Our in-depth look at M. Night Shyamalan's early films continues with Unbreakable: perhaps the only mainstream Hollywood formalist film, a mass-market movie approached with an unrelenting European art film sensibility.

M. Night Shyamalan's visual style consists of a series of recurring formal devices. Watching Unbreakable feels like participating in a ritual where these devices are applied and reapplied, in new variations and combinations.

With the artistic, commercial and critical success of his two latest films, it is about time to soberly unearth the very real qualities of M. Night Shyamalan's disproportionally maligned middle period.

A final look at M. Night Shyamalan's Split, this time its formal approach with a special emphasis on his inventive use of point-of-view shots, stealthy camera movements, overhead and underhead shots, and many other subtleties.

A stunning piece of high-precision filmmaking, formally inventive, thematically intelligent, emotionally gripping, a momentous commercial success, an almost perfect film. [1]

«What gives a work the kind of mark of authenticity that can prompt the sophisticated cinephile to nod with approval and self-satisfaction at being able to appreciate such a difficult but worthwhile film?»

BIFF 2021: Denne uken gikk startskuddet for årets utgave av Bergen internasjonale filmfestival (BIFF). I artikkelen nedenfor løfter vi frem fem filmer du trygt kan prioritere.

Before The Visit came M. Night Shyamalan's early masterpiece The Village. Mismarketed and misunderstood as a horror movie, it has gained a following as a mood piece of pastoral beauty, intense emotion and stylised lyricism.

It was one of the most hated films of the 2000s, but with the trauma now at a distance, it is time to appreciate M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water for its very real qualities. [2]

The new leaner, meaner version of M. Night Shyamalan has made a bizarre but thoroughly gripping film, providing an emotionally deep understanding of why psychological survival mechanisms arise in abuse victims.

Med Quo Vadis, Aida? vekkes en uendelig strøm av følelser og tanker, og regissør Jasmila Žbanić får oss til å stoppe opp og dvele ved en erfaring som ellers er for vanskelig å fange bare med noen enkle ord.

After a general evaluation of this M. Night Shyamalan tour de force, the large cast of characters and their relationships are examined, with a special emphasis on subtext and how that is expressed through mise-en-scène.

Whispered echoes, nightmare logic, high melodrama, relentlessly ingenious staging – this visual analysis of M. Night Shyamalan's pastoral masterpiece preserves the film's own gestures, often rearranged in surprising combinations.

Forfatter Roskva Koritzinsky skriver om underkuede ungdommer og overnaturlige krefter i Brian De Palmas Carrie (1976) og Tomas Alfredsons La den rette komme inn (2008).

6. september døde en av de virkelige ikonene i fransk filmhistorie, Jean-Paul Belmondo. Han ble hele 88 år gammel. Vi benytter anledningen til å hente opp en artikkel fra arkivet, […]

Wes Andersons umiskjennelige stil er dypt og inderlig umoderne. Så hvorfor vekker den likevel resonans i det aktuelle motebildet? 

The cat-and-mouse sessions between psychiatrist and patient form a thrilling acting laboratory, where M. Night Shyamalan's fundamentally static set-ups are done with rigour and discreet invention. Bonus: film references.

I en tid hvor John Carpenter er mer kjent for originalfilmene bak en rekke nytolkninger, ser vi tilbake på kultregissørens glansperiode og spør: Hvordan står det til med arven etter Carpenter? [17]

We conclude our in-depth analysis of M. Night Shyamalan's masterpiece with a close look at motifs and structural aspects, concluding with a shot-by-shot commentary on the post-funeral sequence.

M. Night Shyamalan's enigmatic superhero thriller is a film where everything seems to be connected to everything else. We look at various motifs and colour codings that move in intricate and sometimes very strange patterns.

We look at three outstanding scenes in this better-than-you-think M. Night Shyamalan film, along with its pervasive motif of figures in a landscape, visual rhymes and many occasions of elegant staging.

Signs offers rich allegorical subtexts of dreams, magic and the aliens as metaphors for the characters' inner demons. We also chart references to The Birds, and analyse the masterful cellar sequence and the film's ending.