Donna Cruz, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Þorsteinn Bachmann and Katla M Þorgeirsdóttir in Agnes Joy
It’s a small town story now elevated to a very big stage. Silja Hauksdóttir’s second film, Agnes Joy, follows a slowly disintegrating family in the town of Akranes, just across the bay from Reykjavik – a place from which the light of the big city can be seen by night but where nothing ever seems to happen. The titular Agnes (Donna Cruz) is a frustrated teenager waiting for life to begin. Her mother Rannveig (Katla M Þorgeirsdóttir) is bored with her marriage, unhappy at work and increasingly wondering where she went wrong. When handsome TV actor Hreinn ((Björn Hlynur Haraldsson) moves in next door, both women find themselves distracted by him, and it’s clear that trouble is on the way.
This family drama, which we caught earlier this year at the Glasgow Film Festival,...
It’s a small town story now elevated to a very big stage. Silja Hauksdóttir’s second film, Agnes Joy, follows a slowly disintegrating family in the town of Akranes, just across the bay from Reykjavik – a place from which the light of the big city can be seen by night but where nothing ever seems to happen. The titular Agnes (Donna Cruz) is a frustrated teenager waiting for life to begin. Her mother Rannveig (Katla M Þorgeirsdóttir) is bored with her marriage, unhappy at work and increasingly wondering where she went wrong. When handsome TV actor Hreinn ((Björn Hlynur Haraldsson) moves in next door, both women find themselves distracted by him, and it’s clear that trouble is on the way.
This family drama, which we caught earlier this year at the Glasgow Film Festival,...
- 12/20/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
"You must remember to nourish yourself." Vintage Pictures has released an official trailer for the Icelandic film Agnes Joy, which originally premiered last year and also opened in Iceland last year. After playing at a few other film festivals this year, Iceland has submitted Silja Hauksdóttir's Agnes Joy as their selection for the Best International Film category at the 2020 Academy Awards. The contemporary relationship drama focuses on an Icelandic family, and a disintegrating marriage, starring Katla M. Þorgeirsdóttir. She is worried her daughter, Agnes, will grow up and leave her behind, until a new man moves in next door. Also starring Donna Cruz as the titular Agnes, with Þorsteinn Bachmann, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Kristinn Óli Haraldsson, & Anna Kristín Arngrímsdóttir. It's always hard to get a sense of Icelandic films from their trailers, but I am certainly curious about this and the complex family dynamics it explores. Here's the official...
- 12/11/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
’Agnes Joy’ is Silja Hauksdóttir’s second film.
Silja Hauksdóttir’s mother-daughter drama Agnes Joy (working title), produced by Birgitta Björnsdóttir at Vintage Pictures, has started shooting in Iceland. Screen exclusively reveals the first photo here.
Hauksdóttir wrote the script with Rannveig Jónsdóttir, who also produces, and Jóhanna Friðrika Sæmundsdóttir.
The film is being co-produced by Mikael Torfason and Guðbjörg Sigurðardóttir and is backed byThe Icelandic Film Centre, distributor Sena, broadcaster Ruv and a private equity investor.
The cast features Katla Margrét Þorgeirsdottir, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Donna Cruz, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson and Kristinn Óli Haraldsson.
The comedy drama is about a...
Silja Hauksdóttir’s mother-daughter drama Agnes Joy (working title), produced by Birgitta Björnsdóttir at Vintage Pictures, has started shooting in Iceland. Screen exclusively reveals the first photo here.
Hauksdóttir wrote the script with Rannveig Jónsdóttir, who also produces, and Jóhanna Friðrika Sæmundsdóttir.
The film is being co-produced by Mikael Torfason and Guðbjörg Sigurðardóttir and is backed byThe Icelandic Film Centre, distributor Sena, broadcaster Ruv and a private equity investor.
The cast features Katla Margrét Þorgeirsdottir, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Donna Cruz, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson and Kristinn Óli Haraldsson.
The comedy drama is about a...
- 11/8/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
’Agnes Joy’ is Silja Hauksdóttir’s second film.
Silja Hauksdóttir’s mother-daughter drama Agnes Joy (working title), produced by Birgitta Björnsdóttir at Vintage Pictures, has started shooting in Iceland. Screen exclusively reveals the first photo here.
Hauksdóttir wrote the script with Rannveig Jónsdóttir, who also produces, and Jóhanna Friðrika Sæmundsdóttir.
The film is being co-produced by Mikael Torfason and Guðbjörg Sigurðardóttir and is backed byThe Icelandic Film Centre, distributor Sena, broadcaster Ruv and a private equity investor.
