Sex, ‘80s, and Robby Müller: How Two Brits Recreated the American Crime Film in ‘Love Lies Bleeding’
Unlike most of the next generation of great director-cinematographer pairings, Ben Fordesman and Rose Glass didn’t have a collaborative history prior to their first feature “Saint Maud.” They didn’t go to school together or make short films — it was Fordesman’s agent who made the connection for “Saint Maud.”
And in interviewing both Glass and Fordesman for this story, it’s clear on the first project they were feeling each other out, figuring out how the other worked, and then at some point it just clicked.
Glass described the development of a visual style on “Saint Maud” that became the basis of their work on their second feature, “Love Lies Bleeding.” “I think that naturally we had a bit of a shorthand, I guess trying to constantly balance this being of [and] in the real world, but also kind of not,” said Glass, while she was a guest on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast.
And in interviewing both Glass and Fordesman for this story, it’s clear on the first project they were feeling each other out, figuring out how the other worked, and then at some point it just clicked.
Glass described the development of a visual style on “Saint Maud” that became the basis of their work on their second feature, “Love Lies Bleeding.” “I think that naturally we had a bit of a shorthand, I guess trying to constantly balance this being of [and] in the real world, but also kind of not,” said Glass, while she was a guest on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast.
- 3/30/2024
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Kodak had a momentous 2023 with more than 60 movies shot on film, and 2024 gets off to a promising start, led by Jeff Nichols’ “The Bikeriders,” Luca Guadignino’s “Challengers,” and Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu.”
In addition, there’s M. Night Shyamalan’s “Trap,” Ilya Povolotsky’s “Grace,” and John Andreas Andersen’s “Nr. 24,” with many more to come.
Plus, there are the following Sundance premieres: Jane Shoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow,” Aaron Shimberg’s “A Different Man,” Nathan Silver’s “Between the Temples,” and Thea Hvistendahl’s “Handling the Undead.”
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Guadagnino’s first comedy is a love triangle about the sexual tension of tennis with queer undertones. It stars Zendaya as a championship tennis star/coach opposite Mike Faist as her husband, and Josh O’Connor as her ex-lover and his childhood best friend, thrust into a grudge match tennis competition. The 35mm film-friendly director...
In addition, there’s M. Night Shyamalan’s “Trap,” Ilya Povolotsky’s “Grace,” and John Andreas Andersen’s “Nr. 24,” with many more to come.
Plus, there are the following Sundance premieres: Jane Shoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow,” Aaron Shimberg’s “A Different Man,” Nathan Silver’s “Between the Temples,” and Thea Hvistendahl’s “Handling the Undead.”
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Guadagnino’s first comedy is a love triangle about the sexual tension of tennis with queer undertones. It stars Zendaya as a championship tennis star/coach opposite Mike Faist as her husband, and Josh O’Connor as her ex-lover and his childhood best friend, thrust into a grudge match tennis competition. The 35mm film-friendly director...
- 1/27/2024
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Eight years after we first heard that The Witch writer/director Robert Eggers was going to be taking the helm of a remake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic Nosferatu (watch it Here), Eggers’ take on the concept has finally made it through production. Prague Reporter has shared the news that filming on Nosferatu took place for three months in Prague and wrapped on May 19th.
An unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the original Nosferatu has the following synopsis: In this highly influential silent horror film, the mysterious Count Orlok (Max Schreck) summons Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim) to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen (Greta Schroeder). After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok’s servant, Knock (Alexander Granach...
An unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the original Nosferatu has the following synopsis: In this highly influential silent horror film, the mysterious Count Orlok (Max Schreck) summons Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim) to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen (Greta Schroeder). After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok’s servant, Knock (Alexander Granach...
- 5/30/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
After various false starts over the years, it looks like the Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman) remake of horror classic Nosferatu is finally on the way. In fact, Prague Reporter lets us know this week that filming recently wrapped on the new movie.
According to the site, Nosferatu “quietly wrapped filming in Prague on May 19 after a three month shoot.” Prague Reporter also notes, “Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke confirmed that the film had been shot in color, with a look reminiscent of 19th century Romanticism.”
Nosferatu has been a passion project for Eggers for many years, the project first announced way back in 2016. Both Anya Taylor-Joy and Harry Styles had at one point been attached to the project, which had fallen apart on at least two occasions. In fact, it was just last year that Eggers was convinced the ghost of F.W. Murnau was preventing him from making the film!
According to the site, Nosferatu “quietly wrapped filming in Prague on May 19 after a three month shoot.” Prague Reporter also notes, “Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke confirmed that the film had been shot in color, with a look reminiscent of 19th century Romanticism.”
Nosferatu has been a passion project for Eggers for many years, the project first announced way back in 2016. Both Anya Taylor-Joy and Harry Styles had at one point been attached to the project, which had fallen apart on at least two occasions. In fact, it was just last year that Eggers was convinced the ghost of F.W. Murnau was preventing him from making the film!
- 5/30/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
This is turning into a banner year for movies shot on Kodak film, led by such Oscar hopefuls as Christopher Nolan’s IMAX’d “Oppenheimer” biopic, Martin Scorsese’s first Western, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein film, “Maestro,” Wes Anderson’s latest, “Asteroid City,” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ subversive “Frankenstein” re-imagining “Poor Things.”
And those are just the prestige films.
Likewise, Cannes Film Festival boasted 29 features and shorts shot on Kodak film, including such Oscar hopefuls as Martin Scorsese’s first Western “Killers of the Flower Moon,” (shot by Rodrigo Prieto), Wes Anderson’s ’50s sci-fi comedy-drama, “Asteroid City” (shot by Robert Yeoman) Ken Loach’s “The Old Oak,” about a pub in tension-filled Northeast England, (shot by Robbie Ryan), and Steve McQueen’s “Occupied City,” a documentary about Amsterdam under Nazi occupation during World War II (shot by Lennert Hillege).
Four on-film entries compete for the Palme d’Or.
And those are just the prestige films.
Likewise, Cannes Film Festival boasted 29 features and shorts shot on Kodak film, including such Oscar hopefuls as Martin Scorsese’s first Western “Killers of the Flower Moon,” (shot by Rodrigo Prieto), Wes Anderson’s ’50s sci-fi comedy-drama, “Asteroid City” (shot by Robert Yeoman) Ken Loach’s “The Old Oak,” about a pub in tension-filled Northeast England, (shot by Robbie Ryan), and Steve McQueen’s “Occupied City,” a documentary about Amsterdam under Nazi occupation during World War II (shot by Lennert Hillege).
Four on-film entries compete for the Palme d’Or.
- 4/7/2023
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Critically acclaimed filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan returns with his seventh #1 movie debut, Knock At The Cabin, yours to own on Digital March 24 and 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD on May 9 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
The film is also available to stream on Peacock on March 24, 2023.
Based on the book “The Cabin at the End of the World” by Paul Tremblay, the suspenseful apocalyptic thriller is “a relentlessly gripping winner” (The Playlist) that “commands your attention at every reveal” (Comicbook). Knock At The Cabin comes home with more than 40 minutes of exclusive bonus content, including deleted scenes and featurettes that dives deep into the film’s layered and multi-dimensional themes, Shyamalan’s visionary filmmaking process, and more.
Knock At The Cabin is a thriller about a tight-knit family who are taken hostage by four armed strangers while vacationing at a remote cabin. The visitors, led by Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy franchise,...
