A wonderful performance from a 21-year-old Björk is one of many reasons to see Nietzchka Keene's newly restored medieval fantasy. A film that’s every bit as lyrical and fraught as the T.S. Eliot poem ...

Gray Harrison is a journalist, critic, and creative writer based in Seattle. She has a Master’s degree in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from NYU. While pursuing an arts journalism career, Gray ...

We’ve devoured the land of our planet in an effort to call it our home. We’ve pulled the resources from her body, filled her oceans with litter, and damaged her atmosphere all in the foolish ...

"Out from here, away be gone." Arbelos Films has debuted a new trailer for the restored re-release of The Juniper Tree, a surrealist film from 1990 filmed in Iceland and made by filmmaker Nietzchka ...

At the very least, watching Nietzchka Keene’s haunting Icelandic fairy tale “The Juniper Tree” can cause your sense of time to fall away. A black-and-white movie filmed in 1986, it recalls both the ...

Before she was known only by her first name, and long before her awe-inspiring performance in Lars von Trier’s “Dancer in the Dark” proved that musicians can sometimes out-act even the best actors, ...

A loose adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, Nietzchka Keene’s 1993 Sundance favorite The Juniper Tree has returned in shiny new 4k restoration from Arbelos Films. Katla (Bryndis Petra ...

A hushed and enveloping 1990 fairy tale, “The Juniper Tree” marked the feature film debut of the American writer-director Nietzchka Keene, who died in 2004 at the age of 52. That debut premiered at ...

A film that’s every bit as lyrical and fraught as the T.S. Eliot poem it uses for a preface, Nietzchka Keene’s little-seen “The Juniper Tree” — shot in the summer of 1986, only to premiere at Sundance ...

Iceland’s the rare country whose fairy tales could conceivably be real. Every country has folklore, of course, but not every country is built on a landscape like Iceland’s, haunted and alien at once: ...