I must have watched this a hundred times whe I was a kid and it still holds up.
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Dune: Part Two 2024
I guess the obvious problem with Dune is that if you want to make it into a film that can be watched in a relatively conventional way, you need to have all the plot points and a lot of the lore in it. This is why this film consists mostly of characters explaining the plot to each other, which is not very exciting... Still it's better than the first one, much less monotonous, even entertaining at times.
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The Natural History of Destruction 2022
Strange, frustrating film.
Artfully crafted from (re-dubbed) archive material, it is, as the viennale catalogue puts it, "without any comment or ideological bias". In fact, Loznitsa has employed a method of careful juxtaposition. We watch a sequence of bomber manufacturing in the UK and then, like its mirror image, we get to watch a sequence of bomber manufacturing in Germany. We get to see English towns, German towns. Destroyed English towns, destroyed German towns. A Nazi politician driving through a…
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Elfriede Jelinek: Language Unleashed 2022
Der Titel des Films ist letztendlich etwas irreführend, da Jelineks Sprache hier nicht entfesselt wird. Vielmehr werden Ausschnitte aus ihrem Werk benutzt um die im Film relativ konventionell abgehandelten persönlichen und zeitgeschichtlichen Ankerpunkte ihrer Biographie (und allgemein das post-faschistische Österreich bis hin zum Ischgl-Corona Debakel) pointiert zu kommentieren, was auch für einige Lacher im Kinosaal sorgte.
Diese instrumentelle Verwendung der Texte ist in meiner Wahrnehmung eben keine Entfesselung sondern eine sorgfältige Einhegung in die dramaturgische Struktur des Films. Wie andere…