first Peter Clasen
It's this: The regular movies in theaters diminishing all the time, the Hollywood output drops dramatically - quantitatively (which film buffs with privacy is very better time), but unfortunately and qualitatively. The annual survey by a critic friend, I'm only 12 films have come that have convinced me - the evaporation of the Top Ten was no longer the problem. In the years before the selection was even greater. And I'm going to the movies almost every day. Here is a selection of the selection.
Somewhere on the endless beach of Sylt (October 2010) A few best films 2010:
How to Train Your Dragon (USA 2010). The digital animation adventure fantasy in real 3D my absolute favorite is: creative, in the course of its history little hero always fantastic and grandiose becoming, in the end almost monumental, some settings even remind us of the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch Hell! Beautiful, funny and moving - my happiest movie experience of the year.
Inception (USA 2010). Although it has become fashionable, to bash director Christopher Nolan (the narrow-minded mirror like very fact), this is my number two. The zany story, carried by a powerful, hypnotic score, to provide state-of-the-art effects and high drama whipped for an original, seminal, unforgettable film experience. That the film was designed cold and have no soul - to such ideas can be behind the desk . Come In the movie develops the story in any case a seemingly inescapable maelstrom.
Iron Man 2 (USA 2008). The film has its flaws, is added. For me, still an exemplary superhero adventure, as always the action from the characters and conflicts and is nowhere degenerate into selbstbesoffenem overkill. Good dramatic music, inviting images. All the main characters act very lively, even bubbly. And some dialogues have every screwball level - what is now dedicated himself in comedies no longer finds so often.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (USA 2009). Computer animation in real 3D: a crazy idea (Essen falling on the ground) - and a great movie. So consistently weird, sometimes almost surreal, was no longer a mainstream Hollywood movie more. Buñuel, Dali and Co. would have to jump for joy in their graves! - Also a great parody of disaster movies.
I, Tomek (Swinki, Poland / Germany 2009), prostitution and youth drama Tomek, a 16-year-old Pole, who looks like 12, going to the bar in order to meet the consumption needs of his girlfriend. The great discovery of the film is its protagonist: Everything is reflected in the eyes of Filip Garbacz - the gaiety of a naive child, the shock of the violence of adults, the disappointment of the abandoned by God, the emptiness of a desperate killer. Perhaps only the Kuleshov effect? No, the boy can really play.
Discontinued Sylter pier (October 2010) A few flops 2010:
The Last Airbender (USA 2010). Fantasy epic: stiffer masquerade with helpless dialogues, bummer Action painted pictures and acting unfinished scenes. With miserable converted, often flat-acting 3-D effects. Dark and oppressive, a real pickle. Films like this are to blame, that 3D into disrepute.
Nine (USA 2009), the musical based Federico Fellini's classic film eight and a half - only that the master and his work here may not mean so, but only "something like" One and a half brilliant numbers, the rest is pathetic. The next Star! probably worst musical in film history.
22 Bullets (France 2010). Kitsch Gangstermelodram in Marseille: opera lover and ex-gangster Charlie Mattei (Jean Reno) is riddled with 22 bullets, survived and revenge. Erratic, random, random, gross, superficial, hollow, boring. Particularly disgusting pathos, fairy-tale story of the brutal and the continued admiration for a killer as a family man.
A few recent discoveries Festival 2010:
Broderskab (Denmark 2009). Gay love story on neo-Nazis: blood, sweat and tears - a great, intense tragedy. The only drawback are small concessions to minors: The fact that both men, who lie there in the morning after a wild night in bed, wear still or once again their rib-pants, can tell me no ...
My happiness ( Schastye moe , Germany / Ukraine / Netherlands 2010). Road movie drama in Russia: Georgy truck driver sits down with his truck on the move - the start of a Journey into the darkness, after which it is only natural that he is a murderer. Psychological portrait of a thoroughly mendacious, brutal society, a devastating study of deviousness, arrogance and brute force. Just as we imagine that Russia, from which one always reads in the newspaper.
Dog Pound (France / Canada / UK 2009). Juvenile Hall-Thriller Drama: Three child offenders in a Youth Correctional Center and admitted to come to the attention of three brutal lout. Hard and angry. A worthy successor to the now forgotten masterpiece Scum by Alan Clark.
A Serbian film (Serbia 2010). Bestial violence Drama: A legendary ex-porn star takes a lucrative job at last - he does not realize what he was actually open challenge. A catalog of the most disgusting, some unspeakable perversion as a mirror image of a country's recent war past and his mental state. A film as "gigantic metaphor." No torture porn à la Hostel and Saw , but an indictment à la Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom . With a big difference: The criminals are the victims ...
Wig (Japan 2010). Outrageously funny comedy about a bald head and his new wig. Grandiose Writer. When will the Hollywood remake?
