Awards screeners are starting to come in hard & fast now, so here’s a hectic (and almost certainly incomplete) roundup of movies I’ve watched these last few weeks. In order of preference! My Mother, My Bride, and I/Die Zweite Frau Another cross-cultural love story from Europe, this time bridging Bavaria and Romania. Erwin Kobarek (Matthias [...]
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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
All posts tagged scifi
Quantum of Black Speed Flash Gonzo Truth Strain Boogie Racer
Posted by Jürgen on November 22, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/11/22/quantum-of-black-speed-flash-gonzo-truth-strain-boogie-racer/
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
I’m not fanboy enough to give you an exhaustive rundown of all the scenes Ridley Scott recut, reshot, rescored, and reshuffled to create this “ultimate” version of his 1982 scifi milestone. Rest assured, that list will be online within hours of the December 18 release of the much-anticipated 5-DVD set. But I can tell you [...]
Posted by Jürgen on September 23, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/09/23/blade-runner-the-final-cut/
Transformers
A punchy B-picture, high on testosterone and a Hollywood megabudget, featuring pleasantly absurd giant robots that turn into cars. The boy-hero’s teenage crush is an improbable babe (Megan Fox) sprung from the pages of a glossy magazine, and because this is a Michael Bay movie, the fights are ridiculously overblown. Now, I have nothing against [...]
Posted by Jürgen on September 18, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/09/18/transformers/
I’m a Cyborg But That’s OK
“Amélie in a mental institution,” Marcy quipped as we walked out of the Kulturbrauerei in Berlin, where Park Chan-Wooks latest played as part of the Fantasy Filmfest. As usual, she had a point: at the center of I’m a Cyborg is an adorable waif (Lim Su-jeong) who insists on seeing the world in her own [...]
Posted by Jürgen on August 29, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/08/29/im-a-cyborg-but-thats-ok/
Sunshine
Danny Boyle sends a group of astronauts–Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, and Rose Byrne among them–on a mission to deliver a giant nuke in order to restart our dying star and save mankind. Confined to a ship that instantly brings to mind 2001‘s Discovery, they send video greetings to their families and tend to Silent Running [...]
Posted by Jürgen on June 29, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/06/29/sunshine/
Appleseed
Slightly above-average sci-fi anime that, as usual, steals liberally from Star Wars, Akira, Blade Runner, and whoever first came up with BattleMechs. Pacing could be tighter but storytelling is solid enough, and the 3-D computer animation is first rate eye candy. You could do worse for genre entertainment with a Paul Oakenfold soundtrack. Appurushîdo. Shinji [...]
Posted by Jürgen on June 26, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/06/26/appleseed/
Attack of the Clones: The First 90 Seconds
Prompted by a comment at The House Next Door, here’s a contribution to Edward Copeland’s Star Wars blogathon: a close reading of the opening minute and a half of Attack of the Clones. The beginning of Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones isn’t quite in the league of the overhead star destroyer [...]
Posted by Jürgen on May 24, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/05/24/the-first-90-seconds-of-attack-of-the-clones/
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