Re: [microsound] [of] good recent german films?

[Joshua Maremont <thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:01 AM -0500 12/7/04, graham miller wrote:
> i'm looking for them. the more contemporary and fucked up, the better.
> saw run lola run... good but not great. but it made me realize how
> little i have in the way of cool recent german films... so, what's the
> bomb here, the canon... what should i see?

I found Run Lola Run to be the least of Tom Tykwer's films, prefering 
the darker Wintersleepers and The Princess And The Warrior and his 
Kieslowski adaptation Heaven.  I would second the recommendation for 
Michael Haneke, who seems to get better with every film and whose 
recent Time Of The Wolf reminded numbingly of Bergman's Shame.  For 
entertainment Tattoo and Das Experiment were good fun (although 
watching the writer and lead actor of the latter arguing with the man 
behind the Stanford Prison Experiment after the film was even more 
fun), even if Tattoo covers similar ground to that of the creepier 
Tell Me Something.  For this list I have to mention Andrea Dusl's 
Blue Moon, a road movie with a Fennesz soundtrack (and complete with 
end titles pop song), although my own recent favorites have been 
Matthias Keilich's Nicht Fisch Nicht Fleisch, and Barbara Albert's 
Free Radicals.  Meanwhile I keep holding onto the vain hope that 
someone will get Reinhard Hauff's Messer Im Kopf out on DVD....

np - This Empty Flow - Nowafter
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Joshua Maremont / Thermal - mailto:thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Boxman Studies Label - http://www.boxmanstudies.com/

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