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September 2008 The Art of Negative Thinking

movie info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945356/

Cinema: Atlantis (Munich)

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In Scandinavia it in terms of "black humor" like a number and nothing but - allegedly - evil. In recent years, incest, racism, euthanasia and impediments to "platforms" of ethical discourse. Films like "idiot" (FD 33 631) and "Elling" (FD 35 384) or the almost forgotten "Miffo" (fd 36 6809), "The Green Butchers" (fd 36 640) and "Adam's Apples" (fd 37 779) ventured a slightly different perspective on social and ethical conflicts. Now comes with "The Art of Negative Thinking "is a subgenre of the late stragglers, who like a fairly inspired variation of" One Flew Over the Cuckoo excludes Nest "(fd 19 710).

The story is quite simple: The young Invild the waves of self-pity of her paraplegic since an accident husband Geirr sorry. Geirr, early 30s does not realize his destiny as an opportunity, but is mischievous, listen all day long songs by Johnny Cash, I watch war movies and consumed to a joint after another. Surely not a nice fellow! But why after an accident with such consequences, or be a nice fellow? This is not the fellow citizens bothered! But social workers are responsible, such as Tori, which holds a group of very different people with disability due to permanent brain washing in a good mood. The world, her motto is, well, if only they were "right" look. Tori, the propagandist of the art of positive thinking, has set up a group-dynamic regime of terror, was dragged from Geirr successfully in the shortest possible time. Geirr can not even to "the positive" one, but infiltrated the professionally cheerful group of handicapped people, with its nihilistic evil.

This is quite amusing, but not full-filling, which is why director and screenwriter Bard Breien tried to give the disabled supporting cast a little biographical outline. There is Asbjorn, who is paralyzed and mute after a stroke. He will learn in the course of the film talk and walk again. There is the wonderfully learned to live after a climbing accident paralyzed Marte, whose husband Gard with the consequences (s) of a small mistake. The bit of paralysis can affect this relationship is not enlightened, especially since a bad conscience is in play. At least not as long as the disabled people are under the spell of Tori. An evening with Geirr, lots of alcohol, Gruppenkiffen, evil truths that are finally making a once and a little Russian Roulette brings verve to the group until all life lies, pragmatic faith healer land and basic interests are open on the table. Should we even tell you that of course just Tori, the most fundamental problems? Absolutely predictable, the film drags then, staged in a small room like a stage play. Of course it's not just about people with disabilities, but about social ideologies, that restriction should be placed on constant positivity as an attitude in question. For this to work, you have to sometimes just "incorrect" Veteran and look behind the facade of the spa-terrorism. Remains open, however, if not by permanent self-self-on-the-shoulder-tap for their own courage to be eingerannt incorrectness open doors. If you switch the "lower classes Television" one, there must also serve the "enemy image" of the ruling "political correctness" as an alibi of his own misanthropy. Anyone who writes on the radical breaking taboos own flags reveals, at first very much about himself. Do you have to actually go to the movies to understand that physical disability is a genuine suggestion? Ulrich Kriest (filmdienst 19/2008)

Are People With Hiv More Often Ill

Babylon AD

movie info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364970/

Cinema: Cinecita (Nuremberg)

