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| 18 FEB 2005 at 9:52pm |
AllanonJourneyman
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Joined: 19 JUN 2003
Status : Offline | Run Lola Run !!!
Made it mainstream a while ago - just kidding , my friend .
You only live once , but , if you live right , once is enough . Being happy takes work ...
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| 19 FEB 2005 at 9:22am |
SanjuroIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 34
Joined: 7 JUL 2004
Status : Online | Germany has always been huge in the world of film. One of the giants really. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Metropolis were changing the way films were made around the world way back in the 1920s. And more recently Germany was responsible for one of the greatest war films of all time, Das Boot. However, if you are only referring to the very new stuff, then...feel free to dismiss my entire point.
But the old stuff is better. amn it.
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| 19 FEB 2005 at 12:44pm |
WimliGuild Master
Posts : 3259
Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | You're absolutely right! Germany was the only country that could compete with Hollywood in the twenties and the early thirties. Those years brought many classics, next to the ones you already mentioned, like Nosferatu, M, Der Golem, Siegfried and Der Letzte Mann. And although the biggest German film studio was government owned, German filmmakers were able to experiment more in their films than American filmmakers (trapped in the sometimes artistically suffocating Hollywood studio system). The expressionism of German films of that time would have far going influences in many Hollywood pictures of the forties and fifties.
Still, once Hitler came into power, all movie experiment was killed and almost the entire film industry was forced to produce mainly propagandistic films. Even after the Second World War, I don't think German film production ever recovered to reach their level of high quality production of before the war again. What did happen though was that a lot of the best German directors fled Germany and ended up in Hollywood, e.g. one of my alltime favourite directors, Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity!, Some Like It Hot!, Sunset Boulevard!!!, etc.). And movies like Das Boot are indeed excellent, but the number of classics became much much smaller than during the Weimar period.
And now, suddenly out of the blue, there comes this string of absolutely great German films! But indeed, talking about the older German cinema, i wouldn't think of dismissing your point for a minute!
Btw, happy to see another massive film buff here!
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| 19 FEB 2005 at 1:13pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | I hate war movies - except for Das Boot. So far the only war movie I saw depicting war how it really is: no heroes, just normal people doing their job and praying the whole thing would stop so they can return home safely. I'm sure there are other good war movies out there, but I don't like the genre.
Strange you didn't mentioned Necromantik though - now that's classic German cinema!
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| 19 FEB 2005 at 1:57pm |
KamisoriXSchattenjger
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Status : Online | if you would live in germany (like i do) you would also know that there is lotsa crap movies coming from germany. :-*
Btw. the movie is called originaly "ie Fetten Jahre sind vorbei", in english "The Fat Years Are Over"...if you can say it like that.
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| 19 FEB 2005 at 8:02pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
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Joined: 4 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Another relatively good anti-war movie: Die Brücke
There are two on IMDb, one from 1949 and one from 1959. I don't even remember which one of these it was this one .
Teenagers fight a useless war for the bridge in their area. Not to mention, there is no happy ending to this...
But I don't like to watch depressing movies in general.
[b]playing[/b]: Destination Treasure Island (done in two sittings, but it's nice), Syberia (ho-hum), Dracula: Last Sanctuary (on hold)&&[b]reading[/b]: even more study papers&&[b]listening to[/b]: [url=http://www.last.fm/user/Brax82/]this and that[/url], plus [url=http://www.musicovery.com/]Musicovery[/url]&&[b]TV favorites[/b]: (currently) Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Journeyman (cancelled! grrr...), Heroes&& all-time) 24, Stargate SG1, X-Files, Lost, House
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| 21 FEB 2005 at 12:57am |
WimliGuild Master
Posts : 3259
Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Agustin (19 FEB 2005 1:13pm)
Strange you didn't mentioned Necromantik though - now that's classic German cinema!
Lol, somehow I have a feeling this one doesn't fall into the same category as Das Boot. : Still, they say opposites attract. I guess that goes for movie genres too. I should be able to enjoy both movies. I'll try to find this one.
Kamisorix:
Btw. the movie is called originaly "ie Fetten Jahre sind vorbei", in english "The Fat Years Are Over"...if you can say it like that.
Probably not a really marketable title. I wondered about that. Normally we get the original titles of movies here, except for Asian films, no one can pronounce those . Was Goodbye Lenin the original title of that film? Probably changed for similar reasons.
@Elfstone:
Never heard of the movie you mentioned. I'll try to hunt it down too. It sounds like an interesting one! Any other tips? More than welcome!
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