#søren pilmark

[cheapcakeripper]

#vikings valhalla #vikingsvalhallaedit #sweyn forkbeard #Søren Pilmark #majestic

[amatesura]

Flickering Lights (2000) | dir. Anders Thomas Jensen

#flickering lights #blinkende lygter #madsmikkelsenedit #worldcinemaedit #filmedit #filmgifs #mads mikkelsen #nikolaj lie kaas #søren pilmark #anders thomas jensen #*

[scandinaviancinema]

RIGET: EXODUS (2022) dir. Lars von Trier

#sdfghjklæøkjhgfhdhjklæjhgfdhjk #riget #the kingdom #tvedit #alexander skarsgård #lars mikkelsen #udo kier #tuva novotny #mikael persbrandt #laura christensen #nikolaj lie kaas #søren pilmark #birgitte raaberg #bodil jørgensen #riget exodus #2020 #**

[eurovision-revisited]

Copenhagen 2001

I was contemplating writing this in rhyming couplets, but you don't deserve that.

Anything Stockholm can do, Copenhagen can do bigger. Welcome to Parken Stadium - yes, the national football stadium - and 38,000(!) Eurofans who are securely housed under the newly installed retractable roof. A feature specifically added to the stadium for Eurovision. This year the acts will be performing in front of the biggest crowd ever with seats all over the pitch and the stands full.

The stage is huge and relatively dark making some of the acts appear somewhat small and lost, but just wow, Eurovision is officially huge.

The rules haven't changed at all this year, and that means relegation for a record seven countries as more and more nations apply to participate. Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Switzerland, Romania, North Macedonia and Finland take a year out while Bosnia & Herzegovina, Greece, Slovenia, Portugal, Poland and Lithuania all return. With Latvia staying, this is first year that all three Baltic nations have competed in the same Eurovision. France and Spain were in the relegation zone, but were saved thanks to their big four status. Austria and Belgium were the unlucky countries to make way for them.

The voting this year is again 100% televotes, except where it isn't with three countries (Bosnia & Herzegovina, Russia and Türkiye) using juries and three (Croatia, Malta and Greece) having a 50/50 televote/jury mix determining their points. This is the first year in which the EBU experiment with that mix - and it'll make my televoting analysis for the year more complicated and perhaps more interesting.

This year's intro takes place live, outside the stadium and we're treated to some fireworks in what appears to be a foggy Copenhagen evening. There are no establishing shots, we're straight inside the stadium and on with the show.

Well nearly, there's quite a bit of doggerel first - with the hosts performing the entire evening in rhymes many of which are a little, well, forced.

Those hosts aren't Doctor Death and the Tooth Fairy, thank you very much Terry Wogan. They are actor Søren Pilmark and TV presenter Natasja Crone Back.

#esc #esc 2001 #eurovision #eurovision song contest #copenhagen #copenhagen 2001 #Denmark #Parken Stadium #Søren Pilmark #Natasja Crone Back

[gifsontherun]

Riget | 1.01 "The white flock"

#Riget #Riket #The Kingdom #1994 #GIF #TV #Jørgen Krogshøj #Stig Helmer #Søren Pilmark #Ernst-Hugo Järegård #Ernst Hugo Järegård #RigetS01 #Riget: 1x01

[tianmicons]

#søren pilmark #søren pilmark icons #sweyn forkbeard #sweyn forkbead icons #psd icons #icons with psd #vikings valhalla icons #vikings valhalla #tv series #tv series icons #actors #actors icons

[lajoiedefrancoise]

Vikings: Valhalla (2022 - )

#vikings #vikings valhalla #valhalla #2022 #quotes #Søren Pilmark #Soren Pilmark

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #210:

The hosts for the 2001 contest, Natasja Crone Back and Søren Pilmark, spoke entirely in rhyming couplets!

Terry Wogan, commentator for the UK, mocked and ridiculed this choice heavily. He called the announcers Dr. Death and The Tooth Fairy.

