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Mesmerised by the movies: An interview with David Bordwell

Mesmerised by the movies: An interview with David Bordwell

Av Dag Sødtholt

The enormously influential film scholar David Bordwell passed away just a few days ago. This massive interview from 2004, never before published in English, makes for a snapshot of his personality and cinematic vision.

David Lynch: My Deformed Twin Brother
International Edition

David Lynch: My Deformed Twin Brother

Av Hilde Susan Jægtnes

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.

Unbreakable, Part I: Characters and relationships
International Edition

Unbreakable, Part I: Characters and relationships

Av Dag Sødtholt

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.

Lady in the Water, Part I: A reappraisal
International Edition

Lady in the Water, Part I: A reappraisal [1]

Av Dag Sødtholt

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]

Louder Than Bombs: Joachim Trier’s play on perspective

Louder Than Bombs: Joachim Trier’s play on perspective

Av Dag Sødtholt

As so often in films, Louder Than Bombs is not a dissertation, but a meditation on its themes and motifs. Seen in isolation, words and deeds may seem unexceptional – it is as a whole that Joachim Trier film takes flight.

Fra venstre: «Seaside Serendipity» (Bilde: © Eri Okamoto) og «Evidence» (Bilde: © Lee Anne Schmitt)

Mellom fortidens spøkelser og levende bilder – en dialog om Berlinalen 2025

Av Simon Holm

Berlinalen 2025: Noen måneder har gått siden årets Berlinale, som ble historisk god i norsk forstand, og våre to utsendte skribenter reflekterer i denne dialogen over et knippe av opplevelsene som gjorde særlig inntrykk.

Split, Part IV: Creativity in cramped quarters
International Edition

Split, Part IV: Creativity in cramped quarters

Av Dag Sødtholt

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.

Signs, Part III: Dreams, demons and birds

Signs, Part III: Dreams, demons and birds

Av Dag Sødtholt

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.

Lady in the Water, Part II: Self-reflexivity and visual stylisation
International Edition

Lady in the Water, Part II: Self-reflexivity and visual stylisation [3]

Av Dag Sødtholt

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.  [3]

Joachim Trier’s Thelma (2017) Part I: What does it all mean?

Joachim Trier’s Thelma (2017) Part I: What does it all mean?

Av Dag Sødtholt

Zeitgeist is replaced by timelessness, chamber music by a symphony. The systematically unpredictable Thelma is Joachim Trier and his team's most sonorous, lyrical and adventurous film.

The Happening, Part III: Do you think it could be plants?
International Edition

The Happening, Part III: Do you think it could be plants?

Av Dag Sødtholt

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.

After Earth, Part I: Much better than you think

After Earth, Part I: Much better than you think

Av Dag Sødtholt

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.

The Village, part I: Motifs and story arc

The Village, part I: Motifs and story arc

Av Dag Sødtholt

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.

Split, Part III: Meeting of multiple minds

Split, Part III: Meeting of multiple minds

Av Dag Sødtholt

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.

«I will continue to make my films» – en samtale med den iranske regissøren Mohammad Rasoulof

«I will continue to make my films» – en samtale med den iranske regissøren Mohammad Rasoulof

Av Karsten Meinich

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.

The Sixth Sense, Part I: Stature and Style
International Edition

The Sixth Sense, Part I: Stature and Style [1]

Av Dag Sødtholt

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

M. Night Shyamalan’s Old: Twelve against time
International Edition

M. Night Shyamalan’s Old: Twelve against time

Av Dag Sødtholt

Although the framing story and twist are surprisingly prosaic, for long stretches of the main body M. Night Shyamalan's Old conjures up a combination of tension, absurdity and chaos that few other films have achieved.

M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit, Part II: Shit happens, but with precision
International Edition

M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit, Part II: Shit happens, but with precision

Av Dag Sødtholt

Although not strictly a found footage film itself, The Visit is commenting upon, and at times even satirising, the ingredients of the genre. Bonus: references to other Shyamalan films.

Desperate connections: An analysis of Anne Sewitsky’s Homesick (2015)

Desperate connections: An analysis of Anne Sewitsky’s Homesick (2015)

Av Dag Sødtholt

"Homesick primarily plays on the unspoken. Dialogues are marked by pauses and silent tensions between characters. Most films increase their pace towards a climax, but in Sewitsky the pauses just grow longer and more pregnant."

The Sixth Sense, Part III: Motifs and a Funeral
International Edition

The Sixth Sense, Part III: Motifs and a Funeral

Av Dag Sødtholt

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.

The Village, part II: A tapestry of characters

The Village, part II: A tapestry of characters

Av Dag Sødtholt

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.

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, plan C: The love of gravity

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, plan C: The love of gravity

Av Dag Sødtholt

We are unable to let go of Interstellar...! This third article explores the film as an experience and its music, editing and consistency. And perhaps there are more plans in the film than Plan A and B?

