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Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘The Avenging Silence’ Back in Development
11 Jul 2024 17:55 GMT
… spy film has survived development hell! The Cinemaholic can reveal that Nicolas Winding Refn … Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen in the ‘Pusher’ trilogy, ‘Bleeder,’ and ‘Valhalla Rising,’ Refn gained … Ryan Gosling movie as only the second film the filmmaker has not …
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Mads Mikkelsen uses determination and a potato to take on a nasty landowner in this Nordic epic
19 Jun 2024 23:55 GMT
… power-hungry landowner.
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg, … in Valhalla Rising — one of the most doom metal movies ever … A Royal Affair, Danish filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel frames this … Zentropa)
He commands the film with a performance that …
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“Master”: the director Nicolas Winding Refn has “stolen many things from”
30 Mar 2024 18:21 GMT
… Danish director and screenwriter Nicolas Winding Refn was tipped to be … trilogy, which introduced actor Mads Mikkelsen to the industry, … filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, are, indeed, lost in many of his movies … 2009’s action flick Valhalla Rising, which tells the …
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30 of the Best Movies People Think Are Boring
18 Jul 2024 15:43 GMT
… : Starz, digital rental
Valhalla Rising (2009)
Run time: … the war film, Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn does something … wholly unexpected with the many Viking-adjacent movies … mute One-Eye (Mads Mikkelsen) is a fighter, …
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Inside the Boxd: ‘Maestro,’ ‘The Banshees of Inisherin,’ ‘Valhalla Rising’ and ‘Mulholland Drive’
29 Mar 2024 12:36 GMT
… War, grounding the movie in a cautionary reality.
“Valhalla Rising” (2009)
“It’ … stars)
— Mick Gaw, Film & TV Editor
Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2009 Viking … gory killing sprees. The film follows One Eye (Mads Mikkelsen), an enslaved fighter …
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The 15 Best Films of 2024 So Far
09 Jul 2024 01:21 GMT
… Land
The transfixing terrain of Mads Mikkelsen's face has been … was true in Arctic, in Valhalla Rising and now in The Promised … and volleys. Challengers is a film of each, too, plus a movie about tennis. As it follows …
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27 of the Best Introspective Movies to Watch All by Yourself
27 Jun 2024 16:04 GMT
… Channel, digital rental
Valhalla Rising (2009)
Our leading man … prisoner (played by Mads Mikkelsen), who begins a long, … widower Price. The gentle film explores the potential for … conversation, but Sokurov filmed the movie in one continuous cut …
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“I’m Finally Making Something That My Kids Would Actually Watch”: Nicolas Winding Refn Talks Adapting Enid Blyton’s ‘The Famous Five’ For TV – Mipcom Cannes Special
16 Oct 2023 08:26 GMT
… discussed Hollywood rumor, explains Nicolas Winding Refn and his long-time … God Forgives, Pusher and Valhalla Rising, and who even named … The Who’s iconic mod movie Quadrophenia, which became, … blasting them during a Venice Film Festival Masterclass as being …
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Mads Mikkelsen: ‘I try to jump into a character as fast as I can and leave as fast as I can’
10 Feb 2024 06:01 GMT
… who becomes his nemesis.
[ Mads Mikkelsen takes another icy role ]
… a Norse serf, in Valhalla Rising.
“Promised Land wasn’t … with Kim Bodnia in Nicolas Winding Refn's 1996 film. ';Nicolas … from 2003. 'This movie was insanely theatrical.' …
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The Promised Land is a true Mads Mikkelsen marvel — if you have a strong stomach
09 Feb 2024 09:08 GMT
… its plot, the name of Mads Mikkelsen's new stubbornness- … as a sort of sister film to the pervasively hopeless … farm.
But while that movie works to showcase the resilience … brooding, nuanced and brutal as Valhalla Rising — with the same contradictory …