Two absolute classics of horror were both released on this day (September 18) - the first in 1987, the first Hellraiser, and then in 2003, the equally unforgettable Cabin Fever.
Heute vor 20 Jahren wurde "#HotelRuanda" (2004) beim Festival von Toronto uraufgeführt. Christian Gudehus & Stewart Anderson haben den #Film zum #Völkermord in #Ruanda vor 30 Jahren für unsere #Filmkritik angesehen:
Heute vor 75 Jahren wurde der #Film "Bitterer Reis" (1949) bei den Festspielen in #Cannes uraufgeführt. Für uns hat sich Enrica Capussotti den Klassiker des ital. #Neorealismus angesehen:
▶ Weiblichkeit, ländliche Gemeinschaft und italienischer Nationalcharakter. Der Kampf gegen amerikanische Modernität in Riso amaro, #WerkstattGeschichte 44/2007, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/sport
#OnThisDay, June 19, 1964, having survived a 60-day filibuster, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed the US Senate, a milestone in the struggle to extend civil, political, and legal rights and protections to African Americans and to end segregation (depicted in All The Way, 2016)
#OnThisDay, June 17, in 1972, five burglars connected to senior figures in the Nixon administration were arrested in the office of the Democratic National Committee, in the Watergate complex of buildings in Washington, D.C. (depicted in All the President’s Men, 1976)
#OnThisDay, June 16, in 1931, Al Capone pleaded guilty to income tax evasion & 5,000 prohibition violations in a trial at the Chicago Federal Building (depicted in The Untouchables, 1987)
#OnThisDay, June 15, in 1215, overseen by a council of barons, King John of England put his seal to Magna Carta, a cornerstone of the idea of the liberty of citizens (depicted in Ironclad, 2011)
#OnThisDay, June 9, 1954 was the turning point for Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist crusade, when Army counsel Joseph Welch asked him, “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” (depicted in Tail Gunner Joe, 1977)
#OnThisDay, May 29, 1953, mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest (depicted in Hillary, "Everest" s01e03, 2018)
#OnThisDay, May 28, 1863, the all-Black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment left Boston with fanfare to fight in the U.S. Civil War (depicted in Glory, 1989)
Heute vor 60 Jahren feierte "Herrenpartie" Premiere, ein weniger erfolgreicher #Film von #WolfgangStaudte. Die geringe Resonanz hatte v.a. geschichtspolitische Gründe, so unsere #Filmkritik:
Wir erinnern daher an zwei #Filmkritik-Artikel über #Filme, die bei vergangenen Internationalen Filmfestspielen Berlin der Jahre 2000 & 2007 Premiere feierten:
Heute vor 65 Jahren feierte die #Komödie "Schlag auf Schlag" mit #PeterAlexander Premiere, ein Remake des 20 Jahre älteren #HeinzRühmann-Films "Das Paradies der Junggesellen" (1939).
Stole this image from someone who stole this image, and I'm stealing the question, too:
WHAT FILM MADE YOU GO 'WTF DID I JUST WATCH'?
Off the top of my head:
Mother! definitely. Also Society, The Outwaters, Final Prayer (aka The Borderlands), Dead Alive (aka Brain Dead), Skinamarink, The Human Centipede, Infinity Pool, Antichrist, Hausu, Secretary. And I love them all.