Kids these days may not know it, but almost twenty years ago the fledgling internet was abuzz with a memes, pictures, and quotes from a…
CIPC #477: Il boia scarlatto
So you want to shoot a giallo. You have an idea: centuries ago, a mad hangman1 has been executed for his many crimes and now…
CIPC #476: Danger 5 S1 E1, I danced for Hitler!
Danger 5 is the most surreal television series I’ve spotlighted since Monty Python’s Flying Circus. It is set in a very unserious alternative universe during…
CIPC #475: The great escape
This is a serious contender for the title of best movie I’ve ever spotlighted on my blog. It stars great actors like Steve McQueen,1 Charles…
CIPC #474: Skechers ad
The chess history website on which this blog is a weird, possibly malignant, tumour includes only tournaments from the year 2000 or earlier. The reasoning…
CIPC #473: Maigret S1E1, The patience of Maigret
Simenon is, by an enormous margin, the best-sold Belgian author — and he is very well sold indeed. According to Wikipedia, he has sold between…
CIPC #472: Vloors: Het schaakspel
You have to be quite a bit of a painting connoisseur to have ever heard of Emile Vloors. He was an Antwerp artist, born 1871…
CIPC #471: Bern gegen Rassismus ad
Technically speaking, I haven’t yet filleted any public service announcements on this blog. But they are really just advertisement under another name, so I’m not…
CIPC #470: Tatort E281, Stahlwalzer
When I previously wrote about a Tatort episode, I quietly passed over the fact that that was episode one thousand three hundred and two of…
CIPC #469: Ascenseur pour l’échafaud
Our topic for today is a French movie from 1958. The plot goes like this: a man murders his boss, but he gets stuck in…