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Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, USA 2010)

There are now more than enough articles about this film in the press and power than that, something else would add. A few little things I have yet to remember to forget to have not, as a small pebble in the shoe and Erinnerungsnotat (beyond a Abwatschung Natalie Portman, whether they are now good place or not). Three things mainly I like to make a film that I liked the art work and the intensifying tension her quite well. These are: first

Aronofsky makes credible Cassel as his unit to explain the contents of Swan Lake. Which ballet dancer but knew that not? Actually, so he explains to the stupid audience, what is it about.

second The dialogues are all weak. Moreover, the "artistic" Cassels stage directions are even a surprisingly naive primitivism. Thus, no artist speaks around the world about his subject. Except maybe the community college introductory course. Here, too, probably too much thought to the audience. Imagery words: original, linguistic worlds against: phrases, dialogues plate, around the world.

third Aronofsky is working very much with cheap rummsdada shocks. He had previously never been necessary. A technique that mitlerweile with me causing so much annoyance to me directly at the nerve level very much kick out.

One of the best arguments for a useful image composition was in the criticism of George Seeßlen in time to read that would ultimately be self-employed as light walls. In fact, who has not seen the movie, pay attention to the beginning.
extreme depressing addition to the catacombs and the whole almost complete lack of daylight is the home of the protagonist, a Victorian castle nooks and crannies of the overwhelming sensory overload. This house symbolizes the mental status quo of the protagonist, that of the imprisoned individual in power and claim the soul of the total jail.

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The Red Room (Rudolf Thome, Germany 2010)

It was so much in the press about this movie: from "erotomaniacs Thome" was because the Talk about a "Ménage à Trois" and a "male fantasy". This up front: one is such THE RED ROOM not. Because at no time, the film of nudity or sexuality, never makes to meat inspection, other hand, is reserved in the image of the body: rather, he cooks the sexual tension on a low flame until the atmosphere is charged, they are in words, gestures and looks, can express. The frightened protagonist is also far from the man with the whip in the harem. But back to the beginning:

The university lecturer, a biochemist and researcher Fred kiss behind Meier (Knaack Peter) is going through a difficult phase: the results his research project can be delayed, and his wife a divorce from him. He's pretty devastated. Because he learns by chance, now begins the tale in a bookstore, leafing through a Murakami book ("Dangerous Lover" (!)), The young writer to know Luzie (Katherine Lorenz), who invited him for a coffee to be to the country house. There, in an East German idyll with a wooden house and the lake, he makes the acquaintance Sibils (Seyneb Saleh), which leads to a kind of free Luzie exploitative relationship. Again and again they invite men to his house to themselves to investigate a little, say, to have a little variety in matters of love. Fred is from these conditions totally intimidated at first, but when he has taken the first hurdles seems, this summer, which had begun so badly, lots of unexpected opportunity.

As in RED SUN and also DETECTIVES - the only two major films, Thomes me so far - is one of the exciting aspects of the constantly changing character constellations. How bewitch the three protagonists and hover around this summer's Tale (Sibil still has a somewhat disturbing friend who you go on your nerves), which is considered fascinating, and the camera will find away some very nice pictures of the fields, the lake that approaching the figures that works on the body contours. Beguiling the first very unobtrusive film music, is used sparsely, at some point the viewer to consciousness, and inspire with their very demanding melody white.
The best movie moment, if I had to choose for one!, This was where Fred Sibil gazes, their eyes are getting bigger, deeper and darker, and you become aware of themselves, how she has already fallen in love with him. That's how the whole representational power of all parties, the very large class.

That begrudge the film at the end of an output in a positive utopia, it by the crown - a fantastic finale. Unfortunately, that was

Cologne's movie house is not sold out. I counted a total of twelve visitors, but they left, if I have correctly observed, all the movies with shining eyes.

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Valhalla Rising (Nicholas Winding Refn, Denmark / UK 2009)

long-awaited, highly hypnotic Viking film between Herzog and Tarkovsky of BRONSON / PUSH-director, who both by his decidedly open artistic art house, and his undisguised brutality of the audience fully white Ford; elements that go together wonderfully well here in front of a vast landscape in which there is nothing as silent, harsh, unforgiving nature. Where it is clear always that even here "the void" where the person is faced with the last and first questions at the same time, the man himself that void with meaning, with some so religion has to fill, and that even here "the void" where there was a chance actually a "New Jerusalem" because of this violence that does to the human, can not bring about. Whether the film itself can all stick together like that, he throws out of questions, I can not judge - but is sure that there are such daring, radical films urgently needs to lead to demonstration of what film can do.

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Decision before Dawn / Decision Before Dawn (Anatole Litvak, USA 1951)

The Ardennes offensive ("Watch on the Rhine") is the soldier Karl Maurer (Oskar Werner) of the Americans taken prisoner and agrees shortly after one, now hoping, on the "right" side, for this to return to Germany as a spy to spy on the position of an armored division in Mannheim. But once "at home" arrived, flying on the camouflage and "Happy", as he is known by the Americans must fight through the bombed Germany to the Allies back ...

