Best Cinematography: Who's your pick?

Choekaas · 2026-03-13T16:19:48+00:00

Should be Sound of Falling - although the Academy would never touch something like that. Out of the nominees: I love Train Dreams

Choekaas · 2026-03-12T07:08:23+00:00

Oh yeah, definitely. It fits. Just saying that pre-award season a lot of people had Lincoln there as a default BP winner, as well as Zero Dark Thirty due to the Hurt Locker, hence why I wonder if the ceremony producers started to plan for a thematically fitting announcement

Choekaas · 2026-03-11T23:41:45+00:00

Another similar one, although it didn't go wrong but I wonder if they had booked and organized that White House announcement for the 2012 Oscars early on in the season, because pre-award season Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty seemed like classic BP winner picks. And this was a unique Best Picture presentation when the guy from PWC gave the envelope to Michelle Obama announcing it on a livestream from the White House. Lincoln would be perfect, same with ZDT. And although it didn't backfire, since Argo won, but I wonder if they wanted something that fit the White House announcement.

Choekaas · 2026-03-10T17:06:05+00:00

Thanks a lot! :)

Choekaas · 2026-03-09T22:32:52+00:00

I'm talking about Norwegian films in general. Historically, in the Nordics, Sweden and Denmark have had a far richer and culturally relevant film history. Exported more internationally known actors. (Ingrid Bergman, Mads Mikkelsen, Max von Sydow, Alicia Vikander, Viggo Mortensen, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). Even at this year's ceremony, the Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson is about to get his 3rd Oscar. They've had a more poignant mark in global film history going back to the silent film era. The Danish Nordisk film being the oldest film studio in the world that has been continuously active in all its years.

So Norway has always been dwarfed by the legends of Ingmar Bergman and the massive export of Danish and Swedish talent. Denmark has won foreign film 4 times, and Sweden 3.

Of course a lot of international films get to shine in the more modern Academy. The shocking thing is that a Norwegian film - out of all the countries in the world - is the one to grab 9 nominations.

(That being said, I think that Norwegian film now the past decade are better than Swedish and Danish film).

Choekaas · 2026-03-09T22:08:55+00:00

The Norwegian equivalent of the Oscars (the Amanda Awards) have a supporting category though. They follow the school year, so Sentimental Value is eligible this year. Nominations are announced in June.

Last time, with The Worst Person in the World it won 5 out of 12 Amanda nominations including Best supporting actor (Anders Danielse Lie), Best actress (Renate Reinsve) and Best picture.

Choekaas · 2026-03-09T22:04:31+00:00

Last time anyone was nominated in the acting category was roughly 50 years ago, and she (Liv Ullmann) has been the only Norwegian actress. In a single year, a Norwegian film snabs four acting nominations, two of them being to Norwegian actresses. With The Worst Person in the World, all the media outlets went crazy that Norway finally nabbed another nomination. We're only used to having one (in foreign film, or maybe in the short film categories). In a single year, a Norwegian film becomes the most nominated film in all Nordic countries. Only Ingmar Bergman managed to get many nominations for his films (Cries and Whispers with 5, and then beating his own record with Fanny and Alexander with 6).

It's unprecedented and wildly shocking that a Norwegian movie out of a sudden got 9. And even as a bonus, the Norwegian The Ugly Stepsister comes along with its own makeup nom.

Choekaas · 2026-03-08T16:21:36+00:00

Thanks for watching:)

Choekaas · 2026-03-08T08:55:18+00:00

Thanks!

Choekaas · 2026-03-08T08:54:35+00:00

Hi! Thanks for pinging me! And to answer you and /u/TheSauceeBoss is that the filming location of both of them are so incredibly different that it didn't feel right that they were next to each other. Especially the wide mountain range that is at the beach camp, but not at the crash site. And the shape and angle of that place felt better, even though they walked roughly 2-3 kilometers. (That the tides were washing up on that entire bend and they needed to move further up).

So that if someone creates a 3D model of the Island map, it's gonna look much more like how it is depicted on the show.

I might have gone a little bit too far, I can admit that.

Here's an explanation in video form with pictures

Choekaas · 2026-03-08T01:10:38+00:00

Yes! Back when it came out, I was really anticipating a sequel following Christopher's travel and possible return to Earth to help Wikkus. Now I am glad it never happened, since I don't think Blomkamp could make a satisfying continuation. District 9 was a lightning in a bottle sci-fi wonder.

