Niels Arden Oplev Articles

Noomi Rapace in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Nordisk Films) (top); Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone (Roadside Attractions) (bottom) The 2010 SXSW Film Festival will take place March 12-20 in Austin, Texas. And Everything Is Going Fine Director: Steven Soderbergh And Everything Is Going Fine is an intimate portrait of master monologist Spalding Gray, as described by his most critical, irreverent and insightful biographer: [...]

At a meeting held Monday, the 2009 Guldbagge (Golden Beetle) jury comprised of Katinka Faragó, Nils Petter Sundgren, Pia Johansson, Jannike Åhlund, Johan Renck, Mikael Marcimain and Guldbagge jury chairman Eva Swartz Grimaldi (not voting) picked Niels Arden Oplev’s box-office smash The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as the best Swedish picture of the year. Adapted by Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg (from Stieg Larsson’s [...]

The 2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival, which was held from Jan. 5-18, announced this year’s award winners at a luncheon at Spencer’s Restaurant on Sunday, January 17, the same day as the Golden Globes. The Audience Award went to Niels Arden Oplev’s Guldbagge nominee The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (above, Sweden/Denmark/Germany), a dark thriller about an investigative journalist trying to solve a four-decade-old [...]

Box-office sensation The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is up for a Guldbagge (Golden Beetle) Award for the best Swedish picture of 2009. Strangely, director Niels Arden Oplev wasn’t nominated — The Girl’s Fredrik Edfeldt took his place — though Noomi Rapace (above) is in the running for best actress. A surprise blockbuster, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has earned more than $100 million [...]