The film is also available to stream on Peacock on March 24, 2023.
Based on the book “The Cabin at the End of the World” by Paul Tremblay, the suspenseful apocalyptic thriller is “a relentlessly gripping winner” (The Playlist) that “commands your attention at every reveal” (Comicbook). Knock At The Cabin comes home with more than 40 minutes of exclusive bonus content, including deleted scenes and featurettes that dives deep into the film’s layered and multi-dimensional themes, Shyamalan’s visionary filmmaking process, and more.
Knock At The Cabin is a thriller about a tight-knit family who are taken hostage by four armed strangers while vacationing at a remote cabin. The visitors, led by Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy franchise,...
- 3/18/2023
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
"This is the best sushi you will ever have." Join director M. Night Shyamalan as he browses through this Paris video store in the latest offering of the "Vidéo Club" series made by Konbini. We've posted videos of Brad Pitt and Terry Gilliam in this classic video store, now it's Shyamalan's turn. At first he talks extensively about his love for Akira Kurosawa films and stories with a moral dilemma, then he raves about Bergman's Persona and Bresson, specifically the 1956 film A Man Escaped. He also goes on to talk about Lynch's Twin Peaks and Hitchcock's Rebecca (one of his favorites in his collection at home) and Julia Ducournau's Raw - saying how this one blew him away and he ended up hiring her to shoot some eps of his TV show "Servant" because of it. He also mentions that he'd like to work with Robert Pattinson one day,...
- 2/6/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Though adapting Paul G. Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World, M. Night Shyamalan’s newest film takes a different approach. Knock at the Cabin is an exercise in specified tension and single-setting thrills. It zips and zooms, looking as gorgeous as anything in the director’s filmography, even featuring one of the best performances he’s pulled out of an actor with Dave Bautista doing some tremendous work. Yet the emotional connection fades as terror grows, a fun time at the movies not being able to overcome a severe lack of attachment to characters who must die in order for everyone else to survive.
Knock at the Cabin begins with Leonard (Bautista) approaching Wen to catch grasshoppers with her. He talks in coded language, and once she’s sufficiently worried, the young girl runs back inside to her two dads, Eric and Andrew, played by a...
Knock at the Cabin begins with Leonard (Bautista) approaching Wen to catch grasshoppers with her. He talks in coded language, and once she’s sufficiently worried, the young girl runs back inside to her two dads, Eric and Andrew, played by a...
- 2/2/2023
- by Michael Frank
- The Film Stage
Most of us can agree the world is in a perilous state, with natural disasters multiplying, pernicious new viruses continually emerging, the planet steadily overheating, and wars raging in constant rotation. But yeesh, M. Night Shyamalan needs to lighten up. Or if he’s really going to explore his despair over the fate of humanity, at least do it in a more compelling vehicle than the numbingly self-serious Knock at the Cabin. And don’t patronize the gays by telling us only the purity of a double-dad family’s love can save mankind. Girl, please.
The film was adapted from Paul Tremblay’s well-received 2018 novel The Cabin at the End of the World, and then retooled by Shyamalan from a script by Steve Desmond and Michael Sherman, cited by both the Black List and GLAAD among the best unproduced screenplays of 2019. But something went wrong in the execution — and yes,...
The film was adapted from Paul Tremblay’s well-received 2018 novel The Cabin at the End of the World, and then retooled by Shyamalan from a script by Steve Desmond and Michael Sherman, cited by both the Black List and GLAAD among the best unproduced screenplays of 2019. But something went wrong in the execution — and yes,...
- 2/1/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
At the heart of M. Night Shyamalan’s new thriller “Knock at the Cabin” there is a disturbing question that has only two terrible answers. Unfortunately, the answers aren’t just terrible for the characters, they’re terrible for the audience as well. Because whichever direction this film goes in it’s running headlong into a brick wall, with no brakes.
Based on the novel “Cabin at the End of the World” by Paul G. Tremblay, “Knock at the Cabin” stars Jonathan Groff (“The Matrix Resurrections”) and Ben Aldridge (“Spoiler Alert”) as Eric and Andrew, two gay dads on vacation at a cabin in the woods — always a mistake — with their adopted daughter, Wen (Kristen Cui). All is well. All is loving. Nothing bad could possibly happen.
Suddenly, they are visited by four mysterious strangers, led by the gigantic yet soft-voiced Leonard, who are ever so kind and thoughtful. Except...
Based on the novel “Cabin at the End of the World” by Paul G. Tremblay, “Knock at the Cabin” stars Jonathan Groff (“The Matrix Resurrections”) and Ben Aldridge (“Spoiler Alert”) as Eric and Andrew, two gay dads on vacation at a cabin in the woods — always a mistake — with their adopted daughter, Wen (Kristen Cui). All is well. All is loving. Nothing bad could possibly happen.
Suddenly, they are visited by four mysterious strangers, led by the gigantic yet soft-voiced Leonard, who are ever so kind and thoughtful. Except...
- 2/1/2023
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
I never gave up on M. Night Shyamalan. The filmmaker broke out in a huge way with "The Sixth Sense," a ghost story with a whopper of a twist and a film that instantly solidified Shyamalan as an up-and-coming director to watch. Then a curious thing happened. As Shyamalan kept making movies, audience opinion began to shift. People seemingly grew tired of his "What a twist!" endings. And, to be fair, he made some stinkers along the way. But I remained in his corner. I liked too much of what he was doing to fully quit, even when most audiences had long since walked away.
Shyamalan began something of a comeback with "The Visit," his found footage flick that asked, "Aren't old people scary?" Financing his films himself, the director roared back to life, following "The Visit" up with "Split" (good), "Glass" (not very good), and "Old" (weird and kind...
Shyamalan began something of a comeback with "The Visit," his found footage flick that asked, "Aren't old people scary?" Financing his films himself, the director roared back to life, following "The Visit" up with "Split" (good), "Glass" (not very good), and "Old" (weird and kind...
- 2/1/2023
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
Love him, loathe him, or simply be forever intrigued by him, M. Night Shyamalan has continued to provoke and stir audiences with a vast array of twisty, thrilling films and the filmmaker shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Striking big with 1999’s sensation The Sixth Sense, a film that is still labelled his “calling card” despite – whisper it – better efforts in his filmography, Shyamalan has always been anything but dull. His enthralling, unique visions of the world and humanity have posed some big questions to his audiences and the choices they would make. With Knock At The Cabin, a lean, insular, reflective thriller, he poses perhaps the biggest one of all. Something small, then.
Out in the beautiful woodland surroundings of a local forest, young Wen (Kristen Cui) is busying herself collecting grasshoppers whilst her parents Eric (Jonathan Groff) and Andrew (Ben Aldridge) relax in their picturesque cabin...
Out in the beautiful woodland surroundings of a local forest, young Wen (Kristen Cui) is busying herself collecting grasshoppers whilst her parents Eric (Jonathan Groff) and Andrew (Ben Aldridge) relax in their picturesque cabin...
- 2/1/2023
- by Scott Davis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Save Your Family Or Save Humanity. This February, Make The Choice. Universal Pictures Proudly Presents A New Thriller From M. Night Shyamalan. Knock At The Cabin. Rated R. Only In Theaters February 3Rd.
