I still have fond memories of gathering around the TV with my family on Sunday nights to watch Veena Sud's captivating TV series The Killing (based on Forbrydelsen by Søren Sveistrup), so I'm especially thrilled that Veena's 2020 Quibi series The Stranger (starring Maika Monroe as a rideshare driver who encounters a killer client played by Dane DeHaan) has been recut and re-released as a feature film that's now streaming on Hulu!
Daily Dead had the pleasure of catching up with Veena in a new video interview to discuss the unique multi-year journey of this new version of The Stranger, including the importance of co-owning the copyright to the project, restructuring The Stranger as a feature film, and working with Maika Monroe, Dane DeHaan, Avan Jogia, and their canine co-star Preston!
About The Stranger
From Veena Sud, acclaimed creator of The Killing comes an edge-of-your-seat ride through one life-changing night.
Daily Dead had the pleasure of catching up with Veena in a new video interview to discuss the unique multi-year journey of this new version of The Stranger, including the importance of co-owning the copyright to the project, restructuring The Stranger as a feature film, and working with Maika Monroe, Dane DeHaan, Avan Jogia, and their canine co-star Preston!
About The Stranger
From Veena Sud, acclaimed creator of The Killing comes an edge-of-your-seat ride through one life-changing night.
- 4/15/2024
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Veena Sud's 2010s TV series The Killing (based on Forbrydelsen by Søren Sveistrup) is still one of the most enthralling viewing experiences I've ever had, so I'm especially thrilled that Veena's 2020 Quibi series The Stranger (starring Maika Monroe as a rideshare driver who encounters a killer client plalyed by Dane DeHaan) has been re-cut as a feature film that will arrive on Hulu on April 15th:
Press Release: - TV creator and filmmaker Veena Sud and Hulu announced today that they are teaming on the release of Sud’s latest project, The Stranger. The horror film, which stars Maika Monroe (star of It Follows and Neon’s upcoming Longlegs), Dane DeHaan (recently seen in Oppenheimer and star of HBO’s The Staircase) and Avan Jogia, was written and directed by Sud, whose previous work includes the Emmy-nominated AMC/Netflix mystery series The Killing and police violence drama Seven Seconds,...
Press Release: - TV creator and filmmaker Veena Sud and Hulu announced today that they are teaming on the release of Sud’s latest project, The Stranger. The horror film, which stars Maika Monroe (star of It Follows and Neon’s upcoming Longlegs), Dane DeHaan (recently seen in Oppenheimer and star of HBO’s The Staircase) and Avan Jogia, was written and directed by Sud, whose previous work includes the Emmy-nominated AMC/Netflix mystery series The Killing and police violence drama Seven Seconds,...
- 3/21/2024
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
A new restoration of the 1959 horror film on Blu-ray and DVD, and making its UK digital debut, Horrors Of The Black Museum, starring Michael Gough and directed by Arthur Crabtree (Fiend Without a Face), marked the first film in the “Sadian Trilogy”, followed by the Hammer favourite Circus of Horrors and Michael Powell’s infamous Peeping Tom – introducing cinema audiences to a more shocking and salacious brand of onscreen horror.
A series of grisly, macabre murders sweep London and leave Scotland Yard completely baffled. Bancroft, an evil crime journalist, is hypnotising his assistant to commit murders using items curated in his own personal “Black Museum” – inspired by the infamous real-life collection of weapons and torture instruments used by criminals. Using these murders to fuel his own crime stories, Bancroft delights in the Yard’s embarrassment.
Experience fear beyond belief in this gruesome British horror treat that features a splendid lead...
A series of grisly, macabre murders sweep London and leave Scotland Yard completely baffled. Bancroft, an evil crime journalist, is hypnotising his assistant to commit murders using items curated in his own personal “Black Museum” – inspired by the infamous real-life collection of weapons and torture instruments used by criminals. Using these murders to fuel his own crime stories, Bancroft delights in the Yard’s embarrassment.
Experience fear beyond belief in this gruesome British horror treat that features a splendid lead...
