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Volker Schlöndorff – Return to Montauk (2017)
Quote: The author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he meets up again with the woman he could never forget. They spend a weekend together. 17 years have...
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Bob Rafelson – Porn.com (2002)
Veteran film director Matty Bonkers (Bob Rafelson), a Hollywood legend, arrives in Berlin or an honorary retrospective tribute. While introducing his film MOCKERY, he receives a phone call from his...
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Harun Farocki – White Christmas (1968)
Quote: One of the many films drawing a connection between Christmas and war. It is unclear whether the longing for a white Christmas is being taken seriously, or whether it is intended as a...
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Josef von Sternberg – Der blaue Engel aka The Blue Angel (1930)
Article: from ~ by James Steffen Immanuel Rath is a stuffy, disciplinarian professor who is shocked to discover his students passing around a postcard of Lola-Lola, a singer at The Blue Angel cabaret....
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Ulrike Ottinger – Johanna D’Arc of Mongolia (1989)
Asian warriors take a group of Western women hostage and bring them to their all-female village, leading to a culture clash. Women Make Movies wrote: Ulrike Ottinger’s epic adventure traces a...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant AKA The...
Quote: One of Fassbinder’s most controversial films, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant is an obsessive, highly stylized look at the shifting power plays in relationships. Petra von Kant is an...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Mutter Küsters’ Fahrt zum Himmel (1975)
Quote: Like all of Fassbinder’s best films, Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven is many things at once. It is simultaneously a deeply compassionate portrait of a working-class woman and a scathing satire of...
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Luis Trenker – Der verlorene Sohn AKA The Prodigal Son (1934)
Synopsis: “Mountain-film” specialist Luis Trenker plies his trade with his usual expertise in the Austrian Velorene Sohn (Prodigal Son). Trenker himself plays the leading role of Tonia Feuersinger, a...
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Valeska Grisebach – Western (2017)
A group of German construction workers start a tough job at a remote site in the Bulgarian countryside. The foreign land awakens the men’s sense of adventure, but they are also confronted with their...
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Helene Hegemann – Torpedo (2008)
After her mother’s death, 15-year old Mia moves in with her aunt, the actress Cleo, who lives with her son Fritzi in a shared apartment in Berlin. Mia lingers for stability and attention but in...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Lili Marleen (1981)
Late Fassbinder melodrama. In Switzerland German singer ‘Willie’ falls in love with Jewish composer ‘Robert’ who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees. But his family thinks that ‘Willie’...
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Angela Schanelec – Der traumhafte Weg (2016)
Quote: Angela Schanelec’s first feature since 2010 is the much-anticipated Der traumhafte Weg, a serious work that is deliberately constructed image upon image and allows the viewer to read a...
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Werner Schroeter – Eika Katappa (1969)
Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music – with different approaches to love, suffering, and...
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Jan Speckenbach – Die Vermissten (2012)
All of a sudden, 16-year-old Martha vanishes. Her father Lothar, who for years has had no contact with her or his ex-wife, sets off unwilling to find her. He soon realises other young people are also...
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Werner Nekes – Diwan (1974)
Quote: “Diwan, a lyric anthology, an outdoor movie with people. With people living in the surrounding precious and very beautifully photographed nature, are neither more nor less than one part of it....
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Herrmann Zschoche – Sieben Sommersprossen AKA Seven Freckles (1978)
SYNOPSIS: Having once lived in the same house as young children, Caroline and Robby meet again at summer camp years later. Now 15-years-old, a relationship begins to build between the two old friends,...
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Werner Nekes – Makimono (1974)
Quote: Werner Nekes filmed a Finnish landscape from a fixed point of view and just panned steady and slow around. What becomes of these experimental shots is a wonderful, universal, gigantic wall of...
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Ron Holloway – Paradjanov: A Requiem (1994)
The film shows the unique world of artist Sergei Parajanov, whose brilliant images in films and collages aroused the suspicion of Soviet authorities. Unexpectedly, this last all-embracing interview,...
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Werner Herzog – Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Synopsis: Klaus Kinski plays the title role of an obsessed opera lover who wants to build an opera in the jungle. To accomplish this he first has to make a fortune in the rubber business, and his...
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Rüdiger Suchsland – Hitlers Hollywood AKA Hitler‘s Hollywood (2017)
This documentary examines the German cinema from 1933 when the Nazi’s came into power until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed. http://nitroflare.com/view/214DE953A6AF197/Hitler%27s_Hollywood.mkv...
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