Advance Screening is Tue, Jan 31st 7pm @ Marcus Ronnie’s Cine
The screening will be filled on a first come first served basis, so we encourage you to arrive early. Seats will not be guaranteed.
Enter at the link below.
Sweepstakes Link: http://gofobo.com/wxBGH11484
While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.
From visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, Knock at the Cabin stars Dave Bautista, Tony award and Emmy nominee Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge,...
Advance Screening is Tue, Jan 31st 7pm @ Marcus Ronnie’s Cine
The screening will be filled on a first come first served basis, so we encourage you to arrive early. Seats will not be guaranteed.
Enter at the link below.
Sweepstakes Link: http://gofobo.com/wxBGH11484
While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.
From visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, Knock at the Cabin stars Dave Bautista, Tony award and Emmy nominee Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge,...
- 1/20/2023
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
M. Night Shymalan is bringing another thrill ride to theaters. The director, now on a hot streak of mid-budget thrillers like “Old” and “Split,” is set to release another in “Knock at the Cabin” this February, and a second trailer showcasing the film’s twisty plot has been released.
Based on the 2018 Paul G. Tremblay novel “The Cabin at the End of the World,” the film focuses on a gay couple (played by Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge) who take their daughter Wen (Kristen Cui) on vacation in a remote cabin in the middle of the woods. While there, Wen encounters a group of strangers led by the mysterious Leonard (Dave Bautista), who eventually break into the cabin and hold the family hostage and give them a startling message: The world is about to end, and the only way to save it is for the three to choose to make the “ultimate sacrifice.
Based on the 2018 Paul G. Tremblay novel “The Cabin at the End of the World,” the film focuses on a gay couple (played by Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge) who take their daughter Wen (Kristen Cui) on vacation in a remote cabin in the middle of the woods. While there, Wen encounters a group of strangers led by the mysterious Leonard (Dave Bautista), who eventually break into the cabin and hold the family hostage and give them a startling message: The world is about to end, and the only way to save it is for the three to choose to make the “ultimate sacrifice.
- 12/27/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
Academy Award-nominated “The Sixth Sense” and “Old” director M. Night Shyamalan’s latest chiller takes on apocalyptic dimensions. “Knock at the Cabin,” his first feature since that wacky latter outing aged Gael Garcia Bernal and Vicky Krieps before our eyes in real-time on a beach, is based on the horror novel “The Cabin at the End of the World” by Paul. G Tremblay. It’s only in theaters on February 3, 2023 per Universal Pictures — meaning no Peacock day-and-date here — and you can watch the official trailer below.
Per an official synopsis, “while vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.”
Those parents are played by Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge,...
Per an official synopsis, “while vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.”
Those parents are played by Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge,...
- 9/22/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
When M. Night Shyamalan's third feature "The Sixth Sense" arrived on the scene, the gripping story, horrific visuals, and shocking twist earned the film six Academy Award nominations, and a Newsweek soon had a cover story declaring him "The Next Spielberg." This unfortunately put Shyamalan on a ridiculous pedestal, which has turned him into one of the most hotly debated filmmakers currently working today. For the last few years, Shyamalan has been independently funding his own projects, a way to maintain the creative control of his vision.
Shyamalan avoided surprise endings for years after it became synonymous with his name, but since 2015 with "The Visit," he's been back to incorporating his signature twists, and making movies exactly the way he wants. It was announced about a year ago that Shyamalan was making yet another horror movie, the secretive and highly-anticipated "Knock at the Cabin." Fans have been speculating for...
Shyamalan avoided surprise endings for years after it became synonymous with his name, but since 2015 with "The Visit," he's been back to incorporating his signature twists, and making movies exactly the way he wants. It was announced about a year ago that Shyamalan was making yet another horror movie, the secretive and highly-anticipated "Knock at the Cabin." Fans have been speculating for...
- 9/22/2022
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
There’s much that is fascinating about the Viking culture, largely because of its organized barbarism while feeling incredibly familiar given how much of their legacy has seeped into world culture. Television has certainly explored these people through several series, but it’s been a long time since we had a good, sweeping Viking saga on the silver screen.
Robert Eggers had long been interested in the Viking culture and when he and actor Alexander Skarsgård began discussing working together
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, it became clear that the Vikings were the appropriate subject matter. Like the director, whose work I was unfamiliar with before now, Skarsgård was deeply interested in these people.
Working with historian/writer/poet Sjón, Eggers crafted a story drawn from the actual legends, a tale of revenge similar to the Viking tale that inspired Hamlet. Set in the waning years of the ninth century, The Northman...
Robert Eggers had long been interested in the Viking culture and when he and actor Alexander Skarsgård began discussing working together
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, it became clear that the Vikings were the appropriate subject matter. Like the director, whose work I was unfamiliar with before now, Skarsgård was deeply interested in these people.
Working with historian/writer/poet Sjón, Eggers crafted a story drawn from the actual legends, a tale of revenge similar to the Viking tale that inspired Hamlet. Set in the waning years of the ninth century, The Northman...
- 6/22/2022
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Robert Eggers’s viking epic, “The Northman,” has been out for a few weeks now, and while it hasn’t done huge business at the box office – about 31 million as of this writing – it’s an interesting release for early potential awards conversations.
Eggers burst onto the scene in 2015 when his debut feature “The Witch” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where the filmmaker received a jury prize for his direction. It wouldn’t be released by A24 until a year later, at which point it continued to achieve acclaim, winning two Indie Spirit awards in February 2017 for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay.
Eggers’s latest movie stars Alexander Skarsgård as Amleth, who, as a young Nordic prince, was chased from his home after his father, King Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke), is brutally murdered by his brother Fjölnir (Claes Bang). Decades later Amleth has become a Viking berserker, but...
Eggers burst onto the scene in 2015 when his debut feature “The Witch” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where the filmmaker received a jury prize for his direction. It wouldn’t be released by A24 until a year later, at which point it continued to achieve acclaim, winning two Indie Spirit awards in February 2017 for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay.
Eggers’s latest movie stars Alexander Skarsgård as Amleth, who, as a young Nordic prince, was chased from his home after his father, King Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke), is brutally murdered by his brother Fjölnir (Claes Bang). Decades later Amleth has become a Viking berserker, but...
- 5/16/2022
- by Edward Douglas
- Gold Derby
Vikings don’t lack for precedent in the movies, yet the Old Norse boatmen have never quite taken hold in the collective filmgoer unconscious the same way as cowboys, pirates or mafiosi. The explanation may well be their inherent associations with paganism, cannibalism, rape and pillaging, traits understandably sanitized (if acknowledged at all) in late studio-era Viking narratives like Richard Fleischer’s The Vikings or Jack Cardiff’s The Long Ships. In 1984, Hrafn Gunnlaugsson—the supposed “bad boy” of Icelandic cinema—brought a pop-traditionalist sensibility to When The Raven Flies, which revisits Nordic mythology under the influence of spaghetti westerns, Kurosawa films and Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest. Gunnlaugsson’s stated aim was to make “the ultimate Viking movie”, and his trilogy deserves to be far better known; they are miniature epics, and the few outside of Scandinavia who know them probably have also heard them termed as “cod westerns.
- 5/10/2022
- MUBI
Robert Eggers is such a dominant force in the indie film world that it’s easy to forget “The Northman” is only his third movie. Eggers made his feature debut with 2015’s “The Witch,” but he started directing films seven years earlier when he adapted Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” as a short in 2008.
