Even Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's got an online diary. Of course, that doesn't make up for the fact that this blog was abandoned by yours truly for over a week. Who's Syberberg? Just some German filmmaker. I always wondered about his influence on the Danish Dogme-95 director, Lars von Trier. Zentropa and Hitler: ein Film aus Deutschland had similarly low production values and looks and feels.

How'd I get onto this? I was wondering about film adaptations of Heinrich Böll's novels and came across some slack-jawed yokel's ham-fisted review of a Straub and Huillet version of Billiard um Halbzehn. Well, what're you going to do?