Sentences with phrase «norwegian films»

The script attributed to Harald Rosenløw - Eeg, a writer on two of Poppe's three Norwegian films, has a childlike sense of sophistication.

We've been watching a few Norwegian films / TV shows and have really liked what we've seen so far.

Ex-Tottenham Hotspur and Norway international Erik Thorstvedt appears in the Norwegian film The Liverpool Goalkeeper, a 2010 movie about a hapless 13 - year - old goalkeeper and an elusive trading card.

The first Norwegian film to be completely animated by computer graphics, and one of their most expensive films to date, Free Jimmy (the title is a take - off inspired by Free Willy) is one of those films that could impress from a technical standpoint, if only the story underneath weren't so derivative and repugnant.

There was some Bondish - elements to Headhunters, quite slick for a norwegian film.

«Liv Ullmann is one of the most prominent people in Norwegian film history, both as an actor and a director,» commented the festival.

Another subtle, shrewd, and deceivingly simple domestic drama from Joachim Trier (Oslo, August 31st), Louder Than Bombs also marks the Norwegian film director's English - language debut.

Fantastic Fest 2017 opened with plenty of surprises, one of which, I'm happy to say, was a Norwegian film called Thelma.

by Walter Chaw Director Christopher Nolan follows up his justifiably hailed indie masterpiece Memento with Insomnia, a mainstream Hollywood remake of Erik Skjoldbjærg's tremendous 1997 Norwegian film of the same name.

Insomnia, the 1997 Norwegian film that Nolan remade, is far less well - known and only slightly better regarded.

This wonderful Norwegian film about a convicted murderer trying to live a normal life after prison is one of the best comedies of the year.

This is not to be confused with the outstanding Norwegian film Blind, which was one of my favorite films of the year a few years ago.

The movie is directed by mostly - unknown Norwegian film director Roar Uthaug and stars Swedish actor Alicia Vikander as the young Lara Croft.

Not exact matches

Among other things, I ran the Great Wall of China Marathon; worked out on a pearl boat in the Kimberley; appeared semi-naked in a music video wrapped only in cling wrap; worked on a Norwegian reality TV show filmed in Malta; trained eagles in Mongolia; donned a wig and lived like Dolly Parton in her hometown in Tennessee for a month; rode a bicycle around Taiwan; sailed on a pirate ship from Seattle towards Mexico before hitting a storm and having to be rescued by theUS Coast Guard; and helped educate young girls in Kosovo who are banned from attending school because they wear headscarves.

And while director Mona Fastvold is Norwegian, her film The Sleepwalker feels directly inspired by Borderline, or just Martha Marcy May Marlene.

Oslo, August 31st A 180 - degree turn from his 2006 semi — film - à - clef debut Reprise, Norwegian director Joachim Trier's sophomore feature follows a former drug addict (the excellent Anders Danielsen Lie) as he makes a tentative last stab at putting his life back together.

Prominent Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer returns to the festival in the Masters program with his latest film 1001 Grams.

It's an old saying, but it's true: If you want something done right, hire a Norwegian guy who's already made a film about giant creatures and crude Scandinavian humor.

Sean Rom talks to director Tran Anh Hung about his filmmaking process, adapting Murakami's acclaimed novel Norwegian Wood to screen and presenting sensuality on film.

Norwegian director André Øvredal's new film, The Autopsy Of Jane Doe, couldn't be more different from his international breakout hit, 2010's Trollhunter.

A satisfyingly tense desert - island thriller — just without the desert island — the action this time around is set at a Norwegian outpost (the one referenced by the guys at the U.S. - run Antarctic outpost at the beginning of Carpenter's film).

Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and his team of set designers have taken great care in recreating the Norwegian base camp and following the frightful events just as they had been described in the previous film.

I'm a huge fan of John Carpenter's «The Thing» film, so I was somewhat anxious when I heard they were doing a prequel starring the Norwegian camp seen in the first film.

It's not that I couldn't understand the base of the film being a revenge tale; this is very much clear as day, but it is the film's sense of humor that borders on being dry and black, to other points I feel it's just a Norwegian thing.

Directed with professional polish by Roar Uthaug (the Norwegian director of 2015's fjord disaster thriller «The Wave»), the film delivers the obligatory vortexes of doom.

While a violent storm rages above ground, it seems the real horrors lie on the inside... The Autopsy of Jane Doe is the first English - language film from Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal, of Trollhunter previously.

Polaroid is directed by Norwegian filmmaker Lars Klevberg, making his feature directorial debut after a few shorts previously, including the Polaroid short this film is based on.

«Set to be released in both English and Norwegian, the new film follows the sole survivor of a Nazi zombie attack who battles an even larger army of Zombies with the help of the Zombie Squad, a professional gang of zombie killers from the US.»

With only three feature films under his belt, Norwegian helmer Joachim Trier is quickly establishing himself as a world class filmmaker with his thoughtful, mature and emotionally resonating cinema.

Saami music playing in a Norwegian base is hardly the same as Native American music playing in a Middle - Eastern film.

Norwegian filmmaker Anne Sewitsky's moving, funny, and devastating «Homesick» — one of the best films at this year's Sundance Film Festival — opens in a...

Norwegian writer Petter Skavland, who penned the screenplay for 2012 historical drama Kon - Tiki, has written the film.

Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky's (Happy, Happy) wonderful new film, Homesick, screened at the Sundance Film Festival this week in the World Dramatic Competition.

The Norwegian actress and director will attend the festival, which will screen Miss Julie and feature a spotlight on films from Norway.

Directed by Espen Sandberg and Joachim Ronning («Max Manus «-RRB-, the film is the most expensive Norwegian production ever ($ 16.1 million) and tells the story of anthropologist and explorer Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 journey, sailing from South America to the Polynesian Islands on a wooden raft.

Norwegian filmmaker Anne Sewitsky's moving, funny, and devastating «Homesick» — one of the best films at this year's Sundance Film Festival — opens in a psychiatrist's office, where Charlotte (the terrific Ine Marie Wilmann) describes her mother as saying she wants to be there, but never really wanting to be there.

At the beginning of the film, a Norwegian doctor (Rolf Lassgard) announces a stunning medical breakthrough that allows human beings to be miniaturized to 5 inches, a big plus in the fight against the world's population explosion.

The biggest strength of the film would have to be that it was Norwegian.

Norwegian director Joachim Trier makes his genre film debut with Thelma, his fourth feature and his first to feature a female protagonist.

Adapted from the bestselling novel by Norwegian author Jo Nesbo, this now BAFTA Award nominated film directed by Morten Tyldum concerns Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie), a corporate CEO headhunter living a life of luxury with his beautiful wife Diana (Synnove Macody Lund).

The film will be directed by Norwegian director Roar Uthaug.

The film from Roar Uthaug, who directed the fantastic 2015 Norwegian disaster epic The Wave, doesn't smuggle the same genre - defying intelligence that his prior effort did — lots of Tomb Raider is numb, bumbling and ripped from better movies — but Uthaug and his production team make good work of bringing the world of Tomb Raider to life.

The film is directed by Norwegian director Roar Uthaug, who previously released 2015's «The Wave,» a disaster film that centered on family drama and a tsunami.

Over in Norway, the official selection is Thelma, the otherworldly lesbian drama helmed by Joachim Trier; per The Hollywood Reporter, the Norwegian Oscar committee praised it as a film that «fascinates, touches, and revolts.»

The first film adaptation of the popular video game series is directed by Norwegian filmmaker Roar Uthaug and explores how Lara became a globe - trotting adventurer.

This is the first English language film for Norwegian director Morten Tyldum.

Playing at TIFF this year is Thale, Aleksander Nordaas» Norwegian horror film.

• As with Miller's Crossing, composer Carter Burwell based the score on a traditional song connected with the cultural heritage of the characters in the film, in this case a Norwegian folksong called «The Lost Sheep.»

This week's second film is Kon - Tiki, based on the true story of a Norwegian explorer who had a theory that the inhabitants of the Polynesian islands had come from Peru.

In theaters today is Matthijs van Heijningen's prequel to Carpenter's film, also titled The Thing, telling the story of the Norwegian camp that first discovers a creature from another world in the ice.