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Helmut Käutner – Der Apfel ist ab AKA The Original Sin AKA The Apple Fell (1948)
Lubitsch wrote: Time again to raise more interest in post war German cinema before the Heimatfilm wave and Käutner’s witty and inventive comedy is just a fine example to do that. Again it’s in the end...
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Werner Schroeter – Nuit de chien AKA This Night (2008)
Quote: Werner Schroeter is one of the German new wave’s prophets without honour. He was too confrontationally weird to take his place alongside Fassbinder, Wenders and Herzog in the international...
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Sohrab Shahid Saless – Grabbes letzter Sommer AKA Grabbe’s Last Summer (1980)
Quote: Talented Iranian director Sohrab Shahid Saless has succeeded in taking on an unusual project — the life and times of a German literary figure — and making it interesting. Christian Dietrich...
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Ben Hopkins – Hasret: Sehnsucht (2015)
A European director is commissioned to make a documentary about Istanbul. He starts to film its everyday life – but soon becomes drawn to the darker, more mysterious side of the city – its past, its...
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Andrei Stefanescu – #Beings (2015)
Beings is the second feature film of Stefanescu Andrei, after Sleep Awake in 2012, is also a micro-budget film, this time shot in Berlin with a small magical crew in the autumn of 2014. It is a...
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Wim Wenders – In weiter Ferne, so nah! AKA Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Quote: In Faraway, So Close! angels watch over the people of Berlin. The world weighs heavily upon these men and women. Their attachment to things diminishes their desire for the invisible. As one...
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Will Tremper – Die endlose Nacht AKA The Endless Night (1963)
esther-ofarim.de wrote: Film about people, who come to the airport and no airplane is flying.They are waiting and nothing happens. It’s a kind of criminal film with drama and comedy. Sandra Brennan...
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Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley – Like Cattle Towards Glow (2015)
Quote: The film’s violence is the genuinely spiritual kind. A loud expression of the alienation that hums constantly in the elevator music to modern life. (John Farley, Full Stop) The novels, writings...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Angst vor der Angst aka Fear of Fear (1975)
For a long, in-depth review; see Jim’s Reviews link From Bill’s Movie Emporium: The story presented in Angst Vor Der Angst isn’t original by any means, although in 1975 I’m sure it had some...
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Werner Schroeter – Goldflocken (1976)
Werner Schroeter’s rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evokes and parodies everything from kitschy Mexican...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Ich will doch nur, daß ihr mich liebt AKA I Only...
Quote: A man is interviewed by a sympathetic woman. His tale unfolds, of hard work that never pleases his parents, of a father who denigrates his efforts, of an indifferent mother. He builds them a...
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Edward Berger – Jack (2014)
Quote: Breakfast, younger brother fed and dressed, off to school, all in haste. Great responsibility for a ten year old, great fun in places too; later going playing in the park with mother and her...
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Michael Haneke – Das Schloß AKA The Castle (1997)
Quote: It was just a matter of time before Michael Haneke and Franz Kafka crossed paths. The Castle, the Austrian filmmaker’s made-for-TV version of the Czech writer’s famous unfinished novel,...
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Patrick Vollrath – Alles wird gut AKA Everything Will Be Okay (2015)
Synopsis: A divorced father picks up his eight-year-old daughter Lea. It seems pretty much like every second weekend, but after a while Lea can’t help feeling that something isn’t right. So begins a...
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Achim Bornhak – Der Nachtmahr AKA The Nightmare (2015)
Quote: After a night of partying in a mansion with a swimming pool, teenager Tina starts to experience weird things. She hallucinates a violent deja-vu, and hears discomforting sounds. At home she is...
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Jules Herrmann – Liebmann (2016)
Quote: The teacher Antek Liebmann moves to the French countryside to leave his former life in Germany behind. He soon gets a job and finds himself in a new relationship. But the strange energy of a...
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Julian Benedikt & Andreas Morell – Blue Note – A Story of Modern Jazz (1997)
The artists list on this DVD reads like a Who’s Who of the best international jazz musicians of all times. It features Art Blakey, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins —...
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Edwin Zbonek – Der Henker von London AKA The Mad Executioners (1963)
Synopsis: ‘A band of hooded men have formed a court and they are exacting justice upon the criminals who have escaped the reach of the law. The sentence they exact is death by hanging. Using the...
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Werner Herzog & Dmitry Vasyukov – Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
Quote: From directors Dmitry Vasyukov and Werner Herzog – and thanks to DVD distribution from Second Sight – comes 2010 feature documentary Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010), an affectionate...
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Christian Petzold – Toter Mann AKA Something to Remind Me (2001)
Quote: Middle-aged lawyer Thomas assists Leyla, an attractive blonde, when she drops her things at the pool. After their paths keep crossing, he picks up the courage to ask her out for a date....
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