Harrowing physical adventure “The 12th Man” retells the story of Jan Baalsrud, the sole survivor of a thwarted Allied sabotage mission against the Nazis in occupied Norway. Wounded, hunted, often near-death, his long but ultimately successful escape to Sweden was already dramatized onscreen in 1957’s “Ni Liv” aka “Nine Lives,” an Oscar nominee considered one of the greatest Norwegian features ever made. (More recently it was also the subject of documentary miniseries “In the Footsteps of Jan Baalsrud.”)
One might not automatically set expectations quite so high for a new version directed by Harald Zwart, who’s scored some major hits both at home (comedy “Long Flat Balls” and its sequel) and internationally (the “Karate Kid” remake) as well as some thoroughly mainstream duds. But “12th Man” easily reps a personal best for the helmer, and is a stirring adventure by any standard. It opens in New York and Los...
One might not automatically set expectations quite so high for a new version directed by Harald Zwart, who’s scored some major hits both at home (comedy “Long Flat Balls” and its sequel) and internationally (the “Karate Kid” remake) as well as some thoroughly mainstream duds. But “12th Man” easily reps a personal best for the helmer, and is a stirring adventure by any standard. It opens in New York and Los...
- 5/2/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Oscar-winning Danish director will next make A Second Chance, starring Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
Susanne Bier, whose Us drama Serena will debut in April 2014, will return to Denmark for her next film, A Second Chance (En chance til).
TrustNordisk will start presales on the film at Afm next week and it will shoot from Nov 18 to Jan 16 on the Danish island of Funen.
Bier will again work with scriptwriter Anders Thomas Jensen, having first collaborated more than a decade ago on Open Hearts (2002) and later on In A Better World, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2011.
The pair most recently worked together on Danish romantic drama Love Is All You Need (Den skaldede frisør/2012).
Describing the new film, TrustNordisk issued a statement which said: “How far are decent human beings willing to go, when tragedy blurs the line between just and unjust?
“With A Second Chance, Susanne Bier and [link...
Susanne Bier, whose Us drama Serena will debut in April 2014, will return to Denmark for her next film, A Second Chance (En chance til).
TrustNordisk will start presales on the film at Afm next week and it will shoot from Nov 18 to Jan 16 on the Danish island of Funen.
Bier will again work with scriptwriter Anders Thomas Jensen, having first collaborated more than a decade ago on Open Hearts (2002) and later on In A Better World, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2011.
The pair most recently worked together on Danish romantic drama Love Is All You Need (Den skaldede frisør/2012).
Describing the new film, TrustNordisk issued a statement which said: “How far are decent human beings willing to go, when tragedy blurs the line between just and unjust?
“With A Second Chance, Susanne Bier and [link...
- 10/30/2013
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
Oscar-winning Danish director will next make A Second Chance, starring Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
Susanne Bier, whose Us drama Serena will debut in April 2014, will return to Denmark for her next film, A Second Chance (En chance til).
TrustNordisk will start presales on the film at Afm next week and it will shoot from Nov 18 to Jan 16 on the Danish island of Funen.
Bier will again work with scriptwriter Anders Thomas Jensen, having first collaborated more than a decade ago on Open Hearts (2002) and later on In A Better World, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2011.
The pair most recently worked together on Danish romantic drama Love Is All You Need (Den skaldede frisør/2012).
Describing the new film, TrustNordisk issued a statement which said: “How far are decent human beings willing to go, when tragedy blurs the line between just and unjust?
“With A Second Chance, Susanne Bier and [link...
Susanne Bier, whose Us drama Serena will debut in April 2014, will return to Denmark for her next film, A Second Chance (En chance til).
TrustNordisk will start presales on the film at Afm next week and it will shoot from Nov 18 to Jan 16 on the Danish island of Funen.
Bier will again work with scriptwriter Anders Thomas Jensen, having first collaborated more than a decade ago on Open Hearts (2002) and later on In A Better World, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2011.
The pair most recently worked together on Danish romantic drama Love Is All You Need (Den skaldede frisør/2012).
Describing the new film, TrustNordisk issued a statement which said: “How far are decent human beings willing to go, when tragedy blurs the line between just and unjust?
