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Daniel Pietzsch
16 Oct 2022

🎬 Mandy

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This film is an audio-visual delicacy. If you’re into Metal, you are not only my friend, but I’m sure, you too will enjoy this – if purely on the visual level. But it’s hard to not dig the soundtrack, either. I would guess this is great on drugs. Or unbearably terrifying.

A lot of scenes are reminiscent of David Lynch’s style. The story however is not: it is very straight forward, which I found surprising given all the wild trippy visuals.

The acting is overall great, and I indeed enjoyed Nic Cage’s performance a lot. The action and fight scenes are great, too. It’s funny, but also serious. However, there’s no focus on the latter, I’d say.

It’s certainly a unique experience. And one I could experience again!

(Oh my god, the Cheddar Gobblin!!!)

Daniel Pietzsch
16 Oct 2022

🎬 The Last Duel

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This is quite the spectacle! A beautiful, violent, serious, funny, well choreographed and well acted “me too” middle-age spectacle. The three different perspectives of the same plot is the kind of thing I really enjoy. No exception here. The only thing we found irritating occasionally was the language: both the actors’ accents as well as the words seemed way too modern. But that shouldn’t stop one from enjoying this a whole lot!

Daniel Pietzsch
14 Oct 2022

🎥 5 minutes of tennis

5 minutes of tennis

Here are a few shaky POV rallies of tennis I played with Jenni a few weeks back.

And next time, I’ll make sure I’ll wipe my lens in between.

Marc Thiele's Journal
14 Oct 2022

Photos from SmashingConf New York 2022

This was the first year back in New York after 2019. And here is my set of photos from Smashing Conference 2022 in New York.

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Daniel Pietzsch
13 Oct 2022

🎧 Viscera – Strigoi

Dark and heavy. Killer voice. Kaboom!

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Daniel Pietzsch
06 Oct 2022

This site now has a /feeds page, which lists all the RSS/Atom feeds.

Daniel Pietzsch
04 Oct 2022

🎬 Army of Darkness

Oh dear. The fifth movie that day. I was actually looking forward tothis as I was keen to watch another Sam-Raimi-Bruce-Campbell movie. Thiscertainly has some good scenes! But overall I found the jokes, dialogueand effects overly silly. I felt like this was more about the specialeffects than anything else. And those felt incredibly dated. Nah, sorry,didn’t like it much this time around.

Daniel Pietzsch
04 Oct 2022

🎬 Rambo: First Blood Part II

The fourth film we watched back-to-back. It was kinda hard taking thisseriously after having watched Hot Shots 2, which basically parodiesevery second scene of Rambo 2. This was still ok, I guess, but I wasn’tthat attentive any more and half-missed the ending.

Daniel Pietzsch
04 Oct 2022

🎬 Hot Shots! Part Deux

With six others in a hut in the mountains and it’s raining all Sunday:what do you do? We just kept watching silly movies. And this one isindeed meant to be, voluntarily! I remembered quite a few scenes, sothis was a little nostalgic. I think this still has nice ideas, wellexecuted. But yeah, it’s super silly.

Daniel Pietzsch
04 Oct 2022

🎬 Kickboxer

I was primed with that this is basically the same movie as Bloodsport.And I agree. But nothing could prepare me for that hilarious dancingscene!

Daniel Pietzsch
04 Oct 2022

🎬 Bloodsport

Usually not really my cup of tea, but I watched this with six friendswho know this in and out. And this made this special, as I not only gotto watch this fabulously cheesy movie, I also was enlightened by theirexpert commentary.

This had some fun characters, corny music, oh-my-god-the-clothes!!, anantagonist that’s indeed super evil (in a total unironic good way); andyeah: splits!

Based on a true story!

I had a great time.

Marc Thiele's Journal
27 Sep 2022

Trailer 3 of “This Is What I Want To Do”

I can’t believe someone would ever create a film about what I do. Totally excited, but equally afraid to see how it turns out in the end and what the story line of the documentary is.

How that all started? Well, there are those two guys. Their names are Andreas Brüggemann and Stefan Nitzsche. They both are lovely people. And they decided to make a documentary about what I do – beyond tellerrand. I think that is crazy 😳. But also nice and I am humbled. And excited.

See Trailer 3 of the film here:

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Daniel Pietzsch
26 Sep 2022

The text for movie posts is now hidden at first, if it potentially contains spoilers (I simply used the <details> element for this). This also applies to the Atom feeds (for movies and for everything). The text is also no longer written in the description and og:description meta tags. All of this should make it harder to accidentally get spoiled.

Daniel Pietzsch
25 Sep 2022

🎬 The Fog

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Death is polite in this one and often knocks on the door first before slaying you to pieces. I found The Fog itself to be a little silly maybe, but that might’ve just been the intention. Overall it’s great fun, if you’re into old-school horror. The jump scares are effective, the atmosphere menacing, and Carpenter’s pictures and music do the rest.

Daniel Pietzsch
24 Sep 2022

🎬 Blood Simple

The one thing that I really noticed were the scene transitions. Theywere quite something! And given this must have been all done analoguejust impresses all the more. The whole misunderstandings and increasingfear and paranoia that overcomes the protagonists is really wellportrayed. There’s just a lot of great scenes in this one. And really Ionly noticed now as I write about this. I might have been not thatenthusiastic right after the film ended, but now I kind of wanna watchit again.

Daniel Pietzsch
24 Sep 2022

🎬 Escape from New York

I like old sci-fi movies like this. The special effects and Carpenter’saesthetic just have something about them. The over-the-top villain withhis over-the-top car. All the “modern” computer graphics. Just great.And I enjoyed Carpenter’s music, too! The story and movie itself mightnot be just my cup of tea (anymore), though. But it’s certainly bad-ass.

Daniel Pietzsch
24 Sep 2022

🎬 Death on the Nile

This might have been a bit too long, but other than that, there’snothing not to like. Another murder mystery, that could have only beensolved by the great Hercule Poirot. The funny dialog and quirkycharacters make this worthwhile alone already. And as a whole Icertainly can not not recommend it.

Daniel Pietzsch
24 Sep 2022

🎬 Lucky

This is one of those movies where actually not that much is happening.Like an anti-blockbuster. It’s subtle, a little philosophical. And allabout the conversations and characters. It’s funny and serious at thesame time. With wonderful performances of all the actors! First andforemost of course the one of Harry Dean Stanton. But it also remindedme how much I enjoy David Lynch as an actor.

Beautiful!

Marc Thiele's Journal
20 Sep 2022

⇾ Shoptalk Show 533 with Bastian Allgeier

My good friend Bastian Allgeier has been a guest of the Shoptalk Show with Dave and Chris again. Fun episode to listen to.

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Daniel Pietzsch
16 Sep 2022

🎬 X

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Yep, I liked this! It was partly quite disgusting – more so than most horror flics I’d say – but I won’t complain about that. But it had great humour and a pretty original story I’d say. And it has this meta level and “maybe play with the timeline/references to the past” thing going on (which you only really notice at the end and in the credits), which I don’t know if this made a whole lot of sense, but I’d try to find out and watch the movie again. Bonus point for Chelsea Wolfe soundtrack.