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New Reykjavik sculpture revealed today


Reykjavik Art Museum officials will today present a brand new open-air sculpture to the public. Read the full story

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Icelandic director’s American dream continues


Inhale, the new film directed by Iceland’s Baltasar Kormakur, will be premiered in the USA this weekend. The director’s American dream continues, as he has also signed a deal with Universal for a remake of his popular film Reykjavik Rotterdam. Read the full story

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Iceland Airwaves: Thursday Review


The only problem with the Iceland Airwaves festival is that because there is always so much going you can’t be in two places at once, so you’re no doubt going to miss out on something cool. IceNews decided to send out two different journalists to two different venues to see what happened; Read the full story

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Feature film developed in Iceland gaining international attention


A feature film first developed in Iceland is now gaining international attention. Titled Joshua Tree 1951: A Portrait of James Dean, the feature is described as the most unflinching and honest exploration yet of Dean’s life in the years prior to his becoming a star and ill-fated legend. The film should be complete for the Spring/Summer 2011 festival circuit. Read the full story

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Movie released on the positive side of Iceland’s economic crash


Production-Still-FOHFollowing a triumphant première last night in Reykjavik’s Haskolabio cinema, the brand new documentary Future of Hope is now on national release and will be shown in cinemas across Iceland. The British-Icelandic film was a labour of love and came perilously close to running out of cash before completion. Read the full story

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The View from Here, No. 2


chay-lemoine-little1The second in a regular series of columns by Chay Lemoine: Hollywood takes on Iceland Read the full story

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The View from Here, No. 1


chay-lemoine-littleThe first in a regular series of columns by Chay Lemoine: Gudny Halldorsdottir’s Honour of the House Read the full story

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New film looks at positive side of Iceland crash


Production-Still-FOHFuture of Hope is a new feature length documentary about some of the good things that are happening in post banking crisis Iceland. Read the full story

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Maybe I Should Have…found out where all the money went


Maybe I should have...If you took out a ISK 2.2 million car loan, paid off 700,000 in the first year and were left with a debt of 5 million after having returned the car, maybe you’d want to make a movie about the Icelandic banking crash too. Just where has all the money gone?!

Maybe I Should Have is the name of a new film by Gunnar Sigurdsson and is a personal account of the Icelandic economic collapse: an unscientific investigation into what actually happened. Read the full story

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Mark Wahlberg to star in Icelandic film remake


wahlbergIt seems likely that the American remake of the Icelandic film Reykjavik Rotterdam will begin at the beginning of next year. Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur confirmed in a telephone interview with Visir.is that Mark Wahlberg will star in the film and Kormakur will direct it himself. Read the full story

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