Latest film reviews - Melos and ROMCOM , action spectacle and European art-house cinema
I quite lately was up to my ears, I am unfortunately hardly had time to write new lyrics for the blog. Now, therefore, failing that, an annotated collection of links to texts, which I lately for Bayerischer Rundfunk and for the online edition of I wrote "Kino", the godfather of cinema magazine of German television.
These reviews are updated daily and reviews the films ranked accordingly of works that I would have otherwise seen before - bottomless Mist included as well as real surprises - the usual mainstream entertainment to real pearls - as is equally, if by chance, respectively, the appointment calendars, and / or the responsible editor of a allocating the films.
's start with the blunders and flops. This category includes most definitely the Romantic Comedies or New Germany, "ROMCOM" I've seen me - anyway, a genre with an excess of sterile, prepared, loveless 08/15-Produktionen. An exceptionally wayward example, currently still in theaters, is about the Sandra Bullock comedy All About Steve (All About Steve, 2009, Phil Traill), which is not ashamed in the original title of Joseph L. Mankiewicz 'self-reflective classic All About Eve (All About Eve, 1950) to recur. The German rental stacks, however a little deeper and try to to Something About Mary (There's Something About Mary in 1998, Bobby & Peter Farrelly) join, which is not surprising in view of the tasteless jokes of disability All About Steve . But with the Farrelly brothers, which was staged at least with the pace and grotesque humor. Here it's just a pain for the viewer. Detailed discussion on BR-Online:
A similar case is The Bounty Hunter (The Bounty Coup; 2010, Andy Tennant), bringing together the permanent Macho Gerard Butler as a bounty hunter with Jennifer Aniston as head bitch (the latter, in contrast to Low-Actor Butler at least be quite funny). That's pretty listless runtergekurbelte routine, but still offers a few good laughs, which can be counted on one hand, however:
No ROMCOM , but almost as tedious and boring, Kevin Smith's attempt to to shoot a buddy comedy, and thus to land a mainstream success: Cop-Out (2010) confirmed my suspicion that Smith wonderful since his independent debut Clerks (1994) with each film is consistently bad (the only Exception: the amusing Chasing Amy 1997). Only Seann William Scott as the world enervating thief somewhat abstruse humor brings to the obscene patchwork:
One last comedy that I have discussed is not even begun: Tandoori Love (2008, Oliver Paul), a German-language test, Bollywood movie, ROMCOM and Swiss folk film to cross. Whether this works, it will advise you here:
Who now impression given, I would pan only comedies that can are you my review of Black Forest (2009, Gert Steinheimer) read, a German horror film, which, inter alia, to Sam Raimi's great "Splatstick" grotesque The Evil Dead (The Evil Dead (yes really!), 1982 observation), after a successful beginning, unfortunately fails in every aspect. A special trash charm can not be denied, thrown carelessly to the B-movies, however. Especially the lousy dialogues provide awards for amusement (personal highlight: "Awesome,` ne wooden wall "-" The zugebrettert someone! "). Sometimes miss the actors sometimes their efforts and get confused with the lines. No matter Grimme Award winner Gert Steinheimer allow such stars of German drama just in the movie. Review as usual on BR-Online:
addition to such total failures offers the latest movie of course, the usual average stuff of mainstream action cinema. The Luc Besson production From Paris With Love (2010) by Pierre Morel (Taken / 96 Hours , 2009), as God knows, not a highlight of the movie year, but has nevertheless with unabashed Audacity and all the action. The white arrogance that John Travolta's character - lives out (with a bald head and Henriquatre trimmed Bart very silly) constantly falling, like the aggressive sexism of the film, however, negatively significant (at Besson's directors Morel confirms Taken after the tendentious its status as a politically more to the right upright garment):
Another, more comic-like spectacle is the just launched Iron Man sequel by Fanboy Jon Favreau. This course is located on a much higher level than From Paris With Love offers and the bank better actors, equipment and action. It is striking, however, that with Iron Man 2 another current product of popular culture to a Cold War iconography draws and presents us with the baddie "Whiplash" (Mickey Rourke), a kind of fear imagination of the child-eating Russians. As the film clips and in the former Soviet Union the money should assume the role of Scarlett Johansson as attractive and "good" Russian spy, in a sense, the antidote to the nasty Russians cartoon, and everything remains in a certain ambiguity. Apart from the casting of Rourke is also the most amusing casting coup of the action spectacle, have yet to Rourke and Robert Downey Jr. put down two former 1980s-Stars recently brilliant comebacks - one as a cash magnet in blockbusters like Iron Man (2008 ) and Sherlock Holmes (2009, Guy Ritchie), the other in the Arthausdrama The Wrestler (2008, Darren Aronofsky). Thankfully, the film is then also not shot in 3D, but just old-fashioned, normal "flat". As with many sequels to comic book movies and superhero movies is Iron Man 2 lower than its predecessor. A fun evening at the cinema you can do with the movie but definitely:
In the broadest sense, also a part of the fantasy is Susanna White's children's film Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (Nanny McPhee - bang on a case in a new adventure, 2010), which I enjoyed a surprisingly good:
The best films of the last few weeks, but fall into the broadest sense (melo) dramatic subject. About Özcan Alper empathetic - and quite politically Comprehension - Feature film debut Sonbahar (Fall / Autumn, 2008), a Turkish-German co-production, which today (13 May), probably only a few copies starts:
How similar European arthouse films time use subjectivity, landscape photographs, music and sometimes a-linear narrative for their drama, a comparison of Sonbahar with Urszula Antoniak meditative drama Nothing Personal (2009). The latter is already visible for about four weeks in the cinemas and a definitive movie tip!
And finally, still a frontier between the genres, shifting between road movie, gangster movie, Lovers-on-the-Run -Melo and ethnic "world cinema": Cary Fukunagas feature film debut Sin Nombre (2009), who ventures for how long no American film more a detailed look across national borders - beyond simple declarations and stereotyping, with much affection and tenderness for his protagonist:
course, there were in the last few weeks a number of other, also well worth a restart. Representative is only a headed, my current candidate for the best film of the cinema-going year: Jacques Audiard masterful, epic gangster drama Un Prophète (A prophet; 2009). Despite multi-layered film of historical references to classic gangster films like Scarface (1932 Howard Hawks) to Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather: Part II (Godfather II, 1974) cross-references and Bert Brecht ( For the shark has teeth ... succeed) Audiard a truly original, independent Work which will find its place in film history. As so often, this film seems to only very few copies to run nationwide. So who has the opportunity: to see!
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