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Vin Diesel is like a direct descendant of the action heroes of the 1980s: a scarred face, a toned, muscled body, some cool one-liner "on the lips, to the stoic attitude of Arnold Schwarzenegger, but also the agility of a Kurt Russell - and you have that star for the multiple needs of the modern action cinema. An attribute raises diesel still out in particular: his deep, sonorous voice, which contrasted strangely with its soft, something almost childlike facial features, gives it a personal touch, set it apart from the mass of the same form, usually acting as mediocre colleagues differs. The latest attempt by a French director, to imitate in his home country is big Hollywood movies, for diesel, a similar stroke of luck, as it once was "The Fifth Element" (fd 32 718) by Luc Besson Bruce Willis. And director Mathieu Kassovitz 'adaptation of the novel "Babylon Babies" by Maurice G. Dantec is, as once Besson's film, its hero completely in the center of the story. Besson's science fiction blockbuster with lots of gadgets and ideas but in the distant future anchored, is "Babylon AD" much more timely and therefore more realistic: The world is in chaos, devastated by war, terror and anarchy. The war veteran and mercenary Thoorop ekes out a ruled by warlords and mafia bosses Russian state bordering a sad existence between destruction and disillusion. From the Mafiosi Gorsky, with noticeable enthusiasm shown by Gérard Depardieu greasy, he receives the offer, the young and beautiful Aurora to smuggle into the United States. As a reward for the dangerous job Toorop is made for a better future in the States in view. In its strongest moments, the road movie reminiscent of Cuaron's Children of Men "(fd 37 874). Straightforward draw pictures a bleak, post-apocalyptic world, the disillusionment of the characters can be understandable. In this world the hero is weak. Kassovitz has his characters for an action movie of this kind, especially in the quiet scenes of astonishing amount of space to develop and Charakterauslotung. WEAKNESS "Babylon AD" But in the moments of direct confrontation with the risk of: Here, the previously so carefully constructed scenarios given up entirely to the formulas of genre cinema. A good portion of shootouts and spectacular stunts are now even a recipe for success. These formulas must not be automatically bad, but they lose just as much built up in this atmosphere by their nature Piggy-backed to treatments. Unusually well-contoured and strongly are, however, the female roles. Although Mélanie Thierry as Aurora some stereotypical cute, intended for protection-seeking moments - which side in a climax in the profile recorded setting in which the small declines in the moment very childish-looking woman with the head of the mighty breast of her protector - its role through mysterious skills of young women are given is ultimately that of a strong woman. This also applies to their battle-tested companion "sister Rebecca, played by Michelle Yeoh, and a later emerging" high priestess ". The latter is played by Charlotte Rampling, and here at least is clear that a Another attraction of the film, the supporting roles are well occupied. Despite suffering from positive aspects of "Babylon AD" but at the notorious weakness of many action films, because the plot is basically one-dimensional. A hero a woman passed safely through all dangers, alone and yet not alone, (ver) questioned, but is always his man, it is the successful packaging, this film one of the better of his genre can be. Mike Beil (filmdienst 19/2008)

How Many Carbs In Bean And Ham Souop

WALL-E

movie info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/

Cinema: Mathäser (Munich)

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Cinema has been the introduction of "talkies" downright afraid of silence - which is strange for a medium that is building it on the power of images. Apart from art and experimental films from once in the film not only spoke rarely, all too often is too much or explained (if necessary from the off) comments. Silent sequences such as the opening sequence of "2001 - A Space Odyssey" (fd 15 732) remain very reason in mind because the lack of dialogue as irritated as intrigued. It is remarkable that now, on just an animated film from the realm of the mainstream without a word Extreme. For that reason alone we must Pixar's animated "children's film" WALL-E compare in terms of formal radicalism with Kubrick's singular science-fiction epic from the year 1968.

In "WALL-E" there is nothing to say because there are no people. About 700 years ago, the last has left the earth, the polluted, a hostile planet offered no alternative to the giant luxury space ships, which promised a carefree life. There is more chance that is activated on the ground of the flamboyant promotional video on the giant screens, the raves about the eternal holiday, megalomaniac star cruiser. Then there are also the only "human" Words that echo through the abandoned ruins. Otherwise you will only hear Gefiepse, the crunch of metal on stone surfaces, and the tinny sound of an old video cassette of the at least once a day sounds "Put On Your Sunday Clothes". WALL * E is responsible for a small robot with Planierraupenfüßen, the three-fingered grasping hands of an assembly line, and two slaves webcam eyes. In his cubic body can scrap pressed to stackable cubes. He does now for 700 years, which meant that he covered the landscape to learn some metal skyscraper has. WALL-E is sort of a "freak of nature": not only that he is still works where nothing else works, it has also developed something that was not planned by its designers: a kind soul! Therefore indulges WALL-E in the evening his hobbies: his favorite sorting garbage, playing with his house-cockroach named HAL or the sentimental indulgence to said song from the musical "Hello Dolly" (!). Secretly yearns after the little robot, even one holding hands with his peers can - just as in the section on the videotape, which he looks at every night. Then, when one day ends up a giant spaceship to dismiss a small UAV in the landscape waste, his dream might even Fulfillment go. But the high-tech robot named EVA is initially far from keen on relations between robotic. First WALL · It almost tender insistence on hostility gives way to the programmed neural networks EVAs on - just feel the two behave something like friendship. But when Wall-E EVA waste his latest find, a little green thing, shows, takes over command of EVAs actual provision their circuits: backing up and mountains of forms of life.

