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 COMING REVIEWS:
The Graduate (*****)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (****)
Uskyld (*)
 

 

"Oh, she's offended. And she should be. I'm a pig. And I hate me. That's what we have in common, nurse Rached. We both hate me." - Harling Mays (John Goodman) - Flight (2012)

WHAT'S NEW? | FEBRUARY 2013

2012

 

THE FILMS OF 2012
See the list of reviewed
films from 2012 here

2011

 

THE FILMS OF 2011
List of films from 2011 here
The Fresh Awards for 2011 here

 

BACK TO THE OSCARS
Awards - February 2013
The Academy Award nominations are here again, to inspire and annoy.

See THE 2012 OSCARS NOMINATIONS here

 

THE COEN BROTHERS
Directors - 28/01/11
As The Coen brothers this week were nominated for Best Picture for the third time in four years, we take a look at their career.

 

AUTEUR THEORY -
ARROGANT OR TAUTOLOGICAL?

Blog - 19/01/09
Fredrik Fevang comments on Dan Schneider and James Berardinelli's views on film criticism and auteur theory.|
Read

 

NORWEGIAN PERFORMERS
The FreshFilms looks at what
happens outside our Oslo window:

o Bjørn Sundquist
o Trond Espen Seim
o Henrik Mestad

o Sverre Anker Ousdal
 

o Kjersti Holmen
o Aksel Hennie
o
Kristoffer Joner
o
Bjørn Floberg

 

VISIT OUR FORUM
Please visit our independent forum - open for discussions of anything related to film.

Go to the forum

 

A LOOK AT ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Directors
A look at the master of suspense, with new reviews of
Dial M for Murder, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho.

[HITCHCOCK PROFILE]

 

FEATURED ACTORS / ACTRESSES

GARY OLDMAN
Actors - 10/04/07
The ultimate chameleonic character actor whose string of performances during the late 80s and early 90s is only equalled by Marlon Brando in the 50s.

ELLEN BURSTYN
Actors - 22/03/07
Perhaps the biggest female talent of them all, but Ellen Burstyn never quite shot to superstardom. Maybe just as well, becase this intelligent, level-headed woman knows more about life than most actresses.

WILLIAM HURT
Actors - 02/12/06
One of the classiest classically trained, all-American leading men with a career spanning from sex symbol in the 80s to Cronenberg gangster last year

ALAN ALDA
Actors - 19/02/05
One of the most beloved performers of the past thirty years, Alan Alda gained immortality through Hawkeye Pierce one of the best ever acted tv-characters and followed up defining the tolerant, intelligent, middle-aged sensitive man in films from the early eighties.

ROBERT DUVALL
Actors - 07/02/05
One of the most prolific, intense and skillful actors of our time, Robert Duvall has been a star for forty years and is still going strong. His depth of character is arguably unequalled.

JENNIFER JASON LEIGH
Actors - 06/02/05
This beautiful actress doesn't like to play the girl next door. She liks to dig into the periphery of humans. Roger Ebert dubbed her 'the fearless adventurer of extreme roles'. I dub her the most sexy actress of the past fifteen years.

JOHNNY DEPP
Actors - 05/02/05
From enigmatic, alternative leading man to one of the biggest stars in the business. Johnny Depp isn't the archtypical moviestar. He's off-beat, dark, secretive and cameleonic. And not to forget, the sexiest man around.

NATALIE PORTMAN
Actors - 04/02/05
This sensual, strikingly beautiful and undeniably talented actress has been a movie star for ten years but has only just started. Check out the future queen of Hollywood.

BURT REYNOLDS
Actors - 07/01/05
Perhaps no other actor has conquered the world merely based on charm and charisma in the way Burt Reynolds did in the seventies. His talents have been debated, but his screen presence was singular.

CHRISTIAN BALE
Actors - 20/12/04
He came from nowhere to a leading role in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun and has since slowly built a name for himself. Now Christian Bale is ready to conquer the world.

GLENN CLOSE
Actors - 20/12/04
A slow starter, but Glenn Close shot to instant stardom in the early eighties displaying a range and understanding of characters that has made her one of the most respected women in the business..

PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN
Actors - 20/12/04
Perhaps the best young character actor to emerge in Hollywood during the past twenty years. Hoffman is still only at the start of his career, and his potential is unarguable.

WARREN BEATTY
Actors'
Few people in Hollywood have gone their own way to the extent of Warren Beatty. A charismatic actor and a creative filmmaker who has only ever starred in 22 pictures since his debut in 1961.

JAMES STEWART
Actors'
"Jimmy Stewart is less a movie star than he is a cultural icon", claimed Leonard Maltin. Here we review the career of one of the most elegant, suave and beloved actors in the history of cinema.

