Film List Kreuzberg 80's 

While Kreuzbergers remember with fondness the time before the fall of the Wall, back when there was still a Berlin allowance and no Bundeswehr - Kreuzberg was above all a sad sight. A grey district by the Wall where the aesthetics of New Wave could flourish. Here's a look back at the 80s. You can find most of these films for free on youtube. It's also worth taking a look at Videodrom, THE Kreuzberg video store of the time. In minute 16 of Jörg Buttgereit's Der Todesking you can even see the Videodrom and the owner, Graf v. Haufen. And if you've seen the great documentary B-MOVIE: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 (DVD8318), you'll recognise a few scenes from the collected footage. For example, Nick Cave as the Gunslinger from Dandy by Peter Sempel (minute 28) or Tilda Swinton riding her bike along the Wall in Cycling The Frame from minute 23. And what would the 80s be without Revolutionary May Day in Decoder from minute 109? Or the wonderfully unrenovated old buildings in Richy Guitar minute 40? Last but not least, Kreuzberg offered a perfect surface for graffiti with the wall that framed the district, as can be marvelled at in Wolfgang Büld's Berlin Now from minute 11. Have fun!

FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Jean-Luc Godard - Slow Motion 

This is a commercial cinema film, at least if you interpret "commercial" from the work of Jean-Luc Godard. Godard previously directed Marxist films and video productions. They were films about ideas, not about people. The German title is exceptionally a correct translation of the original title. The English, international title refers to Godard's technique of using slow motion for moments of happiness, fear or pain. So we look Godard's characters in the face and read their feelings. 

FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Jean-Luc Godard - La Chinoise 

Not Andy_Warhol, but Jean-Luc Godard created the first masterpiece of pop art and it's called La Chinoise! Godard seemed obsessed by the student movement of Paris May '68 and by Mao - hence this is about a group of Maoists around that time. A film that wants to be understood, rather, to stimulate the mind. Head cinema. Most of those who worship Godard's early work had to come across it. Godard never did anything like this again before or after. And the press? "Feels like a trial run for the May 1968 revolution. See it by any means necessary!" - Time Out New York "Amazing! Like a speed freak's anticipatory vision of the political horrors to come!" - Pauline Kael. La Chinoise is an abstract documentary about would-be revolutionaries. I've often talked to my father and his brothers about this time and believe I'll actually find them in La Chinoise. The Nouvelle Vague became a new realism. Godard apparently also interspersed autobiographical elements - not least his second wife, Anne Wiazemsky, plays the leading role alongside Jean-Pierre Léaud. Why can you still see La Chinoise today? Because the film is also quite funny, but above all STYLISH! And last but not least a Dostojewski adaptation, as I found out through wikipedia.