- 1/8/2024
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
A new restoration of the 1954 British black-and-white science fiction film Devil Girl From Mars, directed by David MacDonald and starring Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Hazel Court, Peter Reynolds and Adrienne Corri.
One winter evening in a lonely Scottish inn, guests become prisoners when Nyah, a pitiless Martian with a robot minion, lands on earth and traps them within an invisible wall. With Martian males extinct after a battle of the sexes, Nyah aims to capture breeding stock on Earth. As escape attempts falter, the helpless humans must decide which one of them will die to save the others and possibly the world!
A famously economical film, Devil Girl From Mars was filmed over three weeks with no retakes in order to use up pre-booked studio time when another project finished ahead of schedule.
With a cast including the magnificent Patricia Laffan (Quo Vadis) as Nyah, and genre favourites Adrienne Corri...
One winter evening in a lonely Scottish inn, guests become prisoners when Nyah, a pitiless Martian with a robot minion, lands on earth and traps them within an invisible wall. With Martian males extinct after a battle of the sexes, Nyah aims to capture breeding stock on Earth. As escape attempts falter, the helpless humans must decide which one of them will die to save the others and possibly the world!
A famously economical film, Devil Girl From Mars was filmed over three weeks with no retakes in order to use up pre-booked studio time when another project finished ahead of schedule.
With a cast including the magnificent Patricia Laffan (Quo Vadis) as Nyah, and genre favourites Adrienne Corri...
- 1/4/2024
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
Sam Productions’ owners are Søren Sveistrup, Adam Price and Studiocanal.
Denmark’s Sam Productions and Meta Film, the companies headed by CEO Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen, are expanding into Sweden.
Maria Dahlin will spearhead the Swedish business, as Sam and Meta ramp up their investments in Swedish features and series.
Sam Productions’ owners are Søren Sveistrup, Adam Price and Studiocanal.
“Søren, Adam and I have a sincere deep love for Swedish stories; I think our previous productions clearly showed that,” said Foldager Sørensen, pointing to past Swedish collaborations including Border, The Wife and Aniara. She added that the companies planned...
Denmark’s Sam Productions and Meta Film, the companies headed by CEO Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen, are expanding into Sweden.
Maria Dahlin will spearhead the Swedish business, as Sam and Meta ramp up their investments in Swedish features and series.
Sam Productions’ owners are Søren Sveistrup, Adam Price and Studiocanal.
“Søren, Adam and I have a sincere deep love for Swedish stories; I think our previous productions clearly showed that,” said Foldager Sørensen, pointing to past Swedish collaborations including Border, The Wife and Aniara. She added that the companies planned...
- 9/6/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Sporting a powerful slate of new shows at MipTV, Studiocanal, owned by Vivendi’s Canal Plus, has announced what it describes as a “substantial” distribution deal with U.S. streaming service MHz Networks.
The deal features banner Canal Plus Creation Originale series “UFOs” and “Paris Police” as well as a modern classic, the pay TV’s groundbreaking premium crime drama “Spiral.”
Covering VOD and home entertainment rights, the licensing agreement takes in Season 1 and the brand new Season 2 of “UFOs,” which is part of Studiocanal’s MipTV’s sales slate, led by “Django,” starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Noomi Rapace and Canneseries official selection title “Infiniti.”
The sales also include Season 1 and Season 2, now in production, of large-scale period crime drama “Paris Police” and the renewal of the entire eight seasons of the multiple award-winning “Spiral.” Series will be made available to MHz Networks’ viewers across North America.
A retro French...
The deal features banner Canal Plus Creation Originale series “UFOs” and “Paris Police” as well as a modern classic, the pay TV’s groundbreaking premium crime drama “Spiral.”
Covering VOD and home entertainment rights, the licensing agreement takes in Season 1 and the brand new Season 2 of “UFOs,” which is part of Studiocanal’s MipTV’s sales slate, led by “Django,” starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Noomi Rapace and Canneseries official selection title “Infiniti.”
