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idhqbfojqbx··on Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’ (2015)
What is it with people trying to quantify and categorize art? Yes this scene is significant for both the history of cinema and artistically and I personally love it as well, but the quest of defining "the greatest scene" or "the best film of all time" just screams pure naïveté to me and I honestly don't understand why people would ask such questions?!
idhqbfojqbx··on Approved Cameras
Since there we're questions of what this list is for, this list doesn't determine with which cameras a TV show or film has to be shot with to be included in Netflix. Its rather one of several technical specifications (there are others for post-prod flow for example) for production companies who produce the so-called Netflix Originals for Netflix.
idhqbfojqbx··on Approved Cameras
Renting out cameras might give you influencers or youtubers as customers, but for producing a feature film or a TV show the rentals include everything from lights,lenses to generator trucks, with the camera only being the very tip of the ice berg. Production companies will continue to go to the rental companies where they can get everything at once. For reference a look at the perhaps biggest rental company might give some perspective: https://www.arrirental.com/en
idhqbfojqbx··on The Drenching Richness of Andrei Tarkovsky
If you want to truly watch and dive into a tarkovsky (and auteur cinéma in general) film I highly advise you to watch them in your local cinémathèque/cineteca. I've watched the films years ago on a laptop but when I recently saw some during the retrospective at the kinemathek in Berlin it was an incomparable experience.

Edit: plus you'll see the films with their lovely original laser subtitles.

idhqbfojqbx··on New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers
Judging by several comments in this thread it I feel it's important to highlight the historical dimension of data protection in Germany. The roots of privay rights in post war Germany are mainly in the famous "census ruling" in 1983, where the constitutional court established the right of informational self determinatio, based on Art. 1 (human dignity) in combination with Art. 2 (personal freedom) German Constitution. One of the first acts of the Nazis in 1933 was in fact a census, which partly paved orhanizationally the way to an even greater collection of data and atrocities we're all well aware of. That data protection is a constitutional right has to be seen in this histocial context. If someone is interested here's a deepl translation of passage of the "census ruling":

The right to informational self-determination would not be compatible with a social order and a legal order enabling it in which citizens can no longer know who knows what, when and on what occasion about them. Those who are uncertain whether deviant behaviour will be noted at any time and permanently stored, used or passed on as information will try not to attract attention through such behaviour. [...] This would not only impair the individual's chances of development, but also the common good, because self-determination is an elementary functional condition of a free democratic community based on the ability of its citizens to act and participate. It follows from this: Under the modern conditions of data processing, the free development of the personality presupposes the protection of the individual against unlimited collection, storage, use and disclosure of his or her personal data. This protection is therefore encompassed by the fundamental right of Article 2 (1) in conjunction with Article 1 (1) of the Basic Law. In this respect, the fundamental right guarantees the individual's right to determine for himself or herself the disclosure and use of his or her personal data.