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Citizen Kane 1941
I've heard, that this film is considered one of the most revolutionary films in cinematic history and I was not disappointed. Aside the camera work and flashbacks, which were new at the time, the story is also extraordinary. This is a plea for how power corrupts people and how money can't bring back the wonders of the youth. The protagonist Charles Foster Kane changes from a idealistic newspaper publishers, to a opportunistic and lonly billionaire, physically represented by his infinitely…
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Bad Taste 1987
If you take the circumstances into account (it was filmed with a 25-year-old Bolex camera and got a budget of only around 25.000$) this film is a truely masterpiece, but I think the money was spend mostly to the synthesis of brain mass for the splatter scenes, instead of actors, who can actually act.
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Führer and Seducer 2024
This film gives us a new approach to the events of the Second World War and the Third Reich by looking through the eyes of the perpetrators and not the victims. The rather unsympathetic protagonist is the Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. the film attempts the difficult balancing act of dismantling the Nazi-Propaganda and to look at the Third Reich from the perspective of a person who supports it. When compared to Goebbels, who seems to vacillate between overconfident arrogance and…
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Nosferatu 2024
With this film Eggers achieves once more a great art-piece, but fails to create a real reinterpretation of the original film. Despite gorgeous cinematography and skillfull acting the film seems a bit overloaded. The main focus shifts away from Thomas Hutter and Count Orlok more to Ellen Hutter, but this new perspective doesn't give new insights in the topic. Themes like occultism, female sexuality, religion, our approach to mental illness and alleged chosenness are touched upon, but do not receive…
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