Deutschland im Film: Kommissar X jagt die roten Tiger (1971)

Des hat’s bei mir net gebm, diese ganze Sex- und Gewaltscheiße!

(Ein offenkundiger Troll, 1985)

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Midnight Confessions #01: Not your everyday pervert – Night Caller (1976)

I had to interrupt and stop this conversation
Your voice across the line gives me a strange sensation
I’d like to talk when I can show you my affection

(The Nerves – Hanging on the Telephone)

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100 Deutsche Lieblingsfilme #63: 90 Minuten nach Mitternacht (1962)

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Shapes of an alternate reality – Il gatto a nove code (1971)

The dreams I dream only the lonely dream
Of lips as warm as May
That hopeless scheme only the lonely scheme
That soon somewhere you’ll find the one that used to care

(Frank Sinatra – Only the Lonely)

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Fragen an das leere Zimmer

Do you believe Steven Spielberg is an ideal guide and influence for our culture? Do Steven Spielberg’s films question our culture? What do Steven Spielberg’s films question?

Der Schauspieler Crispin Glover veröffentlichte 2003 ein kontroverses Essay unter dem Titel „What Is It?“. Darin ging es unter anderem um die Wirkungsmacht, die das Werk von Steven Spielberg auf die Gesellschaft hat.
Der Kinostart von Ready Player One ist ein guter Anlass, Glovers Text noch einmal zu lesen und ihn vielleicht sogar fortzuschreiben.

Does our culture congratulate itself for taking interest in the lack of original ideas personified by the name of Steven Spielberg? Do his films take chances or take risks in order to amplify, change or challenge the cultural thought process? Does Steven Spielberg take risks, or does he simulate the idea of taking risks? What risk was involved in making Saving Private Ryan or Schindler’s List (…)?
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Dekonstruktion eines deutschen Helden – Joachim Fuchsberger in „Der Teppich des Grauens“

My old man is a bad man
But I can’t deny the way he holds my hand
And he grabs me, he has me by my heart

(Off to the Races – Lana Del Rey)

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Auf Schicksalspfaden im Wilden Westen – All’ombra di una colt (1965)

The animal dies with fear in his eyes
With a gun
Don’t touch him, don’t touch him
Stay away from him, he’s got a gun

(Lou Reed – The Gun)

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Drácula contra Frankenstein (1972) or: Deconstructing horror with Jess Franco

As you look through my window
Deep into my room
At the tapestries all faded
Their vague and distant glories
Concealed in the gloom
The icy fingers of forgotten passions
Softly brushing my lips
At the tips of my primitive soul

(Black Sabbath – Born Again)

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Liebestraum (1991)

„Not really now any more. Is there, then, no now because the past has consumed the present, reduced it to a series of compulsive repetitions, and what seemed to be new, what seemed to be now, is only the playing out of some out-of-time pattern?”
(Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie)
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Deutschland im Film: Johannisnacht (1956)

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