Hard BreXXXit, 2017

Entertaining, I’m sure, if not necessarily arousing.

Hope you’ll have an excellent weekend!

16 June 2017 by Jarle Petterson Categories: Aktualitet, Current affairs, English, Kultur, NorskTags: Brexit, Britain, EU, Europe, film, movie, porn, Porno, Storbritannia, UK Leave a comment

Bård Faust: Jennifer, 1973

A 1973 demo recording.

Footage: Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (Ulrich Edel, 1981).

27 March 2017 by Jarle Petterson Categories: Culture, English, Kultur, NorskTags: 1970-tallet, Bård Faust, Faust, film, music, musikk, Ulrich Edel Leave a comment

Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin: Melody, 1971

If you have half an hour to spare.

20 March 201720 March 2017 by Jarle Petterson Categories: Culture, English, KulturTags: 1970-tallet, 1970s, film, Jane Birkin, music, musikk, Serge Gainsbourg Leave a comment

Inspector Kemp for president

Inspector Kemp (Kenneth Mars) addressing concerned villagers in Mel Brooks’ 1974 film Young Frankenstein.

5 March 2017 by Jarle Petterson Categories: Culture, English, KulturTags: 1970-tallet, 1970s, film, Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein Leave a comment

Peter Sellers: She Loves You (cover), 1964

Footage, needless to say – but I’ll say it anyway – from Stanley Kubrick’s 1963 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

4 March 2017 by Jarle Petterson Categories: Culture, English, Kultur, NorskTags: 1960-tallet, 1960s, film, Peter Sellers, Stanley Kubrick, The Beatles Leave a comment

Mein Führer, 2007

Director: Dani Levy

Sorry for the lack of subtitles, but hope your German isn’t too rusty (happily it worked for me).

Also his (and I think we all know of whom we speak) inability to see the demagogic resemblance speaks volumes – rallying, not as part of a campaign, but as a brand “new” way of government.

This one’s worth every minute of your time. Plus actually fairly amusing, in spite of the gloomy backdrop.

19 February 201719 February 2017 by Jarle Petterson Categories: Aktualitet, Culture, Current affairs, English, KulturTags: Adolf Hitler, Dani Levy, Donald Trump, film, history, Nazism, WW2 Leave a comment

Strange films for strange times

Watching full movie as we speak, as it were.

Must be the times in which we live.

5 February 2017 by Jarle Petterson Categories: Aktualitet, Culture, Current affairs, English, KulturTags: 1960s, Dr. Strangelove, film, Stanley Kubrick Leave a comment

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It’s that day again, folks.

Comme d’habitude.

2 February 2017 by Jarle Petterson Categories: Culture, English, KulturTags: 1990-tallet, 1990s, 2 February, Bill Murray, film, Groundhog Day Leave a comment

“Nærmere en Oscar” – igjen

Neeei, vel?

Nedtegnelser

Igjen er en norsk film – Kongens nei denne gangen – i ferd med å nærme seg den forgjettede oscarprisen med stormskritt, og igjen tror jeg nok våre bolde kreatører må vende snuten hjem fra Hollywood, med halen mellom de nedre ekstremitetene.

Jeg er nok blant de få som ennå ikke har sett den, skjønt jeg nok skal, bare den en vakker dag også blir oss som bebor landsbygda til del, om ikke fordi den, objektivt sett, er god.

Likevel er jeg ikke i ett øyeblikks tvil om at den er det, betraktet gjennom norske briller, vel at bemærke. Det vi derimot sliter litt med å forstå, er at verden, ikke minst amerikanerne og The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, ikke nødvendigvis ser det likedan.

Har de dog ikke hørt om Kongen og bjerken?

“Hvordan kan de ikke se det store i at noe norsk er stort – i…

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24 January 201724 January 2017 by Jarle Petterson Categories: Kultur, NorskTags: film, Kongens nei, Oscar Leave a comment

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Again, I’m sorry.

18 January 2017 by Jarle Petterson Categories: Culture, English, KulturTags: film, Rogue One, Star Wars Leave a comment