[Magublafix]

Der Eisbär

[jon boy]

generally speaking german films have bad soundtracks i have observed, but i love german films. when i lived in berlin i saw several being made.

[Bertrand]

Murnau & Pabst were great
Herzog's Aguirre's a beauty

Herzog's picture about Kinski is really interesting, especially the part when the guys living where Fitzcaraldo was shot go to Herzog and offer him seriously to kill Kinski for the trouble he brings.
Not to say that Herzog is an angel either. I remember the face of an actress he is standing by. He says something like she ain't a great actress without giving a damn of the consequences, for he just doesn't care about her feelings.

Fassbinder directed a TV film called Martha with Margit Carstensen & KarlHeinz Boehm. In that flick, there's a circular camera move on Boehm walking with stone-cold eyes that is a-ma-zing.

[johnnywinternoshow]

Forklift driver Klaus is a pretty good short german film

[luxinterior]

Originally Posted by Iain

My Best Fiend (not a typo, it makes sense when you see it)

Hahaha, that is fantastic. I'm aware of the relationship between those two, and when I misread is as "Friend," I thought that it was just a very, very sarcastic title.

[cuetzpalin]

the tin drum!!
and the warrior and the princess was pretty cool too

[luxinterior]

Originally Posted by Iain

Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre: Wrath of God are essential Herzog films. Everyone should see those.

But yes, I agree, and I don't know which one I like more. This past year in school, one of the teachers (who was also a priest) and I would always talk about movies we had watched recently, because he was signed up at Blockbuster and I was at Netflix. And the conversations would typically be long, and we would argue about all sorts of things, and one day he asked me, "Have you seen Aguirre: The Wrath of God?" I said yes, and he responded by saying, "It was very...interesting." And I don't know why, but that was the last time we ever talked about movies.

[jon boy]

i like your signature thing iain.

the edukators was very good, apart from the cheese music and sappy ending. i liked goodbye lenin as well. my favourite has to be wings of desire though.

[luxinterior]

Originally Posted by jon boy

i like your signature thing iain.

the edukators was very good, apart from the cheese music and sappy ending. i liked goodbye lenin as well. my favourite has to be wings of desire though.

That is most likely my favorite as well.

[jon boy]

i meant to say luxinterior's signature.

[luxinterior]

Originally Posted by jon boy

i meant to say luxinterior's signature.

Why thank you, Sebastian Bach likes you too.

[Trasher02]

Der untergang was awesome

[acousticrock87]

I saw Das Experiment pretty recently. I liked it. The real story is pretty interesting, too.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by luxinterior

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.

oh i haven't seen it! i know they had a horrid relationship; i'd bump it. actually i think im going to get the same in greencine (check it out, i think it's way better than netflix if you love movies).

oh yeah... check out this link!!!

[jon boy]

das experiment was kinda dissapointing for me. they actually did it on british tv for real a while back, it was amazing to see how the people in power became as much prisoners themselves.

[nw83]

Has anyone seen Christianna F.? A once controversial German film, about 13-year old heroin-addicts in 1970's Berlin? It has lots of cool scenes of the subway at night, of the flourescent gloom, etc; all soundtracked by Eno/Bowie (the instrumentals from Low/Heros). Plus, brilliantly OTT scenes of masturbation, gay sex, and S&M - which is suprising as its shown on True Movies on Sky, a channel which usually shows weepies, where a scene of a teddy bear falling over is considered to be hardcore.

[!@#$%!]

oh yes i knew it as christianne f. -- beautiful & sad fucking movie.

someone mentioned the tin dum. i just watched it again recently for like the 5th time. awesome!

[o o o]

that picture is great:

 

it's on the cover (?) of "my best fiend", i believe...

[Magublafix]

Originally Posted by nw83

Has anyone seen Christianna F.? A once controversial German film, about 13-year old heroin-addicts in 1970's Berlin? It has lots of cool scenes of the subway at night, of the flourescent gloom, etc; all soundtracked by Eno/Bowie (the instrumentals from Low/Heros). Plus, brilliantly OTT scenes of masturbation, gay sex, and S&M - which is suprising as its shown on True Movies on Sky, a channel which usually shows weepies, where a scene of a teddy bear falling over is considered to be hardcore.

i saw it and i read it...

[luxinterior]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

oh i haven't seen it! i know they had a horrid relationship; i'd bump it. actually i think im going to get the same in greencine (check it out, i think it's way better than netflix if you love movies).

oh yeah... check out this link!!!

I went to that site, and as a test I typed in "Nick Zedd" to see how many results came up, and sure enough, they have that Abnormal: Sinema collection that Netflix does not offer (you can save the movies, but you cannot add them to your queue). So I checked the number of movies estimated to be in their catalogue, and it said "over 25,000" while Netflix claims 60,000 of their own. So my question is, do you know if Netflix just has 60,000 movies because most of it is total crap (or maybe when one movie has an extra disc of bonus features, Netflix then counts that as two movies)? Because after browsing through that greencine website, it does seem as if it is better than Netflix. And it would seem like greencine would have more movies because they say they have more anime than any other site, and plus they have adult videos. So the numbers just don't make sense to me.

I was also thinking that maybe Netflix counts those movies that are unavailable (like the Nick Zedd collection) as being a part of their catalogue, even though I highly doubt they will ever offer them for rental.