The Movies I Watched in April

Adolescence 2025  7/10

Die Affäre Cum-Ex 2025  6/10

The American Success Company 1979  5/10

Austenland 2013  5/10 

Babygirl 2024  6/10

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 2022  6/10

BlueBob: Thank You, Judge 1999  6/10

Breadcrumb Trail 2014  7/10 

The Brutalist 2024  7/10

 

Christmas in Connecticut 1945  6/10

Coffy 1973  5/10

Córki dancingu 2015  6/10 

Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer 2025  6/10

Echos aus einem düsteren Reich 1990 6/10

Le feu follet 1963  7/10

 

Glaskupan 2025  6/10 

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire 2024  6/10

Head With Hammer 2001  5/10

Heretic 2024  7/10

 

L'important c'est d'aimer 1975  6/10

Jusqu'au 23 juillet 2006 6/10

Kárhozat 1988  7/10

 

Un matin partout dans le monde 2000  5/10

La matriarca 1968  5/10

Mulholland Dr. 2001  10/10

 

München - Geheimnisse einer Stadt 2000  7/10

 

La Palma 2024  5/10 

Pierre and Sonny Jim 2001  6/10

Ready or Not 2019  6/10 

A Real Pain 2024  7/10

 

The Robe 1953  6/10

The Straight Story 1999 !0/10

The Stranger 2020  6/10 1990  6/10

The Two Jakes 1990  6/10

Was heißt hier Ende?  2015  7/10

 

New Stuff: Stroszek

 

New Stuff: Herz aus Glas

 

New Stuff: Werner Herzog

 

The Movies I Watched in September

Aku wa sonzai shinai 2023  7/10 

Beware, My Lovely 1952  7/10

 

Boxcar Bertha 1972  7/10 

The Captive City 1952  6/10 

La Chimera 2023  6/10 

City That Never Sleeps 1953  6/10

Clash by Night 1952  6/10

Crime Wave 1953  6/10

Cry of the Hunted 1953  6/10

Dumbo 1941  9/10

 

Dumbo 2019  6/10

Ferrari 2023  6/10

Glocken aus der Tiefe - Glaube und Aberglaube in Rußland 1993 7/10 

I, the Jury 1953  6/10

Jeopardy 1953  6/10

Kansas City Confidential 1952  6/10

Late With the Devil 2023  6/10

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943  8/10

Master Gardener 2022  7/10 

The Narrow Margin 1952  6/10 

Night Without Sleep 1952  6/10

On Dangerous Ground 1951  6/10

Rampage 2018  6/10

Rebel Ridge 2024  7/10

Scandal Sheet  1952  6/10

The Sniper 1952  7/10

 

Split Second 1953  6/10

Strange Fascination 1952  6/10 

The Substance 2024  7/10

Sudden Fear 1952  6/10

Talk About A Stranger 1952  6/10

The Thief 1952  7/10

True Detective: Night Country 2024  7/10

Tucker: The Man and His Dream 1988 6/10 

Vicki 1953  6/10

Wheel of Time 2003  7/10

Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

 

Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there.

Typical for Werner Herzog, this exploration of a forbiddingly uninhabitable and strange continent is idiosyncratic and intense and offers insights no other director would achieve.

On re-watching: Always a fascinating watch, among Herzog's best documentaries.

Maltin***1/2: "This right-brain travelogue feeds the mind, the eye, and the mind's eye. Wryly, sometimes impatiently, narrated by the director, who dedicates the film to Roger Ebert."

 

The Movies I Watched in September

Die Blechtrommel 1979  6/10 

The Card Counter 2021 7/10

Clouds of Sils Maria 2014  7/10

 

Der Fall Wilhelm Reich 2012  6/10

Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg 1985 6/10

Get Out 2017  8/10

 

Girls Against Boys 2012  5/10 

The Good Girl 2002  7/10

 Herz aus Glas 1976  7/10

The Hills Have Eyes 1977 6/10 

How much Wood would a Woodchuck chuck... - Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache 1976  6/10

I Came By 2022 6/10

Kairo 2001  7/10

Das letzte Land 2019  6/10 

Leviafan 2014  7/10

Die Liebesbriefe einer portugiesischen Nonne 1977  6/10

Little Joe 2019  6/10

Maps to the Stars 2014  7/10

 

Muri shinjû: Nihon no natsu 1967  7/10

 Musa 2001  6/10

Nihon no higeki 1953  7/10

 

Ringu 1998  8/10

Ringu 0: Bâsudei 2000  6/10

Ringu 2 1999  6/10

Rofuto 2005  6/10 

Salt 2013  6/10

Shi mian mai fu 2004 8/10

 

Sien lui yau wan II: Yan gaan dou 1990 6/10

Sien lui yau wan III: Dou dou dou 1991  6/10

Stroszek 1977 7/10 

Wayne's World 1992  7/10

Wayne's World 2 1993  6/10

Wo hu cang long 2000  9/10

Les yeux sans visage 1960  10/10

 Ying xiong 2002  9/10

New Stuff: Grizzly Man

 

New Stuff: Rescue Dawn

 

What Dreams May Come (1998)

 

Chris Neilson finds himself in Heaven after his death. However, when his inconsolable wife commits suicide and goes to Hell, he decides to risk his eternal soul to search for her spirit.

Basically a big sobby tearjerker, this movie presents some fascinating and spectacular, and at times cheesy, depictions of heaven and hell, albeit with a lot of half-baked theology.

Halliwell (no star): "Hollywood's brand of warm, huggy theology gets ever stranger: heaven here is a gooey oil painting, psychobabble is the angelic language, there's no deity in view, and the occupants can't wait to leave the place and get back to Earth. The mind boggles."

Maltin BOMB: "Off-putting gobbledygook...Despite its pedigree (a novel by Richard Matheson, a good director and cast), this film fails to evoke any tangible emotions. It just doesn't work. Its elaborate (in fact, overelaborate) special effects won an Oscar." 

 

New Stuff: Fitzcarraldo

 

The White Diamond (2004)

 

About the daring adventure of exploring rain forest canopy with a novel flying device-the Jungle Airship.

A true "Werner Herzog joint" accompanies a madcap aeronautical engineer pursuing his dream of a flying with a teardrop-formed balloon, but also adds amazing insights along the way.