During the summer of 1997, so revived the Swedish TV channel TV4, together with the film company Filmlance International AB our (Sweden's), “first" fictional police companion par. Witch is Martin Beck & Gunvald Larsson, and they did it, whit a big blessing
from Maj Sjöwall – who are one of the creators of this characters. Because, during this time in the mid-1990s, so where Sjöwall almost forgotten. So, when a large film company all of a sudden came to Sjöwall and asked if it was okay to produce a "serie" of eight films
on her and her for over 20-years decided husband Per Wahlöö's characters, so was she very flattered. So, from what you can read
from later interviews, so did she not make any big or complicated agreement whit the company about how they should replace her
for using her characters. Which I probably also would have done if I were in her situation. And nobody could either know at that time in 1997, that this movies films would be such a success, that they have made over 40 Beck films. Which is completely unbelievable from
my cinematic eyes. Because, the last fifteen episodes in this movie-series are not something that you like to hang on the Christmas tree, to use a Swedish expression. My reviews of the series therefore end with Beck 31 - Gunvald. So, if Maj Sjlöwall or Per Wahlöö's had been alive today, so would they probably try to shut down the production. But that is only my subjective assessment.
If there are any Nobel Prize that you should take back – from the knowledge that we have had for the past 30 years, so is it from my ethnological glasses Egas Moniz Nobel Prize in Medicine. For the discovery of lobotomy and its therapeutic value in psychiatry. Because the injuries that many people received from this experimental surgical, they are very well documented. And above all, this prefrontal intervention was used very frequently in Sweden - where you drilled in the forehead bone on a person, and went in with a probe and just drove around a little in the brain, in order to cut off various brain threads. Who the doctors believed was the basis of the patient's uncontrolled outbursts, psycho-ses and mania. But what also appears in this documentary by Måns Berthas. - where he interviews both former patients from Sidsjö mental hospital and some of Sweden's leading psychoanalysts. It is that the method maintained within
the Swedish mental hospital until the 1970s. Which is absolutely horrible. Because, as it appears in the film, so did many patients suffer from severe side effects. Where one of the most horrible made the patient emotionally mutilated. Yes, this is not a fell-good experience. But I still think that you should look up the film on ytube and see it, because this is really a part of Sweden's history that everyone should be aware of.
If there is one thing that is really vital in this documentary, which has taken the filmmaker Ashley Bell several years to put together – so is it how patience you have to be, if you are trying to help an elephant (or several) who have been abused and threated very bad and ugly for many years of their life’s at circuses, amusement parks or as pets by rich people. This kindness and compassion have also, almost everyone that we meet in this documentary. It really stays that you can not bee an elephant rescuer if you are restless. No, the elephant caretaker Lek Chailert would never have been able to save over 150 elephants - from various captives in the last 20 years, if she had pushed some of her elephants over the limit. And that, of course, applies to the rescue operation that we get to follow in this movie. Because it definitely makes any idea of rescuing a 70-year-old elephant from a life in chains, if she also feels that the new home is as bad as the last one. So even though she is now partially blind and has started singing the last chorus, to use a Swedish expression – as we say when something are were old and on the brink of destruction, so is his elephant really strong. So, to transport her through a large part of Thailand to freedom. It must be done with a really gentle hand. And it is this journey that we see in this movie. And it is really breath taking.
How many of you out here in cyberspace have heard of the Borough Park neighborhood? Well, if you have, then do you know that it's a Jewish ultra - Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn. I had however no idea about their existence. It was therefore really interesting to follow the Jewish lawyer Rachel Freier. Which makes something very radical, when she tries to start a civic ambulance force with only women in this area. Because, immediately so is she almost stone walled by the community. And it happens from every side that you can think of. As even her husband is against it, which are not so cray if you know how the traditions that you are living after in this area. According to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish tradition so can a woman only be touched by her own husband, except in emergencies - which I think your are jumping from your house, as it are are burning down. Or you are forced to give birth in your home. But it is not accepted by these “religion” But giving up the fight, that is not Rachel intends to do in the first place. Throughout the documentary, we then follow her commitment, which she has with some other female believers, who are actually making some progress. But will they succeed
in their intention to really break through this patriarchal societal norm? Yes, that is the main premise of this documentary, which has a good tempo, structure and clarity. As a viewer, I never have to think about what is happening. We also get other side votes.
