Systemsprenger + German Debut Movies

Bennie's gonna blow every system. That of her own family, her foster family and even that of the experienced carers in the training camp in the forest. Nothing and nobody seems to be able to stop the rage of the nine-year-old Benny. This is what Nora Fingscheidt's debut Systemsprenger is about. Fingscheidt previously staged a series of short films and now ends up in the selection for the foreign Oscar from 0 to 100. A very loud, energetic debut! Is the German film suffocated in the stranglehold of television? Not at all. Here are some debuts from last year: Isa Prahl's 1000 ways to describe rain, Susan Gordanshekan's The Defective Cat - and not to forget; all the debuts of the Mumblecore gang around Axel Ranisch, Nico Sommer or the Lass brothers. Many of them like Nora Fingscheidt joined the FilmArche. They shot films with a few 1000 Euros, partly improvised. And when was the last time we saw such a massive film as Systemsprenger? That's great for us as a video store, because the young filmmakers are often also customers. That means we supply them with creative food and are allowed to be something like a part of this Berlin film scenery. That's all we can wish for! Some films are even shot by us! So our own long-term project; a documentary about the video store. Because despite everything (rising rents and and and), a creative scene is growing around us. A film scene. You borrow the light somewhere. You cook yourself for the team. You write a script at night. Friends help friends. Our own shooting is also chaotic, of course. The protagonists are drunk and full of drugs. They have to sober up before you could think of something like "shut up". Or the camera falls off the tripod because it's defective. Or the light provokes a short circuit. Or the public order office chases you off the sidewalk. In the middle of a shoot! (Who can imagine that something like this could have happened to Godard or Rohmer just as well during their illegal outdoor shootings?) The debutants visit completely different milieus. Henrika Kulls Jibril the prison world in which a mother falls in love with another prisoner. Or Mehmet Akif Büyükatalays Oray a parallel world, in which the hero of his wife "talaq" yells at the mailbox. The Islamic divorce formula in the middle of Berlin? I think it's stuck. Or Luzie Loose's Swimming, a Coming Of Age film that fortunately manages without moral applause. Swimming is about two schoolgirls filming themselves and their classmates with a smartphone. Out of revenge. Or Susanne Heinrich in The Melancholic Girl. What is it about? Something like female self-empowerment. Staged entirely in neon colours, the melancholic girl looks for a place to stay. In the beds of strange men. Or who knows Anatol Schuster's air? A poetic debut that deals with love at first sight. Here even the prefabricated buildings look like in a dream! The debuts are usually supported by the Film Academy, the networks at the universities. Only a few simply try without vitamin B (like Lea and Kathrin, who simply pay for our documentary themselves). This is probably the reason why so many years often pass between the first and second film. The money is missing. Who remembers Jan-Ole Gerster's Oh Boy? Today, seven years later, Lara, his second film comes out. At the bottom of the German section in our video store there is also Katrin Gebbes Tore tanzt. Her second film Pelikanblut is only now coming to the cinema. Is there anything new from Max Zähle? His scraps run very well in the video store. A second film? No, that's not true. That means: the new generation doesn't get enough money in Filmförderland. Either you have to wait for years or do it like Philipp Eichholtz did. He simply shot a trilogy every year, with Luca quietly dancing the little masterpiece in it. But now he suffers from back pain. No-budget means stress!

In Cinemas: Systemsprenger

FREE ON YOUTUBE Hal Hartley - Simple Men

FREE ON YOUTUBE (DU FINDEST DEN GANZEN FILM FREI AUF YOUTUBE) New Yorker Hal Hartley is certainly a pioneer of independent film and of course his style, his camera work, can be considered unique. You can read a lot about it in various indie organs. But what about his stories themselves? How serious can we take them at all? In Hartley's films, extraordinary things happen to ordinary people. From this he forms dry melodramas. Or comedies? Hartley characters are cool. That is, they wouldn't ask themselves or us to take what's happening too seriously. There is even the impression that they are reluctant to appear in a movie. As if Hartley were disturbing her private sphere. Hartley shows all this through the filter of gentle irony. In elegant picture compositions. And so there is an upright mood, sometimes funny (although you never get the impression that one of the characters is aware that something is supposed to be funny here), sometimes even a bit gloomy. Simple Men starts with a botched robbery. Performance by two brothers: The gangster's name is Bill (Robert Burke). The good brother is Dennis (William Sage). One is dangerous, one harmless. The father of the two has escaped from prison. Somewhere he hides. Somewhere on Long Island. In former times the old man was a "revolutionary" = politically active on the left. So the two brothers buy a ticket to Long Island. At least as far as their finances allow. Then they search for their father and meet all sorts of strange guys. The kind of guys you meet at the gas station or in the street cafe. There are many conversations, many dialogues - which in themselves mean nothing. Sometimes the characters blink. As if all this wasn't serious at all. Is there a "message"? I don't think so. Nobody says what they mean. As I noticed, you are in the middle of a "postmodern" film. This is the kind of film that is released for deconstruction. If you want, you can take the pictures apart. Dissolving like a puzzle. Behind it he may discover something like the Nouvelle Vague. and Hal Hartley? He makes every effort to distance himself from his own film. It's important for him to tell us that his own melodrama doesn't touch him at all. Almost as if his film would sell us for being stupid.

