How controversial is cinema allowed to be? Is cinema entitled to do anything? Can cinema be entitled to do anything, or must it? EX DRUMMER, my first Belgian, made me gulp more than once and I am not angry of the way it was made, what it thematises or how it does so. Cinema is entitled to do anything, but it must be good! And EX DRUMMER is a masterpiece.
The plot:
Three disabled people form a band (“The Feminists”). They need a drummer and seek out the successful author Dries Vanhegen. He says yes and dives into the world of society’s misfits. He gets a deep insight in a society characterized by drugs, racism, sexual abuse, ignorance, disease and idleness. A world far away from any form of human dignity. It doesn’t leave him cold, but he likes to dive into this world, to manipulate and control it.
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Lichtspieltheater: When images overtake words.
Completely calm, completely relaxed Stanly Kubrik looks at his cinematographer and says “Either you do what I tell you now, or you disappear from this set and don’t come back” after he put a 50mm lens on the camera and not, as Kubrik had ordered, a lens with a focal distance of 25mm. Wrongfully.
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Lichtspieltheater: Festival Diary Film Thursday and Friday
Thursday
Friday
Half a week too late you finally get the Project Quality Festival Diary of the Hurricane Festival 2011 on tape, colored and with sound! So far - unfortunately - only for our German-speaking quality-conscious readership, to watch the rest of the Festival Diary please visit our german page.
Today, you get the Thursday (9 minutes) and the Friday (about 34 minutes) of the movie (german).
Next week you'll see the Saturday and finally Sunday and Monday (departure).
Marcus
Lichtspieltheater: Festival Diary (Hurricane Festival 2011) Film Trailer
The Hurricane Festival in Scheessel takes place every year in the middle of June. This year from the 17th to the 20th and it was mind-blowing! We arrived there, equipped with a camera and beat a lot of nice material into the lens. So a film is coming. When it's coming you'll see in the trailer (It's german, but subbed english)!
Marcus.
Lichtspieltheater: New Hollywood...and today
The New Hollywood is a film era, which began in the late 1960s and lastet over a decade. How important this time was for the development of cinematic art is often undervalued. In fact this era has an influence on the approach to a film as far as today, many modern films use innovations and ideas of that time. Astonishingly time here seems to be standing in front of a stop sign.
But first the historical aspect: The Golden Age, which began in the 20s reigned the cinematic before the time of New Hollywood. The films that were created at that time showed a dream world, far away from reality, with the purpose to let the audience forget all the evil, bad and uncomfortable in the world for a while. The concept was fitted for them. The audience-member was meant to feel good. At some point this wasn’t possible anymore. Hollywood reached a dead point. More and more films failed to please because nobody could and wanted to see them anymore. Studios and production companys were ruined by colossal debt, as films were made, which were expensive and elaborate, but at the same time so superficial, that nobody was interested in them anymore.
A vacuum emerged and made room for newly studied directors, authors, actors etc., who wanted to revive the market with groundbreaking ideas (mainly inspired by european cinema) and succeeded. Some of them became legendary like Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now), Martin Scorsese (Shutter Island, Taxi Driver), Arthur Penn (Bonni and Clyde), Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Apace Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Macbeth, The Pianist), etc… Sadly the last also hit the headlines for other reasons.
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| self-portrait of Stanley Kubrick |