Lost Horizon (1937)

 

When a wise diplomat's plane crashes in the snows of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.

Big budget over-the-top fantasy, still entertaining after all these years despite the naive utopism.

Halliwell****: "Much re-cut romantic adventure which leaves out some of the emphasis of a favorite Utopian novel but stands up pretty well on its own, at least as a supreme example of Hollywood moonshine, with perfect casting, direction and music. If the design has a touch of Ziegfeld, that's Hollywood."

Maltin****: "A rare movie experience, with haunting finale." 

 

Halle Berry

 

Today's Cat

 

Irina Shaykhlislamova

ph: Zoey Grossman

A day in the life, Oct 30, 2020

 

A day in the life, Oct 30, 2020, objet trouvé

Iris Law

 

ph: Robin Galiegue

New Stuff: Rio Grande

 

Mengyao Xi

 

Phoenix (2014)

 

A disfigured Holocaust survivor sets out to determine if the man she loved betrayed her trust.

Intelligently plotted Vertigo-like post-war melodrama with excellent period detail and good cast explores on several levels the effects of Nazism and the war on German society.

 

Devon Aoki

 

ph: Anthony Mandler

New Stuff: The New Yorker

 

(Art: John Cuneo)

Elise Crombez

 

ph: Hans Feurer

Paradies: Liebe (2012)

 

Teresa, a fifty-year-old Austrian mother, travels to the paradise of the beaches of Kenya, seeking out love from African boys. But she must confront the hard truth that on the beaches of Kenya, love is a business.

Once again Ulrich Seidl confronts his audience with a tough watch exposing in painfully realistic detail the downsides of our world;  Margarete Tiesel shocks and surprises with a remarkably courageous performance.

 

Kate Bush

New Stuff: Grizzly Man

 

Who's That Girl?

 

ph: Takao Tsushima

Art: Alfred Kelsner

 

Bio (in German):

https://perry-rhodan.net/infothek/team/aktive-zeichner/alfred-kelsner