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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 Jul 2nd 2012 04:00 pm (stereogum.com)
The latest in Sigur Rós’s ongoing video series is a clip for Valtari standout “Rembihnútur,” a visual that fixates on the faces of people, eyes closed, focusing on their inner moments. It ends in a very signature Sigur Rós way, which makes sense since longtime collaborators Arni & Kinski directed it. Wat...
Hollywood star features in 'Fjögur Píanó'
Shia LaBeouf’s dong is probably not the first thing you’d expect to see in a Sigur Rós video, but it is indeed one of the first things that appears onscreen in the new video for the meditative instrumental piece “Fjögur Píanó.” In the clip, we see LaBeouf engaging in some morning naked experimental bal...
submitted by Nick Jun 6th 2012 04:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Here’s the second installment of Sigur Rós’s ongoing Valtari video series and this clip’s a little more straightforward than the last. It’s a slowly shifting depiction of a craggy landscape directed by Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir, who designed the Valtari cover. Watch it below. Valtari is out now on XL.
submitted by Nick May 21st 2012 03:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Sigur Rós’s video for the understated, Valtari-kicking-off Ég Anda is, err, a strange look, as it’s very much a step-by-step visual manual on how to prevent someone from choking. But, it does have the requisite stylize-azation for something as stately as a Sigur Rós track, though. It’s the first of 12 videos from...


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