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The artistic process. One for them, one for me.

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At its core Nosferatu is a story about how a foreigner comes into a western country to bring the plague and take away "our" women. But a woman can save us by luring him into her sex trap.

Really wished Eggers would have had a different take on this material.

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Recommended films / personal watchlist.

From Lola rennt to Berliner Schule to New German Fantastik.
Includes some Austrian and Swiss films and some made for TV movies.
Please let me know if you have further suggestions.
Expanded from a list by lugosy with suggestions by Bumstead.

Notice: I was involved in the making of "The Teachers' Lounge" & "I was, I am, I will be".

• Late Shift
• What Marielle Knows
• September 5
• The Teachers' Lounge
• The Universal Theory
• A Good Place
• Afire
• Lonely Oaks
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Corsage

...plus 166 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Extinction of the Species
• The Hole
• The Andromeda Strain
• Children of Men
• Melancholia
• La Jetée
• Threads
• Dead Man's Letters
• Soylent Green
• The Quiet Earth

...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Sundown
• Morvern Callar
• Ema
• Red Road
• Vertigo
• The Worst Person in the World
• American Honey
• Beau Travail
• Holy Motors
• Mulholland Drive

...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Zone of Interest
• La Chimera
• Anora
• All We Imagine as Light
• Challengers
• Dahomey
• Emilia Pérez
• Kneecap
• The Girl with the Needle
• Janet Planet

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films watched, discussed, stolen from, dismissed or taken as inspiration for "The Teachers' Lounge" ("Das Lehrerzimmer").

(+ some films still on the watchlist)

• The Teachers' Lounge
• The Class
• Zwischen den Stühlen
• The Hunt
• The Measure of a Man
• The Fits
• Elephant
• Uncut Gems
• ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation

  8. Episode: Eine demokratische Gesprächsrunde zu festgelegten Zeiten von Isabelle Stever

• Where Is the Friend's House?

...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Continuously updated list of some of my favourite short films. Links to films available online are in the notes. The focus is a bit more on contemporary films rather than classics. Continuously adding links for the films available online.

• backflip

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zUJzzRu-xs

• Love, Dad

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySD6CN4OX0c

• Beast

  vimeo.com/863083640

• Manifesto
• Easter Eggs

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq4E92jQ71A

• The Owl

  vimeo.com/429593257

• World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
• In the Air Tonight

  www.reddit.com/r/philcollins/comments/hp5xlv/new_details_on_the_drowning_that_inspired_in_the/

• Dustin

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtfxCQK-fvg

• Strasbourg 1518

  www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l442
  us.strasbourg1518.film/

...plus 88 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Komplettes Programm unter www.kffk.de/2023-programmsektionen/

Nicht auf Letterboxd:

DEUTSCHER WETTBEWERB (1-19)
Alex in den Feldern (Marie Zrenner)
Chicken (Anna Brenner)
Kibonumwe / Meteorite I (Simon Rittmeier)

KÖLNER FENSTER (20-22)
Paddled Pandemic Paradise (Lisa Domin-Alouane)
What We Know (Rainer Knepperges)
Kassieren (Franca Pape & Lea Sprenger & Amelie Vierbuchen)
Tag am Fluss (Ruben Sommerfeld)
SMILE – Protection (Anna Ansone)

NEW AESTHETIC (23-29)
Farewell recording for an observer of an unknown time and place (Rita Macedo)

BEST OF FESTIVALS (30-44)

THEMENFOKUS: BURNING (45-48)
Kelly Lee Owens — Melt! (Laneya Billingsley aka Billie0cean & Clayton Vomero & Cairo Clarke)

SPOTLIGHT: MARIAN MAYLAND (49-51)
Driving around where the crescents used to be. A script
Vomit Heat — Leere (feat. Stella Sommer)

SHORTS ON WHEELS (51-56)

LOOP (57-60)
Because We Bleed (Andrea Grambow & Joscha Kirchknopf)
9.21 (Patrick Fleischer)

GASTPROGRAMM: AUSSERHALB DER KOMFORTZONE (61-62)
Oliver Sim — Fruit (Yann Gonzalez)
Ich darf sie immer alles fragen (Silke Schönfeld)

