Best films I saw in 2011 (not necessarily from that year)

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Note: I write this article in English, because the majority of titles are, too. Also most of my colleagues I work with and possibly read this will have no problem with it. On the other hand if it wasn’t for the epd-Film magazine I used to read, there wouldn’t be a need for writing a list like this one anyway. Wherever I could I linked the trailers or the mentioned scenes, so when I write SPOILER, it’s exactly that. Watch the films first, or don’t blame me, ok? So, without further ado, here’s my 2011 winner:

Drive

It was sort of a tie with THE TREE OF LIFE by Terrence Malick, but Nicolas Winding Refn (is that a real name?) is my winner, because he cut this one down to the bare bones of the story. Don’t get me wrong, I dig the length (and height) of TOL, but Malick is a true master already, and Refn now proved to the last doubt, that he himself is one too.

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Der Rhythmus bei dem man mit muß

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Die schönste Sexszene stammt wohl aus DELICATESSEN (1991) von Jean-Pierre Jeunet und Marc Caro:


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Das mag zwar nicht die sinnlichste Sexszene aller Zeiten sein, aber eine wunderbare Art sie einmal anders zu erzählen, ohne den Akt selbst überhaupt zu zeigen. Das ist auch mal eine Lösung, und deshalb habe ich sie ausgewählt.

The same thing in English after the click.

goodbye to five years of Xmas-mix

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I won’t make another one before Christmas this year. Again. For the third year in a row, which lead me to the tough decision to call it quits. It’s no more Xmas-mix for me. What this doesn’t mean is, that there will be no jp-compiled music-mix on the year 2011. There will be, just in it’s appropriate form – e.g. I do it when the year actually is behind us, and reflecting on it, playing around with some songs and samples from movies, TV-series and whatever comes to my mind, as I did the last five years, and enjoying it. Essentially that’s what it’s always been, a look back on last year, my „cultural“ mood diary (or diarrhea?), so to speak. And let’s face it: the Christmas references have always been in the minority, haven’t they?

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