Baltasar Kormákur
‘Touch’ Review: Baltasar Kormákur Shifts Gears With a Delicate Study of Passion Suspended by Time and Distance
The Icelandic director’s latest is a novelistic saga of an elderly widower who sets out to solve the mystery of his first love’s sudden disappearance 50 years earlier.
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‘Beast’ Review: Idris Elba Tangles With the King of the Jungle in Tense but Silly Survival Thriller
Sharlto Copley also stars in Baltasar Kormákur's nightmare safari in which a desperate father is driven to protect his daughters from a vengeful lion.
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Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb Should Make Female Critics More Visible, ‘Adrift’ Director Says
Baltasar Kormakur discusses bringing Shailene Woodley into the writing room to ensure the film had a woman’s voice, why the male-dominated critic’s world needs to change and the problem with Hollywood’s recent drive to cast women in the lead of previously male-driven franchises.
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World Cup: Baltasar Kormakur Screens ‘Adrift’ for Iceland Team Ahead of Crucial Croatia Game
"I'll take the credit if they win, not if they fail!" laughs the Icelandic director.
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How ‘Adrift’ Director Hopes to Revolutionize Hollywood Filmmaking With an Icelandic Studio
'Adrift' director Baltasar Kormakur's potential for mogul status grows, as he opens a new studio in Iceland.
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‘Adrift’: Film Review
Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin play lovers lost at sea in Baltasar Kormakur's survival tale 'Adrift.'
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Icelandic Crime Series ‘Trapped’ Gets Second Season
The critically acclaimed show from 'Everest' director Baltasar Kormakur is the first high-end TV drama from Iceland.
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Toronto: Baltasar Kormakur on Turning Down “Huge Franchises” After ‘Everest,’ Returning to Iceland for ‘The Oath’
A psychological thriller, in which Kormakur directs himself in the lead role, 'The Oath' is having its world premiere in Toronto on Saturday.
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Baltasar Kormakur’s ‘The Oath,’ Xiaogang Feng’s ‘I Am Not Madame Bovary’ Join San Sebastian Competition
The Spanish fest names five more titles to its official lineup, including features from Poland, Argentina and Japan.
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‘Everest’ Director Baltasar Kormakur Taps ‘Game of Thrones’ Production Manager for Icelandic Banner
Petur Sigurdsson will head up RVK Studios' production services division.
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Berlin: ‘Everest’ Director Baltasar Kormakur to Helm Thriller ‘The Oath’
The Film4-backed psychological thriller marks the Icelandic filmmaker's first stint in front of the camera in eight years and is being introduced to buyers in Berlin by XYZ Films.
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Baltasar Kormakur Promotes ‘Everest’ in Beijing
"It's your mountain — at least half of it," said the director at a preview screening in China, where the Universal mountaineering epic opens Nov. 3.
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