Making a versatile documentary about the Swedish Singer / Songwriter Björn Afzelius. That is something that you don´t do over a coffee break, to use a Swedish expression – which means that it is not a easy task. Yes, there will always be someone in his circle of friends who, among the general public, thinks that you (as a director) have not made a fair portrait of this artist. And a clear example of this problem can you see through his "friend" Göran Skytte. Because, in interviewed in several articles in Expressen, so is he really angry over that Marianne Lindberg De Geer, with Afzelius has a daughter together, is given so much space in the film. – as she only is a mossy ex-wife. And who wants to be portrayed by their old flame? And she's talks over a quarter, which blackens Afzelius' from how De Geer describes Afzelius in the film. Well, I think Skytte reacts like this because he is upset about the fact that he has no role in this movie. Because, more people than De Geer in this documentary are saying that Afzelius had a girlfriend in every city he visited when he was out and played many gigs whit his group in Sweden. And De Geer is also very self-critical. Yes, she says very clear that she could not let go of Afzelius, even though she knew that it was a real disfavor to stay by his side after every affair. So, it is established beyond all reasonable doubt that Afzelius was a womanizer. Yes, it’s impossible for Skytte to contradict.
In the beginning of October 1997, so released The Pat Metheny Group their album Imaginary Day (Warner Bros. Records). It was their ninth studio album since their debut in the late 1970s with Britz Size Life (Geffen Records), and it is perhaps (well at least from my musical ears), their best. And they probably also fought (and especially the composers Metheny / Myles), that the album was so good, that it deserved to be recorded on a DVD. And where their previous DVD: We Live Here - Live In Japan (Eagle Rock), was produced by an japanese so was this recording produced by the group's long-time bassist Steve Rodby. Which has both several advantages and a number of drawbacks. Because, with Rodby as the producer, so have they full control over every aspekt of the product. So they have thefore full kontroll over both the sound mix and all the camera work. But they are thereby sponsring the hole thing by themself. Which is visible in some parts of the concert. Becouse, a trained director, he had not used handheld cameras, to the same extent as happens during the concert. However, the music are played and perfomed as a old Wine.
Okay ladies and gentlemen. Here we have what in my eyes is another really bad concert with Lavgine. Yes, you may think I'm mean,
But this is not good. And the question is whether she really wants to be there. Her whole way of expressing herself is so expressionless.
It is like that she sings because it bring money = it it's not for fun. And the tuning for several of the old songs are very strange.
Compared to the series that the journalist Nils Bergman produced for SVT - so is this documentary about the completely absurd Helicopter Robbery against G4S Cash Services' safe deposit box in Västberga, a lot better produced. But since I am a semi-professional filmmaker, so is it very hard for me to understand why you make a series of 6 episodes. When you can get a much better story with
just 2 long episodes.
Here have we another serie of the journalist Nils Bergman. And I don´t want to / can not - as the editor of the cultural magazine Filter describe this serie as a documentary. Because, It is so fucking bad. Yes, with a glass of wine in my body, so could say that a small child of 12 year could do a better job. But since this series is about a woman, who tried to seduce her parents, so am I going to shut up.
This swedish serie over Gryningspyromanen was described by SVT aas a very professional documentary over Ulf Borgström as the pyromaniac his real name is. And, yes, the journalist Nils Bergman (who is behind the very much criticized Rättegångspodden), certainly are show that Borgström is a person who is suspected of having started about 200 fires in the last 30 years in Skåne and Dalarna. But this so-called documentary is so poorly constructed that I get really angry. Yeah l may sounds pretty arogant. But I really think that I could have made a better serie then this one. And above all, so had I created a much simpler story than the version that Bergman are giving you in this serie. And it had become cheaper. Because, I had not used lots of redundant drone images.
