#sebastian koch

[lgbtqmovierecs]

LGBTQ Movie of the Day:

The Danish Girl

Description:

Artist Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to pose as a female model for a painting. Things take an unexpected turn when this act triggers Einar to reignite his suppressed identification.

Title: The Danish Girl

Genre: Romance, Drama

Age Rating: 15

Release Date: 2015

Relationships: Unknown

Representation: Transgender

Running Time: 1h 59m

Country of Origin: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Box Office: $64.2 million

Warnings: Nudity, violence, profanity, smoking, alcohol use, frightening & intense scenes

Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Ben Whishaw, Sebastian Koch, Amber Heard, Matthias Schoenaerts

Submitted by Anonymous

[historicalreusedcostumes]

This brown and gold crown is worn two times in Camelot, First worn on Sebastian Koch as King Uther in Homecoming (2011) and later worn on Jamie Campbell Bower as King Arthur in The Sword and the Crown (2011)

[lamiaprigione]

Das Leben der Anderen (2006)

[letterboxd-loggd]

Black Book (Zwartboek) (2006) Paul Verhoeven

August 3rd 2024

[camyfilms]

BRIDGE OF SPIES 2015

Well, the boss isn't always right. But, he's always the boss.

[randomrichards]

BEL CANTO:

The Opera Singsr

Guest held hostage at party

Seeing perspectives

[filministic]

Werk ohne Autor (2018) dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

[irlcigarettesmoking]

[tinyreviews]

Tiny Review: The Lives of Others 2006. The lesson on dramatic tension.

This is a really good example of dramatic tension.

Also, this made me think: How powerful is the ability to take away a person’s identity, their oldself. People will give anything to hold onto their identity.

And how powerful it is to be able to let go of one’s identity, be so apt at adopting a newself that no one can hold such power over you by threatening to take your oldself away.

The Lives of Others (German: Das Leben der Anderen) is a 2006 German drama film written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. It stars Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, and Ulrich Tukur.

[andy121019]

My @letterboxd review of A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)

[ronnydeschepper]

Vijftien jaar geleden zag ik "Zwartboek" van Paul Verhoeven

Op 09/09/2009 zag ik “Zwartboek” van Paul Verhoeven uit 2006… Continue reading Vijftien jaar geleden zag ik “Zwartboek” van Paul Verhoeven

[adamwatchesmovies]

A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)

Live Free or Die Hard a.k.a. Die Hard 4.0 pushed the franchise to this limits but it's a documentary compared to A Good Day to Die Hard. This fifth and final chapter is a dumb, ugly, badly written film populated with templates instead of characters. Thankfully, it's so thin and unmemorable, it passes by like nothing and then exits your memory.

In Moscow, corrupt Russian official Viktor Cagarin (Sergei Kolesnikov) is strongarming former billionaire and government whistleblower Yuri Komarov (Sebastian Koch). Unless Yuri hands over his secret files incriminating Viktor, Yuri will never see the light of day again. When his trial is interrupted by a terrorist attack, Jack McClane (Jai Courtney) pulls Yuri out of the wreckage and they go on the run. Meanwhile, NYPD detective John McClane (Bruce Willis), unaware that his son works for the CIA, travels to Russia to rescue Jack.

Remember how John McClane’s biggest obstacle in the original film was a floor covered in glass? No one in this movie does. There’s “protagonist armour” and then, there’s the forcefield around this man. At various points throughout, John survives two car crashes within the span of ten minutes and walks away from them without even dusting himself off, he pulls a piece of jagged metal shrapnel from his leg as if it’s a wooden splinter, he jumps out of a glass window without hesitation before falling through half a dozen floors of wooden scaffolding and getting up again to keep the nonsense going. If they make another one of these, they might as well have him flying around the city shooting lazer beams from his eyes. Gaining super powers would be the only thing that could happen to a man who emerges from a pool of radioactive water like it’s nothing. Even Superman has well-documented weaknesses. 2013’s John McClane is IN-VIN-CIBLE.

From the director of Max Payne and the writer of Hitman comes a film that doesn’t care about anything and who banks entirely on an audience blinded by nostalgia. When John isn’t arguing with his son and making fun of him for working for the CIA (what?), he’s the living embodiment of “The Ugly American”. Having demolished the first car he’s stolen, he walks in the middle of traffic. He nearly gets hit by a car. The driver gets out, yelling at him. What does John do? He punches this man in the face, yells at him for speaking in Russian - in Russia - and then drives off with his vehicle. This is our hero?