The sales also include Season 1 and Season 2, now in production, of large-scale period crime drama “Paris Police” and the renewal of the entire eight seasons of the multiple award-winning “Spiral.” Series will be made available to MHz Networks’ viewers across North America.
A retro French...
- 4/5/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
‘The Chestnut Man’: The Latest Danish Netflix Obsession Is Like Watching a Bestselling Mystery Novel
By now, we’re all familiar with the trope in movie and TV trailers where an eerie children’s choir cover of a popular song is used to signify ominous undercurrents. There’s a reason why so many projects have turned to songs that are simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar as a shortcut to significance. It’s ambiguous, it can be unsettling, and it’s (well it used to be) a signal that what was up around the corner was something that could break with expectations.
Over a decade into a post-“Creep” world, that tactic pops up not in the marketing materials for “The Chestnut Man,” but the Netflix show itself. Near the end of the first of the season’s six episodes, an assembled group of Danish schoolchildren sing a nursery rhyme about chestnuts, the same marker a murderer leaves at a crime scene as their de facto calling card.
Over a decade into a post-“Creep” world, that tactic pops up not in the marketing materials for “The Chestnut Man,” but the Netflix show itself. Near the end of the first of the season’s six episodes, an assembled group of Danish schoolchildren sing a nursery rhyme about chestnuts, the same marker a murderer leaves at a crime scene as their de facto calling card.
- 10/1/2021
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
All four seasons of the Danish-Norwegian-Swedish stream during ‘Summer Of Suspense’.
Streaming service Topic will screen Bafta international series winner The Killing (Forbrydelsen) this summer in the Nordic Noir TV classic’s first ever airing in North America.
All four seasons of the Danish-Norwegian-Swedish show will stream in Topic’s ‘Summer Of Suspense’ series of crime thrillers and mysteries.
The Killing will debut on August 12, followed by a successive season each week. Sofie Gråbøl, Morten Suurballe, and Lars Mikkelsen star in the procedural about detective Sarah Lund who investigates cases with political and personal consequences. Søren Sveistrup created the series.
Streaming service Topic will screen Bafta international series winner The Killing (Forbrydelsen) this summer in the Nordic Noir TV classic’s first ever airing in North America.
All four seasons of the Danish-Norwegian-Swedish show will stream in Topic’s ‘Summer Of Suspense’ series of crime thrillers and mysteries.
The Killing will debut on August 12, followed by a successive season each week. Sofie Gråbøl, Morten Suurballe, and Lars Mikkelsen star in the procedural about detective Sarah Lund who investigates cases with political and personal consequences. Søren Sveistrup created the series.
- 5/18/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Is Olivier Courson, once a game-changing chairman-ceo of Studiocanal, about to make a big media comeback?
Arte France, bastion of quality European TV, announced June 2 that its president, Veronique Cayla would step down on July 5. Candidates to succeed her, the French press has suggested, include Courson.
Arte France presidency is currently one of the plum jobs in French film and TV. Established in 1992, Arte is a rare case of a bi-national public broadcaster based, moreover, out of the two biggest film-tv powerhouse markets in the E.U., France and Germany. Broadcasting free-to-air in both, paid for by tax payers, and with a cultural remit, it is not exposed to a plunging TV ad market, nor has to meet minimum audience targets, nor sustain a flagging share price. Arte’s France’s market share is small, which allows it to make bold, original programming for two of the most cultured middle-classes in Europe.
Arte France, bastion of quality European TV, announced June 2 that its president, Veronique Cayla would step down on July 5. Candidates to succeed her, the French press has suggested, include Courson.
Arte France presidency is currently one of the plum jobs in French film and TV. Established in 1992, Arte is a rare case of a bi-national public broadcaster based, moreover, out of the two biggest film-tv powerhouse markets in the E.U., France and Germany. Broadcasting free-to-air in both, paid for by tax payers, and with a cultural remit, it is not exposed to a plunging TV ad market, nor has to meet minimum audience targets, nor sustain a flagging share price. Arte’s France’s market share is small, which allows it to make bold, original programming for two of the most cultured middle-classes in Europe.
