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Wednesday Jul 1 | AZNightBuzz.com

An observant comedy of retiring minds

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

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Sun Jun 28, 2009

Creative Loafing

O'Horten doesn't quite punch the ticket

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

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Sat Jun 27, 2009

Creative Loafing

O'Horten doesn't quite punch the ticket

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

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Wed Jun 17, 2009

Seattle Weekly

Pick O'Horten: An Endearing Oddball From Norway

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.

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Fri Jun 12, 2009

The Phoenix

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

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Fri Jun 05, 2009

National Post

O'Horten: He may be Odd, but he's a lot of fun

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

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Thu Jun 04, 2009

Chicago Sun-Times

A Norwegian loner sings theDisappearing Railroad Blues

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.

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Related Topix: Norway, World News, Espen Skjonberg

Sun May 24, 2009

Los Angeles Times

'O'Horten'

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

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Fri May 22, 2009

Christian Science Monitor

Review: 'O'Horten'

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.

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Thu May 21, 2009

Ledger Dispatch

Review: 'O'Horten' a warm coming-of-change tale from frigid Norway

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.

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Sat May 16, 2009

Boxoffice

O'Horten

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.

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Thu May 14, 2009

J.B. Spins

Odd Norwegian

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

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Fri May 08, 2009

The Sligo Champion

Movice: O'Horten * * * *

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

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Related Topix: Norway, World News, Baard Owe

Wed May 06, 2009

IndieLondon

Oa TMHorten a " Review

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

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Wed Apr 22, 2009

BlabberMouth.net

God Seed's Gaahl Interviewed At Norway's Inferno Festival; Video Available

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.

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Tue Apr 21, 2009

BlabberMouth.net

God Seed: DVD Preview Available

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

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Fri Mar 27, 2009

Circuits Assembly

Report: Horten to Hear Nothing as Kitron Shutters Site

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

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Wed Mar 25, 2009

Canoe, Hunt, Fish, and Fly,

Steve's "Otters Of The Week"! .....by Karl E. Hayes

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 ...

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Related Topix: Norway, Europe, World News, North America, Canada, US Military, US Air Force,

Tue Feb 24, 2009

The Norway Post

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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.

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Mon Jan 12, 2009

J.B. Spins

Submitted for the Academya s Approval

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.

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Related Topix: Arts, Cinema, Oscars, Norway, World News, Macedonia, Macedon, NY

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