Pictures then of her family, accompanied by excruciating noise. The mother standing in front of the door, looking out of the window: the family enjoying its Sunday Lunch in a sombrely panelled room, at afternoon coffee, or breakfast together in bed. Dore O., always at the edge of things, dreamy absent, or suddenly intercut, a crouching figure on a bed, turning to and from with ...
"Encouraged by Fassbinder, with whom he became friendly after the then-enfant terrible of the German cinema visited him in Lugano, Sirk (...) did some teaching during the late 1970s at the film school in Munich, where he made three short films with his students." - sensesofcinema.com
During a new year's eve party, a married woman confess to the hosts' young son that she had a l...
Sprich zu mir wie der Regen is made after Tennessee Williams' Talk To Me Like the Rain.
"There are two unnamed characters: Man and Woman. They live in a cold-water flat on the Lower East Side. He is a drunk. She is wasting away to nothing. There is intimacy between them – the intimacy of desperation. He woke up that morning in some random hotel in a bathtub full of ice cubes. N...
部分剧集描述:The Island & From the Family of Reptiles (Two Wim Wenders Shorts)
“A commissioned work (in between ALICE IN THE CITIES and WRONG E MOVE) for a television series on WDR, A House for Us. FROM THE FAMILY O F REPTILES and THE ISLAND are a complete program in two episodes. After all with Michael Ballhaus as the cinematographer.
Ute (Katja Wulff), an 8 year old girl, constantl...
"Subjektitüde" is one of Sander's early short films shot in the mid-late 1960's. Her social-critic, feminist standpoint can already be seen here, and the film also holds up well today with its nihilistic, not-compromising, lyrical approach, reflecting the mentality of the youth of that era.
Pornography in the service of politics. An outrageous provocation, this attack on reactionary German legislation discriminating against young film directors, features head-on, close-up shots of a penis ‘mouthing’ the parliamentary defence of the law by its author. This is followed by masturbation of the organ by an anonymous female hand, ending with ejaculation into the camera ...