Related question: I swore I saw a 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' DVD box set somewhere in a shop, but all searches on Amazon come up blank. Did I dream this up? Any idea when that might happen?
― Das Spiel ist aus für Baaderonixx (baaderonixx), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:59 (eighteen years ago) link
IT IS A TV SERIES
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:06 (eighteen years ago) link
http://daily.greencine.com/archives/003110.html
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link
esp. Chinese Roulette
this compilation is outstanding
― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link
on the Alexanderplatz Criterion box
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 22 June 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
How did we talk about movies before we had polls.
― Casuistry, Friday, 22 June 2007 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
We groped and stumbled.
― baaderonixx, Monday, 25 June 2007 08:21 (seventeen years ago) link
I watched the Marriage of Maria Braun this week and really, really enjoyed it. There are an awful lot of European films like that that don't do anything for me, so I was really surprised. I also managed to correctly guess he was a Gemini just by watching this film. I love all the short twists and turns to it and you never know exactly what to expect. At first the baffling ending troubled me and I thought it ruined the whole rest of the movie until I rewound and watched it one more time and then I understood. A very complex film, I thought, and a masterpiece.
I watched Querelle a long, long time ago with a friend. I don't remember what I thought of it, really. But I remember it had that famous French woman in it...Moreau, that's it. I remember there being something kindof humorous about her in that.
― Bimble, Saturday, 18 August 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link
berlin alexanderplatz coming out in nov.
― impudent harlot, Saturday, 18 August 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link
(er, on dvd)
Read a collection of essays, interviews, etc recently, greatly titled "Anarchy of the Imagination". There is a short story, of sorts - more like a film of his on 20 pages that kinda did my head in for the rest of the day hurrah.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 August 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Okay, I thought Lola was embarrassingly and irritatingly boringly bad. I even watched the Blue Angel just before it (the film with Marlene Dietrich that Fassbinder was supposed to be doing a tribute to with 'Lola') and man, I just don't get it. If the name of the film is Lola, why not make Lola the main character? And while we're at it, let's get a better plot and choose a different actress altogether!
― Bimble, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 05:31 (seventeen years ago) link
yr mad.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 30 August 2007 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link
http://sctv.org/characters/lola/lola.gif
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 30 August 2007 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link
yes, Bobby Bittman wd've directed the SCTV remake of Fassbinder
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 30 August 2007 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
With Ed Grimley as Franz Biberkopf.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 30 August 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
WAY too much of his stuff out there right now.
tailor-made kitsch for anomic urban intellectuals. fuck it.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 28 October 2007 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
penetrating criticism there
― J0hn D., Sunday, 28 October 2007 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
really worth waking up the thread for
capsule review, john. i could get into it, but i don't know if it's worth it. the weird thing about rwf fanboys, like warhol fanboys i guess, of both sexes, is that them being utter shits on a personal level becomes in some way 'part of' the total work. with fassbinder, the work is almost justification for the life. people are mannequins so it's okay to push them around. i suppose there is the alibi that it's capitalism making us mean, somewhere, but is that really even present in, say, 'petra von kant'.
otherwise, stilted versions of sirk films... if that's your thing, go nuts, have a ball, whatever.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 28 October 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I've seen "...Maria Braun" and "Querelle" and loathed them both. i don't intend to see any of his other film's although, strangely, i did quite like Ozon's "water Drops on Burning Rocks".
― jed_, Sunday, 28 October 2007 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
if memory serves, 'lola' has some pep to it -- 'water drops', which probably is ozon's best film (not very high praise!) comes from the late 60s, and maybe that's when he was best. the films were short and kind of fresh. you get to the mid-70s and things like 'chinese roulette' and it's basically bad chabrol and you wonder what the fuck you're doing watching.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 28 October 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
"film's"! ugh.
xpost - re Ozon, i haven't seen much, "5x2" was on ch4 last night but i couldn't summon up the energy to watch it.
― jed_, Sunday, 28 October 2007 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
me neither, but the ones i've seen:
Swimming Pool (2003) -- dire 8 femmes (2002) -- dire Sous le sable (2000) -- okay central perf from rampling Water Drops on Burning Rocks -- not bad Sitcom (1998) -- awful awful awful "OMG BENEATH THE VENEER OF BOURGEOIS RESPECTABILITY..." yarn
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 28 October 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Yesterday, I had the displeasure of spending two endless hours with In a Year of 13 Moons. Pretty much everything about it was substandard, but the acting in particular was shockingly bad.
