The moving US drama “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” by Eliza Hittman is currently being shown in cinemas. In a natural, almost documentary style, cinematographer Hélène Louvart accompanies a 17-year-old girl who is unintentionally pregnant and, due to a lack of support in her hometown, leaves for New York City with her cousin to attend a […]
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The stylish psychological thriller “You Were Never Really Here” by Lynne Ramsay from 2017 is now available on Netflix. A short, exciting art-house film with Joaquin Phoenix in the lead role, who plays a mercenary traumatized by his time in the military, who is commissioned by a politician to free his daughter from a human
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Viele Menschen glauben, ihre Profile und geteilten Information in sozialen Netzwerken seien harmlos und von geringer Relevanz. Erstmal hat es etwas Gutes. Man kann sich mit Freunden austauschen, Neuigkeiten erfahren zu Themen, die man mag und Neues entdecken. “Was sollen die denn mit meinen Daten?” “Ich habe nichts Schlimmes zu verbergen.” Doch dies ist nicht
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Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin created an impressive portrait with the US documentary “Free Solo” (2018). The film follows the free solo climber Alex Honnold on his “El Capitan” project, a huge rock ledge in Yosemite Park [yoh-SEM-i-tee] in California, without protective gear. Due to the enormous heights and the lack of safety in
The moving New York Times film “Father Soldier Son”, directed and produced by Catrin Einhorn and Leslye Davis, is available on Netflix. The intimate portrait follows the Eisch family, a US soldier and his two sons, over a period of ten years. The life of the family changes completely, when the father returns from an
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A list of noteworthy Amazon Studios Films.
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The US science fiction mystery film “The Vast of Night” is a fine little debut film by director Andrew Patterson and is available on Prime Video. The film is set in the 50’s in New Mexico, where a young switchboard operator and a radio disc jockey discover a mysterious audio frequency that could be extraterrestrial
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The 1994 American documentary film “Hoop Dreams” directed and produced by Steve James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert is regarded as one of the best documentaries ever made. During it’s nearly three hours runtime it follows William Gates and Arthur Agee, two African-American high school students, in Chicago and their dream of becoming professional basketball
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After the long Cinema break due to COVID-19 one of the biggest mainstream releases of this year finally arrives in cinemas after it has been postponed several times. I’m talking about “Tenet” the new film by popular British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan (Memento, Dark Knight-Trilogy, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk). This is a short spoiler free review of
The new visual album film “Black is King” by Beyoncé is now available on Disney +. A huge amount of artists from the US and from countries in Africa such as Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa worked together to create a new creative visual music film based on Disney’s Lion King. The project is rich
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