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I’m a freelance web developer based in Düsseldorf, Germany. I make a RSS feed reader called FeedCity. I’m also a passionate film photographer, a husband and father, a musician, metalhead, and movie fan.
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🎬 Arrival
Wow. I wasn’t prepared for this much emotion. Much respect Mr. Villeneuve, what a beautiful film! Visually, sonically, emotionally. And the story really comes together nicely in the end. And Amy Adams plays her role so brilliantly! I could easily watch this again once I'm prepared for another onslaught of sadness.
📄 Fall
Another accident happened: I broke my arm while hiking.
🎬 The Return of the Living Dead
If you see past the partly questionable acting, this is a lot of fun. Quirky, gory, funny with a hint of seriousness and menace. Effects were great! I’m not sure if I like running and talking zombies, but I enjoyed this overall.
🎬 The Square
This one makes you think. There’s a lot going on, and I felt like it wants to say a lot. A bit too much maybe. I found his a bit long, yet still interesting. I enjoyed Force Majeure and especially Triangle of Sadness more.
🎬 Hobo with a Shotgun
Violent and vulgar. Cheap and cheesy. Underwhelming and unworthy.
🎬 Bronson
In the beginning, this had me excited to see where this is going. But then it’s a lot of the same throughout the film without much progression. But maybe that’s the point!? I don’t know. It’s indeed insanely well acted and very funny at times. And it’s certainly quite unique in how it’s filmed. Maybe this needs a rewatch.
🎬 Triangle of Sadness
This was a wild cruise! An a damn entertaining one! Nothing too subtle going on: just bunch of filthy rich idiots getting what they deserve. Muahahaha. The captain’s dinner is incredible. With Refused’s "New Noise" as the perfect Soundtrack. In den Wolken!
The music section for the most part now features the Bandcamp embed instead of the one from Spotify. I find this to be much better, because you can listen to a whole album, even without account. And I actually prefer Bandcamp and have been using it more and more lately.
Uff, it’s been a week already, since I had a great day with Florian at Zeche Zollverein in Essen – photographing and talking. He has the evidence over on his fantastic photo blog:
🎬 Rear Window
Haven’t seen this in a long time. Was inspired to rewatch it by apodcast episode about it. Again liked it a lot. It’s remarkable, howwell this has aged in my opinion. The dialogue, the filming; thesupposed crime is actually pretty violent (you don’t see it, but theytalk about it). It’s an all around well-rounded affair. And it'sprobably worth another rewatch given all the little details in it.
🎬 Down by Law
Not Jarmusch’s best film, but entertaining none the less. RobertoBenigni was the best in this one.
🔗 August 2022 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
Trying not to fall behind more than one year.
Panoramic summer impressions.
🎬 Mystery Train
Lovely little episode-movie. Great humour (oh, the scene, where she’strying to make him laugh!), choreography (the plane in the window in thefirst shot of the second episode), visuals and soundtrack!
🎧 Mutants – Mutoid Man
Their new album. This band really became a favourite during the last year or so. This output again immediately puts a smile on my face. So much fun playing and singing going on. An authentic sound. So good. Need to see them live!
🎧 For Victory – Bolt Thrower
For some reason I wanted to listen to this classic a while back. Still regularly putting this on.
🎧 Bloodmoon: I – Converge
It’s not far from Mutoid Man to Converge. And then their latest album is a collaboration with Chelsea Wolfe!? Sign me up! This seems to be atypical, but I like this a lot. A great album front to back!
🎧 Hail Destroyer – Cancer Bats
Saw them a few weeks back here at the small Pitcher. And they absolutely ruled. Now bullshit, just four dudes playing their asses off. Have been listening to this album ever since.
🔗 July 2022 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
It’s the month of July.
Two parties, some rare visitors, a camping trip, a Krimidinner, and some horse riding.
🎬 Demons 2
I think I have a soft spot for those old Italian horror film. The setdesign, the make up, the fantastic old school effects, the music, theacting, the not-taking-themselves-to-seriously. Good stuff, in my humbleopinion.
🎬 The Brood
This could have been something. The Brood is really quite terrifying.But it didn‘t really came into action all that often. Instead, the moviespend a lot of time with slow-paced dialogue. And I think I didn‘treally get what the ending was hinting at.
🎬 Pumpkinhead
I thought there was a lot of good stuff in here: foremost thePumpkinhead monster itself – but also the visuals in general. Thecharacters are good too, it even has some well thought out dramaelements. But in the end the sum of its parts didn‘t really add up to awell rounded movie. Was still entertaining, though.
🎬 Slugs
The story is pretty conventional. But I was in the mood for that. Hassome cool effects and is fast-paced and entertaining.
🎬 Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
A totally fine movie. Zoe liked it, but in my opinion it’s not the mostappropriate film for a five year old due to quite a few threateninggestures, themes and scenes.
📖 Die Kunst des klaren Denkens – Rolf Dobelli
Kurzweiliges Buch über viele typische Denkfehler. Viele kannte ich schon mit Namen, einige ohne Namen, und einige waren mir so explizit neu.
Aufgrund der Menge an Denkfehlern (=Kapitelanzahl) bleibt nicht alles beim ersten Lesen hängen. Das Buch kann man sich aber gut in den Schrank als Referenz stellen.
📄 Crash
On Sunday, June 25th 2023, we were involved in a car crash on the Autobahn. While our camper is beyond repair, we were very lucky and escaped with only minor injuries.
🎬 In Bruges
Having just been to Bruges, it seemed fitting to watch In Bruges. I canconfirm it’s not a shithole. Fuckin‘ Bruges. That’s my kind of fuckin’film: quirky characters of a shady „occupation“, a bizarre yet coherentplot, with serious and funny elements, and overall very entertaining.All in just over 100 minutes.
🎬 Beau Is Afraid
Of course, Joaquin Phoenix is fantastic. And it is visually actuallypretty sweet. But oh man, it’s just 3 hours of absurdities. Way over thetop. Not really my thing.
🎬 The Bad Batch
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Compared to Ana Lily Amirpour‘s other films, this was lacking. Somehow the setting and vibe didn’t get me as much. Worse dialogue, and too long. And I have to admit that I find realistic cannibal scenes quite repelling. I’d rather happily rewatch her other movies.
🔗 June 2022 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
54 new photos.
Irrland and southern France.