The film helped Eggers develop the period horror aesthetic that he perfected in “The Witch,” and established his relationships with several key collaborators. Now, cinephiles can watch the short film for the first time, as Eggers has chosen to show the film exclusively on IndieWire.
“I am pleased to share ‘The Tell-Tale Heart.’ It is an uneven film, but my first film that I was proud of making,” Eggers wrote in a statement. “It is also my first collaboration with my Dp Jarin Blaschke and editor Lousie Ford, and we have worked together ever since,...
The film helped Eggers develop the period horror aesthetic that he perfected in “The Witch,” and established his relationships with several key collaborators. Now, cinephiles can watch the short film for the first time, as Eggers has chosen to show the film exclusively on IndieWire.
“I am pleased to share ‘The Tell-Tale Heart.’ It is an uneven film, but my first film that I was proud of making,” Eggers wrote in a statement. “It is also my first collaboration with my Dp Jarin Blaschke and editor Lousie Ford, and we have worked together ever since,...
- 4/28/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Robert Eggers is known for his attention to historical authenticity in his films, and "The Northman" is no exception to that: Eggers brought in experts like an archeologist, a folklorist, and a Viking historian as consultants. In one notable scene, the movie puts the viewer on the ground with a band of berserkers for a village raid that eschews the usual Hollywood camera trickery in favor of one-take period immersion.
"The Northman" reunites Eggers with cinematographer Jarin Blaschke, who lensed his first two films, "The Lighthouse" and "The Witch." Blaschke was instrumental in orchestrating the village battle, which begins with Viking Hamlet, aka Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård), and his fellow raiders...
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"The Northman" reunites Eggers with cinematographer Jarin Blaschke, who lensed his first two films, "The Lighthouse" and "The Witch." Blaschke was instrumental in orchestrating the village battle, which begins with Viking Hamlet, aka Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård), and his fellow raiders...
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- 4/26/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
Director Robert Eggers and cinematographer Jarin Blaschke began their collaboration with the 2008 short “The Tell-Tale Heart.” In the 13 years since, they’ve developed a methodology that yielded the visually striking likes of “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse” — but as impressive as those features were, they were a mere prelude to the duo’s latest achievement.
Shot on 35mm on an 87-day schedule, “The Northman” is a jaw-droppingly ambitious Viking epic, filled with precise detail, extravagant action, and mythic grandeur. The film is as clear as it is complex thanks to the purity of expression that Eggers and Blaschke have been working toward since that now-far-off Edgar Allan Poe adaptation.
“Over the course of our time together I’ve tried to simplify the visual experience so that things are presented in the most direct way,” Blaschke told IndieWire. “We’ve been working toward distilling things to their essence, working with blocking...
Shot on 35mm on an 87-day schedule, “The Northman” is a jaw-droppingly ambitious Viking epic, filled with precise detail, extravagant action, and mythic grandeur. The film is as clear as it is complex thanks to the purity of expression that Eggers and Blaschke have been working toward since that now-far-off Edgar Allan Poe adaptation.
“Over the course of our time together I’ve tried to simplify the visual experience so that things are presented in the most direct way,” Blaschke told IndieWire. “We’ve been working toward distilling things to their essence, working with blocking...
- 4/25/2022
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
by Cláudio Alves
We've all heard about the gore, the historical accuracy, and Nicole Kidman's latest feat of monstrous mothering. However, one element of Robert Eggers's The Northman has been curiously – criminally? – left out of the promotional material and effusive word-of-mouth. The picture's leading man may make Prince Amleth into a mountain of muscle, but there's more eye candy to enjoy beyond the Skarsgård beefcake. In a scene of ritual sacrifice and funeral tradition, Claes Bang gets to showcase his assets, and they are glorious. Indeed, though the movie skews dark and gloomy, cinematographer Jarin Blaschke highlights the actor's bare back with golden flames, resulting in one of The Northman's most indelible shots.
Forgive the silliness and crass words, but in a time of sexless cinema, it's worth celebrating what little sensuality still graces the screen. Moreover, Bang's surprisingly soulful King Fjölnir is a reminder that we...
We've all heard about the gore, the historical accuracy, and Nicole Kidman's latest feat of monstrous mothering. However, one element of Robert Eggers's The Northman has been curiously – criminally? – left out of the promotional material and effusive word-of-mouth. The picture's leading man may make Prince Amleth into a mountain of muscle, but there's more eye candy to enjoy beyond the Skarsgård beefcake. In a scene of ritual sacrifice and funeral tradition, Claes Bang gets to showcase his assets, and they are glorious. Indeed, though the movie skews dark and gloomy, cinematographer Jarin Blaschke highlights the actor's bare back with golden flames, resulting in one of The Northman's most indelible shots.
Forgive the silliness and crass words, but in a time of sexless cinema, it's worth celebrating what little sensuality still graces the screen. Moreover, Bang's surprisingly soulful King Fjölnir is a reminder that we...
- 4/25/2022
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
Alexander Skarsgård delivers a wholly remarkable performance as the lead in the new film, The Northman, from visionary director Robert Eggers.
On the verge of manhood, Prince Amleth (Oscar Novak) witnesses his father’s (Ethan Hawke) murder at his uncle’s hand. Two decades later, a grown Amleth (Skarsgård), undertakes a quest to rescue his mother (Nicole Kidman) from his murderous uncle and avenge his father.
Director Robert Eggers imbues all of the moodiness and artistic flourish he exhibited in his earlier films such as The Lighthouse (2019) and The Witch (2015). Written along with acclaimed Icelandic author Sjón, Eggers’ script is unrelenting in its portrayal of Amleth’s struggles and associated hardships. But what is refreshing is that it never feels as though Amleth’s sole purpose for existing is to exact revenge for his father. Instead, it plays as though he is more intent on trying to live some sort...
On the verge of manhood, Prince Amleth (Oscar Novak) witnesses his father’s (Ethan Hawke) murder at his uncle’s hand. Two decades later, a grown Amleth (Skarsgård), undertakes a quest to rescue his mother (Nicole Kidman) from his murderous uncle and avenge his father.
Director Robert Eggers imbues all of the moodiness and artistic flourish he exhibited in his earlier films such as The Lighthouse (2019) and The Witch (2015). Written along with acclaimed Icelandic author Sjón, Eggers’ script is unrelenting in its portrayal of Amleth’s struggles and associated hardships. But what is refreshing is that it never feels as though Amleth’s sole purpose for existing is to exact revenge for his father. Instead, it plays as though he is more intent on trying to live some sort...
- 4/22/2022
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
Alexander Skarsgård stars as Amleth in director Robert Eggers’ Viking epic The Northman, a Focus Features release. Credit: Aidan Monaghan / © 2022 Focus Features, LLC. Courtesy of Focus Features
For fans of both director Robert Eggers’ previous film, the historically-based thriller The Witch and the History channel’s TV series Vikings, Eggers has the perfect film. The Northman is a Viking legend of revenge, a thriller packed with Eggers’ signature period-accurate details. While The Witch drew on tales of 17th century witch-hunt hysteria in New England, for thriller drama steeped in historically-accurate details, right down to the accents, The Northman is a tale immersed the culture of 10th century Vikings, which also gets Eggers’ research-based treatment. The Northman is based on the same Norse tale that Shakespeare used for Hamlet, but it departs significantly from the original legend of revenge, to blend in other Norse legends and aspects of Norse culture for another immersive thriller from Eggers.
