
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.
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.
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.
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]
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.
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.
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.
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]
«Upon its release, Raymond Bernards Les Croix de bois (1932) was seen as a pacifist march of death.»
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.
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.
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.
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]
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.
Hvilke filmer kommer til Cannes? Hvorfor er Boi redd for Sinna Mann? Og har du en designer i deg? Finn ut av dette i dagens Kortklipt. [1]
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.
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.
Cannes 2014: Variety rapporterte i dag om at det franske salgs- og distribusjonsselskapet Wild Bunch, i samarbeid med tyske Sophisticated Films, tar med seg Terrence …
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?