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.

TIFF 2025: Den 35. utgaven av Tromsø internasjonale filmfestival (TIFF) går av stabelen fra 13. til 19. januar, og i denne saken presenterer vi en guide til hvilke filmer publikum bør prioritere fra årets program.

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.

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.

Med den kunstneriske, kommersielle og kritiske suksessen til hans to nyeste filmer friskt i minne er det på tide med en nøktern gjennomgang av M. Night Shyamalans filmer i den tunge perioden 2008-2013. [8]

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.

«Hvis det finnes en nøkkel til The Last Movie, så er det Dennis Hoppers dristige, desperate forsøk på å beseire de ideologiske fallgruvene som var bakt inn i prosjektet – en kubistisk implosjon av løgner på celluloid.»

When David Lynch passed away on January 15, 2025, I felt as if I had lost a deformed twin brother whom I admired greatly but also feared.

The Bands punktum for karrieren er en parentes i Scorsese sin. Men selv om konsertdokumentaren The Last Waltz (1978) blir for trygg rent filmatisk, har musikken gjort den til en klassiker.

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.

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 visual analysis of key scenes of M. Night Shyamalan's masterpiece and his virtuoso use of motifs, staging and interconnectedness to achieve coherence and closure. [1]

Planeten Mars har alltid vært en fristende scene for filmskapere, ofte iscenesatt gjennom sjangerrammer som eventyr, horror og science fiction. I anledning visningene av Mars Express (2023) på Cinematekene, har vi laget en filmmeny satt til Mars. [1]

Vel vitende om at jeg aldri virkelig ville kunne bestemme meg for én favorittfilm, tar jeg som regel den som fortsetter å snakke til meg selv snart 15 år etter at jeg først så den. [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.

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. [1]

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

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]

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.

M. Night Shyamalan is particularly adept at creating a set of hidden motifs that govern the film. We look at circles, water, doors, houses, the sky and how they operate in two brilliant horror set pieces.