Ekkehard Knörer was blown away <http://www.taz.de/1/archiv/print-archiv/printressorts/digi-artikel/?ressort=ku&dig=2008%2F11%2F12%2Fa0127&cHash=d9733701e3> by Alexander Kluge <http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/kluge.html>'s "unbelievably contemporary" nine-hour film essay on Karl Marx's "*Kapital*": "News from ideological antiquity <http://www.suhrkamp.de/titel/titel.cfm?bestellnr=13501>" is not a film adaptation of "Das Kapital", nor is it a remake of Eisenstein's [never-realised] megalomaniacal project. It is also not a film in the familiar sense, but then what would you expect from the man who reinvented TV? It is a self-contained work of art, but one that is open on all sides. Marx himself described "Das Kapital" as a *work of art* and Kluge treats it as such, as do nearly all of those who he asked for conversational, musical or philosophical contributions. They see Marx's masterpiece as a sort of walk-through installation. They tunnel in there, sometimes with Eisenstein's help, sometimes alone. They zero in on concepts like "*commodity fetish*" for example, turning them this way and that, until they start to *shine* again."