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Movie criticism (mostly foreign films, documentaries and independents: big Hollywood product hardly needs more marketing), very occasional interviews from James van Maanen, now 80 years old, who began his late-career movie reviewing for GreenCine, then took the big blog step over a decade ago. He covers new movies, video releases, and occasional streaming choices. You can reach him at JamesvanMaanen@gmail.com

Showing posts with label Icelandic cinema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Icelandic cinema. Show all posts
Thursday, April 16, 2020

Grief and its variations in Hlynur Palmason's Icelandic genre-jumper: A WHITE, WHITE DAY

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If we don't know by this time, via its movies at least, that the Nordic island country of Iceland has a culture and character pretty...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

Mads Mikkelsen: on ice in Joe Penna's endurance test, ARCTIC, and prone to more cold weather and murder in Jonas Åkerlund's ugly, envelope-pushing POLAR

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Mads Mikkelsen is one of TrustMovies ' favorite living actors. We'll watch him in just about any thing, and now, after his two ...
Friday, October 6, 2017

Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson's fraught, Icelandic coming-of-age tale, HEARTSTONE

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Think back to your own early-teen-age time and the fear you felt that most likely turned into everything from aggression to depression, ...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

On Blu-ray/DVD: Iceland's Foreign Language Film submission, Grímur Hákonarson's RAMS

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Though lauded with critical hosannas (95% critic-positive on Rotten Tomatoes), RAMS , the supposed "deadpan comedy" that was I...
Friday, January 7, 2011

Fridrik Thór Fridriksson's MAMMA GÓGÓ, Iceland's Oscar entry, gets an L.A. airing

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Am I imagining this, or are we critics and reviewers having more opportunity to view, not only the movies that finally make their way to no...
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