Great lesser known movies
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The only problem was that I didn't know half the shit he was saying.He accent was deep and the DVD didn't have subtitles.
Seven Samurai (1954)
Heart Of Glass (1976)
Eraserhead (1977)
Lolita (1962)
Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
I'm not there (2007)
The American Friend (1977)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Wings Of Desire (1987)
Amores perros (2000)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
Solaris (1972)
Spirited Away (2001)
And I'm forgetting alot of movies^^
Heart Of Glass (1976)
Eraserhead (1977)
Lolita (1962)
Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
I'm not there (2007)
The American Friend (1977)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Wings Of Desire (1987)
Amores perros (2000)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
Solaris (1972)
Spirited Away (2001)
And I'm forgetting alot of movies^^
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Vanilla Bear
Bears For Life
I think you all know the move but its pretty unknown in Germany...
The Garden State
:bowdown:
It is damn awesome...
Great story, actors....everything
The Garden State
:bowdown:
It is damn awesome...
Great story, actors....everything
paris texas is a great one that i have not seen in a while !
Clockers is a very good move.
The only one on your list I saw was Spirited Away and it was one of the best Anime films ever.Didn't really care for Princess Monanoke or any of the other Miyazaki's movies,but Spirited Away was phenomenal.
dick van cock
Closed Account
I reckon he has never seen a movie from the 70ies.
I don't like Wim Wenders. Some of his earlier stuff is quite watchable (American Friend, Alice in den Städten, Im Lauf der Zeit), but all this lyrical angel business is just not my cup of tea.
Otherwise, German movies from thew 70ies are awesome. We've never had as much talent as then: Fassbinder, Herzog, Schamoni, Kluge, Straub, Schlöndorff, Klick, etc...
German movies hadn't recovered from the exodus in the early 30ies when the Nazis destroyed the vibrant film industry. Just think of all the great people who either fleed or were murdered (Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Fred Zinnemann, the Siodmaks, Max Ophüls, Kurt Gerron).
The Seventies renaissance was a direct result of the leftist student uprising in the Sixties. The last remnants of the Nazi era were wiped off the screen.
My personal favorites:
- Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? (1969, Fassbinder)
- Deutschland im Herbst (1977, collective effort of various directors)
- Angst essen Seele auf (1974, Fassbinder)
- Abschied von gestern (1966, Kluge)
- Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: ratlos (1968, Kluge)
- Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin (1973, Kluge)
- Es (1965, Schamoni)
- Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen (1969, Herzog)
- Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (1982, Fassbinder)
- Supermarkt (1974, Klick)
- 48 Stunden bis Acapulco (1968, Lemke)
- Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (1975, Schlöndorff)
Almost all of these movies are in one way or the other highly political. That was the spirit of the 70ies: We had the desire to get the load of 40 years of perceived repression of our chests. The better that it happened in movies, too.
The ironic thing is that these pictures were not overly successful commercially. The box office hits ironically were softcore porn films (Schulmädchen-Report) and superficial tearjerkers based on the novels by J.M. Simmel.
{enough! nobody will read this, anyway...}
dave_rhino
Closed Account
Three I can think of right now: Machinist, The Jacket, Special,
I know theres more, and I'll add them when I think of them. Good thread.
I know theres more, and I'll add them when I think of them. Good thread.
Vanilla Bear
Bears For Life
yes of course I know these...
especially "Der Himmel über Berlin" its the original of "City of Angels"
but Im not a big fan of Wim Wenders either
I know the others too but watched just parts of them.
I reckon he has never seen a movie from the 70ies.
And how do you come to this conclusion?
Btw I think you would have called this flaming if I would have posted something like this.
Think about it.
Will E Worm
Conspiracy...
maildude
Postal Paranoiac
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