Think to even mention this alongside Goodbye Berlin! is a sour note, and its certainly nothing like Fassbinder as underplay-to-underwhelm is not his style. But I found a really interesting answer to a lot of these 'life under communism was awful full stop'. I'm sure it was but we know that; this tries to imagine another viewpoint, and I'm grateful for that.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 28 December 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
MoMA has a 17-film "Berlin School" retro running -- not familiar w/ these aside from Petzold and Ade. Anyone?
http://www.fandor.com/blog/this-very-moment-momas-the-berlin-school
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1437
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 November 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
and again, Petzold... this is part of a trilogy, the other two are on disc in the US to my surprise.
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/ghosts
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
did we talk about this, phoenixor is there anything good written about it
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:59 (nine years ago) link
This interview? I didn't much like the film, though.
http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/interview-christian-petzold
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 May 2015 04:05 (nine years ago) link
hey thank you. what did you think? it was the suspension-of-disbelief thing or ..?
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Monday, 18 May 2015 04:16 (nine years ago) link
aargh need to sort out my life so I can watch this!
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 18 May 2015 22:41 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/germany-pale-mother-rediscovered-classic-new-german-cinema?utm_content=buffere3498&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitterbfi&utm_campaign=buffer
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 22 May 2015 10:34 (nine years ago) link
seems like I may have a chance to watch Kluge's News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx – Eisenstein – Das Kapital this weekend, maybe all 9 hours of it. caffeine me up boys, I'm going in
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 January 2017 09:46 (seven years ago) link
I've been obsessing over Kluge's "Früchte des Vertrauens" lately, a video essay anthology about capitalism's history of being at odds with its own concept of human nature. Didn't watch it in one sitting though, it's 11 hours.
― Wes Brodicus, Thursday, 19 January 2017 11:05 (seven years ago) link
I'm not totally clear yet whether the showing I've been told about on Sunday is gonna be the full thing or the first section, but if it's the former I'd like to try the whole experience
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 January 2017 11:54 (seven years ago) link