EDWARD NORTON
Actors'
Perhaps the greatest acting talent Hollywood has seen since the early days of Marlon Brando. And this versatily and shrewd young man has only just begun.

HARVEY KEITEL
Actors'
Scorsese-companion Keitel has built himself a career more patiently than most by focusing on artistic integrity and a willingness to take a chance.

MERYL STREEP
Actors'
The determined and unpretensious diva who, despite conveying everything Hollywood is not, has written one of the greatest success stories the city has seen.

JEFF BRIDGES
Actors'
The sparkling kid has grown up. Once a prodigal son of the seventies, now one of Hollywood's most innate character actors. Of course, he's also son of one of the most hilarious men in the history of cinema.

SIR JOHN GIELGUD
Actors'
Perhaps the last of a tradition of great Shakesperian actors. Gielgud's career has been as assorted and diversed as his private life has been encircled in controversy. Even until his death at 96, the old veteran was highly active.

MARLON BRANDO
Actors'
One of, if not the greatest talent in movie history, whose broad range of characters ranges from vulnerable youths to low-lifes in stained raincoats. An eccentric individualist and a media-shy rebel, but also one of the 20th century's greatest men.

ELIJAH WOOD
Actors'
Elijah Wood, one of the most talented youngsters Hollywood has seen, started off as an exceptionally emotional child star beforing growing into a hearthrub with the role of Frodo in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

 

 

about this site

This site contains reviews written by film critic Fredrik Gunerius Fevang. I aim to discuss film on an open-minded but didactic level, offering observations on a film's general or particular function. It is my intention to write reviews that are subtle and authoritative. I am a former student of film science at the College of Lillehammer and of film history at the University of Oslo.

 

 

CURRENTLY PLAYING (NORWAY)

Amour (2012)
Argo (2012)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Django Unchained (2012)
Flight (2012)
Life of Pi (2012)
Lincoln (2012)
Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

SOON OPENING

 

LATEST REVIEWS

13 MAY 2013

The Bank Job (2008)
The Master (2012)
Juggernaut (1974)
Straight Time (1978)
The Outfit (1973)
Kapringen (2012)

MARCH 2013

Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Reservation Road (2007)
The Sessions (2012)

FEBRUARY 2013

Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari (1920) (RE)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Lincoln (2012)
The Imposter (2012)
End of Watch (2012)
Amour (2012)
Arbitrage (2012)
Ted (2012)
Life of Pi (2012)
Flight (2012)

JANUARY 2013

Argo (2012)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Bébé(s) (2010)
The Hunger Games (2012)
Dogtooth (2009)
Django Unchained (2012)

DECEMBER 2012

Looper (2012)
The Outsider (2002) (TV)

NOVEMBER 2012

Bad Influence (1990) (RE)
Fireflies in the Garden (2008)
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
The Accused (1988)
Cosmopolis (2012)
Prometheus (2012)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
A Closed Book (2010)
About Last Night... (1986) (RE)
Skyfall (2012)

OCTOBER 2012

Nothing to Lose (1997)
90 minutter (2012)
A Bug's Life (1998)
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
Dark Water (2002)
The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
Stormy Monday (1988)
Shivers (1975)
The Shootist (1976)
Oslo, 31. august (2011)
Man on a Ledge (2012)
Splice (2009)
The Dictator (2012)
Tina & Bettina - The Movie (2012)

SEPTEMBER 2012

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)

AUGUST 2012

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
Diminished Capacity (2008)

MAY 2012

The Yellow handkerchief (2008)
You Can Count On Me (2000)
My Name Is Joe (1998)
John and Mary (1969)
Legends of Valhalla - Thor (2011)
Children of a Lesser God (1986)
Crash (1996) (RE)
eXistenZ (1999) (RE)
Gangs of New York (2002)
Chain Reaction (1996)

APRIL 2012

The Men (1950)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) (RE)
Beginners (2010)

MARCH 2012

Les quatre cents coups (1959)
Tower Heist (2011)
Shotgun Stories (2007)
Take Shelter (2011)
Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Win Win (2011)
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
Rampart (2011)
Crazy Six (1997)
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)
Carnage (2011)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Limitless (2011)
The Way (2010)
Fish Tank (2009)
The Invention of Lying (2009)

FEBRUARY 2012

The Rum Diary (2011)
Moneyball (2011)
Thale (2012)
50/50 (2011)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)
Attack the Block (2011)
The Iron Lady (2011)
The Help (2011)
Winnie the Pooh (2011)
The Artist (2011)
Shame (2011)
I Melt with You (2011)
Horrible Bosses (2011)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Red State (2011)
Larry Crowne (2011)
American: The Bill Hicks Story (2009)
Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy (2011)
Albert Nobbs (2011)
Wrecked (2011)
Hodejegerne (2011)
Insidious (2011)
The Descendants (2011)

