Lady in the Water, Part I: A reappraisal
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.
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Unbreakable, Part I: Characters and relationships
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 II: Self-reflexivity and visual stylisation
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.
Louder Than Bombs: Joachim Trier’s play on perspective
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.
Sonja (2018)
Det inautentiske ligger som en tåke over Sonja, Anne Sewitskys biografiske filmfortelling om isdanslegenden og Hollywood-stjernen Sonja Henie. Hvorfor lage en illusjon når man i stedet kan spille på virkeligheten?
Desperate connections: An analysis of Anne Sewitsky’s Homesick (2015)
«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.»
No one’s laughing now: The artistic merit of Todd Phillips’ Joker
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.
VampyrVidar (2018)
Thomas Aske Berg og Fredrik Waldelands VampyrVidar er ikke helt uten kvaliteter, men til å være en film som utgir seg for å være en vampyrkomedie, er det påfallende lite vampyrtematikk og heller ikke spesielt mye komikk å spore.
The Happening, Part III: Do you think it could be plants?
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.
Disse norske kinofilmene er koronarammet, og slik blir den alternative veien ut til publikum
Norske kinofilmer er rammet hardt av koronakrisen, og vi har snakket med flere av de involverte – om filmenes skjebne, nye strategier og hvilke løsninger som kan sikre dem et publikum, også i koronaens tid.
En samtale med Eskil Vogt – del 1
Vi har snakket med regissør og manusforfatter Eskil Vogt om arbeidet med Blind, årene som registudent på La fémis i Frankrike, møtet med Joachim Trier, filmforståelse, viktige inspirasjonskilder – og mye annet. [2]
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, plan A: Caressing across the galaxies
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.
Flukten over grensen (2020)
«Johanne Helgelands Flukten over grensen er en viktig film, ikke bare fordi den formidler den norske krigshistorien til barn, men fordi målet åpenbart har vært å lage kvalitetsfilm til det yngste publikummet.»
Koronakrisen stopper Joachim Triers nye film – innspillingen av Verdens verste menneske på vent
Koronakrisen paralyserer fortsatt de fleste aktiviteter i det norske samfunnet, og filmbransjen er hardt rammet. Nå er opptakene på Joachim Triers neste film utsatt.
The Village, part I: Motifs and story arc
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.
Joachim Trier’s Thelma (2017) Part I: What does it all mean?
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.