After complaints from the Danish broadcaster to the BBC, however, the BBC apologized oh his behalf.

[Sources]:

Copenhagen 2001, Eurovision.tv.

'Wogan i hardt vær,' nrk.no.

Eurovision 2001, Wikipedia.com.

#esc facts oc #esc #eurovision #eurovision song contest #eurovision facts oc #esc 2001 #terry wogan #Natasja Crone Back #Søren Pilmark

[cinemacentral666]

The Kingdom (1994, 1997) & The Kingdom: Exodus (2022)

"Movie" #1,133 • Ranking Lars Von Trier #5

There are so many inexplicable twists and turns and forced cliffhangers in the last fifteen minutes of what remains the series finale, the eighth and final episode of The Kingdom, that you might forget how smooth and cohesive the otherwise bonkers story came together in totality. Clocking in at nearly ten hours, Lars von Trier's "Twin Peaks in a hospital," shot and released on Danish TV in the mid 90s in two 4-episode seasons (1994 & 1997), is a hard-to-find gem that deserves far more attention if not recognition for being just about the weirdest fucking thing I've ever seen released on a mainstream platform (if we can call Danish TV a "mainstream platform").

I was perhaps most impressed by LVT's ability to juggle upwards of a dozen different storylines which seamlessly crossed and merged when they needed to. I feel some unease with how it ended given this segment of an interview I recently watched on YouTube with a slightly demented-seeming if not sickly Trier. Is he really going on about how not having an ending is a problem? Did he ever even watch this? Does he have any recollection making it? But for the love of god, this man can't help but being an insane and inscrutable maniac for one minute; so, he can get away with it. Few can.

Saying one thing when you mean another is a trick, which is not unlike the whole of LVT's filmography. On one hand, this is among his most accessible works: a procedural genre drama. And on the other, it's a thing where Udo Kier plays the double role of Demon from Hell and a baby born with a normal adult-sized head whose body grows exponentially gigantic by the day until he's like seventeen-feet long screaming for his mother to kill him, which–SPOILERS!–she does.

I will hold off from saying more at this juncture as, apparently, there might be a third and final season on the way, à la another famously long-dormant television franchise from a luminary auteur. But this being Lars von Trier, who the hell knows.

THREE YEARS LATER…

"With this being Lars von Trier, who the hell knows" was an appropriate way to end my initial review of The Kingdom for the S.O.B. went ahead and did it: he finished his small screen masterpiece and gave it an ending for the ages. Having just completed the long-awaited Season 3 here in 2023, with future von Trier projects somewhat up in the air after his recent Parkinson's diagnosis (he says he will continue making movies for as long as he can, and I hope he does, but who knows), I can say that if that is indeed his final project, it's certainly a worthy one to go out on.

To get this out of the way (as anyone writing about The Kingdom: Exodus is legally required to mention within the first two paragraphs): the comparisons to Twin Peaks: The Return are as unavoidable as they are perfectly and eerily apt. LVT was getting compared to Lynch well before he decided to complete his own visionary TV show 25 years later as well. But, while the initial inspiration for The Kingdom had to have been spurred by the groundbreaking Twin Peaks, his conclusion and how he went about it is vastly different. Both are phenomenal, in my opinion, but where Lynch departed from the original framework and story to the nth degree, von Trier's return is firmly grounded in the tone and aesthetic of the original run. Outside of a very meta beginning and ending, Exodus feels like a natural continuation of the story, in the same location with the same sepia-drenched sheen. There's no excursions to the purple ocean world or Buckhorn, South Dakota here.