LÄNDERFOKUS: IRAN (63-67)
Hanged (Roqiyeh Tavakoli)
Report On A Termination (Tahereh Shabanian)
Left'over (Yaseman Hassani)
La Dérive (Tanin Torabi)
Report On A Termination (Tahereh Shabanian)
The Toaster I Used To Live In (Rojin Shafiei)
Iranian Bag (Maryam Tafakory)
Taxi is Here (Sara Aghababayan)
The American Bull (Fatemeh Tousi)
Moments and Forever (Yaseman Hassani)

1. Valley Pride
2. Human Nature
3. The Waiting
4. The Newt Congress
5. SSRC
6. Afraid Doesn’t Exist
7. Tremor
8. Can’t Help Myself
9. Sensitive Content
10. Turtleneck Phantasies

...plus 58 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Saint Omer
• De Humani Corporis Fabrica
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• The Boy and the Heron
• The Holdovers
• Afire
• A Thousand and One
• All of Us Strangers
• May December
• Fallen Leaves

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

*Update to 2023 in progress (1-500)*

The 1,000 Greatest Films. This is quite possibly the most definitive collection of critically acclaimed films you will find. In of sources, the number of best-of/all-time individual lists, used to compile the 1,000 Greatest Films, now tallies 9,360. The number of miscellaneous lists used (genre-based, country-based, etc.) now sits at 5,934. That’s 15,294 unique lists in total.

Thanks go out to Bill Georgaris for the enormous task of compiling this list. Original list at: www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000.htm

Current Version: April 2023 (18th edition)

Top Climbers within the 1,000
Black Girl (1966), 890 to 266 (up 624)
News from Home (1976), 816 to 205 (up 611)
Le Bonheur (1965), 813 to 449 (up 364)
Pink Flamingos (1972), 926 to 604 (up 322)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), 852 to 536 (up 316)

Highest Entrants into the 1,000
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), ranked 187
Moonlight (2016), ranked 216
Parasite (2019), ranked 248
Daughters of the Dust (1991), ranked 250
Get Out (2017), ranked 358

Biggest Sliders within the 1,000
Grizzly Man (2005), 508 to 851 (down 343)
Let the Right One In (2008), 592 to 924 (down 332)
A History of Violence (2005), 623 to 945 (down 322)
The Social Network (2010), 512 to 814 (down 302)
The Host (2006), 709 to 988 (down 279)

Biggest Sliders from the 1,000
Audition (1999), formerly ranked 669
Certified Copy (2010), formerly ranked 700
Ghostbusters (1984), formerly ranked 705
L.A. Confidential (1997), formerly ranked 720
Avatar (2009), formerly ranked 734

1. Citizen Kane
2. Vertigo
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Tokyo Story
5. The Rules of the Game
6. The Godfather
7. 8½
8. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
9. The Searchers
10. Seven Samurai

...plus 992 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Award winning films from selected film festivals:
Sundance Film Festival (1-5)
Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand (6-14)
Berlinale (15-16)
Tampere Film Festival (17-21)
Go Short (22-26)
Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (27-32)
Festival de Cannes (33-34)
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg (35-37)
Annecy Festival (38-39)
Curtas Vila do Conde (40-44)
...to be continued...
Film Festival Locarno
DokuFest
Venice Intl. Film Festival
Int. Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
Short Waves Festival
KFFK/Kurzfilmfestival Köln

1. When You Left Me on That Boulevard
2. Rest Stop
3. The Kidnapping of the Bride
4. The Flying Sailor
5. Will You Look at Me
6. Will My Parents Come to See Me
7. The Debutante
8. Hideous
9. Scale
10. Invincible

...plus 34 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Nope
• Memoria
• Licorice Pizza
• Bones and All
• Resurrection
• Red Rocket
• Love, Deutschmarks and Death
• Aftersun
• Fire of Love
• Close

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A combination of best of lists by critics or renowned publications. If you have any additions post them in the comments!

US:
Film Comment - Best Films of 2022: https://www.filmcomment.com/best-films-of-2022/
IndieWire The 25 Best Movies of 2022: www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-movies-2022/
Sight & Sound’s best films of 2022: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/50-best-films-2022
Metacritic: Film Critic Top Ten Lists: www.metacritic.com/feature/film-critics-pick-10-best-movies-of-2022

UK:
The Guardian - The 50 top films of 2022 in the UK: www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/06/the-50-best-films-movies-of-2022-in-the-uk

:
Cahiers du Cinéma Top 10 2022: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahiers_du_Cin%C3%A9ma%27s_Annual_Top_10_Lists#2020s

:
Filmdienst - Die besten Filme des Jahres 2022: www.filmdienst.de/artikel/58617/die-besten-filme-2022

Top entries sorted by ranking and number of appearances in the lists. Cut-of at entry no 20 for each list and at 50 overall

1. Aftersun
2. Nope
3. EO
4. Decision to Leave
5. The Banshees of Inisherin
6. TÁR
7. Everything Everywhere All at Once
8. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
9. Licorice Pizza
10. Saint Omer

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Highest rated short films on Letterboxd that had a festival premiere in 2022.

