German films
 

I just saw luxinterior mention German films somewhere, so this thread is inspired by that.

My 3 top German films:

Big Girls Don't Cry (Große Mädchen Weinen Nicht)
What to do In Case of Fire (Was Tun, Benn's Brennt)
The Golem (Der Golem)

Anyone else?

The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari

bastard! you stard this thread when i'm leaving! :D

i'm a huge fassbinder fan.

also werner herzog & wim wenders are great.

and of course the unsurpassable fritz lang.

and f.w. murnau

and... god damn, did i say i had to go? i have to go. later...

Good choices, !"£$%! - it's strange that in many cases I like more 'alternative' films, but German cinema does more traditional things very well indeed I think, but with some sort of twist.

A Hip Priest German Film Choice Redux, with piccies:

I don't know what it is about German films that really register with me more than any other foreign-language films. It should make perfect sense, considering I live in a town founded by and made up mostly of people of German descent, myself included. Whether we know it or not, we still follow a lot of German customs. It was for those reasons that I took German rather than Spanish in high school, and finally figured out what Mark Twain had been griping about all along. It really is a terrible language for verbs.

"The Warrior and the Princess" and "Run Lola Run" are sweet.

beat me to the run lola run recommendation

http://tracker.zaerc.com/torrents-details.php?id=6551
what a title!

Did you see the film he did about himself and Klaus Kinski called My Best Friend? It sounds very interesting and is in my Netflix queue, I just want to know if I should move it to the top spot if it is in fact as great as it sounds.

The last time I went to Borders, it looked like there was some sort of Herzog/Kinski box set assembled, as well as a set of Herzog's non-Kinski films. They were both out of my price range, unfortunately.

What To Do in Case of Fire is a fun movie. I like The Experiment and Goodbye Lenin! better. Run Lola Run is good too.

German movies really intrigue me because they deal with much different issues than American movies generally do. There are not too many US movies about the loss of idealism.

What To Do In Case of Fire is a much, much better movie th an SLC Punk and Anarchist's Cookbook, and it deals with the same issues.

Wener Herzog is a complete mental genius. My Best Fiend (not a typo, it makes sense when you see it) is fantastic. Bump it straight to the top of your list.

Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre: Wrath of God are essential Herzog films. Everyone should see those.

I just got the non-Kinski Herzog boxset the other day (alas the UK box doesn't have Little Dieter Needs to Fly and Lessons of Darkness but was cheap). Looking forward to another clutch of Kinski in the near future.

Here's a few of my favorites:

Lola rennt (1998) english Run Lola run

Good bye Lenin (2003)

All of Jorg Buttgereit's cult horror films:
Killer condom; The rubber that runs you out
Schramm
Nekromantik 1 & 2
The death king (a masterpiece!)
Corpse F*****g art

The best German cinema, in my opinion, are those excellent Nazi propaganda films.

Lenny Riefenstahl did amazing stuff, but some say she was a collabarator with the nazis.

some of my favs:

Mephisto
Goodbye Lennin
The Experiment
Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei
Lola Rennt (Run Lola run)
Elementarteilchen (Elementary Particles)
Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) - Günther Grass

very,very good movie
highly recommendet

Klaus Maria Brandenaur is an amzing actor

leni riefenstahl has used the camera in such ways, even contemporary popular culture feels the influence..

if anyone's interested, they can download some clips from here..
http://www.riefenstahl.org/downloads...efenstahl.html

and before any PC liberals start shouting, here's what susan sontag has to say abour leni riefenstahl's imagery..
http://www.anti-rev.org/textes/Sontag74a/index.html


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...strange noone mentioned
der himmel uber berlin!

...and I love (I've only seen 8 episodes, though)
Edgar reitz's Heimat... a wonderfully boring soap-opera;)

olympia is a masterpiece.
but in those years (before the war) in germany only few people knew what was going on and what nazism was actually about.

few months ago I've see the movie leni riefenstahl did few years ago (at 90+yrs old?!?) underwater... wow.

