movies makes the world go round.

the title of this post is actually the tagline of the movie "alien" – it's the best tagline ever! "alien" is a remarkable science-fiction film with groundbreaking set design and a great, strong heroine. seriously i absolutely love sigourney weaver as lt. ellen ripley – because her character was the first action heroine in film history (which is also remarkable) and because ripley isn't the typical screamish movie-woman and she's doing what her male colleagues are doing - kicking ass (plus being a bit smarter).

brick is one of those movies which you have to watch at least two times. that's because of the slang and the complex and fast paced dialogues. if you won't listen really close, you'll miss the essential. brick's impressive – not only because of the amazing storytelling – because it has all the ingredients of a typical highschool film, but it's in fact a classy detective/film noir movie with teenage protagonists. if you haven't seen brick yet, i highly recommend to watch this beautiful and out of the ordinary movie.

every jim jarmusch movie is in some way special – night on earth, ghost dog, stranger than paradise, coffee and cigarettes or broken flowers are truly great movies. but his greatest work to date is in my opinion dead man. this movie is filmed poetry and a beautiful journey through life and death. there's poetry everywhere – in the mesmerizing and beautiful black and white photography. in the philosophical dialogues between johnny depp as william blake and nobody, the witty native american. and in the beautiful soundtrack by neil young. all of that leads to a very unique and poetic neo-western.

a flying plastic bag in a movie might seem a bit odd and ridiculous. the flying bag scene in american beauty however is simply beautiful. simple and utterly beautiful. so is the score by thomas newman, which is almost a classic. i think in life small things matters, so maybe that's the reason why i'm so fascinated by this scene. "sometimes there's so much beauty in the world i feel like i can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in" – i couldn't agree more. life's beautiful, you can find beauty almost everywhere and sometimes it's just too overwhelming.

martin scorsese's movie the departed is a remake of the hongkong-thriller infernal affairs. i like the departed, but i think infernal affairs is ways better. one of the reasons are the actors (tony leung plays one of the lead role – i'm a big fan of him, so maybe i'm a bit biased), the elegant cinematography and the script (the characters in infernal affairs are more complex than the ones in the departed). what i don't like about the departed is that it's too americanized and the fact, that scorsese adopted not just scene after scene almost one-to-one, but also used the same camera angles. that's just lame and pretty uncreative – even for a remake. so, if you wanna see a complex and awesome suspense thriller with great actors, i recommend to watch infernal affairs sometime.

the first time i saw nathan fillion on tv was in buffy the vampire slayer (it was a bit cheesy, but some episodes were cool!). he played the villain, who kicked buffy's ass. i liked him immediately. then there came firefly – it's a damn shame it lasted only one season! firefly is probably the only tv show i can watch for hours without getting bored (the movie serenity is also pretty cool). since a couple of days i'm watching castle and it's a good show. not as good as firefly, but it's funny and fillion is on it. he did a nice hommage to firefly, when he dressed up in castle like his character in firefly. 

i'm a big fan of clint eastwood. not necessarily of eastwood the actor, but of eastwood the director. i think he's one of the most creative directors around. sometimes even more creative than his younger colleagues. and that's amazing, considering his old age. he's like old wine - with age he's getting better and better. gran torino is not his best movie (his best movies are imho unforgiven, million dollar baby and letters from iwo jima) but i like it anyway. it's a really well directed movie about racism, predjudices, culture bias, friendship and discouraging predjudices. the story takes place in a suburb of detroit, and you can actually see in this movie, how the crisis in the car industry affects the surroundings. clint eastwood announced that this role would be his last acting role, but he already said that when he shot million dollar baby... (hopefully he won't be giving up directing all too soon...)

alfred hitchcock is one of my favourite directors. north by northwest is a classic hitchcock movie, full of suspense and humor. it was the inspiration for the james bond movies. many critiqes claims, that this movie was the "first" bond film, because of the chasing scenes, the elegant cary grant (who was in fact asked first to play james bond), conspiracies, agents, spies and the nutty villain. the crop dusting scene made film history and is one of the most famous hitchcock scenes.