Up to this moment - almost up to half of the film - you wait in vain for more significant dialogue sentences about "WALL-E!" and "EVA!" went out. Although this no one will miss the contrary. Every sentence is superfluous in this most moving love story since Romeo and Juliet. For all that should be heard anyway, provided by two men: Ben Burtt and Thomas Newman. The 60-year-old sound designer Burtt was among others responsible for ensuring that the light saber in "Star Wars" (fd 20 658) so sounds like it sounds, that Darth Vader breathing so scary and you have regrets when R2-D2 never know that he does not speaks like a man. Burtt also provides in "WALL-E" for, what type of robots when they are alone, which is at least as sensitive as human language. The film is indeed dialoglos, anything but quiet. In place of the spoken word as a means of expression occurs in the case of "WALL-E" the stronger the music. Thomas Newman is from "The Shawshank Redemption" (fd 31 221) on "American Beauty" (fd 34 006) to "The Good German" (fd 38 062) a total of eight times for an Oscar nomination and he will have it for "WALL be * E "is also a ninth time. His music indulges in everything woodwind, string and can provide percussion instruments. Especially the flute, the harp, xylophone and various versions translate the most abstract stage directions in tangible emotions. Like a romantic Program music such as Tchaikovsky's ballet "Romeo and Juliet" plays Newman sentiment and drama and provides one way, sometimes more, sometimes less explicitly, of nightmares. Should it to be at this point, of course, to transfer the perfect animation art made by Pixar, set it apart from "Toy Story" (fd 31 830) to "Ratatouille" (fd 38 348) always manages to bizarre stories in believable (computer) Pictures . Director Andrew Stanton and his character art designer Jason Deamer have managed to breathe a robot that consists of little more than two photocells and six metal fingers, the whole range of (human) feelings. It weighs a lot more than the successfully operated with great effort trying to let the third dimension by means of computer animation still "real".

The story of WALL-E and EVA is of course even after the plant fund. It is conventional, since worsened dramatically, and replaced with a bunch of "disabled" the inevitable robot for a cartoon comic sidekicks. Finally, the action's action-packed climax on the mega-ship, in which the robots for their love, the preservation of plant and struggling for the sensing of a humanity that has degenerated in the last seven centuries, to a nation of nothing but thick worms. What the whole thing finally gets a neat ecological message. Forever and ever but the first half of "Wall-E" will remain in the memory, call the viewers, the three main virtues of cinema in memory: listening watch, be banned! Jörg Gerle (filmdienst 20/2008)

Jenna Jameson Anorectic

robbers Kneissl


movie info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1151827/

Cinema: Mathäser (Munich)

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The Bavarian Outlaw is one of the unruly characters from the southern German legend treasure. Why she enjoys a certain popularity, can not fathom that simple. Although the poaching is one of the offenses that Mathias Kneissl (1875-1902) brought the state violence in conflict and characters such as the Jenner wine or the "Bavarian Iliad" made famous. But the adjective "robbers" indicates criminal activity. Kneip was born into an impoverished family of innkeepers northwest of Munich, the dealings with the law was not as accurate. His father died in 1892 from the consequences of arrest, the mother sat in prison for receiving stolen goods, and the youthful Kneissl had 1893 for nearly six years behind bars, because when he was arrested, a policeman was killed. His attempts at the turn of the century, to put it into a bourgeois normality foot failed. cost The death of two police officers after a shooting him then his head Kneißl executed in 1902 Augsburg with the guillotine. However, he was in his lifetime as a national hero, whose predatory life manifested a kind of resistance against the authorities and the myth in satires and ballads found Kneißl-precipitation.

decrypted From today's perspective, the "robbers" Biography certainly not as a drama of a rebellious outlaw, Reinhard Hauff as 1970 with "Matthias Kneissl (fd 17 377) interpreted or lives on in songs by Ringo or Biermösl Blosn to the present. Kneissl's life was rather short in a tragic downward spiral into poverty, exclusion and the overthrow of a repressive order to nowhere mutually accelerated. The almost complete absence of critical interpretations of social features as well as the recent film adaptation by Marcus H. Rose Mueller, who appropriates the material for his version of a Bavarian entertainment cinema. His Kneissl, Maximilian Brückner embodies with fine understatement is an upright, thoroughly honest character, who is leaving prison in 1899 as an optimist and be purer of shady dealings finally the fingers wants. He prefers to take arduous path takes into account, to purchase its (ship) ticket to the New World, America, in an honest way. That in his cousin Mathilde also finds true love, fits into the prospect of a better life. In the face of so much charm and ambition, the environment seems at first too willing to throw him to not stick between the legs. But it is sufficient a single opponent in order to reactivate the resentment and the "convict" to catapult out of bounds. Without pay and bread Kneißl remains little more than his dream to extort with a gun in his hand.

