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2018 10 Mai

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„With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era’s most iconic leading lady—thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story,Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite Tracy Lord (Hepburn, at her most luminous) against various romantic foils, chief among them her charismatic ex-husband (Cary Grant), who disrupts her imminent marriage by paying her family estate a visit, accompanied by a tabloid reporter on assignment to cover the wedding of the year (James Stewart, in his only Academy Award–winning performance). A fast-talking screwball comedy as well as a tale of regret and reconciliation, this convergence of golden-age talent is one of the greatest American films of all time.“ (Criterion, blu ray, 17.95)

Alle Männer beginnen eine Art Gesang: „Sada sada sada sada sada sada sada sada“. Zwei Männer setzen die Hähne ab und lassen sie laufen. Sie fliegen gegeneinander, ein Gestöber von Flügeln und Federn, übereinander, stop, senkrecht gegeneinander, ihr Nackengefieder ist aufgerichtet, sie fliegen wieder ineinander, wieder und wieder; schliesslich hat einer eine Klinge in seiner Gurgel. „Ahhhh“, rufen die Männer. Blut spritzt, Wetten gewonnen, Bhutakalas, böse Dämonen steigen aus der Erde. Der Dinosaurier, der verloren hat, wird von seinem traurigen Besitzer aufgelesen und einem alten Mann am Rande der Menge, noch lebend, überreicht. Er nimmt ein Messer und den Hahn – er legt den Hahn auf ein Stück Bambus, schneidet den Fuss mit der Klinge ab, und dann durchbohrt die Klinge, an welcher der Fuss noch hängt, das Herz des Hahns. Der Hahn gurgelt und blutet. Blut ist verspritzt worden, die Dämonen kommen heraus, aber sie werden später in der Nacht wieder verscheucht werden, wenn die Jungs ihre Töpfe schlagen.

2018 10 Mai

„We Get By“

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Hills, woods burning. The genre of catastrophy movies has its obvious limitations, heroes are born, and heroes die. At first there is peace, and then everything turns to dust and crumble. This American movie is different, it is exceptional. Certain great works of cinema don‘t need the experimental touch, even the soundtrack (with some ass-kicking rock’n’roll, overflow and dignity in right measures) moves along well-known parameters. The camera work is incredible, the acting superb, the story told with much love for details – and big panorama. Jeff Bridges is the good spirit in the background – when he picks up his guitar and sings a beautiful song, you could start to believe in happy endings. Get lost, dear reader, you might have a lesson to learn – and don‘t tell me you have a problem with „heroes“, they are all flawed and cursed – nothing to bless but fading memories, and the will to love!

 


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