1. Ice Merchants
2. Goodbye Jerome!
3. Bros Before
4. Sierra
5. Song of the Swan
6. Aperio
7. things that won't die
8. Nest
9. Le Pupille
10. Haulout

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Komplettes Programm unter www.kffk.de

Nicht auf Letterboxd:

DEUTSCHER WETTBEWERB (1-16)
Exterior (Kaspar Peters)
Unfinished Ground (Jonathan Schaller)
Dear Osman (Adrian Figueroa)
Unterrotenstein (Sophia Schiller)
Die Hüter des Unrats (Susann Maria Hempel)
Gegenlicht (Sverre Aune)
Fulfillmenot (Julia Jesionek)
Blind Date (Jan Soldat)

KÖLNER FENSTER (16-18)
Kaskade (Rike Hoppe)
Muss ja nicht sein, dass es heute ist (Sophia Groening)
Infant Finches - Blind Walk (Janosch Pugnaghi)
Léna (Florian Dedek)
Die verlorene Zeit (El Tiempo Perdido) (Lisa Bühl & Laura Sanz)
Sunset Singers (Jessica Poon)
The Mystery (Rainer Knepperges)

NEW AESTHETIC (19-25)
How we make Karrabing (Karrabing)

BEST OF FESTIVALS (26-40)

THEMENFOKUS (41-47)

SPOTLIGHT: KERSTIN HONEIT (48-49)
Talking Business
Ich muss mit Ihnen sprechen
['zi-lo]5
Möhrenstraße, 23.00
Pigs in Progress
How to say goodbye?

GASTPROGRAMME (50-59)
Sparkling - C'est ma vie (écoute chérie)
Schwarmtiere (Alison Kuhn)
The Screenshots - John Mayer (Jelena Ilic)
Unzuverlössige Zeugin (Nikolas Jürgens)
Special (Leonard Grobien)
Placebus (Michael Binz)
Friendly Cripple (Graf Fiddi)
Game Over (Ace Mahbaz)
Lioness — Oh Sleep (Cylvester)

1. Handbook
2. Fence
3. Homesick Lungs
4. A Goat's Spell
5. Sun Under Ground
6. The Train Driver
7. Subtotals
8. Cherry Bone
9. Will My Parents Come to See Me
10. Blue Noise

...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Crazed Fruit
• Tokyo Drifter
• High and Low
• Pale Flower
• Youth of the Beast
• Branded to Kill
• The Warped Ones
• A Colt Is My port
• Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
• Vengeance Is Mine

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Titane
• This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection
• Dune
• C'mon C'mon
• Drive My Car
• Quo Vadis, Aida?
• Fabian: Going to the Dogs
• The Lost Daughter
• Mr. Bachmann and His Class
• Bergman Island

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Komplettes Programm unter www.kffk.de

Nicht auf Letterboxd:

DEUTSCHER WETTBEWERB (1-20)
And The Stars of the Sky Fell to the Earth (Julia Charlotte Richter)
The Things Around Us (Magda Kreps)
Genosse Tito, ich erbe (Olga Kosanović)
Memory Berliner Zimmer (Jörn Staeger)
Ich habe dich geliebt (Rosa Hannah Ziegler)
Zumindest bin ich draußen gewesen (Jan Soldat)
Michael Ironside and I (Marian Mayland)
Jeroboam (Bianca Caderas)

KÖLNER FENSTER (21-24)
Like You Really Mean It (Ale Bachlechner)
Silence (Dmitry Zakharov)
Vaovao - Weiße Steppe (Janosch Pugnaghi)

NEW AESTHETIC: IMAGINING FUTURES (25-32)
We Are The Bad Weeds (Rocio Berenguer)
Nonhuman Nonsense - Planetary Personhood
Huntrezz Janos - Copper Choppers

