Sentences with phrase «icelandic director»

Icelandic director Kjersti Steinsbø's psychological revenge thriller Hevn sounds so good.

Years passed before the project was assigned to Baltasar Kormákur, an Icelandic director who went with his go - to guy, Mark Wahlberg, because the actor helped make Kormákur's Contraband a winner.

Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur is a master at what he does, in whatever genre, and he manages to keep the humanity balanced with expectations of genre.

Icelandic director Baltasar Kormaker (who was honored with CinemaCon's International Filmmaker Award at Monday's luncheon) introduced clips from EVEREST (in 3D, September 2015) based on the true story of hikers, played by Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Jason Clarke, who fight for survival when a storm strikes them while scaling the world's highest mountain.

Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur and American TV writer Blake Masters demonstrate their admiration for Hollywood crime movies by bringing together versions of Murtaugh and Riggs, the cool, cautious black cop and the reckless, wisecracking white cop from the Lethal Weapon franchise, and the ingenious plot of Don Siegel's Charley Varrick.

Icelandic director Baltasar Kurmakur, whose previous outing was the ultra-serious action drama Contraband (also with Wahlberg) falls victim to the weak dialogue and inconsistent villainy.

Like Juan Antonio Bayona («The Orphanage,» «The Impossible») and Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur («Contraband,» «The Deep»), Urbizu continues the trend of Hollywood tapping foreign directors after overseas success.

Until this year, Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur mostly made two types of pictures: dramas in his native language about men trying to survive under brutal conditions («The Deep») and action - adventures in English with American movie stars («2 Guns»).

For all the talk of existential ennui and economic security among this cast of characters, the motivations of Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur ultimately ring clearest: He's shifting his Hollywood aspirations from the grime - crime of Tony Scott («Contraband» and «2 Guns») to the marriage of grandeur and intimacy preferred by Tony's brother, Ridley, in «White Squall,» «Black Hawk Down» or «Gladiator» (which also boasted «Everest» co-writer William Nicholson in its credits).

Not exact matches

«The threat from Icelandic volcanoes continues and so we are delighted with the outcome of this (test)... finding a solution is as crucial now as ever to ensure we never again see the scenes of spring 2010 when all flying ceased across Europe for several days,» said Ian Davies, easyJet's engineering director.

Based on a 2011 Icelandic film, writer - director David Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche tells the story of stick - in - the - mud Alvin (Paul Rudd) and horndog Lance (Emile Hirsch).

It's always a treasure when a filmmaker and score composer collaborate on a number of projects, and the latest team up between director Denis Villeneuve and Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson has been delivering stunning result after stunning result (also see: Sicario).

When asked if he would shoot the films himself or if he and the Icelandic filmmakers would hand over the keys to different directors, he said they would ideally «do a mix of both.»

You have a Korean director and cinematographer and Czech Republic crew members, an American visual effects supervisor, U.K. stunt coordinators and many European - even Romanian actors, Icelandic actors, Korean actors in «The Host».

When: January 13th Why: It's pretty funny that a movie about counterfeiting should turn out to be an imitation itself (the Icelandic film on which its based featured the U.S. version's director, Baltasar Kormákur, in the lead role), but despite the fact that its clichéd plot seems to have been ripped off from a number of generic action thrillers just like it, «Contraband» has one thing that a lot of those films didn't — a killer ensemble cast.

Well here's something that rarely happens anymore: director David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express) has just wrapped production on a secret remake of the Icelandic comedy Either Way.

Icelandic writer - director Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson has made an impressive feature debut with this story of crossing the threshold from childhood to young adult experience.

Contraband is, in fact, the American remake of the Icelandic film Reykjavik - Rotterdam, and while I haven't seen that film to know for sure, the script for this American version (adapted by Aaron Guzikowski) tries to do too much with some of the subplots and supporting characters — which would've been more of a pronounced distraction if director Baltasar Kormakur (who produced the Icelandic version) and his team of editors hadn't cut them down to size.

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Along the way, Erickson encounters spiritual leaders who include the chief priest of the Icelandic pagan religion of Asatru, a Trappist monk at Thomas Merton's Gethsemani Abbey, and a Lakota retreat director at South Dakota's Bear Butte.

Renowned Danish - Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson was joined by the RA's Artistic Director Tim Marlow to discuss his extraordinary architectural projects and works in public spaces over the past 20 years.

«Erró's gift to the Reykjavik Art Museum is one of the largest ever given to an Icelandic museum,» notes Eirikur Thorlaksson, director of the museum and co-organizer of the exhibition at the Grey Art Gallery.

Renowned Danish - Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson, is joined by the RA's Artistic Director Tim Marlow to discuss his extraordinary architectural projects and works in public spaces over the past 20 years.

Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson discusses his kinetic sound sculpture S.S. Hangover with The Contemporary Austin's Andrea Mellard, Director of Public Programs and Community Engagement.

With the help of these newcomers, the forests are «growing better than anybody ever thought,» says Þröstur Eysteinsson, Director of the Icelandic Forest Service.

«The continued slaughter of endangered fin whales and other cetaceans essential for sustainable marine ecosystems represents a shameful deficit in Icelandic government's regulations in the face of such blatant short - term profiteering to the detriment of the long - term future of fish stocks and the marine environment so essential to the nation,» said Paul Thompson, director of the CarbonFix Foundation.

Prof. Kristinn R. Thórisson, Managing Director, Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines, Iceland.