New German Cinema Directors

New German Cinema Directors

Under Construction

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Introduction

I recall some of the most exciting cinema of the 1970s being what became described as New German Cinema. This was the cinematic new wave which had broken at various times over much of Europe with most remembering France as being associated with the Nouvelle Vague, and the directors Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rivette, Malle and several others being the cool people to talk about. Britain too had had its changes, as had  the then Czechoslovakia.  Germany too had had its new  wave. The build up for these  cultural moments and movements are of  course uneven however the same fundamentals were driving  these waves although each country had its cultural specificities.

In Germany the key defining moment or turning point can be seen as the Oberhausen Manifesto of 28th February 1962. The Oberhausen Film Festival was then in its eigth year. Young directors had been coming together at Oberhausen to celebrate their work in this small Ruhr town. The work itself comprised of shorts but there was a determination to make full- length feature films. The Oberhausen Manifesto was signed by 26 young directors overall. Undoubtedly their mood and their frustrations woring within a moribund German cinema of the time was intense. In reality the situation of the national cinemas in Britain, France and Italy was far more interesting by 1962. The directors declared their object to be no less than "...the creation of the new German Feature Film" (Cited Sandford p 12):

We have a concrete notion of the production of the new German cinema at the intellectual, formal and economic levels. We are collectively prepared to take economic risks. The old cinema is dead. We believe in the new one. (Oberhausen Manifesto 1962 cited Sandford p 13)

Women Directors in New German Cinema

It will be quickly be noticed that a significant number of the directors mentioned are women. It is interesting to note that two of the books on the current bibliography below were criticised by Julia Knight (1994) - also in the bibliography - because of their treatment (or lack of it) of women directors within New German Cinema. Knight cites Anton Kaes on page 14 who criticises Sandford's book:

such accomplished directors such as Helke Sander, Helma Sanders-Brahms, or Margarethe von Trotta are not represented as major directors but merely as illustrations of the women's film.

Corrigan's book published three years later focuses upon six case studies  which are all on male directors which :

...can inevitably come to be considered in some way representative. this futher reinforces the marginalisation of women's film-making. (Knight, 1992 p 14)

Knight is of course quite right becuase academic contributions help to construct the dominant discourse so it is as well a corrective was put into place, albeit some ten years later! Knight continued her survey of academic contributions which will be summarised in a later posting suffice it to say here this linked (where possible) overview has been constructed to recognise this critical gap in academic output. Where there are no links to external comments considered of worth this acts as an identification of a critical gap, and proffers a research opportunity to Germanists at least. (See also Women's Cinema in Germany)

Researcher Warning

For those visitors using this as a research reference point in Women and Film please cite the page referencing the date of access. This is very important as this page will be a dynamic one for some time as new links are researched and added.

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Webliography

Useful page at Queens University Belfast: The New German Cinema

Bibliography

Corrigan, Timothy. 1983. New German Film: The Displaced Image. Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Elsaesser, Thomas. 1989. New German cinema: A History. London: British Film Institute

Knight, Julia. 1992. German Women and the New German Cinema. London: Verso

Sandford John. 1980. The New German Cinema. London: Eyre Methuen

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G.W. Pabst (1885–1967)

G.W. Pabst (1885-1967)

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Filmography  (Weimar period)

This listing is taken from the Deutsche Film Portal. Not all links are theirs.

	1932
	Die Herrin von Atlantis Regie
	1932/1933
	Don Quichotte Regie
	1932/1933
	Don Quixote Regie
	1932
	L'Atlantide Regie
	1932
	The Mistress of Atlantis Regie
	1931
	La tragédie de la mine Regie
	1930/1931
	Die 3-Groschen-Oper Regie
	1930/1931
	L'opera de quat'sous Regie
	1930
	Moral um Mitternacht Künstlerische Oberleitung
	1930
	Skandal um Eva Regie
	1930
	Westfront 1918 Regie
	1929
	Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü Regie
	1929
	Tagebuch einer Verlorenen Produzent, Regie
	1928
	Abwege Regie, Schnitt
	1928/1929
	Die Büchse der Pandora Regie
	1927
	Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney Regie, Schnitt
	1926
	Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe Regie, Schnitt
	1925
	Die freudlose Gasse Regie, Schnitt
	1925/1926
	Geheimnisse einer Seele Regie
	1924
	Gräfin Donelli Regie
	1922/1923
	Der Schatz Regie
	1922
	Luise Millerin Drehbuch, Regie-Assistenz
	1921/1922
	Der Taugenichts Drehbuch, Regie-Assistenz
	1921
	Im Banne der Kralle Darsteller, Produzent

Webliography

Scholarly work on Pabst

Senses of Cinema site on The Threepenny Opera

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Joe May (1880–1954)

Joe May (1880-1954)

Filmography

This listing is taken from the Deutsche Film Portal. Currently all links are their's with the exception of Asphalt.  