― Jeb, Sunday, 28 October 2007 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
"5x2" is really not worth the bother -- my local library stocks this for some reason! By coincidence I caught a screening of Cassavetes' "Faces" today, which does the whole marriage is blah with about, I dunno, 10 billion times more style, etc.
Only seen 3 or 4 of his but you should see "Fear eats the Soul", jed.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 28 October 2007 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
with fassbinder, the work is almost justification for the life. people are mannequins so it's okay to push them around.
none of the people in the fassbinder films i've seen (admittedly only about 5) seemed like mannequins. a lot of them are unpleasant, or do unpleasant things, but they're at least complicated unpleasant people. and of course not all of them are unpleasant, and also there's a huge amount of life and color in the movies that you seem to be denying. but anyway. to each his own and all that.
― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 28 October 2007 23:50 (sixteen years ago) link
The Index of ILX Film Snobs
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 28 October 2007 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I shouldn't really talk That One Guy Who etc (I'm sure I knew who you were at some point but can't keep track of nu-handles), I was a Fassbinder fan when I was a teenager but haven't seen anything in years & years - I remember liking Herr R., Satan's Brew & 13 Moons precisely because they were dire empty difficult and in the case of the last one coked beyond reason = I liked them for personal reasons
I imagine what you're saying about the audience goes hand-in-hand with pretty much any arthouse director though no?
― J0hn D., Monday, 29 October 2007 00:12 (sixteen years ago) link
saw The Third Generation last night. I've been saving up the 10 or so I haven't seen yet for special occasions like the good wine, but then when I get to something as amazing as that one, it makes me want to make a run on the video store, take two days off from work and batten down
the scene where Eddie Constantine as the corrupt CEO chides the police chief for not having a sense of humor, and the police chief responds by saying 'I had a dream last night... that Capitalism invented Terrorism to force the State to protect it better... isn't that funny?' and they break out into hysterical laughter
and the opening credit sequence with the flashing credits & Peer Raben's kosmische score is one of the most psychedelic things I've seen in months, where the hell are the complete Peer Raben soundtracks? a CD with all the atmospheric pieces in these Fassbinder films would go head to head with all my favorite Cluster & Conrad Schnitzler albums, why can't it be real
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 27 December 2007 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link
http://images.kino.de/flbilder/max02/mbiz02/mbiz19/z0219513/m135.jpg
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 27 December 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
http://images.kino.de/newspics/655/6655_1/m80.jpg
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 27 December 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah wish i could find a single jpg of udo's shock wig in this film
leaving work early to stop by home & record the music of the opening sequence into pro tools before returning the dvd
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 27 December 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Berlin Alexanderplatz is in my house right now, it is due back in 4 or 5 days. Probably not gonna happen. There's always summer I guess.
― mehlt, Friday, 28 December 2007 00:25 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.artecapital.net/uploads/39_1.jpg
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 28 December 2007 00:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9jGFSY3wnw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TBuCNvVPI4
― Milton Parker, Friday, 28 December 2007 00:41 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.sendspace.com/file/cckwug
― Milton Parker, Saturday, 29 December 2007 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Third Generation was awesome agree. Wouldn't say no to a listen to every bit of soundtrack Raben composed from around '76-'79 (Fassbinder's or otherwise, Ottinger 'Ticket of No Return' had some great stuff in it).
The sound design (?) was marvelous -- e.g. all that muffled sound coming off the TV, and so on.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 10 May 2008 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Chinese Roulette was no good tho'.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 10 May 2008 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Elementary school children's Q&A w/ RWF:
http://orpheusfx.blogspot.com/2009/03/fassbinders-q.html
What do you think is needed for a perfect Sunday morning?
Caviar, champagne, the Eight Symphony of Mahler, 'radio activity' by Kraftwerk, the Sunday Bild paper, a book so exciting you don't want it to end, a friend, a good friend, and the possibility of unplugging the phone.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 March 2009 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link