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Nordic Noir

Insomnia, Jar City and The Ape among highlights of Nordic Noir film festival

28 Apr 2010

This long overdue season of crime thrillers from Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Iceland includes the recent adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, the original 1997 version of Insomnia (later remade by Christopher Nolan), a…

Profile: Baltasar Kormakur

18 Sep 2008

Name: Baltasar Kormakur Born: 27 February 1966 Background: A graduate of Iceland’s National Academy of Fine Arts, Kormakur worked as both an actor and theatre director, before making his debut feature in 2000 with the slacker comedy 101…

Jar City

Jar City

18 Sep 2008

THRILLER (15) 94min ‘Another typical Icelandic murder - messy and pointless’, sighs Inspector Erlendur (Ingvar E Sigurdsson) following the killing of an elderly Reykjavik low-life towards the beginning of Jar City, a starkly atmospheric detective…

New film & DVD releases

4 Sep 2008

Witness the fitness of this autumn's movie schedule.

Jar City

4 Sep 2008

(15) 94min Compelling Icelandic police procedural thriller about a jaundiced middle-aged cop on the trail of a decades old mystery involving rape, corruption and murder. Writer/director (and leading Icelandic actor) Baltasar 101 Reykavik Kormákur…

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