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Showing posts with label Berlin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Berlin. Show all posts
Friday, December 05, 2025

AIFF2025: Nikolas and Katrine Are In Anchorage for the Film Festival

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  We picked up Nikolas and Katrina at the airport Wednesday night and brought them home.  Thursday we did a tour of AIFF sites (sights?) in ...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Destroying Cities And Killing Civilians - Post-War Berlin Photos By Roman Vishniac

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We met long time friends in Berkeley Wednesday at the Magnes Collection .  While looking at the pictures in the current exhibit, I couldn...
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Friday, October 22, 2021

The Rich Screw The Poor in Netflix's The Billion Dollar Code And Squid Game -

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1.   Billion Dollar Code.  It tells the story of two young, idealistic, naive German nerds in the early 90s who create a program that allows...
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Sunday, July 22, 2018

Babylon Berlin NEIN

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I follow NEIN ('No' in German)  (@NEINQaurterly) on Twitter.  I think I saw his book first in a Seattle bookstore and then his Twitt...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Babylon Berlin (Netflix) Looks At 1929 Berlin As Democracy Struggles To Survive

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Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) This tight German series focuses on a Köln (Cologne) police officer, Gereon Rath, transferred to Berlin.  The...
Tuesday, January 02, 2018

How To Get More Variety From Netflix And Follow Up On Scam Film Festivals

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"Netflix is always using algorithms to help you find the best movies based on your taste, but what if you want something completely di...
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Saturday, May 27, 2017

"It is my job, however, to ensure that your personal ambitions are not entirely delusional and do not carry with them an unacceptable cost for everybody else."

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War Machine is a new Netflix film about General Stanley McChrystal (called Gen. Glen McMahon in the film, but see note at the bottom.)  He...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

"But, Son, the thing is, Thula wants you to stay here. "

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Joe gets home one evening from school to find the rest of the family packed up in the car. "What's up, Pop? Where are we going?...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

How's Uncle Adolf? Surveillance Then And Now

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'It was Rudolf Diels who first conveyed to Martha the unfunny reality of Germany's emerging culture of surveillance.  One day he in...

Don't Eat Contaminated Fish And Other Tales Of The Last Day In LA

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  I made a few phone calls and then biked an hour down along Venice Beach to Marina del Rey where I found this sign that belied the...
Monday, July 02, 2012

Clutter Wars: Old Photos - Checkpoint Charlie 1964-2010, Loussac Opening

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My new strategy in the Clutter War is to get rid of things in the garage to make room for boxes from the house.  But I'm being distrac...
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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Man Survives Nazis and Stasi Dressed as a Woman

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Brandon Demery Curtain Call [ The Nitty Gritty :  Yes the title was meant to get your attention, but it's also accurate.  "I ...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Germany 1930s - US Today: Anchorage Cabaret Production Comparisons

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An abstract black and white train rattled across the large screen over the stage where the young American Cliff Bradshaw is being ch...
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Friday, June 11, 2010

What Do Americans Call Rapeseed?

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I noticed the rapeseed fields as we first came over land - probably Holland then Germany - after flying over the Atlantic and we saw bright ...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Berlin's Wild Boars

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 When we got back to Berlin, we learned from our daughter that her roommate/landlord had encountered a wild boar walking to the subway stati...