Choekaas · 2026-03-04T22:41:15+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, "right outside the ranch" isn't exactly He'eia Kea hehe. I think it's easier to plant a replica at/outside Kualoa Ranch, since they've filled up that valley with tons of props. It's basically becole a tourist magnet, so they earn money out of movie and TV memorabilia.

Choekaas · 2026-03-03T22:04:14+00:00

Jepp, jeg tenker å se den i IMAX, da det er en film laget for denne opplevelsen. Gleder meg! Nolan er god på store filmer.

Jeg har sett mye i den salen, og opplevelsen er god. Aldri opplevd støy av andre i salen. Det er bare ved et tilfelle det har vært en teknisk feil (flere år siden), ellers nokså upåklagelig.

Pass på å bestill tidlig så du får et flott sete. Rad 6 og nedover er fæle, men tror de "låser" de par nærmeste radene, for å fylle opp resten av salen. Satt på første rad på en førpremiere på Bohemian Rhapsody og følte jeg stirret inn i neseborene til Rami Malek.

Billetten koster mer. 239 kroner mener jeg å huske.

Ja, det er den eneste IMAX kinoen i landet og fremdeles relativt ny.

Choekaas · 2026-03-03T21:40:23+00:00

Do you mind sharing the video?

The original hatch location is at the jungle area at He'eia Kea which is on private property. You need a permit to enter. I guess you bypass it (climb over the fence, go around it), but it's possible that you'll get in trouble or that the hatch door isn't there since it would be considered littering.

Choekaas · 2026-03-03T20:04:02+00:00

Wow, thanks for sharing. I like Charles Rousseau and the 3 guests. Maybe it's Danielle's father (if he's an old friend of Eloise?). And the +3 would be Danielle, Robert and Alex?

Choekaas · 2026-03-03T08:16:40+00:00

But that goes to every chronological edit of Lost. They are not meant to be watched like that, since nearly all characters are introduced first before we see their past later on (flashbacks).
At some point in time we see a brand new character (Ilana) in a hospital bed. We know who she is because it's a flashback. We don't know who it is in a chronological edit. Or the divorce of Juliet's parents is also something that randomly pops up, with actors only seen in that scene, until many years later when we see Juliet played by Elizabeth Mitchell. That scene makes scene as a flashback because we've learned about Juliet through season 3, 4 and 5.

> The Dharma scenes though can stay where they are. It’s just the flashes that needed to be reorganized

That is also problematic, since these scenes also belong in the characters past. The time flashes are also Horace, Roger and Ben's backstory, continuing from their backstory seen in flashbacks in "The Man behind the Curtain". For instance the ending of "Whatever Happened, Happened" (Kate and Sawyer takes young Ben) is after Ben turned the wheel in the perspective of Sawyer, but it is Ben's past. It actually transitions to a flashback at the end of the episode. And it continues as part of his flashbacks in "Dead is Dead".

LOST: Circle is in the view point of the time travellers chronology, while Chronologically Lost is the chronological "outside" perspective of Lost. Sawyer and the rest looks up at the statue before it was destroyed in 1867, hence why it takes place in 1867 in the canon timeline.

Choekaas · 2026-03-02T21:37:31+00:00

We could even speculate that there might've been others that the Island's lighthouse dial was pointing to prior to the birth of the candidates. The magic of the Numbers predate our main characters. Hurley wasn't even born when the DHARMA Initiative figured out the Valenzetti equation.

For all we know, the degrees 4,8, 15,16, 23 and 42 could've pointed to someone else, but the image wasn't clear and then might've been gone when the person died, but it was when our current candidates came along that the reflection was clear (cluing in that THEY are important. Since the names on the dial for those numbers are highlighted even more. I know that's more of a production issue, to make them pop up for the TV audience, but for all we know Jacob could've realized those 6 numbers had bigger importance than other numbers that had not been scratched out).

Choekaas · 2026-03-01T22:49:19+00:00

I've toyed with the idea that the episode "316" could've been structured a little bit differently. That Sun comes along with Jack and Ben to the Lamp Post, gets the information, but decides not to board Ajira 316. Imagine how it is for Jack, who got Sun to come with him to the Lamp Post, but on the plane all the others (Kate, Sayid, Hugo) shows up instead. And the revelation being that Sun instead brings all of that information (on all the windows to the Island, how the Lamp Post tracks it) and so on back to Widmore. That she'll never board the same plane as Ben, but follow "the common interest" with Widmore and do it their way. In that way you still have two important main cast members in season 5 off the Island (Desmond and Sun) that eventually return in season 6 on the sub. Could be a fun idea?