- 6/19/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The Creator of The Kiling Is Developing a Police Thriller Series for Netflix Called The Chestnut Man
Netflix is continuing to expand its content after the success of the first season of its first Danish series, the 2018 sci-fi thriller The Rain. The streamer is now adding another Danish original series to its lineup, called The Chestnut Man, “a police thriller based on The Killing creator Søren Sveistrup’s popular novel.” The first season of the series will have six 50-minute episodes.
Tesha Crawford, director of Netflix International Originals in Northern Europe, had this to say about the acquisition:
“We were instantly compelled by the strong story and Søren’s voice. We are happy to continue the collaboration with Sam Productions and are looking forward to bringing ‘The Chestnut Man’ to our global audience.”
Variety reports that the series is set to start production in 2020 and has not yet set a release date. Are you a fan of The Rain, or the book series this is based upon?...
Tesha Crawford, director of Netflix International Originals in Northern Europe, had this to say about the acquisition:
“We were instantly compelled by the strong story and Søren’s voice. We are happy to continue the collaboration with Sam Productions and are looking forward to bringing ‘The Chestnut Man’ to our global audience.”
Variety reports that the series is set to start production in 2020 and has not yet set a release date. Are you a fan of The Rain, or the book series this is based upon?...
- 8/21/2019
- by Jessica Fisher
- GeekTyrant
Haugesund, Norway — Further expanding its Scandinavian footprint, Netflix has announced its second Danish original series, “The Chestnut Man,” a police thriller based on “The Killing” creator Søren Sveistrup’s popular novel.
The streaming giant will team with Sveistrup’s Sam Productions, minority owned by Studiocanal, part of Vivendi Canal Plus Group, to deliver this noir-influenced literary adaptation, which will track two Copenhagen detectives as they investigate an increasingly high profile murder case.
“Netflix has shown a strong, genuine interest in my book and I’m excited about the deal and confident that Netflix will be the perfect place for [it],” says Sveistrup.
The six-episode, 50-minute series marks Netflix’s continued push into the Scandinavian market. In recent years, the streamer picked up international rights for the TV 2 produced potboiler “Borderliner” and partnered with Miso Film for their first Danish original, “The Rain.” The latter will draw to a close following its third season next year.
The streaming giant will team with Sveistrup’s Sam Productions, minority owned by Studiocanal, part of Vivendi Canal Plus Group, to deliver this noir-influenced literary adaptation, which will track two Copenhagen detectives as they investigate an increasingly high profile murder case.
“Netflix has shown a strong, genuine interest in my book and I’m excited about the deal and confident that Netflix will be the perfect place for [it],” says Sveistrup.
The six-episode, 50-minute series marks Netflix’s continued push into the Scandinavian market. In recent years, the streamer picked up international rights for the TV 2 produced potboiler “Borderliner” and partnered with Miso Film for their first Danish original, “The Rain.” The latter will draw to a close following its third season next year.
- 8/20/2019
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Michael Fassbender (X-Men series) leads an all-star cast that includes Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Independence Day: Resurgence), CHLOË Sevigny (American Horror Story), Val Kilmer (Heat) and Academy Award® winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) star in The Snowman, a terrifying thriller from director Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), based on Jo NESBØ’s global bestseller.
For Detective Harry Hole (Fassbender), the murder of a young woman on the first snow of the winter feels like anything but a routine homicide case in his district. From the start of the investigation, The Snowman has personally targeted him with taunts—ones that continue to accompany each new vicious murder.
Fearing an elusive serial killer long-thought dead may be active again, the detective enlists brilliant recruit Katrine Bratt (Ferguson), to help him connect decades-old cold cases to the brutal new ones. Succeed, and they will...
For Detective Harry Hole (Fassbender), the murder of a young woman on the first snow of the winter feels like anything but a routine homicide case in his district. From the start of the investigation, The Snowman has personally targeted him with taunts—ones that continue to accompany each new vicious murder.
