Montages har møtt Gullpalme-vinneren Ruben Östlund for en prat om The Square.

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]

Norges ledende Stanley Kubrick-ekspert, Arnstein Bjørkly, setter sitt punktum finale om den sagnomsuste regissøren og tar med leseren på en reise gjennom hele karrieren hans. Denne andre artikkelen starter med 2001: En romodyssé og avslutter med The Shining.

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

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.

Cinematekene feirer Top Guns 30-årsjubileum, og i denne artikkelen kaster vi et blikk på Tony Scotts karriere. Scott ble ofte anklaget for å dyrke overflate-estetikk og prangende stilgrep, men etterlot en rik og variert filmografi. [5]

Denne uken feirer Cinematekene 40-årsjubileet for Tony Scotts spillefilmdebut The Hunger, og vi byr her på et gjensyn med Dag Sødtholts hyllest av hele regissørens filmografi. [2]

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ruben Östlunds The Square er endelig klar for norske kinoer, og i denne podkastepisoden diskuterer vi hva den svenske regissøren har utrettet med sin til nå mest ambisiøse film, som vant Gullpalmen i Cannes. [5]

«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.»

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.

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.

Cannes 2017: Hovedkonkurransens jury, ledet av Pedro Almodóvar, delte i kveld ut sine priser – og den aller største utmerkelsen gikk til Ruben Östlunds The Square. [10]

Jeg hadde helt glemt at en amerikansk remake av sørkoreanske A Bittersweet Life (Dalkomhan insaeng) var på trappene, men i dag ble jeg for alvor påminnet om den dårlige ideen. […] [2]

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.