SPOTLIGHT: KEVIN B. LEE (33-35)
The Spielberg Face (Kevin B. Lee)
The Career of Paul Thomas Anderson in Five Shots (Kevin B. Lee)
Interface 2.0 (Kevin B. Lee)
Mourning with Minari (Kevin B. Lee)
#Movieofmylife (Kevin B. Lee)

THEMENFOKUS: FAMILY PORTRAITS (32-36)

LÄNDERFOKUS: NIEDERLANDE (37-40)

BEST OF FESTIVALS (41-54)

15 AUS 15 - JUBLILÄUMSLOOP (55-67)
Eric der Soldat (Charlotte Funke)
Hörspiel - der Film (Lutz Heineking)
xx-xx-xx-gewobenes papier (Michel Klöfkorn)

GASTPROGRAMM SK STIFTUNG: ZUSTAND: KRISE (68-71)
Über Druck (Sebastian Binder & Sebastian Fred Schirmer)
Whomadewho - Every Minute Alone (Wiliam Stahl)
Lockdown Anthem (Efstathios Avramidis)
Nature Is Speaking (Lee Clow)
Rejoice Resist (Elisha Smith-Leverock)

SHORTS ON WHEELS (72-

1. Thing
2. Was wahrscheinlich iert wäre, wäre ich nicht zuhause geblieben
3. Operation Moonbird
4. There must be some kind of way out of here
5. Tanaka's Diary
6. Biting the Dust
7. 27 Steps
8. Doom Cruise
9. Octavia's Visions
10. Matadoras

...plus 61 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Some Kind of Heaven
• Between the World and Me
• Chaos Walking
• Black Bear
• Synchronic
• Saint Maud
• The Legend of Hei
• A Sun
• The Call
• The Green Knight

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All the films screened at the 2020 edition of KFFK / Short Film Festival Cologne.

www.kffk.de/2020-programmsektionen/

German Competition: 1-18
New Aesthetic:Toxic Memes: 17-24
Cologne Shorts: 25-28
Best of Festivals: 29-40
Fokus: I Would Prefer Not To 41-45
Spotlight: Nicolaas Schmidt 46-47
Gastprogramme: Was kann Familie? / Performing Power 48-56
Children's Programs 52-62
(Post-)migrantische Perspektiven im deutschen Film: Wir erzählen lieber selber 63
Specials 64

Not on Letterboxd:
German Competition
- Shepherds (Teboho Edkins)
- Schweigen der Fische (Þögn Silungsins) (Hilke Rönnfeldt)
- Urban Dreamscape (Nicolas Gebbe)
- For Reasons Unknown (Tom Otte)
- [ˈzi:lo]5 (Kerstin Honeit)
New Aesthetic
- Homo Economicus: I, II, III (Alan Warburton)
- Alone Together (Guus Voorham)
Cologne Shorts
- 16 Years (Patrick Buhr)
- SALOMEA - Outdoors (Nikolas Müller)
- Frogs at Midnight (Lenia Friedrich)
Fokus
Frauenfragmente: Galila (Sophie Gmeiner)
Spotlight
- RGB/BTW [Du und Wir]
- Autumn
- Ohne schlechtes Gewissen genießen
- Sense + Innocence
Gastprogramme
- Ein Brief an meinen Vater (Nikolaj Meierjohann)
- Moonjourney (Chiara Grabmayr)
- And we still speak German today (Clara Winter & Miguel Ferráez)
- AirBnB (Kim Gordon)
Children's Programs
- Die Musifanten – Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus (Meike Fehre)
- Ole, Benni und der Rest des Universums (Anna Ludwig)
- Wellen aus Licht (Samuel N. Schwarz)
- Watermorphosis (Sophie Henriksson, Lorenz Reisel, Chris Keller)
(Post-)migrantische Perspektiven im deutschen Film:
- Zoran (Züli Aladağ)
- Der Metzger (Mehmet Akıf Büyükatalay)
- Totentraum (Ayhan Salar)
- Gräfin Sophia Hatun (Ayşe Polat)
- Die Liebenden von Osman (Idil Üner)
- Hinter der Tür (das leise Mädchen) (Neco Celik)
- Ben Kimim/ Wer bin ich? (Canan Yilmaz)
- Mein Freund, der Deutsche (Bilal Bahadir)
Specials
- The Pantheon of Queer Mythology (Enrique Agudo)
- After the Fallout (Sam Wolson, Dominic Nahr)
- Rain Fruits (Youngyun Song & Sngmoo Lee)
- Terminus – Scumm Engine (Simon Ward, Jessica Johnson)
- Paris Terror – Die Geiseln vom Hyper Cacher (Ricarda Saleh)

