Tag: The Oath

  • Jonathan Oppenheim, Editor of ‘Paris is Burning,’ Dies at 67

    Jonathan Oppenheim, Editor of ‘Paris is Burning,’ Dies at 67

    Documentary film editor Jonathan Oppenheim died July 16 in New York City, Sundance Institute confirmed to Variety. He was 67 and had been battling brain cancer .“Jonathan began his life in the arts as a painter which informed his sensibility in film,” his wife, Josie Oppenheim, wrote in a statement. “He was a talented and…

  • Baltasar Kormakur lines up cast for ‘Independent People’ (exclusive)

    Baltasar Kormakur lines up cast for ‘Independent People’ (exclusive)

    Ingvar E Sigurdsson, Hera Hilmar to star.Iceland’s Baltasar Kormakur has lined up Ingvar E Sigurdsson and Hera Hilmar to star in his anticipated adaptation of Independent People, Iceland’s most acclaimed novel of the 20th century.Kormakur has worked with both actors before – Sigurdsson in TV’s Trapped as well as films The Oath, Everest and Jar…

  • Ike Barinholtz on Making His Directorial Debut With ‘The Oath’ [Interview]

    Ike Barinholtz on Making His Directorial Debut With ‘The Oath’ [Interview]

    Chicago native Ike Barinholtz has made a career out of scene stealing, from his earliest days as an improv performer with Improv Olympic and Second City (among others) and a cast member on MadTV in the early 2000s to bigger television roles in Eastbound & Down to The Mindy Project. In more recent years, Barinholtz…

  • Film Review: Ike Barinholtz’s ‘The Oath’

    Film Review: Ike Barinholtz’s ‘The Oath’

    Nothing spoils a family gathering quite like politics, and no movie has captured the way such debates can turn ugly quite like Ike Barinholtz’s “The Oath,” an impressively out-there feature debut in which no-win arguments over a divisive new government policy escalate into a full-blown hostage crisis, turning what should have been a mild-mannered Thanksgiving…

  • First trailer and poster for Icelandic thriller ‘Vultures’ from producer Baltasar Kormákur (exclusive)

    First trailer and poster for Icelandic thriller ‘Vultures’ from producer Baltasar Kormákur (exclusive)

    The film follows two antagonistic brothers smuggling drugs via a young Polish girl.Screen can unveil an exclusive first trailer for Vultures, an Icelandic thriller written and directed by Börkur Sigthorsson (Trapped) and produced by Everest director Baltasar Kormákur and Agnes Johansen.Starring Gisli Örn Garðarsson (The Oath), Baltasar Breki Samper (Trapped), Danish actress Marijana Jankovic (Everything…