Recent German Cinema S/D

and that Lola one everyone goes on about

And Das Experiment is Big Brother gone horribly, horribly wrong (and therefore, right). Excellent performances here also.

I recommend everyone watch "Hot Summer" (Heisser Sommer), the summer beach frolic musical made in Communist East Germany.

"lives of others" is getting tons of praise, i thought it was great in some ways but not in others. definitely worth seeing for the production design alone though!

Lola Rennt - maybe a bit over-rated? That stupid boyfriend of hers, for fuck's sake. And all those scenes where they are lying in bed talking shite.

Das Wunder von Birn - deadly film about the world cup the Germans won in the 1950s.

-- DV (dirtyvica...), Today 10:12 AM. (dirtyvicar) (later)

that's lives of others.

Hoberman on Petzold's Barbara:

http://blogs.artinfo.com/moviejournal/2012/12/21/%E2%80%9Cbarbara%E2%80%9D-ostalgia-isn%E2%80%99t-what-it-used-to-be/

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.

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

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

did we talk about this, phoenix
or is there anything good written about it

This interview? I didn't much like the film, though.

http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/interview-christian-petzold

hey thank you. what did you think? it was the suspension-of-disbelief thing or ..?

aargh need to sort out my life so I can watch this!

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

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

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.

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