#Ole Birkeland

[tv-moments]

Pieces of Her

Season 1, “Episode 7“

Director: Minkie Spiro

DoP: Ole Birkeland

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La Bohème - Oper Zürich 28.12.2022

LA BOHÈME - OPER ZÜRICH 28.12.2022 #giacomopuccini #oleanderstandberg #olgakulchynska #wangkang #konstantinshushakov #rebecaolvera #opernjahresausklang #kirillkarabits #operalover #musicwasmyfirstloveanditwillbemylast #vorstellungsbesprechung #rezension

Das Opernjahr 2022 beende ich mit einer “Bohème” am Opernhaus Zürich, es ist das Debüt von OLGA KULCHYNSKA als Mimi, das ich nicht verpassen will… (more…)

[byneddiedingo]

Listen to Me Marlon (Stevan Riley, 2015)

Screenplay: Stevan Riley, Peter Ettedgui. Cinematography: Ole Bratt Birkeland. Production design: Kristian Milsted. Film editing: Stevan Riley.

It's a truism that Marlon Brando revolutionized film acting (with a little help from Montgomery Clift and James Dean, and some pioneering by John Garfield). And it seems that Brando believed the truism himself: At one point in this fascinating documentary he disses such older film stars as Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, and Humphrey Bogart, asserting that they were always the same in their movies. This misses the point about film stardom, I think, which is that everyone who gets established as a film actor carries their image from movie to movie. How much variety, really, is there in Brando's most memorable film performances? Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951), Johnny Strabler in The Wild One (Laslo Benedek, 1953), Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954), and even Vito Corleone in The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) and Paul in Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972) are all troubled urban Americans with a rebellious streak. And when Brando tried to break away from that type -- as Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata! (1952), Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1953), Napoleon in Désirée (Henry Koster, 1954), or Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty (Lewis Milestone, 1962) -- the performances leave a lot to be desired. Mind you, I still think Brando was one of the greatest actors in film history, but only when he let himself play roles that suited him -- as Cooper, Gable, and Bogart did. This film, which uses Brando's own tape recordings as its principal source, shows him as a kind of tragic naïf in search of something that would heal the wounds he carried from childhood. He found it in acting when he fell under the spell of Stella Adler, although the Adler shown in this film is given to talking pretentious nonsense about how acting isn't about the words, it's about the soul. Brando also sought healing in sex, in psychoanalysis, in political activism, but the picture that emerges in the film is of a man who never succeeded in escaping his own tormented ego.

[somebaconlover]

American Animals (2018)

Directed by Bart Layton

Cinematography by Ole Bratt Birkeland

Starring Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson and Udo Kier

"You're taught your entire life that what you do matters and that you're special. And that, there are things you can point towards that would... which'll show that you're special, that show you're different, when, in all reality, those things... don't matter. And you're not special."

[samtheslouch]

Growing up I had a desire for some kind of life-altering experience

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American Animals (2018)

[sesiondemadrugada]

Tales from the Loop: Home (Jodie Foster, 2020).

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American Animals (2018)

Director - Bart Layton, Cinematography - Ole Bratt Birkeland

"You're taught your entire life that what you do matters and that you're special. And that, there are things you can point towards that would...which will show that you're special, that show you're different, when, in all reality, those things... don't matter. And you're not special."

[grimmicks]

“This is your red pill or blue pill moment, my friend.”

American Animals (2018) dir. Bart Layton cine. Ole Bratt Birkeland

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[tv-moments]

Pieces of Her

Season 1, “Episode 8“

Director: Minkie Spiro

DoP: Ole Birkeland

[facesofcinema]

Ghost Stories (2018)

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American Animals (2018)

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 Ali & Ava (15)

 Ali & Ava (15)

Ali & Ava (15) Director: Clio Barnard Runtime: 94mins Cast: Adeel Akhtar, Claire Rushbrook, Shaun Thomas, Ellora Torchia, Natalie Given Synopsis: Sparks fly after ALI and AVA meet through their shared affection for Sofia, the child of Ali’s tenants whom Ava teaches. Ali finds comfort in Ava’s warmth and kindness while Ava finds Ali’s complexity and humour irresistible. As the pair begin to form a…

[samtheslouch]

I felt like they understood something more about life that I wasn't getting to experience

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screencaps from American Animals (2018)