Yuppie Movies

Whoever walks through the streets of Neukölln will quickly notice them: The all around feared "Hipster". They wear sunglasses in the evening, have scrubby hair and the clothes of a British pop star of the 80s. A feared Berlin phenomenon, because we assume that these "hipsters" are above all: 1. they are responsible for the so-called "gentrification", i.e. rising rents. 2. they buy all free shops and create uncomfortable bars and cafes. 3. they are so cool that we don't dare to talk to them (they will always remain strangers). Where do these "hipsters" come from To understand this, it is worth looking back to the 80s. At that time they were called "Yuppies". The 80s were perceived by their contemporaries as a bad time. There were no movements like the 68s or 78s, punk had already sold itself and New Wave was too stylized to cause an outcry. With horror it was even noticed that instead of a new subculture there were yuppies instead: The culture of those who wanted to earn a lot of money and openly displayed it. They looked like Bryan Ferry without his dandy style, were fat early and wanted to get high. The evil one wore a suit and he was shiny as well. The hair was gelled and the shoes polished. Wall Street became her movie, The Secret of My Succe$s her philosophy. What yuppies were capable of, was recognized early in 9 ½ weeks, what they were not capable of, as soon as they were taken away the tailor-made suit again, Trading places proved. New Hollywood legend Mike Nichols understood yuppieism best: "The director who made the hearts of the hippies beat faster also felt compassion for the yuppie generation and implanted a heart where none should beat! Working girl is an ascension story, the secretary wants to push through her business ideas and needs the chair of her boss. Only after we had met the yuppie in female form did we want to get involved with him at all. Suddenly we could understand the will to succeed and why we had to assert ourselves so urgently. American psycho finally sealed the time of the yuppies: they were not only surface fetishists, but also murderously crazy.

FREE ON YOUTUBE Bob Rafelson - Head

FREE ON YOUTUBE  Sometimes we play the "Monkees" with us Saturday night. Hardly anyone knows them anymore. A boygroup from the 60s that had only one hit: "I'm A Believer". (That's why my former colleague Thomas Groh also scolds me DJ Bockwurst). If you now watch "Head" by Bob Rafelson, the first thing you will notice is that the movie doesn't fit at all to the good boygroup. Worse still, Head insulted the average "Monkees" fan in 1968, but non-"Monkees" music lovers (all over fourteen or with an IQ over 60) love "Head"! The script was written by Rafelson's friend Jack Nicholson, who wrote some very nice psychedelic scripts during the hippie era anyway. And the "Monkees"? They are harmless, can neither sing, nor dance, nor speak. They don't have to. The movie just adds some plot elements and forgets them very quickly. It's as if a "Beatles" film is being recreated here and immediately dismantled again. Her hits are also immediately forgotten, before they end. It's more about rock clichés and blackouts. A Coca Cola machine has to believe it, then we witness a shooting in the desert. And once the "Monkees" step on Victor Mature's head as a shed. Funny, isn't it?

Filmlist Peter Fonda

A man in search of the United States of America. A country he never found. Is this the story of Peter Fonda, who died yesterday, August 16? An action hero, Peter Fonda never was. Tall, even slaggy, introverted and sensitive, he rather corresponded to his parade role as "Captain America" in Easy Rider. And his films? An inconspicuous collection of B-movies. Somehow Peter Fonda's image was tried to be exploited again. And again. Big movies like The Hired Hand, stand there all alone in a wide landscape. I think The Hired Hand can be considered the only Western that is allowed to follow Easy Rider at all! Then, at the end of his 50s, he made an artistic comeback. In Ulee's Gold he plays Ulysses Jackson, a beekeeper from Florida. Introverted. What is going through the mind of this man, the only survivor of a Vietnam unit? A lonely man. But he loves his work. Is Ulysses Jackson Peter Fonda's alter ego? For me, Fonda is an uncompromising person. A freedom-loving person! America's last hippie!

