Kultkino
Ever since jholomorphic talked me into seeing the unforgetable canuxploitation film Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, five years ago during a math conference in Montreal, I have repeatedly felt inspired by his example to persuade colleagues at conferences into seeing unusual movies with me. This week in Munich is no exception, and I would surely have dragged JHolomorphic along if he'd been here, to a film whose title alone (if not its content) would have made it impossible for him to refuse:
Indien
Aside from Lisalogic telling me that I must see this film, it seemed highly recommended by the fact that Munich's most distinctive independent cinema (incidentally also the one that shows Rocky Horror every weekend) has been showing it exactly once a week after 11pm for as long as anyone can remember. Of course JHolomorphic wouldn't have understood a word of it, as it was all in deep Austrian dialect, of which I followed about 30% myself --- but that wouldn't have stopped me from dragging him. Since he wasn't here, I had to drag his Ph.D. advisor instead. (His comment afterwards on comprehension: "Well, I've been to some math talks where I understood less." My collaborator KN also came, but he's German, so he got about 70%.)
Indien
Aside from Lisalogic telling me that I must see this film, it seemed highly recommended by the fact that Munich's most distinctive independent cinema (incidentally also the one that shows Rocky Horror every weekend) has been showing it exactly once a week after 11pm for as long as anyone can remember. Of course JHolomorphic wouldn't have understood a word of it, as it was all in deep Austrian dialect, of which I followed about 30% myself --- but that wouldn't have stopped me from dragging him. Since he wasn't here, I had to drag his Ph.D. advisor instead. (His comment afterwards on comprehension: "Well, I've been to some math talks where I understood less." My collaborator KN also came, but he's German, so he got about 70%.)