Dissecting Barbie's Metamodernist Journey: How Does Gerwig's Massive Commercial Success Engage with Postfeminist Neoliberalism, Consumerist Culture, and the Contradictions of a Capitalist Spectacle? Or How to Mansplain Barbie in 2000 Words.
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Returning to Oslo for the third time on October 11-15, 2023, MIRAGE is an international film festival that celebrates “the art of the real.” Racha Helen Larsen, Festival & Program Director, elaborates on what this philosophy entails and how it is reflected on this year’s program.
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Spillmediet er en stor mediebransje som bare fortsetter å vokse med tiden som går. Med det kommer det utrolig gode historier og opplevelser, som en gjerne vil dele med andre både i og utenfor spillmediet. Gjennom årene har vi sett mange forsøk på å utvide en spillserie til andre medier som tv og film, med noen som har vært ganske bra, noen som har vært helt ålreit, og noen som ikke har gått så bra.
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Oslo Short Film Festival offered more than a dozen colourfully different stories, varying both in origin country, language, and mood. PRESSET. writers Matilda Forss and Arina Kosareva attended and explored the journey of the nineteen carefully-curated short films.
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The Oslo Short Film Festival 2023, taking place on August 31-September 1 at Oslo’s Sentralen, explores human vulnerability and multiple ways one can interact with the world. PRESSET. talked to Apostolia Katsiantridou, the Head of Program for the OSFF, about what else to expect from the Festival’s official selection.
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Co-organized by the “Screen Cultures” MA program at the University of Oslo and the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, this years’ NECS was one of the largest academic events in media and film studies in Europe. Because of COVID-19, the preparation for it took nearly 3 years — but the result was 100% worth it. Here is how the one-week Conference in Oslo hosting more than 400 scholars from all over the globe came to be.
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Etter ett år med mye etterlengtet oppussing er Cinemateket åpnet igjen – som et friskt pust i Dronningens gate.
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Det at lineær-TV dør ut har vært en mye omdiskutert sak. Før i tida måtte man finne seg i å se på hva enn som var pre-programmert til å dukke opp på skjermen, og i beste fall kunne man da bytte kanal for å se om den neste hadde noe bedre å tilby. Et verre helvete har jeg aldri hørt om?
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Cate Blanchett plays an orchestra conductor called Lydia Tár in Todd Field’s newest movie ‘Tár’. Lydia’s fame and power, in a bone chilling way, starts to unravel and unhinge. She is an absolute psychopath – so why can’t I stop thinking about her?
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Det hele startet med en ikonisk meme av Lucille Bluth fra tv-serien Arrested Development, og siden har publikum utviklet en egen subsjanger som anerkjennes av internettkulturen. Hva rommer egentlig “Good for her”-filmuniverset?
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We’re living in the age of the curated streaming service and neighborhood art cinema. As zillennials cling to their cassette tapes and MUBI subscriptions, a new form of tastemaking and social hierarchy has emerged in the artsy crowd. Letterboxd, a film review platform, provides a safe haven for those with “unconventional” tastes and an ironic distance to the Hollywood blockbusters they diligently watch.
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Det kan virke som at Hollywood prioriterer remakes og sequels over nye originale ideer, nå mer enn noensinne. Dette gjelder også innen skrekkfilmsjangeren. Gamle franchiser får stadig den ene nye filmen etter den andre. Er det ikke på tide at vi får noen flere nye, originale skrekkfilmfranchiser snart?
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Arctic Film Festival is the first and the only northernmost independent international film festival on the planet. Established in 2019 to raise awareness about climate change, it has since then been held in Svalbard’s Longyearbyen – the largest town of the archipelago. On May 13, 2023, the Festival returns there once again, with a carefully curated selection of independent short and feature fiction films and documentaries from all over the world. Apostolia Katsiantridou, the Head of Program for the AFF for the last 3 editions, talked with PRESSET. about the Festival’s history, mission, and nuanced relationship with nature.
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Peter Weir’s ‘Truman Show’, Samuel Becketts play ‘Waiting for Godot’, and Daniel Scheinert and Dan Kwan’s ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ all ask, and in my opinion, answer that true existentialist mystery – what makes life worth living?
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This past week, I sat down with Hannah Hasseløy and Jakob Skrede Langedal, who facilitate the Vega Filmklubb. The club consists of thirty people who curate a film programme for the public every autumn and spring semester. Screenings are open to everyone, and membership costs 25 NOK per semester, with an additional 50 NOK per screening. That’s quite the bang for your buck! Continue reading to hear more about this season’s programming and the group’s plans for the future.
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The 95th Academy Awards ceremony was a blast, with eclectic, extravagant, quite perplexing absurdist comedy/drama Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) scoring 7 wins, including in the “Best Picture” category. Written and directed by the duo of “Daniels” aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, this film is as far from “Oscar bait” as it can be. Michelle Yeoh’s historic — first Asian actress to have won an Oscar in the “Best Actress” nomination — golden statuette is yet another clear signal of the long-awaited cinematographic tectonic shift. The Oscars are — finally! — changing. But are they?
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After a three-year COVID-induced break, the Oslo Film Festival finally returned to Norway’s capital with an exceptional selection of independent films from all over the world. Held for two weekday evenings in a row in what once was a bank vault (!), the event gathered quite a diverse and international crowd, which chimed nicely with one of its principal themes – an everlasting fascination with multiculturalism and the controversiality of the daily.
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Inherently Freudian, Anne Rice’s gothic novels about tantalizing and yet excruciatingly isolated creatures have always been loved and cherished by LGBTQ+ community — first and foremost for their powerful allegoric potential. AMC’s Interview with the Vampire picks up on these notions and is followed by Mayfair Witches, forming a solid premise for Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe.
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