The cast features Katla Margrét Þorgeirsdottir, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Donna Cruz, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson and Kristinn Óli Haraldsson.
The comedy drama is about a...
Silja Hauksdóttir’s mother-daughter drama Agnes Joy (working title), produced by Birgitta Björnsdóttir at Vintage Pictures, has started shooting in Iceland. Screen exclusively reveals the first photo here.
Hauksdóttir wrote the script with Rannveig Jónsdóttir, who also produces, and Jóhanna Friðrika Sæmundsdóttir.
The film is being co-produced by Mikael Torfason and Guðbjörg Sigurðardóttir and is backed byThe Icelandic Film Centre, distributor Sena, broadcaster Ruv and a private equity investor.
The cast features Katla Margrét Þorgeirsdottir, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Donna Cruz, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson and Kristinn Óli Haraldsson.
The comedy drama is about a...
- 11/8/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Back in August of 2015, a month after Caitlyn Jenner graced the cover of Vanity Fair under the headline, “Call Me Caitlyn,” humor site Clickhole published a listicle titled: “8 Moms Doing Their Best With The Transgender Movement.” Stock photos of smiling, mom-aged women featured captions like, “Donna bought the Vanity Fair with Caitlyn Jenner on the cover and read almost the whole interview without sighing. She even left it out on the coffee table for over a week and didn’t put it away when guests came over!”
Now we have “Gender Revolution: A Journey With Katie Couric,” a National Geographic documentary co-produced by World of Wonder. Had Couric been the ninth mom on Clickhole list, her caption might have read: “Katie produced a documentary about gender identity and didn’t ask about anyone’s private parts once! But she did ask one woman about her ‘old name’ hours before her gender confirmation surgery.
Now we have “Gender Revolution: A Journey With Katie Couric,” a National Geographic documentary co-produced by World of Wonder. Had Couric been the ninth mom on Clickhole list, her caption might have read: “Katie produced a documentary about gender identity and didn’t ask about anyone’s private parts once! But she did ask one woman about her ‘old name’ hours before her gender confirmation surgery.
- 2/7/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
The way star Taraji P. Henson tells it, “Hidden Figures” was simply meant to be.
“I knew we were making something special. I could feel it,” Henson recently told IndieWire of her experience on the film. “It was the right movie to be made at the right time. The right people. We couldn’t have mapped this out better. This was the order of the universe.”
But a closer look suggests that the film had a more specific reason for coming into being — to fill an underserved niche for stories of strong women.
Set in the early sixties at the height of the Space Race, Ted Melfi’s film follows the true stories of a trio of forgotten American heroes: real-life Nasa employees Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson.
As part of the segregated West Area Computer group (back when “computer” actually referred to a human being who made...
“I knew we were making something special. I could feel it,” Henson recently told IndieWire of her experience on the film. “It was the right movie to be made at the right time. The right people. We couldn’t have mapped this out better. This was the order of the universe.”
But a closer look suggests that the film had a more specific reason for coming into being — to fill an underserved niche for stories of strong women.
Set in the early sixties at the height of the Space Race, Ted Melfi’s film follows the true stories of a trio of forgotten American heroes: real-life Nasa employees Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson.
As part of the segregated West Area Computer group (back when “computer” actually referred to a human being who made...
- 12/22/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Growing up, Christopher Reeve's son, Will, would have "loved to race cars or toss a ball with my dad, but the technology didn't exist." "Now, thankfully, it does," the 23-year-old son of the late actor and former Superman star tells People, announcing the creation of Adaptoys, which are adapted versions of popular toys that will give people living with paralysis the chance to play with their families. (Reeve was paralyzed in 1995 after being thrown from a horse, and spent his life afterward working on behalf of people with spinal cord injuries.) The Adaptoys prototypes - a race car that runs on sip-and-puff technology,...
- 5/2/2016
- by Sharon Cotliar
- PEOPLE.com
Call it Men & Women vs. Wild.
NBC is set to announce the contestant teams for its upcoming reality competition Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls. The Electus-produced adventure-reality competition has survivalist Grylls (of Discovery’s Man vs. Wild fame) challenging 10 two-person teams on a New Zealand adventure. Above is the cast photo, below is the first full trailer and contestant descriptions.
Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls premieres Monday, July 8 at 9 p.m.:
NBC’s official contestant bios:
Ryan Gwin & Madeline Mitchell
Ryan Gwin, 24
Hometown: Mobile, Ala.
