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- Internationally Irish: The films of Neil Jordan – Part 1 of 5
- Postmodern Cinema and the concept of memory: Wings of Desire
- The look of a good actor
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Internationally Irish: The films of Neil Jordan – Part 5 of 5
Back to Ireland. Neil Jordan’s next movie was Michael Collins (1996), a big blockbuster epic starring Liam Neeson as the Irish freedom fighter. The film was shot in Ireland and financed by Irish, English and American companies. Michael Collins paints a … Continue reading
Internationally Irish: The films of Neil Jordan – Part 3 of 5
First steps. Angel is in a sense, a revenge thriller, a movie that deals with violence and its effect on people who are directly or indirectly responsible or victimized. The movie was influenced by a film John Boorman had … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel, In The Company of Wolves, Mona Lisa, Neil Jordan, Point Blank, Roger
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Internationally Irish: The films of Neil Jordan – Part 2 of 5
Grievances. Neil Jordan made his first full-length movie in 1982. The movie was called Angel and starred Stephen Rea as a saxophonist who witnesses the brutal murder of his manager and a def mute girl and sets out to avenge … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel, Excalibur, Ireland, Mona Lisa, Neil Jordan
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Internationally Irish: The films of Neil Jordan – Part 1 of 5
Neil Jordan is without a doubt the most successful filmmaker in the history of Irish cinema. He has directed fifteen feature length films in all. Jordan’s films are special in a sense because most of his films are not made in … Continue reading
Postmodern Cinema and the concept of memory: Wings of Desire
Witnessing the history of memory. In a way Wings of Desire (1987) is about memory. The main protagonist even remembers how the world was created. On the surface the movie is a story about an angel that falls in love … Continue reading
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Tagged Der Himmel über Berlin, postmodernism, Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire
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The look of a good actor
A recent whiskey commercial for Jim Bean reminds us why Willem Dafoe is a great actor. In just over a minute the commercial has shown us multiple versions of one man. The soothing voice talking throughout the images ponders the … Continue reading
Remembering Biogen (02.24. 1976 – 02.07. 2011)
Sigurbjörn Þorgrímsson also known as Bjössi Biogen past away on February 7. 2011. I did not only know him as my friend’s older brother but also as a good and decent man that possessed a deep and sensitive soul. He was a … Continue reading
Postmodern Cinema and the concept of memory: The Mirror
Subjective memories. If the replicant in Blade Runner had implanted memories, they could have well been uploaded from the movie The Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky. The movie is about a man who is dying and on his deathbed he remembers … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrei Tarkovsky, Blade Runner, Memory, The Mirror
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Postmodern Cinema and the concept of memory: Blade Runner
Do humans dream objectively? I want to discuss the concept of memory in light of three movies that are considered to be postmodern, namely: Blade Runner (1982) Zerkalo (The Mirror, 1975) and Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire, 1987). … Continue reading
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Tagged Blade Runner, Der Himmel über Berlin, postmodernism, The Mirror, Wings of Desire, Zerkalo
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