12-17-2004, 04:30 PM
NuurAbSaal,Dec 12 2004, 06:12 PM Wrote:Were you brave enough to watch "Die Nibelungen" on TV, about a week ago IIRC? Double-Argh. If you missed it, rejoice!Yes, I saw some minutes while zapping through the TV channels, and the latest "Nibelungen" was awful even with such beauties like Kristanna "T3" Loken. The German film (after WW II) is generally dead IMO, with some very rare exceptions like "Das Boot", "Heimat" (the first series) or the latest "Hitler" movie with Bruno Ganz as Hitler. All mostly "serious" movies, by the way. The best filmed "Nibelungen" saga remains that of director Fritz Lang. That was a German silent movie and filmed during the 1920's.
It's a shame, because Germany was once, during the golden age of silent movies and the expressionistic phase, the most interesting film land in the world (after WW I, from the 1920's to the 1940's). Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", the "Dr. Mabuse" trilogy or "M", F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" or "The Last Laugh" (a.k.a. "The Last Man"), Paul Wegener's "The Golem" or Robert Wiene's "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" belong to the best film's ever created. But that was long, long ago ... ("in a galaxy far, far away" one is tempted to say ;))
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