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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I forbindelse med seminaret Digital Storytelling 2012 fikk Montages anledning til å snakke litt med WETA Digitals teknologisjef Sebastian Sylwan.

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 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.

Her i del 2 av vårt intervju med Roger Deakins fortsetter vår samtale med mesterfotografen om hans særegne uttrykk, samarbeidet med Coen-brødrene på True Grit, med mer.

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]

Say what you want about M. Night Shyamalan's foray into disaster movie terrain, but its last 25 minutes are excellent, carefully walked through in this screenshot-based analysis.

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.

In Signs scenes do not only exist to drive the plot forward. Their formally distinctive staging creates additional layers, encouraging meanings and symbols, often enigmatic. [1]

Cinematekene feirer Top Guns 30-årsjubileum, og i denne artikkelen kaster vi et blikk på Tony Scotts karriere. Scott ble ofte anklaget for å dyrke overflate-estetikk og prangende stilgrep, men etterlot en rik og variert filmografi. [5]

De første reaksjonene på Clint Eastwoods Invictus er positive, men med tydelige forbehold.

I denne andre delen av vårt omfattende intervju med Blind-regissør Eskil Vogt, snakker han om filmens og tankens frihet, blindhet og fantasi, menneskers behov for visuell bekreftelse, TV-serier og norsk film.

Som vanlig klarer ikke Ridley Scott å la filmen sin hvile i fred, og røper at Prometheus kommer i utvidet versjon på video. Selv om kinofilmen visstnok er hans foretrukne Director's Cut. [16]

«Når sorgen er på sitt verste er overgangene mellom scenene seige som sirup, når skrekken har tatt sorgens plass synes natten å komme på ett blunk.» [2]