Not to say he doesn't get weird or try different things within this original landscape, because he does so IN SPADES. It's a thrilling, hilarious and endlessly wild ride in five one-hour installments. The biggest hurdle (and main reason the final season was shelved for so long) were the deaths of several notable actors in prominent roles. He handles this with nuance and boundless creativity. It never feels like an homage because it's so rich, fresh and new. Ernst-Hugo Järegård's Dane-hating Helmer is replaced by his son (as Helmer Jr., comically nicknamed "Halfmer" by the Swede-roasting staff); Jens Okking as Bulder is simply exchanged for a look-alike (Nicolas Bro); and Sigrid Drusse (Kirsten Rolffes), the truth-seeking heart of the show is swapped out for a new lead, a similarly aged Karen (Bodil Jørgensen), who begins the action in the non-sepia "real world" watching the original two-season run of The Kingdom on DVD; and Udo Kier… well, please just watch it to see what they do with Udo Kier.

The meta narrative is fascinating, as everyone in Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet is well aware of the madman Lars von Trier and his awful, fucked up TV series. LVT's own credit-roll commentary also returns (although he speaks behind a red curtain now out of vanity; only his jittering shoes are visible), as does a new Greek chorus of male and female dishwashers: gone are the actors with Down syndrome, replaced by a robot (who's constantly breaking dishes) and a man with a different, and a more severe genetic disorder. As is often the case, many of these choices range from squeamish to deliriously comedic, often simultaneously, but when — MAJOR SPOILER — von Trier himself arrives in a helicopter in the role of none other than Satan, how can you not smile?

If I had known going in that some of the threads in Exodus were going to touch on culture wars stuff, I would have said, "Oh no." But everything is handled with such ease — from #MeToo to Nazism! — and, more importantly, humor. This shouldn't work on paper, but it does.

I watched this on the heels of the Nymphomaniac Director's Cut and came away with a similar take: that LVT is really great at longer form storytelling. Some of his very best work is also the longest, and I don't think that's an accident. He's always tried to distill BIG IDEAS into thoughtful if not nihilistic and absurdist scenarios (Willem Dafoe plays one of the devil's minions who's also an owl), but even when the action makes you want to scream or walk into traffic, there's a cleverness at play which brings it full circle. The shift from the neurological to the cardiological departments (via Birgitte Raaberg's character) is such a lovely and simple notion. The head vs. the heart. You can make a big complicated thing with boundless metaphors, but what does it matter if you don't feel anything? The idea that this is all just a mad artist's foolish creation seems to be the ultimate point and that is a fitting send-off for von Trier in a way, I think. It's cheap on the one hand (it's supposed to be), but also a perfect example/explanation of art as entertainment and/or vice versa. Exodus — yes, like The Return — is as standalone fascinating as it is successful; honoring, but more importantly elevating the original series in the most magical ways.

SCORE: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#lars von trier director #1994 #1997 #2022 #10 #🇩🇰 #tv shows #horror #søren pilmark #ghita nørby #birgitte raaberg #peter mygind #ernst-hugo järegård #kirsten rolffes #holger juul hansen #jens okking #baard owe #bodil jørgensen #nicolas bro #nikolaj lie kaas #lars mikkelsen #mikael persbrandt #tuva novotny #ida engvoll #otto brandenburg #annevig schelde ebbe #udo kier #willem dafoe

[behindfairytales]

Søren Pilmark in Vikings: Valhalla (s1-s2) as King Sweyn Forkbeard

#soren pilmark avatars #vikingsedit #vikingsvalhallaedit #period fc #sorenpilmarkedit #king sweyn #sweyn forkbeard #soren pilmark #vikings valhalla #rp avatars #avatars 400*640 #rpg resource #*avatars #*mine

[thespiritofvexation]

some thoughts on Vikings Valhalla S.1

This intro is unworthy of Vikings👎

I like the greenlanders. They're all gonna die (except the 2 important ones I guess)

Frejdis' revenge👌 good for her!

Actually yelled out loud for them to bring that damn bridge down already

Uppsala!♡ my old hometown for a time. It sure has changed but it has a vikingage museum, burial mounds and stuff

Loving the man on man combat scenes👍

Oh HI Søren Pilmark!🥰 I thought Ragnar killed you that one time you brought news of the destruction of the english settlement?!