Unbreakable, Part II: Motifs and colour
International Edition

Unbreakable, Part II: Motifs and colour

Av Dag Sødtholt

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.

Forget your stupid Dad: M. Night Shyamalan’s superhuman escapism in Trap

Forget your stupid Dad: M. Night Shyamalan’s superhuman escapism in Trap

Av Dag Sødtholt

Dag Sødtholt har igjen gått analytisk til verks på en M. Night Shyamalan-film, nå kinoaktuelle Trap: "Great entertainment is provided in an audacious film where a virtuoso, multi-layered performance by Josh Hartnett shall seduce us into accepting Trap as an arena of pure playfulness."

Some Thoughts on the Study of Terminal Institutions in Frederick Wisemans At Berkeley
TIFF 2014

Some Thoughts on the Study of Terminal Institutions in Frederick Wisemans At Berkeley

Av P. Stuart Robinson

TIFF 2014: How can master filmmaker Frederick Wiseman scrutinise the body of the University and fail to notice it dying before his eyes?

En samtale med filmregissør og kunstner Apichatpong Weerasethakul

En samtale med filmregissør og kunstner Apichatpong Weerasethakul [1]

Av Sveinung Wålengen

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]

The Happening, Part II: Goners with the wind
International Edition

The Happening, Part II: Goners with the wind

Av Dag Sødtholt

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.

Split: M. Night Shyamalan goes crazy and tender
Omtale

Split: M. Night Shyamalan goes crazy and tender

Av Dag Sødtholt

The new leaner, meaner version of M. Night Shyamalan has made a bizarre but thoroughly gripping film, providing an emotionally deep understanding of why psychological survival mechanisms arise in abuse victims.

M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass: Fusion of shards
International Edition

M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass: Fusion of shards

Av Dag Sødtholt

An initial response to the narratively complex and structurally beautiful Glass, which concludes the diverse trilogy of the meditative mood piece Unbreakable and the character-oriented suspense film Split.

Signs, Part I: Delightful entertainment, with meaning

Signs, Part I: Delightful entertainment, with meaning [1]

Av Dag Sødtholt

M. Night Shyamalan has created a Signs fiction film about alien invasion, with powerful horror set pieces and comedic touches. An analysis of its dreamlike opening sequence peels away complex layers of motifs and echoes. [1]

The Village Part III: Love, murder and monsters

The Village Part III: Love, murder and monsters

Av Dag Sødtholt

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.

Signs, Part II: Motifs and horror shows

Signs, Part II: Motifs and horror shows

Av Dag Sødtholt

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.

After Earth, Part II: Figure in a landscape

After Earth, Part II: Figure in a landscape

Av Dag Sødtholt

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.

Les Croix de Bois: An Encounter with War

Les Croix de Bois: An Encounter with War

Av Annie Fee

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

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, plan A: Caressing across the galaxies

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, plan A: Caressing across the galaxies

Av Dag Sødtholt

This is the first of three analytical articles on Christopher Nolan's science fiction epic Interstellar. A transcendent cinematic work, whose construction and staging hold a plethora of deeply embedded patterns and structures.

Beautiful destruction – et blikk på Antonionis Zabriskie Point

Beautiful destruction – et blikk på Antonionis Zabriskie Point

Av Benjamin Yazdan

I Michelangelo Antonionis Zabriskie Point går alt opp i flammer. Vi kaster et blikk på kultfilmens status i dette essayet, og trekker inn Dennis Hoppers Easy Rider i diskusjonen.

Agnès Varda in a box: Inhabiting TOUT(e) VARDA
International Edition

Agnès Varda in a box: Inhabiting TOUT(e) VARDA

Av Anna Ulrikke Andersen

«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 Deep Darkies of the Soul: M. Night Shyamalan organically swings in The Visit
International Edition

The Deep Darkies of the Soul: M. Night Shyamalan organically swings in The Visit

Av Dag Sødtholt

"You have to laugh to keep the deep darkies in a cave." Shyamalan's most audacious film presents a bizarre mix of knowing irony, youthful naivete, mental illness, comedic horror and tonal shifts, yet everything seamlessly works.

The magic of Mark Cousins – One man’s film guru and another man’s irritating dilettante

The magic of Mark Cousins – One man’s film guru and another man’s irritating dilettante

Av P. Stuart Robinson

Karlovy Vary 2015: How to explain the magic and the peril of charismatic DIY filmmaker Mark Cousins? I met the ‘legend’ and watched some of his films at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Everything will be forgotten, but not Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st

Everything will be forgotten, but not Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st

Av Dag Sødtholt

Joachim Trier's second film is more realistic and less playful than his debut Reprise. This exploration of the film's form still reveals many memorable devices and discreet touches.

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