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Potty-Mouthed Dialogue Mars Scenically Stunning `Beowulf & Grendel’
The eighth-century epic poem "Beowulf" is - as every high school senior should know - the oldest extant work of any significance in our (or any other modern European) language, and the point from which we normally date the beginning of English literature. In some...
Hollywood Reviews and Movie Trivia
The Beowulf story has endured numerous retellings in the modern era, through both complex interpretations for adults and illustrated books for children. Until independent director Sturla Gunnarsson took on a project to direct a film adaptation in Iceland, no serious...
“Beowulf & Grendel”: Long poem (zzzz) becomes horror film (eeek)
In "Beowulf & Grendel," warriors from Sweden go to Denmark to aid a kingdom being savaged by a powerful troll. "Who does he think he is, some [bleeping] troll Caesar, laying claim to everything his eyes fix upon?" Nowhere in the 3,182 lines of the...
‘Beowulf & Grendel’ is best when it shuts up
Coming along like a Viking picture abducted by Monty Python, "Beowulf & Grendel" is so crazy it sometimes works. Other times, this movie seems to have taken a wrong turn in its remote Icelandic location and gotten hopelessly lost. It's based on the epic ancient...
Beowulf & Grendel, Look Both Ways, and Nacho Libre
This limp, big-screen adaptation of everyone's favorite Anglo-Saxon epic, which screened at the Seattle International Film Festival last week and is (oddly) beginning its U.S. theatrical run in Seattle, opens with an abrupt and suspenseless chase. A loinclothed...
Seattle Film Festival- Days 16-18: A Day in the Life
With another hectic weekend under my belt, I'm feeling pretty good right now about closing out the final seven days of the Festival in strong fashion. I saw nine more movies, attended two more SIFF forums, and recorded two great interviews (one with the filmmakers of...
Hot Button: Seattle Film Festival Notes
The 32nd Seattle International Film Festival started May 25 and continues through next weekend. My 2nd annual Seattle International Film Festival started on Thursday and ends on Sunday. But I'm off to a speedy start. Since arriving here at about 12:45p today, I have...
Seattle International Film Festival: Danes take a walk on the noir side
The 32nd Seattle International Film Festival continues its eight-film tribute to contemporary Danish Cinema tonight with "Manslaughter," a noirish tale about a professor drawn into an affair with a much younger former student (6:45 p.m., Pacific Place Cinemas). Also...
June movies at Heritage
Heritage Theatre, 86 Main St. N. returns to its roots as a movie theatre Monday nights in June. Tickets cost $5 and can be purchased both in advance and from the box office by calling 905-874-2800. Films run at 8 p.m. June movie schedule: June 5: The 2006 Academy...
Movie is dear to our hearts
TWO movie fans from America are to visit Inverclyde because their favourite film was shot here. The girls, from California and Texas, are huge fans of the film Dear Frankie and its heartthrob star Gerard Butler and wanted to soak up the atmosphere of the movie by...
‘Beowulf’ catches ride at Union Station
Union Station Media has acquired U.S. distribution rights to "Beowulf and Grendel" from Arclight Films. Pic is directed by Sturla Gunnarsonn ("Snakes and Ladders") from a script by Andrew Rai Berzins ("Chasing Cain"). The cast includes Gerard Butler as Beowulf and...
Delay in Burns bio-pic goes from bad to verse
THE best-laid movie plans have been known to gang aft agley and, in the case of a £20 million film to portray the life of Scotland's bard Robert Burns, they've have done so again. One of its collaborators, Eric Rowan – ex-conman turned film producer who wrote the...
Beowulf to stomp into major U.S. cities
Toronto -- Canadian filmmaker Sturla Gunnarsson's Beowulf & Grendel will have a U.S. theatrical release in six cities starting on June 16. The film, starring Gerard Butler, actress Sarah Polley and Stellan Skarsgard, is adapted from the ninth-century epic Beowulf,...
Beowulf battles his conscience, and evil
Copyright 2006 The Leader-Post, a division of Canwest MediaWorks Publication Inc. 'Beowulf and Grendel' Tonight-Sunday Regina Public Library Film Theatre Rating 2 1/2 (out of five) - - - Students beware. This movie version of Beowulf is not the one to watch before...
Beowulf & Grendel Coming to America
After slowly making its move across the globe, Beowulf & Grendel, a film that has a surprising amount of supporters thanks mostly in part to a little actor known as Gerard Butler, will finally cross into United States territory. We have received a brief little...
BEOWULF SAILS SOUTH
The Film Works, Eurasia Motion Pictures and Goodweird are pleased to announce an agreement with Union Station Media, a joint venture of Alliance Atlantis and Arclight Films International, for the U.S. theatrical release of Beowulf & Grendel, directed by Sturla...
Beowulf on Demand
It's amazing what a few centuries and a hit translation can do for an Old English saga. That would be Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon myth about a noble young warrior battling Grendel the man-eater. The epic, passed along by bards and finally written down in the 11th...
Epic adventure not for the squeamish
It's like Lord of the Rings: The Prepre-prequel. A mere 1,700 years in the making, the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf comes to the big screen. The stunning scenery, rugged warriors and unrestrained gore are reminiscent of the Rings trilogy, though the stories are...
Beowulf & Grendel Sells out Sarasota Festival
The talented team behind Beowulf and Grendel dropped us a line to tell us it has been a smash hit at the Sarasota Film Festival. B&G is the only film at the festival to be shown 3 times with all 3 dates being sold out prior to screening. Sturla is in attendance....
Beowulf director tells why his film lacks CGI
There’s no doubt about it — Sturla Gunnarsson is one of Canada’s most seasoned, critically acclaimed directors. He has won a number of prestigious awards, and recently took on a challenge he had been hoping to do for years: bring the legend of Beowulf to the big...