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.