Hofschneider

First: This is a great movie! A well written, well played and really well directed film. Then: There is torture and politics. But I think most of the discussions miss Bigelows point. The question is not, if torture is wrong or necessary. The question is: What kind of a nation are you, when you torture. What does hunting Bin Laden do to you. Therefore ZDT is a begining, a purification. History is written. Bin Laden is (really) dead. I saw it on the screen. Now we can start something new. Maybe.

98 _99%

Hunger (2008) - Rated 11 Jan 2013

The way McQueen changes the perspective over and over again. The way this movie becomes an angry denouncement, becomes an intelligent intellectual argument (in one perverse-good shot), becomes a poetic, melancholic piece of memory and pain, while it still has the time and the stylistic ideas, that fit every aspect of these story(s) is nothing less but brilliant. Oh, and, Michael Fassbender is clearly the best actor of his generation. Wow.

90 _91%

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) - Rated 26 Jan 2013

I don't know if Hollywood invented it, but when a boy looks way to long at a beautiful girl and that girl glimpses back and it's not awkward or slimy as it would be in real life (by this duration) - that is probably the center of filmaking for me. Showing admiration. Looking at something, someone - and to be present in that moment. And those three actors, the music and the script give me a lot to admire.

Actors	Michael Fassbender James Gandolfini Andrew Garfield Greta Gerwig Donald Glover Ryan Gosling John Hawkes Philip Seymour Hoffman Isabelle Huppert Oscar Isaac Allison Janney Catherine Keener Jack Lemmon Shirley MacLaine Ezra Miller Birgit Minichmayr Samantha Morton Carey Mulligan Bill Murray Edward Norton Rosamund Pike Brad Pitt Aubrey Plaza Jason Schwartzman Martin Sheen Tilda Swinton Channing Tatum Marisa Tomei Christoph Waltz Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Directors	Maren Ade Wes Anderson Andrea Arnold Darren Aronofsky Noah Baumbach Alfonso Cuarón David Fincher Donald Glover Michel Gondry Alejandro G. Iñárritu Spike Jonze Abbas Kiarostami Harmony Korine Stanley Kubrick Richard Linklater Terrence Malick Steve McQueen Gaspar Noé Lynne Ramsay Nicolas Winding Refn Sebastian Schipper Steven Soderbergh Oliver Stone Joachim Trier Denis Villeneuve Billy Wilder Edgar Wright
Writers	Maren Ade Wes Anderson Andrea Arnold Darren Aronofsky Noah Baumbach Mark Boal Lena Dunham Greta Gerwig Donald Glover Alejandro G. Iñárritu Spike Jonze Charlie Kaufman Abbas Kiarostami Harmony Korine Stanley Kubrick Richard Linklater Terrence Malick Steve McQueen Gaspar Noé Nicolas Winding Refn Sebastian Schipper Jason Schwartzman Steven Soderbergh Aaron Sorkin Oliver Stone Joachim Trier Denis Villeneuve Eskil Vogt Billy Wilder Edgar Wright