The more time I spend on this website. The more fun it is. Because, on no other similar site have I found this concert with Iron Maiden. And sure, it's not that strange because it's never been released as an official DVD. Which will probably never happen either due to the problems that SVT had with the sound during the beginning of the concert, Yes, due to a thunderstorm in Norrland, so had they some satellite problems. Bruse singing was therefore not heard during the first few minutes. But that's the only small mistake with this otherwise really wonderful concert. Well, of course, they could have started a little later so that the whole concert had a big light show. But the band was however on fire during this concert. And as it was broadcasted on SVT so is that is that perhans not a surprise.. And Bruce did many jokes about is during the concert.
With over 4 hours of material, on the 2 DVD set of this Live From the Dark DVD, so Is this a must have for long-time fans of the Swedish rockers. Well, I am talking about the extra material whit interviews whit all the members of the band. And all other stuff that we get after the main concert. Because, the picture quality of this concert is really, really bad. Yes, I don´t know what the director, and the company where thinking, that Europe used for this DVD. But they have,obviously misjudged how much light they need to have to film a concert in a small dark venue.
If there's any artist I'm really upset about not getting a ticket for - it's this concert by Sade. In terms of production, her show is one of the best done in the 2010s. Of course, both Madonna, AC / DC and Kiss have significantly more spectacular stage shows. But they are nowhere near the ingenuity of this show. And it happens right from the beginning of the concert where Sade comes up through the floor and is illuminated with a spotlight until she goes up in the lift and sings from a plateau in the extra number Cherish The Day where she wears a red dress while the rest of the band have black and white clothes. And during other parts of the concert, different things happen all the time with the backdrop. For example, it looks like the musician is live in the wallpapers under Jezebel, but they actually are not. And purely acoustically is the concert really well mixed. Yes, all instruments come out really nice. Yes, it's good Sade's song that is sometimes a little hard to hear. But it happens because of her mic technique.
That it took two years for David Coverdale - Whitesnake's founder and entrepreneur to put together the DVD 'Live'… In the Still of the Night. It is not strange when you see the result. Because it really is a truly magnificent production that we are served. Yes, it looks and sounds great. And all the 2456 cameras (yes, I am joking a little), are cameras swoop and fly around the band and audience, and the grainy black and white footage is intercut well with the pin sharp color shots to produce a totally cinematic experience. And it makes you feel that you are watching a train that are going in 180 for the hole show. And then it does not matter so much that the choruses of several songs are obviously imposed afterwards. Yes, it is very clear that they are.
Though they were together barely more than two years, so did Cream left us with a legacy that is impossible to forget. Yes, they were the first true 'rock 'n roll supergroup. And it was created through the massive bass sound and bluesy vocals of Jack Bruce, the powerful drumming of Ginger Backer, and a young, aggressive Eric Clapton on guitar. And though their studio work was strong, so was it live where Cream really took off, and they did as a jam band. But if you have not been playing together in 40-years, so, could you not go out in Royal Albert Hall and play whit out not knowing where to do. So, the performance is maybe not very cheerful, but there are on the other hand so are they giving us a great gig. YES!" it’s not like the group is still twenty. But they are clearly having a great time together. And for those of you, who know the band's history, so do you know that there was not often so in the late 1960´s.
If I had lived in London in November 2007 and heard a rumor, about that a very special musical event where scheduled to occur whit the 63-year-old jazz/rock guitar legend Jeff Beck at the legendary Ronnie Scott's jazz club at 47 Frith Street in Soho, So, would I have been camped outside this concert hall to get hold of a ticket. Even if a never before had listened to this legend. Because, if an artist is getting
the opportunity to play five nights in a ro, then so must he be a really big artist. But when I when I stumbled upon this guitar legend on a video from this event on YouTube, so, had I never heard him play before this concert. And that was the same for my father about the bass-player Tal Wilkenfeld, who also was a big mystery for Beck. Yes, when he first was introduced to this woman by the drummer Vinnie Coluiato. So, did he thought that it was a joke, because she looked more like someone's 15-year-old daughter, then a bass-player who are 20-years old. And many comments from guys on the YouTube video, where they are saying that Beck only let her play whit him because she had a big sex-appeal. But as I know how difficult the music is that Beck plays, so is that a really stupid assumption. Yes, Wilkenfeld are playing bass alongside Beck because she is a really good bass-player. And hear it really loud and clear on the blu-ray.
