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The great phases of German film during the Expressionism of the 1920s and the New German Cinema of the 1970s seemed strangely mannered and artificial. German films loved unusual colours and lighting ratios, willing to follow their characters to the limits of human behaviour. This deliberately artificial dimension can still be found in the productions of the 10s, albeit only sporadically.

FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Alain Resnais - Night And Fog 

Never again! (Please do not misuse this post for anti-Semitic posts and nonsense). On 9.11.38 Nazi gangs rampaged through the streets of Berlin. The so-called Reich Pogrom Night. Over 90 years old he became. His career lasted over six decades and he always had his finger on the pulse of his time: Alain Resnais. He became famous in 1955 with this documentary about the German concentration camps. Even today my father tells me how they showed Night And Fog at the film club. Some long-time members resigned as a result. They felt attacked by the young "Beatnicks" and their disrespectful films. Especially in Germany of the 50s Night And Fog must have been a brutal experience. And it still works today! Resnais was one of the very first to take up the subject of Nazi concentration camps. He invented a new technique to combine black and white images from the archives with color images of the abandoned camps. Right at the beginning we lose the ground under our feet. A supposedly safe room turns into a dangerous one. Crash. Below an idyllic landscape a barbed wire comes to light. Finally this barbed wire is the foreground. If we previously felt a feeling of satisfaction, this is now lost. The narrator comments: "A concentration camp is built like any stadium or a hotel". Even a church can lead to a concentration camp. We understand: Any place can be charged with hate and anger and xenophobia. In the following there will be nothing else but the Holocaust. No way to distract our gaze. The catastrophe becomes tangible and accompanies us through the montage of the film until the present day: "Are their faces really so different than ours?

FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE David Lean - Lawrence Of Arabia 

What kind of daring genius did it take to produce this film? An epic four hours long without stars, without a love story and without much action. The hero is the eccentric, even suicidal T.E. Lawrence, who survives an almost impossible journey through the desert. Already safe, he returns to find his friend, who stayed behind. We know the scene. A spot appears far back on the horizon. A spot that becomes a man. Or don't we know this moment at all? If you rent the DVD from us or stream the film you will hardly identify the spot on the TV monitor. I'm sorry, but this is a movie! A 70mm movie! Only in the 70mm format we can get an impression of the vastness of the desert. Lawrence Of Arabia is not a simple historical film. It is a work about the extravagance of the desert. It is proven: Lawrence won the Arabs to fight for the British and against the Turks. Did he do it out of patriotism? The film corrects that. No, rather out of pragmatism. Basically, he rejected the British side and identified with the Arabs. Or is it true that Lawrence was homosexual? Of course, this aspect had to be treated carefully in such an expensive epic in 1962. Peter O'Toole plays Lawrence. A frail beautiful actor. Not an ordinary action hero, but one who still wanted to be recognized. What secret did this Lawrence hide? He speaks in a strange manner, seems as charismatic as he is crazy. How could he get the Arabs to follow him through the desert? O'Toole plays at least one socially and sexually unconventional man. Could such a man win the war against the Turks? He could. Without realizing their rivalries, he allied himself with the desert lords Sherif Ali (Omar Sharif), Prince Faisal (Alec Guinness) and Auda Abu Tayi (Anthony Quinn). Strangely enough, the following epic is based less on "plot" than on "feeling". The story is not told in dialogues, but in the recordings of the desert. Epos refers not so much to the elaborate production, but to the unique artistic vision! Unfortunately, we can't offer this vision in our video store. You must try to see it somewhere on 70mm. A task almost as difficult as the production of Lawrence Of Arabia!