1. Untitled Sequence of Gaps
2. Dark Matter
3. The Natural Death of a Mouse
4. Black Sun
5. From My Desert
6. After Two Hours, Ten Minutes Had ed
7. Causality and Meaning
8. Just a Guy
9. Learn to Swim
10. Freeze Frame

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All the films screened at the 2019 edition of KFFK / Short Film Festival Cologne.

www.kffk.de/2019-programmsektionen/

German Competition: 1-16
New Aesthetic: Macht und Kontrolle - All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: 17-21
Cologne Shorts: 22-24
Best of Festivals: 25-40
Fokus: Escape 41-45
Spotlight:Miriam Gossing and Lina Sieckmann 46-48
Gastprogramme: Verunsicherte Generation 49-51
Children's Programmes 52-56
Specials 57-67

Not on Letterboxd:
German Competition
- My Own Kind (Mirjam Khera)
- untitled (a refusal of leave to land) (Marian Mayland)
- Gerichtszeichner (Jochen Kuhn)
- Steckbrief Natur – Folge 1 – Der Waldkauz (Aleksandar Radan)
- Panda Moonwalk or Why Meng Meng Walks Backwards (Kerstin Honeit)
- Flüssige Wesenszüge einer Bildapparatur (Vera Sebert)
- Transfiguration (Stephan Ganoff)
- We Were All to be Queens (Ana Catalá)
New Aesthetic:
- Buffer Zone Blues (Franz Milec)
- Serve(r) Room (AB/CD/CD)
- Life Is Good For Now (Bernd Hopfengärtner & Ludwig Zeller)
- Air Kiss (Egor Kraft, Pekka Airaxin, Alina Kvirkveliya, Ka­rina Gol­ubenko)
- Ducks Don’t Drown (Max Leach)
- Sitting In Darkness (Graeme Arnfield)
Cologne Shorts
- Bienville Parish (Arthur Brux)
- Despair (Benjamin Ramírez Pérez)
- Stella (Jonathan Schaller)
- COMA – A Train (Tilman Singer)
- Midas (Hannah Dörr)
- Onironauta (Valerie-Malin Schmid)
Fokus:
- Lirio da Paz (Louis Hans-Moëvi & Maxime Beaud)
Spotlight:
- Sonntag, Büscherhöfchen 2
- Starring Hellen of Tory
- Rotating Fan as Seen from Rotating Bed
- China Light
Gastprogramme:
- Eich Ratsachti Et Rabin (How I Killed Rabin) (Michael Alalu)
- Mushkie (Aleeza Chanowitz)
- Diploma (Yaelle Kayam)
Children's Programmes:
- Das Manteltier (Neozoon)
- Matilda (Irene Iborra & Eduard Puertas)
- Der kleine Fisch und das Krokodil (Stefanie Plattner)
- Ich Will (Anne Isensee)
- Boje (Andrea Cordes & Robert Köhler)
Specials:
- Hors-Cadre – Intimités (Martin Charrière)
-

1. Are You Listening Mother?
2. Brand / Ablaze
3. Shooting Stars
4. Musterhaus
5. Umbra
6. Can’t You See Them? – Repeat.
7. F for Freaks
8. RIAFN
9. Oslo
10. Blue Boy

...plus 57 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Waiting
• The Long Goodbye
• The Human Voice

• Uncut Gems
• I'm Thinking of Ending Things
• First Cow
• Monos
• Ema
• Boys State
• The Assistant
• Never Rarely Sometimes Always
• Lovers Rock
• Another Round

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Dick Johnson Is Dead
• Possessor
• Minari
• Boys State
• Palm Springs
• Nine Days
• Promising Young Woman
• The Killing of Two Lovers
• Never Rarely Sometimes Always
• Dune

...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Fraud
• Possible Worlds
• A New Life
• Mind Game
• The American Astronaut
• The Bunker
• Symbol
• Li'l Quinquin
• Amer
• Gerry

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Parasite
• Border
• The Souvenir
• Our Time
• Vox Lux
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• The Lighthouse
• For Sama
• Her Smell
• The Sisters Brothers

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Work in progress.

