Reykjavík Grapevine - 12.09.2008, Síða 32

I’m actually very enthusiastic
about coming over and you
have a cinema and all, right?
Well, at least I’m excited…
Filmmaker Costa-Gavras is attending the
Reykjavík International Film Festival.
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Also, the Predator seems to be
in favour of private initiative,
as he always hunts alone. This
might lead him to lower taxes.
Attempts to reform Medi-
care might also be seen to be
hypocritical by relatives of the
people he has hospitalised.
Valur Gunnarsson deliberates the capitalistic
values of the possible President
candidate Predator.
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Calm yet danceable, grimey
while at the same time so-
phisticated, Tellier is not just
another Daft Punk wannabe
but rather a worthy heir, tak-
ing Parisian electro in a new,
erotic direction.
Oddur Sturluson was flabbergasted with
Sebastian Tellier’s untamed performance.
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If you are an expat living in
Iceland, you might also have
been too busy learning salsa or
hanging out in the geothermal
pools to care what’s going on
across the pond.
Grapevine’s own expat instructs her fellows
how to vote overseas.
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“He’s what you’ d call a pio-
neer; the sport wasn’t so big
back then. I was inspired by
him. When I started train-
ing out on the east coast, I
watched him on TV, I said to
my friends, one day, like Jón
Páll, I’ ll be there.”
Magnús Ver depicts his passion for his ulti-
mate idol, World’s Strongest Man
Jón Páll Sigmarsson
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Three Icelandic servicemen
sustained severe injuries to
their body and face from
flying sharpnel. All of them
recovered, but they now share
five testicles.
Remembering Chicken Street
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