That reminds me I should watch the new season of Riget (The Kingdom). Loved that show

Frejdis sounds so damn swedish, I bet the actress is from Stockholm😔

Algwgfhiy is truly the most keysmash-name

There's not one truly sad, pathetic, raddled little man or woman in this show, who am I supposed to favour above all else?

Why am I always so indifferent to the english court political plots. Give me Norway, I'm pining for the fjords!

Harald sneaking out instead of telling anyone his plans is such a Ragnar thing to do. I bet Ingrid's kid was Björn's and not Harald Finehair's. Say what you will about Finehair but he wasn't afraid to tell anyone his plans

Well I mean "not my vikings" but also yes I definitely will start on season2 right away

#vikings valhalla #i am watching vikings

[cheapcakeripper]

#vikings valhalla #vikingsvalhallaedit #aelfgifu #sweyn forkbeard #pollyanna macintosh #Søren Pilmark #love these two together

[earthboundvalkyrie]

Vikings Valhalla: Season 2, Episode 1 Recap

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Vikings Valhalla: Season 2, Episode 1 Recap

Welcome to my first recap and review of Vikings Valhalla Season 2! Given how much I enjoyed the first season, I’ve been looking foreword to this for a while. There are 8 episodes this season, and Netflix has released all of them. I’ll be spacing out my recaps and reviews a bit, however, so people have time to see the shows first, as there will be spoilers in these recaps.

This recap begins after the jump. The review will be in a separate post.

Recap The episode opens in the middle of some action. A group of Heathen Vikings are running from a group of Christian Vikings who are trying to kill them. We know the runners are Heathens because as they reach the edge of a cliff, Leif Eriksson (Sam Corlett) begins shooting at the Christians from a slight distance with his bow, giving the Heathens the chance to escape.

Johannes Johannesson as Olaf Haraldson

Leif then goes to an encampment where he asks a dying man “Where is he!” and is told that “he” has been taken. It turns out that this is the camp of King Olaf of Norway (Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson), and the King is being taken by King Sweyn Forkbeard (Søren Pilmark) to Kattegat.

Freydis (Frida Gustavsson) is hunting a deer, and takes it down with a single shot, but as she approaches the deer, she sees two arrows in its side. Harald (Leo Suter) appears, claiming he shot the deer first, so she’s cooking dinner. Freydis points out her arrow was the fatal blow, so Harald’s cooking and carrying the deer back.

Leo Suter as Harald Sigurdsson

They are living in a small cabin in the wilderness. Harald says it’s time for him to go back to Kattegat and press his claim to the throne of Norway with Forkbeard. Freydis wants to stay like they are, asking what’s wrong with living someplace they can raise their children in peace. Harald angrily replies that his children are meant to be kings. Freydis is not thrilled with his response.

As Leif walks to Kattegat to find out what is happening with Olaf, he begins speaking to someone we cannot see initially. Then we get a quick glimpse of Liv, (Lujza Richter) who died during the first season, before she vanishes again and Leif is still alone.

In Kattegat, we see King Canute’s (Bradley Freegard) wife, Queen Ælfgifu (Pollyanna McIntosh) who is clearly unhappy to be there. Nearby, there is a large crowd outside the main hall where several men are hanging a noose while other torment King Olaf as he crouches, naked, in a nearby cage.

In London, Queen Emma (Linda Berlin) is consulting with Earl Godwin (David Oakes) when a messenger arrives with news from King Canute in Denmark, noting that the King is concerned about her safety. She assures the messenger all is well and that he can tell Canute that when he leaves the next morning. Godwin seems skeptical about the Queen’s safety, but she dismisses his concerns as alehouse talk. Later, Godwin talks to his mistress Aelfwynn (Maria Guiver) about his fears and dreams, including the dream that one day, his eldest son (once he has one) will be king.

