Founder and former program director, Filmfest Oslo. I’m also working as a film journalist for several Norwegian film magazines + marketing coordinator at Scanbox (one of the biggest Nordic film and entertainment distributors). I have worked with films like To Rome with Love (Woody Allen), Taken 2 (Olivier Megaton), The Intouchables (Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano), The Bully Project (Lee Hirsch), The Place Beyond the Pines (Derek Cianfrance), Palme (Kristina Lindström, Maud Nycander), Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn), among others.
I’m a huge, huge Bond fan
Very interested in film marketing/promotion and public relations (trends, campaigns, viral marketing etc.).
Every year I watch about 450-500 films, many at international film festivals. All in all, a film geek deluxe!
My favourite quotes:
“I’ll either become a very rich and famous man, or die like a dog in the gutter.” Sam Spiegel (The producer behind legendary and classical films such as Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai and The African Queen ).
“Is the cinema more important than life?” (François Truffaut)
“We are in the transportation business. We transport audiences from one place to another.” (Jerry Bruckheimer)
“I don’t film messages. I let the post office take care of those.” (Bernardo Bertolucci)
My real passion for film / moving images began when I saw The Empire Strikes Back, GoldenEye, Fanny and Alexander, Back to the Future, Raiders of the Lost Ark, the original (Norwegian) Olsen Gang series and many Disney films in the 1990s. From then on I began to explore the rest of the film history.
I admire directors like Sam Mendes, Nicolas Roeg, John McTiernan, Norman Jewison, Noah Baumbach, Richard Donner, Luc Besson, Sean Penn, Clint Eastwood, Lukas Moodysson, Satyajit Ray, Greg Mottola, Bent Hamer, Judd Apatow, Phil Lord & Chris Miller, David Lean, Nicolas Winding Refn, Ulrich Seidl, Alf Sjöberg, Agnes Varda, Hayao Miyazaki, Wes Anderson, Maïwenn, Terence Davies, John Woo, Lynne Ramsay, Martin Campbell, Sean Durkin, Alan J. Pakula, Paul Verhoeven, Federico Fellini, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Cristian Mungiu, Brian De Palma, Jonathan Demme, Roman Coppola, John Glen, Charlie Chaplin, Bertrand Bonello, Claude Chabrol, Ingmar Bergman, Roy Andersson, Pål Løkkeberg, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Zack Snyder, Lukas Moodysson, Susanne Bier, Peter R. Hunt, John Boorman, Michael Cimino, Alan Resnais, David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam, Martin Asphaug, Mario Bava, Christopher Nolan, Lewis Gilbert, Pål Bang-Hansen, Miranda July, Dario Argento, Torun Lian, Gillo Pontecorvo, Pedro Almodóvar, Terrence Malick, Brad Bird, Andrew Stanton, Lars von Trier, Takashi Miike, Unni Straume, Whit Stillman, Sam Peckinpah, Andrea Arnold, Tony Scott, Eskil Vogt, Peter Weir, Francis Ford Coppola, Gaspar Noé, Michel Hazanavicius, Bo Widerberg, Jerry Schatzberg, Robert Altman, Tim Burton, Sofia Coppola, Joachim Trier, Akira Kurosawa, François Truffaut, Jafar Panahi, Michael Haneke, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, Roland Joffé, Henning Carlsen, Erik Løchen, Woody Allen, John Carpenter, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, David Lynch, Anja Breien, Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese, Christoffer Boe, Jean-Pierre Melville, Michelangelo Antonioni, Richard Fleischer, Tomas Alfredson, Paul Schrader, Lee Unkrich, John Schlesinger, Steven Spielberg, Wim Wenders, Lasse Hallström, Per Fly, Jean-Luc Godard, Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, John Lasseter, Catherine Breillat, Ridley Scott, Kevin Smith, Steven Soderbergh, Arild Kristo, Quentin Tarantino, David Lean, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Walter Hill, Billy Wilder, Frank Capra, Apichatpong Weeresethakul, John Ford, Stanley Kubrick, J. J. Abrams, Miloš Forman, Bob Fosse, Costa-Gavras, William Friedkin, George Roy Hill, Dennis Hopper, John Huston, Paul Thomas Anderson, Abbas Kiarostami, Neill Blomkamp, Dardenne, Roberto Rossellini, James Cameron, Guillermo del Toro, Luchino Visconti, Roland Emmerich, Orson Welles, Sean Penn, Sergio Corbucci, Peter Bogdanovich, Kalle Boman, Fred Zinnemann, David Fincher, Michael Bay, Hans Alfredson, Olle Hellbom, Luis Buñuel, Robert Rodriguez, Bernardo Bertolucci, Martin Brest, George Lucas, Vince Gilligan, Jan Troell, Sergio Leone, Don Siegel, Xavier Dolan, Gus Van Sant, Luis Buñuel, Alfred Hitchcock, Edwin S. Porter, Arthur Penn, Roman Polanski, Bille August, Kay Pollak, Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski, D.W. Griffith, Sydney Pollack, Adrian Lyne, Gabriel Axel, Hrafn Gunnlaugsson, Vilgot Sjöman, Andrzej Wajda, Bob Rafelson, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Stefan Jarl, Carl Th. Dreyer, David Hand, Baltasar Kormakur, Tom Tykwer, Jeff Nichols, Mauritz Stiller, Tony Scott, Leos Carax, Oliver Stone, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jørgen Leth, Erich von Stroheim, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Roger Vadim, Sergei Eisenstein, Terence Young, Elia Kazan, Frank Capra, Ang Lee, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Nils Malmros, William Wyler, Guy Hamilton, Alfonso Cuarón, John Schlesinger, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Park Chan-wook, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Fatih Akin, Jacques Demy, Vincente Minelli, among others.