For fans of both director Robert Eggers’ previous film, the historically-based thriller The Witch and the History channel’s TV series Vikings, Eggers has the perfect film. The Northman is a Viking legend of revenge, a thriller packed with Eggers’ signature period-accurate details. While The Witch drew on tales of 17th century witch-hunt hysteria in New England, for thriller drama steeped in historically-accurate details, right down to the accents, The Northman is a tale immersed the culture of 10th century Vikings, which also gets Eggers’ research-based treatment. The Northman is based on the same Norse tale that Shakespeare used for Hamlet, but it departs significantly from the original legend of revenge, to blend in other Norse legends and aspects of Norse culture for another immersive thriller from Eggers.
- 4/22/2022
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This review of “The Northman” was first published on April 11, 2022.
Sharpen the swords and prepare the funeral pyres: A Viking is out for bloody revenge in “The Northman,” and the corpses keep piling higher and higher in this trippy action epic from director and co-writer Robert Eggers (“The Lighthouse”).
Written in collaboration with Icelandic author Sjón, “The Northman” is gory, muddy, hallucinatory — and intensely entertaining. An examination of the way that violence begets violence, and a study of how a life devoted to single-minded hatred and vengeance can lead to uncomfortable truths, this is a movie that lives up to every saga comic books and metal bands ever spun about the brutal conquerors of yore.
We open on young Prince Amieth running to tell his mother Queen Gudrún (Nicole Kidman) of the return of King Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke), whose arrival is celebrated with a feast that includes japery from court...
Sharpen the swords and prepare the funeral pyres: A Viking is out for bloody revenge in “The Northman,” and the corpses keep piling higher and higher in this trippy action epic from director and co-writer Robert Eggers (“The Lighthouse”).
Written in collaboration with Icelandic author Sjón, “The Northman” is gory, muddy, hallucinatory — and intensely entertaining. An examination of the way that violence begets violence, and a study of how a life devoted to single-minded hatred and vengeance can lead to uncomfortable truths, this is a movie that lives up to every saga comic books and metal bands ever spun about the brutal conquerors of yore.
We open on young Prince Amieth running to tell his mother Queen Gudrún (Nicole Kidman) of the return of King Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke), whose arrival is celebrated with a feast that includes japery from court...
- 4/22/2022
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Without a doubt, Robert Eggers’ “The Northman” traffics in his now-usual brand of haunted atmospherics and wonky mysticism, a signature whose intensity is upped by the savage bloodlust of its characters and the vastitudes of his first big-budget epic with a price tag reportedly hovering between 70 million and 90 million.
The only thing more intensely stressed than the dilemma of a Viking prince in the year 895 played to brutal, muscular perfection by Alexander Skarsgård, is the all-consuming dedication of its tactile production design, its brooding, cinematographic ambiance and the craftsmanship of its furry, hierarchical costuming.
For the craggy look and authentic feel of “The Northman,” credit Eggers’ forever production designer Craig Lathrop, cinematographer Jarin Blaschke and costume designer Linda Muir, the team that worked closely with the director on his 2015 feature debut, “The Witch,” and also 2019’s “The Lighthouse.”
Lathrop says that save for having bigger budgets and scale for its sets in Ireland and Iceland,...
The only thing more intensely stressed than the dilemma of a Viking prince in the year 895 played to brutal, muscular perfection by Alexander Skarsgård, is the all-consuming dedication of its tactile production design, its brooding, cinematographic ambiance and the craftsmanship of its furry, hierarchical costuming.
For the craggy look and authentic feel of “The Northman,” credit Eggers’ forever production designer Craig Lathrop, cinematographer Jarin Blaschke and costume designer Linda Muir, the team that worked closely with the director on his 2015 feature debut, “The Witch,” and also 2019’s “The Lighthouse.”
Lathrop says that save for having bigger budgets and scale for its sets in Ireland and Iceland,...
- 4/21/2022
- by A.D. Amorosi
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Alexander Skarsgard, Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Gustav Lindh, Elliott Rose, Willem Dafoe, Phill Martin, Eldar Skar | Written by Robert Eggers, Sjon | Directed by Robert Eggers
Robert Eggers creates worlds you can feel, and worlds that feel like they can reach out and feel you back. From his first chilling tale The Witch (2015), and his maddening dream that followed in The Lighthouse (2019), Eggers has once again crafted a world that you can’t take your eyes away from.
The Northman blends our world with the mythic, mystical world of Norse mythology. A world that conjures both madness, and delightful daring as we follow Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård) on a blood-soaked revenge quest that embodies both the madness and mythicality from Eggers’ previous work. From the eyes of a young boy (Oscar Novak) to “many years later”, Amleth vows revenge on his uncle (Claes Bang) after he kills...
Robert Eggers creates worlds you can feel, and worlds that feel like they can reach out and feel you back. From his first chilling tale The Witch (2015), and his maddening dream that followed in The Lighthouse (2019), Eggers has once again crafted a world that you can’t take your eyes away from.
The Northman blends our world with the mythic, mystical world of Norse mythology. A world that conjures both madness, and delightful daring as we follow Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård) on a blood-soaked revenge quest that embodies both the madness and mythicality from Eggers’ previous work. From the eyes of a young boy (Oscar Novak) to “many years later”, Amleth vows revenge on his uncle (Claes Bang) after he kills...
- 4/21/2022
- by Alex Ginnelly
- Nerdly
To say that Robert Eggers has taken a unique approach with each of his first three feature films so far would probably be an understatement. His impressive debut, 2015's "The Witch," zeroed in on a specific colonial settlement and left us with a supernatural horror story (and a few choice memes from a certain scene-stealing goat!) that digs underneath the skin to truly unsettle viewers. His follow-up, the Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe-starring "The Lighthouse," opted for an almost square 1.19:1 aspect ratio and black-and-white cinematography to create a suffocating atmosphere that reflected the claustrophobic conditions of two suspicious men stuck on...
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- 4/18/2022
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
Revenge is a dish best served cold, and it doesn’t get any colder, literally or figuratively, than the bitter portion ladled up in Robert Eggers’ merciless yarn of medieval vengeance, The Northman. This seriously nasty and violent tale comes across as an intense labor of love on the part of the American director and his Icelandic co-writer, the poet Sjón; there’s scarcely a moment of softness, sentiment or relaxation here, just fierce and ferocious determination to fight and prevail in an unstintingly harsh environment. For the most part it’s an enthralling immersion in a forbidding time and place, enhanced by an immoderately attractive cast and saddled only by a dramatic sameness that settles in after a while and gradually diminishes the film’s impact.
There haven’t been too many Viking movies, most likely because the time and place involved pretty seriously restrict the format to two things—sailing and marauding,...
There haven’t been too many Viking movies, most likely because the time and place involved pretty seriously restrict the format to two things—sailing and marauding,...
