SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY AT IMAX 3D
Recommended. A simple story but tremendously satisfactory. You get all the major bits: Han's surname, early career, how he meets Chewbacca and acquires the Millennium Falcon. Often times I felt touched. I had been apprehensive since Alden Ehrenreich did not look like young Harrison Ford. But from the first scene I knew he was spot on. His movements and facial expressions were so Han Solo I loved him from the start. Two scenes show how beneficial it is in life, including, ehem, professional life, to speak foreign languages. I'd especially recommend learning Wookie. Only 2 pieces in the score are by John Williams: the Han Solo theme and the Star Wars theme and those are used sparingly but at times vital for the whole series development. It was shot in the Dolomites and in Fuerteventura. Both Imax and 3D are spectacular.
The trailer of "The Incredibles 2" is very promising and modern: the superdad stays home taking care of the kids while his superwife gets the job.
Upcoming "Ant-Man and the Wasp" looks good on the giant Imax screen, especially the superforceful stopping of a vehicle which no one in the nearby cafe notices since everyone is looking at their own mobile/laptop screen.
15TH DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY FILM FESTIVAL 2018
A CAMPAIGN OF THEIR OWN
Watchable. Overtalked and assuming you know how politics in the US work. Made for Americans rather than anyone else. But it shows that even Bernie Sanders' supporters had more trust in Hilary because of Bernie's age. Also, even though "she's Wall Street", people favoured her for being able to accomplish things.
WALDHEIMS WALZER (THE WALDHEIM WALTZ)
Watchable. Shows both sides of the argument as well as the fact the deeds of our youth can come back to us a few decades later. While it's a bit protracted with too many utterances thrown in, especially some boring political ones, it asks on the margin the vital question of why it was Hitler who won. He gave jobs to the unemployed, the Rothschilds didn't. It also stresses it wasn't only Jews who were killed.
DIE GRUNE LUGE (THE GREEN LIE)
Watchable. It denounces corporate lies. No palm oil, used in every other processed food product, in the world is sustainable, in fact sustainability awards are handed in by the industry itself. BP has never completed the clean-up after the Mexican Gulf spill resulting from the Deepwater Horizon disaster which in turn originated from the drill platform maintenance neglection. Tesla cars need much more energy to manufacture than petrol ones. At the same time corporations hold as much power as emperors did centuries ago. Only stringent regulations could save the world but they are unlikely to be imposed since activists are typically silenced. The only minus of the film is too long conversations between the two makers-investigators.
GÉNÉRAL IDI AMIN DADA: AUTOPORTRAIT (GENERAL IDI AMIN DADA: A SELF-PORTRAIT)
Watchable. The self-portrait presents a megalomaniac Ugandan leader. "I'm the mosty heighesty head of state." The film starts with a public execution footage. "After a century of colonization isn't it a distorted view of us that Amin sends us?" He talks to his cabinet of ministers: "We have more women managers than any African country. We have how many? We have 4." I don't know if the faulty subtitles were burnt into the film or added in Poland but when the leader calls "Jambo rafiki" ("Hello, friend"), the subtitles appear for some reason and say: "Jambaro fiki".
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