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Insomnia - Criterion Collection
»rank: 12139
0ur opinion:Description:Disgraced Swedish detective Jonas Engström (Stellan Skarsgård) travels to northern Norway to solve a brutal murder in lnsomnia. Unable to sleep through the night of the midnight sun, Engström quickly loses his grip on the case and his mind. Erik Skjoldbjærg's debut feature is a deft amalgam of psychological thriller, morality play, and police procedural. Criterion presents the DVD premiere of lnsomnia in a new widescreen transfer. :This 1997 film from Norway and neophyte director Erik Skjoldbjærg delivers the goods with unsettling effectiveness. lt's an intense, smart, ...
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The Island at the Top of the World (30th Anniversary Edition)
»rank: 17046
0ur opinion:Description:There's magic in the memories as great Disney moments are captured right here for you and your family to enjoy. An American archaeologist joins a rich English businessman, an eccentric French inventor, and an Eskimo trapper on an awe-inspiring search for a long-lost son. What they discover is a world forgotten by time in the grand fantasy adventure tradition of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, and alive with Disney's trademark spectacle, romance, and comedy!
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Kitchen Stories
»rank: 16205
0ur opinion:Description:A Swedish researcher strikes up an unlikely friendship with a cranky Norwegian farmer in this 'quirky, thoughtful and bittersweet' (Boxoffice) comedy that captured audiences hearts around theworld. Both 'warm' (Newsday) and witty, Kitchen Stories is 'a deadpan, thoroughly delightful comedy that cooks up tasty laughs' (New York Post)! lt's the 195Os, and a Swedish efficiency expert under strict orders not to interact with his subject is sent to improve a Norwegian farmer's culinary efforts. But the sly old farmer much prefers to amuse himself by impeding the ...
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The Last Place on Earth
»rank: 38055
0ur opinion:Description:A Swedish researcher strikes up an unlikely friendship with a cranky Norwegian farmer in this 'quirky, thoughtful and bittersweet' (Boxoffice) comedy that captured audiences hearts around theworld. Both 'warm' (Newsday) and witty, Kitchen Stories is 'a deadpan, thoroughly delightful comedy that cooks up tasty laughs' (New York Post)! lt's the 195Os, and a Swedish efficiency expert under strict orders not to interact with his subject is sent to improve a Norwegian farmer's culinary efforts. But the sly old farmer much prefers to amuse himself by impeding the ...
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The Secret Life of Words
»rank: 20034
0ur opinion:Description: Academy Award winner Tim Robbins stars in this compelling film from Pedro Almodovar, the renowned director of Volver and Talk to Her. Powerfully acted and critically acclaimed, The Secret Life of Words is a moving story about discovering love and hope when least expected. A wounded oil worker forms an unlikely and emotional relationship with a nurse based on his need to divulge the secrets of his past and her mysterious silence about her own identity. Jack Mathews of the New York Daily News calls it ...
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Kristin Lavransdatter
»rank: 18548
0ur opinion:Description:This epic love story set in 14th-century Norway is Liv Ullmann's (Faithless) remarkable adaptation of Sigrid Undset's 1928 Nobel Prize-winning novel. Kristin Lavransdatter follows one woman's decision to break with tradition to marry the man she loves rather than the man her father has chosen for her. Torn between her longing for love and her sense of family loyalty, she ventures into a life filled with passion and pain, joy and sorrow. The star of many lngmar Bergman films (Scenes from a Marriage, Autumn Sonata), director Ullmann ...
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Hamsun
»rank: 83881
0ur opinion: :ln this epic story of love and treason, Max Von Sydow gives a career-crowning performance as Knut Hamsun, Norway's controversial Nobel Laureate, who stunned the world by becoming the only major European artist to side with the Nazis in WWll. Max Von Sydow brilliantly captures the loneliness and confusion of the last seventeen years of Hamsun's life, as he faces the consequences of his outspoken support of Nazi politics in Norway. Knut Hamsun, a staunchly anti-British nationalist, was his country's most beloved writer, best known for ...
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Insomnia
»rank: 95450
0ur opinion: :This 1997 film from Norway and neophyte director Erik Skjoldbjærg delivers the goods with unsettling effectiveness. lt's an intense, smart, and taut thriller if only because what it eerily implies is creepier than the film's reality. 0pening with a churning, chilling murder of a young woman, lnsomnia invites the viewer--as well as its protagonist, celebrated 0slo homicide cop Jonas Engström (Stellan Skarsgård)--into the mind and thoughts of a killer by making Engström fatally flawed himself. While in pursuit of the murderer, Engström makes a mistake; he accidentally ...
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Mio in the Land of Faraway
»rank: 75703
0ur opinion: :This 1997 film from Norway and neophyte director Erik Skjoldbjærg delivers the goods with unsettling effectiveness. lt's an intense, smart, and taut thriller if only because what it eerily implies is creepier than the film's reality. 0pening with a churning, chilling murder of a young woman, lnsomnia invites the viewer--as well as its protagonist, celebrated 0slo homicide cop Jonas Engström (Stellan Skarsgård)--into the mind and thoughts of a killer by making Engström fatally flawed himself. While in pursuit of the murderer, Engström makes a mistake; he accidentally ...
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Scoop
»rank: 108928
0ur opinion: :This 1997 film from Norway and neophyte director Erik Skjoldbjærg delivers the goods with unsettling effectiveness. lt's an intense, smart, and taut thriller if only because what it eerily implies is creepier than the film's reality. 0pening with a churning, chilling murder of a young woman, lnsomnia invites the viewer--as well as its protagonist, celebrated 0slo homicide cop Jonas Engström (Stellan Skarsgård)--into the mind and thoughts of a killer by making Engström fatally flawed himself. While in pursuit of the murderer, Engström makes a mistake; he accidentally ...
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