Gangleri – filmreviews

This film played in Seattle the second time I was there and I already wanted to see it then, but things went otherwise… Too bad that it took so long, because “Hedwig and the angry inch” is a very enjoyable film. Hanzel was born on the Eastern side of the wall in Berlin, but ended up as Hedwig in the USA. The story of his/her life and the half-sexchange is told in flashbacks, great scenes and Hedwig’s own songs. The film compares to films such as “24 Hour Party People”, “Almost Famous”, “Velvet Goldmine” and “Boogie Nights” playing in the music scene of the 70′ies and told with wonderfull dialogues and humour. If you like the mentioned films, don’t miss Hedwig and his angry inch!
-4-

It seems that this film tries to navigate somewhere between arthouse-teen-films such as “Heavenly Creatures”, “Girl, Interrupted” or “The Virgin Suicides” and teenager-slasher-horror. A group of teenagers go to the remote farm of the family of one of them, doing what teens do: get drunk and try to ‘get laid’. Somebody has other plans and as in any other teen-slasher, the kids die one by one in a bloody way.
Nothing really special.
-2-

Agnes White (Ashley Judd) lives in some sort of motel in the middle of a North-American desert. When a friend introduces her to a rather vague man, the two slowly grow towards eachother. The film starts as a relation-drama, but slowly works towards being a psychological horror. The film is nice, has good camera works and nice colours, weird conversations and the climax carefully builds up with surprising findings towards a predictable, but not at all disappointing end. The film has only five actors, almost no stages, but definately sets an atmosphere. No masterpiece, but a nice example of modern horror.
-3-

This film has been on my wishlist for ages (slumberingly). When it was anounced on a TV channel that I do not have, I decided to finally rent this old sci-fi cult classic. “Soylent Green” is nice, especially for the time it was made it. It looks a bit like “The Prisoner”, but more forced sci-fi, but still looking 70′ies. The story plays in 2022 New York where actually just one corporation has control over the people and in which ‘real food’ is no longer for the masses. A police-man investigates a murder and runs into a massive conspiracy. The film has a few nice findings and the title somehow is the main element of the film, but it can be explained in different ways. Entertaining and when you put the story on modern society, thought-provoking as well. A good classic.
-3.5-