Does anyone else know anything about this guy, or his most recent film, Hard to be a God (Trudno byt' bogom)?
― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 14:40 (twenty years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 12:44 (twenty years ago) link
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― günther black, Friday, 23 May 2003 22:46 (twenty years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 5 February 2004 13:44 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 6 February 2004 08:02 (twenty years ago) link
Dead at 74; last film in postproduction.
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/869985/soviet-dissident-director-aleksei-guerman-dies-last-movie
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 February 2013 05:31 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't seen the film, but really enjoyed reading the translated Hard To Be A God.
― dow, Friday, 22 February 2013 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-aleksei-german-1938-2013
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 2 March 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
HtbaG finally opening in NYC Friday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=84838260&v=11sMDQIgggA&x-yt-ts=1422327029
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:33 (nine years ago) link
It's brilliant, but... don't expect much plot. Imagine the craziest bits of Aguirre, compressed, moved to another planet, and riffed on for 3 hours.
In any case, about a billion times better than the 1989 version.
― Dave fischer, Thursday, 29 January 2015 10:34 (nine years ago) link
Wrote this when I saw it back in april. Rereading, it's really not very good, but oh well. Was a good day, that one.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 29 January 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link
While I liked the two previous features and this well enough, AG has never been quite my cup of tea. Having a cold and fighting off sleep during a Sat night screening, again not ideal (and so depressing to be sick and old). Anyway...
I guess the narrow range of incident in this film (eggs smashed, noses smashed, claustrophobic handheld, revolting Breughelian faces, mud, milk pouring, interrupted by a singular horse dick) just made everything feel cumulative, and steeped in stasis beyond the stony "non"-narrative feel? (Because there is a plot, and it does advance, it just isn't foregrounded in any usual way.) I thought the salient takeaway was posted by P Labuza on L'boxed:
Anyways, if you tell me where any of the crew of this movie was possibly standing at any moment, please do, because the effect of a 360 degree reality here is astonishing.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 February 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link
Trial on the Road is phenomenal...
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 04:00 (nine years ago) link
Hard to Be A God is back at Anthology Film Archives in NYC today at 5
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 26 April 2015 14:58 (eight years ago) link