Wir sind Bar UND Videothek. Cinegeek.de ist unser Social Network für besondere Filme, aufbauend auf unserer Filmkunstbar Fitzcarraldo. Hier findest du unseren DVD Katalog, den wir, die Videothekare und ihr, die Kunden, gemeinsam zusammengestellt haben (klick auf "Featured Movies"). Darüber hinaus haben wir alle Empfehlungen als "Film Lists" veröffentlicht.
Samstag, 17. August 2019
FREE ON YOUTUBE Peter Fonda - The Hired Hand
FREE ON YOUTUBE To the death of Peter Fonda! Does the sub-genre "spiritual" Western exist? Certainly! Peter Fonda has made a dreamy spiritual western. In the center; a young man who leaves his wife and child behind to lead the life of a simple cowboy again. And after many years he decides to return to his wife and start all over again. The man's name is Harry Collings (Fonda), his best friend is Arch Harris (Warren Oates). But on their way back they come across a villain. McVey (Severn Darden). At the ranch of his wife they start as wage labourers. But Harry has matured in the ten years (!!!) of his absence and is allowed back into the bedroom. I hope that now not all female customers of our video store are pissed off about this summary. Anyway, we follow this wide ride in dazzling pictures, slowly dissolved, with sun flooded double exposures. A quiet, mystical western, accompanied by real folksy music. The best westerns were always very moral. But also exciting. One arrives at moral clarity through many shootings. That doesn't happen here. The villian simply kidnaps his best friend and announces that he will cut off a finger every week. Time for a showdown - but... it doesn't happen. Everything ends completely different than expected. Just like with "Easy Rider". Sometimes it all seemed a bit too metaphysical to me. But it's 2019. Donald Trump is president of the USA. Instead of hippies there are racist rednecks who all chose Trump. It's certainly my mistake to find Peter Fonda's Western too pregnant with meaning. I live in the wrong time. In any case, Peter Fonda loves to stylise everyday events with Christ symbolism.
Donnerstag, 15. August 2019
FREE ON YOUTUBE Favela Rising
FREE ON YOUTUBE Have I told you about our old cinema? In Corinthstr., not far from Lidl there? It should be a zero Euro cinema. With bunk beds and (!!!) couches on rocking chains. It works like this: 1. You steal the wood at the Lidl construction site, have couches and refrigerators from eBay given to you. 2 The demonstration technique is available in insolvent cinemas. For example these old 35 MM machines. They are so loud that nobody understands the film. That's why you need an extra room. That's why my old partner Skulli rented a chamber in the building next door. He had the idea of simply drilling a hole between the outer walls of both old buildings. That's work, because we're talking about more than a meter here! Almost hopeless. But at some point the drill came through. And later an architect said; we would have been lucky that not both buildings sank. Never mind. In such a cinema you can show films like Favela Rising. The show sold out three times, which means that about 90 people wanted to see Favela Rising! Many Brazilians, because it is a true story with a happy ending. In Portuguese favela simply means slum. The area we know from "City Of God" or "Tropa De Elite". In Favela Rising you can see a group of young Brazilians who during the 90s were looking for their own way out of the misery of the favelas. They exchanged their weapons for instruments. They played AfroReggae to support those oppressed in the favelas. And they make it! I will ask Werner from NOMADENKINO if we don't want to play Favela Rising again. For example in About Blank. P.S. The original cinema from Corinthstr. is still there. In the Gärtnerstr. 19, 10245 Berlin. It's called B-Ware. A shop that has nothing to do with chic young mothers, bicycle helmets or chocolate shops (Bio bar for only 4.50).
Dienstag, 13. August 2019
Film List Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was erected on 13 August 1961. It was only three days before the Wall was built that the public was informed, and before that the credo was: "Nobody intends to build a wall. (Ulbricht). The required barbed wire was supplied from the west. Berliners like me grew up with the Wall. It was quite normal for us. My way to school ran along the wall, which took me a little longer. I couldn't drive straight through - it wasn't until after 1989. We made jokes about the border guards watching us from their watchtowers. Or we threw firecrackers over the wall and were happy when the shepherd dogs struck. In the north of the then French sector one could even come across border soldiers. In this part the wall had to be built a little bit displaced, because the surrounding countryside was too swampy. Signs indicated the "end of the French sector". Those who passed these entered the GDR. Short and sweet; all this seemed quite normal to me. Of course I wanted to go out by bike. Behind the wall. Sometimes I felt trapped on our island West Berlin. But I was never afraid of "Ivan". When the wall fell, the astonishing thing was that some were not at all enthusiastic about it. Especially in Kreuzberg. Because now one belonged again to "Germany" and no longer to an allied sector. We West Berliners were not "Germans" in this sense - and that was very, very important for us. After all, we didn't have a passport. Only a West Berlin identity card. We were also not allowed to vote in "Germany". Only the West Berlin CDU. And we got "Berlin Zulage". 30 % more wage on every job. Anyway, everything in West Berlin was subsidized by the state. You can still see that today; we West Berliners are used to receiving money from the state. Today, August 13, we may remember. With films about the fall of the Berlin Wall, which I have collected here.
