Who doesn't love a good Viking movie? Nearly a full millennium after the Vikings' heyday, stories of the Scandinavian seafarers and warriors who rampaged their way through Europe and around the world in the 8th through 11th centuries still fascinate us — enough to inspire an entire subgenre of historical fiction that spans various media. Film in particular has returned to the Viking world repeatedly since the silent era, with productions that hail from Iceland, America, Norway, Britain, Denmark, and more.
A quick scan of the most notorious Viking-themed films reveals that these movies have never been just one thing; it's a milieu that lends itself to comedy, romance, horror, superhero-style action, and, of course, the gruesome war sagas it's most commonly associated with. Here, then, are 14 essential Viking movies that should cover a wide range of cinematic tastes and proclivities, while still satisfying anyone who's just looking for a grand,...
A quick scan of the most notorious Viking-themed films reveals that these movies have never been just one thing; it's a milieu that lends itself to comedy, romance, horror, superhero-style action, and, of course, the gruesome war sagas it's most commonly associated with. Here, then, are 14 essential Viking movies that should cover a wide range of cinematic tastes and proclivities, while still satisfying anyone who's just looking for a grand,...
- 4/23/2023
- by Leo Noboru Lima
- Slash Film
At the intersection of big-star international dealmaking, the 70mm epic, and the humble sword ‘n’ shield actioner, this comic book viking saga stacks one absurd, borderline bad taste action scene on top of another. It’s an irresistible mash-up of earlier successes, well directed visually by Jack Cardiff. Richard Widmark at forty must play the Viking action hero, Russ Tamblyn at thirty is still a physical dervish, and Sidney Poitier takes on the strangest casting of his career. Plus, low sexist comedy from a platoon of hearty Brit thesps!
The Long Ships
Blu-ray
Viavision [Imprint] 137
1964 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 126 min. / Street Date June 29, 2022 / Available from Viavision / Aus 34.95
Starring: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Rosanna Schiaffino, Oskar Homolka, Edward Judd, Lionel Jeffries, Beba Loncar, Clifford Evans, Gordon Jackson, Colin Blakely, Paul Stassino, Leonard Rossiter, Jeanne Moody, Julie Samuel.
Cinematography: Christopher Challis
Production Designer: Vlastimir Gavrik, Zoran Zorcic
Art Director: Bill Constable...
The Long Ships
Blu-ray
Viavision [Imprint] 137
1964 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 126 min. / Street Date June 29, 2022 / Available from Viavision / Aus 34.95
Starring: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Rosanna Schiaffino, Oskar Homolka, Edward Judd, Lionel Jeffries, Beba Loncar, Clifford Evans, Gordon Jackson, Colin Blakely, Paul Stassino, Leonard Rossiter, Jeanne Moody, Julie Samuel.
Cinematography: Christopher Challis
Production Designer: Vlastimir Gavrik, Zoran Zorcic
Art Director: Bill Constable...
- 8/6/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Stellan Skarsgard is set to star in Zentropa's big-budget international Viking movie based on Frans Bengtsson 1945 two-volume novel "The Long Ships".
Hans Petter Moland will direct the project which is described as the most ambitious Scandinavian viking project to-date. Tobias Lindholm penned the script.
Shooting takes place largely in the South-West of Sweden in 2015. Peter Aalbaek Jensen will produce.
Source: THR...
Hans Petter Moland will direct the project which is described as the most ambitious Scandinavian viking project to-date. Tobias Lindholm penned the script.
Shooting takes place largely in the South-West of Sweden in 2015. Peter Aalbaek Jensen will produce.
Source: THR...
- 5/18/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Cannes – Stellan Skarsgard will star in big-budget international Viking movie based on 1945 book The Long Ships (Rode Orm), producer Peter Aalbaek Jensen (Nyphomaniac, Melancholia, Dogville) unveiled here Saturday. Zentropa, the film company he co-founded with Danish director Lars von Trier, had first announced the plans for the adaptation of the 1940s two-volume novel by Frans Bengtsson last year. At the time, it was described as the most ambitious Scandinavian viking project to-date. Photos: The Complete Cannes 2014 Official Selection Speaking at a Saturday press conference organized by Swedish fund Film I Vast, he also said
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- 5/17/2014
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Say it out loud, and the title Vikingdom, that slapdash portmanteau, reveals its hidden promise: Viking Dumb. That's a fair summation of the glory and ridiculousness of what director Yusry Abd Halim and his cohorts at Kru Productions have pulled off in this B-movie gone amok. They only could have improved on its accuracy if they'd just gone ahead and called it exactly what it is: The First and Best-Ever Malaysian Viking Flick with All-English Dialogue.
Imagine an old Hollywood mead-and-beard epic like The Long Ships (based on Frans G. Bengtsson's thrilling, hilarious novel, recently reprinted by Nyrb Classics) directed by an acolyte of young Peter Jackson—rococo violence! that restless camera! charming, cheap-o monsters!—who is determin...
Imagine an old Hollywood mead-and-beard epic like The Long Ships (based on Frans G. Bengtsson's thrilling, hilarious novel, recently reprinted by Nyrb Classics) directed by an acolyte of young Peter Jackson—rococo violence! that restless camera! charming, cheap-o monsters!—who is determin...
- 10/2/2013
- Village Voice
Scandinavian production giants Zentropa and Nordisk Film are uniting to make the Viking epic The Long Ships, an ambitious adventure tale based on the novel of the same name by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson. The book, one of the Sweden's best-selling novels, has been translated into 24 languages. It is the story of Red Orm, a 10th-century Norseman living in the pre-Christian nation of Scania. Peter Aalbaek Jensen and Sisse Graum Jorgensen of Zentropa, who teamed on Susanne Bier's Oscar-winner In a Better World (2010), will produce The Long Ships, with Lone Korslund of Nordisk Film executive producing.
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- 5/21/2013
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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