Who I received from Dischop.se after a big delay. Yes, this concert where so popular that is was out of stock from this Swedish store in over two months. But if you wait for something good, so are you not waiting in vain, as to use a Swedish expression. Because, from the opening of the concert whit Beck's Bolero to Space Boogie so are they on fire.
When I first saw this very appreciated documentary by the now sadly deceased Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul, in an almost empty cinema in Hallstahammar. So was it a really deep moving event. Because, neither in front nor behind me, so, did I have another viewer, how crunched on a nosy sweet, except myself. As I could not help myself from buying a Marabou Milk chocolate roll. But as the city of Detroit started to occur on the screen, through a black and white illustrations in the beginning of this documentary. Which Malik himself had drawn, added music to and edit, as there was no money to hire a professional painter so where I really blown away. And the feeling lasted until I found out that the musician Rodriguez, which the film revolves around would have committed an extremely cruel suicide. By either setting himself on fire. Or shot himself in front of a small crowd during a bar gig.
Well, it made me so stunned that the chocolate bar was uneaten during the whole movie. Because, from this moment, so do we already knowing how the story going to end. So why should I then see it to the end? Well, for me. So is it nice to hear about his carrier Which consisted of playing in small bars here and there in Detroit, in both the 60's and '70s. Until he was discovered by 2 Motown producers. And got to record an album in 1970 (Cold Fact), which certainly fell on critics' lips. But it flopped in terms of sales.
And unfortunately, things did not go better for his second album “Coming From Reality”.
So, he was dropped by his label. Which is surreal, because it occurred two weeks before Christmas - as he sings in one of his songs. And after we hear this news. So, is this movie hanging in the air, to use a Swedish expression. But luckily enough, so did a stay in my seat. I there-fore found out that Rodriguez was bigger than The Beatles in South Africa during the apartheid. As the album “Cold Fact” where smuggled into the country. But that was not reported to Rodriguez. No money where therefore getting into his pocket during this time and it has not either happen-ed even after this documentary where released as far as I know. But that is not a big deal if Rodriguez was dead. Witch is a really good question. Because, Bendjelloul makes his documenttary as if it were a murder investigation. We in the audience therefore never know more than 2 fans, who decided to find out the truth. And it keeps us on our toes at all times. And that's the best way to hear this story, and that's why I'm not going to say a word about how it ends.
The danish Restaurant Noma is (where in 2014), maybe one of the World's greatest restaurants. And the head chef René Redzepi is maybe a really good chef, who can make really beautiful food. But this documentary is really nothing to hang in the Christmas tree, to use a Swedish expression. Yes it is. all over the place, with a score of individual narrative strands that the director Pierre Deschamps doesn't even, from my eyes, attempt to weave together. And I do not say that to be mean. No, as a semi-professional filmmaker so can I clearly say, that there are no direction whatsoever in this film. There is also no fun to watch when a person are welling at his staff. And, yes, Redzepi is chef, but it truly is a shock the first time you see him rip into his coworkers. And the second time he do, well then is there nonpoint to watch this documentary anymore.
So. When it comes to make this kind of celebrations, so have the director been interviewing many peopel, that THE Actress have been worked Whit. And that makes the film where Hard to follow, Becouse you are Always jumping around. And it is sad as many of they One How are talking are great actors
The "interpreter" attacks current issues like terrorism and genocide. It illustrate our contemporary Western policys that often cover up what really going on in Africa. But it also shows who really strong individuals who fight for democracy can make a big change, whit out violence, and that it is very important. And I also like the view of vengeance are exists in the fictional country of Matobo in Africam Becouse Nicole Kidman's character är telling ous that "Vengeance is a lazy form of grief," And she illustrate it with this story, where a man who kills a member of your family is captured, tied up and thrown into the river. "And it is up to your family to save him, or let him drown. And If he are going down, so will you have vengeance, but you
have to grive for the rest of your life. And If you save him, so will you be realesed from your anger and sorrow. And that are One reason, to why I rank the movie as high as on the second place on my list over the in my eyes the world's best movies. And the second thing, that makes this movie one of the World's Greatest movies - that is Nicole Kidman. Yes, she really do a great acting, when she speaks Whit a vaguely South African accent. And Sean Penn är also matching her acting really well.