Rose Mueller told this as a blend of chronicle and ballad, close to the Facts and yet with fabulous, sometimes comedic gesture of what losing a strange iridescence caused, in the twilight of the characters not only their grip. The trick to is the beginning, a silhouette-like black and white image expanded into color and three-dimensional threat, together purr as a kind of anti-mirror to turn against the film, its high cost and Detailfreudigkeit at the end to little more than a sad fate. Also refers to regional foundation of history, which spelled out to the Upper Bavarian idiom and in equipment and costumes, a respectable historicity achieved in the staging little response. The director does not shy away from the famous Bonds about the bike sequence from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (FD 16 411), and the guitar-driven score by Gerd Baumann sometimes feeds the impression Kneissl had already arrived in the Western. Also like so many strange details like the ocher yellow boots, that is wrong Kneißl evident through the countryside, have a hang in the disturbing reality, but the appearance of authenticity. Leaving aside the historical figure and the question of interpretation, but the outside and passes the verstolperten first act, the breathless outlines the complex history, unfolds an exciting and amusing, sometimes burlesque drama, by its local characteristics, at least for there to occupy, where you can decode it. Should not be overlooked, however, that Rose Mueller met hearted excursion into the realm of the historic home movie to a fundamental limit: the typing. Kneissl opponent Foertsch is devious, the henchman of the city's investigator on the face disfigured by scars, the farmers are masterful, the servants of dull. Just as Maria Furtwängler Kneißl mother remains itself, even if she converses very convincing in the bottom of Bayerisch. Josef Lederer (filmdienst 17/2008)

How Much Is A Build A Bear Party

The Dark Knight


movie info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/

Cinema: Mathes (Munich)

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that a villain can be very disturbing, even if it looks stupid, had Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men" (fd 38 601 proved). Heath Ledger's performance as The Joker, who has won through his death in morbid fascination, recalls this scene, even if Ledger's leisurely Over Acting little in common with Bardems rather cool game. Again, it is the complete irrationality of the figure, which accounts for the terror. With drooping shoulders, smeared clown makeup and the over-Tick, smacking Mouth movement that looks as if a chameleon eat a fly, radiates from the diabolically-Ledger not appreciative Zirkusgrandezza which Jack Nicholson ("Batman", fd 27 905) once gave the role. Frail and dilapidated, his Joker, but increases the gap between damaged exterior and flawless, because meaningful free viciousness the disturbing thing about the figure, which works sometimes, as though a demon takes possession of a body, the vocal tract and muscles he only almost but not quite as a man dominated. Where the Joker comes from, how he became what he is and what he really wants is unclear. As the same game card, it is a kind of Space, makes it much besides the fact that he is well versed with explosives, his ability to exploit the weaknesses of others: their greed, their ruthlessness, their fear, anger or love. To this end, he gets in "The Dark Knight" ample opportunity, because of emotions that can be manipulated, is lacking in the movie is not that develops between dose and carefully choreographed action sequences to the great tragic opera in the center of Bruce Wayne aka Batman. Was he in "Batman Begins" (fd 37 111) found out from his childhood trauma to one (though divided) the identity, he stays here first rather uninteresting - a simple avenger in the holy anger among the smaller and bigger criminals of Gotham City goes. This Batman is not alone, for even the indefatigable policeman James Gordon and the charismatic new district attorney Harvey Dent has declared the fight against organized crime. Finally, when the hoarded money supplies of the mafia clans are threatened and transported Batman a new "business partners" in a daring action from Hong Kong back to Gotham, so he says in court against the syndicates to see the underworld bosses forced to accept the offer of the Joker, eliminate their opponents. Who plays his own game but to unmask Batman and Gotham into chaos efficiently to overthrow. Bruce Wayne, however, will support Harvey Dent, Gotham's "white knight" who proceeds with the means of law against the crime. Its success should make it one day useless to legitimized by any democratic body Batman to lead the field. However, a sting is in this partnership is Dent but the new friend of Bruce's beloved Rachel. In the course of these complications and mirrored by the principal and occupied contoured minor characters, the title character finally wins at that ambivalence born of depth that they already excelled in Nolan's first "Batman" movie. Their conflict is reminiscent of John Wayne's role in 'The Man, the Liberty Vallance shot "(FD 11 449): Bruce knows that law and order are on questionable feet when they are enforced by illegal methods - and feels but given the power of criminals forced as Batman in the law passed as Dark Savior for the sins to take on that need to be committed in order to "cleanse" Gotham: A "free hero" who sits on the rules of the social contract away and do what want to do the official city fathers, but not allowed . Wagner's "Ring" sounds, it's when the Joker him at one point indirectly compares with the figure of Siegfried, and he himself with his penchant for playing with fire and double games, a modern lodge, who manages to make the anarchist "World Brand" the hope for a project managed by the rule of law Gotham almost nothing. Something clearly seems good in this depraved (and not very comic way staged) world to have no chance. So pessimistic in his humanity no longer a mainstream film was more. This is because even the sinister to the Joker character in Batman and the whole "The Dark Knight": You burn across the screen as nightmares and dream of an exhausted democracy, from organized collective fears nothing, and the strong individual everything and hoped. "Big Brother Batman" is truly a very black knight. Felicitas Kleiner (filmdienst 17/2008)

