German born literary scholar with an unbridled love for movies, especially old ones.
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Senna 2010
The formal decision to forgo classic interview scenes and rely solely on contemporary news and TV footage from the 80s and 90s is an interesting approach. Through skillful selection and editing, a captivating narrative emerges that is largely comprehensible even for motorsport novices.
However, director Asif Kapadia chooses an overly simplistic narrative approach. By perpetuating the media-shaped image of Senna, the film misses the opportunity to critically examine its subject. The rivalry between Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost occupies a…
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The Glenn Miller Story 1954
As a big fan of Anthony Mann's energetic style, I was looking forward to this one. Unfortunately, I was quite disappointed.
Mann's preferences for dynamic, deep-focus compositions, expressionistic camera angles, and dramatic low-key lighting, especially in his collaboration with cameramen like John Alton or Charles Lang, always worked best in action-oriented and psychologically rigorous stories.
Consequently, his movies often focused on masculine aggression and always carried a pessimistic tone in their depiction of U.S. society and history."The Glenn Miller…
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The Great White Silence 1924
Herbert Pontings impressive photography gives the Antarctic landscape an eeriness and sublimity. But of course everybody’s talking about the ending. The last 25 minutes are incredibly powerful even more so considering that Herbert Ponting had to work around the fact that there was no actual footage of Scott's journey to the pole. Also, the ideological framing of the narrative gives an exciting historical inside into pre-war jingoism and colonial hero worship.
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