Tag: film biographies
"Back to Black" in the cinema: The crash as a legacy
The life of singer Amy Winehouse is coming to the cinema as a biopic with a wig, a canary and drug glamour. Insanely annoying. source site
Voodoo Jürgens: From hell
The Viennese broken bohemians celebrate themselves in the films “Vienna Calling” and “Rickerl”. A final gasp? Time to meet the high priest: Voodoo Jürgens. source site
Artist biography “Munch” in the cinema: Give me the cry, baby – culture
How did Edvard Munch, Norway’s most famous painter, become a pioneer of Expressionism? After Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken’s film biography, you’re hardly any wiser than before. The fashion of turning every…
“Maestro” in the cinema and on Netflix: It’s just a nose, rabbit – culture
After a shitstorm-strong prelude, the film about the nose prosthesis finally follows. “Maestro”, Bradley Cooper’s opulent biopic about the gifted conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, had already caused amusement and…
"The pigeon tunnel" on Apple TV+: agent, author, trickster
The great filmmaker Errol Morris dedicated an imaginative documentary to the writer John le Carré. source site
"Dalíland" in the cinema: The mustache, of course
Films don’t automatically become art when they are about artists: Mary Harron’s “Dalíland” about Salvador Dalí. source site
“Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody” in the cinema: The Foreign – Culture
With “I Wanna Dance with Somebody,” Whitney Houston gets a biopic that isn’t fixated on her tragic ending. But, for example, on a love that nobody knows. Of Juliana Liebert…
"The emperor" on Sky: Escape to Old Times
The film biography “The Emperor” tells of Franz Beckenbauer as a figure of light – and ends with the World Cup final victory in 1990. But didn’t something come after…
Werner Herzog: “Anarchy is at home in Bavaria” – Kultur
Of Juliana Liebert Bears don’t particularly like to eat people. We know that from Werner Herzog’s film “Grizzly Man”. They find us – presumably – somehow disgusting. Don’t get me…