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Rüdiger Tomczak

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editor of the filmmagazine shomingeki: shomingeki.org, shomingekionline.org and shomingekiblog.blogspot.com I live in Berlin and among the living I adore the filmmaker Aparna Sen, terrence Malick and Hou Hsiao Hsien.

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Post image 10.11.2025 11:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
REVOLVER | Zeitschrift für Film | SEHEN, SCHREIBEN, SOLIDARISIEREN. Auf der Konferenz deutschsprachiger Filmzeitschriften diskutieren Medienmacher*innen Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft der freien Filmpublizistik. Am Samstag, den 29.11.2025, im silent green, Berli...

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10.11.2025 11:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In Springsteen: Deliver me From Nowhere there actually two refences to Terrence Malick, the one obvious is on Badland, a film very known as an inspiration for Springsteen. But I loved even more the other the other quotation which refers to The Tree of Life.

27.10.2025 11:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Scott Cooper Is Realizing His ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere’ Might Not Be What Most Audiences Are Expecting INTERVIEW: Plus: the character he had to change, the sequels that might come, and a banger of a cut scene.

I spoke to Scott Cooper about SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE. (I do know a thing or two about the subject matter.) www.indiewire.com/features/int...

24.10.2025 15:41 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

Yup, and it's no easy task given that the Dylan one was really good, and there's obvious review bombing going on for political reasons since Springsteen stands for democracy and against fascism, whoch is considered a devisive stance in 2025...I hope that more people feel like you about this movie!

25.10.2025 08:22 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Ozu is a cool comparison, wish I’d thought of that! Great review!

25.10.2025 09:25 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

You are right about the political reasons that some people try to bomb the film. But I am nevertheless very angry that so much people are talking about the film, but very few reviews try to tal about the film as a film.

26.10.2025 12:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Mrinalini on the beach- Notes on one scene from ITI MRINALINI shomingekiblog. English blog of the filmmagazine shomingeki.

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and to finish my own Aparna Sen Birthday celebration, here another old text of mine on a very special scene from Iti Mrinalini, my first approach of focusing on single scenes.

25.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Worlds of Aparna: Suman Ghosh’s Tribute to Aparna Sen on her Eightieth Birthday Few figures in Indian cinema command the kind of reverence and affection that Aparna Sen does – actor, director, writer, editor, and an unwaveringly independent voice for over six decades. As she t…

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25.10.2025 11:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, von Aparna Sen, Indien: 2002 „Maybe all men got one  big soul where everybody´s part of  it.All faces of the same man, one big self.“( Monolog aus dem Film The Thin Red Line von Terrence Malick, USA: 1998) für Lyne Beaudry   E…

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and now for the occasion of Aparna Sens 80th. birthday today, I republish my long text on her masterpiece Mr. and Mrs. iyer

25.10.2025 10:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Like often, too much people are talking only about the sujet Springsteen, very few are writing about what the film offers us to see. I can say I was very sceptic before I saw the film while being tired of so much bad bio pics. But I was surprised how much I liked it.

25.10.2025 08:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A ★★★★½ review of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) If you have read Springsteens autobiography, you are familiar with his struggles against depresions. Loved Jeremy Allen Whites performance but what really hit me hard are the presence of Stephen Graha...

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25.10.2025 07:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What I love or what moved me in Springsteen: Deliver me from Nowhere is not so much Springsteens struggle against his mental problems (which are well described in his autobiography. It is rather despite quoting films from terrence Malick and Charles Laughton, a very Ozu-like glance to details.

25.10.2025 07:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Factory (Live at The Paramount Theatre 2009)
YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Factory (Live at The Paramount Theatre 2009)

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probably the greatest song and text on every day life of thze working class.

25.10.2025 06:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Beside Jeremy Allen White, Stephen Graham and Odessa Young are fantastic. You feel exacrly the people for whom Springsteen is writing and singing his songs.

25.10.2025 06:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Christmas Cake – on a scene from 36 Chowringhee Lane by Aparna Sen, India: 1981 „She wanted to warm herself,“ the people said. No one imagined what beautiful things she had seen, and how happily she had gone with her old grandmother into the bright New Year. (The G…

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Happy Birthday, Aparna Sen! Her incredible Journey as a filmmaker began 44 years ago with one of the finest film debut in the history of cinema.

