#the cakemaker 2017

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He wanted to move there. To Berlin. He had someone there. He told me. And he wanted to leave me and Itai here and go to Berlin and make a new life. And he went to get a room in a hotel, and, uh, and then another car hit him on his way there.

The Cakemaker / Der Deutsche Kuchenmacher Feature Film | 2017 | Drama | Germany, Israel | dir. Ofir Raul Graizer

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Drama  Romance

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The Cakemaker (Ofir Raul Graizer, 2017)

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Tamir Ben-Yehuda in The Cakemaker (2017)

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The Cakemaker (Ofir Raul Graizer, 2017) Monbijoubrücke / Monbijou Bridge Berlin (Germany) Bridge over the Spree river Type: arch bridge.

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10. O Confeiteiro (The Cakemaker, 2017), dir. Ofir Raul Graizer

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The Cakemaker (2017)

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Thomas + Grieving in Oren's Red Swim Trunks Der Kuchenmacher (The Cakemaker) · 2017 · dir. Ofir Raul Graizer

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THE CAKEMAKER (2017) - Ofir Raul Graizer

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The Cakemaker (2017).

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Movies I watched this week - 24

In The Cakemaker ( האופה מברלין‎) a lonely baker moves from Berlin to Jerusalem in order to bond with the widow and young son of his boyfriend, who had died in a car accident. 

A restrained, moving and subversive Israeli film about Identities - what a surprise!. 8+ / 10.

The only trope that annoyed me was the power of “Food” as magic.

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2 with Saoirse Ronan:

✳️✳️✳️ In The Lovely Bones, 14 year old Saoirse Ronan is being murdered (brutally, but off screen) by creepy neighbor Stanley Tucci. The first 30 minutes before the murder are bone-chillingly scary, but then it turns into a stupid, unnecessary metaphysical theoretical bullshit. Sad!

✳️✳️✳️ Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut.

Sensitive, quiet and empathetic, well-paced and beautifully acted. Re-watch.

Best film of the week!

✳️✳️✳️ Bonus: Saoirse Ronan's many accents

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In Daniel Clowes’s sad Ghost World, misfit teenage friends, Scarlett Johansson and Thora Birch, prank dorky Steve Buscemi after they find a lonely heart ad he had placed.

Sweet and sensitive about adolescent angst and punk restlessness.

9/10.

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Unfortunately, Terry Zwigoff’s next film after Ghost World was Bad Santa, a terrible, unfunny crime story of a Charles Bukowski-type mall Santa with no redeeming characteristics who robs the stores where he works at the end of the season. 2/10

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“Mmm... Whale carcass...”

Luca, the newest Pixar feature, (which is like “Coco but on the Italian Riviera”...), and which is like “Call me by your name”, but without the gay stuff. First feature from the director of La Luna, and pretty much a Vespa product placement.

I like the posters from the old film classics (Roman Holiday, Bicycle Thief) that can be briefly glimpsed on the town’s walls!

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2 with Kristen Stewart:

✳️✳️✳️ American Ultra: A goofy underground comix disguised as an action movie where the hero is a loser stoner who loves his stoner girlfriend. Sweet and over the top. With Huell Babineaux in a colorful sweater in a small role.

Terrific end titles done in Mike’s "Apollo Ape" drawing style.

I wrote about it here, giving it “3 Funyons”.

(Re-watch)

✳️✳️✳️ Personal Shopper starts suggestively with two interesting stories, one of lovely Stewart as a shopper for a super model celebrity who eventually gets murdered, and another of her being a medium who communicates with ghosts. But in the last 30 minutes, she is trying to connect with her dead twin brother, and the whole plot falls apart and ends ‘nowhere’ (literally in a random room in Oman).

It is shot in romantic Paris with a small side connection to Hilda of Klimt (who was also a spiritualist), so it was very appealing to the eye.

Even though it was uneven, I’ll look for other films by prolific French director Olivier Assayas.

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The Bothersome Man is a weird Norwegian film about a man who suddenly finds himself in a cold, “perfect” city - but without children or any emotions - and his attempts to escape from there. He is first dropped off - dressed like ‘Paris, Texas’s Harry Dean Stanton - in front of a deserted gas station in the middle of nowhere. It’s a dystopian story without explanations or much direction. 4/10.

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Icarus - Amateur cyclist Bryan Fogel’s 2017 investigation into illegal doping in international sport, and his discovery of a massive Russian conspiracy of cheating and cover up. I wonder how he first got the director of Russia's national anti-doping laboratory to help him cheat.

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✳️✳️✳️ “Man just wants to forget the bad stuff, and believe in the made-up good stuff. It's easier that way.”

