Tag: stellanskarsgård
DUNE: PART TWO Review: Still Handsome. Still Obligatory. Stilgar.
If it does nothing else, Dune: Part Two completes the circle of the Fatboy Slim-Arrakis EU. By opening with Christopher Walken’s Emperor Of The Known Universe, this might just be the quirkiest, and most unexpectedly sly, thing about the...
ANDOR Trailer And Poster: "That's What a Reckoning Sounds Like"
Such a cool line. I'm not alone but I'm in the minority when I say that I love, love, love Rogue One. So I welcome any return to that part of the timeline, before the Skywalker saga began, when...
Toronto 2021 Review: DUNE, A Handsome, But Stoic, Do Over
There is a row of palm trees in front of the outer wall of the capital city of Arrakis, the desert planet also known as Dune. They require massive amounts of resources, and have grown straight & tall, tended by...
Review: THE PAINTED BIRD, Spectacle of Horrors From a Child's Perspective
Stellan Skarsgaard, Harvey Keitel, Barry Pepper, Julian Sands and Petr Kotlar star in Václav Marhoul's dramatic adaptation of a novel by Jerzy Kosiński.
Oscars 2020 Review: THE PAINTED BIRD, A Child's Adventures in Abominationland
A WWII coming-of-age not for the faint of heart is the Czech Repulic´s bid for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards.
Review: IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE, An Exceptional Scandinavian Thriller
I think it's pretty hard not to completely adore Stellan Skarsgård. From his achingly perfect performances working with Lars Von Trier to comic book blockbusters like Thor to the original Insomnia, he's one of the great actors of this or any...
Review: OUR KIND OF TRAITOR, Slick Yet Simple Spycraft
Veteran screen adapter Hossein Amini (The Two Faces of January, Drive) teams up with famed author John le Carré for yet another big screen espionage thriller joint with Our Kind of Traitor. Le Carré, who serves as executive producer, brings...
THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE: Adam Driver Joins Michael Palin In Terry Gilliam Pic
Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has experienced many levels of development hell. Any version of the film has been in the works longer than any of the ScreenAnarchy crew's offspring have been alive. We are talking nearly...
Terry Gilliam Is Tilting At Windmills Again, This Time With Amazon Money
Terry Gilliam's abortive attempts to make his big screen riff on Cervantes' famous novel are well documented in the wonderful film, Lost in La Mancha. But at various film Q&As and other settings, people have been asking the director for years...
Fantasia 2014 Review: IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE Is Cold, Wry, Excellent
I think it's pretty hard not to completely adore Stellan Skarsgård. From his achingly perfect performances working with Von Trier, to comic book blockbusters like Thor, to the original Insomnia, he's one of the great actors of this or any...
Review: THE RAILWAY MAN, Confused And Emotionless
Japan's involvement and subsequent denial in its atrocities of World War II has always been a difficult point to convey. The Railway Man, which is based on the incredible true account of soldier Eric Lomax, attempts to tell this story...
The Many Faces Of Stellan Skarsgård
This week, Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac will be released (or unleashed, perhaps a better word here) in the United States. In that film, Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) tells a stranger the story of her life. The patient listener is Seligman, played...
Review: THE RAILWAY MAN, A Difficult But Confused Adaptation
Japan's involvement and subsequent denial in its atrocities of World War II has always been a difficult point to convey. The Railway Man, which is based on the incredible true account of soldier Eric Lomax, attempts to tell this story...
A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN review
For everyone who's completely fed up with vibrant, attractive twenty-somethings getting all the sex in movies - I give you veteran actor Stellan Skarsgård in Norway's "A Somewhat Gentle Man". In the film's 108 minute running time, Skarsgård's unassuming, soft-spoken,...
Second Trailer For Marius Holst's Youth Prison Drama KING OF DEVIL'S ISLAND
The more we see of Marius Holst's King Of Devil's Island the better it looks. With a cast anchored by Stellan Skarsgard and Kristoffer Joner you know the acting is going to be solid and everything else looks absolutely top...
Stellan Skarsgard And Kristoffer Joner Star In Youth Prison Drama KING OF DEVIL'S ISLAND
[Updated with English subtitled trailer]That Stellan Skarsgard and Kristoffer Joner are starring together in upcoming prison drama King of Devil's Island should be reason enough to pay attention to Marius Holst's upcoming picture. But mark my words. If the trailer...
London 2010: A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN Review
A farcical comic drama form Norway, Hans Petter Moland's A Somewhat Gentle Man stars Stellan Skarsgard as Ulrik, released from jail after a lengthy sentence for killing the man who slept with his wife. Re-entering the free world with more...
Berlinale 2010: Fantastic Trailer For Norwegian Black Comedy A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN
It's the curse of the film market. After four solid days of seeing not a single film that I truly loved at the European Film Market - a discouraging experience when you're packing in four or five screenings a day...