Resides: Mobile, Ala.
Twitter: @RyanMGwin
Gwin’s father taught him to hunt...
NBC is set to announce the contestant teams for its upcoming reality competition Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls. The Electus-produced adventure-reality competition has survivalist Grylls (of Discovery’s Man vs. Wild fame) challenging 10 two-person teams on a New Zealand adventure. Above is the cast photo, below is the first full trailer and contestant descriptions.
Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls premieres Monday, July 8 at 9 p.m.:
NBC’s official contestant bios:
Ryan Gwin & Madeline Mitchell
Ryan Gwin, 24
Hometown: Mobile, Ala.
Resides: Mobile, Ala.
Twitter: @RyanMGwin
Gwin’s father taught him to hunt...
- 6/13/2013
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
'What is my earliest memory? The slap of the obstetrician's hand on my bottom'
Dan Aykroyd, 60, was born in Ottawa, Canada. He studied psychology, political science and criminal sociology at university, but dropped out to act. Between 1975 and 1979 he worked on the TV show Saturday Night Live, where he and John Belushi invented the comic characters the Blues Brothers. In 1980 they starred in The Blues Brothers film. He went on to make Trading Places, then wrote and starred in the 1984 hit Ghostbusters. Having vowed never to make a film with anyone less famous than him, he has kept busy in recent years with the promotion of his vodka, Crystal Head. He appears with Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in the film Beyond The Candelabra.
What is your greatest fear?
23½-hour lockdown in the Us federal penitentiary system.
What is your earliest memory?
The slap of the obstetrician's hand on my bottom.
Dan Aykroyd, 60, was born in Ottawa, Canada. He studied psychology, political science and criminal sociology at university, but dropped out to act. Between 1975 and 1979 he worked on the TV show Saturday Night Live, where he and John Belushi invented the comic characters the Blues Brothers. In 1980 they starred in The Blues Brothers film. He went on to make Trading Places, then wrote and starred in the 1984 hit Ghostbusters. Having vowed never to make a film with anyone less famous than him, he has kept busy in recent years with the promotion of his vodka, Crystal Head. He appears with Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in the film Beyond The Candelabra.
What is your greatest fear?
23½-hour lockdown in the Us federal penitentiary system.
What is your earliest memory?
The slap of the obstetrician's hand on my bottom.
- 6/8/2013
- by Rosanna Greenstreet
- The Guardian - Film News
Mia Wasikowska was a 'boring' child. The 23-year-old actress insists she never set herself apart from the crowd when she was younger and was always happy to fit in with her peers. She said: 'Growing up I was pretty boring, I was more of a follower than a leader; I didn't like showing off'. And Mia - who began her film career aged just 15 - only fell into acting when she suffered an injury that called a halt to her main passion, dance. She added to Italy's Io Donna magazine: 'I was very shy and spent all my time dancing. I used to dance up to 35 hours a week; it was the place where I found passion,...
- 3/30/2013
- Monsters and Critics
Mia Wasikowska was a ''boring'' child. The 23-year-old actress insists she never set herself apart from the crowd when she was younger and was always happy to fit in with her peers. She said: ''Growing up I was pretty boring, I was more of a follower than a leader; I didn't like showing off''. And Mia - who began her film career aged just 15 - only fell into acting when she suffered an injury that called a halt to her main passion, dance. She added to Italy's Io Donna magazine: ''I was very shy and spent all my time dancing. I used...
- 3/30/2013
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
How many of your favorite scifi stories involve spies, secret organizations, black-ops or shadowy conspiracies? When you watch genre films, how often do you encounter Top Secret groups, with hidden secrets that will blow your mind. Yeah, a lot. The funny thing is, I'm starting to think the movies underplay the amount of secrets and groups out there.
This week, Frontline goes inside The Washington Post's major two-year examination into the massive, unwieldy, top secret world the U.S. government has created in response to 9/11. Coming fall 2010 to PBS.
A major examination by Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin is the subject of an upcoming Frontline documentary produced by veteran producer Michael Kirk. The Post's two-year investigation looked at the top secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001—a world that has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that few...
This week, Frontline goes inside The Washington Post's major two-year examination into the massive, unwieldy, top secret world the U.S. government has created in response to 9/11. Coming fall 2010 to PBS.
A major examination by Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin is the subject of an upcoming Frontline documentary produced by veteran producer Michael Kirk. The Post's two-year investigation looked at the top secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001—a world that has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that few...
- 7/19/2010
- doorQ.com
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