Attack of the Movie Stuff!!!

[az]

Not that I know of, but I haven't seen Lola yet, and found Goodbye Lenin good, but not great.

Das Boot is still the best german movie ever made in my book, and one of the very best ever made anywhere.

AZ

[Belwarrior]

For those who havent watched Hero (Jet Li).. I saw it in chinese with english subtitles of course.

It is a nice art-type of movie which has a bit of action to satisfy those who like to see swords moving. but actually you should see the movie for its cinematography, and for the way the characters are portraited. It is based on the chinese history in that the king in the movie was the guy who built the Great Wall.

And of course i am not going to reveal the storyline

[az]

IF you see it, see it on the big screen, it won't work on a TV.

AZ

[Rakido]

Originally posted by UtwigMU
The latter German movies (Lola Rennt, Das Experiment, Goodbye Lenin) were masterpieces.

Are you coming with anything interesting this year?

depends if you liked "Der Schuh des Manitu" (for the non-germans: this was the most successful german movie ever with more than 11 million visitors, on par with the first part of LotR). The successor "(T)raumschiff Surprise: Periode 1" hits the cinemas on July, 22nd. http://www.periode1.de/film/periode1/main.php

It's a parody of Starship Enterprise with the main characters being gay. Sounds very strange, but the movie is based on short stories in the former comedy show of the director and were a big success there. Watch the trailer on the site


Rakido

[Schorsch]

Originally posted by Topha
"Die fetten Jahre sind Vorbei" got quite a bit of media coverage here, but I was pretty busy studying, so I cant tell you much about it.

A few more facts: The international title is "The Edukators", and it is starring Daniel Brühl (who played the main role in "Goodbye Lenin"). According to German newspapers, the audience at the Cannes Film Festival liked the movie so it might be worth watching out for it.

By the way, Michael Moore's new film "Fahrenheit 9/11" won the Palme d'Or in Cannes - seems to be an interesting movie considering that Disney tried to prevent its distribution in the USA...

[High_Jumbllama]

Why does everyone say that Disney tried to prevent its distribution? Everything I've read says that Disney did not want to distribute it itself.

[KvHagedorn]

Originally posted by Schorsch
By the way, Michael Moore's new film "Fahrenheit 9/11" won the Palme d'Or in Cannes - seems to be an interesting movie considering that Disney tried to prevent its distribution in the USA...

This means nothing with respect to the quality of the film. It's a political statement made by a bunch of insular liberals who hate Bush. It's pretty much the same as the American academy awards. I don't even watch that trash anymore, especially after Soderburgh beat out Ang Lee for best director for making that twisted shite traffic vs Ang Lee's poetic masterpiece Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. You seem to think these committees that vote on these films actually have judgement.

[Schorsch]

Originally posted by High_Jumbllama
Why does everyone say that Disney tried to prevent its distribution? Everything I've read says that Disney did not want to distribute it itself.

In German media the story sounds a bit different: When Disney acquired Miramax about ten years ago, they reserved the right to prohibit the distribution of movies through Miramax under certain circumstances - and that's exactly what they did with "Fahrenheit 9/11". However, Miramax producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein intend to buy the rights for the film and to bring it to American cinemas with another distribution partner (a similar deal was made in 1999 for "Dogma"). So this means you'll (probably) be able to see it and decide for yourself what all the fuss is about...

[Jammrock]

The story behind "Fahrenheit 9/11" goes as follows ...

Moore and Miramax have an exclusive distribution contract (meaning Miramax owns US rights to anything Moore shites out). Miramax is owned by Disney. Disney is headquartered in Flordia, USA. Florida's govener is Jeb Bush. George W. Bush is Jeb's big brother. "Fahrenheit 9/11" is specifically designed to rip on Bush like "Bowling for Columbine" ripped on guns and the NRA (whether accurately or not).

Now if Miramax, a Disney owned subsity, were to release a film bashing Jeb's big brother, that would not sit well with Jeb. Jeb would suddenly say the state needs more money for the schools and kill off tax breaks for Disney. Now Disney is out $10 million+ (which is substantially more than "Fahrenheit 9/11" will pull in for Disney/Miramax, as "Fahrenheit 9/11" will have an extremely limited release).

Miramax/Disney told Moore and his agent over 1 year ago that they will not distribute the film. Magically Moore and co. decided not to make a big stink about it until, you guessed it, late into election year, when George W. Bush is up for relection. Now Moore is prancing around like the big fat idiot he is, saying, "look how my 'art', my speech and my 'documentary' are being suppressed by those evil conservative republicans, lead by the Bush family," while dancing around like a fat hippo in a tutu to make sure everyone is watching.

"Fahrenheit 9/11" will end up being like "Bowling for Columbine" ... I giant mound of shite that liberals and anti-[insert Moore's latest crusade topic here] supporters will claim to be the pinnicale of artistic documentary creation.

KvH,

I stopped caring when Shakespear in Love beat out Saving Private Ryan. SPR was by far the superior movie on all levels but one ... artsy-fartsy, which SiL excelled at. Now, 5-years later, when people mention SiL they say, "yeah, I've seen that." When they mention SPR people say, "do you remember the D-day invasion, and this scene, and how horrible the war was. I remember seeing some WW2 vets crying in the theater because it was so realistic ..." That's impact, that's story telling, that's a damn good movie.

Jammrock

[KRSESQ]

I thought the academy lost it when Forrest Gump beat out The Shawshank Redemption.

Kevin

[Jammrock]

Originally posted by KRSESQ
I thought the academy lost it when Forrest Gump beat out The Shawshank Redemption.

Kevin

Yeah, but that's actually a close battle. Both of those movies were very good and deserving.

Jammrock

[Wombat]

Originally posted by Schorsch
In German media the story sounds a bit different: When Disney acquired Miramax about ten years ago, they reserved the right to prohibit the distribution of movies through Miramax under certain circumstances - and that's exactly what they did with "Fahrenheit 9/11".

It's my understanding that Disney only has that right in certain conditions (budget over X million, and some other qualifiers), and these conditions are not met for F9/11.