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Imagining him reacting to the clip of a live chicken being released in a movie theater with the same gravity as the Grizzly Man footage
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Apr 18, 2025
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@JADEWOLF One of the bleakest satires of the American Dream I've ever seen, plus the reliance on nature photography in his fictional work is always very unique
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Iāll watch anything by Werner Herzog and his documentaries are especially great. But this feature starring Klaus Kinski is my favorite thing heās ever made, and one of my favorite movies period. Like most Herzog the whole project is seriously demented and thereās anĀ *Apocalypse-Now-*like doubling thing going on, where the making of the film was almost as insane as the story he was dramatizing. I just saw Herzog has a new memoir out calledĀ Every Man for Himself and God Against All.Ā I mean come on, I canāt wait to read that.
Feb 27, 2024
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We all bow down to Fassbinderās āBRD Trilogy.ā Obviously. But I only recently learned of a filmmaker who also made a trilogy of films dealing with postwar German history from an equally singular, provocative, and entertaining place, Christoph Schlingensief. The two wild man auteurs even share many of the same actors; Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann, Volker Spengler, Peter Kern, etc.Ā Aided by Udo Kier (who appears in all three films), Schlingensief was unafraid to tackle explosively sensitive material in recklessly exciting and absurdist ways. 100 Years of Adolf Hitler (1989), The German Chainsaw Massacre (1990), and Terror 2000 (1992) make up the Germany Trilogy. The German Chainsaw Massacreās my personal fave of the lot. It was quickly written in a few days after the Berlin Wall all came down and was shot in a mere two weeks immediately after. Heavily inspired by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, which he was a huge fan of, it follows a group of East Germans who wind up entangled with a psychotic West German family looking to turn them into wurst for their butcher shop. In a Year of 13 Moonsā Volker Spengler steals the show in a yellow raincoat and metal helmet (with sausages attached to it), drooling on himself, and flailing a chainsaw around. Like Fassbinder, Schlingensief died way too young. And also like him, thankfully, thereās a seemingly endless amount of material to sift through.
Apr 7, 2022
I don't know of another movie, ever, that has so perfectly captured the banality and flat-out bizarreness of evil.
I really can't recommend it enough but it's a tough watch. Horror is lurking in the background throughout.
PS: If you have the chance to visit Auschwitz, you should. Or any concentration camp now open to the public. The best way for us to never revisit this monster-level bullshit on humanity again is to have to go confront it in all its ugliness, face to face. (Like when you walk around Berlin and you see all the Stolpersteine -- "never forget" -- memorials embedded in the city's sidewalks). What Steven Spielberg is doing with The Shoah Foundation will tower over any of his accomplishments in cinema. Preserve the truth. Witness.
Mar 29, 2024
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They're like the Goldilocks zone between a total lack of stimulus and the overload of modernity; and quite moving seeing the slight signs of decay in these monuments of antisepticness
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