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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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 6-part US documentary series “Immigration Nation” by Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz on Netflix is about the immigration system under Trump in the USA. The upsetting and moving episodes consist of interviews with the authorities of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency, border patrol, the HSI (Homeland Security Investigations) and the refugees and
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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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The US comedy drama “Marriage Story” with Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson by Noah Baumbach from 2019 on Netflix is excellent. A sensitive portrait of a break-up marriage and at the same time of a family that stays together. The acting and the dialogues are excellent and especially Adam Driver and Laura Dern, in a
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Amazon Prime Video now feautures the most visually beautiful and finest art house film of 2019, “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” by Celine Sciamma from France. A historical drama about the relationship of a young aristocrat and a painter who is supposed to portray her. The framing, the light, the colours and the faces
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The 2017 biographical film “A Prayer Before Dawn” by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire is now available on Prime Video and is one of the greatest smaller international films I discovered that year. It is based on the experiences of British Billy Moore, a drug-addicted Muay Thai boxer who lives in Thailand and is jailed for drug dealing.
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