Bruce LaBruce – Pierrot Lunaire (2014)
A young girl that regularly dresses as a boy falls in love and seduces a young girl that has no clue that her lover has the same sex. When the girl introduces ‘her boyfriend’ to her father he becomes...
View ArticleGerhard Lamprecht – Die Buddenbrooks (1923)
Quote:Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family.The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film. 338MB | 1h 24m |...
View ArticleHeinz Emigholz – Antivilla (2021)
I am concerned with the cinematic recreation of the immediate experience of spaces, with the most accurate possible portrait of these spaces and its details in cinema.Heinz Emigholz The films of...
View ArticleHeinz Emigholz – Casa Golly (2021)
The films of pre-eminent documentary filmmaker Heinz Emigholz present the most important architects of the 20th century not through explanation or biography, but by using the camera to reveal the...
View ArticleWerner Klingler – Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse AKA The Terror of Doctor...
SynopsisEvil genius Dr. Mabuse hypnotizes the director of an insane asylum in this remake of Fritz Lang’s 1933 cinematic landmark. +Commentary by writer David Kalat 2.60GB | 1h 28m | 954×576 | mkv...
View ArticleHarun Farocki – Counter-Music [Single channel version] (2004)
Quote:The city today is as rationalised and regulated as a production process. The images which today determine the day of the city are operative images, control images. Representations of traffic...
View ArticleUllrich H. Kasten & Hans-Dieter Schütt – Paul Celan – Dichter ist, wer...
A documentary film on the life and work of the great poet Paul Celan with interviews with his son, Eric Celan and his French editor, Bertrand Badiou. It is in Czernowitz, in Bucovina, in the current...
View ArticleDominik Graf & Johannes Sievert – Offene Wunde deutscher Film (2017)
We already know just how wild, unpredictable, sensual, audacious and bursting with life German cinema can be from the film essay Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film. Now Dominik Graf and Johannes Sievert...
View ArticleDominik Graf & Johannes Sievert – Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film (2016)
Don’t we all feel the same longing for German films that break ranks, that are wild and sensual, that possess a true physicality? Dominik Graf’s thrillers, the articles he’s written on cinema and his...
View ArticleHeinz Emigholz – Die letzte Stadt AKA The Last City (2020)
An archaeologist and a weapons designer, who knew each other in a previous life as a filmmaker and a psychoanalyst, meet at an excavation site in the Negev desert and begin a conversation about love...
View ArticleDominik Graf – Das Gelübde (2007)
Clemens Brentano, an artist in his prime, no longer wants to be an artist. The poet and bon vivant goes to the bedside of the nun Anna Katharina Emmerich as a simple “scribe of God’s wonders” to write...
View ArticleHarun Farocki – Das doppelte Gesicht: Peter Lorre aka The Double Face of...
Arnold Hohmann wrote:Peter Lorre achieved international fame for his performance in the myth-making role in M. This character has held a peculiar fascination for generations of cinephiles. However, at...
View ArticleVarious – Deutschland 09 – 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation AKA Germany 09:...
Quote:Thirteen noted German filmmakers offer their impressions of the past, present and future of the land they call home in this anthology. Coordinated by Tom Tykwer, Deutschland 09, 13 kurze Filme...
View ArticleHeinz Emigholz – Der zynische Körper AKA The Holy Bunch (1991)
Carl is having trouble writing. As the film progresses, his novelistic character develops into a real person who intervenes in his life with increasing menace. The lector Roy supports Carl but is...
View ArticleVolker Schlöndorff – Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach AKA...
From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:An excellent example of a particularly interesting new genre of young German cinema; bizarre, deadly serious variations on the reactionary German “Heimat”...
View ArticleAlan Vydra – Abflug Bermudas (1976)
Labeled as an erotic thriller this is the third full feature by Alan Vydra.Besides being producer, and director Vydra also edited the movie and did camera. Poor Mario an orphan who had served in the...
View ArticleBertolt Brecht & Carl Koch – Mann ist Mann AKA A Man’s a Man AKA Man Equals...
quote:Stage play directed by Berthold Brecht, filmed by Carl Koch, about a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner’s squadron and transformed into the perfect soldier. Man is Man, a...
View ArticleJoachim Kunert – Tatort Berlin AKA Crime Scene: Berlin (1958)
Quote:Rudi Prange intends to have a fresh beginning once he is released from prison, and he’s off to a good start with a new job at a transportation company. Yet, despite his good intentions, Rudi is...
View ArticleUlrich Köhler – Montag kommen die Fenster AKA Windows on Monday (2006)
For Nina, her husband Frieder, and their daughter Charlotte, a new house in a new town could mean the beginning of a phase of domestic bliss. But Nina is having her doubts; she stands about in the...
View ArticleVolker Schlöndorff – Die Moral der Ruth Halbfass AKA The Morals of Ruth...
from Hans-Bernhard Moeller and George Lellis, “Volker Schlöndorff’s Cinema” Volker Schlöndorff based his film “Die Moral der Ruth Halbfass” on a rather spectacular murder case that involved a rich...
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