As this crazy year finally comes to an end, let’s see how movies made in the past envisioned a future 2020. Which creative visionary came even close to predicting the intensity of this year? Did anyone imagine a year that was worse?
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Music Monday: “Stay Gold” – The Big Pink
The Big Pink With “Stay Gold” The Big Pink made another great sing-along-while-driving-into-the-unknown song – or you can just sing or dance to it –…
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Trek Nation Director’s Log
The documentary Trek Nation (directed by Scott Colthorp of Atmosphere Pictures) about “Star Trek”, its creator Gene Roddenberry, the fans, the cast and crew and…
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Again my original Music Monday plans (long overdue Favorite Songs of 2nd 1/4 of 2011) are foiled by a “current event” – but this time…
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Shortcutz Berlin
Shortcutz Berlin – Session 12 Shortcutz Berlin is a weekly short film screening series held at Roderich, a cool theater – video rental – cafe…
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“Satellite” is the first single from Blood Pressures, the new album by the British-American duo The Kills – coming out the first week of April.…
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Hopefully the absurdity of me writing in English about something that is currently only available in German will not be too distracting. I’ve just decided…
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Berlin Angels – In A Berlin Minute (Week 43)
There are angels all over Berlin. For this video I concentrated only on ones found in cemeteries. The inspiration for this video comes from three…
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Berlinale – “Utopia, Ltd.” and “Life In A Day”
The 61st Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival) is going on right now. So far I’ve seen a handful of great movies, attended a few overcrowded…
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2009/2010) & The Millenium Trilogy
This week the Swedish film Män som hatar kvinnor (Men Who Hate Women) is finally coming to theaters in the US under the same English…
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The Fabulous “… Fabulous Stains” (1982)
“We are The Stains and we don’t put out!” Dianne Lane as Corinne in Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains How did I miss this…
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Anvil! & The 16:9 Stretch (Ugh!)
First, a friend highly recommended the documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil after seeing it in the theater (with the band Anvil! performing), then there…
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Congratulations to “They Turned Our Desert Into Fire”
Photo by Mark Brecke The documentary They Turned Our Desert Into Fire, produced by our friends Mark Brecke and Jason Mitchell and Stacie Ransom and…
View More Congratulations to “They Turned Our Desert Into Fire”Christmas on Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips
Tuesday night I saw Christmas on Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips at the Kraine Theater of the KGB Complex in the…
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“Thirsty” on PBS
“Thirsty”, a short film I script supervised a few years ago and which was written, produced and directed by friends at Ugly Betty Productions and…
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“Thirsty”, a short film that friends of mine (Caitlin, Bo & Amanda) wrote, directed and produced and which I script supervised might be shown on…
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