NP Until the End of the World

[Jochen Stremmel]

What's there to hate about The Fifth Element?


On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 5:51 PM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Verhoeven "on the low"? But I think I know what you mean...
> >
> > "Starship Troopers" is still the most subversive film ever produced in
> > Hollyood. It always reminds me of Laibach's "Geburt einer Nation":
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZAD7W3M4zc
> >
> > See also: Tom Secker and Matthew Alford, "National Security Cinema".
> >
> > Not a fan of Wim Wenders' movies, although I do not actively hate them
> > like I hate Luc Besson's or Lars von Trier's...
> >
> > > At the time, in my early 20's, with my taste spreading, wet ink-like,
> > from
> > > a thick black line connecting the dots (Kubrick, Scorsese, Coppola, and
> > > Herzog on the high side, Carpenter, Romero, Argento, and Verhoeven on
> the
> > > low, with Cronenberg and Lynch straddling the two) leaking over to
> > > Jodorowsky, Fellini, Bergman, etc, etc, etc, Wim Wenders (always paired
> > > with Jim Jarmusch in my mind) seemed like the kind of fellow whose
> films
> > I
> > > should be checking out. And based on the back of the box, Until The
> > End...
> > > seemed like the kind of movie I would like.
> >
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