FREE ON YOUTUBE Peter Fonda - The Hired Hand

FREE ON YOUTUBE  To the death of Peter Fonda! Does the sub-genre "spiritual" Western exist?  Certainly! Peter Fonda has made a dreamy spiritual western. In the center; a young man who leaves his wife and child behind to lead the life of a simple cowboy again. And after many years he decides to return to his wife and start all over again. The man's name is Harry Collings (Fonda), his best friend is Arch Harris (Warren Oates). But on their way back they come across a villain. McVey (Severn Darden). At the ranch of his wife they start as wage labourers. But Harry has matured in the ten years (!!!) of his absence and is allowed back into the bedroom. I hope that now not all female customers of our video store are pissed off about this summary. Anyway, we follow this wide ride in dazzling pictures, slowly dissolved, with sun flooded double exposures. A quiet, mystical western, accompanied by real folksy music. The best westerns were always very moral. But also exciting. One arrives at moral clarity through many shootings. That doesn't happen here. The villian simply kidnaps his best friend and announces that he will cut off a finger every week. Time for a showdown - but... it doesn't happen. Everything ends completely different than expected. Just like with "Easy Rider". Sometimes it all seemed a bit too metaphysical to me. But it's 2019. Donald Trump is president of the USA. Instead of hippies there are racist rednecks who all chose Trump. It's certainly my mistake to find Peter Fonda's Western too pregnant with meaning. I live in the wrong time. In any case, Peter Fonda loves to stylise everyday events with Christ symbolism.

FREE ON YOUTUBE Favela Rising

FREE ON YOUTUBE  Have I told you about our old cinema? In Corinthstr., not far from Lidl there? It should be a zero Euro cinema. With bunk beds and (!!!) couches on rocking chains. It works like this: 1. You steal the wood at the Lidl construction site, have couches and refrigerators from eBay given to you. 2 The demonstration technique is available in insolvent cinemas. For example these old 35 MM machines. They are so loud that nobody understands the film. That's why you need an extra room. That's why my old partner Skulli rented a chamber in the building next door. He had the idea of simply drilling a hole between the outer walls of both old buildings. That's work, because we're talking about more than a meter here! Almost hopeless. But at some point the drill came through. And later an architect said; we would have been lucky that not both buildings sank. Never mind. In such a cinema you can show films like Favela Rising. The show sold out three times, which means that about 90 people wanted to see Favela Rising! Many Brazilians, because it is a true story with a happy ending. In Portuguese favela simply means slum. The area we know from "City Of God" or "Tropa De Elite". In Favela Rising you can see a group of young Brazilians who during the 90s were looking for their own way out of the misery of the favelas. They exchanged their weapons for instruments. They played AfroReggae to support those oppressed in the favelas. And they make it! I will ask Werner from NOMADENKINO if we don't want to play Favela Rising again. For example in About Blank. P.S. The original cinema from Corinthstr. is still there. In the Gärtnerstr. 19, 10245 Berlin. It's called B-Ware. A shop that has nothing to do with chic young mothers, bicycle helmets or chocolate shops (Bio bar for only 4.50).

Film List Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall was erected on 13 August 1961. It was only three days before the Wall was built that the public was informed, and before that the credo was: "Nobody intends to build a wall. (Ulbricht). The required barbed wire was supplied from the west. Berliners like me grew up with the Wall. It was quite normal for us. My way to school ran along the wall, which took me a little longer. I couldn't drive straight through - it wasn't until after 1989. We made jokes about the border guards watching us from their watchtowers. Or we threw firecrackers over the wall and were happy when the shepherd dogs struck. In the north of the then French sector one could even come across border soldiers. In this part the wall had to be built a little bit displaced, because the surrounding countryside was too swampy. Signs indicated the "end of the French sector". Those who passed these entered the GDR. Short and sweet; all this seemed quite normal to me. Of course I wanted to go out by bike. Behind the wall. Sometimes I felt trapped on our island West Berlin. But I was never afraid of "Ivan". When the wall fell, the astonishing thing was that some were not at all enthusiastic about it. Especially in Kreuzberg. Because now one belonged again to "Germany" and no longer to an allied sector. We West Berliners were not "Germans" in this sense - and that was very, very important for us. After all, we didn't have a passport. Only a West Berlin identity card. We were also not allowed to vote in "Germany". Only the West Berlin CDU. And we got "Berlin Zulage". 30 % more wage on every job. Anyway, everything in West Berlin was subsidized by the state. You can still see that today; we West Berliners are used to receiving money from the state. Today, August 13, we may remember. With films about the fall of the Berlin Wall, which I have collected here.

