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Favorite films

  • Calamity Jane
  • Carnival Night
  • Tausend Takte Übermut
  • Bubble Bath

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  • Let's Dance

    ★★★

  • The Devil and Miss Jones

    ★★★½

  • Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros

    ★★★½

  • Little Girls

    ★★★½

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  • Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros

    Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros

    ★★★½

    Mit Heinz Strunk gesprochen: vier Stunden "brüllender Hunger, Starkappetit, unbezwingbare Gier". Schön, dass auch in nem Michelin-Dreisterner die Gäste mit Uralt-Schoten à la "Ich bin gegen die Rechnung allergisch" um die Ecke kommen – hätte mein Opa vor 30 Jahren im Restaurant mit Bundeskegelbahn Bösperder Hof exakt so bringen können. "La cuisine, c'est pas le cinéma": stimmt zum Glück nicht, allein die Rindentexturen in der Gesellschaft für Käseveredlung hätte ich mir einen ganzen Reifungszyklus lang ansehen können. Und apropos "Gesellschaft für Käseveredlung": vive la France.

  • Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani

    Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani

    ★★★★

    "Today was Legs Day, but I skipped it so I can go down on my knees."

    Best vibes of the year. Could kick myself for missing this in theaters (i.e. the three Sunday morning "event" screenings typically allotted to Bollywood blockbusters over here. Giving these movies a regular release would restore, if not cinema itself, then at least my sanity.)

    Every passion or profession – news anchor, fitness geek, crypto trader, poet – can be expressed in song & dance except…

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  • The United States of America

    The United States of America

    ★★★½

    Benning plays the hits. Skies and Lakes, RR and Stemple Pass: Land of 1000 Callbacks. Karen Carpenter makes birds appear, Minnie Riperton – guiding spirit of the "original" – is a cloud now. Everything speaks, rhymes, clashes; expectations are met & duly messed with. What's the USA? Heavy industry, military memorials and a whole lotta desert. Population: around 5 by my count. And yet there's always some machinery making a giant ruckus offscreen – do they operate themselves by now? Can't…

  • Rushing Green with Horses

    Rushing Green with Horses

    ★★★★

    As I Was Looking Back Occasionally I Recovered Brief Glimpses of Beauty.