The Happening, Part I: The twisted face of mankind
Say what you want about M. Night Shyamalan’s foray into disaster movie terrain, but its last 25 minutes are excellent, carefully walked through in this screenshot-based analysis.
Where Man Returns: Off the map it may be, but North Norwegian film is coming in from the cold!
TIFF 2019: When Man Returns may not sweep you away like some movie-land fairground rollercoaster, but it will take you on the kind of slow, arduous journey that is the hallmark of the North.
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.
The impeachment of Elio: Fruits and echoes in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name
This third and final piece will round up favourite moments, film-formal devices, and a large number of motifs, staging ideas, echoes and other structural properties that enrich this well-thought-out film.
Because I wanted you to know: Staging Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name
Continuing our guide to this film, a look at the masterfully staged piazza scene where music and mise-en-scène interact, against a backdrop of motifs and echoes.
I remember everything: The many closures of Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name
Through an abundance of visual examples, a guide to the film’s final scenes, revealing how not only its characters but the film itself is striving to achieve closure.
Interlinked: Adapting the Cyberpunk World of Blade Runner
What happens as the cyberpunk elements in Blade Runner are adapted and changed in Blade Runner 2049, brought into both the fictional future Los Angeles, as well as the cultural context of 2017?
The Lighthorsemen (1987)
An excellent, visually ravishing Australian World War I film with an absolutely electrifying extended climax.
How singular confrontations embody goodness and achieve universality: Ziad Doueiri’s The Insult
«Because The Insult does not pretend to produce a message and only deals with the drama of individuals, it convokes the Lebanese history only through singular lives and makes us to bodily engage with some of its perspectives.»
For Superhero Movies
«Despite the long history of sexism and racism in every aspect of cinema, there are still people who write about film for a living who are only now realizing that representation matters.»
Vitaly Mansky’s Putin’s Witnesses exposes the kingmakers who killed democracy
Karlovy Vary 2018: «Is Putin charismatic? On the basis of a cursory appraisal we would surely say ‘No’ but we would just as surely be dead wrong – and quite possibly also dead.»
Tim Robbins’s answer to Bullyboy ‘Biff’ Trump: We’ll take our modified DeLoreans right back to the progressive future we deserve!
Karlovy Vary 2018: Tim Robbins used the opportunity of receiving the President’s Award for his ‘contribution to world cinema’ to issue a rousing metaphorical call to arms for artists everywhere.
Midnight Sun Film Festival’s note of melancholy, and the enduring spirit of movies
Midnight Sun 2018: They say ‘out of darkness cometh light,’ but can times of adversity such as ours really breed great films? Let alone change the world? Well, if it can happen anywhere, it will be here, at Sodankylä’s famous Midnight Sun Film Festival (MSFF).