Der Eisbär

generally speaking german films have bad soundtracks i have observed, but i love german films. when i lived in berlin i saw several being made.

Murnau & Pabst were great
Herzog's Aguirre's a beauty

Herzog's picture about Kinski is really interesting, especially the part when the guys living where Fitzcaraldo was shot go to Herzog and offer him seriously to kill Kinski for the trouble he brings.
Not to say that Herzog is an angel either. I remember the face of an actress he is standing by. He says something like she ain't a great actress without giving a damn of the consequences, for he just doesn't care about her feelings.

Fassbinder directed a TV film called Martha with Margit Carstensen & KarlHeinz Boehm. In that flick, there's a circular camera move on Boehm walking with stone-cold eyes that is a-ma-zing.

Forklift driver Klaus is a pretty good short german film

Hahaha, that is fantastic. I'm aware of the relationship between those two, and when I misread is as "Friend," I thought that it was just a very, very sarcastic title.

the tin drum!!
and the warrior and the princess was pretty cool too

But yes, I agree, and I don't know which one I like more. This past year in school, one of the teachers (who was also a priest) and I would always talk about movies we had watched recently, because he was signed up at Blockbuster and I was at Netflix. And the conversations would typically be long, and we would argue about all sorts of things, and one day he asked me, "Have you seen Aguirre: The Wrath of God?" I said yes, and he responded by saying, "It was very...interesting." And I don't know why, but that was the last time we ever talked about movies.

i like your signature thing iain.

the edukators was very good, apart from the cheese music and sappy ending. i liked goodbye lenin as well. my favourite has to be wings of desire though.

That is most likely my favorite as well.

i meant to say luxinterior's signature.

Why thank you, Sebastian Bach likes you too.

Der untergang was awesome

I saw Das Experiment pretty recently. I liked it. The real story is pretty interesting, too.

oh i haven't seen it! i know they had a horrid relationship; i'd bump it. actually i think im going to get the same in greencine (check it out, i think it's way better than netflix if you love movies).

oh yeah... check out this link!!! :)

das experiment was kinda dissapointing for me. they actually did it on british tv for real a while back, it was amazing to see how the people in power became as much prisoners themselves.

Has anyone seen Christianna F.? A once controversial German film, about 13-year old heroin-addicts in 1970's Berlin? It has lots of cool scenes of the subway at night, of the flourescent gloom, etc; all soundtracked by Eno/Bowie (the instrumentals from Low/Heros). Plus, brilliantly OTT scenes of masturbation, gay sex, and S&M - which is suprising as its shown on True Movies on Sky, a channel which usually shows weepies, where a scene of a teddy bear falling over is considered to be hardcore.

oh yes i knew it as christianne f. -- beautiful & sad fucking movie.

someone mentioned the tin dum. i just watched it again recently for like the 5th time. awesome!

that picture is great:





it's on the cover (?) of "my best fiend", i believe...

i saw it and i read it...

I went to that site, and as a test I typed in "Nick Zedd" to see how many results came up, and sure enough, they have that Abnormal: Sinema collection that Netflix does not offer (you can save the movies, but you cannot add them to your queue). So I checked the number of movies estimated to be in their catalogue, and it said "over 25,000" while Netflix claims 60,000 of their own. So my question is, do you know if Netflix just has 60,000 movies because most of it is total crap (or maybe when one movie has an extra disc of bonus features, Netflix then counts that as two movies)? Because after browsing through that greencine website, it does seem as if it is better than Netflix. And it would seem like greencine would have more movies because they say they have more anime than any other site, and plus they have adult videos. So the numbers just don't make sense to me.

I was also thinking that maybe Netflix counts those movies that are unavailable (like the Nick Zedd collection) as being a part of their catalogue, even though I highly doubt they will ever offer them for rental.