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]

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.

Vi har snakket med regissør og manusforfatter Eskil Vogt om arbeidet med Blind, årene som registudent på La fémis i Frankrike, møtet med Joachim Trier, filmforståelse, viktige inspirasjonskilder – og mye annet. [2]

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.

«Tommy Wirkolas I onde dager er en underholdende film og en kinoopplevelse som kommer til rett tid – vi kan alle ha godt av en virkelighetsflukt i form av litt avvæpnende gladvold.» [1]

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

«Til å være så skrekkelig, er ikke De uskyldige entydig svart, for en film med så mye vakkert lys blir aldri helt mørk.» [4]

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.

Filmen som ikke var en film, men som ble det likevel, er en uforglemmelig skildring av hvor sterkt behovet for å uttrykke seg kan bli hos et menneske som ikke lenger kan ta ytringsfriheten for gitt.

«Upon its release, Raymond Bernards Les Croix de bois (1932) was seen as a pacifist march of death.»

Hvorfor får jeg så lyst til å være enig med gutta om hvilke filmer som er bra? Ifølge filmfeminist Debra Zimmerman er det helt normalt. [10]

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.

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.

TIFF 2012: Med I spenn: Den arabiske verden setter TIFF fokus på ny arabisk film. Vi ser nærmere på balansen mellom kvalitetsfilm og et politisk korrekt temafokus. Hvilken verdi har et slikt sideprogram? [4]