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- Sprache: Englisch
Read quickly, but indispensable in its entirety, this little book is full of film recommendations, sorted and listed in categories that fit just about any mood - humor, love-stories, thrillers, epic or erotic films, Western movies, couple murder-plots adult fairy tales or road movies, to name just a few. The author refrains from giving content-descriptions, as these are readily available in the internet. Instead, he offers a selection of timeless classics that he has ranked - as it's done in hotels - by the number of stars. It's the result of hundreds of visits to movie-houses, and evaluating over one thousand DVDs over 20 years. The selection has been made not for professional film critics, but for you, the quality-minded viewer, tires of mass-produced streaming offerings. If you enjoy films that were produced by the greatest directors of the 20th century, you are right on track with this film guide, a first of its kind.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
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Guide to a selected film library with 250 treasures of film history from 1930 until today in 18 different categories
Dedicated toMeryl Streep and Robert Redford, for the roles of their lives in „Out of Africa“1, directed by Sidney Pollack (1986 Oscar), music by John Barry.
1 Story no. 51 in the book of travel stories by the same author „How an Indian Global Player evolved into my butler“ (to be published in the spring of 2022), describes a visit by the author and his wife to the country home (north of Copenhagen) of Tania Blixen, author of „East of Africa“.
Content
Preface
Birth of a Cineast in Toronto
How the idea of a film-library came about
Foreign business-trips
Berlin‘s Culture Department Store
„Best 100“ Lists in the Internet
Jean Renoir‘s „Rule of the Game“
Movie-Categories
Change in Erotic attitudes
Yesterday and Today
Classics of Literature
Directors and Movie Stars
Europe vs. Hollywood
Ranking of the Films
Karl Lagerfeld vs. Streaming
Rejected Films
Our „Citizen Kane“ movie
Choice of Title-Movie
A film‘s „Secret“
Film Categories
Melodramas – 33
Envy and Jealousy – 23
Thrillers – 21
Epic Films – 19
Western Movies– 18
Love Stories – 17
Comedies – 15
Couple Murder-Plots – 15
Historical Films – 13
Heroism – 12
Erotic Films - 12
Fairytales for Adults – 9
Great Literature – 9
Detective Comedies – 9
Purpose of Life – 9
Youth Dramas – 7
Road Movies – 6
Episode-Classics – 3
Selected Films since 2000 – 15
(in order of the years of their first performance)
Most frequent Directors in this Collection
Most frequent Actresses in this Collection
Most frequent Actors in this Collection
Closing Notes
The Lost Magic of Cinema
About Streaming
Acknowledgements
Preface
Should you belong to those people who appreciate the high quality of films of the last century far more than what´s currently on the market (see „About Streaming“, p. 72), this guide could become a real treasure source and a valuable counsellor in searching for movie masterpieces, that don´t seem to have a place in today´s celebrity culture anymore.
In 2019 and 2020 the two last icons of Hollywood´s glorious days passed away. First Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff, called Doris Day, at the age of 97 years, and one year later Issur Danielowitsch Demsky better known as Kirk Douglas, at the blessed age of an incredible 103 years.
Both superstars – adored by millions-- had survived „Hollywood´s Golden Age“ by decades. But allow me to start at the beginning.
Birth of a Cineast in Toronto
I am not a professional film-critic, just a passionate admirer of good movies.
Even today, I recall how deeply moved I was as a 10 year old, watching my first Western movie in a large dining room in Heilbronn with German movie theatres still in ruins.
My first experiences in a real cinema I had as a 13-and-14- year-old in Toronto. My dad, a factory-owner in what is now Gdansk/Poland, was so „finished“ with Europe after our horrific experiences during the sinking of the „Whilhelm Gustloff“ with 9.000 refugees drowning, that he immigrated with us all to Canada in December of 1949.
The Toronto of the 1950ies was as anglophile as one can imagine - with moral attitudes regulated by the Anglican and Presbyterian Church. Movies on Sunday - absolutely unthinkable in those times!
For us teenagers there were special presentations of cowboy-films at the local movie theatre for 50 cents. These Western films, massproduced with stars like Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry & Co., didn´t have a lasting impression on me.
That was different with the film-evenings for boys by the Kiwanis Club in the local Church on Monday evenings. In one-hour sequences, an “ordinary Joe“ salesman became a sort of Superman, whenever someone was threatened by criminal elements. Spontaneously, he opened the next street drain, jumped in and came back out as a flying Superman.
I loved the wonderfully pragmatic ways of Canadian movie theatres: you could come and go at any time and watch a particular movie twice if you liked. Suburbian theatres showed two different films – though not the most recent ones – anyway. Maybe my movie addiction originated in those years.
When I was past puberty, I secretly visited a cinema showing „Bitter Rice“, the Italian movie that made Silvana Mangano world famous. I was absolutely thrilled by the earthiness of a European woman, at a time when America´s infatuation with the aseptic Doris Day was at its peak – her being voted America´s favorite female movie star several years in a row. I couldn´t yet imagine that the mental basis for my future return to Europe had just been laid.
How the idea of a film library came about
In the 70ies and 80ies of the last century TV presented repeat showings of film-jewels with admirable regularity. In the age of Reality-TV, this sympathetic aspect of