A combination of following lists as a starting point to catch up on films missed in 2019. I have collected mostly lists by critics or renowned publications. If you have any additions post them in the comments!

Cahiers du Cinéma Top 10 2019: tba
Sight & Sound’s best films of 2019: www.bfi.org.uk/best-films-2019
Metacritic: Film Critic Top Ten Lists: www.metacritic.com/feature/critics-pick-top-10-best-movies-of-2019 (2019-12-11)
IndieWire 2019 Critics Poll: www.indiewire.com/2019/12/best-movies-2019-critics-survey-poll-performances-parasite-adam-driver-lupita-nyongo-1202197615/
The Guardian - The 50 top films of 2019 in the US: www.theguardian.com/film/2019/dec/03/50-best-films-of-2019-in-the-us
Letterboxd’s ‘Official’ Top 50 of 2019: letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/moulton/list/letterboxds-official-top-50-of-2019/ (2019-12-11)
Film Comment - Best Films of 2019: www.filmcomment.com/best-films-of-2019/

Top entries sorted by ranking and number of appearances in the lists. Cut-of at entry no 20 for each list.

1. Parasite
2. The Irishman
3. Marriage Story
4. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
5. Uncut Gems
6. The Souvenir
7. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
8. Pain and Glory
9. Little Women
10. High Life

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Souvenir
• The Lighthouse
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Synonyms
• I Was at Home, But . . .
• Apollo 11
• Booksmart
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco
• System Crasher
• Parasite

...plus 60 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Programmed by Dominik Graf and Olaf Möller for Quad Cinema, NY.

The Federal Republic of is not exactly known as a haven for maverick genre filmmakers—but maybe that’s because audiences and critics were afraid to face the beast lurking below the surface, sensing how grimy and blood-splattered it would be. Dominik Graf, the internationally under-recognized master of modern German cinema, proposes with his two-part documentary A Journey Through German Film (co-directed by Johannes Sievert) a vision of West German film culture that privileges popular idioms, a penchant for a shabbier reality, a ion for the garish and the graphic, and a deep respect for craftsmanship. The Quad welcomes Graf and co-programmer Olaf Möller to share a glimpse of the riches awaiting the curious: from gangster flicks and cop movies to horror films and TV series nuggets to straight-to-video indies, from serious art to full-frontal hokum with heart—it’s all here for your viewing pleasure.

quadcinema.com/program/fighting-mad-german-genre-films-from-the-margins/

Not on Letterboxd:
The Commissioner: Car Park Hyenas
Zbyněk Brynych, 1969, West , 60m, D

Derrick: Dead Birds Don’t Sing
Alfred Vohrer, 1976, West , 60m, D

The Investigator: Night Watch
Dominik Graf, 1993, , 45m, D

• Bloody Friday
• The Brutes
• Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
• Dear Fatherland Be at Peace
• The Scorpion
• Doomed Love: A Journey Through German Genre Films
• Harms
• The Invincibles
• Jailbreak in Hamburg
• Jet Generation

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films I missed out on in 2018.

• I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
• Searching
• Relaxer
• the Girls
• mid90s
• First Man
• In the Aisles
• Sorry to Bother You
• The Cleaners
• One Cut of the Dead

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In progress.

• You Were Never Really Here
• The Favourite
• Roma
• Under the Silver Lake
• Happy as Lazzaro
• Phantom Thread
• Burning
• Zama
• Shoplifters
• The Rider

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A combination of following lists as a starting point to catch up on films missed in 2017:

Cahiers du Cinéma Top 10 2017: www.cahiersducinema.com/produit/top-10-2017/
Sight & Sound’s best films of 2017: www.bfi.org.uk/features/best-films-2017/
Metacritic: Film Critic Top Ten Lists: www.metacritic.com/feature/film-critics-list-the-top-10-movies-of-2017
IndieWire 2017 Critics Poll: www.indiewire.com/2017/12/best-movies-2017-critics-films-performances-get-out-phantom-thread-lady-bird-1201909032/2/
The Guardian - The 50 top films of 2017 in the UK: www.theguardian.com/film/2017/dec/05/the-50-top-films-of-2017-in-the-uk

+ some individual picks

Top entries sorted by ranking and number of appearances in the lists. Cut-of at entry no 20 for each list.