Anatole Litvak, in 1933, first from Germany, then emigrated from Europe filmmaker, used 1950, the chance of debris in Germany this spy film to stage. With a huge budget for that time, in an authentic setting, great cast, and all genuine and authentic. The effort can be seen on the film, the setting which is not, is a stunning document of the main cities in ruins. Also have been staged with considerable effort fighting, air raids and car chases through the crashing together and bombed-out ruins of houses street canyons. DECISION BEFORE DAWN is not only visually but an "experience", even the actors can fully convince tens, along with Oskar Werner as Hildegard Knef, one Plays a prostitute with a heart, or Seyfert an SS officer, played by Wilfried. to see short, and Klaus Kinski in a first supporting role. An impressive film that tells of a last gasp of the Third Reich, but actually already announces its fall.

[The DVD has recently been published by Winkler.]

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You will meet a tall dark Stranger / I see the man of your dreams (Woody Allen, USA 2010)

... it from an oracle out of the figures, from a "medium" for a lot of money vorschwindelt desperate wives something. Above all, it works so well because she is good friends with a masseuse, in which the clientele speaks anyway the innermost secrets of the soul. But it's about this woman not in the main, it is only the motto, which, as it draws orakelnd throughout the film and apply to all characters in it. At least to do this most ...: a new man will come into my boring life!

And how is it all in a love dance between educated classes, are also sometimes the relationship crisis so serious that the carousel begins to turn. The best comes to the representation of the relationship of Galleristin Naomi Watts and the unsuccessful writer Josh Brolin, suffering from a permanent shortage of money and feel so not only in matters of love in a cage. The writer looks so much out the window, and when in the apartment compared to a beautiful young woman in a red robe feeding (which they then quickly moves out), because it happened to him.

Much later in the film then he got what he wanted, draws over one and all the above-mentioned window scene is reflected in all a fantastic way that really such a thing as a small, but well-known melancholy wisdom puts it. It's great made here.

And this is only shortened, one of the stories of the film, which almost breathe in their diversity and links to the spirit of Robert Altman's films. Only not so hysterical at all, everything remains orderly. I SEE THE MAN OF YOUR DREAMS is based on the complete works allensche a rather small Film, I would suggest, the great penetrating power he lacks, a sensation as well. How Anthony Hopkins here to the nest does is indeed wonderful, but also wonderful on average.

the movie you can watch definitely, you will find high quality entertainment, of course, all very experienced, and, like, good craftsmanship of a great filmmaker. Those who, like Allen has made a life long movies, it seems, can do no evil - even the small production succeeds to the utmost satisfaction. A masterpiece recently as SCOOP, which is in the shade of lurid MATCH POINT something has been destroyed, this film is not.

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Snapshots, Pt. 3

There are so film, with a widespread fear to watch them again. In particularly bad example. But also in particular, the crazy tunnel. Some have cut down. So long I have left time for me again Fabrice du Welz ' Calvaire (2004), to get a movie that I plückte time from the lowest, dusty shelf in the video store, right on the passage of the porn. I had naturally expected nothing, the French nouvelle vague of the hard horror movie it was as if household name yet, was not nearly so well established. But then: the film is after all from Belgium, so even better, even outside side, or rainy, even darker. From the known Backwood specifics du Welz Zimmert a highly atmospheric, almost the entire film on music waifish, fragile giant threat that ends in a chase on foot, a real manhunt, as they were rarely seen. The late Western Seraphim Falls is estimated to have for his opening scene-served here at Calvary. Also important: the film is almost completely without shocks is relatively brief and relies on good actors and comes down to a single scene without platitudes. Excellent, I think, and even a bit better than the hot, sweaty psychologically from the horror Vinyan successor.

The true horror as a document: Gary Tarn leaves in BLACK SUN (2005), hypnotic images off-narrator's biography of the filmmaker and artist Hugues de Motalembert tell who lost to a robbery of sight. A fascinating way to combine art and biography - all to get off as the Apocalypse with a happy ending. Produced by the doomsday expert Alfonso Cuaron CHILDREN OF MEN and available from the great label Second Run .

The Nerd, by his way through the shoals of fear Teenage to Adulthood: SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (2010), all constructed as Videospielallegorie where you may also just be a superhero. Bissl alternative lifestyle, pseudo-punk and independent scene, pretty girls twist the head, and a number of ex-lover with whom one does not have to absorb only metaphorically. A film that is so powerful about everything right, so a lot of fun, is unfortunately too long (the final annoying), but still a little shell leaves: are so many networks ejected a fisher of men, there is something for everyone, but not for hip-hop (probably). And there's a deal in real life, not so fast. Elation comedy that me unrestrained in their Target group orientation but slightly repulsive.

