First Lines: Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities

This book is an attack on current city planning and rebuilding.

Ingi Serbent

A day in the life, Dec 2

A day in the life, Dec 2, Regensburg by night

Uschi Obermaier

ph: Jeanloup Sieff

The Condemned (2007)

A death row prisoner is "purchased" by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from all corners of the world, with freedom going to the sole survivor.

OK actioner with a moral message stuck on top of it to justify the constant succession of violent combats.

Maltin BOMB: "Reprehensible exploitation film disguised as a morality play, it titillates its audience with a constant stream of brutal violence, then attacks people who find violence entertaining and turn it into a commodity." 

Du Juan

ph: Chin Yao

Diplomatie (2014)

A historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of occupied Paris, and Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling.

Stage-struck adaptation of a play has a good cast and is well-intentioned, but is obviously aimed for educational screenings at schools than for a cinema.

Jessica Stam

Lost Highway (1997)

After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life.

A wonderful Noir dream adding more facets to the Lynch universe and leaving the audience even more puzzled than ever before.

On renewed viewing: It's fascinating to see that Lynch has every aspect of this tale (images, sound, characters) tightly knit into his vision, which sets reality and phantasm into a dreamlike loop.

Halliwell*: "An exploration of four characters in search of each other that leaves them, and the audience, too often stranded in limbo."

Maltin**1/2: "Bizarre Lynchian story that makes Twin Peaks seem as easy to follow as a Sesame Street episode...Lynch fans will have fun trying to figure it out; others will find it incomprehensible. Blake is particularly enigmatic ..."

Who's That Girl?

ph: Erwin Blumenfeld