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The scene in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou where Sigur Rós's "Starálfur" bubbles up on the soundtrack is one of my favorite goosebump moments of the past decade of film, proof positive that the exact right match of song and visual can elevate even a mess of a movie like that one.So credit Irish writer/director Neil Jordan, the guy who made The Crying Game and Interview With the Vampire, with some truly savvy instincts. As Sigur Rós announced on their website last week, Jordan has enlisted the band's keyboardist, Kjartan Sveinsson, to write the score for his forthcoming film Ondine. A few songs from Sigur Rós will also appear on the soundtrack.In The Life Aquatic, Sigur Rós's particular brand of airy mystery worked beautifully in fantastical deep-sea scenes. From the looks of things, Jordan may have similar uses in mind for the band. IMDB describes Ondine's plot thusly: "The story of an Irish fisherman who discovers a woman in his fishing net who he believes to be a mermaid." So magical-realist Splash, basically. Nice! Also, Colin Farrell plays a character named Syraceuse, and that guy killed it in In Bruges, so this movie could be really good.
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submitted by Nick Aug 13th 2012 04:00 pm (stereogum.com)
The great Icelandic wonderers Sigur Rós are now deep into their Valtari Mystery Film Experiment, a project that sees the band recruiting directors to make conceptual art films out of songs from their new album Valtari, and which has already afforded us a glimpse of Shia LaBeouf’s schlong. The latest video, from director Melika Bass, [...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sigur Ros, the Icelandic band that Radiohead once famously hailed as an inspiration, have been making albums for a decade and a half, but bassist and founding member Georg Holm still finds a lot of myths surround the quartet. Back on the road after the May release of their sixth album, "Valtari," Holm spoke...
submitted by Nick Aug 1st 2012 08:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Name: Sigur Rós Progress Report: Iceland’s finest discuss the difficulties of Valtari and the pleasures of hitting the road…. Valtari, Sigur Rós’ sixth proper full-length album, is by all accounts a record that was none too easy to make. Despite the apparent behind-the-scenes drama the album is as seamless and expectedly beautiful as any...
Right now, Icelandic wonderers Sigur Rós are still in the midst of their Valtari Mystery Film Experiment, their effort to commission art-film accompaniments for all the songs from their new album. And even though they’ve already released a proper music video for “Varúð,” the new clip for the song might actually b...
Listening to Sigur Rós can feel a lot like you’re living inside that scene from American Beauty with the plastic bag flying around in the wind (“Sometimes there’s so much beauty in this world…”), and so this Ramin Bahrani-directed video of “Ég Anda” pretty much nails it: It&...


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