A BRIEF HISTORY OF ICELANDIC CINEMA by Birgir Thor Möller
ICELANDIC FILMS by Peter Cowie (first published 2000, updated in 2005)
This survey of Icelandic cinema concentrates on the extraordinary flowering of the past fifteen years. Close to fifty feature films re discussed here - films that have appeared in festivals and art-house cinemas, or on quality TV channels around the world. So I regret that I have not had space to pay tribute to the numerous documentaries, short films and TV movies that Iceland has also produced in the past three decades.
Read moreNO ONE´S LAZY IN LAZY TOWN by Eddie Cockrell
An overview of the Icelandic film industry in 2008
“No one’s lazy in Lazy Town,” goes the Europop-y refrain of the vigorously surreal and immensely successful children’s television show of that name produced entirely in Iceland, and that’s as apt a metaphor as any for 2008’s production slate out Reykjavik.
QUESTIONS OF UNCERTAINTY. REPRESENTATION OF UNCERTAINTY IN ICELANDIC FILMS 2003-2008 by Thora Blondal
A thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements of Anglia Ruskin University for the degree of Master of Arts, April 2009.
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