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Film Saliha Enzenauer

Finally More Circus Maximus: The Young Pope (2016)

Big was the excitement when in 2016 HBO announced a mini-series which would be directed by the Italian Paolo Sorrentino (La grande Bellezza), one of the greats in contemporary arthouse cinema. Curiosity grew when title and topic were announced: „The Young Pope“. And the confusion was perfect when it was revealed who would play this …

Music Politics & People Saliha Enzenauer The Soundtrack of Our Lives

The Soundtrack of Our Lives – Broken Imaginary Time: A Requiem to Civilization

The civilization of the modern West appears in history as a veritable anomaly: among all those which are known to us more or less completely, this civilization is the only one that has developed along purely material lines, and this monstrous development, whose beginning coincedes with the so-called Renaissance, has been accompanied, as indeed it …

Film John Manoussakis

JACK HAS LEFT THE BUILDING

A Commentary on Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built (2019) Whose house? Which Jack? From the beginning it was a matter of material. After all, all creation, production, and construction must begin with matter. The material Jack uses as the instrument for his first in a series of murders was a car jack. …