I just had left my home to walk to Longyang road to grab a subway to go downtown for lunch with a friend, when a insane rainstorm started. In the last days it had rained here every once in a while, mostly for about 5 minutes. So I thought 'let's…
Lust, Caution is the new movie from Ang Lee. Most of the story seems to take place in 'occupied Shanghai', so I am guessing in the late 1930's? The story is about a 'ordinary' girl who has to make a dude fall in love with her, then kill him. That bitch! Just kidding, the story seems way more deep than my words could ever describe it... But that's what you would expect from a director who can turn cowboys gay, isn't it? Anyways, there are only very few shots of old Shanghai in the movie, it must be more difficult with each day and every new skyscraper to 'turn back time'. Most of the shots are pretty dark, which is clever, so the removing of the skyscraper-lights gets kinda easy... I know video editing, just believe me. Still, there are some day shots like in the image above. So check out the trailer if you're into Shanghai's history look. The trailer is, of course, available at apple.com in 25 different HD resolutions. Check it out.
German magazine "Spiegel" has published a list of 25 cities - ordered by the amount of skyscraper they have. It's a quite interesting list and it even has some surprises. Shanghai will, of course, sooner or later rise to No. 1 - don't worry! Here we go:
No. 1: Hongkong, China! 7422 skyscrapers.
No. 2: New York City, USA! 5445 skyscrapers.
No. 3: Singapore! 3503 skyscrapers. 4 million people.
(Hongkong photo by Associated Press)
So Tarantino's part of the Grindhouse series titled Death Proof finally reaches Germany. They are going to show Death Proof in cinemas first, and Rodriguez' part Planet Terror one or two months later. Since there are no Matinee-cinemas in Germany it makes kind of sense - you have to adjust…
Quentin Tarantinos „Death Proof“ (2007) ist ein Film, der auch über ein Jahrzehnt nach seinem Erscheinen noch hitzig diskutiert wird. Als Teil des Doppelprojekts Grindhouse erschien dieser Streifen zunächst zusammen mit Robert Rodriguez’ Planet Terror – und floppte an den US-Kinokassen. Viele Zuschauer waren verwirrt von der bewusst trashigen Aufmachung…
Warning! The following post is rather... 'rough' and makes multiple use of the s-word. And the d-word. Now you'll probably want to read it even more, huh? So this whole mess started almost a month ago, but I didn't want to write about it before it was over. Now my…
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I went to the Shanghai Film Art Center on friday for accreditation, like I posted earlier. On saturday the horror started: I went first to the press conference in Pudong, where I managed to take some pictures of Michelle Rodriguez ('LOST') and Nathan Fillion ('FIREFLY', 'SERENITY'). Michelle Rodriguez told the…
Ein stilistisches Wagnis – Noir trifft auf Science-Fiction Mit Renaissance liefert Regisseur Christian Volckman ein kompromissloses und mutiges Werk, das die Grenzen zwischen Film, Animation und Kunst neu auslotet. Der in Schwarz-Weiß gehaltene Sci-Fi-Thriller kombiniert die Ästhetik des Film Noir mit futuristischem Cyberpunk-Flair, was nicht nur visuell beeindruckt, sondern das…
Ein B-Movie, das nie abhebt The Roost – Angriff der Fledermäuse von Regisseur Ti West versucht, durch Retro-Charme und eine absichtlich trashige Präsentation einen B-Movie-Horror zu zelebrieren. Doch was auf dem Papier wie ein Hommage-Projekt mit nostalgischem Charme klingt, scheitert grandios an seiner eigenen Langatmigkeit, mangelndem Tempo und einer uninspirierten…
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