Regensburg, July 2014
Saturday, July 26, 2014
The Ward (2010)
An institutionalized young woman becomes terrorized by a ghost.
Standard horror thriller with a predictable ending.
Friday, July 25, 2014
First Lines: Michel Houllebecq - The Map and the Territory
Jeff Koons had just got up from his chair, enthusiastically throwing his arms out in front of him.
Thursday, July 24, 2014
New Stuff: Ramones
I thought I'd need at least one Ramones album in my collection, and this live album is considered to capture them at their best.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
First Lines: Alain Robbe-Grillet - The Erasers
In the dimness of the cafe, the manager is arranging the tables and chairs, the ashtrays, the siphons of soda water; it is six in the morning.
New Stuff: The Big Lebowski (1998)
I recently decided to watch this classic again, and with shock I realized I didn't have it as DVD yet.
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
New Stuff: Samuel Beckett
In lieu of acquiring of volume 4 of the Samuel Beckett Grove Centenary Edition (it's hard to get and only for a high price) I got this edition for the time being.
Der Untergang (2004)
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Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi
dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
Although a topnotch production and a good cast (Bruno Ganz' idiosyncratic impersonation of Adolf Hitler, however, is on the verge of a parody) the movie's depiction of a precarious moment in German history is dubious in its intentions.
Maltin***1/2: "Riveting dramatization...Long but thoroughly engrossing: Ganz is outstanding."
Maltin***1/2: "Riveting dramatization...Long but thoroughly engrossing: Ganz is outstanding."