Fassbinder's "Berlin Alexanderplatz" remastered and restored

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and coming to NYC MoMA (where I last saw it) April 10-15:

http://www.thereeler.com/the_blog/momas_the_longest_hardest_in_m.php

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Franz Biberkopf ist wieder da!

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

when do they make it english?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Surely that MOMA screening will have English subtitles, even if Larry Kardish has to do it himself.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Rumor is strong that Criterion will release it on DVD this year.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

MEN CAN DREAM

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I wonder if they'll make another documentary about this MOMA screening

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a cryptic confirmation of the DVD release in the latest Criterion newsletter.

― Outcast Lemon Mode (sandglocks), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Folks on the Criterion forum have accepted it as a foregone conclusion.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

sweet

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

If Criterion licenses the German extras, these could be included:

Hans-Dieter Hartl's on-set documentary from 1980 (45 minutes)
Restoration documentary (35 minutes)
Photo gallery from the set
Recaps that were originally shown before episodes 2-13 (they're omitted in the main feature)

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Gimme.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

So how many weeks of my life will this absorb?

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

DVD still can't replicate the audience banter and eating noises at MoMA.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

The Rocky Horror Berlin Alexanderplatz

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

everyone wear an overcoat w/ one full sleeve!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I watched a lot of this on scratchy 16mm back in the early 90s. It was good.

It was on TV originally, right? I would think to really get the "vibe" one would need to get the DVD, put it on, find tinny mp3s of German people talking on the other side of a wall, crush some stale cigarettes into an ashtray, burn them, and not wash for a week.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

A bit of indigestion from sausage would complete the mood.

― patita (patita), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

tracer otm. morbius has consistently claimed rwf wanted it to be a film, but it's too long to be a film, so hard cheese.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 10:17 (seventeen years ago) link

It was on TV originally, right?

On Channel 4. Pre Endemol.

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link

... I didn't watch much of it at the time because I thought it'd be on again! What a fucking dumbo!!

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link

well it was made as a (german) tv series, before c4 launched. a fair few of rwf's films were german tv films, and a lot of them were co-produced with tv (fair unusual at that time, and i think the german media set-up was part of what influenced c4's MO in the 80s).

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Godard's 'Histoire Du Cinema' was also made for TV wasn't it? I suppose it might've gotten more difficult for 'arthouse auteurs' by that time?

― xyzzzz__ (xyzzzz__), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link

a lot of them were co-produced with tv (fair unusual at that time

Not unusual in Germany

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link

(Though of course 'histoire..' is a video essay, from what I read about it.)

― xyzzzz__ (xyzzzz__), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I suppose it might've gotten more difficult for 'arthouse auteurs' by that time?

On the contrary, Fassbinder was getting bigger and bigger at the time (in more ways than one!), Hollywood was beckoning and he was less reliant on TV patronage than he'd ever been - a lot of his earliest films were made with TV money/assistance

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link

well it was 'not unusual in germany' in the 70s in that the new german cinema marked the folding of european cinema into european tv, but they were the first to do it.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Now let's have the "8 Hours Are Not a Day" on DVD next!

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

all I said, ack, was Fassbinder's girl Friday/wife thought it would be best viewed in 2 long chunks.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

DVD still can't replicate the audience banter and eating noises at MoMA.
So MoMA has lifted the ban on Roberta Hill then?

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I believe so. Never heard her talk DURING films tho.

(yr remembering her full name = kinda creepy)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Nothing creepy about it, morbs. I just happen to have, or used to have, a good memory. Not up to jaymc level of course, although once or twice he has unsuccessfully tried to deflect some of the human database heat he gets in my direction.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess she was named in Cinemania, huh.

Report on one-day screening of BA in Berlin:

When the lights went up in Berlin's Volksbühne Theater at 3:20 a.m. on Monday morning, there were a lot of tired faces and not a few people sprawled in the aisles. No wonder -- the dedicated filmgoers had been there since 10 a.m. the previous morning...

Juliana Lorenz, president of the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation and initiator of the re-mastering, told SPIEGEL ONLINE in an interview that Fassbinder had long been held responsible for technical problems that were not his fault. "The technology in the television studios just wasn't adequate at the time," she says. In addition, she points out that most people in Germany at that time still had black and white television sets, which meant the color movie looked too dark on the small screen: "Of course they couldn't tell what was happening."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,465955,00.html

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

best worst ending ever.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't care much for the epilogue, is that what u mean, jorel?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

― jo ga11ucci electrix (joseph), Thursday, 15 February 2007 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link

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