• Get Out
• Twin Peaks: The Return
• Lady Bird
• Call Me by Your Name
• The Florida Project
• Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
• Dunkirk
• Moonlight
• Certain Women
• Zama

...plus 54 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Personal Shopper
• Your Name.
• Good Time
• Western
• Cameraperson
• Manchester by the Sea
• Lady Macbeth
• 20th Century Women
• A Ghost Story
• Call Me by Your Name

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Geliebt und Verdrängt. Das Kino der jungen Bundesrepublik Deutschland von 1949 bis 1963

Kuratiert von Olaf Möller für das Festival del film Locarno im August 2016,

"During the “Adenauer Era” debate raged fiercely over major issues such as ’s alignment with the West, rearmament and the Cold War. The films of the period could hardly remain untouched by these political conflicts and considerations. Had German cinema rid itself completely of the Nazi past? Was it finding a new visual language? Tackling the subject of the Holocaust? Did it hold up to German viewers their own guilt and involvement? War crimes? The many citizens living a lie? The answer to these questions from the young post-war generation was no and, shortly before the close of the Adenauer years, it pronounced that cinema dead.

A look back may well be revealing: what was popular cinema in the young Republic really about, and how did it address its audience? How does the sense of living in the immediate aftermath of the war come across? The aim of the 2016 Festival del film Locarno Retrospective and its accompanying catalogue is to open up this post-war filmography and so focus attention on a beloved, despised and rejected part of German cinema." (http://www.pardolive.ch/en/pardo/pardo-live/today-at-festival/2016/beloved-and-rejected-cinema-young-federal-republic-of--1949-1963?)

"Dem frühen kinematografischen Schaffen der BRD widmete das Internationale Filmfestival Locarno dieses Jahr eine facettenreiche Retrospektive. Das ist, vorsichtig gesagt, keine allzu naheliegende Idee. Im Kanon der internationalen Filmgeschichte ist kaum ein deutscher Film dieser Zeit auf irgendeine Weise sichtbar, und selbst innerhalb Deutschlands hat das einheimische Kino der 50er Jahre keinen guten Ruf; es gilt als cinematic wasteland der verkitschten Heimatfilme und des präpubertären Schlagerklamauks sowie als, gemäß der berühmt gewordenen Formulierung aus dem als Kinoerneuerungsprogramm formulierten Oberhausener Manifest von 1962: „Papas Kino“. [...]
"eliebt und verdrängt rekonstruiert das deutsche Kino nicht als eine in sich selbst ruhende Nationalkinematografie, sondern als immer schon hybrides, internationales Phänomen. Deshalb sind auch Koproduktionen mit Schweizer, polnischer oder schwedischer Beteiligung dazuzuzählen sowie ausgewählte filmische Arbeiten des anderen 1949 gegründeten deutschen Staats. Ein Highlight aus diesem Bereich: Martin Hellbergs schmissiger DEFA-Propagandafilm Das verurteilte Dorf, in dem westdeutsche Bauern gegen US-amerikanischen Landraub mobilmachen – das Ganze endet in einer grenzüberschreitenden Protestbewegung, von der man nicht genau sagen kann, ob sie eine kommende Weltrevolution oder doch nur die Pegida-Märsche vorwegnimmt." (Lukas Förster)

Not on Letterbox:

[Puschkin – Wodka für harte Männer. Elch]
Director: Charles Paul Wilp Federal Republic of (FRG) · 1962 · D · Black and White · 2' · o.v.German

Das Stacheltier [Nr. 27]: FREIE Marktwirtschaft
Director: Richard Groschopp German Democratic Republic (GDR) · 1954 · 35 mm · Black and White · 5' · o.v.German

Ein Fabeltier fliegt nach Deutschland
Directors: Michael Grzimek , Bernhard Grzimek Federal Republic of (FRG) · 1954 · 35 mm · Black and White · 12' · o.v.German

Ein Wagen und sein Werk
Director: Curt A. Engel Federal Republic of (FRG) · 1953 · D · Color · 5' · o.v.no dialogue

Fussball Weltmeisterschaft 1954
Directors: Gerhard Grindel , Horst Wigankow , Sammy Drechsel Federal Republic of (FRG) · 1954 · 35 mm · Black and White · 93' · o.v.German

