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.
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The Village, part II: A tapestry of characters
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.
Signs, Part I: Delightful entertainment, with meaning
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.
Denzel Washington i A Bittersweet Life-remake
Jeg hadde helt glemt at en amerikansk remake av sørkoreanske A Bittersweet Life (Dalkomhan insaeng) var på trappene, men i dag ble jeg for … [2]
The Sixth Sense, Part III: Motifs and a Funeral
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.
M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass: Fusion of shards
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.
Rapport fra New Directors/New Films 2011
Montages har besøkt den 40. utgaven av New Directors/New Films, som viser det beste av ny internasjonal film fra første- og andregangsregissører. I år inkluderte det bl.a. Sykt lykkelig og regissør Anne Sewitsky.
Sigurd Moe Hetlands minner fra 40 år i Cannes
Cannes 2020: Vår alternative utgave av Cannes-festivalen 2020 er over, og for å avslutte dette prosjektet har vi invitert selveste Sigurd Moe Hetland til å skrive om sine minner fra imponerende 40 år på festivalen. [3]
Gullpalmen til Ruben Östlunds The Square
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]
The magic of Mark Cousins – One man’s film guru and another man’s irritating dilettante
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.
Signs, Part III: Dreams, demons and birds
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.
Split: M. Night Shyamalan goes crazy and tender
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.
Les Croix de Bois: An Encounter with War
«Upon its release, Raymond Bernards Les Croix de bois (1932) was seen as a pacifist march of death.»
Den ustoppelige Tony Scott
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]
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.
Hvordan en statlig reform av byråkratiet kan skade sårbare fagfelt og rasere norsk films troverdighet
En rekke umusikalske kutt- og nedbemanningsforslag hos Norsk filminstitutt står nå i fare for å rasere norsk films troverdighet. Årsaken er regjeringens sterkt kritiserte ABE-reform, som ønsker å effektivisere det statlige byråkratiet.
Genuinely socialist: The Midnight Sun Film Festival
Like many of its own films, the Midnight Sun Film Festival remains true to perhaps the greatest cinematic – and human – aspiration of them all: to express an understanding of, and solidarity with, all the others washed up with us here on this strange little planet of ours.
The Cinema and the Gallery – When worlds collide?
A strange case of parallel universes explored through Declan Clarke’s Geist Trilogy from 2015. Are you ready for film at its absolute weirdest, flouting all cinematic conventions and ‘hung out’ in a gallery?