Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:

shakahislop

shakahislop

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IdleRich said:
Petra von Kant, I think that's the first Fassbinder one I saw. I had just started going out with this Spanish girl and she bought the early boxset which has his first twenty odd films in it. We loved that one and from that day on I went to her place every evening where we would watch one or two of his films together until the boxset was completed.

The early, romantic days of courting when you do loads of stuff together and it all seems fun... before it all goes horribly wrong and you turn viciously on each other. Still, we'll always have Fassbinder the Early Years I guess.
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Necroposting but saw this today and for some reason everyone in the cinema was laughing at what I thought was the most dramatic bit, where she's hammered on that big fluffy carpet and shouting at her mum and her kid. i don't get our american brothers sometimes. but I do like how much noise they make in cinemas. always laughing and whooping. a round of applause at the end for this one too.

nice film. don't think I've seen a german one before
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
linebaugh said:
Don't think I've ever seen a film be so pointedly disturbed without compromising the rest of the film. Films this fucked up usually wade into cabaret even if they still remain satisfying watches , requiem for a dream probably the most famous example.
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Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
linebaugh said:
Ended up watching Come and See. Jesus Christ. Knew almost nothing going in. Another one I imagine others here will have things to say on
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Yeah I think that might be the heaviest (and one of the best) war films I've seen. The gradual erosion of that kids sense of innocence.
 
Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Maybe I need to rewatch it, but it didn't feel exhibitionist/exploitative or superficially transgressive when I saw it, which I don't think is what you're saying about Come and See, but I can see that being true about Requiem.
 
Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Definitely get that sense about some other similarly intense films, like some of Von Trier's work and even Cronenberg to an extent, as much as I love them both.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
shakahislop said:
Necroposting but saw this today and for some reason everyone in the cinema was laughing at what I thought was the most dramatic bit, where she's hammered on that big fluffy carpet and shouting at her mum and her kid. i don't get our american brothers sometimes. but I do like how much noise they make in cinemas. always laughing and whooping. a round of applause at the end for this one too.

nice film. don't think I've seen a german one before
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Wait, are you saying you've never seen a German film before?
 
shakahislop

shakahislop

Well-known member
IdleRich said:
Wait, are you saying you've never seen a German film before?
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yeah i don't think so. i hardly watched any films between about 2003 and about 2021. wasn't interested at all, had no respect for it. only really got interested coz i liked a lot of the video art i saw in galleries. don't think i've seen a german one before.
 
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