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What happened in the last three months?
La femme de l’aviateur The answer is probably threefold: Books, operas and O. I have been getting into an almost obsessive reading phase ever since I bought another huge bunch of books and...
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I have not seen “The Dreamers” in years
Top Hat It’s definitely been awhile since the last time I have seen “The Dreamers” which I told myself I would watch every year to assess how my love for films has changed. Without even seeing the...
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Even Bae Doona couldn’t save it
Air Doll A few years ago, I had this conversation with Loris about Fukushima during which he postulated that Japanese culture is somehow inherently perverse. Shii made a similar observation about...
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My biggest dream is to die in my sleep one day
Watashi wa Nisai After the Berlinale, I grew more interested in Kon Ichikawa’s films. He is not in my directors list, because I had only seen “The Makioka Sisters” and I didn’t really expect having an...
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I will miss the next Berlinale
An American in Paris Ever since John Michael McDonagh praised the Zoopalast’s curtains at Calvary’s premiere as “Vincente Minnelli curtains”, I have been (1) trying to see as many Berlinale films in...
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*points at pig* Who is this? Me!
Frances Ha O will get an operation tomorrow. It’s a very small procedure and the likelihood of anything going wrong is very small, but I am grateful to everybody for being so understanding that I am...
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I love tea
Herzog Blaubarts Burg I often wonder what qualifies a film for this site. As you may all know, I am a completist and strive to blog everything I watch, but what does “everything” mean? I blog anime...
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I think I have never been to Salzburg
Considering that I have yet to see a single one of her films, I have always been fascinated by Chantal Akerman. That Gorp adores her and mentions her every once in awhile does not explain it in full....
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Finding Vivian Maier When I finally was about to finish my month-long backlog, it also unsurprisingly sparked my interest in films again. As a result, I ended up seeing two films I have been wanting to...
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Christmas shopping
The last few days have been exhausting, but shopping is actually part of the problem! This time, I bought quite a few expensive titles again (comics at half price are still expensive when it’s a...
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Spectre Besides the Berlinale and “Leviathan”, I have not actually been to any movie theaters this year. As I already mentioned, my life has been shifting. Instead of watching movies, I watch operas in...
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Revolutionary Road I feel bad that my review for “Revolutionary Road” may end up shorter than for “Spectre”, because ultimately, “Revolutionary Road” is a million times better. To be fair, you can’t...
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I watched what feels like a million operas last year, and I read some books (13, which is more than I expected) but saw very few films. 6451 told me recently that he relies upon the Munich film...
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L’ombre des femmes Welcome to the new year! In my attempt to revive my movie-watching, I realized that there is one single very effective strategy, even more effective than making a list according to...
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The Lobster Ever since I am (yet again) living in an English-speaking country and the only German-speaking friend I have here is leaving, I have been contemplating blogging in German, but I am not...
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Whiplash It’s been 10 years since I saw “Three Colors: White”, so let me tell you the experience I made with the movie, bringing back some nostalgic memories of VHS recording. As it was typical for...
View ArticleWie ich mir die Charaktere in “Reigen” vorstelle
Man macht sich ja immer ein Bild von Stücken, die man liest. Jetzt wo ich mir eine Opernversion von Schnitzlers “Reigen” anschaue (die aus Stuttgart), stelle ich fest, wie konkret das Bild der...
View ArticleI want an apartment with a loft bed
Zootopia I cannot wait for O to be old enough to see feature-length films, and then I will go through a million of those with him, like every single day. (OK, maybe not every day, but perhaps every 2...
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Serial Mom I have hundreds of unwatched movies on my hard drive and even more of them in my Netflix to-watch list. There is always a reason for why these films are on it. Rarely, it is because the film...
View ArticleAnd a classic film, as always
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? This year’s PIFF was pretty short. We only visited Shii in Stockholm (or rather in Uppsala to be more precise) and with everybody more or less in the regular work force...
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