Star Wars (1977)
Good solid acting and witty tongue-in-cheek dialogue in fascinating settings – this is entertainment at its very best. The colourful, engaging characters elevates the forgettable, almost unimportant story. Mae West shines throughout and a young Cary Grant is full of surprises.
Stays in my pre-code book.Aileen – The selling of a serial killer (1992)
Gegen die Wand (2003)
Short, tragic farce of abusement and rebellion on several levels. Sometimes whimsically playful, sometimes terrifyingly razor-sharp in mixing childish mischief and adult misconduct. Eternal symbolism of oppressive society and threatening anarchy with school as the microcosm backdrop. Surreal and sublime, almost silent. Unusually frank storytelling and experimental execution.
Pleasant surprises like this is reason enough to continue the race towards 1001. Stays in my book, and very much so.Legendary depiction of unsuspicious love and dark treachery among the artists of a travelling freak show. A conventional plot is elevated by the touching depiction of the outcasts and a ferociously vengeful ending.
On my »not-for-the-squeamish« list.Long before Tony Montana there was Tony Camonte. Equally ruthless and determined, just as doomed by destiny. Control is everything In mob life. Deal with competing gangs, your own organization, family, society and hardest of all, yourself.
On my list.Once (2006)
A strange, unworldly »Symphonie des grauens« if there ever was one. Immerse yourself in the foglike atmosphere of confusion and bewilderment. Sink slowly into a grey and white universe of weird characters both fascinating and threatening. Ingmar Bergman's movies could have been something like this if he had made them a couple of decades earlier.
On my list.
