Never Look Away

[jbloocher at gmail.com]

I loved The Lives of Others. It’s on Netflix. I may revisit it. It has been years. So this is actually better than Never Look Away...

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> On 5 Oct 2019, at 15:28, Thom Benny <thombenny at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Longtime listener, first time caller.
> 
> Never Look Away, I thought, was fantastic. Though not as accomplished as
> von Donnersmarck's breakthrough The Lives of Others, which, looking back
> through my recently Pynchon-tinted glasses, is a hell of a good dive into
> the personal, psychological and societal impacts of Them.
> 
> Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you, etc.
> 
> Thom
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>>   1. NP - Never Look Away (film) (David Morris)
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>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Richter
>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Look_Away
>> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gCEYXnDNcrg
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>> A beautifully constructed film (with LOTS of pathos).  A fictional biopic
>> of modern painter Gerard Richter (look him up).  Fiction allows its
>> artistic construction.  I really enjoyed this.
>> 
>> A documentary: Gerhard Richter Painting (really good)
>> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jF4SAmtCyLg
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>> David Morris
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