to cuddle, sleep in the houses of the rich and famous, and generally handle most of Heaven's scut work sounds intriguing to you, go ahead and check out Circledrawers, the latest web series project by Poppoli Pictures and Cicala Filmworks. Created by Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur Johanneson and NY-based writer and filmmaker Stefan Schaefer, Circledrawers stars Sharon Angela and Steve Schirripa from The Sopranos ("Rosalie" and "Bacala" to fans of the show) as well as Icelandic actors Benedikt Erlingsson as "Mozart" and Hilmir Snaer Gudnason as "Oleg."...
- 6/19/2009
- by Pat Miller
- Tubefilter.com
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