Kurosawa classic 1950′s Rashōmon - I didn’t remember how low budget and simple it was: There are only three settings in the film: Rashōmon gate, the woods, and the courtyard. The black and White filming is symbolic of light and darkness, good and evil. Part of the score is Ravel’s Boléro.

(The Internet Archive copy is haltingly bad, but the only one I could find).

✳️✳️✳️ Sheila Marie Orfano explains The Rashomon effect, where individuals give significantly different but equally believable accounts of the same event.

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Kurzgesagt’s short film A Minute by Minute Account of the Day the Dinosaurs Died.

The YouTube channel of Kurzgesagt in general is one of the best.

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In the new Fatherhood, Kevin Hart’s wife dies a day after she gives birth, and he stays to raise his daughter by himself. I wanted to like it more but there wasn’t much there.

Also, the newborn baby was a bit too old. 3/10

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Errol Morris’s horrifying Standard Operating Procedure shows that we only know about Bush’s war crimes at Abu Ghraib because they were photographed. “American values” never change.

(This copy is pretty grainy)

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On the waterfront - Young Brando’s first Oscar performance was truly riveting.

“... It wasn't him, Charley, it was you. Remember that night in the Garden you came down to my dressing room... I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charley..” 

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In 2018, before he did ‘‘Another Round", Thomas Vinterberg must have bought a big house in the country, so he had to direct Kursk, about the Russian nuclear submarine that sunk and couldn’t be saved.

Conventional and boring. But I can’t imagine how this story could be told in any interesting way. 

With Lars Brygmann (in a ”normal” person role) and a cameo by Max Von Sydow.

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Another unforgettable Max Von Sydow role, as “Joubert”, in my all-time favorite film, Sydney Pollack’s best, Three Days of the Condor.

“...It will happen this way. You may be walking. Maybe the first sunny day of the spring. And a car will slow beside you, and a door will open, and someone you know, maybe even trust, will get out of the car. And he will smile, a becoming smile. But he will leave open the door of the car and offer to give you a lift...”

The perfect thriller which I’ve seen at least 12-15 times, and will probably see again and again. Dave Grusin’s score is superb. It’s also one of the most Christmasy movies I know. 

10/10

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2 scars:

✳️✳️✳️ The original Pre-Production Code, Howard Hawks Scarface, inspired by Al Capone, and the archetype of the gangster film. “This picture is an indictment of gang rule in America and of the callous indifference of the government to this constantly increasing menace to our safety and our liberty”. I never realized that there was some comedy and (lovely!) cabaret singing in it.

✳️✳️✳️ Oliver Stone’s 1983 Scarface, with Hector Salamanca as “Alberto” and Harris Yulin as Mel Bernstein!

40 years later, it’s just a bit too long - could use a little trim.

You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy."

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A short YT clip of clips from Kubrick’s films, from FilmoteCanet Cinema which has hundreds more.

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Woody Allen’s Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, with Gene Wilder as the doctor who falls in love with an Armenian sheep, Burt Reynolds and Lynn Redgrave. In hindsight, not as lecherous as remembered, but very 1972.

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Throw-back to the art project:

Lady Bird Adora.

Daniel Clowes Adora.

La Luna Adora.

Three Days of the Condor Adora.

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(My complete movie list is here)

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Netflix’s Top 250 Best Movies To Watch In Lockdown, According To Extracorn.com

Netflix's Best 250 Best Movies To Watch In Lockdown, Based On Rotten Tomatoes

Everybody around the country is stuck indoors playing video games and watching streams right now, and you might be starting to get desperate for content to consume to relieve the boredom. Well, how does 250 pictures on Netflix sound? Gotta make the most from that subscription, I suppose.

Netflix is...usually not famous for its top-notch movie choice, as lots of the rights to films visit other services or remain on demand where you need to pay for them separately. But they do have a good amount of films, and are beginning to make quite good first movies of their own.

The problem with Netflix is the fact that it doesn't have a rating system to really tell you what is good. You find a picture or series, you have to Google a review or a score somewhere. That's where Rotten Tomatoes comes from.

This is useful in deciding what to watch, because you understand at least X number of critics believed it was great.

You can see the complete list here, but I thought I would at least go through the top 50 to find out what gems emerge. I am uncertain the way RT is breaking ties when it comes to movies with similar scores. Might be total number of testimonials, but I am not sure.

Undefeated

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49. The Stranger (1946 -- 96 percent ) -- Directed by Orson Wells, this is the story about an escaped Nazi war criminal posing as a professor.

48. Menashe (2017 -- 96%) -- A look inside the civilization of ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jews.

