May 2011
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1966: El Chuncho, quien sabe?
Right after his memorable Sergio Leone’s baptism in For a Few Dollars More, here KK is a grenade-throwing Zapatista fool-for-Christ nicknamed “El Santo”. Oh, and he’s also Gian Maria Volonté’s stepbrother. Who can ask for anything more?
May 31st
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May 30th
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1963: Der Schwarze Abt
SPOILER ALERT: KK is the wrong hooded Black Abbot. But guess what: he gets shot the same. Nice chance for one of his (hundreds of) trademark staggering-like-a-puppet death scenes.
May 30th
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May 29th
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1961: Die toten Augen von London
OK, we have to admit that of all the Edgar Wallace Krimis that KK shot during the first half of the ’60s (over a dozen) we chose this one only because of the iconic sunglasses his character showed off. So, any German-speaking KK fan can help us to understand the correct plot of this crime film which, according to Wikipedia, features “a group of blind murderers with a mysterious leader”? Is...
May 29th
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May 28th
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1954: Kinder, Mutter und ein General
You know: once a Nazi, always a Nazi. German typecasting for a Polish-born bohémien actor who named his three kids after Dostoyevsky’s characters and refused to play Hitler because he “could have delivered his speeches a lot better”. For more swastiKinski fun, also check out the Macaroni Combats 5 per l’inferno and I leopardi di Churchill, even though our KK’s...
May 28th
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May 27th
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1948: Morituri
The first 15 seconds of fame of the 22-year old not-yet-so-called Master of Screen Depravity (Fangoria quote) are under the cap of a Dutch lager prisoner crying out for his mom. How ironic. Footnote: KK had just spent WWII as a urine-drinking POW, unaware of his parents’ death in Berlin. Not exactly an easy role to debut with, huh?
May 27th
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May 27th
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“Like Paganini, I feel no roots. He belonged to music. I’m not Polish, nor...”
– KK on KK * yes, that’s why we chose a Soviet Constructivist style for our illustrations** ** OK, also because it’s simply cool
May 27th
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“With all the films we did together, the only thing that counted in the end is...”
– Werner Herzog on KK * yes, that’s why this series tells KK’s story through the characters he played
May 27th
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“His face is young, like a child’s, but with a very mature look in his eyes...”
– Jean Cocteau on KK * yes, that’s why we erased his face fron these illustrations
May 27th
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May 27th
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Introducing project #1: “Kasting Kinski”
A series of 16+1 illustrations dedicated to our favorite actor: the late great Nikolaus Karl Günther Nakszyński, best known as Klaus Kinski: born in Sopot, Free City of Danzig on 18th October 1926; died in Lagunitas, California on 23rd November 1991; Angeblicher Beruf: Arbeiter.
May 27th
For we are muesli, and to muesli we shall return.
May 19th