A nice new German song.
Some Humor regarding Greek Financial Crisis
In a few hours Euro countries want to make a decision on whether and how to help Greece. Here is a funny German video clip to lighten up this day, at least from the German perspective.
Buena Vista Social Club
An alternative title for this music documentary could be, “Grandpa and Grandma rock!” For music lovers this documentary by the German filmmaker Wim Wenders is a charmer.
Ry Gooder, an American guitar player, visited Cuba in the 1970s. He fell in love with Cuban music and wanted to do something with Cuban [Read More]
American Sniper
Not everyone was happy that Clint Eastwood made a film following a very skilled American navy seal, Kris Kelly, on his four military tours of Iraq.
Eastwood was accused of glorifying killing. Kelly is so good at hitting targets at long distances that he becomes the most successful sniper in US history. If you have [Read More]
Woman in Gold
Adele two nieces take a significant place in her life filled with high culture. When the Nazis take over Vienna, the life of the Jewish population is destroyed
Many reviewers of this film were disappointed because the film covers familiar stories about the Holocaust. Similarly I felt that film at times became melodramatic and lame. Particularly [Read More]
Pitch Perfect 2
I did not even remember that I had seen the first film in this series. Now I know why.
Just as the first installment of this fun film you forgot the details of the plot even while you are watching the film. But the singing is so beautiful and the humor is splendid. Watching the [Read More]
Leviathan
Anyone reading world news for the past 12 months will be taken aback by Vladimir Putin’s blatant lies regarding Russia’s involvement in the war in Ukraine. Now comes a film that is extraordinarily powerful in capturing contemporary Russian society.
This is only the 4th film of the writer and director Andrey Zvyagintsev. Zvyagintsev manages to [Read More]
The Imitation Game
This is the 2nd film about a famous British scientists this year. Stephen Hawkin is probably better known to the public than Alan Touring. But Touring probably has changed our lives more than Hawkins.
Touring was one of the pioneers of theoretical computing and computing is now ubiquitous. The film is foremost a history lesson [Read More]
The Great Beauty
If you want to see a film that is a genuine piece of art, you could not go wrong with The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza). Many European attempts to make an “artistic” rather than “commercial” film fail miserably. Breaking the tradition, experimentation for the sake of experimenting often becomes the center of these efforts [Read More]