If you thought Heart of Darkness gave you a hard enough look into the challenges of making a masterpiece of cinema in the jungle, try experiencing the frenzied making of Werner Herzog’s 1982 epic Fitzcarraldo. Iconic documentary filmmaker Les Blank’s […]

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Hlynur Pálmason is an Icelandic writer and director. For his latest project Godland (which I also reviewed) he reunited with Danish actor Elliott Crosset Hove. Pálmason is a graduate from the national film school of Denmark. While Elliott is now […]

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(Check out Jack Schenker’s movie review of Godland from director Hlynur Pálmason. It’s in select theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) As cliché of a phrase as it is, they don’t make ‘em like […]

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If, at the end, we’re not quite sure what our takeaway is supposed to be, at least we’ve spent 98 minutes having our minds blissfully stimulated.

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