Wong Kar Wai Berlinale
The Berlin film festival kicked with The Grandmaster, a martial arts epic from Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai who is also presiding over this year’s jury. Asian stars including Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Zhang Ziyi were present. The annual Berlinale, now in its 63rd year, is one of Europe’s most important film festivals, and alongside it runs a large-scale...
Rainy Götterdämmerung in Munich.
This is a very personal take on the opera cycle by Richard Wagner’s “Ring” from a Jungian perspective, how the themes of the Ring, though universal, specifically apply to our lives today. Kent Nagano The Munich Opera Festival draws for over 130 years opera fans to Munich, and as one of the oldest international festival...
C.G. Jung and symbols of the film noir
Again, Jungians were faster. I just saw some old movies again, including Pulp Fiction, Blade Runner, Rosmary´s Baby and 2001 – A Space Odyssey and some film noir movies. I was interested how Jungian ideas could help me understand the films from a different angle and advance with a little project since I read Marcus...
Des hommes et des dieux – von Göttern und Menschen
Ging in letzter Minute ins Zürich Arthouse Movie: Der Regisseur Xavier Beauvois zeigte im “Des hommes et des dieux” das Blutbad, welches islamische Terroristen am 18. März des Jahres 1996 anrichteten, als sie sieben französische Mönche entführten und am 30. Mai enthaupteten.Wir befinden uns in den neunziger Jahren, kurz nachdem der terroristische Groupe islamique...