Watched in the cinema (125th visit in 2023)
Those who have seen it probably remember perfectly what it was like to enjoy "Blue Velvet" for the first time. What do people most likely remember when they think of this movie by David Lynch? Probably first and foremost how this film showed you that the strange, the evil and the unreal is not only part of an environment that shapes our perception, but that the strange, the evil and the unreal…
Watched on Netflix
What is love? Where does existence begin? How do you face a strange world and a great loss? All these are just some of the essential questions that director Spike Jonze addresses in his work "Her". Too much of a good thing? Not at all, because "Her" can claim to be one of the most creative and philosophical films of the last 20 years. And it's really only about one thing: the love between two individuals. But…
Watched on Amazon Video
The cinema has an iconography of the suburbs that every cineast is now more than familiar with from various films: rich, clean-washed colours greet you there. Freshly painted fences, red roses, meticulously tended front gardens, white front doors. People smile incessantly at each other, squirrels cavort in the trees and the flock of birds in the blue sky, completely free of clouds, sings a lovely song. David Lynch also gives these canonical impressions their place in…
Watched on Blu-Ray
„You are without doubt the worst pirate I’ve ever heard of.”
„But you have heard of me.”
For a long time, the pirate film genre was considered dead. Errol Flynn had become a star in several early productions, but the real birth of the genre was to be marked by the Oscar-winning "The Black Swan" in 1942. In 1953, the genre reached its gigantic peak when more than ten pirate films were produced for the cinema -…
Watched on Blu-Ray
Sometimes I'm in the mood for simple, deliberately trashy action, and so it seemed to me that G.I. Joe - "The Rise of Cobra" was just what I needed, especially as I wanted to refresh my memories in preparation for the soon to be released "Snake Eyes".
The film actually delivers on its promise of being a deliberately trashy action tearjerker in many places, and not only Stephen Sommers but also the assembled team obviously enjoy creating…
Watched on DVD
"We are consumers. We're by-products of a lifestyle obsession."
David Fincher's "Fight Club" was a real punch in the face in 1999, a relatively faithful adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel published three years earlier, which only received widespread attention through the film version. Even generating real controversy, sympathetic, fascistoid comparisons were drawn at the time, but this ultimately only doubles and triples the work in its ambivalent, sarcastic ambition. In that respect, similar to Paul Verhoeven's masterpiece…
Watched on Netflix
Before Brad Bird made his mark on the animation sector under the flag of Pixar with "The Incredibles" and "Ratatouille", and then his baptism of fire in the highly budgeted blockbuster cinema with "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol", the filmmaker, who once earned his spurs as an animator for Walt Disney, already delivered a true classic of (mostly) classic animation with his debut in 1999: "The Iron Giant" (in the German version "Der Gigant aus dem All"-The Giant…
Watched on Amazon Prime
"I can't relate to 99% of humanity".
It's probably this central key sentence from "Ghost World" that makes it unmistakably clear to whom this profoundly sincere and with a wonderful commitment to the different is directed. With his work, director Terry Zwigoff created a quirky and at the same time extremely comprehensible declaration of love to those who can't find a place in society, those who stand there after graduating from school and don't even want…
Watched on Netflix
Don't think about all the carefully staged, groundbreakingly surprising twists in other movies when watching "Now You See Me" (in the German version "Die Unfassbaren"- this means both "The Unbelievables" or "the ones incapable of being catched").
Instead prepare yourself for pompous entertainment, with which this dazzling film can unfold its thoroughly existing qualities to deliver spectacular and predominantly gripping entertainment - pure eyewash, in which you can let logic be logic for a change and instead…
Watched on Netflix
Producer Bernd Eichinger had made a film called "The Fantastic Four" in 1994 with the help of the king of low-budget productions - Roger Corman - for only one million dollars. The film was never intended to be broadcast, but was only meant to ensure that Eichinger would not lose the rights to various adaptations of this Marvel comic, it was 15 years ago that the time had come and the first BigBudget adventure of the oldest…
Watched on Blu-Ray
No matter what Edward Davies Wood Jr., Ed Wood for short, does, nothing wants to advance to the success he hopes for from the projects. As a small light in Hollywood, he fulfills casual work for the time being, eventually directing his first play about a duo of American soldiers in World War II and is destroyed by the critics in return. His later B-movies Glen or Glenda, Bride of the Monster, Night of the Ghouls and…
Watched in the cinema
Incredibly good. Genre cinema in perfection. Rian Johnson knows his craft like no one else at the moment and you can feel his almost decades of preparation and dedication to this project of his heart (direction, screenplay, production).
One of the most entertaining films of the past years is an intelligent, ambiguous, partly absurdly funny bow to the classic "Whodunit" a la Agatha Christie, and so quite incidentally the best of its kind.
All ingredients are…