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Sunday, 5th of July 2009 at 01:06:33 PM

my Filmfest München 2009 wrap-up

This year I watched 11 movies on the Filmfest. Never seen so many but after having not been in cinema for month’ and having a quite rainy summer, The Filmfest met me at a receptive moment. The Goldcard further pushed me to take advantage of this one week a year possibility to watch rather unknown indie movies which will never make it to the big screens. Often enough you pick a pearl which is why I like this filmfestivals so much.

Movie		my rating
Lymelife	about two brothers suffering from parental crisis	3 out of 5
The Open Road	about a son who critizes his father not noticing he shows the identical defects	5 out of 5
Two Lovers	Joaquim Phoenix as depressed unhappy suicidal guy falling in love with the wrong girl	4 out of 5
Glamorous Youth	quite boring 130 min movie of HongKong teens daylife	2 out of 5
Adam	autistic guy falling in love with his new neighbour	4 out of 5
Moon	one man movie about cloned worker on the moon	2 out of 5
Breathless	violent brutal south corean beatings	2 out of 5
Hooked	nice romanian low budget movie about a cheating couple meeting a strange young girl during a picnic trip	4 out of 5
Vegas: Based on a true story	nice metaphor on Las Vegas, obsession, hope and the fine line between an intact life and failure, self destruction.	4 out of 5
One day in a life	boring unrealistic one day at the beach movie, bad acting	1 out of 5
$5 a Day	Christohper Walken pushes the ratring to 3, beside him quite boring story	3 out of 5

Giuseppe

Sunday, 21st of June 2009 at 03:57:15 PM

My “The Wave 2009” Phototrip photos are now online

I am so proud of this series of photos and I still recall great moments of the trip when rewatching them. Unforgettable driving the impassable declared Cottonwood Canyon Road with the Rental 4WD. Or the great Hiking day in the Coyotte Buttes North where the Wave is located. Here I met Matthias and Bianca Rattay whom I knew well from their fantastic webpage. This was funny cause we hadn’t arranged meeting nor didn’t know each other before. I used to prepare my USA trip mainly with their Webpage. Without meeting them I would have missed all the nice spots beyond “The Wave” and the nice climbing tour towards the hidden Melody Arch. Thanks again to Mathias and Bianca for this nice sunny day. Unforgettable also the nice 8 h Hiking day in the Subway / Zion and the strenous but quick hike to Angels Landing also in Zion. I am still so amazed by my this years phototrip and its the first time i combined roadtripping wth extensive hiking tours. I have recognized that this combination of roadtriping, hiking and photographing is highly addictive to me and I already am catching myself on coming up with next years phototrip destination. Here you can find my “The Wave 2009” Photos or follow my Homepage’s link: Home -> Photos by Trip -> U.S.A. trips -> The Wave 2009.

Still Todo now: writing my day-by-day travel-log. Coming soon ….

Giuseppe

Sunday, 21st of June 2009 at 03:38:04 PM

My Filmfest Munich Goldcard

goldcard_ff2009 After studying this years Filmfest Programm my wishlist resulted in 9 movies to watch. I decided to buy the Goldcard for 72,- Euro, which allows to see 11 for the price of 9 and includes a 2009 FF catalog and a blue key lanyard.

Giuseppe

Monday, 8th of June 2009 at 05:43:58 PM

Back from The Wave

Me at the Wave Sunday May 31 2009

Just returned from my 10 day USA phototrip. Of course the Wave hiking day was the highlight, but I visited some other nice spots too. I will need some time to sort out all the photos and will soon come back with travel log and selected photos. In the meantime check out the photos here.

Giuseppe

Sunday, 17th of May 2009 at 07:30:12 PM

my next phototrip: The Wave in North Arizona

Foto: Synnatschke www.synnatschke.de

The Wave is located on the Colorado Plateau, near the Utah and Arizona border. The area is a gallery of gruesomely twisted sandstone, resembling deformed pillars, cones, mushrooms and other odd creations. Deposits of iron claim some of the responsibility for the unique blending of color twisted in the rock, creating a dramatic rainbow of pastel yellows, pinks and reds.

The foto above is from well known photographer Steffen Synnatschke who’s wonderful photobook/guide “Wonderland of Rocks” is a must for every USA Southwest enthusiast.

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