Nordic Film Industry Weathers the Storm

Lamb, a new horror film from A24 starring Noomi Rapace, has just been released – check it out below.The film stars Rapace alongside Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, in the directorial debut from Valdimar Jóhannsson.An official synopsis for Lamb from A24 reads: “A childless couple (Rapace and Hilmir Snaer Gudnason) in rural Iceland make an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn.“They soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature, in this dark and atmospheric folktale, the striking debut

Thelma & Louise in 1991.Asked by CBS News about how things changed, Davis replied: “Oh yeah, let me think of the ways. Oh, it didn’t! So, the change hasn’t really happened yet.

K.J. Yossman Britain’s leading entertainment industry unions have welcomed a government proposal introducing new legislation tackling sexual harassment in the workplace.Described by women’s rights campaigner Deeba Syed as “one of the first key statutory changes in the U.K.

Recently, I was back in the United States — Texas, to be exact — and as any Texan will tell you, it is its own thing. While visiting my ailing father, we watched television together, and I came across a show on HGTV that caught my imagination.

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Rising Nigerian singer Tomi Thomas teamed up with reggae and dancehall legend Buju Banton for his latest single "Hurricane." Taken from his debut EP Hopeless Romantic, the track finds both artists comparing love to a force of nature over bouncy, guitar-driven production. Its stormy visuals find Thomas and Banton braving the aftermath of tumultuous, but beautiful, lightning, rains, and winds.

The Robert Bresson quote that opens the anthology film “Year of the Everlasting Storm” — “you don’t create by adding, but by taking away” — makes a tidy adage of the time-honored idea that deprivation breeds innovation.

Those looking to enjoy “Lamb” from Icelandic director Valdimar Jóhannsson would do well not to learn anything about it beyond its admittedly intriguing premise before watching it — to enter the screening room like lambs to the slaughter, if you will. Playing in the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s Festival de Cannes, the film centers on a couple living on a remote sheep farm, where they one day discover an unusual newborn that they immediately decide to raise as their own.

Chris Willman Music WriterComposers Atli Örvarsson, Mark Mothersbaugh and Mark Isham led the list of winners announced Monday for the annual BMI Film, TV & Visual Media Awards, with the three scorers picking up six, five and four trophies, respectively.Örvarsson, the Icelandic composer, is now up to 29 BMI honors with the six he adds this week.

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Cinema’s love affair with trains goes back, of course, to the very origins of the art form, and more than a century later, the flame shows no sign of dimming. To recent examples such as “Snowpiercer” (2013), “Train to Busan” (2016), and the latest of many adaptations of “Murder on the Orient Express” (2017) can now be added “Compartment no.6” (“Hytti Nro 6”) from Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen, premiering in Competition at this year’s Festival de Cannes.

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Nearly three years after she began filming it, Mia Hansen-Løve’s seventh film, Bergman Island, finally arrives in Cannes to mark the Parisian director’s Competition debut. Filmed on location in Sweden, and starring Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth, it takes place on the island of Fårö, where the Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman lived and worked until his death in 2007.

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EXCLUSIVE: The cast of HBO/BBC’s investment banking drama Industry is adding three new series regulars for Season 2. Alex Alomar Akpobome (Twenties, For All Mankind) and Adam Levy (The Witcher) have joined the series, from creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay. Additionally, Indy Lewis, who guest starred in an episode of Season 1, has been named a series regular.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Italian film industry, which did not pause during the pandemic, is clearly a top priority within the country’s post COVID-19 recovery plan.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorMunich-based sales agency Global Screen has picked up global distribution rights to Thale Persen’s “Clue — The Maltese Mystery,” a detective tale for children.The film, which will be released in Norway by Nordisk on Aug. 27, will be the opening pic of the Cinemagi family program at the Norwegian Intl.