Cat and Estel just launched a fresh new German website, Viggo World, featuring Viggo Mortensen’s biography, filmography, books and CDs, plus the latest Viggo news. They would love to hear from Viggo’s fans.
News/Blog
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Viggo as publisher, and new book
See this great article about Viggo Mortensen, Perceval Press, and Viggo’s next book, I Forget You for Ever (due in November), in the New York Times: link to article.
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Viggo Mortensen autographs for Bob Johnson
Viggo Mortensen is supporting the candidacy of Dr. Bob Johnson for New York’s 23rd Congressional District. Bob is a Democrat and challenger to incumbent John McHugh; McHugh is on the House Armed Services Committee and a big supporter of President Bush and the Iraq war. Viggo has made three campaign appearances with Johnson and has […]
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Yes, I’m still here…
Sorry to be away from the site for a while … have added a few links but many in the past month. I have some good news, though. Just took a job with a local web design firm, CORE Communications, which will be a great change from my very lonely 1-person home shop! 🙂 And […]
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A History of Violence DVD
JoBlo reports that A History of Violence DVD will be released 28-Feb 2007. The DVD is expected to include a commentary by director David Cronenberg, deleted scene, and other documentaries and trailers.
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Alatriste release dates
Several folks have asked when Alatriste will be released. We’ve updated the Alatriste page with dates from IMDb: Spain in October 2006, USA in December 2006. If you hear anything more definitive, please let us know. We’ve also added a few more photographs to the page.
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Happy Birthday, Viggo!
Hope you are enjoying your day.
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Teresa back on?
Earlier we reported that Viggo was considering a part in the upcoming Spanish film Teresa; subsequently we understood that he turned down the part. Now the rumors have re-emerged. Empire reports that he is “in final talks to join the cast of the Spanish language flick Teresa.” The article also notes that “if Mortensen signs […]
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Perceval Press adds Viggo T-shirt, CD, more
Perceval Press has recently added several items: an original Viggo Mortensen T-shirt design reading “Impeach Remove Jail,” a new CD from Viggo and Buckhead entitled Intelligence Failure, and a 2nd printing of Twilight of Empire: Responses to Occupation that includes a new foreword by Howard Zinn.
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Middle-earth Journeys
J.R.R. Tolkien lovers, please join Riv Res and Philipa of Viggo-Works and Merry from Writers of Rohan (WRoR) in their new discussion forum focused on the works of Tolkien, Middle-earth Journeys. The site includes a calendar of Middle Earth events, links into the WRoR’s descriptive Tolkien library, and rich discussion.
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A History of Violence soundtrack CD released
The soundtrack CD for A History of Violence, featuring original music by Howard Shore, was released today on New Line Records.
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Viggo on The Daily Show (Jon Stewart)
In case you missed Viggo Mortensen’s silliness on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, catch the video on The Daily Show site. If for some reason it is inaccessible, you can find an archive on the SOTBK History of Violence page.
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Viggo on Charlie Rose and Letterman
In case you missed Viggo Mortensen’s appearance on Charlie Rose, catch a video of his political comments at Crooks and Liars. A few quotes. “I think if [the people of Iraq] are left to take care of their own affairs, I think they’ll do better in the long run.” When asked if he thought the […]
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A History of Violence official site
The official A History of Violence now offers a downloads section with wallpapers, AIM icons and a giant (3.7MB) version of the HoV poster. They’ve also added a “video blog” and Q&A with David Cronenberg. Find more about the film on our A History of Violence page.
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History of Violence teasers
HBO will be airing 13-minute “First Look” previews of A History of Violence starting September 12.
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A History of Violence poster
See the new A History of Violence poster in our A History of Violence gallery.
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The Crew poster & official site
The Crew is not one of Viggo Mortensen’s finer films, but it’s certainly memorable. Thanks to wwowie at LiveJournal for tipping us off to an official page posted by the producer, Cineville, with a large poster and some scanned news articles. Details on our The Crew page.
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Jumbo History of Violence stills
Found some great new high-resolution (1400×933) stills at outnow.ch, and added them to our A History of Violence page.
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Killshot and Teresa
Now that the filming for A History of Violence and Alatriste is complete, some of us have been wondering what’s next for Viggo Mortensen. IMDb lists his next two projects as Teresa and Killshot. I’ve been reluctant to post pages for them, as his participation is still not confirmed, but finally decided that we at […]
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Quiet month
Just realized that it’s been almost a month since I posted on this page. This doesn’t mean the site hasn’t been updated — I’ve added and updated quite a few links throughout the site. A few things of note: most of the Hidalgo video clips were no longer available on the sites we’d linked to, […]