Dog Poops Blood After A Poop

The discovery of the Currywurst


movie info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1251346/

Cinema: Eldorado (Munich)

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Does the discoverer of the meatball? If such food is not collective performance? Dishes that emerge slowly, according to the logic of their material conditions as it may be, for example, been with the burger: you had crumbs and little meat, but wanted to fill the stomach, as offered the handle on both and was to full desire you had the meat and the bread zusammenmanschen yes. . Many are doing it have, simultaneously, in different places, and witness the different names, too: Fleischbengelchen, meatball, meatballs, rabbit ears, meat cookie "So it is in a prominent place in Uwe Timm's novel" The Invention of Curried Sausage "- and just this place is in Ulla Wagner's film unfortunately did not before. Just as the narrator fiction, double, nested memory, the retrieval situation of the impatient narrator, the postmodern self-reference, the narrative logic breaks (Bremer's lost sense of taste) and all the little digressions and everyday observations of Timms impressive complex novel about the lies and cunning delaying unpleasant truths. Ulla Wagner, who is also responsible for the screenplay, has opted for focused psychological chamber drama, wants an unusual but telling actually not improbable love story. Hamburg, in April 1945. The Nazi regime is on its last legs, but wants to take revenge by Volkssturm and total mobilization nor that the Germans have once again proven to be too weak for the conquest of the world. Hamburg has been declared a fortress and to the last man to be defended, while the Allies bombed the city almost continuously. If the Political system is gradually being overcome, it says in any case the film grows, the individual scope of action. The not so young Lena Bruckner, played outstandingly by Barbara Sukowa, works as a manager of a canteen and learns the evening before the film the young sailor Hermann (very smart: Alexander Khuon), whom she takes home as the next air attack, the newsreel ended. Lena's husband Gary, a rogue and ne'er-do, and Lena's son went missing at the front. Hermann takes the offer of the woman, deserted and hides in her apartment. Thus begins a love story against the concrete circumstances of the time, cheerful, spontaneous and subversive in every way. Still do not believe only the block waiting for the final victory, nor be held in establishments propaganda speeches, but the biggest threat to this relationship is based on peace. Lena Bremer has concealed that he married and father of a young child, but Lena discovers a photo of the young family. When the war ends, she decides to extend their brief happiness with a little silence, while Hermann begins to dream of the next expedition to the east. The small apartment, previously was the retreat of the lovers becomes a prison, while not as mixed at the door without the cards. When Lena, disgusted shocked by the images from the concentration camps and of Hermann's war fantasies but then the capitulation of the German Empire must report this means the end of the relationship. Hermann disappears, as he came, but the energy that Lena has withdrawn from this meeting goes, after all, in order to secure even after the return of the unfaithful husband's independence. The eponymous "Invention of Curried Sausage" is reflective of the liberating energy of the "impossible" love story of Lena and Herman, but does the combination of two things that do not fit together really, really well: "rubble and a new beginning, süßlichscharfe anarchy" (Uwe Timm ). In contrast to the literary source is allowed, the film conventionally melodramatic "cloture" of a recent meeting of former lovers before Lenas Currywurstbude. The exciting on several levels reflected and folded structure of Timm's novel could not and did not film Ulla Wagner. Its consistently simplistic finishing the presentation to a relatively linear narrative, which focuses entirely on the psychology of the protagonist of something stage-like atmosphere makes the image pushed time, from "The Invention of Curried Sausage," an entertaining feel-good film elevated levels. Of course this one has a little too often feel they have seen it all before, such as "The Marriage of Maria Braun" (FD 21 181) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, on the "The Invention of Curried Sausage" would easily pass as a prequel. Told, however, with the resources and limitations of a moderate at best ambitious television play, unafraid of any dramatic concession to the audience. Ulrich Kriest (filmdienst 19/2008)

Best Receiver Brands Marantz

DVD review

These DVDs I have seen in August 2008 for the first time on DVD:

The fog	2007	9
Chuck and flame	2001	9
Kottan determined - threatening letters	1978	8
Ghost Dog	1999	8
Cloverfield	2008	8
Astronaut Farmer	2007	8
8 view	2007	8
Kottan determined - determined cops and robbers	1979	7
Kottan - The transport	1981	7
Forever Never	2007	7
Some like it hot	1959	6
Vienna	2000	5