Fearing an elusive serial killer long-thought dead may be active again, the detective enlists brilliant recruit Katrine Bratt (Ferguson), to help him connect decades-old cold cases to the brutal new ones. Succeed, and they will...
- 10/10/2017
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Other winners included Parents; The Commune; In The Blood and The Neon Demon.Scroll down for full list of winners
The winners of the Danish film academy’s 2017 Robert awards were announced on Sunday (5 February).
Jesper W. Nielsen’s orphanage drama The Day Will Come triumphed on the night, picking up six prizes including best film, best original screenplay for Søren Sveistrup and best supporting actor and actress for Lars Mikkelsen and Sofie Gråbøl.
Christian Tafdrup won best director for his debut film Parents with star Søren Malling also picking up best actor.
Best actress went to Trine Dyrholm, who won her ninth Robert for The Commune. Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm also won best adapted screenplay for the film.
Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon dominated the technical categories, winning 5 Roberts including best cinematography, sound editing and score.
The Revenant won best American film, with Son Of Saul winning best foreign film.
The annual...
The winners of the Danish film academy’s 2017 Robert awards were announced on Sunday (5 February).
Jesper W. Nielsen’s orphanage drama The Day Will Come triumphed on the night, picking up six prizes including best film, best original screenplay for Søren Sveistrup and best supporting actor and actress for Lars Mikkelsen and Sofie Gråbøl.
Christian Tafdrup won best director for his debut film Parents with star Søren Malling also picking up best actor.
Best actress went to Trine Dyrholm, who won her ninth Robert for The Commune. Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm also won best adapted screenplay for the film.
Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon dominated the technical categories, winning 5 Roberts including best cinematography, sound editing and score.
The Revenant won best American film, with Son Of Saul winning best foreign film.
The annual...
- 2/6/2017
- ScreenDaily
World premieres include Fanny Ardant’s Stalin’s Couch [pictured], Elisabeth E. Schuch’s The Book Of Birdie, Erlingur Ottar Thoroddsen’s Rift, and Manuel Concha’s Blind Alley.
Goteborg Film Festival has announced its programme of nearly 450 films from 84 countries to screen during the festival’s 40th anniversary edition (Jan 27-Feb 6).
As reported earlier, the festival will kick off with Dome Karukoski’s Tom Of Finland.
The eight films (all world premieres) competing for the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film – with a prize of $110,500 (Sek 1m) — are as follows:
Tom Of Finland by Dome Karukoski (Finland/Sweden/Denmark/Germany/Us)Beyond Dreams by Rojda Sekersöz (Sweden)The Ex-wife by Katja Wik (Sweden)Heartstone by Gudmundur A. Gudmundsson (Iceland/Denmark)Sámi Blood by Amanda Kernell (Sweden/Denmark/Norway)Little Wing bySelma Vilhunen (Finland)The Man by Charlotte Sieling (Denmark)Handle With Care by Arild Andresen (Norway)
The Nordic documentary competition includes:
Citizen Schein by Maud Nycander, [link...
Goteborg Film Festival has announced its programme of nearly 450 films from 84 countries to screen during the festival’s 40th anniversary edition (Jan 27-Feb 6).
As reported earlier, the festival will kick off with Dome Karukoski’s Tom Of Finland.
The eight films (all world premieres) competing for the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film – with a prize of $110,500 (Sek 1m) — are as follows:
Tom Of Finland by Dome Karukoski (Finland/Sweden/Denmark/Germany/Us)Beyond Dreams by Rojda Sekersöz (Sweden)The Ex-wife by Katja Wik (Sweden)Heartstone by Gudmundur A. Gudmundsson (Iceland/Denmark)Sámi Blood by Amanda Kernell (Sweden/Denmark/Norway)Little Wing bySelma Vilhunen (Finland)The Man by Charlotte Sieling (Denmark)Handle With Care by Arild Andresen (Norway)
The Nordic documentary competition includes:
Citizen Schein by Maud Nycander, [link...
- 1/11/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Shoot begins in Denmark on $4.4m film which reunites the stars and creator of The Killing.
