In anticipation of the upcoming 95th Academy Awards, I conversed with Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson, whose sophomore film Beautiful Beings is Iceland’s official submission in...
Indiscretion of an Icelandic Wife: Palmason Primes a Crime of Passion in Simmering Drama
Nothing is initially what it seems in Icelandic director Hlynur...
At the last Critics' Week in Cannes 2019, critics took notice of Hlynur Pálmason’s second feature, A White, White Day. Pálmason’s debut, Winter Brothers,...
White, White Day
Iceland’s Hlynur Palmason returns with his sophomore feature White, White Day, an Icelandic-Swedish-Danish coproduction produced by Anton Mani Svansson for Join Motion...
Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.