The Web of Fate

Back in wilderness, Freydis is washing at a river when she hears the flapping of bird wings and the Seer (John Kavanagh) appears. He speaks to her of destiny and that she needs to look for and pay attention to the signs. As he speaks, he draws a design of two straight lines with several lines crossing through the middle. He tells her the symbol is the Web of Fate. As she looks at it, she hears bird wings flapping again, and the Seer is gone. The symbol that he draws is an actual old Heathen symbol. Within the pattern created by the lines can be found all 24 of the Elder Futhark (similar to alphabet) runes. As such, it contains within it the power of all the runes, believed to be able to foretell – and perhaps even change – one’s fate.

Freydis returns to the cabin and tells Harald she will go to Kattegat with him.

In Kattegat, Leif sits, watching the building of the gallows, when a young man introduces himself as Jorundr (Stanislav Callas) and seems to be looking for Freydis.

Olaf is thrown into a cell, where King Forkbeard tells him that he doesn’t plan to kill Olaf. Instead, Forkbeard is making his grandson Svein (Charlie O’Conner) King of Norway, and tells Olaf he will be Svein’s protector. When Olaf refuses as expected, Forkbeard bring Olaf’s son Magnus (Set Sjöstrand) into the cell and informs Olaf that if he keeps Svein alive, Forkbeard will do the same with Magnus. Olaf agrees.

Pollyanna McIntosh

Forkbeard comes out to the crowd and announces the new arrangements. The crowd isn’t happy about Svein being the new King or Ælfgifu as queen regent, and really seems displeased when he announces Jarl Olaf will not be executed, but will serve as King Svein’s protector. Olaf lies to the crowd, telling them that Harald and “the Heathen witch” Freydis are gathering a huge Pagan army to come attack Kattegat because Harald believes he is the rightful King of Norway. He offers three chests of gold to the man or family who can bring him their heads. The news cheers the crowd up quite a bit and people begin to search for the pair.

As Freydis and Harald make their trek back to Kattegat, they come across a group of peasants getting into some rickety looking boats. They explain they are Pagans and have been driven from their homes by the Christians who won’t let them rebuild. They are headed to an “Uppsala across the sea” called Jomsborg. A little girl says she recognized Freydis, the one they call the “Keeper of the Faith,” but Freydis tells the girl she is mistaken.

David Oakes as Earl Godwin

Back in London, Queen Emma is about to receive communion from the Bishop. We see his assistant put a few drops of something on the communion wafer. Earl Godwin looks at the assistant suspiciously and stops Emma from taking the wafer just as the Bishop is about to give it to her. Godwin chases the poisoner out of the chapel and into the streets, where he tries to give Godwin the slip, even changing clothes when he gets a chance. Godwin is a step ahead of him, however, and captures him, sending him to the cells.

In Norway, some of the bounty hunters catch up with Harald and Freydis, but before they can kill them, Leif begins to shoot them with his arrows. Alerted to the danger, but not having seen Leif yet, Feydis and Harald begin shooting the strangers as well. When the fighting is done, Leif fills them in on the bounty Olaf has placed on them, and Harald decides they will go to Novgorod, with the Rus. Harald’s uncle rules there, and he’s certain his uncle will support his cause.

Stanislav Callas as Jorundr

After the ambush, Jorundr – who had spoken to Leif earlier in the tent – catches up to them. Leif knocks him down, holding a knife to his throat, as Jorundr explains he is a Jomsviking, and that they are taking Heathens to Jomsborg where the old faith is still allowed. Freydis notices the Web of Fate tattooed on his forearm and decides she will go with him. The four head to the foggy beach, where several groups of refugees are waiting for the boats to come get them.

As they wait, they hide among some nearby rocks. Freydis takes time to talk to her brother. She tells Leif she’s seen him talking to someone, and asks if it is Liv. He says it is. Freydis wonders why Liv is with Leif and not in Valhalla. Leif says it’s because as she was dying, she asked him to promise her he would meet her in Valhalla, but she couldn’t because he no longer believes. Freydis asks if he’s sure that it’s Liv who can’t let go of him, or is maybe he needs to let Liv go. She then tells him that she is pregnant, but makes him swear not to tell Harald because she does not want her child to end up the king of a Christian nation.

