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.

Som mange har fått med seg i dag; konkurranseprogrammene til årets filmfestival i Cannes er nå offentliggjort. Og for et program! Hos Variety finner dere en grundig oversikt over alle […]

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]

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.

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

«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.»

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.

Det fullstendige Cannes-programmet er ute -- nye filmer fra Jean-Luc Godard, Xavier Dolan, David Cronenberg og Ruben Östlund blant bidragene. [4]

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

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.

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]

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.

Maria Bonnevie, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Erlend Loe, Cecilie Mosli og Bjørn Sundquist er blant de nominerte til Kanonprisen som deles ut under Kosmorama mandag 15. mars.

Bård Breiens biografifilm Team Havnaa, om brødrene Magne og Erling Havnaa, introduserer sjangeren fight film for et norsk kinopublikum.

Hva får en sexscene til å fungere? Det gjelder ikke å vise mer, men å føle mer, ifølge Claire Denis. [7]

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.

«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?»

To forskjellige retninger innen dokumentarfilmen, men som har et felles utgangspunkt i utviklingen av mer kompakte kamera og enklere og lettere lydutstyr. Den ene ønsker å leve med sine subjekter, den andre ønsker å blande seg inn.

«Filmskapere som Knut Erik Jensen har vi ikke mange av. Vi trenger flere filmer som Lengsel etter nåtid, laget med samme brennende lidenskap og kompromissløse stahet.»