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.

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]

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.

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.

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.

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.

Montages kårer 80-tallets beste filmer, og i tiden fremover presenterer vi kåringen – som vil bli rangert, omtalt og diskutert i en serie artikler og podkaster. Vi fortsetter med plasseringene 170.–161. plass. [5]

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.

Vår kåring av 90-tallets 100 beste filmer fortsetter, og her presenterer vi Montages’ utvalgte – fra 20. til 11. plass. [42]

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]

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.

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.

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.

Den tilbaketrukne britiske filmskaperen Chris Cunningham er ennå et godt stykke unna en kinosal nær deg. Men vi har kikket nærmere på regissørens ferskeste prosjekt. [3]

Dagen for løsnese og huggtenner, utskårne gresskar og store mengder jukseblod er her. Montages gir deg fimene for å komme i den rette stemningen. [16]

Vi tipser om potensielle favoritter fra programmet til Oslo-festivalen Arabiske filmdager.

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