When we drove back from Wuzhen to Shanghai in January, we encountered the above posted police car. The first time it passed us by, I was like 'wtf?', that can't really be a police car. But then I noticed the siren on top of the car as well as the…
Yesterday we took a day off from all that family-meeting-during-spring-festival business and took a almost two hour long walk on the famous Xi'An city wall. The Xi'An city wall surrounds completely the inner downtown area, which makes it a incredible 13.74 kilometers long. It was established in the year 582,…
Top topic among people in the wife's and mine age rank this spring festival: the stolen sex tape pictures from Hong Kong star Edison Chen, the Sexgate. So this dude is a famous singer slash actor, and bedded recently quite an impressive amount of chinese female stars (god knows how…
"Dangerous" was probably the album I listened to the most as a young, dumb boy. And I absolutely loved Michael's great music videos on Mtv, too! I guess I'm one of the hardcore fans from him. Anyway, his last two or three albums were really bad, so I had almost…
My wife, my parents-in-law and myself had a nice little Mahjong session just now. Real chinese Mahjong is played with 136 tiles which contain about 30 different characters, so that each one is about four times to be found in the game. Sounds a lot like Poker, doesn't it? Wikipedia…
Die Handlung als Spiegel der Sensationsgier Die Idee hinter The Condemned ist simpel, aber effektiv: Ein skrupelloser TV-Produzent organisiert ein mörderisches Spektakel, bei dem zehn zum Tode verurteilte Straftäter:innen auf einer abgelegenen Insel ums Überleben kämpfen. Nur wer als letzte:r überlebt, erhält die Freiheit. Die Kämpfe, gefilmt von hunderten Kameras,…
Ein frischer Wind im Horror-Genre In einer Zeit, in der das Horror-Genre von unzähligen Remakes und Sequels dominiert wird, bietet The Return von Regisseur Asif Kapadia eine willkommene Abwechslung. Es ist ein Film, der nicht auf Schockeffekte und Jumpscares setzt, sondern auf subtilen Grusel, bedrückende Atmosphäre und eine unaufgeregte, aber…
Ein Psychothriller vor der Kulisse einer rastlosen Metropole Regisseurin Shaohong Li inszeniert mit The Door einen intensiven, atmosphärisch dichten Thriller, der die Abwärtsspirale eines Mannes inmitten der gewaltigen, sich ständig wandelnden Kulisse von Chongqing – einer Stadt mit 32 Millionen Menschen – nachzeichnet. In bester Cronenberg-Manier verschwimmen hier Realität und…
Yesterday was the first official day of the german festival here in Nanjing. The first act on the big stage, where I got an job as a camera man, was a chinese orchestra which performed german classic songs. Was nice. But then came the main event: The german-nationally famous electronic…
Yeah, it was good to wait until the golden week in China was over. Sanya rocks!
We're in a nice hotel with a nice beach at Yalong bay at the moment. Gotta go eat some fresh fish now. More pictures later - maybe!
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