Horten, Norway News

Courtesy of the Loft Cinema Review O'Horten a Rated: PG-13 for brief nudity. a Writer-director: Bent Hamer.

Stars Bard Owe. Rated PG-13. Opens Fri., June 26. At Landmark Midtown Art Cinema.

Mark Twain famously remarked that the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

Runs at Varsity, Fri., June 19Thurs., June 25. Rated PG-13. 90 minutes. The premise of this gentle existential farce from Norwegian director Bent Hamer is little more than an excuse for a series of deadpan vignettes about love, death, and the meaning of life.

Old age might not be as flighty in Norway as it is in the Pixar universe of Up , but it's no less surreal.

Bard Owe is Odd. No really, he is. He plays a man named Odd, which in Norway is not so odd a name.

Bard Owe and friend in "O'Horten." O'Horten Odd Horten Bard Owe Mrs Thogersen Ghita Norby Trygve Sissener Espen Skjonberg Svea Henny Moan Flo Bjorn Floberg Steiner Sissener Kai Remlov Sony Pictures Classics presents a film written and directed by Bent Hamer.

Like the character it's named for, "O'Horten" is charming and a little bit daft.

The Norwegian director Bent Hammer, whose new film, "O'Horten," is about a newly retired train engineer, has that scarcest of qualities a ' a uniquely comic way of seeing.

Sony Pictures Classics THAT'S IT? Forced into retirement after 40 years as a train engineer, Odd Horten mulls the future during his goodbye party in "O'Horten." The "O" stands for Odd, which is a Norwegian male first name.

Norway's entry for Best Foreign Language Oscar, O'Horten considers the life of a train engineer as he reaches the mandatory retirement age of 67.

Odd is fairly common Norwegian name, but the English meaning is also fairly well known in Norway.

A European film in the profoundest sense, O'Horten is sure to infuriate as many people as it delights.

O' Horten is strangely titled because it gives the impression that ita TMs about an Irishman, Ireland or an American discovering his Irish roots.

Finland's Get In The Pit TV conducted an interview with former GORGOROTH and current GOD SEED frontman Gaahl at this year's Inferno festival, which was held April 8-11, 2009 in Oslo, Norway.

Video footage of GOD SEED performing the song "Teeth Grinding" on July 25, 2008 at the Hortensfestivalen in Horten, Norway can be viewed below .

Top 40 EMS firm Kitron will close its plant here and lay off 15 employees, according to published reports.

Here is an early Otter whose first "region" of employ was Norway, and saw time in the Antarctic during "Operation Penguin". She returned to Canada eventually, and continues to "fly the bush" to this day, in her original "persona"! All information is from Karl Hayes' "masterful" CD entitled: De Havilland Canada DHC-3 OTTER A HISTORY CONTACT KARL, CD ...

One of Norway's best known architects, Sverre Fehn has died at the age of 84. Among his best known works is the Norwegian Glacier Museum in Fjaerland.

Between the documentary and foreign language film divisions, it is hard to say which set of byzantine regulations have created more embarrassing omissions for the Academy Awards.