Reykjavik Art Museum officials will today present a brand new open-air sculpture to the public. Read the full story
Posted on 03 February 2011.
Reykjavik Art Museum officials will today present a brand new open-air sculpture to the public. Read the full story
Posted on 21 October 2010.
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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Posted on 16 October 2010.
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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Posted on 05 September 2010.
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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Posted on 04 September 2010.
Following 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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Posted on 18 March 2010.
The second in a regular series of columns by Chay Lemoine: Hollywood takes on Iceland Read the full story
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Posted on 09 March 2010.
The 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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Posted on 20 February 2010.
Future 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
Posted on 25 January 2010.
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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Posted on 06 October 2009.
It 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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