After several international assignments, Danish actors Lars Mikkelsen and Sofie Gråbøl return home to star in Zentropa’s $4.4m drama, The Day Will Come.
Shooting will continue for a total of nine weeks in Denmark.
Danish director Jesper W Nielsen, who last made Norwegian film Through a Glass, Darkly in 2009 and since has worked on television series such as Borgen, will shoot the script by Danish screenwriter Søren Sveistrup (The Killing).
After performing in BBC’s Sherlock, Netflix’s House of Cards (as the Russian president) and Nordisk Film’s European series The Team, Mikkelsen will renuite with Gråbøl, who has been in Sky Atlantic’s Fortitude and played Scottish Queen Margaret in James III on stage in Edinburgh and London.
The pair previously starred together in the first season of The Killing in 2007.
The Day Will Come is set in...
After several international assignments, Danish actors Lars Mikkelsen and Sofie Gråbøl return home to star in Zentropa’s $4.4m drama, The Day Will Come.
Shooting will continue for a total of nine weeks in Denmark.
Danish director Jesper W Nielsen, who last made Norwegian film Through a Glass, Darkly in 2009 and since has worked on television series such as Borgen, will shoot the script by Danish screenwriter Søren Sveistrup (The Killing).
After performing in BBC’s Sherlock, Netflix’s House of Cards (as the Russian president) and Nordisk Film’s European series The Team, Mikkelsen will renuite with Gråbøl, who has been in Sky Atlantic’s Fortitude and played Scottish Queen Margaret in James III on stage in Edinburgh and London.
The pair previously starred together in the first season of The Killing in 2007.
The Day Will Come is set in...
- 3/17/2015
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
Studiocanal and its parent Canal Plus Group are partnering with key Scandinavian talent to produce TV series for the international market. Together, they have created Sam Productions which is named after its three principals: Søren Sveistrup, Adam Price, and Meta Louise Foldager. Each of the three comes with significant credits. Sveistrup is creator and writer of the original Danish series The Killing and exec producer of the U.S. version. He will create and write his own series and executive produce other projects. Price created Denmark’s Borgen and is also the host of a TV cooking show and author of several cookbooks. He will be a partner in the same capacity as Sveistrup. Foldager, whose feature producing credits include A Royal Affair and Melancholia, will be CEO of Copenhagen-based Sam and a producer and exec producer on upcoming projects. She will also still run her own production shingle Meta Film.
- 5/14/2014
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Downton Abbey
The third season finale of "Downton Abbey" aired in the U.S. over the weekend and the ratings are in - a whopping 8.2 million tuned in. That is considerably up on the 5.4 million who tuned in last February for the second season finale.
The show has bested the previous season average by 66% on PBS, the opposite from the UK where the series ratings were down in the third season. [Source: THR]
Criminal Justice
HBO has opted Not to order a pilot for the high-profile James Gandolfini-led series "Criminal Justice". The project was a remake of Peter Moffat's 2008 BBC crime drama.
Oscar-winning scribe Steven Zaillian had been tapped to co-pen the pilot and direct. [Source: THR]
Untitled Cinemax Thriller
Cinemax is developing a dark crime thriller series with Søren Sveistrup, the creator of the original Danish smash hit "The Killing" ("Forbrydelsen").
The new show will be a bilingual action thriller with a hard edge.
The third season finale of "Downton Abbey" aired in the U.S. over the weekend and the ratings are in - a whopping 8.2 million tuned in. That is considerably up on the 5.4 million who tuned in last February for the second season finale.
The show has bested the previous season average by 66% on PBS, the opposite from the UK where the series ratings were down in the third season. [Source: THR]
Criminal Justice
HBO has opted Not to order a pilot for the high-profile James Gandolfini-led series "Criminal Justice". The project was a remake of Peter Moffat's 2008 BBC crime drama.
Oscar-winning scribe Steven Zaillian had been tapped to co-pen the pilot and direct. [Source: THR]
Untitled Cinemax Thriller
Cinemax is developing a dark crime thriller series with Søren Sveistrup, the creator of the original Danish smash hit "The Killing" ("Forbrydelsen").
