‘Knew him personally at all, did you, sir?’ the Detective Chief Superintendent of Police asked respectfully in a voice kept deliberately low. ‘Or perhaps I shouldn’t enquire.’ The two men had been together for fifteen minutes but this … Continue reading →
The moment he emerged from the water in full 3D glory his equipment at once reminded me of the ↵industrial tribal art, and I already liked the movie. The majority of the critics’ reviews paints a less favorable picture, though. … Continue reading →
zeph’s pop culture quiz #2 The screenshot was taken from the opening of a classic horror movie. Throughout the movie vistas of the house are to be seen many times. Interestingly enough the house’s spectacular interior was not used at … Continue reading →
“Remember, remember … the fifth of November!” Well, well, the fifth of November just broke, and I’m curious what’s going to happen. If ↑Guy Fawkes, respectively ↵Alan Moore‘s “↑V for Vendetta,” and ↑its movie adaptation of the same name, on … Continue reading →
This is a straight attack on your precious time—but the weekend is dawning anyway. The ↑Moving Image Archive has, among other goodies, a huge ↑collection of feature films, which can be viewed and/or downloaded legally for free—there are … Continue reading →
“↑Billion Dollar Brain” (Russell 1967) is a cold war spy thriller movie based on the ↑novel of the same name by British writer ↑Len Deighton (1966). Said novel is one of a series starring an unnamed secret agent, working for … Continue reading →
With ↑this year’s EthnoFilmFest in Munich close (16 through 20 November 2011) I remembered some old associations. The above screenshot is taken from the 46 seconds short film “↑Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory,” the first of a series … Continue reading →
These days the telephone turns 150 … if, without any reservations whatsoever, you accept ↑Johann Philipp Reis (1834-1874) as its inventor. German media during the last weeks were inclined to accept it that way, naturally. Alas, a short glimpse on … Continue reading →