- 4/11/2022
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
For The Northman, co-writer/director Robert Eggers transports audiences to the year 895 Ad for his epic Viking tale fueled by vengeance, betrayal, and blood. At the start, we’re introduced to King Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke), who is returning from battle and welcomed warmly by his wife, Queen Gudrún (Nicole Kidman), and his young son and heir to the throne, Amleth (played by Oscar Novak). After undergoing a rite of passage that helps young Amleth continue his journey towards adulthood, Aurvandil’s devious brother, Fjölnir (Claes Bang), decides to betray his family by mercilessly slaughtering his brother and kidnapping Queen Gudrún as a means of claiming her as his own. Amleth manages to escape before Fjölnir’s henchmen can kill him, and as the young man leaves everything and everyone he knows behind, Amleth makes a promise to himself that one day he will avenge his father’s murder and rescue...
- 4/11/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Whether the dread-inducing rituals of witches or a turpentine-fueled descent into hysteria, Robert Eggers’ cinema is of unflinching immersion. Trapped in the center of symmetrical frames and surrounded by immaculate production design, the only escape for his characters’ fury seems to be bounding off the screen onto the audience themselves. The effect oscillates between entrancing and grating, wearing one down until there’s no choice but to succumb to the mania and plunge into the madness. A considerable step up in scope, his third feature The Northman gratefully bears scant touches of a compromised vision, delivering a bloody, visceral Viking epic that utilizes a simple revenge template as the canvas to examine the contradictions of a hero’s journey.
“I will avenge you, Father. I will save you, Mother. I will kill you, Fjölnir.” These already-memed few sentences are all the synopsis one needs, setting up the story developed by...
“I will avenge you, Father. I will save you, Mother. I will kill you, Fjölnir.” These already-memed few sentences are all the synopsis one needs, setting up the story developed by...
- 4/11/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Harry Styles almost sunk his teeth into a new role.
The star of upcoming films “Don’t Worry Darling” and “My Policeman” was reportedly linked to lead Robert Eggers’ reimagining of classic vampire film “Nosferatu,” as The New Yorker reported. Styles exited the project due to scheduling conflicts ahead of the release of his third studio album, “Harry’s House,” coming up May 20.
Styles would have starred opposite frequent Eggers collaborator Anya Taylor-Joy in the remake of F. W. Murnau’s 1922 silent movie. Eggers and Joy originally worked together on “The Witch” before teaming up again for “The Northman,” also starring Ethan Hawke, Nicole Kidman, Willem Dafoe, and Alexander Skarsgård, in theaters April 22.
The Covid-19 production delays around the “Hamlet”-esque Viking saga “The Northman” is in part what led to Eggers’ “Nosferatu” being put on the backburner. Per the New Yorker interview, Eggers was supposed to be in Prague shooting...
The star of upcoming films “Don’t Worry Darling” and “My Policeman” was reportedly linked to lead Robert Eggers’ reimagining of classic vampire film “Nosferatu,” as The New Yorker reported. Styles exited the project due to scheduling conflicts ahead of the release of his third studio album, “Harry’s House,” coming up May 20.
Styles would have starred opposite frequent Eggers collaborator Anya Taylor-Joy in the remake of F. W. Murnau’s 1922 silent movie. Eggers and Joy originally worked together on “The Witch” before teaming up again for “The Northman,” also starring Ethan Hawke, Nicole Kidman, Willem Dafoe, and Alexander Skarsgård, in theaters April 22.
The Covid-19 production delays around the “Hamlet”-esque Viking saga “The Northman” is in part what led to Eggers’ “Nosferatu” being put on the backburner. Per the New Yorker interview, Eggers was supposed to be in Prague shooting...
- 3/29/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Harry Styles nearly followed in the footsteps of Robert Pattinson and Anya Taylor-Joy.
In a lengthy, incredibly illuminating profile of director Robert Eggers for The New Yorker, it was revealed that Harry Styles was scheduled to be a part of Eggers’ remake of “Nosferatu,” starring Anya Taylor-Joy. But, alas, it wasn’t meant to be.
The article says that Styles had to drop out due to scheduling concerns. He appeared briefly in Marvel Studios’ “Eternals” last year and has a role in Olivia Wilde’s upcoming “Booksmart” follow-up “Don’t Worry Darling” alongside Florence Pugh and Chris Pine. Styles is releasing a new album in May and then going on an international tour, which may have conflicted with the intended “Nosferatu” shooting dates.
According to the New Yorker profile, Eggers’ cinematographer Jarin Blaschke had already enrolled his daughter in school in Prague when Styles dropped out.
It’s unclear if the project,...
In a lengthy, incredibly illuminating profile of director Robert Eggers for The New Yorker, it was revealed that Harry Styles was scheduled to be a part of Eggers’ remake of “Nosferatu,” starring Anya Taylor-Joy. But, alas, it wasn’t meant to be.
The article says that Styles had to drop out due to scheduling concerns. He appeared briefly in Marvel Studios’ “Eternals” last year and has a role in Olivia Wilde’s upcoming “Booksmart” follow-up “Don’t Worry Darling” alongside Florence Pugh and Chris Pine. Styles is releasing a new album in May and then going on an international tour, which may have conflicted with the intended “Nosferatu” shooting dates.
According to the New Yorker profile, Eggers’ cinematographer Jarin Blaschke had already enrolled his daughter in school in Prague when Styles dropped out.
It’s unclear if the project,...
- 3/28/2022
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
It only takes a bit of “The Witch”-craft and enduring the natural elements for Anya Taylor-Joy to fully feel like herself.
The “Northman” star revealed to British Vogue that she “ecstatically” embraced the elements while shooting the Robert Eggers-helmed Viking revenge epic, which shot in Northern Ireland — including scenes involving standing barefoot in mud or ice-cold ocean water.
“I looked insane. So infuriatingly joyful,” said Taylor-Joy, who it’s noted carried her belongings around in a plastic shopping bag on set during such scenes.
Taylor-Joy likened reuniting with “The Witch” director Eggers, plus cinematographer Jarin Blaschke and editor Louise Ford, to being back with her “original film family.” And she had no problem jumping — literally — into the period piece.
“The stunt guys would say, ‘Can we get out of the water now?’ And I was like, ‘This is amazing. Nature! We’re outside! We get to make art,...
The “Northman” star revealed to British Vogue that she “ecstatically” embraced the elements while shooting the Robert Eggers-helmed Viking revenge epic, which shot in Northern Ireland — including scenes involving standing barefoot in mud or ice-cold ocean water.
“I looked insane. So infuriatingly joyful,” said Taylor-Joy, who it’s noted carried her belongings around in a plastic shopping bag on set during such scenes.
Taylor-Joy likened reuniting with “The Witch” director Eggers, plus cinematographer Jarin Blaschke and editor Louise Ford, to being back with her “original film family.” And she had no problem jumping — literally — into the period piece.
“The stunt guys would say, ‘Can we get out of the water now?’ And I was like, ‘This is amazing. Nature! We’re outside! We get to make art,...
- 3/23/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The race for best cinematography is among the most competitive races this year at the Oscars. Black-and-white dramas, sci-fi dazzlers and Hollywood blockbusters are among the contenders, and it’s not entirely sure where it all might land. The American Society of Cinematographers, which announces its nominees tomorrow, will set a tone leading up to the opening of Oscar nomination voting, which begins on Thursday.
From ASC’s theatrical releases category to the Oscars, the track record averages about four out of five matches every year. Past ASC selections like “First Man” (Linus Sandgren), “Ford v Ferrari” (Phedon Papamichael), and last year’s “Cherry” (Newton Thomas Sigel) failed to transition to the Academy in favor of “Never Look Away” (Caleb Deschanel), “The Lighthouse” (Jarin Blaschke) and “Judas and the Black Messiah” (Sean Bobbitt). The last time they perfectly aligned was in 2017.