47. The appearance of Silence (2015 -- 96%) -- A harrowing narrative about the Indonesian genocide.

46. Blue Ruin (2014 -- 96 percent ) -- A traditional American revival story that won a lot of awards at Cannes.

45. Atlantics (2019 -- 96%) -- A Netflix original supernatural romantic drama which was the first film directed by a black woman to be featured in competition at Cannes.

44. Groundhog Day (1993 -- 96 percent ) -- The Bill Murray classic which may prove too close to home for people working from home using the exact same routine every day at the moment.

42. Rosemary's Baby (1968 -- 96 percent ) -- The traditional horror movie starring Mia Farrow where a Satanic cult would like to steal her baby.

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The Irishman

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40. The Edge of Democracy (2019 -- 97 percent ) -- A documentary about how a democratic nation can fall into autocracy.

39. The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019 -- 97%) -- Quite a name. Two native women cross paths within a brutal event that bonds .

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36. To All The Boys I Have Love Before (2018 -- 97 percent ) -- Netflix's new age young romance classic with a star-making turn for Lana Condor. The sequel isn't as good.

35. In This Corner of the World (2017 -- 97%) -- A gorgeous, animated film about what wartime does to humanity.

34. 13TH (2016 -- 97%) -- An Ava DuVernay documentary about America's messy racial history.

33. Aquarius (2016 -- 97%) -- A festival film about a battle between developers and a renter.

32. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2001 -- 97 percent ) -- The Ang Lee martial arts classic that really holds up well today.

31. Mudbound (2017 -- 97 percent ) -- A narrative concerning the rural American South during World War 2.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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29. Dolemite is My Name (2019 -- 97 percent ) -- An incredible performance by Eddie Murphy at a Netflix original.

28. Hell or High Water (2016 -- 97%) -- A western heist thriller starring Chris Pine and Ben Foster that went underappreciated in theatres.

27. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018 -- 97 percent ) -- Some of the very best superhero or animated films ever. Period.

26. The Cakemaker (2018 -- 98 percent ) -- A German movie about a complicated love story and catastrophe.

25. Homecoming (2019 -- 98 percent ) -- Check out Beyonce's historical Coachella performance.

24. God's Own Country (2017 -- 98 percent ) -- A silent romance about a remote farmer who meets with a man he falls in love with.

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22. My Life as a Zucchini (2017 -- 98%) -- A charming animated movie with a surprisingly deep and gloomy narrative attached to it.

21. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968 -- 98 percent ) -- An all time great western from Sergio Leone.

Moonlight

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20. Moonlight (2016 -- 98 percent ) -- The very best picture winner about the life span of a young man as we see him in three different phases of life.

19. Beneath the Shadow (2016 -- 99%) -- A story about the Iran-Iraq war that functions as a harrowing thriller.

18. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012 -- 99%) -- The classic documentary you should observe even if you don't like sushi.

17. Starred Up (2014 -- 99%) -- An incredible UK prison film starring Ben Mendelsohn until he awakened.

16. A Separation (2011 -- 99%) -- The story of a dissolving relationship well before we got A Marriage Story.

15. Virguna (2014 -- 100 percent ) -- A story of the people who devote their lives protection the natural wonders of the Congo.

14. The Young Offenders (2016 -- 100%) -- A humor road trip film inspired by the true story of the biggest cocaine seizure in Ireland.

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11. Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus (2019 -- 100 percent ) -- Wait ? I guess people love Invader Zim.

10. Creep two (2017 -- 100 percent ) -- A rare horror movie that works even better than the first.

9. Mercury 13 (2018 -- 100%) -- A documentary about how sexism held back female astronauts decades ago.

8. Kilo 2 Bravo (2015 -- 100 percent ) -- The real story of a platoon who has to remove a Taliban roadblock.

7. Chasing Coral (2017 -- 100 percent ) -- Check out coral reefs, a natural miracle.

6. Mr. Roosevelt (2017 -- 100 percent ) -- A story about a woman and her cat that acts as a metaphor for an entire generation.

5. Strong Island (2017 -- 100 percent ) -- One tragedy signifies racial injustice in the usa.

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1. Knock Down the House (2019 -- 100%) -- A documentary concerning democratic women who obtained improbable House campaigns.

Would you take issue with some of the ratings ? I mean, sure, Knock Down the home is likely not the single best movie on Netflix. And like you, I haven't heard of a lot of these. But that's what a list similar to this is for, to get you to broaden your horizon to documentaries or foreign films or subject matter you might normally participate with. I guess you can just see Goodfellas for the eleventh time, that works also.

And there are about 40 here I have not seen, so I've got some work to do. Again, you can see all of 250 here.

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近年LGBT電影最喜歡的前三名： Cakemaker(2017)、God's Own Country (2017)、Portrait of a Lady on Fire(2019)

（說近年是突然想到Maurice(1987)又有點無法抉擇）