Films
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Review: Lost River
Every once in a while you see something that won’t let you go. That stays with you for days in a row. That makes you want to be quiet about. An experience that changes your perspective on (the) world. Something which is perhaps only possible through and because of art. Here an attempt to review,…
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Reflection on Birdman and the reality and/of art
Winner of four Oscars, and some of my favourite actors in it (Edward Norton, Naomi Watts). Enough to go and watch this film, right? Or perhaps it is the subtitle of the film that made me go and see it… In any case a movie that is worth watching: “Birdman: or the unexpected virtue of ignorance“.…
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Comment – 12 Years a Slave
Is it possible to comment on something, when one only has a specific point of view? Possible in the sense of positively existing, non-superfluous. Are words lost, like so many moments fleeting in time, thoughts formed by the world, by what is already known, instead of forming the world. Still, the value is in the…
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On Lars Von Triers’ Nymphomaniac
There are still certain things that cannot be said, should not be said. (And a blogpost on Nymphomanic might be one of those things…) As a beginning writer, I am experiencing the addictive flow of thoughts translated unto paper, but also the paradox of the author-reader relationship. I read as I write which may be…
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Best Films 2013
It’s that time of the year to make lists, review what you’ve done, what you will do, etc etc. Here my 2013* top-10 films… [no spoilers]… 1 Die Wand (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1745686/?ref_=nv_sr_1) Austrian/German, 2012. It’s hard to say why this film came to be number 1 for me this year. This had to do with the way…
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Art As It Is Meant To Be: Io Sono Li
Sometimes you come across a piece of art that is exactly what it supposed to be like. An experience that doesn’t leave you alone for quite some time. Watching ‘Io Sono Li‘ is such an experience. (Don’t worry, no spoilers involved.) After five days of loud music and cheering as my city has been taken…
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Ginger & Rosa
Let’s not be fooled by beauty. Some things are not going to be solved, and apologies are misplaced when you follow your principles. But what Ginger and Rosa (Sally Potter, 2012) does not show, is that sometimes principles can be wrong. ‘Ginger and Rosa’ gives us an interesting insight into the past without being just…
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Mr. Nobody
A nice movie that I’d recommend to everyone. Interesting perspectives on life, mixed with a splash of existentialism and some romance. It starts out describing the universe & time being created simultanuously, with six spatial and one temporal dimension. Of which three dimensions are hardly known, and what if one of them was also a…