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And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine (2023)
Entertaining, but rather dramatic at the same time!
This documentary presents a mosaic of the most interesting historical facts, like the Camera Obscura and early inventions by Daguerre and Lumière, among others. This part is followed by the worst present content coming from private TV channels and social media platforms as well, including some of the shared videos of the well-known assault on the Capitol. But this is quite unusual and very impressing to watch these events on a big screen. Unfortunately, the movie clearly lacks a common thread, neither logical nor chronological: The narrator voice mostly only describes the basic context of the presented images, without telling a proper story. But in the end, you can very easily make up your own opinion out of this random stuff.
An Impossible Project (2020)
The adventurous life of a quite successful dreamer!
The "impossible project" of saving Polaroid is still a commercial success, but Doc Florian Kaps was rapidly ejected by the new company's owners (He jokes himself: like Steve Jobs previously from Apple Computer Inc.). Next, Facebook has nothing to do with instant picture! They appeared completely by accident in his new challenge about restoring a beautiful, but abandoned classical Grand Hotel. That "single website company with 10'000 employees" hosts in the middle of their new headquarters a tiny so-called "Analog Research Lab", in fact a kind of museum for mechanical printing devices (or even a zoo for theses almost extinct species). But actually, Mark Zuckerberg never entered that door and never made any notable use of it.
Les diaboliques (1955)
A French masterpiece!
This film is as valuable as some of the best Alfred Hitchcock movies.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
2049: Do androids (still) dream of electric sheep?
After a 30 years gap, this continuation answers almost all the questions remaining at the end of the first episode (you'd better watch it before or read a good abstract in order to understand...), but it opens even deeper existential interrogations!
Compared to 1982, it introduces some newer technologies (drones, holograms, augmented reality) and suggests some present themes (racism {against androids}, gender and clothing issues, human food {from insects}, bees dying, possible loss of digital memories {total blackout}).
It uses some audio archives and a short sequence from the original footage, which allows a key character to make an incredible come back! But this VFX integration is rather elegant, at least in the 2D version.
In short: Not a remake nor just a tribute, but an interesting follow-up!