Germany

  • Heinz Emigholz – Dieste [Uruguay] AKA Streetscapes – Chapter 4 (2017)

    2011-2020ArchitectureDocumentaryGermanyHeinz Emigholz


    The final part of Heinz Emigholz’s “Streetscapes” series is a triptych. A prologue examines 3 buildings by Julio Vilamajó in Montevideo. The main part of the film is a cinematic documentation of 29 buildings by the Uruguayan architect and shell-construction master Eladio Dieste (1917-2000).Read More »

  • Peter Handke – Die Linkshändige Frau AKA The Left-Handed Woman (1978)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaGermanyPeter Handke


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    S y n o p s i s
    A woman living in the Paris suburbs struggles with a loveless marriage and apathy toward her family and friends as she spends her days quietly wandering about her house. Austrian playwright and novelist Peter Handke contributed screenplays to a number of films by director Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick). Here (in a film that Wenders produced), he provides both the scenario (adapting his novel of the same name) and direction for this meditative examination of domestic ennui.Read More »

  • Herbert Achternbusch – Mixwix (1989)

    1981-1990ArthouseComedyGermanyHerbert Achternbusch



    In “Mixwix”, a department store owner high above the rooftops of Munich reflects on the extent to which his current life, which mainly revolves around underpants and socks, makes sense.

    He has long been the king of underpants and socks. He even has the largest selection of underpants ever. Mr. Mixwix is a department store owner and so successful with his underpants and socks that something new has to come, something that stimulates him again, lets him continue. Tennis clothing, for example! Or maybe not? While Mr. Mixwix, quiet as Buddha, sits high above the rooftops of Munich and waits for the building permit for the extension of his department store for tennis clothing, he ponders whether he is on the right track with tennis clothing, or whether he is on the right track at all, and what the right track is in the first place. This immersion in Far Eastern life wisdom, the questioning of his own existence as a big capitalist and of capitalism itself, lead Mr. Mixwix to all sorts of philosophical and peculiar games of thought, but also to statements such as: “How can one be as inspirited by one’s own stupidity as the Bavarian people”.Read More »

  • Oskar Fischinger – R-1 (Ein Formspiel) (1927)

    1921-1930ExperimentalGermanyOskar FischingerWeimar Republic cinema



    Quote:
    R-1 (Ein Formspiel)

    “The title R-1, EIN FORMSPIEL VON OSKAR FISCHINGER survives on two different films, one composed entirely of STAFFS … and one composed of small fragments of many different experiments – wax, model planets, atoms, etc. – including a great deal of STAFFS footage. For convenience, I will use the title R-1 to refer to this second, mixed film which appears to be a revised version of the first ….Read More »

  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Whity [+Extra] (1971)

    Drama1971-1980GermanyRainer Werner Fassbinder



    From “Three Film Buffs”
    Whity is a strange but beautiful movie. It is a German language western set in 1878. The only time any English is used is during the songs sung by the saloon whore who performs like she’s in a cabaret in Berlin in the early 1930’s. It was shot in Spain on the sets of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns starring Clint Eastwood.

    The bizarre story (believe me this is unlike any western you have ever seen) centers on the title character – real name Samuel King – the bastard son and slave to the wealthy Nicholson family. The father is a sadistic son of a bitch whose favorite form of punishment for his grown-up sons is a buggy whip. In one scene Whity willingly steps in for one of his brothers and takes the beating for him.Read More »

  • Hans H. Zerlett – Zwei Frauen (1938)

    1931-1940DramaGermanyHans H. ZerlettThird Reich Cinema



    Here’s a film so rare and forgotten, it isn’t even listed the German Lexikon des Internationalen Films, so it’s unlikely that it ran anywhere after the war. The overly bright but quite good copy of unknown provenience has Dutch and French subtitles burned in.
    The story is about a theater star (Olga Tschechowa) who finds herself suddenly a mother again after her daughter (Irene von Meyendorff) who lived with her father for 16 years got thrown out by him because she wants also to become an actress. Naturally the mother isn’t too pleased because she fears to be recognized as a mother losing some star appeal, so they present themselves as aunt and niece. However the young girl soon proves to be a competitor in love and career …Read More »

  • F.W. Murnau – Der Brennende Acker AKA Burning Soil (1922)

    1921-1930DramaF.W. MurnauGermanySilentWeimar Republic cinema


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    When farmer Rog dies, his son Peter stays, but Johannes can not be satisfied with such a condition (and servant Maria’s love) and finds a job as old Count Rudenberg’s secretary. His ambition leads him to charm Gerda, the Count’s unique daughter. But when he discovers that Count’s second wife Helga will soon inherit a field that only he knows his underground is full with petroleum, he changes his allegiance… Greed and death.Read More »

  • Talal Derki – Of Fathers and Sons (2017)

    2011-2020DocumentaryGermanyTalal Derki



    Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses on Osama and his younger brother Ayman, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up in an Islamic Caliphate.Read More »

  • Oskar Fischinger – Short animation collection (1931 – 1955)

    AnimationGermanyOskar FischingerShort Film

    Various quality, some mpg, some avi. Recommended if you like Len Lye.

    1930 Studie Nr. 6
    1931 Studie Nr. 7
    1931 Studie Nr. 9
    1933 Kreise
    1934 Muratti Greift Ein
    1935 Komposition in Blau
    1935 Muratti Privat
    1941 American March
    1943 Allegretto
    1947 Motion Painting
    1952 Muntz-Tvmercial
    1955 Oklahoma GaspanyRead More »

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