With The Wire finally out of the way — none of the screeners piling up by the door could possibly compete — I’ll try and quickly catch up with some of the bat-free movies I’ve seen over the last few weeks. Charlie BartlettWarm and funny coming-of-teenage tale about a wealthy kid (Anton Yelchin) who dispenses [...]
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"A fast, complex, exhilarating roadster ride through history and time.... Kino is an intoxicating Euro-brew, written with enormous skill and dedication." — Frederick Barthelme
"Jürgen Fauth's deft mashup of genre and historical period is both a full-throttle literary thriller of ideas and a contemplative examination of film and fascism. Kino is a debut of great intellectual force."– Teddy Wayne
"A surprising alternative history. Kino brings the golden age of German cinema to light with loving, sometimes gritty, detail and great precision." – Neal Pollack, author of Jewball.
"A delirious melange of conspiracy, magic, sex, history, bad behavior, and cinema, Kino is a stellar entertainment, and Jürgen Fauth is a writer of rare, sinister imagination." – Owen King, author of Reenactment
"A light-hearted romp that leads straight into darkness and back through the shadows on the wall."– Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"Movie nuts arise! A happy and felicitous debut."– Terese Svoboda
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The Dark Knight vs. Revenge of the Sith
Like any critic who dared to show themselves less than impressed with Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight juggernaut, I caught a lot of abuse for my dismissive review. Being called a mouth-breathing mountain dweller and a hat-wearing Brooklynite is fine by me, but when my nerd cred was insulted, I knew it was time for a [...]
Posted by Jürgen on July 23, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/07/23/the-dark-knight-vs-revenge-of-the-sith/
The Dark Knight
Christopher Nolan and Maggie Gyllenhaal just aren’t enough of an indie connection to cover this on Worldfilm, so I’ll just say this here: godawful. Two hours and twenty minutes, a gazillion dollars, a sterling cast, and an eight story IMAX screen weren’t enough for this movie to tickle a single thrill out of me. Instead, [...]
Posted by Jürgen on July 16, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/07/16/the-dark-knight/
Yowza! Yowza! Yowza!
At times, blogging feels exactly like the marathon dancing competition in Sidney Pollack‘s 1969 They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? It’s cruel, unnatural, never-ending, and of questionable worth. Some are driven mad by it, somewhere behind the scenes an uncaring MC is counting his money, and the pregnant woman and the aging sailor never stood a [...]
Posted by Jürgen on June 26, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/06/26/yowza-yowza-yowza/
Muck Muckson and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Marcy and I arrived in San Ignacio, in the Cayo district of Belize near the Guatemalan border, by overland bus, and proceeded straight to the closest Internet cafe because our weekly About.com newsletter was overdue. That last plugged-in task taken care of, we chatted with a couple of Castaneda-quoting hippies looking to reenact Burroughs’ and [...]
Posted by Jürgen on May 18, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/05/18/kingdom-of-the-crystal-skull/
2001: A Space Odyssey
Forty earth years have passed since the Star Child first floated into view at the mind blowing climax of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, and to celebrate the anniversary of a movie full of birthdays, birth metaphors, and planet-sized foetuses, the Tribeca Film Festival put on a special screening followed by an extraordinary panel [...]
Posted by Jürgen on April 30, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/04/30/2001-a-space-odyssey/
Plainview, Wrath of God
New on idrinkyourmilkshake.com: Who else could have played Daniel Plainview? Kinski? H.W.? H.M. Tilford? J. J. Carter? Where do all those initals come from? Graphological analysis of Daniel Plainview’s handwriting What’s with the hammers during the blowout? How evil is Plainview? Did you see his tear?
Posted by Jürgen on April 24, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/04/24/plainview-wrath-of-god/
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Free Willy
It’s not that I can’t tell a killer whale from a serial rapist — it’s simply that the dumbest puns sometimes amuse most, especially when they offer mild relief for otherwise unbearibly grim tales of doomed love and ill-fated desires. Benten‘s fourth DVD release Der Freie Wille (The Free Will) streeted last week (yes, it’s [...]
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/06/30/free-willy/