Over 93 years of the Academy Awards, Rachel Morrison is...
From ASC’s theatrical releases category to the Oscars, the track record averages about four out of five matches every year. Past ASC selections like “First Man” (Linus Sandgren), “Ford v Ferrari” (Phedon Papamichael), and last year’s “Cherry” (Newton Thomas Sigel) failed to transition to the Academy in favor of “Never Look Away” (Caleb Deschanel), “The Lighthouse” (Jarin Blaschke) and “Judas and the Black Messiah” (Sean Bobbitt). The last time they perfectly aligned was in 2017.
Over 93 years of the Academy Awards, Rachel Morrison is...
- 1/24/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The spectacular first trailer for the anticipated third feature of Robert Eggers, The Northman, just dropped. About a Viking prince avenging his father’s murder, the film reunites the director with Anya Taylor-Joy, the star of his debut, The Witch, and Willem Dafoe, the star of his sophomore film, The Lighthouse.. In a Filmmaker interview on the film’s production, Dp Jarin Blaschke promised that the film will be “accurate as hell”: Well, at least as accurate as 1,000 years ago can be. I don’t want to […]
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- 12/20/2021
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
It’s been two years since Robert Eggers’ last utterly singular movie: “The Lighthouse.” Now, come April 2022, Focus Features will release “The Northman,” Eggers’ violent Viking epic starring Alexander Skarsgard, Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, and Anya Taylor-Joy. Willem Dafoe and Björk (playing a character called Seeress) round out the cast. At last, Focus has revealed the first trailer for the saga. Watch it below before the movie opens in theaters April 22.
Focus’ official description calls the film “an epic revenge thriller that explores how far a Viking prince will go to seek justice for his murdered father.” Principle photography began in Northern Ireland in March 2020 and was halted almost immediately on account of the Covid-19 pandemic. Production resumed that August.
Eggers cowrote the script with Icelandic poet and novelist Sjón. And beyond his “Witch” star Taylor-Joy, “Witch” actor Ralph Ineson, and “Lighthouse” star Dafoe, he’s reteaming with cinematographer Jarin Blaschke and editor Louise Ford.
Focus’ official description calls the film “an epic revenge thriller that explores how far a Viking prince will go to seek justice for his murdered father.” Principle photography began in Northern Ireland in March 2020 and was halted almost immediately on account of the Covid-19 pandemic. Production resumed that August.
Eggers cowrote the script with Icelandic poet and novelist Sjón. And beyond his “Witch” star Taylor-Joy, “Witch” actor Ralph Ineson, and “Lighthouse” star Dafoe, he’s reteaming with cinematographer Jarin Blaschke and editor Louise Ford.
- 12/20/2021
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
“I don’t get a lot of writer’s block, because it’s all based on research,” filmmaker Robert Eggers once told IndieWire. Fans of the director shouldn’t be too surprised to hear that, as Eggers’ two features so far, “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse,” are memorable for their painstaking attention to detail and historical accuracy. Eggers doesn’t just recreate his settings, he resurrects them by finding real props from the era and more. All of this bodes well for “The Northman,” the director’s upcoming Viking epic, which gives him his biggest budget yet to play with and a 10th century setting that is sure to look spectacular and immersive on the big screen.
“It won’t look like Rob’s other movies but our underlying goal is still to create something subjective and formal at the same time, just done differently,” cinematographer Jarin Blaschke told Filmmaker Magazine about the new movie.
“It won’t look like Rob’s other movies but our underlying goal is still to create something subjective and formal at the same time, just done differently,” cinematographer Jarin Blaschke told Filmmaker Magazine about the new movie.
- 5/20/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Robert Eggers’ next movie The Northman will be hitting theaters on April 8, 2022 via Focus Features.
The revenge thriller from The Lighthouse filmmaker stars Alexander Skarsgard, Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, Björk and reteams the filmmaker with his Lighthouse star Willem Dafoe and The Witch star Anya Taylor-Joy. The Northman explores how far a Viking prince will go to seek justice for his murdered father.
Eggers co-wrote the screenplay with Icelandic poet and novelist Sjón. Producers are Lars Knudsen, Mark Huffam and New Regency. The pic is a co-production of Focus Features and New Regency. Universal Pictures International will release the film internationally on the same date as domestic.
Also opening that day next year is an untitled Disney live-action film, Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2, with Universal also having dibs on the weekend.
Eggers’ black and white...
The revenge thriller from The Lighthouse filmmaker stars Alexander Skarsgard, Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, Björk and reteams the filmmaker with his Lighthouse star Willem Dafoe and The Witch star Anya Taylor-Joy. The Northman explores how far a Viking prince will go to seek justice for his murdered father.
Eggers co-wrote the screenplay with Icelandic poet and novelist Sjón. Producers are Lars Knudsen, Mark Huffam and New Regency. The pic is a co-production of Focus Features and New Regency. Universal Pictures International will release the film internationally on the same date as domestic.
Also opening that day next year is an untitled Disney live-action film, Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2, with Universal also having dibs on the weekend.
Eggers’ black and white...
- 5/14/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
At long last, a release date has been set for director and writer Robert Eggers’ followup to “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse.” His upcoming Viking saga “The Northman” has been set to open on April 8, 2022 from Focus Features. Universal Pictures International will release the film abroad on the same date.
“The Northman” stars Alexander Skarsgard, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, and Björk. It’s an epic revenge thriller that explores how far a Viking prince will go to seek justice for his murdered father.
The film is directed by Eggers, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Icelandic poet and novelist Sjón. Producers are Lars Knudsen, Mark Huffam, and New Regency. The Northman is a co-production of Focus Features and New Regency.
Production wrapped on the film in December 2020, as IndieWire reported exclusively. Filming actually began on “The Northman” in late summer in Ireland. The Belfast Telegraph reported...
“The Northman” stars Alexander Skarsgard, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, and Björk. It’s an epic revenge thriller that explores how far a Viking prince will go to seek justice for his murdered father.
The film is directed by Eggers, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Icelandic poet and novelist Sjón. Producers are Lars Knudsen, Mark Huffam, and New Regency. The Northman is a co-production of Focus Features and New Regency.
Production wrapped on the film in December 2020, as IndieWire reported exclusively. Filming actually began on “The Northman” in late summer in Ireland. The Belfast Telegraph reported...
- 5/14/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
The cinematography race pits Joshua James Richards (“Nomadland”) against Erik Messerschmidt (“Mank”), Phedon Papamichael (“The Trial of the Chicago 7”), Dariusz Wolski (“News of the World”), and Sean Bobbitt (“Judas and the Black Messiah”). Of the five, only Papamichael has been previously nominated (for “Nebraska”). Although Messerschmidt won the coveted ASC award, Richards is the favorite for Chloé Zhao’s Best Picture frontrunner.
The momentum has been with Richards for “Nomadland” ever since he won Camerimage’s prestigious Golden Frog last year. In the recessionary road odyssey, the director’s go-to cinematographer offered a roving, naturalistic nod to Terrence Malick (with the Arri Alexa Mini), while capturing Frances McDormand’s journey through the landscapes of the American West in changing light. Magic hour was the time to capture her long walks alone (with the camera placed on the Ronin 2 gimbal).