Verstummte Stimmen

Director: Roger Fritz Federal Republic of (FRG) · 1962 · D · Black and White · 12' · o.v.German

www.pardolive.ch/pardo/program/archive/2016/catalog-sections.html?sid=69010

• Adventure in Berlin
• Alvorada: Brazil's Changing Face
• By the Dike Sluice
• Autobahn
• Bank Vault 713
• Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
• Bau 60
• Black Gravel
• The Confession of Ina Kahr
• The Haunted Castle

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Lobster
• Arrival
• Son of Saul
• The Neon Demon
• The Handmaiden
• The Witch
• The Wailing
• Cemetery of Splendor
• La La Land
• Toni Erdmann

• 20th Century Women
• A Bride for Rip Van Winkle
• A Man Called Ove
• A Monster Calls
• A Monster with a Thousand Heads
• A War
• Aferim!
• Afternoon
• Allied
• Always Shine

...plus 95 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

"Time again for our annual international critics’ poll of the year’s top movies. This year we asked 163 critics and curators to name their five best films of the year – and the results are a small triumph for diversity (not to mention a lot of treats still to come to UK cinemas over the next few months). Films directed by women make up the majority of the top five, alongside Barry Jenkins’ gay black coming of age portrait Moonlight in second place."

www.bfi.org.uk/best-films-2016

• Toni Erdmann
• Moonlight
• Elle
• Certain Women
• American Honey
• I, Daniel Blake
• Manchester by the Sea
• Things to Come
• Paterson
• The Death of Louis XIV

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Okja
• How to Talk to Girls at Parties
• Live by Night

• The Lobster
• Under the Skin
• Knight of Cups
• Queen of Earth
• 8½
• The Face of Another
• Cool Hand Luke
• Eyes Without a Face
• Funeral Parade of Roses
• Salesman

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Handmaiden
• Personal Shopper
• Paterson
• Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
• Krisha
• The Innocents
• The Birth of a Nation
• Silence
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Carte Blanche im Film Museum Wien April/Mai 2016

Die aus 21 Werken bestehende Carte blanche vertieft dementsprechend Christian Petzolds Wahlverwandtschaften – im erinnernden Umgang mit dem Kino, das für ihn ein „Proust’sches Medium“ ist: „Manche glauben, dass Reflexion die Frische zerstört, aber ich denke, dass sie zu einer anderen Form des Ungekünstelten führt.“ Es sind Filme, wie er sie gemeinsam mit Crew und Schauspielern zur Vorbereitung sichtet. „Kino ist ein Kollektiv, man muss sich ja verständigen, das ist wie bei einem Bankraub.“ Erbeutet werden dabei auch neue Perspektiven: „Der Film wird ein anderer, wenn man ihn mit zwei verschiedenen Darstellern schaut.“

Das Verhältnis zwischen Petzolds eigenen Filmen und denen, die er ausgewählt hat, ist nur zum Teil thematisch begründet. Szabó Istváns Bizalom etwa korrespondiert mit Phoenix durch sein Weltkriegssujet, aber vor allem im Porträt einer Paarbeziehung, in der „Spiel zu Gefühl“ wird. An der Noir-Perle Phantom Lady faszinieren Petzold die „schwachen Männer“, aber auch der Irrwitz der Plot-Komplikationen. Eine starke Frau wie Petzolds Beischlafdiebin findet ihr Echo in einer Nebenfigur von Don Siegels Gangster-Geniestreich Charley Varrick. Auch die Bewegungsformen des Kinos bieten Anknüpfungspunkte: Wie man langes Gehen filmt (in Gespenster und in La Fille seule) oder Bilder für „herumfahrende Gespenster“ findet (in Die innere Sicherheit und Near Dark). Wie die Titelheldin von Yella sich verkauft, haben es die Titelfiguren von American Gigolo und Pretty Woman getan, unter jeweils spezifischen historischen und sozialen Bedingungen.

www.filmmuseum.at/jart/prj3/filmmuseum/main.jart?rel=de&content-id=1216720898687&schienen_id=1453389109273&reserve-mode=active

• ...All the Marbles
• American Gigolo
• Confidence
• Border Incident
• Charley Varrick
• Cléo from 5 to 7
• He Ran All the Way
• Imitation of Life
• Klute
• The Unfaithful Wife

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Accattone
• American Beauty
• Badlands
• Being John Malkovich
• Blood Simple
• Bottle Rocket
• Citizen Kane
• Eraserhead
• Ex Machina
• Following

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.