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Ardagger - Frühstücksnews - Montag, 7.8.2023

Sehr geehrte Gemeindebürgerin! Sehr geehrter Gemeindebürger! Am Freitag mittag haben 27 Kinder das zweite Tenniscamp des UTC Ardagger erfolgreich absolviert. Ich darf vor allem den Betreuern, dem Team des UTC rund um Obmann Rainer Hagler und Jugendleiterin Regina Bauer herzlich DANKE sagen. Sie haben 5 Tage lang den Kindern ein tolles und vor allem lehrreiches Tenniscamp geboten! Auch…

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mariocki · 3 years

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Acht Stunden sind kein Tag: Oma und Gregor (1.2, WDR, 1972)

"In any case, it would be proper if the tram cost nothing."

"Nothing. That's nothing we can hope for."

"Why should that be? I pay my taxes."

"You don't pay any taxes."

"Yes, but other people do."

#acht Stunden sind kein tag #Eight hours don't make a day #rainer werner fassbinder #Oma und Gregor #Westdeutscher Rundfunk #1972 #Luise Ullrich #Werner Finck #Gottfried John #Hanna Schygulla #Anita Bucher #Wolfried Lier #Irm Hermann #Rainer Hauer #Hans Hirschmüller #Kurt Raab #Renate Roland #Andrea Schober #Herb Andress #Rudolf Waldemar Brem #Rudolf Lenz #Thorsten Massinger #A more straightforwardly comic episode than the first (and genuinely really quite funny) as we follow Grandma and her new beau as they try #To secure a new apartment together. Ullrich's Oma is a firebrand: a fierce advocate for social responsibility and class consciousness but #Also a helplessly mischievous old lady who simply can't avoid getting into scrapes and causing chaos. Finck's Gregor is a beautifully drawn #Character and performance: an endlessly bemused and passive man caught up in the whirlwind that is grandma (there are several moments where #She asks 'Where would you be without me?' clearly rhetorically but you can almost see the wistful thought cross his eye that he might still #Be sat on that park bench in ep 1 reading Lawrence). A very clever script which puts the shenanigans in the foreground but through showing #The impact that grandma has on the other characters allows us to see those stories and personalities develop and continues to explore ideas #About labour relations and the intrinsic rights of a people to basic needs like shelter and child care.

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ozu-teapot · 4 years

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Acht Stunden sind kein Tag (Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day) | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1972 - 1973

Episode 5 | Irmgard und Rolf

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fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors · 6 years

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Little Women dir. Vanessa Caswill (2017) TV

Watching this miniseries was weird.

I grew up with Little Women. While I would never would consider myself a fanatic I read the book and watched the (now classic) 1994 Gillian Armstrong directed adaptation. I considered the fact that (spoiler alert) Jo and Laurie did not get end up together to be one of the greatest miscarriages of literary justice (damn you Louisa May Alcott!) It was always going to be strange for me to watch this miniseries because I am so heavily biased in favour of Armstrong’s version of the characters. But watching this miniseries was weird because almost every previously held opinion I had on these characters flipped.

For those unfamiliar with this frequently adapted American Classic, Little Women is about the four daughters of a pastor, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March growing up during and after the American Civil War. The sisters vary in personality and ambition but they are close-knit and are raised by a near saintly mother they call Marmee. The miniseries follows them as they transition from girlhood to adulthood, going from sisters and daughters to wives and mothers within a few short years.

First the good. Caswill is a talented director and the production values on this BBC adaptation are excellent. Shout out to the second unit director because this miniseries is littered with gorgeous filler shots of the landscape which are too beautiful to describe.

Unfortunately what plagues this adaptation for me was the casting of Jo played by Maya Hawke (daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke). It’s her first acting role and it shows, painfully. While all four sisters are important, Jo is the clear lead and not connecting with Maya Hawke as Jo made whole swaths of the series feel like a chore. This is made worse by the fact that she and Jonah Hauer-King (who plays her next door neighbour, best friend, and potential love interest, “Teddy” Laurence) have zero chemistry. Actually the lack of chemistry meant that I had the novel sensation of rooting against Teddy and Jo for the first time in my life. Both in Alcott’s novel and in Armstrong’s adaptation their combative friendship meant they have smouldering chemistry together (witness this kiss between Christian Bale and Winona Ryder in Armstrong’s adaptation and tell me you aren’t rooting for them!) In Caswill’s adaptation when Teddy attempts to kiss Jo it’s absolutely passionless. In fact by the time Teddy tries to “have it out” with Jo and declare his intentions for her (for the third time) I found myself wondering why she even would consider continuing a friendship with a whiny guy who was refusing to listen to her after she repeatedly shut him down. On the flip side this means that Caswill and writers Rainer Stolle and Heidi Thomas successfully developed the relationships between (again spoiler alert!) the couples that do end up together: Jo and Professor Bhaer and Amy and Laurie.

Though Bhaer only shows up in the final episode of the miniseries, Stolle and Thomas are quick to use just a few scenes for Jo and Bhaer that communicate how much these two characters respect and admire each other (it also helps that they de-age him down a bit from being twice Jo’s age to using an actor ten years older than Hawke). The chemistry between Amy and Laurie is also helped along by the fact that the miniseries ages Amy up and has her being played from childhood to adulthood by one actress, Kathryn Newton. In fact Newton as Amy and Willa Fitzgerald as Meg were the two strongest actresses of the series and as a result I found my allegiance and interest shifting from Jo and Beth (who in this series sadly lacks any pathos) to Amy and Meg. If I never cared for these characters before, Newton and Fitzgerald succeed in making me care. Thanks to some well placed and well written scenes that helped flesh out these characters the scenes with Meg and Amy are some of the best in the series.

Unfortunately despite the generous running length the series also feels a bit half baked with the years and vignettes flitting by too quickly. Iconic actors like Michael Gambon, Emily Watson and Angela Lansbury appear in various roles but this series belongs to the girls and so they're mostly wasted.

It wasn’t quite a chore to finish this adaptation, but once it was over I was quick to go get my copy of Little Women off the shelf and flip through it to re-read my favourite scenes. Whatever merits the series has I still prefer the characters as Alcott wrote them.

#little women #Vanessa Caswill #UK #2017 #TV #FYWFD reviews #Post 2000 series #Louisa May Alcott

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mariocki · 3 years

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