Tag Movies

Not quite so Magic Flute

Quite some time ago I visited a screening of Kenneth Branagh’s movie version of The Magic Flute. The visuals of the movie were great and the music as always great fun. Unfortunately there was trouble with the projection and so the aspect ratio was slightly screwed. But those are the delights of independent movie houses. [...]

5 Movies with Paul Newman

The Long, Hot Summer (1958) because of the lady who has to buy herself a bus ticket, because of the man with whom nobody wants to talk peacable, and because of the man who wonders what happens when he is dead.
The Hustler (1961) because of the man who does not now how he can lose, [...]

5 Movies by David Mamet

The Spanish Prisoner (1997) because of the girl who lives above a bakery, the sunshine bakery.
The Winslow Boy (1999) because of the man who knows so little about women, the woman who knows so little about men and because one reads Lord Byron.
State and Main (2000) because everybody makes their own fun, else it be [...]

5 Filme von François Truffaut

Baisers Volés (1968) für Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig und eine umgestossene Tasse Kaffee.
La Sirène du Mississipi (1969) für La Reunion, eine zerbrochene Schallplatte und Schönheit die schmerzt.
Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent (1971) für Kika Markham, gesprochene Briefe und Balzac.
La Nuit Américaine (1973) für die Musik von Georges Delerue, künstlichen Schnee und einen Zug in [...]