Freydis (Frida Gustavsson) and Harald (Leo Suter) talk

Freydis then goes to speak to Harald. She assures him that his destiny is to be the King of Norway, but it is not her destiny. Harald tells her he knows, his voice breaking as they embrace. They get word the bounty hunters have found them, and quickly start herding the refugees hiding with them back out onto the foggy beach. Olaf sees Harald, Leif and Freydis and orders his men to kill everyone there. As the hunters begin to move toward them, giant balls of fire come out of the fog overhead and crashing onto the beach between the hunters and the refugees, causing the beach to burn. The bounty hunters cannot cross the fire, and Leif, Freydis, Harald and the refugees escape as the boats arrive to take them to a warship waiting just a bit further out to sea.

Freydis gets aboard the boat heading for Jomsborg, telling her brother he will always be close to her heart. Leif and Harald say goodbye to her and are left alone on the small boat. Leif tells Harald he’s not going to row to Novgorod all by himself. Harald retorts that he thought Greenlanders could travel over any sea. Leif says they can, but they prefer company. Harald take the 2nd oar and the two begin to row.

#Heathenry #TV and Movies #Vikings

[vikingsvalhalladaily]

IG: @pollyannamcintosh

#Pollyanna McIntosh #queen Ælfgifu #vikings valhalla #vikings valhalla cast #James Ballanger #johannes haukur jóhannesson #Olaf Haraldsson #freydis eriksdotter #frida gustavsson #sweyn forkbeard #søren pilmark

[eurovision-revisited]

Copenhagen 2001 - The interval act and other performances

Only two musical extras this year - first last year's winners, The Olsen Brothers kick things off with a reprise of 2000's winning song Fly on the Wings of Love, segueing neatly into their new song Walk Right Back accompanied by four be-tartaned female pipers.

The opening song by last year's winner has been done before, but in 2001 it feels as if this performance establishes it firmly in the schedule. It gets the crowd on their feet and cheering right from the off. The Danes' warmth and genuine enthusiasm for their winners is palpable, and the Olsen's seem to be one the only bands of the evening who actually enjoyed the experience of standing in front of all those people. They may not have had the nervousness of competing for their country this year, but it is a homecoming to celebrate.

Befitting a stadium, the interval has a big name. Possibly Denmark's hottest pop export up to 2001, Aqua. They perform a medley of their biggest hits in hyperactive, irreverent style and do truly light up those moments while the EBU get to work verifying the votes. They have all the pyro, all the effects and their stage gear does actually fill the stage.

Far from static, singers Lene Nystrøm and René Dif are everywhere around the stage, bouncing upstage, downstage, left and right. Lene does kick off Barbie Girl with a heartfelt 'fuck off Ken' and finishes by telling him he's a 'dirty bastard', and she's not wrong. The band and record label were still in legal dispute with Mattel over the song at the time.

That's not only the swearing of the evening as in one of the short ad breaks during the main competition sequence, the hosts perform a short skit (with rhyming of course) in which Søren fumbles the 'trophy' dropping it and smashing it into pieces. 'Shit' he says, understandably. Luckily it's only a prop and Natasja is keeping the real one safe.

All this swearing led to the BBC in the UK having to make two apologies. One to the public for swearing going out on live TV and one to host broadcaster DR for Terry Wogan repeatedly insulting the hosts for their looks and rhyming. Not an enlightening evening.

#esc #esc 2001 #eurovision #eurovision song contest #copenhagen #copenhagen 2001 #Denmark #DR #interval acts #Aqua #The Olsen Brothers #Lene Nystrøm #René Dif #Barbie #Terry Wogan #Natasja Crone Back #Søren Pilmark

[lasaraconor]

#emma of normandy #laura berlin #søren pilmark #king sweyn forkbeard #vikings valhalla #gif