Solo Sunny review – a rueful East German gem of ambition, loneliness and faded dreams

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Konrad Wolf’s 1980 drama follows a singer trying to escape the drab compromises of GDR life, capturing the melancholy of thwarted ambition with warmth and wit The terrible sadness, tattiness and poisoned idealism of the old GDR is preserved as if in a time capsule in this East German film from 1980; it could be a kind of B-side to Bob Fosse’s Cabaret. The heroine, would-be solo pop singer Sunny, is told by her ungallant MC that she is no Liza Minnelli; Cabaret fans might well incidentally recognise here the brusque German word “bumsen”. Solo Sunny is the work of Konrad “Koni” Wolf, a director with an impressive and strange pedigree: he was a garlanded state-sanctioned artist in East Germany, much admired at the Berlin film festival, whose older brother Markus happened to be one of the highest-ranking officials in the Stasi. It makes Wolf the second most politically compromised German film-maker in history. (The disillusioned communist East German character in Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel Ka...
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Jussie Smollett Is Ready To Make His Directing Debut

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It seems that Jussie Smollett is ready to make his directing debut. Check out the latest reports about the man below. The Shade Room said: 'Looks like #JussieSmollett is ready to make his directing debut! BET+ has picked up Jussie’s “B-Boy Blues,” which is set to debut on the streaming platform June 9. The project is a film adaptation of a novel by #JamesEarlHardy, and follows the unlikely lovely story of Mitchell Crawford, a college-educated journalist from Brooklyn, and Raheim Rivers, a bike messenger from Harlem. The film taps #MonaScottYoung as a producer, and features actors #BroderickHunter, #Ledisi, #TimothyRichardson, and #BrandeeEvans.'   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by The Shade Room (@theshaderoom) Someone said: 'Gurl he already made his directing debut,' and a commenter posted this: 'I’m glad he has another opportunity to make a living.' A fan said: 'No thanks because the storyline is probably based on lies,' and a commenter posted this message: 'Kim, there’s people that are dying!!!!' Someone else said: 'They hate on you till you winning again.' It seems that there are new things happening in Jussie Smollett 's case. Check out the latest reports below. TSR notes: 'Whew chile, looks like #JussieSmollett wants either a new trial in court or a not-guilty verdict for allegedly lying to cops.' TSR said: 'If you remember, jurors found Jussie guilty of five felony counts of disorderly conduct back in December. Well according to @TMZ_tv, Jussie’s defense team just filed new documents asking the judge to reverse the verdict.' 'In docs, Jussie claims the court violated his constitutional rights when it prevented his defense team from actively participating in the jury selection process. His defense goes on to claim prosecutors showed a pattern of racism in selecting jurors.(SWIPE)' TSR notes. Someone said: 'This still going on? He’s guilty. Goodbye let’s move on already,' and one other follower posted this: 'hile atp let it ride. I forgot all about it and we have bigger fish to fry .' A follower said: 'I still wanna know like how he even came up with it like what happened for him to want to do that.'

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