May 8, 2013

The Last Ten Movies I Saw

By michaelgloversmith

1. Holy Motors (Carax)
2. Bug (Friedkin)
3. Germany, Pale Mother (Sanders-Brahms)
4. The Lovers on the Bridge (Carax)
5. Palermo or Wolfsburg (Schroeter)
6. Sun Don’t Shine (Seimetz)
7. Hitler: A Film from Germany (Syberberg)
8. Grace (Solet)
9. The Devil’s Backbone (Del Toro)
10. Before Sunset (Linklater)

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2 responses to “The Last Ten Movies I Saw”

  • Mitchell
    May 8th, 2013 at 4:18 pm

    I saw Hitler: A film from Germany when it first played in the early 80s. It was a marathon showing at Avery Fisher Hall in NYC and I was overwhelmed. I have the book of the script with an intro by Susan Sonntag. I also have a quasi-bootleg copy that I got on Ebay years ago, but have never watched. As an avid Wagnerian, and having lived in Bavaria for a year I felt like the film was made for me. I loved the Parsifal he did even more.

    What was the occasion for your watching it?

    Reply
    • michaelgloversmith
      May 8th, 2013 at 8:43 pm

      I watched it because I’m going to do a “New German Cinema” primer on this blog. I saw the official DVD release that Facets put out a few years back. Image quality was so-so. I wish I could’ve seen it in a theater. I also just watched films by Werner Schroeter and Helma Sanders-Brahms for the first time. The Seventies was a heroic age for German cinema.

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