Tucker and Dale vs Evil (USA 2010). Parody horror comedy, Funsplatter: Ten college students take a vacation in the country of Texas Chainsaw Massacre - and have a horror of the hillbillies. They still exist, the original ideas! The scheme of the usual backwoods horror films was turned on its head: The Hillbillies are harmless, the real danger lurks in the warped big-city teens. A murderer fun!
clouds mountains to Westerland (October 2010) A few retro discoveries 2010:
The Girls Whirlpool of Iceland (Japan 1960). Trash-Thriller: Secret Agent Z9 - a little boy with rocker Tolle, checkered shirt, black leather jacket and a silver scarf - comes to an island, is traded on the girls and drugs. The perfect mix of port town atmosphere and nightclub melancholy, harmonica-blues and wild rock 'n' roll, from ship bells and glitter ball sparkle. 50 years old and the hottest movie of the year - filmed in glowing colors and extra wide scope format. THAT'S cinema! Even if the story is rubbish.
The White Sheik (Italy 1952). Tragicomedy of Fellini: the newly married-hearted naive Wanda can be combined with the protagonists of their loved ones without a photo romances. A real find: a beautiful Ehemelodram told with bad, very witty sense of humor. The highlight is the scene in blubber of both spouses to race - rarely tears were so amusing.
Gorgo (GB 1959). Monster drama, seen at Cinema Bizarre: From the Irish Sea is rising an antediluvian monster. English fishermen it is a catch and deliver it to a London circus. Gorgo is only one cub, and his mother has already taken huge weather. Dramatic tension build, good knitwear, pretty models, very good scenes of panic, mass flight and destruction, the extent to Quo Vadis? remember: superior monster movie, even after 50 years.
Peter Clasen is on at Cinema Bizarre 16th January Allan Holzman Mutant - The horror in space and on 6 March Junya Sato panic in the Tokyo Express imagine.
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second i-ming
Personal Highlights 2010 - inevitably a parade of the best movies of the nicest people and best kiss? Not exclusively, but it can also involve dramatic events, right? In this sense, so here my top 10 of the previous year included also some of Bizarre Cinema relevant film titles, in no mandatory order:
Lagos, Portugal in the spring - my first real vacation do not remember since I when, out of season, not many other tourists, port, fresh grilled fish everywhere, my friend, An early summer, he even surprised the locals, perfect accommodation. A dream holiday was worth it for the years of starving! My beloved old cat
was ill, without any notice to me or she was prescribed it by the vet an investigation of her inner life via the abdominal ultrasound and shaved before my eyes of hand. Veterinary inexperience and surprised , my sense of time expanded at each shearing. The cat took it all calmly than I do.
movie collector Dennis Nyback presented in the Hamburg Metropolis Cinema, a short film program, an article on Hobos and Tramps in the U.S.: in the program, he showed Hobo, at the End of the Line (1977), a semi-documentary film produced by Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation, in the legendary hobos have their say and to hear the music of Utah Phillips. For a long time to me was the placement of atmosphere in a film not so cut down and carried away. Thank you, Dennis!
Extreme notch professional nature, among other contractual Reasons, I separate myself from my end of February 2011 recent employer, the University of Hamburg. Fresh start! The decision and the subsequent conversation with my boss were for me an enormous step. Those who know of interesting jobs for me?
Gareth Edwards low-budget indie Monsters (2010): adventurous production conditions, and liters of passion left me mouth open while watching Edwards incredibly beautiful images. Only rarely do you notice the views of a current movie that you are at that moment the witness Werdung a classic. Investigations revealed that Edwards has made only with natural light: make sure to enter it once!
It was my first time in my life in Paris. I must say nothing. But in an ice cream parlor on the Isle Saint Louis cost four balls of the famous ice cream Berthillon 12 euros. No shit!
director Adam Green has done it with his quasi-intimate play Frozen (2010), causing me dizziness and nausea. I actually had to turn away from the screen, brilliant, banal and brutal Green has staged here. Quite a big horror movie!
A friend and I have a virtual Industrial Black Metal band founded. After some back and forth, we have found our style, a demo is in progress. I hope 2011 will be somewhere to hear something.
At the end of the discovery of a Christmas movie classic: Charles Selliers Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984). I personally like Christmas and love tasteless films. This blast is the time parents associations into turmoil. I'm sure he would create a good position even today!
Finally: Our dear jitter is back in the country and back in the team of Cinema Bizarre!
i-ming is on at Cinema Bizarre 23rd Fritz Böttger One dead in January to go on the net and on 20 Teruo Ishii's March Tokugawa - Tortured women (see also here ) imagine.