“With A Second Chance, Susanne Bier and [link...
- 10/30/2013
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
A seemingly ordinary young woman discovers a hidden world and an extraordinary destiny in The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones, the eagerly anticipated big-screen adaptation of the first book of Cassandra Clare’s blockbuster fantasy adventure series, The Mortal Instruments.
Clarissa “Clary” Fray (Lily Collins) has been living quietly in Brooklyn for as long as she can remember, when she suddenly begins to see startling and seemingly impossible things. Just as suddenly, her single mom (Lena Headey) disappears after a violent struggle. As she and her best friend Simon (Robert Sheehan) search for her mother, Clary begins to uncover the dark secrets and darker threats in the hidden world of the Shadowhunters, angel-human warriors who have protected humanity from evil forces for centuries.
Surrounded by demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other supernatural denizens of the Shadow World, Clary joins forces with young Shadowhunters Jace (Jamie Campbell Bower), Isabelle (Jemima West...
Clarissa “Clary” Fray (Lily Collins) has been living quietly in Brooklyn for as long as she can remember, when she suddenly begins to see startling and seemingly impossible things. Just as suddenly, her single mom (Lena Headey) disappears after a violent struggle. As she and her best friend Simon (Robert Sheehan) search for her mother, Clary begins to uncover the dark secrets and darker threats in the hidden world of the Shadowhunters, angel-human warriors who have protected humanity from evil forces for centuries.
Surrounded by demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other supernatural denizens of the Shadow World, Clary joins forces with young Shadowhunters Jace (Jamie Campbell Bower), Isabelle (Jemima West...
- 8/14/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Los Angeles -- The Norwegian directing team of Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg, whose biopic of World War II resistance fighter Max Manus was a huge hit on home turf, have turned to another native hero for "Kon-Tiki." One of the most-vaunted escapades of the 20th century, Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 Peru-to-Polynesia expedition by raft gets glossy big-screen treatment in this efficiently told action-adventure. Delivering visual drama and understated character study, sometimes in disappointingly formulaic fashion, the feature has its incisive moments but falls short as both epic and intimate portrait.
With effective immediacy, the directors dramatize some incidents from Heyerdahl's 1950 Oscar-winning documentary about the trip, and cinematographer Geir Hartly Andreassen pays tribute in re-created B&W footage of the building of the raft. Too much of the action, though, devolves into close encounters with sharks, scenes that leave the on-deck characters adrift rather than helping to define them.
The film,...
With effective immediacy, the directors dramatize some incidents from Heyerdahl's 1950 Oscar-winning documentary about the trip, and cinematographer Geir Hartly Andreassen pays tribute in re-created B&W footage of the building of the raft. Too much of the action, though, devolves into close encounters with sharks, scenes that leave the on-deck characters adrift rather than helping to define them.
The film,...
- 4/26/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Kon-Tiki (2012), directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg with beautiful cinematography by Geir Hartly Andreassen was shot in two different languages. The Norwegian version was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film this year. The Weinstein Company will release it in English at the Paris Theatre in New York on April 26. No UK release date has yet been set.
On board the raft he helped build, docked at the North Cove Marina on the city's Hudson River, we got a chance to speak to Captain Øyvin Lauten. He sailed across the Pacific Ocean in 2006 as executive officer with Olav Heyerdahl, grandson of Thor Heyerdahl, and a crew of four like the gods before them.
In 1947, Norwegian scientist Thor Heyerdahl went on the adventure of a lifetime. Puzzled by ancient sculptures, statues and images of pineapples, he came up with the explanation that...
On board the raft he helped build, docked at the North Cove Marina on the city's Hudson River, we got a chance to speak to Captain Øyvin Lauten. He sailed across the Pacific Ocean in 2006 as executive officer with Olav Heyerdahl, grandson of Thor Heyerdahl, and a crew of four like the gods before them.
In 1947, Norwegian scientist Thor Heyerdahl went on the adventure of a lifetime. Puzzled by ancient sculptures, statues and images of pineapples, he came up with the explanation that...
- 4/15/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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