Scandinavian movies/DVDs reviewed here

• Ingmar Bergman:
  • Fanny and Alexander (Special Edition Five-Disc Set),
  • Ingmar Bergman - Four Masterworks: (The Seventh Seal, Virgin Spring, Wild Strawberries, With Smiles of a Summer Night).
  • The Ingmar Bergman Special Edition DVD Collection (Persona, Shame, Hour of the Wolf, The Passion of Anna, The Serpent's Egg).
  • The Ingmar Bergman Trilogy: (Through a Glass Darkly / Winter Light / The Silence)
  • Scenes From a Marriage - 3 discs
  
  
• Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen): Babette’s Feast, Out of Africa. Both drama. Based on books by Karen Blixen.


• Buddy. An entertaining and sweet little movie about Kristoffer and his friends. When Kristoffer's video diary winds up at a popular TV show, it's not just his love life that turns upside down.


• Elling series: Elling, Mother's Elling, Love me Tomorrow. Drama. Based on books by Ingvar Ambjornsen


• Evil ("Ondskan") - an excellent movie based on Sweden's Jan Guillou's partly autobiographical novel with the same name, which tells the tale of a yound man exposed to the brutal pecking order of a Swedish boarding school.


• Hamsun - director Jan Troell's biography of the Norwegian Nobel Prize-winning author, Knut Hamsun (Max von Sydow). Hamsun was a brilliant author, but very controversial due to his connections with the Nazi regime in Norway during World War II. Max Von Sydow's performance as Knut Hamsun is wonderful.


• Hawaii, Oslo. This is an interesting movie from 2004, about the story of a handful of desperate people whose paths cross on the hottest day of the year in Oslo. Good and intriguing entertainment.


• Hunger - based on Knut Hamsun's novel with the same name. Per Oscarsson's portrait of despair and hallucinatory exaltation is unforgettable, and won the Best Actor award at Cannes. The movie takes place in 1890's Christiania (Oslo). An interesting movie!


• The Irene Huss movies: The Torso (Den Krossade tanghästen),The Horse Figurine (Guldkalven), The Fire Dance (Elddansen), The Night Round (Nattrond), The Glass Devil (Glasdjävulen), and The Gold Digger (Tatuerad torso). A boxed set of six movies.


• Kitchen Stories. Some tales are just strange. Some are strange but very entertaining. This one is strange, very entertaining and exceedingly funny in a quiet charming way. It's the 1950s, and a Swedish efficiency expert under strict orders not to interact with his subject is sent to improve a Norwegian farmer's culinary efforts...


• Kristin Lavransdatter - a movie based on Sigrid Undset's novels with the same name, directed by Liv Ullmann. It tells the tale of a young woman and her family in Norway in the 14th century. A great movie, and good entertainment.


• The Millennium movies. Men who Hate Women (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) with Noomi Rapace. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest - DVD.


• Paradise and Deadline - movies based on crime fiction novels by Lize Marklund. Very good movies, directed by Colin Nutley.


• Lars von Trier - The Idiots, Antichrist, The Element of Crime


• Smilla's Sense of Snow. Movie by Bille August based on the delightful novel Smilla's Sense of Snow by Danish author Peter Hoeg.


• Sunstorm (Solstorm - Aurinkomyrsky), Crime/Thriller, based on a book by Asa Larsson


• Van Veeteren series: Collection 1, 3 DVD Set: Carambole, Munster's Case, and Borkmann's Point. Collection 2, 3 DVD Set: Case G, "The Swallow, The Cat, The Rose and Death", and Moreno and the Silence. Mystery/Crime/Thrillers. These movies are based on books by Hakan Nesser.


• Varg Veum series: Box 1 - 3-DVD Set (Bitter Flowers, Sleeping Beauty, Yours Until Death), Box 2 - 3-DVD Set (Fallen Angels, Kvinnen i kjøleskapet, Begravde Hunder). Crime/thriller. Based on books by Gunnar Staalesen.


• Kurt Wallander Series: Collection 1, 4-DVD Set: Before The Frost, The Village Idiot, Brothers, and The Darkness. Mystery/Crime/Thrillers. These movies are based on books by Henning Mankell.