The new show will be a bilingual action thriller with a hard edge.
- 2/20/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Review James Stansfield Dec 17, 2012
The Killing III finale could well be considered the show's finest hour. Here's James' review...
This review contains spoilers.
3.9 & 3.10
The penultimate episode of The Killing III began in, well, in much the same way that many of the episodes this series have, with Detective Inspector Sarah Lund heading into a dark basement, flashlight in one hand, gun in the other. This time she’s investigating the burglar alarm at the home of Niels Rheinhardt’s, personal assistant to Robert Zeuthen of Zeeland, whose daughter has been kidnapped by the father of Louise Jelby, who in turn now believes that Rheinhardt may have murdered Louise.
As is usually the case, it’s not Lund who gets bumped over the head in the dark and she soon catches up with our once-more balaclava clad perpetrator beating all hell out of Rheinhardt on a nearby dock. In another moment...
The Killing III finale could well be considered the show's finest hour. Here's James' review...
This review contains spoilers.
3.9 & 3.10
The penultimate episode of The Killing III began in, well, in much the same way that many of the episodes this series have, with Detective Inspector Sarah Lund heading into a dark basement, flashlight in one hand, gun in the other. This time she’s investigating the burglar alarm at the home of Niels Rheinhardt’s, personal assistant to Robert Zeuthen of Zeeland, whose daughter has been kidnapped by the father of Louise Jelby, who in turn now believes that Rheinhardt may have murdered Louise.
As is usually the case, it’s not Lund who gets bumped over the head in the dark and she soon catches up with our once-more balaclava clad perpetrator beating all hell out of Rheinhardt on a nearby dock. In another moment...
- 12/16/2012
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Be truthful, be human, get naked: 1995's groundbreaking manifesto didn't just shake up cinema. It inspired Danes to make the world's best TV, buildings and food (if you like fried mould with your grasshopper)
• Interview with Thomas Vinterberg
'Il est merde!" yelled Mark Kermode, from the back of the cinema. "It is shit!" The year was 1998 and Kermode – then Radio 1's film critic – had not taken kindly to that year's Cannes film festival. Specifically, he was narked by a new work by Lars von Trier called The Idiots, a film shot with shaky cameras that centred on an orgy-loving group of rebels who, in public, acted like people with mental disabilities.
The Idiots was one of the first films to emerge from the Dogme 95 movement. Three years earlier, its ringleader Von Trier had stood up at a Paris conference and showered its audience with pamphlets. These were the bigwigs of...
• Interview with Thomas Vinterberg
'Il est merde!" yelled Mark Kermode, from the back of the cinema. "It is shit!" The year was 1998 and Kermode – then Radio 1's film critic – had not taken kindly to that year's Cannes film festival. Specifically, he was narked by a new work by Lars von Trier called The Idiots, a film shot with shaky cameras that centred on an orgy-loving group of rebels who, in public, acted like people with mental disabilities.
The Idiots was one of the first films to emerge from the Dogme 95 movement. Three years earlier, its ringleader Von Trier had stood up at a Paris conference and showered its audience with pamphlets. These were the bigwigs of...
- 11/26/2012
- by Patrick Kingsley
- The Guardian - Film News
While the uproar over the U.S. version of The Killing has quieted, the show is still a pale imitation of the Danish series on which it is based. Over at The Daily Beast, you can read my latest feature, "How The Killing Went Wrong," in which I look at how The Killing has handled itself during its second season, and compare it to the stunning and electrifying original Danish series, Forbrydelsen, on which it is based. (I recently watched all 20 episodes of Forbrydelsen over a few evenings.) The original is a mind-blowing and gut-wrenching work of genius. It’s not necessary to rehash the anger that followed in the wake of the conclusion last June of the first season of AMC’s mystery drama The Killing, based on Søren Sveistrup’s landmark Danish show Forbrydelsen, which follows the murder of a schoolgirl and its impact on the people whose lives the investigation touches upon.
