Display Name 60 Posted April 26, 2019 Author Share Posted April 26, 2019 On 4/24/2019 at 7:16 PM, TheUlyssesian said: Toni Erdmann is a towering masterpiece - one of the very greatest films of the new millennium. That film is going down as a great classic - mark my words. It also was the case for the most unfortunate snub in recent cinema history that the Cannes 2016 jury missed a great opportunity to give a woman the Palme - for a film that richly deserved and which had so much to say about the present moment we live in. I agree. On 4/24/2019 at 7:16 PM, TheUlyssesian said: I actually liked Werk ohne Autor as well. It is a very long film but I found it very compelling and in some ways surprising about what it was. It has the perfect setup for a really melodramatic plot but it actually becomes about art and expression and how we put so much of ourselves into what we communicate out to the world. Mind you I don't think the film is perfect, there are definitely some problems with it but it is very classically handsome and the cinematography is good, the score too. There are several dialog-less scenes of just the artist working which are only driven by the cinematography and the score and they are stirring. On the surface it is a well executed film - which is the reason why nobody dares to give it the 1/5 stars it deserves for its exaggeratedly bloated, clichéd and one-dimensional content. It is simply vicarious embarrassment that I feel, when I see that this was THE German film that got the Oscar nomination for best foreign language film last year. After Toni Erdmann a major step backwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,504 Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 Speaking of German cinema, what do you think of Christian Petzold's latest (TRANSIT)? I found it very disappointing. A far cry from PHOENIX (his best), BARBARA or DREILEBEN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Display Name 60 Posted April 26, 2019 Author Share Posted April 26, 2019 5 minutes ago, Thor said: Speaking of German cinema, what do you think of Christian Petzold's latest (TRANSIT)? I found it very disappointing. A far cry from PHOENIX (his best), BARBARA or DREILEBEN. Transit, Phoenix and Barbara are the only Petzold films I've seen. And I wasn't disappointed by Transit at all. It was so suggestive! I can hardly imagine that there is a movie in his filmography that will exceed Phoenix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 On 2/1/2019 at 2:10 PM, Stefancos said: Really? Thats suspicious... It's obvious they played it safe this time, for fear of being shown to be a bunch of trigger happy buffoons on the last occasion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUlyssesian 2,478 Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 On 4/26/2019 at 7:08 AM, Display Name said: Transit, Phoenix and Barbara are the only Petzold films I've seen. And I wasn't disappointed by Transit at all. It was so suggestive! I can hardly imagine that there is a movie in his filmography that will exceed Phoenix. On 4/26/2019 at 7:01 AM, Thor said: Speaking of German cinema, what do you think of Christian Petzold's latest (TRANSIT)? I found it very disappointing. A far cry from PHOENIX (his best), BARBARA or DREILEBEN. I actually quite liked Transit. There are some big critics that are huge champions of it. It is a fascinating film. And the actors are tremendous. Also the modern dress period setting is quite unusual. Something I have never seen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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