FREE ON YOUTUBE Damiano Damiani - Mafia

FREE ON YOUTUBE (DU FINDEST DEN GANZEN FILM FREI AUF YOUTUBE) If you know your way around classic Italian cinema, you'll soon notice that the mafia isn't an issue for the great Italian auteur filmmakers. This is not the case with the busy Damiano Damiani, his trademark specialist for mafia thrillers. Like Francesco-Rosi, Damiani sees the mafia primarily as a social problem. However, his films don't seem like docu-dramas, but real thrillers. "Mafia" or "The Day Of The Owl" looks impressive. A thriller that certainly falsifies the fact that the real Mafiosi of the time were less well dressed. It's the story of a single righteous cop from the north; Captain Bellodi (Franco Nero). He was sent to Sicily to solve all the unsolved murder cases. So that disappearance of the husband of Rosa Nicolosi (the great Claudia Cardinale). He witnessed a murder of a construction worker. Why did he have to die? What did he see? And what does Rosa know? From a distance, the local godfather, Don Mariano (Cobb), watches Bellodi's investigation. But Sicilians are hard at remaining silent. Bellodi's attempt to obtain a statement turns out to be almost impossible. Normally, I prefer to buy the Italo thrillers, which are published by Koch Media on DVD in the most beautiful size. Our DVD of Damiani's classic, which even ran during the Berlinale, is greenish and basically an imposition. But now I have discovered this youtututbe stream with English subtitles. It proves: Neither the face of Claudia Cardinale, nor that of Franco Nero is green.

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NOMADENKINO heute 21.00 Burning

Two childhood friends, both raised near Seoul, meet again by chance after years. They go for a drink together and remember earlier. She has studied pantomime and shows him something. He reacts as if enchanted and falls in love. He is amazed at the illusion. It explains to him that whenever he desires something, he could create it this way. Everyone in Burning desires something in the most fervent way. The young man is called Jongsu (Ah-in Yoo). He dreams of becoming a writer. The girl's name is Haemi (Jong-seo Jun). At first he doesn't recognize her at all. "Plastic surgery"; grins Haemi. They have sex and he agrees to feed her cat while she travels to Africa. A cat we never see, by the way. Does the cat even exist? Longingly, jongsu waits for Haemi's return. She doesn't return alone, but accompanied by Ben (Steven Yeun). Ben is cold and somehow empty. He experiences a big Porsche and his apartment is full of works of art. But there is something wrong with Ben, Jongsu finds. And what does Haemi actually mean to him and his rich friends? Nothing more than a pastime? Jongsu thinks Haemi is in danger... Burning takes place in a world full of blurred borders. Jongsu lives in a village near North Korea. A raid from the north threatens at any time. And the cat lives in the border area between being and non-being. Important in Burning are cupboards. Everyone has a closet with secrets. And fire. Above all Ben guards a strange secret with fire: He burns down other people's greenhouses. There is a permanent threat of danger in Burning, even if you can't locate it. It is difficult to even grasp a clear thought. "What is" and "What is not"? It never really becomes clear. Just like Haemi's pantomime. Nothing is as it seems. And Haemis cat? It was never there.

Film Liste Indianer Filme 80er-00er

In the early 17th century the first conquerors set out for America and there was a clash with the Indian culture. The clash of cultures is the theme, modern Indian films. On the one side there are mostly the natives close to nature, on the other side the materialistically and morally corrupted conquerors. Films like The new world by Terence Malick seem to confirm this prejudice through superficial ethno kitsch just as much as Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves. In Michael Mann's The last of the Mohicans, the protagonists are scarred and drawn. Love stories are used by Malick and Mann to approach the foreign culture. While in Michael Mann's model, however, there are some gaps that are filled by platitudes, Malick idealizes them. Geronimo: According to the title, An American legend is a classic Indian and cavalry western. Walter Hill shows genocide not as war, but as mass murder. With great beauty and true intelligence, Hill has succeeded in making the best of all modern Indian films.