Kategorie: Movie Advent Calendar

24. Dezember 2011 / / Movie Advent Calendar

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It started with a planecrash on a deserted island and what followed was a television phenomenon that would span 5 seasons of intricate puzzles – and a final season which pretended that it has never been about the riddles after all.

But no matter how disappointing the “have-the-cake-and-eat-it”- finale has been before this Lost was undeniably a fantastic show and the disappointment over the ending just shows the craftsmanship behind the storytelling.

24. Dezember 2011 / / Movie Advent Calendar

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Ricky Gervais is a man of many talents. A great comedian, a big thinker, a charismatic actor and also a fantastic mind behind TV-programs (The Office). In the 12-part TV-series Extras he once again defied expectations when he started with a simple premise: it is about a man who is an extra on movie sets and each episode features a different movie star – but by the end of the series Extras would have turned 180°.

18. Dezember 2011 / / Movie Advent Calendar

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I didn’t manage to catch Contagion in cinemas this year but had the joy of watching the movie on my flight to Hong Kong and surprisingly this movie about a lethal virus also has its Christmas moment.

18. Dezember 2011 / / Movie Advent Calendar

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Family reunions can be a pain, crowded, tension everywhere and not really much of the Christmas joy to be found anywhere near aunt Mildred – but that is nothing compared to what the Joker has in store for Batman on Christmas Eve.

16. Dezember 2011 / / Movie Advent Calendar

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Futurama on the list again. This time with the second Christmas special where the protagonists have to travel to Neptune to Robot Santa’s Christmas-base. When they trap Robot Santa Fry decides that they should have an old school Christmas and deliver presents to children like it has been tradition… only that the inhabitants of New New York are so scared of Santa they can’t imagine him being kind.

16. Dezember 2011 / / Movie Advent Calendar

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When compiling this list I tried to describe the moments that “made” the movie for me – some seconds that define the movie and why I do think that the movie is memorable.

16. Dezember 2011 / / Movie Advent Calendar

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Monty Python’s The Life of Brian is one of the most provocative comedies of all time and contrary to people who have never seen the movie (or are deliberately misinterpreting it) it does not make fun of Jesus or anything sacred. The movie is a parody of cults, followers and misinterpretation.

16. Dezember 2011 / / Movie Advent Calendar

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Like the Star Wars Holiday special the Goddamn Batman has a past that is not entirely clean. And like the Star Wars Holiday special he was forced to do things he regrets now. No, I am not talking about the 60s series – that one is a piece of art in itself – I am talking of course about Batman and Robin a movie that made less sense than the Adam West series.

16. Dezember 2011 / / Movie Advent Calendar

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Love Actually is the movie that will always wind up somehow in a Christmas list I put together. Directed by Richard Curtis (the director of the equally fabulous The Boat that Rocked) this movie features a huge ensemble of many of the best British actors alive. Each story is set during the time before Christmas and those short stories interconnect from time to time – but mostly they stand as short movies about a certain type of love, some rewarding, some unrewarding, some unexpected.

10. Dezember 2011 / / Movie Advent Calendar

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George Lucas has produced many things with the name Star Wars on it that fans pretend they never existed, but there is one infamous production that Lucas actively tires to wipe out from existence: