#Bales2025FilmChallenge of September 26: billiards

Summer in the City (Wim Wenders, 1970)
Hanns (Hanns Zischler) plays #billiards with director/extra Wim Wenders.
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Wim Wenders – „Der amerikanische Freund“ (1977)

Es gibt Filme, die eine Stadt bespielen, als wäre sie ein verlängerter Gedanke, ein seelischer Aggregatzustand. Und es gibt Filme, die das Kino selbst zur Hauptfigur machen. Wim Wenders tut beides zugleich. Ein melancholisches Labyrinth, ein Kammerspiel des globalen Misstrauens, eine Meditation über Ehre, Freundschaft und das Sterben in Farbe. Hamburg, Paris, New York. (ARTE)

#Bales2025FilmChallenge of May 26: a vampire

Jonathan (Hans W. Geissendörfer, 1970)
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Jonathan (Hans W. Geissendörfer, 1970)

May

26

World Dracula Day

Siring the mortals. DP: Robby Müller.

A vampire for World Dracula Day

This deeply political, unpleasant interpretation of Stoker's Dracula can not not be seen against the backdrop of political movements like the #RAF and West-Germany's youth revolting against the failed #Denazification that the country underwent under supervision of the Allied occupying forces.

Note the usage of colour and grouping of people; Klaus Mann's Mephisto (1981) borrowed quite a few visuals from Jonathan.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #WorldDraculaDay #HansWGeissendörfer #BramStoker #JürgenJung #HansDieterJendreyko #PaulAlbertKrumm #RolandKovac #RobbyMüller #vampires #horror #politics #BookAdaptation #WestGermany #1970s ★★★½

#Bales2025FilmChallenge of March 27: a film that I wish would have won the Academy Award for Best Picture

Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
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Rudiger Vogler e Yella Rottlander in Alice nelle Città (1973) per la regia di Wim Wenders
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#film #movie #cinema #cinefilo #WimWenders #RudigerVogler #YellaRottlander #RobbyMuller #AliceintheCities #unocinema

My favourite William Friedkin film.

Friedkin’s great lines about professionals
“You want bread? Fuck a baker”
“You’re a printer. Now go get some ink”

Chance (Peterson) as an anti hero that acts like a villain. A thrill seeking Secret Service agent who wants to get his man legally, but does every procedure illegally to get Masters (Dafoe)

Beautiful purple LA skies cinematography and fantastic soundtrack by Wang Chung
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#ThisNightIllWatch your Blu-ray release from #Criterion
of #JimJarmusch's DEAD MAN (1995). Vividly remember seeing this on its first release. #RobbyMuller's cinematography is a dream.

The Criterion disc includes a lovely gallery of production stills, + the readings of #WilliamBlake's poetry by Mili Avatal, Alfred Molina, + Iggy Popo accompanied by Jarmusch's evocative black-and-white production recce stills are superb. I adore this film, though GHOST DOG is still my fave Jarmusch