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Ellen Lande

Lande is a film writer and director and a regular writer for Ny Tid.

An example of the invaluable value of free art

September 11st: Torild Street's charcoal drawing of the view from Twin Towers will be part of the permanent collection at the 9 / 11 Memorial Museum at Ground Zero in New York next month.

Interpretation and prejudice

The dramatizations of our great national tragedy are in line. Why is it more sensitive that a foreigner manages 22. Christmas story than one of our own filmmakers?

Portrait of a child worker

Thousands of little girls all the way down to the age of 6 are sent from their poor homes in the countryside to the capital to earn some lousy cash. There they are exchanged under bars that can break even a powerful adult back.

Exodus Catch 22

Chinese contemporary artist and filmmaker Ai Weiwei tackles the life-and-death frenzy of technicolor homeless human hordes.

Film Noir that triggers reading pleasure

Spectacular and glamorous genre tribute with the Cold War as the backdrop: Chile's national poet Pablo Neruda is chased by the authorities during dramatic days in 1948.

A film critic looks back

An emotional involvement in the film industry makes Lismen's book about Norwegian film stand out.

MOVIE FROM THE SOUTH: The grandmothers, the sex slavery and the excuse

They were born as human beings, but were never allowed to live normal human lives.

Soreness among strangers

A suggestive tribute to the golden age of the avant-garde film draws me right in with its hypnotic soundscape – Japanese children's song, piano and a narrative voice. But then!

Kitchen Sink High Conceptualism

Shelly Silver shows no humility when it comes to relevance and sustainability in her project, but takes the space and time and oozes self-confidence.