In David Fincher’s “Mank,” Messerschmidt recreated a Golden Age of Hollywood in black-and-white.
The momentum has been with Richards for “Nomadland” ever since he won Camerimage’s prestigious Golden Frog last year. In the recessionary road odyssey, the director’s go-to cinematographer offered a roving, naturalistic nod to Terrence Malick (with the Arri Alexa Mini), while capturing Frances McDormand’s journey through the landscapes of the American West in changing light. Magic hour was the time to capture her long walks alone (with the camera placed on the Ronin 2 gimbal).
In David Fincher’s “Mank,” Messerschmidt recreated a Golden Age of Hollywood in black-and-white.
- 4/20/2021
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
The American Society of Cinematographers nominees announced on March 10 include three of our five leading Oscar contenders for Best Cinematography including the frontrunner to win — Erik Messerschmidt for “Mank” — as well as Joshua James Richards for “Nomadland” and Dariusz Wolski for “News of the World. Also in contention are Phedon Papamichael for “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and Newton Thomas Sigel for “Cherry. We are predicting Sigel will reap an Oscar bid for “Da 5 Bloods” instead.
Papamichael is a favorite of the ASC; he was nominated here last year for “Ford v Ferrari” but was bumped out at the Oscars by “The Lighthouse” lenser Jarin Blaschke. We don’t expect him to contend at the Academy Awards this year either with Hoyte van Hoytema likely to land the fifth slot for “Tenet.”
Over its 34-year history, the ASC has predicted 136 of the 170 Oscar nominees, including four in both...
Papamichael is a favorite of the ASC; he was nominated here last year for “Ford v Ferrari” but was bumped out at the Oscars by “The Lighthouse” lenser Jarin Blaschke. We don’t expect him to contend at the Academy Awards this year either with Hoyte van Hoytema likely to land the fifth slot for “Tenet.”
Over its 34-year history, the ASC has predicted 136 of the 170 Oscar nominees, including four in both...
- 3/10/2021
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Robert Eggers wrapped production on “The Northman” earlier this week. The epic Viking drama is Eggers’ third directorial feature following acclaimed indie hits “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse.” A co-production between New Regency and Focus Features, “The Northman” stars Alexander Skarsgård in a Viking revenge saga set in Iceland at the turn of the 10th century. Eggers’ ensemble cast includes reunions with his “Lighthouse” star Willem Dafoe and “The Witch” breakout” Anya Taylor-Joy, plus Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, Claes Bang, and Björk. Eggers co-wrote the script with Icelandic poet and novelist Sjón.
Production on “The Northman” began in late summer in Ireland. The Belfast Telegraph reported in August that film crews were spotted at the Antrim Hills near the seaport and market town of Larne (check out some of the film’s constructed sets here). The coronavirus pandemic delayed the crew from their original start date in March. Eggers was...
Production on “The Northman” began in late summer in Ireland. The Belfast Telegraph reported in August that film crews were spotted at the Antrim Hills near the seaport and market town of Larne (check out some of the film’s constructed sets here). The coronavirus pandemic delayed the crew from their original start date in March. Eggers was...
- 12/11/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Robert Eggers has started production after a months-long hiatus on “The Northman,” a 10th century Viking epic that marks the director’s third feature film after “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse.” Deadline confirms cameras are now rolling in Ireland on the star-studded new project. Alexander Skarsgård stars as a Nordic prince who set outs on a mission of revenge after his father is murdered. The cast also includes Nicole Kidman, Bill Skarsgård, and previous Eggers collaborators Willem Dafoe (“The Lighthouse”) and Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Witch”). Icelandic singer and “Dancer in the Dark” actress Björk is also starring in a role reportedly known as The Slav Witch.
Production on “The Northman” was set to begin earlier this year, but Eggers and his crew were forced to shut down and go into quarantine just a week before cameras were to start rolling, due to the pandemic. Eggers co-wrote “The Northman” script with...
Production on “The Northman” was set to begin earlier this year, but Eggers and his crew were forced to shut down and go into quarantine just a week before cameras were to start rolling, due to the pandemic. Eggers co-wrote “The Northman” script with...
- 8/21/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Following his previous check-in with some of the world’s leading cinematographers about their lives during quarantine, Daniel Eagan returns with six more reports from directors of photography about how their lives and work are being affected by this moment of coronavirus and social change. Below are accounts of work done during quarantine — from continued prep on postponed shoots to home improvement to painting — as well as thoughts on how the film business is changing. Following are responses from Jarin Blaschke, Laura Merians-Gonçalves, Benoit Delhomme, Ellen Kuras, Ed Lachman and Toby Oliver. “It’ll Be as Accurate as a Viking Movie […]...
- 7/14/2020
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Following his previous check-in with some of the world’s leading cinematographers about their lives during quarantine, Daniel Eagan returns with six more reports from directors of photography about how their lives and work are being affected by this moment of coronavirus and social change. Below are accounts of work done during quarantine — from continued prep on postponed shoots to home improvement to painting — as well as thoughts on how the film business is changing. Following are responses from Jarin Blaschke, Laura Merians-Gonçalves, Benoit Delhomme, Ellen Kuras, Ed Lachman and Toby Oliver. “It’ll Be as Accurate as a Viking Movie […]...
- 7/14/2020
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Dp Jarin Blaschke was a week away from the first day of shooting The Northman, directed and co-written by Robert Eggers, when the Covid-19 crisis shut down production. This is Blaschke’s third collaboration with Eggers, after The Witch and The Lighthouse, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for cinematography. Blaschke spoke with Filmmaker the day after learning that production on The Northman will resume at the end of summer. Filmmaker: Where were you when the lockdown began? Blaschke: I went to Belfast in November. We had five weeks of early prep work before the Christmas holiday break, then […]...
- 7/14/2020
- by Daniel Eagan
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Dp Jarin Blaschke was a week away from the first day of shooting The Northman, directed and co-written by Robert Eggers, when the Covid-19 crisis shut down production. This is Blaschke’s third collaboration with Eggers, after The Witch and The Lighthouse, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for cinematography. Blaschke spoke with Filmmaker the day after learning that production on The Northman will resume at the end of summer. Filmmaker: Where were you when the lockdown began? Blaschke: I went to Belfast in November. We had five weeks of early prep work before the Christmas holiday break, then […]...
- 7/14/2020
- by Daniel Eagan
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Robert Eggers’ “The Lighthouse” has found increased relevance on social media in the age of quarantines and lockdowns. The 2019 psychological thriller stars Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as lighthouse keepers who mentally unravel while isolated together on a remote island off the coast of New England. The director is well aware his depiction of psychological deterioration while being socially distanced is resonating with cinephiles this year. The director is quarantining with his family in Belfast, Ireland, and recently told GQ magazine that he hopes “The Lighthouse” is serving as a positive cautionary tale for moviegoers in lockdown. In other words, don’t be getting as blackout drunk as Pattinson and Dafoe’s characters.
“I’m not on social media, but I am aware there’s a lot of ‘Lighthouse’ news right now,” Eggers said. “And I’m glad that we could make something that might be helpful in this strange time.
“I’m not on social media, but I am aware there’s a lot of ‘Lighthouse’ news right now,” Eggers said. “And I’m glad that we could make something that might be helpful in this strange time.
- 5/19/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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