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passenger on the train of life (film: The Passenger / Professione: reporter – Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)

Michelangelo Antonioni‘s ‘The Passenger‘ or ‘Professione: reporter‘ (the original title) is a case study of a remarkable film by one of the important directors in the history of cinema, a film that changes its meaning and perspective over time, but … Continue reading

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a woman dies (Film: The Descendants – George Clooney, 2011)

The opening sequences of director Alexander Payne‘s The Descendants include a short (maybe less than one second) image of a powerful and beautiful woman surfing on the waves around Hawaii. For most of the rest of the film the woman … Continue reading

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Film: The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)

In the mid-90s I was fascinated by the Danish TV series The Kingdom. The story happened in a hospital which was a labyrinth building that played an active and determining role in the action – a structure built on unsafe … Continue reading

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