Running at the tIFF Bell Lightbox us Christian Petzold’s excellent and very intimate drama Barbara, starring Nina Hoss as an East German doctor quietly waiting for her chance to escape from under the evil Communist thumb. Uploaded in tandem with the film review are mobile editions of three other Petzold films reviewed at KQEK.com – Yella (2007), Gespenster / Ghosts (2005), and Wolfsburg (2003). Oh yeah: and Happy New Year!
Quick Editor’s Blog and review links for Leith Stevens’ Destination Moon (1950), recently released on CD by Monstrous Movie Music, plus related material at KQEK.com Mobile. Also added: Chapter 2 of the Making of BSV 1172 at Big Head Amusements regarding burns, spots, and splotches on vintage tube video cameras.
Just uplaoded: soundtrack reviews of Ernest Gold’s Ship of Fools (Monstrous Movie Music), Franz Waxman’s Crime in the Streets (Varese), and from La-La Land Records we have Dimitri Tiomkin’s The Fall of the Roman Empire, Victor Young’s Shane, and J.C. Zamecnik’s Wings.
Editor’s Blog & review of Fritz Lang’s Indian epic – Tiger of Eschnapur + The Indian Tomb (1959) – which screened this month at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as part of the Indian Expressionism series.
CD reviews of Thomas Newman’s Skyfall (Sony), plus from La-La Land we have Hans Zimmer’s Black Rain (1989), James Horner’s Krull, David Newman’s The Phantom (1996), and John Ottman’s X2: X-Men United.
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