FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Unbroken 

Kidnapping thrillers like to lull us into a false sense of security during the first scenes. They show the happy everyday life, the normal rhythm of life, before it is broken. In Unbroken, this is not so. Right at the beginning, the heavily pregnant detective Alex Enders (Aylin Tezel) disappears without a trace. Then she reappears in the darkness, which almost looks like a nightmare landscape. Half naked and covered in blood. She can't remember anything. She only knows that she was kidnapped and that her baby was taken from her. Alex knows only one goal: she wants to find her child. This is the premise of the ZDF Neo series Unbroken, tailored to Aylin Tezel. Those who know earlier films with her will remember that Tezel often presented the subject of pregnancy. Once she got pregnant during a one night stand in a techno club. Unintentionally. In the same way, she became pregnant unintentionally as the daughter of a large family - difficult to convey. As a crime scene investigator, she finally aborted the child. Is it a woman's primal fear of losing her child? This is the basis of the series concept by Andreas Linke and Marc O. Seng. In six chapters, we experience Alex's tour de force. Unbroken relies entirely on the acting skills of Tezel, who has already mastered other difficult roles and physically pushes herself to her limits. What's special about Unbroken is that Alex's personal stroke of fate slowly develops into a gripping thriller. It is amazing that Unbroken, despite its ponderous beginning, does not immediately collapse under its symbolic weight. The subtle question during Alex's research: Certainty can overcome human doubt, when doubt is essential to preserving our humanity. Everything in Unbroken seems gloomy and constricted. A visual concept for people like Alex, who are cut off from the outside world. She has lost her memory and any certainty. Or did it all take place only in her head?

Film List Cyberspace incl. FREE STREAMS 

The space of data versus reality. The concept of virtual reality has existed since Stanislaw Lem. Fassbinder was one of the first to cast it in pictures; Welt am Draht is the model for Matrix. The computer-simulated small town in Fassbinder's TV film has given way to a humanity that, hanging on a drip, is administered simulated images. Our reality is not real, we are sitting on a fraud.

FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE THE BEST MOVIES IN OUR VIDEO STORE! Kelly Reichardt - Old Joy 

Mark and Kurt are old friends who meet for a weekend camping trip. Time enough to find out how much has changed in their lives over the years. It's pretty rainy. A fat snail glides over a boulder that lies picturesquely covered with green moss. An image that, for my sake, doesn't have that much to do with the story of these two friends, but fits right in! It just fits the trip of the two, who are on their way to a hot spring in Oregon. Kelly Reichardt obviously understands this. She introduces sustained images and sounds, leaving plenty of space and time. At one point, a bird chirps on the gutter. The film lingers. So do we. And the story? Mark (Daniel London) and Kurt (Will Oldham) get lost in the mountains on their way to the spring. They set up camp in a place filled with furniture that must have been dumped. There they spend their evening, drinking beer and shooting at cans. The next day, they find the spring, wallow in it a bit, and head out for the return trip to Portland. If you've ever been camping for a weekend, you know that two days seems like half an eternity. Just by moving around. Not much happens at all! But you can observe endless little things. Short impressions. Like in Old Joy. For example a snail crawling over a rock. Some customers of our video store might complain that it's all very slow. Slow cinema, as they say. But I mean: there is unspoken tension here, even discomfort, feelings of sadness, even horror. But all this takes place between the lines. The all-important moment: then, when the path branches off to the source.... Old Joy is a film that keeps its secrets. The secrets of the mind and the heart. They don't have to be revealed superficially. You can feel them and understand them. Obviously, Kurt longs for his past with Mark. Mark hears Air America - which somehow connects him to his former ideals. But today he seems frustrated. Almost numb. They live in a Blue State - and Mark dreams of a third party. Kurt must think he's a spiritual person. But maybe he just smokes too much dope. He lost contact with his old friends at some point. In the funniest scene of the film, he puts on a pair of plum-colored shorts - like a new age hippie of the early 80s. All the while, Kurt talks about enlightening journeys. But at a certain point, we realize that Kurt and Mark must have had all these conversations umpteen times before. Kurt is a loser. The kind of guy who, at forty, is still crashing on his friends' couch. He's disturbed that he's obviously not capable of leading an adult life. What does he want from Mark? Does he just want to turn back time? Is there even some sexual tension? Such questions move me long after Old Joy is over and make Reichardt's film an unflinching work!

FREE ON YOUTUBE  

On a personal note: I have edited our catalog under movies and it says in front of each movie that you can find in good quality on youtube: FREE ON YOUTUBE In total there are 540 movies and each of them I have briefly reviewed. As a free netflix replacement. 

Berlin Movies - Classics incl. FREE STREAMS 

The longing for a Berlin of the 20s seems unbroken even in 2021. We look back on the cesspool of Berlin and a rampant nightlife full of cabaret and cabaret. Really? Probably only films can show us how it really was.

Film List Behind The Scenes 

Cinegeek.de is the free streaming portal of our video library. It works like this: I gather movies from our video cellar and create a movie list from them. I check youtube to see if the film is free and in good quality. Our recommendations for you! Our "netflix"!

FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Henri-Georges Clouzot - Picasso 

It was my father who told me this story about Picasso. The painter worked in a small mountain hut, quite remote, unlocked. This attracted the interest of a journalist who asked the artist how he could just leave all those paintings unsecured in the hut. "Are worthless"; Picasso is said to have replied. "Unsigned." For his part, the manic artist Clouzot now shows for the very first time how a painting by Picasso is created. Well noticed; he does not describe, he SHOWS! That's why this documentary can be considered unique! And isn't it an extremely intimate process that Clouzot now lets his friend Picasso demonstrate to the public? The idea: Picasso paints on transparent canvas, Clouzot films. Because the canvas is transparent, we can watch Picasso paint. Picasso uses special pencils for this, switching from realistic to surrealistic representation. Interspersed are conversations between the two friends Picasso and Clouzot. Note that we do not witness Picasso drawing one of his masterpieces, but we witness the process of his art. And the works are not yet signed.