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Snowden (2016) – Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone-light, hyperactive non-action film that acts a greasy hook with a morally firm intent to blow it’s own bells and whistles away.
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) – James Mangold
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Great for what it is: a moving-train jump into ageless redemption from the shards of bad casting trampling all over their own crystal skulls.
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Chapter 27 (2007) – J.P. Schaefer
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Jacked up in fat aggressively whispering for respect as an actor while shooting the wrong Beatle played by another actor actually sharing the killer´s name.
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Across the Universe (2007) – Julie Taymor
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Unannounced musical pushing Dear Patience for the trailer-allergic expecting pure dialog. It sugar-shocks with its spiral-singing flopping in steady but annoying beauty.
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Oppenheimer (2023) – Christopher Nolan
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Impeccably not grainy but full of particles modern-talkie that feels much longer than only three hours long…ing still for more Gary Oldman time.
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The Northman (2022) Robert Eggers
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Balancing historically accurate brutality and well-rounded storytelling, this feast pushes its narrative of avenging men and succumbing women right into viewer‘s eyes and guts.
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Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung – Berlin
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The Pharaoh´s curse comes as a sticky security guard who’s sometimes better lit than the stolen pieces themselves guilding an architectural gem with creepy cartonnage.
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Marie Antoinette (2006) – Sofia Coppola
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Firmly cushioned in the eye candy of the revolutionary storm—adorned with a Rock & Rococo soundtrack that invisibly frames the perfect portrait of unawareness.
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THE HOUSE OF SPIRITS (1993) – BILLIE AUGUST
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Creeping historical “hacienda”-ascension story full of good people playing uglier-than-fiction roles to cherry things on top of sourly majestic interior/exterior shots.
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Death of Yugoslavia (1995) – BBC
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A fresh and detailed Balkan-conflict account audio-visually narrated in such a perfect crew-cut way that´s bound to blow any Ken Burns away.
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Hürtgenwald – NRW, Germany
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The sensory intensity that’s felt through the uncontrolled reactions of those who ancestrally better feel what the terror of such approaching nighttime could be like.
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Blueprint for Armageddon – Dan Carlin
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A modern radio show that is definitely worth a dollar and however many sacrificial hours of lifetime this gentleman-and-a-scholar demands from us.
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Gladiator (2000) – Ridley Scott
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Twist-less crowd winner that Hellraises Oliver’s lion-faced redemption out of bloodied vistas like a fat Phoenix that Reeds of condescending soundtracks and cutting.
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Colosseum – Rome, Italy
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Entertained? Sure: I couldn’t possibly be more inter-stained by the thick glory of a 2000-year old ruin that drools dreams of dormant brawls.
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Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebknecht 101-Year Memorial March (1.11.20) – Berlin, Germany
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A very eager but meager chanting crowd for such a clear winter day in which manifested mantras were encased by a comically large police force.
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Neues Ufer – Berlin, Germany
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The revamped cafe near David Bowie‘s apartment where Iggy Pop and himself used to hang out at a time when English wasn’t the main language.
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The Weight of Memory (March 1973 – Onward) The Vietnam War: 01×10 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novack
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The White Christmas nightmare ending of a 30-year war that ironically led to Vietnam´s own “Vietnam”—and the final episode of this historical masterpiece.
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A Disrespectful Loyalty (May 1970-March 1973) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×09 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Oft-repeated bravery tends to lose its influence, but sacrificing one’s blood-earned trophies while Death keeps girding the biggest nothing in history does not.
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The History of the World (April 1969-May 1970) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×08 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Life preservation bears the brunt of an honor that stutters. All parents must be killed in order to break free from a Vietnamised Nixonian low.
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The Veneer of Civilization (June 1968-May 1969) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×07 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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The shit-sandwich has gotten big enough to feed everyone not hungry twice—but Nixon, Kissinger and the Saigon cowboys are all doing just fine.
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Things Fall Apart (January-June 1969) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×06 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Got offended by Tet, got let down by Lyndon, got sick from a reality that cannot be smelled through television…and now Dick is coming.
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Idi i smotri/Come and See (1985) -Elem Klimov (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.”
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This is What We Do (July-December 1967)The Vietnam War (2017): 01×05 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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A war with no front is a body-count war that can only be won after the crossover point of dehumanization that Stalin-statistics promise.
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Resolve (January 1966-June 1967) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×04 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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There is no point in wondering if your son has fallen face down in the bony lunar dust or not: they will let you know.
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The River Styx (January 1964-December 1965) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×03 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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You´ll get lots more of this coup shit because reelection is the root of all evil in your Kennedy-less rolling thunder of a world.
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The Thin Red Line (1998) – Terrence Malick
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With crew, cut, script, cast and sound of high enough caliber can this force of nature celluloid projectile blow up any line to kingdom come.
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Assassins Creed Origins (2017) – Ubisoft Montreal
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Abenteuerlich historische Reise ins antike Ägypten, übersät mit kulturellen Referenzen.
Als Medjay erledigt man Botengänge, mischt Bagatellverbecher auf und mordet sich zur Spitze eines Untergrundclans.
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Dispatches (1977) – Michael Herr
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A novel that should be “read” in Braille with eyes closed while in nature to virtually realize what a year in-country does to you.
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Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebknecht 100-Year Memorial March (1.14.19) – Berlin, Germany
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The many peripheral pamphlet-peddling false-messiahs satyr-strip the warm shoulder of an otherwise moving Death-ward march uphill under a vintage sounding rain.
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Riding the Tiger (1961-1963) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×02 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Doc-decker Kenn and his proficient cut-crew vigorously but slow-motionly zoomIng in and out of the Burning lotus position that made everyone uncomfortable.
