After a quiet spell on All4’s Walter Presents, a new Nordic thriller series is coming at the end of the month. Seizure is a Norwegian psychological thriller with a supernatural edge, featuring one of Norway’s finest talents, Anders Danielsen Lie, … Continue reading Oslo trilogy star Anders Danielsen Lie tells us about TV series ‘Seizure’ coming to Walter Presents
The disaster genre is one that I grew up watching a lot of as a kid in the 80s – back then such films as Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, or Airport ’77 were perfect Saturday night movies to catch … Continue reading Force of nature: tidal waves, earthquakes, and burning seas – the world of Norwegian disaster movies!
This May sees the release of Thomas Daneskov’s film Wild Men – one of our highlights of the year already! We got to speak to the director about how this violent comedy came to be and how the theme of … Continue reading Danish Director Thomas Daneskov talks about making the midlife-crisis dark comedy ‘Wild Men’ filmed in the Norwegian mountains
Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX) is back for 2022, starting on 23rd March and finishing this coming weekend. This year sees the return of in-person events and screenings all over Copenhagen city, and we flew out there to check it … Continue reading Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival 2022: Four films in the Nordic award that examine electro-sensitivity, burnout, karaoke, and the Swedish pandemic strategy
Described by Tvedestrandpost as one of the years most anticipated releases, Unhinged, the third book in the extremely popular Blix and Ramm series, was finally published in the UK on Wednesday 16th February. Nordic Watchlist were lucky enough to speak … Continue reading Horst & Enger: Norways Finest Crime Writing Duo discuss all things Blix and Ramm
A Human Position by Norwegian writer-director Anders Emblem screened at the Tromsø film festival in January 2021. A beautifully shot drama to the backdrop of the Norwegian port town of Ålesund in Norway, it centres around journalist Asta (Amalie Ibsen … Continue reading SPOTLIGHT: Beautifully shot Norwegian film ‘A Human Position’ by Anders Emblem
When Norwegian director Joachim Trier shared some stunning movie poster designs he had commissioned of his film The Worst Person In The World (Norwegian title: Verdens Verste Menneske), I was immediately taken by the striking, bright images. They reminded me … Continue reading Norwegian illustrator Bendik Kaltenborn on working with director Joachim Trier, making his new short film, and life in Oslo
What a year for Nordic cinema! A lot of films finally got releases in the UK and Worldwide, so we could catch up on all the brilliant content out there. Here’s our Top 10 favourite films of this year, (based … Continue reading Nordic Watchlist Best of 2021: FILMS
One of the many big movies that we caught at Reykjavik International Film Festival was Denmark’s Margrete – Queen of the North (Margrete den Første). If there is one way to describe this incredible piece of Nordic cinema, it’s that it … Continue reading SPOTLIGHT: Danish historical drama ‘Margrete: Queen of the North’
The love for Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person In The World has been building and building – from the moment it premiered in Cannes to its arrival last week at Reykjavik’s International Film Festival and more recently at BFI London … Continue reading Interview with Herbert Nordrum – star of the acclaimed Norwegian film ‘The Worst Person In The World’