I admire producers / studio executives like Fred Roos, John Lasseter, David Heyman, Charles Magnusson, Brad Grey, Irving Thalberg, Megan Ellison,Daniel Lupi, Larry J. Franco, David O. Selznick, Peter Aalbæk Jensen, Peter «Pjodor» Gustafsson, Jon Landau, Steven Spielberg, Gary Kurtz, Karin Julsrud, Turid Øversveen, Kjetil Omberg, Robert Evans, Peter Engel, Robert Watts, Kathleen Kennedy, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, John M. Jacobsen, Sveinung Golimo, Sam Spiegel, Pernilla Sandström, Roy Andersson, Sanne Glæsel, Michael G. Wilson & Barbara Broccoli, Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli & Harry Saltzman, Anthony Waye, Callum McDougall, Jerry Bruckheimer & Don Simpson, Renzo Rossellini, Harry Cohn, Thomas Robsahm, Søren Stærmose, Lene Børglum, Lars Jönsson, Vibeke Windeløv, Ib Tardini, J. J. Abrams, Peter Bart, Richard D. Zanuck, Jörn Donner, Emma Thomas, Yngve Sæther, Thomas Stenderup, Philippe Bober, Kathleen Kennedy, Jeremy Thomas, Scott Rudin, Jack Warner, Roger Birnbaum & Gary Barber, Louis B. Mayer, Carl Laemmle, Sisse Graum Olsen, Charles Roven, George Litto, Christine Vachon, Bob Weinstein & Harvey Weinstein, Amy Pascal, Alan Ladd, Jr., Lew Wasserman, Ned Tanen, Mario Kassar, Andrew G. Vajna, Aage Aaberge,Charles Joffe, Jack Rollins, Scott Franklin, Letty Aronson, Gray Frederickson, Albert S. Ruddy, Stephen Tenenbaum, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hughes, Steven M. Rales, Jeremy Dawson, William P. Cartlidge, Benjamin Melniker, Thomas Tull, Michael E. Uslan, Robert Benmussa, Andrew Noakes, Dan Fellman, Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, among others.
I admire cinematographers like Roger Deakins, Guillermo Navarro, Néstor Almendros, Freddie Young, Dante Spinotti, Wally Pfister, Anthony Dod Mantle, Janusz Kaminski, Jack Hildyard, Emmanuel Lubezki, Jeff Cronenweth, Douglas Slocombe, Robert Richardson, Boris Kaufman, Sven Nykvist, Ted Moore, Robert Elswit, Wally Pfister, Rodrigo Prieto, Conrad Hall, Jack Hildyard, Gordon Willis, John Seale, Robert Krasker, Jack Cardiff, Burnett Guffey, Vilmos Zsigmond, Jakob Ihre, István Borbás, Jesper Klevenas, László Kovács, Vittorio Storaro, Mihai Malaimare Jr., Jörgen Persson, Bill Butler, Charles Lang, Ted Moore, John Alcott, Chris Menges, Michael Chapman, Michael Ballhaus, Vittorio Storaro, Dion Beebe, among others.
My favorite Bond films are: From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), The Living Daylights (1987), Casino Royale (2006), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), GoldenEye (1995) and Skyfall (2012). Favorite Bond directors are Sam Mendes, Terence Young, John Glen and Martin Campbell.
Some of the best films 2012: Hugo (Martin Scorsese), Polisse (Maïwenn), Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas), Amour (Michael Haneke), Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson), Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan), Holy Motors (Leos Carax), Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman), Hors Satan (Bruno Dumont), Faust (Aleksandr Sokurov), To Rome with Love (Woody Allen), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird), The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius), Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin), The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard), Haywire (Steven Soderbergh), Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu), Room 237 (Rodney Ascher), The We and the I (Michel Gondry), House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello), Kompani Orheim (Arild Andresen), Sightseers (Ben Wheatley), The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt ), Dark Shadows (Tim Burton), Tomboy (Céline Sciamma), Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl), 21 Jump Street (Phil Lord, Chris Miller), The Innkeepers (Ti West), The Raid: Redemption (Gareth Evans), Titanic 3D (James Cameron), Coriolanus (Ralph Fiennes), Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan), The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan), Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh), Til ungdommen (Kari Anne Moe), Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul), Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 (Stevan Riley), The Intouchables (Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache), L’enfant d’en haut (Ursula Meier), Som du ser meg (Dag Johan Haugerud), Hope Springs (David Frankel), Frankenweenie (Tim Burton), Anna Karenina (Joe Wright), Shut Up and Play the Hits ( Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern), Skyfall (Sam Mendes), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky), Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine), Side by Side (Christopher Kenneally), Blondie (Jesper Ganslandt).
2014 most anticipated movies: En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron (Roy Andersson), Bond 24 (director not confirmed), RoboCop (Jose Padilha), Noah (Darren Aronofsky), Frøken Julie (Liv Ullmann), among others.
Some of my favourite tv series: Mad Men, How to Make It in America, Game of Thrones, Luck, Breaking Bad, Girls, The Sopranos, The Wire, Six Feet Under, Forbrydelsen, Borgen, The West Wing, Treme, Arrested Development, The Simpsons, The Walking Dead, Entourage, Deadwood, Little Britain, Mildred Pierce, Game of Thrones, Luther, Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Adventures of Tintin.
Some of my favourite television series / films about the history of film : Bergman’s Video, Mark Cousins’ The Story of Film, A Letter to Elia (Martin Scorsese), A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (Martin Scorsese).