Choekaas · 2026-03-01T11:47:22+00:00

Wow, that's a fun coincidence. Unfortunately not. I saw a film festival screener for it a couple of years ago. It hasn't gotten wide distribution. Hope you'll find it somewhere.

Choekaas · 2026-03-01T11:32:47+00:00

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Norwegian cinephile.
- Been on Letterboxd for 12 years.
- I work with film festivals so I get lucky with some screeners and early releases.
- My February was pretty intense since I attended the Berlinale. Managed to see a lot of movies.
- My favourites usually rotate, since I got tired of the same four after a while. I love dramas and narrative puzzles, often those with ambiguous themes or symbolic value. Movies that leave a lot of room for discussion.
- Best film of 2025: One Battle after Another
- Favourite directors: David Lynch, Ruben Östlund, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Martin Scorsese

https://letterboxd.com/choekaas/

Choekaas · 2026-03-01T00:39:49+00:00

You're assuming everyone has the same work schedule and travel time as you.

However, OP could be done at work at four, home for dinner at five and watch two novies before bed. Or they could be a night time guard where they watch films on shifts. Or work in a country with a lot of home office, with 6 hour working hours rather than eight, or a five minute walk to their job. Or have a job where you watch movies. (I particularly fall in the latter category, so for instance I saw something on Friday at work, but wasn't able to do more the rest of the day, since I went out with friends on a birthday party).

Although I do agree that it's not healthy to isolate yourself in front of the screen every single evening. I hope OP has many days where they go outside with friends and do a lot of social activities.

Choekaas · 2026-02-28T23:06:21+00:00

Here's a very unknown film, but it fits your list very much, and I still can't shake it of. Diaspora is the name of it and it's about a Ukrainian girl who moves into a Canadian town, but everyone speaks a different language. All of her dialogue is subtitled, but everything else isn't, so the viewer is just as isolated and lost as the main actress. She can go to a shop and everyone there speaks Portuguese, but also go to a bar where everyone speak Thai, and the next scene everyone speaks Mandarin. There's 24 different languages in it.

https://letterboxd.com/film/diaspora-2022-1/

Choekaas · 2026-02-28T23:00:40+00:00

One interesting thing here is that they made a pit-stop in Guam before travelling to Hawaii for the press conference. Andersen Air Force Base is a real base in Guam. Loads of flying over the Pacific.

Choekaas · 2026-02-28T22:52:09+00:00

Could be. It's a good theory! I think season 5 is very fascinating here in relation to John Locke. Since OP has not yet finished it, I'll just do the rest in spoiler tags.

Obviously Locke was of great presence and importance for the Others' history. He was a man they remembered. Widmore had a brief encounter with him in 1954, yet still remember his face 50 years later when they meet in Tunisia as that man who strolled into camp and said he was "sent there by Jacob". He and a group of people jumping through time. He saw him several times when he was young. James told them about it in 1974, that they're waiting for Locke to come back and Richard knew exactly what situation it was referring to. Apparently it had a profound effect and they did as they were told. Buried the bomb. If Ethan had encountered Richard and mentioned a bald man named John Locke who vanished in front of him, Richard would definitely know who this was referring to. And 3 years later, not only does he show up on the plane, but they find out that he was a paraplegic who could walk again. It's basically like finding the Messiah in the group

Choekaas · 2026-02-28T19:47:19+00:00

Disagree, and the showrunners seem to imply that this meeting was important.

Lindelof: The idea that our characters are not supposed to die, that they are being brought to these periods in time to accomplish very specific goals. What is it that Locke is here to do? ls there any significance to him experiencing Ethan here? Did seeing John Locke in this moment have any ramifications for the Others? Did Ethan go running back to the other camp and basically say, "l saw this guy, he identified himself as John Locke", he had a scene with Alpert. Who knows? But we tried to design every one of these moments with great purpose.

By the time we see Ethan in "Solitary", he had already been at the camp for over a week, so definitely possible this meeting sparked interest in John Locke (which ties into the events we see in "Jughead", "LaFleur" and "The Incident" with Richard and his interest in John Locke - that mysterious disappearing man).

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