[Marxism] Barbara and German DDR films
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Barbara (2012), written and directed by Christian Petzold, is a remarkable film. It may well be the best so far of all the German films made in recent years on the still very much contentious subject of the defunct German Democratic Republic (GDR). Generally speaking, such films, at least the ones that have reached an international audience, tend to fall into two categories: those tinted by nostalgia (in German the term Ostalgie – combining the words for ‘east’ and ‘nostalgia’ – is the label used for cultural expressions of nostalgia for the GDR) and those who, on the contrary, portray the GDR as a place of undiluted evil. Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) and The Lives of Others (2006) are probably the best-known examples of the respective category. Barbara treads a path beyond these ideological dead-end alleys. http://filmint.nu/?p=5881 Website: http://filmint.nu/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FilmInt Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/FilmInt Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Barbara and German DDR films
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for posting about Barbara, but there are earlier films about the DDR which are not formulaic, IMHO. Volker Schlöndorff's Die Stille nach dem Schuß (released in the US/UK as The Legend of Rita) and Ken Loach's Fatherland both deal with the DDR in nuanced ways. Loach's Fatherland is especially noteworthy as a form of comparison between actually (then!) existing socialism and actually existing capitalism. Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Barbara and German DDR films
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for commenting. FATHERLAND is definitely noteworthy, but I was referring to German films made post-1989. Schlöndorff's DIE STILLE I will make sure to check out. It seems that it had a rather limited release outside of Germany. Thanks for the tip! Website: http://filmint.nu/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FilmInt Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/FilmInt 7 sep 2012 kl. 00:46 skrev Anon Anon: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for posting about Barbara, but there are earlier films about the DDR which are not formulaic, IMHO. Volker Schlöndorff's Die Stille nach dem Schuß (released in the US/UK as The Legend of Rita) and Ken Loach's Fatherland both deal with the DDR in nuanced ways. Loach's Fatherland is especially noteworthy as a form of comparison between actually (then!) existing socialism and actually existing capitalism. Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/daniel.lindvall%40filmint.nu Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Barbara and German DDR films
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I urge all to see his film Jaricow which is an adaptions of the postman always rings twice. I look forward too seeing his new film. Thanks for posting. E Sent from my iPhone On Sep 6, 2012, at 6:52 PM, Daniel Lindvall daniel.lindv...@filmint.nu wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for commenting. FATHERLAND is definitely noteworthy, but I was referring to German films made post-1989. Schlöndorff's DIE STILLE I will make sure to check out. It seems that it had a rather limited release outside of Germany. Thanks for the tip! Website: http://filmint.nu/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FilmInt Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/FilmInt 7 sep 2012 kl. 00:46 skrev Anon Anon: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for posting about Barbara, but there are earlier films about the DDR which are not formulaic, IMHO. Volker Schlöndorff's Die Stille nach dem Schuß (released in the US/UK as The Legend of Rita) and Ken Loach's Fatherland both deal with the DDR in nuanced ways. Loach's Fatherland is especially noteworthy as a form of comparison between actually (then!) existing socialism and actually existing capitalism. Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/daniel.lindvall%40filmint.nu Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/ernestleif%40gmail.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