- 5/14/2012
- by Jace Lacob
- Televisionary
Following the BBC broadcast this autumn, 12 December sees the DVD release of The Killing II – one of the most highly anticipated crime-drama series in years. In May, The Killing won a BAFTA Award for Best International Television show fending off competition from Mad Men and Martin Scorcese’s Boardwalk Empire. To mark the release, we have a Season 2 boxset to give away!
The brand new 10-part series is once again written by Søren Sveistrup and sees the return of the formidable and tenacious Sarah Lund, superbly played by Sofie GråbØl, who is recalled by Chief Inspector Lennart Brix to investigate a series of murders that will test her to her very limits.
The emergency services receive a chilling phone call from a distraught man unable to find his wife. Reports later reveal that a woman was stabbed 21 times in a fatal attack, her body found at a National War memorial site in Central Copenhagen.
The brand new 10-part series is once again written by Søren Sveistrup and sees the return of the formidable and tenacious Sarah Lund, superbly played by Sofie GråbØl, who is recalled by Chief Inspector Lennart Brix to investigate a series of murders that will test her to her very limits.
The emergency services receive a chilling phone call from a distraught man unable to find his wife. Reports later reveal that a woman was stabbed 21 times in a fatal attack, her body found at a National War memorial site in Central Copenhagen.
- 12/9/2011
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
BBC4 is reshowing the Danish drama for those who missed it first time around. So have you been watching? And has it lived up to the hype?
Spoiler Alert: This post contains spoilers for those who have not seen past episode three. Current BBC4 viewers have not seen beyond episode seven - please do not post spoilers for future episodes
My name is Ben and, finally, I can call myself a fan of The Killing. Until two weeks ago, friends and colleagues would go on (and on) about the fantastic darkness of this Scandinavian drama, the unique flavour of Nordic Noir and the jumpers of someone called Sarah – and they may as well have been speaking Danish for all I really understood what they were talking about.
But the exile is now over. The critically acclaimed, 20-part series is being repeated on BBC4 and I can, at last, join the conversation.
Spoiler Alert: This post contains spoilers for those who have not seen past episode three. Current BBC4 viewers have not seen beyond episode seven - please do not post spoilers for future episodes
My name is Ben and, finally, I can call myself a fan of The Killing. Until two weeks ago, friends and colleagues would go on (and on) about the fantastic darkness of this Scandinavian drama, the unique flavour of Nordic Noir and the jumpers of someone called Sarah – and they may as well have been speaking Danish for all I really understood what they were talking about.
But the exile is now over. The critically acclaimed, 20-part series is being repeated on BBC4 and I can, at last, join the conversation.
- 8/30/2011
- by Ben Dowell
- The Guardian - Film News
Michelle Forbes has been a TV mainstay since the mid-'90s when she was on Homicide: Life on the Street-she's appeared on 24, Prison Break, Battlestar Galactica, In Treatment, and True Blood. But her role on the AMC mystery The Killing as the destroyed-by-grief mother of the dead girl at the center of the story has gotten her more attention than ever. Jace Lacob talked to Forbes about her career, playing the anguished Mitch Larsen, and why committing to a TV show is like an arranged marriage.
Few actors can hope to have as varied a career as Michelle Forbes, the chameleonic thespian who is stealing scenes (and viewers' collective breath) as Mitch Larsen, the grief-stricken mother on AMC's addictive whodunit The Killing (based on Søren Sveistrup's Danish drama Forbrydelsen), and previously as savage, power-mad villainess Maryann on HBO's True Blood. Her life in acting, which spans nearly 25 years and two continents,...
Few actors can hope to have as varied a career as Michelle Forbes, the chameleonic thespian who is stealing scenes (and viewers' collective breath) as Mitch Larsen, the grief-stricken mother on AMC's addictive whodunit The Killing (based on Søren Sveistrup's Danish drama Forbrydelsen), and previously as savage, power-mad villainess Maryann on HBO's True Blood. Her life in acting, which spans nearly 25 years and two continents,...
- 5/23/2011
- by Jace Lacob
- The Daily Beast
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