{"id":80,"date":"2005-02-25T10:50:40","date_gmt":"2005-02-25T17:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/02\/24\/bruno-ganz\/"},"modified":"2005-02-26T15:21:37","modified_gmt":"2005-02-26T22:21:37","slug":"bruno-ganz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/02\/25\/bruno-ganz\/","title":{"rendered":"World Wide Survey &#8211;  Interesting  Middle Aged Men &#8211; Bruno Ganz, Takashi Miike, Om Puri &#038; Vasan Sitthiket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/images\/Brunoangel.jpg\" alt=\"Bruno Ganz \" \/><br \/>\nOur beloved angel from &#8220;Wings of Desire&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wim-wenders.com\/bio\/bruno_ganz_bio.htm\">Bruno Ganz<\/a> now plays a monster Adolf Hitler in the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/downfall\/\">German film &#8220;Downfall&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;In the White City&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/alain-tanner\">Alain Tanner <\/a>was a beautiful almost forgotten film. See Bruno Ganz in the moment of epiphany from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmlinc.com\/wrt\/programs\/6-2004\/ganz04.htm\">this clip. <\/a>(Scroll down). Note: Hollywood production of &#8220;Thelma and Louise&#8221; was adapted from Tanner&#8217;s &#8220;Messidor &#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteye.com\/interviews\/takashi_miike.shtml\">Takashi Miike<\/a> will have screenings at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinfilm.org\/screenings\/takashimiike.php\">Austin Film Society<\/a> from March 1 &#8211; April 12.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lovehkfilm.com\/panasia\/happiness_of_the_katakuris.htm\">&#8220;The Happiness of Katakuri Family&#8217;<\/a> is a zany camp musical by Takashi, and horror lasts only a few seconds unlike his other creepy films.  (Comparison of this film to the original Korean film from well researched article by  filmbrain is <a href=\"http:\/\/filmbrain.typepad.com\/filmbrain\/2004\/12\/the_quiet_katak.html\">here.<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p>A week ago I saw &#8220;My Son the Fanatic&#8221; and thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0700875\/\">Om Puri<\/a> was magnificent.   Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bombsite.com\/ompuri\/ompuri2.html\">good interview<\/a> from Bomb and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reel.com\/reel.asp?node=features\/interviews\/puri\"> another one from Reel.com.<\/a> &#8220;He&#8217;s worked with the creme de la creme of masterful directors \u2014 Satyajit Ray (Sadgati), Udayan Prasad (Brothers in Trouble), Sir Richard Attenborough (Gandhi) and Mike Nichols (Wolf) \u2014 and graced television ventures as prestigious as the acclaimed series The Jewel in the Crown. Consequently he has, like Pitt, found himself a screen sex symbol, if a much more unlikely one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This morning I was introduced to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thavibu.com\/thailand\/vasan_sitthiket\/THA600.htm\">Vasan<\/a> Sitthiket by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spikemagazine.com\/scattered\/2005\/02\/artist-party.php\">Scattered Blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Title:Dam Kills Water, Kills Man, Kills Fish &#8211; Oil and Sand<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/images\/Vasan.jpg\" alt=\"Vasan_Sitthiket\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An old  interviw from Asiaweek <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiaweek.com\/asiaweek\/magazine\/2000\/1020\/as.art.html\">describing Vasan<\/a> as rude, crude and proud &#8211; an artist at war with the world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our beloved angel from &#8220;Wings of Desire&#8221;, Bruno Ganz now plays a monster Adolf Hitler in the new German film &#8220;Downfall&#8221; &#8220;In the White City&#8221; by Alain Tanner was a beautiful almost forgotten film. See Bruno Ganz in the moment of epiphany from this clip. (Scroll down). Note: Hollywood production of &#8220;Thelma and Louise&#8221; was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/02\/25\/bruno-ganz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World Wide Survey &#8211;  Interesting  Middle Aged Men &#8211; Bruno Ganz, Takashi Miike, Om Puri &#038; Vasan Sitthiket&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-cinema","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}