I’ve focussed my thoughts almost exclusively on John because he’s the only character in the film. Well, that’s being generous. He’s more of a collection of sarcastic remarks than an actual human being. Jack is frustrated and determined. That's it. The villains? They’re a joke. Radivoje Bukvić plays a tap-dancing, carrot-eating baddie who's less threatening than Bugs Bunny. He does suceed in making your jaw fall to the floor, which is something but I can’t imagine what anyone was thinking with that nothing of a role.

There are more plot holes than plot in A Good Day to Die Hard. You think I’m joking, but not really. You'll see the twists coming. Character arcs? The closest thing we get to one is Jack shifting from calling his father “John” to “Dad” near the end. For comparison, here's my short list of things that make no sense:

If Yuri Komarov’s super secret file will expose Viktor Chagarin for the crook that he is, why does he want it back? Shouldn’t he just want Yuri dead so he can’t share it?

How can John and Jack - travelling via stolen car - get to Chernobyl nearly as quickly as a helicopter?

When did they invent those magic wands that can spray steam and make radiation disappear? If those exist, why haven’t they cleaned up all of Chernobyl?

Why aren’t there any police in Moscow? At one point, the villains fly a war helicopter through the city, blasting at buildings willy-nilly. We never even hear a single siren down below.

Why did Irina (Yulia Snigir) kill herself to avenge her father?

How are Jack and John supposed to get out of the country when they’re just created a second nuclear disaster by blowing up a safe full of radioactive materials less than twelve hours after engaging in a high-speed chase that saw at least a dozen cars (and their passengers) get squished?

Why didn’t that taxi driver (Pasha D. Lynchnikoff) ever come back?

I distinctly remember the theatrical release of A Good Day to Die Hard. A friend asked me if I wanted to see it with him. I said yes because I knew that at the nearby Futureshop, I could buy a Blu-ray of the original film and with it, get a promo code to see this new release for less than $3. Did paying less enhance my experience? Not really. I paid nothing to see A Good Day to Die Hard a second time and it sucks even more now! (February 11, 2022)

[movies-to-add-to-your-tbw]

Title: Bridge of Spies

Rating: PG-13

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda, Sebastian Koch, Austin Stowell, Billy Magnussen, Michael Simon Hall, Edward James Hyland, Stephen Kunken

Release year: 2015

Genres: thriller, drama, history

Blurb: During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to ten years in prison, Powers’ only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man’s freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians will get Rudolf Abel...the convicted spy Donovan defended in court.

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

The Lives of Others (2006) was photographed by Hagen Bogdanski. Hagen was born in Berlin and has 52 cinematography credits from 1994 to three episodes on German tv 2020-21. His entry among my best 1,001 is The Beaver.

His other notable credits include Papillon (2017).

[supercalifragipopculturevomit]

Here's to one of the best actors of his generation, the versatile and multilingual king who's been pulling heartstrings for three decades with a variety of roles, faces, and languages... Happy 46th birthday, Daniel Brühl!

p.s. who's your favorite Danny character? Sound off in the comments or the tags—or don't. I'm not your mother. 😋

[ts1m1kas]

okay so i have quite a few fics to write and some ready to post so i'll give you guys a rough schedule of what's to come !!

2/7/24 - jamal musiala x composer!reader ~ posted

3/7/24 - jamal musiala x reader ~ posted

5/7/24 - jamal musiala x colleague!reader ~ posted

7/7/24 - jealous!max verstappen x reader ~ posted

10/7/24 - kostas tsimikas x holidayer!reader ~ posted

11/7/24 - xavi simons x reader ~ posted

13/7/24 - sebastian vettel x reader & fernando alonso x reader (break-up and rebound) ~ posted

15/7/24 - jealous!ayrton senna x reader ~ posted

17/7/24 - jenson button x driver!reader ~ posted

19/7/24 - kimi raikkonen x driver!reader ~ posted

21/7/24 - jenson button x wife!reader ~ posted

23/7/24 - robin koch x reader part 2 ~ posted

24/7/24 - jamal musiala x reader ~ posted

26/7/24 - jamal musiala x interviewer!reader ~ posted

28/7/24 - jamal musiala x reader ~ posted

29/7/24 - jamal musiala x reader (proposal) ~ posted

30/7/24 - jamal musiala x footballer!reader ~ posted

31/7/24 - jamal musiala x reader ~ posted

so excited to write all of these and thank you for the continued support 🫶

(link to my masterlist and who i write for !!)

love you all - ts1m1kas xoxo