Eigteenth of Oktember The night falls The king comes The hunt starts Wolfgang Voigt, Rausch (2018) GAS is Wolfgang Voigt, co-founder of the legendary electronic music label Kompakt from Cologne, and Rausch (2018) is his masterpiece. On the cover art we see and on the two discs we hear the mythical German forests, birthplace of …
Melodramas are the filmic equivalent to country or arabesque music- they have a history of being stubbornly dismissed by the cultural elites who labeled them as sentimental and fatalistic trash for the simple and stupid people, and intolerably inferior to arthouse. This closed-minded understanding of arthouse cinema was temporarily exposed and suspended when Danish director …
