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Favorite films

  • The Phantom Carriage
  • La Cocina
  • A Different Man
  • The Long Good Friday

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  • Bulky Trash

    ★★★½

  • Object 817

  • Via Dolorosa

  • Cross My Heart and Hope To Die

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  • Dune

    Dune

    ★★★★

    two additional thoughts to the first viewing:

    # there is a split of the protagonist, that could be called postmodern: it's not anymore about the heavy-muscled but smart superhero, that we know very well from the mainstream cinema of the 80s and 90s, carried into the blockbusters of today. instead we get two different characters - Timothée Chalamet as the adolescent coming-of-ager thrown into this new world of (own) power (games), as our avatar of greatness without necessarily the physical…

  • Dune

    Dune

    ★★★★

    what a colossal, brownish, brutalist, mechanically digital rockefeller. with its fascist aesthetics Villeneuve, Fraser, Zimmer and co nail it totally(tarian). of course, you can't front, cause it's all taken care of in the narrative spheres, immunized against all criticism. so no worries, there's nothing in the way for your majestic cinema experience.

    possible political discourses aside, i saw this setting the focus on the religious questions, matching the epic form of it. the hopeless and depressive attitude made it rich,…

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  • Bulky Trash

    Bulky Trash

    ★★★½

    Misselwitz and Plenert start to film a young percussion band a few months before the GDR has to open their borders. the film shifts drastically and rather becomes a document of this intense period of transitioning.

    they follow up on one of the boys, the one who is staying back in the east of Berlin by himself while his mother is going into the west, marrying a guy there (already shortly before the wall is falling, so the decision for…

  • The Wall

    The Wall

    ★★★

    an utopian paradise shaped out of grey concrete and roaring xcavators. the noise of history and the bleakness of the images form a wimmelpicture thanks to the many happy ants, from Kansas City to Perugia, but mainly hopeful easterners and joyful westerners.

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  • Suzume

    Suzume

    ★★½

    you'd think Japan has a problem with earthquakes, tsunamies and volcanoes but it's more like with memory, trauma and gigantic red penises in the sky.

  • Oppenheimer

    Oppenheimer

    ★★

    What does a Christopher Nolan do when he tackles a genre - the biopic - that is per definition hard to dissect into narrative trickery and tough to dance with in experimental technomaniacism?

    Oppenheimer is still a very palpable nolanesque film: it's dynamic, jumpy, galvanic, disjointed. Hoyte van Hoytema can at least get a little playful here and there with some fizzy-whizzing abstractions of nuclear reactions and floating star sightings. Ludwig Göransson is giving his best Hans Zimmer impersonation, finding…