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third Michael Ranze
concerts - from bitches on the guitar on rock hard and awesome (sometimes both together):
Nashville Pussy (February, Port Klang)
Kamikaze Queens, support of Reverend Horton Heat (April, verdigris)
Machine Head January ( , Grosse Freiheit)
Slayer (June, Docks)
Jackson Browne (June, Park City)
Joe Jackson (November, Factory)
Steve Harley (October, factory)
Lez Zeppelin (November, Factory)
Mark Knopfler (June, O2 World)
Supertramp (September, O2 World)
Sting (October, O2 World)
Top Ten Movies (arbitrary order):
I see the man of your dreams
by humans and gods
A prophet
Nothing Personal
An Education
Mademoiselle Chambon
The Road
Still Walking
Ponyo
Sin Nombre
Special mentions:
Sword of Desperation (R: Hideyuki Hirayama), seen at the Film Festival in Montreal
The Myth of the American Sleepover (R: David Robert Mitchell), seen at the Film Festival in Montreal
Curling (R: Denis Coté), seen at the Film Festival in Locarno
Bottomless impudence:
Enter the Void (half hour back of the head in the picture, I believe, I'm crazy! So what I do not see it!)
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4th The Wayward Cloud
As blogging was for me the film consumption in 2010 under the sign of stopping. Hardly a press screening was passing by, no series season came to an end, not a festival I survived without early or think later: "This now was the last time", as the Deleuze in Abecedaire described drinker who is not addicted to alcohol, but according to the perpetual cessation, the longed for every day the last but one glass, in He knows that he saved the same, but is still one more ahead of it, I can enjoy movies more often only when I turn inward against them, against the people who take them too seriously, and against my own; I think I am, insatiable desire for ever new images that exist, I completely after her, would give me a similarly miserable end as the consumers of David Foster Wallace ' Infinite Jest -tape .
A nice side effect of this already becoming an obsession pain of pictures is the imagination and to meet them like the first time, without prior knowledge, premonitions, expectations, without first googling something about them. Sometimes it is possible, often at Bizarre Cinema, for example, my favorite projection of the year, Tsui Hark's mercenaries have no mercy . Uncompromising hardness, total mastery of all technical aspects of filmmaking, a feeling of space à la Antonioni and irresistible 80 accessories (glasses, hair cuts, sounds), a completely nihilistic world view and a radically unpredictable nature of emerging Plot left me but think of the apocalypse, but not once: "That was the last time" The Silencer! Thanks, Jochen!
the sense of the inside flourishing in the everyday miraculous, for the very soberly and without much fanfare accomplished turn in unknown territory, I found to the very best thing in the television series Belphegor (Claude Barma, Jacques Armand, 1965) realized that I Michael Ranze had recommended. Like all movies that have brought the unpredictability not only the subject, but the formal principle, this miracle does not fit any category, but a stroll so freely between genres such as the young hero through all the corners of Paris. A horror and a thriller, at once a tender love story about a man between two women and one of the most uneven-Nouvelle Vague portraits of Paris.
more miracles which do not deal with anarchic wit and daring narrative constructions of what is, but appear to have what might be possible: Les herbes folles (Alain Resnais, 2009) and Knight and Day (James Mangold, 2010 ). The most disturbing film in years: Brillante Mendoza Kinatay (2009), in which sits the audience with six men and one woman in a car and not know where we are heading. It runs from the inside out, from Manila to the outskirts of the city, and from the outside in, in the center of an extraordinary cruelty. The deeply disturbing to Kinatay not only is this atrocity, but the approach to them, increasing the feeling of confinement and helplessness, which leaves the viewer with the protagonist (s) fixed. A journey to the end of the night in which it is naturally about money. An adventure.
Other highlights: Valhalla Rising (Nicolas Windy Refn, 2009), Brooklyn's Finest (Antoine Fuqua, 2009), Fireworks (Kenneth Anger, 1947), Le Sang des bêtes (Georges Franju, 1949), The Sunshine Makers (Burt Gillett and Ted Eshbaugh, 1935), Night and the City (Jules Dassin, 1950). The year 1955: It's Always Fair Weather (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen) and Picnic (Joshua Logan). Director James Gray: The Yards (1999), We Own the Night (2007), Two Lovers (2008). The TV series Breaking Bad and Mad Men .
"We live three times longer, since the cinema was invented," says a character in Edward Yang's Yi Yi . But whose life? Yi Yi I have seen 2010 third time and again had the impression that in this film, everything is included, what is there to show about modern life and hide. Everything goes wrong and then returned to a fragile balance, as in a jam session in which threaten the individual instruments ever to come out of the cycle, nevertheless add, however, a masterly composition, in which the individual disharmonies are repealed .
Maybe 2011 will be a year of excess.
The Wayward Cloud is on at Cinema Bizarre 6th John Flynn's Rolling Thunder February and 17 April Sogo Ishii the family with the reverse Düsenantrieb vorstellen.
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