Fredrik on Film
Fredrik GustafssonWritings, long and short, about films, film history, film culture, film critics, and filmmakers.
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Contemporary mainstream cinema (summer of 2026)
This summer, I went to the cinema to watch The Mandalorian and Grogu. So did a lot of kids. It was a Saturday evening, it was raining, and the audience was a large enough to make you able to get a feel for its mood. It left me puzzled.
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Light in cinema
Ever since I saw Beverly Hills Cop 2 (Tony Scott, 1987) as a teenager, light has been one of the most important things for me in film. As I have said many times, that film changed my idea of what film is and can be. My friends were all goin...
Introducing Richard Quine and celebrating It Happened to Jane (1959)
It is difficult to get a grip on Richard Quine. His career is full of failures, dead ends, and disappointments. At the same time, it is full of wonders, of greatness, and of moments when the appropriate comparison is Hitchcock. He made ligh...
Academic publishing
Roy Armes is not someone I hear people refer to, but I recently read his book Patterns of Realism from 1971, about Italian neorealism. It is very good. It has the inevitable flaw of wanting to define neorealism (this film is neorealism but...
Auteuritis
My previous article here, How to claim things with words, was about words. Unclear words, misleading words, meaningless words, irrelevant words, and how we create our past and our context by the words we use to describe it, often in conflic...
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Writer, critic, scholar, teacher. Film history, ethics, and aesthetics. Chairman of the Swedish Film Critics Association. http://filmkritiker.se
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