JANUARY 2012

Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
The Tree of Life (2011)
The Beaver (2011)
Sanctum (2011)
A Serbian Film (2010)
Melancholia (2011)
La Piel que Habito (2011)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Contagion (2011)
Albino Alligator (1996)
Drive (2011)
The Ides of March (2011)
Inside Job (2010)
Too Big to Fail (2011) (TV)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

DECEMBER 2011

A Dangerous Method (2011)
Sketch Artist (1992) (TV)
Vi gifter oss (1951)
Masquerade (1988)

NOVEMBER 2011

Fight Club (1999) (RE)
Les Mains (2011)
A Perfect Getaway (2009)

OCTOBER 2011

The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)
Lenny (1974)
Somewhere (2010)

SEPTEMBER 2011

Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Super 8 (2011)

AUGUST 2011

The Rite (2011)
Bird on a Wire (1990)
Guilty as Sin (1993)
Hanna (2011)

JULY 2011

Source Code (2011)

JUNE 2011

Marathon Man (1976)
Along Came a Spider (2001)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) (RE)
Another Year (2010)
Reds (1981)
The Core (2003)

MAY 2011

Klovn: The Movie (2010)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Alphabet Killer (2008)
Event Horizon (1997)
Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)
Case 39 (2009)
Unknown (2011)
Pandorum (2009)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
Cabin Fever (2002)

APRIL 2011

Croupier (1998)
Sweet Liberty (1986)
Salò (1975)

MARCH 2011

Striking Distance (1993)
Monsters (2010)
Blue Valentine (2010)
Hereafter (2010)
The Next Three Days (2010)
Robin Hood (2010)
Belønningen (1980)
Frozen (2010)
U.S. Marshals (1998)
Jack Goes Boating (2010)
Devil (2010)
The American (2010)
2012 (2009)
The Fugitive (1993)
Alice in Woderland (2010)
The Town (2010)

FEBRUARY 2011

Biutiful (2010)
Dark City (1998)
Welcome to the Riley's (2010)
En ganske snill mann (2010)
Dorian Gray (2009)
Buried (2010)
Flipped (2010)
El espinazo del diablo (2001)
Winter's Bone (2010)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)
The Fighter (2010)
Un prophète (2009)
Animal Kingdom (2010)
Get Low (2009)

JANUARY 2011

The Social Network (2010)
True Grit (2010)
The King's Speech (2010)
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Black Swan (2010)
127 Hours (2010)
The Tourist (2010)
Kalifornia (1993)
Sneakers (1992)

DECEMBER 2010

Kongen av Bastøy (2010)
The Collector (1965)
The Last Airbender (2010)
Blood Feast (1963)
Inception (2010)

NOVEMBER 2010

Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
The Ron Clark Story (2006)
Get Him to the Greek (2010)
Identity (2003)
The Burning (1981)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
The Book of Eli (2010)
Above Suspicion (1995) (RE)
Shutter Island (2010)
Seven (1995) (RE)
Knight and Day (2010)
Adams Æbler (2005)
Grace (2009)
The Split (1968)

OCTOBER 2010

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (1972)
The Killing Room (2009)
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
La guerre du feu (1981)
Save the Tiger (1973)
Nokas (2010)
The Ghost Writer (2010)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
The Recruit (2003)

SEPTEMBER 2010

Titanic (1997) (RE)
Bundy: A Legacy of Evil (2008)
Triangle (2009)
Vinyan (2008)
Tonari no Totoro (1988)
Fritt vilt II (2008)

MAY 2010

Moon (2009)
My Sister's Keeper (2009)
Up in the Air (2009)
Love Story (1970)
I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)

APRIL 2010

A Serious Man (2009)
The Road (2009)
Kick-Ass (2010)
Orphan (2009)
An Education (2009)
Da jeg traff Jesus... med sprettert (2000)

MARCH 2010

Eden Lake (2008)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Shampoo (1975) (RE)
The Lovely Bones (2009)
Julie & Julia (2009)
The Hangover (2009)
Das weisse Band (2009)
The Hurt Locker (2009)
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
Bronson (2008)
Brüno (2009)
Lilith (1964)

FEBRUARY 2010

17 Again (2009)

JANUARY 2010

Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
The Gray Man (2007)
Avatar (2009)
Drag Me To Hell (2009)
 

HIDDEN TREASURES

The Apostle (1997)
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
Kolya (1996)
Basquiat (1996)
Smoke (1995)
 

RECOMMENDED CLASSICS

12 Angry Men (1957)
A bout de souffle (1959)
High Noon (1952)
Forbidden Planet (1956)