Film fra sør 2017: Den iranske regissøren Mohammad Rasoulof nektes utreise fra Iran for å besøke Oslo med sin nye film Mannen mot strømmen, og i samtale med Montages utbroderer den viljesterke filmskaperen om sin situasjon.
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.
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.
Arte France Cinéma vil co-produsere Claire Denis’ engelskspråklige spillefilmdebut.
Cinema Paradiso fra 1988 relanseres i disse dager. Men er denne italienske publikumsvinneren alt regissør Giuseppe Tornatore hadde å by på? Vi ser nærmere på hans andre filmer. [9]
Film fra Sør 2013: Den thailandske Gullpalme-vinneren og multikunstneren Apichatpong Weerasethakul er æresgjest under årets Film fra Sør. Vi tok en prat med filmskaperen om hans forhold til kunsten og livet. Og filmkultur. [1]
«Her life as a mother dictated what spaces she would film in. Her feminist I takes place in the film, in the frame, behind and within the camera. Her installations are inhabitable, a shed of cinema to walk through and be within.»
Not only will this article eschew politics, morals and messages, it will map out the abundance of virtues of Joker without at all relying on Joaquin Phoenix’s monumental performance.
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.
A stunning piece of high-precision filmmaking, formally inventive, thematically intelligent, emotionally gripping, a momentous commercial success, an almost perfect film.
«Upon its release, Raymond Bernards Les Croix de bois (1932) was seen as a pacifist march of death.»
A return to this severely under-appreciated film, for its discussion of storytelling, interpretation, film criticism, artificiality, stylisation, interconnectedness – and whether stories can become real.
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 strange case of parallel universes explored through Declan Clarke’s Geist Trilogy from 2015. Are you ready for film at its absolute weirdest, flouting all cinematic conventions and ‘hung out’ in a gallery?
A Shyamalan enthusiast is struggling mightily to come to terms with the conundrum of The Happening, a split identity film that swings wildly between excellence, rampant quirkiness and unchecked hysteria.
I skyggen av en økonomisk orientert bransje, kjendiser og glamour, for ikke å snakke om fagmiljøer som i mange tilfeller «avmystifiserer» filmkunsten, er det lett å glemme noe så grunnleggende som filmens essens. Hvorfor er film så magisk, drømmende og vidunderlig? Hva er egentlig film?
Vi har beveget oss over i desember måned, og tradisjon tro begynner topplistene å krype frem. Blant årets første kåringer finner vi tungvekterne som Sight & Sound og Cahiers du Cinéma, samt den alltid interessante listen til eksentrikeren John Waters. [2]
A guide to the many powerful suicide scenes, including the brilliant, icily electrifying opening where normality turns into nightmare. Plus motifs, visual ideas and references to earlier Shyamalan works.