25.10.2025 06:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere - film-authority.com […] More

‘…this is a fine, sensitive, intelligent film to be commended to Springsteen fans but also those who seek authenticity in life…Deliver Me From Nowhere lives up to the bleak, desperate, desolate title and gives us a Bruce Springsteen audiences can believe in….5/5
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21.10.2025 07:29 — 👍 34    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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The Japanese Wife, von Aparna Sen, Indien: 2007-2010 zur Erinnerung an Kei Kumai (1930 – 2007)  Durch eine eigenartige Vermarktungsstrategie seines Weltvertriebs konnte ich The Japanese Wife bereits wenige Wochen nach seiner Uraufführung auf …

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22.10.2025 13:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Shinji Araki’s The Temptation I Had by Andrea Grunert Shinji Araki, whom I interviewed in 2024 (1), has kindly given me access to his new work, the short film The Temptation I Had (Sono yuwaku). His first long feature, The Town of He…

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a new review by Andrea Grunert.

14.10.2025 11:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Letter to David | Kritik Israel, USA 2025. Regie: Tom Shoval. Mit: David Cunio, Eitan Cunio.

Der israelische Regisseur Tom Shoval erinnert mit seinem Film an das Schicksal seines Freundes David Cunio, der am 7. Oktober 2023 von der Hamas in den Gazastreifen verschleppt wurde. Maximilian Steinborn über "A Letter to David", ab morgen im Kino.

06.10.2025 12:23 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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„A Letter To David“: Die Stärke liegt im Ungezeigten Tom Shovals Botschaft an die Hamas-Geisel David Cunio verzichtet auf Voyeurismus, konzentriert sich lieber auf das Individuum

Die Stärke von »A Letter To David« liegt im Ungezeigten. Tom Shovals Botschaft an die Hamas-Geisel David Cunio verzichtet auf Voyeurismus, konzentriert sich lieber auf das Individuum. www.juedische-allgemeine.de/kultur/a-let...

09.10.2025 14:24 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
A LETTER TO DAVID | Trailer | English Subs | 2025
YouTube video by Jüdisches Filmfestival Berlin | Brandenburg A LETTER TO DAVID | Trailer | English Subs | 2025

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10.10.2025 06:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Aparna Sen in a Zoom Meet with members of Living Legend Aparna Sen during Corona Pandemic Phase...
YouTube video by Chandan Roy Aparna Sen in a Zoom Meet with members of Living Legend Aparna Sen during Corona Pandemic Phase...

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10.10.2025 05:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Teahouse Scene from Aparna Sen´s Mr. And Mrs. Iyer shomingekiblog. English blog of the filmmagazine shomingeki.

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I republished a 7 years old text of mine on a very special scene from Aparna Sen´s Mr. and Mrs. Iyer.

05.10.2025 12:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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FESTIVAL GANGE SUR SEINE - CLUB DE L ETOILE

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27.09.2025 06:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Petition unterschreiben Nie wieder heißt JETZT – Fünf Punkte gegen Antisemitismus!

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25.09.2025 09:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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""In die Sonne schauen"" von Mascha Schilinski - Im Kino - Filmkritik von Thomas Groh Thomas Groh: Im Kino vom 26.08.2025

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29.08.2025 06:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The law, duty and revenge in Takashi Miike’s Shield of Straw by Andrea Grunert   A murder is commissioned: that is the starting point of Takashi Miike’s Shield of Straw (Wara no tate, Japan, 2013). The billionaire Ninagawa (Tsutomo Yamazaki), whose 7-year-…

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a new text by Andrea Grunert.

21.08.2025 08:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Petition · Für die Freilassung aller Geiseln, für den Schutz jüdischen Lebens · innn.it Jetzt innn.it-Petition unterschreiben & aMensch e.V. & das Netzwerk "Zivilgesellschaft gegen Antisemitismus" unterstützen!

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15.08.2025 12:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Notes on Alice in den Städten (Alice In The Cities) by Wim Wenders, Germany: 1973, Berlinale 2015 -I.- Homage Wim Wenders shomingekiblog. English blog of the filmmagazine shomingeki.

Happy Birthday, Wim Wenders!
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15.08.2025 12:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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