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Snapshots, Pt. 2

In THE GIRL NEXT DOOR (2004) are the dreams of a teenager (Emile Hirsch) is true, in the house next moves in a very pretty blonde. Can he finally overcome his shyness, and placing them in an instant his outsider status at school? After a short time, however, is clear: Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert) is a porn actress, and the problems are no less - that's life more interesting. What starts out bleak fun is back: the film is convincing at the beginning certainly, get out even a few small moments of genuine emotional and because of its looks funny losing exaggerated displays of Teenage Angst , only to find, towards the end, in barren clichés. Everything happens for long-known chain of events and each twist is only the fulfillment of the audience expectation. So this film is even more upsetting.

with stereotypes in quarrels not Plotentwicklung L'ARGENT (1983) by Robert Bresson. The plot is it just a means to represent something else. The use of film form. Nonsense, sober, bare walls, causal chains of events are central to the mission of this fake bank notes, which bring a young man to prison and only then lostriggern much worse. Here: Surrender on the telling of sensations, the performers are senior executives, mechanical movements are put into the picture. Why be an emotion if you can reproduce with a more universal action functional processes? Almost a state of denial and the question of narration are being addressed.

Alexandre Aja has made for PIRANHA (2010), a small structural change: the fish are now seen metafilmhistorisch by a column created by an earthquake in the land of Lake Victoria to the surface. And that means the prehistoric beasts nibble at the most beautiful women and men, the B-movie for Spring Break and violent party could do together. From the course is nibbling at Aja Gore is a real hard, and moderately alibi there is a small story about the ever-popular nerd and Schüchterling that can prove here and man is. Which brings us back to THE GIRL NEXT DOOR ... Well, Aja film actually gets it right, is straight out and short it. He even makes the odd joke, as when a breast implant is driving through the water.

Don Siegel's film crossover between agents and vigilante thriller THE BLACK WINDMILL I also liked very well, not only because of Michael Caine Harry Browne, but also because of the rather great pictures and top-line scoring. However, it is not really a long time from the quark - which is not bad, but merely indicates that one more time past has taken the Plot data before you had the same tie with the action the audience.

Then you see a film like Paul Bartels DEATH RACE 2000 / Death Race (1975) for the first time and think, ok, we see the light of the world also. This Roger Corman film, which uses the Western myth is a real trash film Pearl, give in, not only seasoned stars such as David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone, the jack in hand, no, he is a really nicely designed, fast mounted and disrespectful towards his Figures for urgent and critical commentary, the company fun-and first-class anyway, and before the Lord. Wow!

ROLE MODELS / Role Models (2008) but gets a very high contact - rating, but is quite a mystery to me why. Is quite nice, with its alleged conflicts are not, but he is far too long, the characters are all really interesting, really good mood and not to come. Can we do without it. Unless one is a role player, then maybe you can find here again.

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There you go, do go!

Winter is not for me. Too cold, too much white stuff on the street, too much salt, and especially too much gravel. In contrast to the poorer regions of Germany has nothing to Munich as little as lack of gravel. Therefore, watch out for the moment that you are not slipping out when one hurries at 12 degrees (!) Walk for about two kilometers away garage, where for over six weeks the faithful waiting motorcycle and the things to come may.

on the sidewalk in front of the house is the stone chips so thick that you almost do not guessed the concrete slabs underneath. But - and this is the good news - the streets are free! Therefore, I've now allowed to open for me the motorcycle season, with a modest trip from Munich to Herrsching and then go back to the Ammersee and pace on the A96. Some 100 kilometers in one and a half hours. Was wonderful. Strangely, no other motorcyclists seen, only about 1,000 Sunday drivers in their cars. Pinned After hearing the weather report: Today was the best time for it. From tomorrow it will rain again, it will get colder again, rain will also be back.

No matter - the spell is broken. The winter is over, he just does not know!

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The Good North (Jonathan Entwistle, UK 2010)

As in a rural town in northern England, an Englishman of Pakistani origin, is beaten up, are particularly those residents under pressure, do not condone this act.
told in four chapters of this short film (budget: 240 pounds) fragmentary from the poisoned atmosphere that the National Front to establish itself in this small town (which is, of course, but as a proxy for many others). Excerpts of is because the scenes are only sketched, in which anti-fascist or liberal minded citizens are being pushed to the wall. The climate of aggression makes them gag, they are afraid to defend themselves or stand up. All this is completely mediated club without moral or concerned pathos, but with a directness and immediacy tells the viewers to decipher the scenes leaves mostly self. For there is no introduction, no summary given and granted, not imported any of the figures. Each segment formulates his story "of its own." That in the end a little, revealing point is was to be expected. It is the icing on the film, a film that is played well and was placed very neatly into the picture. THE GOOD NORTH tells one of the "small" stories of everyday life - which is terrible for the more. But Entwistle need only good 7 minutes. In October 2010 he was the 54th London Film Festival invited the British Film Institute. Pretty great.