― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 7 August 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Das Spiel ist aus für Baaderonixx (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 06:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Das Spiel ist aus für Baaderonixx (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 07:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― patita (patita), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Saturday, 20 January 2007 09:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Wenders' season, NFT, or whatever ya call it now
― Tom D., Monday, 7 January 2008 14:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Saw "Alice in the Cities" last night. Wonderful film, even better than I remembered it. As for the season itself - it's the usual, all the films you've seen before are on constantly day and night for a month, and the ones you haven't seen are on once... while you're at work.
― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
saw alice in the cities on saturday, absolutely hypnotic movie.
― stevie, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
soundtrack to end of the world is great
― max, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
im seeing him do a q&a on friday, if anyone has any zingers i could use.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Really loved 'Kings of the Road'. Liked the music, even though you can almost see where the whole business of making films with Bono thing came from by just listening to that.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
"As for the season itself - it's the usual, all the films you've seen before are on constantly day and night for a month, and the ones you haven't seen are on once... while you're at work."
Call in sick! ;-)
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I wish. Can's (well, actually just Irmin Schmidt and Michael Karoli) music for "Alice in the Cities" is really effective, altho it's only one piece.
― Tom D., Thursday, 10 January 2008 13:26 (sixteen years ago) link
its not on Soundtracks, is it?
― stevie, Thursday, 10 January 2008 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Never been released
― Tom D., Thursday, 10 January 2008 13:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I've been looking for that little "Alice in the Cities" soundtrack theme for sooo long. So weird they didn't include it on 'Soundtracks' (although I remember hearing snippets of it in one of the songs on that album)
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 12:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Errrrrrrrrr, "Alice In the Cities" was made 5 years after "Soundtracks"!
― Tom D., Wednesday, 13 August 2008 13:01 (fifteen years ago) link
ah! figures...
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 13:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone seen the premiere of "Palemro Shooting"? Plot sounds quite familiar: phtographer hits the road and embarks on a journey of self-discovery
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 13:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Tousle-haired moppet? Wuppertal monorail? Warped Canned Heat single?
― Tom D., Wednesday, 13 August 2008 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha I actually once went to Wuppertal just to see that damn monorail
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 13:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been looking for that little "Alice in the Cities" soundtrack theme for sooo long.
Similarly, I hunted for the music in "Fear Eats the Soul" for a long time only to find out it's probably just Library Music
― Tom D., Wednesday, 13 August 2008 13:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Ok, so it seems "Alice in teh Cities" is finally out on DVD
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 08:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmm, it seems like I'm the only one who cares but it turns out that all his early 70s movies are now out on DVD!
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
We Care A Lot!
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I got Alice and the State of Things today. Kings of the Road is next on my list (not sure whether I'll ever have the courage to watch the whole of it again, but that's another issue)
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Crierion's Wings of Desire next week, single and double discs.
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 October 2009 01:58 (fourteen years ago) link
zzzzzzzzzzz
― amateurist, Thursday, 29 October 2009 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
*places amateurist's hand in warm water*
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 October 2009 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh come on I'll rep for sentiment further than anybody but Wings of Desire makes melted Easter Egg look like
― Erol "Bomber" Alkan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 October 2009 03:33 (fourteen years ago) link
r u confusing it w/Cage-Meg Ryan remake?
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 October 2009 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
The original is marginally better but even so Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty is Wenders' last complete movie.
― Erol "Bomber" Alkan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 October 2009 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
?!
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Thursday, 29 October 2009 06:50 (fourteen years ago) link
complete?
― amateurist, Thursday, 29 October 2009 07:09 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img10.glitterfy.com/graphics/136/you_complete_me_hearts.gif
― amateurist, Thursday, 29 October 2009 07:10 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/celebrity/images/Rock/completecontrol.JPG
― When Baron Saturday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 29 October 2009 07:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Criterion WoD roundup:
http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/1225
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
― amateurist, Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:38 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:21 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark
lol
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 22 April 2012 08:22 (twelve years ago) link
Library just got the Criterion The American Friend. It's really my first viewing, as the (double tape!) VHS copy I watched twenty-two years ago snapped mid-watch.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 April 2016 22:22 (eight years ago) link
such a great-looking movie, among other things
just watched a wenders made-for-TV thing from 1974, because i figured, that's his best period, how bad can it be? it was intriguing -- not bad, not great, but intriguing. obviously done very quickly and cheaply, and stylistically quite conventional, but it had a lot of feeling. starred wenders's wife at the time, lisa kreuger (who is in all the features from the 1970s too). shot by michael balhaus (sp?) in his salad days.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 04:38 (eight years ago) link
am very tempted to watch the 6-hour version of 'until the end of the world,' which i've been sitting on for a few years. i know ahead of time it won't be great, but i'm still curious.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 04:39 (eight years ago) link
In between the start of this thread and its revival, I watched Paris, Texas. Here's what I wrote about it on another board;I'd always heard that, "No, Paris, Texas is really good," so I put it in the Netflix queue and it came up and I watched it, and... Right, it looks gorgeous, Robby Muller really knows his shit, beautiful poetic landscapes of Texas and L.A., great composition, use of color, visually it gets an A, it's a knockout. But it's also 2 1/2 hours long, and maybe the first 45 minutes are intriguing because you have the whole mystery of Harry Dean Stanton wandering in out of the desert and where's he been for the last 4 years and all that; but then the second section, where he tries to bond with the kid, gets progressively less convincing as it goes (no fault of Harry Dean or the kid, they're both pretty good); the real deal-breaker, though, was the last act, with Nastassja Kinski (where have you gone, Nastassja?) and the Big Reveal about their broken brutal relationship and the great severance and so forth -- which maybe would have been believable enough, plotwise, if it weren't delivered in such self-important, despairing monologues.It all rang wrong to me (Kinski's Southern accent not the least of the problems). It seemed like a parody of Euro-artiness. Which is how Wings of Desire struck me too. It doesn't surprise me that Wenders is Bono's idea of a great artist (or that Bono is Wenders' idea of a poet).So anyway, is there still other Wenders that's the really good stuff that might yet change my mind? 'Cuz he's 0 for 2 with me right now, and at the moment I'm inclined to wait another 15 years before trying him again.― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, July 9, 2005 2:21 PM (twelve years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It all rang wrong to me (Kinski's Southern accent not the least of the problems). It seemed like a parody of Euro-artiness. Which is how Wings of Desire struck me too. It doesn't surprise me that Wenders is Bono's idea of a great artist (or that Bono is Wenders' idea of a poet).
So anyway, is there still other Wenders that's the really good stuff that might yet change my mind? 'Cuz he's 0 for 2 with me right now, and at the moment I'm inclined to wait another 15 years before trying him again.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, July 9, 2005 2:21 PM (twelve years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Pretty much exactly how I feel after watching this again for the first time in 9 or 10 years. As soon as Dean Stockwell & Aurore Clément disappear the movies loses me completely. Such a promising setup with so much potent emotional imagery & grandeur & mystery, reduced to expository monologues that completely diffuse the power of that first 45 minutes. It's not cinematic at all.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 05:33 (six years ago) link
Bruno Ganz roundup
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6202-bruno-ganz-i-know-now-what-no-angel-knows
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
Cool. Does In the White City make the cut?
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link
So, is Salt of the Earth (2014) worth it for someone not that interested in Salgado.
― The feminine side of (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
watching paris, texas, for the first time in like 40 years
37 anyway
― mark s, Saturday, 3 September 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link