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Déjà-Vu (1858-1961) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×01 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Eloquently gelatinized historical coverage of a century of colonizing French-oppression of the Vietnamese people—before American military advisors started to stack up like dominos.
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The English Patient (1996) – Anthony Minghella
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A closer full-color look into the lives, intrigues and conflicts of human mammals in the arid 40’s desert environment by the International Geographic channel.
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Platoon (1986) – Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone’s first installment of his venerably veritable Vietnam War film trilogy, starting with his own experience as a volunteer coming from a privileged background.
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Born the Fourth of July (1989) – Oliver Stone
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An important story about disillusionment prevented from further skipping generations thanks to putting resources and creative control into the hands of those who lived it.
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Supernova in the East I (2018) Hardcore History: 62 – Dan Carlin
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Incredible to live to see the day a history filibuster this caliber and length would be popular. Could only improve if Orson Welles was reading.
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JFK (1991) – Oliver Stone
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Maybe Oswald was a great shot after all and single-handedly dented the world with a fulminant sacrifice…a patsy-making film of paranoid passion.
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win (2015) – Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
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Reasonable book mined with age-old concepts that are freshly impactful mainly because of its truthful source.
A mature guide to self-less, venerable leading.
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Full Metal Jacket (1987) – Stanley Kubrick
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A two-parter prequel to “Birdy” (1984) following the character’s experience in the millitary from boot camp to combat under the name of private Joker.
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Salvador (1986) – Oliver Stone
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It starts out with an almost comical Hunter S. Thompson road-trip air, but quickly takes a wild U-Turn into “The Killing Fields” (1984).
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‚1:23:45‘ (2019) – Chernobyl: 01×01 – Johan Renck
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Von Sekunde Null an wird man direkt nach Prypjat transportiert und ist Zeuge einer Kettenreaktion an Fehlentscheidungen, welche bedrohlich kühl durch beeindruckendem Cast dargestellt werden.
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Apocalypto (2006) – Mel Gibson
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This movie is about fear and the end of the world. Knowing how bad history went as a spectator makes it all the more brutal.
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Saving Private Ryan (1998) – Steven Spilberg (Coincidental Netflix 25-WR)
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“Eight U.S. Army Rangers penetrate German-held territory during World War II to find and bring home a soldier whose three brothers have been killed”
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Museum für Naturkunde – Berlin, Germany
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Fantastic both in essence and intent but somewhat neglected budget-wise. It presents an exhausting amount of research with specimens including breathtaking dinosaur visitor-bait.
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Performs His Own Compositions (2010) – Django Reinhardt
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Jumpy, if not passive-paranoid arrest that´s enshrouded with criminal neuroses that beatify themselves blind with repetition-less ornamentation. Not an interpretation but ivied ranting.
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Their Mortal Remains (2019) – The Pink Floyd Exhibition
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A royal treatment even for the occasional Pink Floyd tripper. A sating multimedia experience that brings out the colored ghosts to a psychedelic feedback trance.
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Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains (2018-2019) Dortmunder-U
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Rohe Anfangsklänge erster Alben entführen in düstere Hallen voller Lichtspiel und bunter Kunst wo Musikgeschichte mit Besucher verschmelzen.
Aufregender Anfang, Mitte bis zu The Wall.
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Where Eagles Dare (1968) – Brian G. Hutton
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Spionagepionier der 60er, wo Special Effects nicht existierten und Gewalt/ Action entweder verharmlost oder übertrieben dargestellt wurden.
(Über)Lebt nachhaltig durch soliden Cast und deren Zitate.
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Jayne Mansfield & Sophia Loren (1957)
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If a single picture representing humanity needed to be sent out to space across stretching chasms of remote stars that aren´t as orphaned as ours…
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Zodiac (2007) – David Fincher
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Fincher kehrt zurück mit diesem unter die Haut gehenden, überlangem Thriller über einen Serienkiller.
Einer der längsten, spannendsten Ermittlungen der Geschichte bis zum letzten „Augenblick.“
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) – Paul Schrader
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The tsunami-ing intensity of Japanese culture in a “fissional” example that polishes every single shard coming out of its smashed mirror of a portrait.
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Immortal Beloved (1994) – Bernard Rose
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Ludwig van Beethoven´s life and Zeitgeist crammed in two hours including sex, alcohol and post-Baroque & Roll. An ordinary film with an extraordinary cast.
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) – George Clooney
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Wise men say only fools rush into a dating game show and fall in love with themselves on television—but the wisest run the show.
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Love and Mercy (2014) – Bill Pohlad
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Cusack hasn´t been this good since his own Grace disappeared, but Dano has been trully great for the first time in a permanently resonant film.
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Auto Focus (2002) – Paul Schrader
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Careful what you audition for: it might get you in the tightest-spot of a color-blind district that is sharp with double-life contrast.
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Victory at Sea (1952-1953) – NBC
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An astounding set of newsreel-like pieces set in a frantic world-creating pace covering large-scale naval conflicts with nothing but grace and respect.
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Paths of Glory (1957) – Stanley Kubrick
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A battleground-breaking anti-war, anti memory-loss production that came out only twelve years after the great war cracked the Death atom-nerve open.
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Paradise Lost (1996-2011) – Documentary Trilogy
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A must-absorb exculpatory HBO documentary tryptic that saved the lives and reputations of half of the six direct victims of this multi-slayered crime.
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Charlie Wilson’s War (2007) – Mike Nichols
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An effective bon vivant in the political realm who’s own mind has become imprisoned in a cell of depleted endorphins finds action in external meaning.
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I, Claudius (1976) – Herbert Wise
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I would give anything to have a time machine for the sole purpose of feeling the rapture of watching this for the first time again.