Montag, 12. August 2019
FREE ON YOUTUBE Damiano Damiani - Mafia
FREE ON YOUTUBE (DU FINDEST DEN GANZEN FILM FREI AUF YOUTUBE) If you know your way around classic Italian cinema, you'll soon notice that the mafia isn't an issue for the great Italian auteur filmmakers. This is not the case with the busy Damiano Damiani, his trademark specialist for mafia thrillers. Like Francesco-Rosi, Damiani sees the mafia primarily as a social problem. However, his films don't seem like docu-dramas, but real thrillers. "Mafia" or "The Day Of The Owl" looks impressive. A thriller that certainly falsifies the fact that the real Mafiosi of the time were less well dressed. It's the story of a single righteous cop from the north; Captain Bellodi (Franco Nero). He was sent to Sicily to solve all the unsolved murder cases. So that disappearance of the husband of Rosa Nicolosi (the great Claudia Cardinale). He witnessed a murder of a construction worker. Why did he have to die? What did he see? And what does Rosa know? From a distance, the local godfather, Don Mariano (Cobb), watches Bellodi's investigation. But Sicilians are hard at remaining silent. Bellodi's attempt to obtain a statement turns out to be almost impossible. Normally, I prefer to buy the Italo thrillers, which are published by Koch Media on DVD in the most beautiful size. Our DVD of Damiani's classic, which even ran during the Berlinale, is greenish and basically an imposition. But now I have discovered this youtututbe stream with English subtitles. It proves: Neither the face of Claudia Cardinale, nor that of Franco Nero is green.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator
Dienstag, 6. August 2019
NOMADENKINO heute 21.00 Burning
Two childhood friends, both raised near Seoul, meet again by chance after years. They go for a drink together and remember earlier. She has studied pantomime and shows him something. He reacts as if enchanted and falls in love. He is amazed at the illusion. It explains to him that whenever he desires something, he could create it this way. Everyone in Burning desires something in the most fervent way. The young man is called Jongsu (Ah-in Yoo). He dreams of becoming a writer. The girl's name is Haemi (Jong-seo Jun). At first he doesn't recognize her at all. "Plastic surgery"; grins Haemi. They have sex and he agrees to feed her cat while she travels to Africa. A cat we never see, by the way. Does the cat even exist? Longingly, jongsu waits for Haemi's return. She doesn't return alone, but accompanied by Ben (Steven Yeun). Ben is cold and somehow empty. He experiences a big Porsche and his apartment is full of works of art. But there is something wrong with Ben, Jongsu finds. And what does Haemi actually mean to him and his rich friends? Nothing more than a pastime? Jongsu thinks Haemi is in danger... Burning takes place in a world full of blurred borders. Jongsu lives in a village near North Korea. A raid from the north threatens at any time. And the cat lives in the border area between being and non-being. Important in Burning are cupboards. Everyone has a closet with secrets. And fire. Above all Ben guards a strange secret with fire: He burns down other people's greenhouses. There is a permanent threat of danger in Burning, even if you can't locate it. It is difficult to even grasp a clear thought. "What is" and "What is not"? It never really becomes clear. Just like Haemi's pantomime. Nothing is as it seems. And Haemis cat? It was never there.
Montag, 5. August 2019
Film Liste Indianer Filme 80er-00er
In the early 17th century the first conquerors set out for America and there was a clash with the Indian culture. The clash of cultures is the theme, modern Indian films. On the one side there are mostly the natives close to nature, on the other side the materialistically and morally corrupted conquerors. Films like The new world by Terence Malick seem to confirm this prejudice through superficial ethno kitsch just as much as Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves. In Michael Mann's The last of the Mohicans, the protagonists are scarred and drawn. Love stories are used by Malick and Mann to approach the foreign culture. While in Michael Mann's model, however, there are some gaps that are filled by platitudes, Malick idealizes them. Geronimo: According to the title, An American legend is a classic Indian and cavalry western. Walter Hill shows genocide not as war, but as mass murder. With great beauty and true intelligence, Hill has succeeded in making the best of all modern Indian films.
Abonnieren
Posts (Atom)