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CRITICAL SUNDAY

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Critical Sunday is a one day-event on June 13, 2010:
Launch of the exhibition correct me if i’m critical
Felleshuset, Nordische Botschaften, Gemeinschaftshaus, Rauchstrasse 1, Berlin
2 pm: Solo Presentation: Daniel Knorr welcomes the audience!
3 pm: Lecture by Slavs and Tatars: 79.89.09 is an intimate visual, oral, and written study of two modern moments – the Iranian Revolution [...]

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BERLIN DOCUMENTARY FORUM 1

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

It is the documentary that inquiries into the means of image-producing practices. For the first time, an international meeting highlights documentary practices across disciplines. Berlin Documentary Forum demonstrates the increasingly significant role of the documentary in the visual arts, performance, literature and cinema. The first edition of the new biannual encounter at Haus der [...]

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I MET THE WALRUS

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Now how nice is this?
[Thanks Lord Koi]

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DENNIS HOPPER, RIP

Monday, May 31, 2010

What stands out most is that incredible scene in Apocalypse Now: a sweat-drenched, darkened Martin Sheen turning the Mekong’s corner to find  his deepest jungle nightmares quietly awaiting him. Boats of war-painted natives part ways to reveal a tumble-down palace ruin, watched over by the empty eyes of AWOL Marines. An eery silence abounds at [...]

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CHICKEN, PLUMS AND HANDBAGS

Monday, May 17, 2010

Iranian cartoonist, writer and director Marjane Satrapi, is enjoying her time in Cannes right now. Currently she is neither a member of the jury, nor is a film of hers in the competition. She still gets free handbags though. This summer she will start shooting her next film, an adaption of her 2004 graphic novel [...]

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MAKING EYES

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Berlin loves Rufus Wainwright – and Rufus loves Berlin!
For the recording of his album Release the Stars in 2008, the Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright spent several weeks in Berlin and now comes back with a solo program with songs from his new album All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu – don’t miss his concert [...]

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CIVILISATION

Thursday, April 22, 2010

‘Civilisation’ is a video mural by artist Marco Brambilla, created as a permanent installation for the Standard Hotel in New York. It is a collage of film references, containing 300 looped HD clips layered into a single tableaux on a digital canvass of 1920 x 7500 pixels. It is viewed from inside the elevators according [...]

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FASSBINDER, HERZOG, AND THE FUTURE

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Oh, the glories of email threads. After sending a friend a link to MoMA’s recent screening of World on a Wire, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s mindblowing Euro-70’s sci-fi epic (filmed by mono.kultur favorite Michael Ballhaus), he immediately responded with Plastic Bag, a short film by Ramin Bahrani. The story of a existentially-minded plastic bag trying to [...]

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A SINGLE MAN

Saturday, April 10, 2010

I’ve been looking forward to seeing this movie for a while now and I finally got the chance to see it a few days ago. A Single Man is a 2009 American drama film based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood. It’s really an impressive debut for first-time director Tom Ford who wrote, produced [...]

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A PROPHET

Friday, March 12, 2010

Today marks the cinema release of French crime epic A Prophet in Germany. The gripping thriller, for lack of a better word, by Jacques Audiard was nominated at the Oscars for Best Foreign Feature, and won the Grand Prix at the prestigious Cannes Festival last year, and deservedly so. A kind of upside down coming-of-age [...]

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