	1933
	Tout pour l'amour Director
	1932/1933
	Ein Lied für Dich Director
	1932
	Hochzeitsreise zu Dritt Creative consultant
	1932
	Voyage de noces Creative consultant
	1931
	...und das ist die Hauptsache Director,Producer,Production manager
	1931/1932
	Zwei in einem Auto Production manager,Director,Producer
	1930
	Ihre Majestät die Liebe Production manager,Director,Producer
	1930
	Son altesse l'amour Creative consultant,Co-Producer
	1929/1930
	Der unsterbliche Lump Producer,Creative consultant
	1929/1930
	Die letzte Kompagnie Producer
	1928/1929
	Asphalt Director,Screenplay
	1928
	Heimkehr Director,Screenplay,Editing
	1928
	Ungarische Rhapsodie Screenplay
	1927/1928
	Die Durchgängerin Production manager,Producer
	1926
	Dagfin Director,Producer,Screenplay
	1926
	Derby. Ein Ausschnitt aus der Welt des Trabersports Producer,Creative consultant
	1926
	Staatsanwalt Jordan Producer
	1924/1925
	Der Farmer aus Texas Director,Producer,Screenplay
	1924
	Die Liebesbriefe der Baronin von S... Producer
	1923/1924
	Der geheime Agent Producer
	1922/1923
	Tragödie der Liebe [1-teilig] Producer,Director
	1922/1923
	Tragödie der Liebe. 1. Teil Producer,Director
	1922/1923
	Tragödie der Liebe. 2. Teil Producer,Director
	1922/1923
	Tragödie der Liebe. 3. Teil Producer,Director
	1922/1923
	Tragödie der Liebe. 4. Teil Producer,Director
	1921
	Am Webstuhl der Zeit. Dramatisches Zeitbild aus schweren Tagen in 6 Teilen Producer,Creative consultant
	1921
	Das indische Grabmal (2 Teile) Director,Producer
	1921
	Der Tiger von Eschnapur Director,Producer
	1921
	Die Erbin von Tordis Producer,Creative consultant
	1921
	Die Sendung des Yoghi Producer,Director
	1921
	Ilona Producer
	1921/1922
	Scheine des Todes Creative consultant,Producer
	1921
	Tobias Buntschuh Creative consultant,Producer
	1920
	Das wandernde Bild Producer,Creative consultant
	1920/1921
	Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft Producer,Screenplay,Creative consultant
	1920-1921
	Die Frauen vom Gnadenstein Creative consultant,Producer,Screenplay
	1920
	Die Legende von der heiligen Simplicia Director,Producer
	1920
	Die Schuld der Lavinia Morland Producer,Director,Screenplay
	1920/1921
	Junge Mama. 5 lustige Akte Creative consultant,Producer,Screenplay
	1919
	Der Amönenhof Producer
	1919
	Der Henker von Sankt Marien Producer,Creative consultant
	1919
	Der blaue Drachen Producer,Creative consultant
	1919
	Die Herrin der Welt. 1. Teil: Die Freundin des gelben Mannes Producer,Director,Screenplay
	1919
	Die Herrin der Welt. 2. Teil: Die Geschichte der Maud Gregaards Producer,Director,Screenplay
	1919
	Die Herrin der Welt. 3. Teil: Der Rabbi von Kuan-Fu Director,Screenplay,Producer
	1919
	Die Herrin der Welt. 4. Teil: König Makombe Producer,Screenplay,Creative consultant
	1919/1920
	Die Herrin der Welt. 5. Teil: Ophir, die Stadt der Vergangenheit Screenplay,Producer,Creative consultant
	1919/1920
	Die Herrin der Welt. 6. Teil: Die Frau mit den Milliarden Producer,Screenplay,Creative consultant
	1919/1920
	Die Herrin der Welt. 7. Teil: Die Wohltäterin der Menschheit Producer,Screenplay,Creative consultant
	1919/1920
	Die Herrin der Welt. 8. Teil: Die Rache der Maud Fergusson Producer,Director,Screenplay
	1919
	Fräulein Zahnarzt Producer,Screenplay,Director
	1918
	Das Auge des Götzen Creative consultant,Producer
	1918
	Das Geheimnis der Cecilienhütte Creative consultant
	1918
	Das rollende Hotel Creative consultant,Producer
	1918/1919
	Der Muff Creative consultant,Producer
	1918
	Die Bettelgräfin Producer,Director,Screenplay
	1918
	Die Krone von Palma Creative consultant,Producer
	1918
	Die Ratte Producer,Creative consultant,Screenplay
	1918/1919
	Die närrische Fabrik Creative consultant,Producer,Screenplay
	1918
	Die platonische Ehe Producer,Screenplay
	1918
	Diplomaten Producer,Creative consultant
	1918
	Fünf Minuten zu spät Creative consultant,Producer,Screenplay
	1918
	Ihr großes Geheimnis Screenplay,Director,Producer
	1918
	Opfer Producer,Director,Screenplay
	1918/1919
	Veritas vincit (Die Wahrheit siegt!). Eine Filmtrilogie Producer,Director
	1918
	Wogen des Schicksals Producer,Director,Screenplay
	1917
	Das Klima von Vancourt Screenplay,Producer,Director
	1917
	Der Onyxknopf Director,Producer,Screenplay
	1917/1918
	Der lebendige Tote Creative consultant,Screenplay,Producer
	1917
	Der schwarze Chauffeur Director,Producer,Screenplay
	1917
	Die Hochzeit im Excentric-Club Producer,Director,Screenplay
	1917
	Die Kaukasierin Screenplay,Producer,Director
	1917
	Die Liebe der Hetty Raymond Producer,Director,Screenplay
	1917
	Ehre Producer,Director
	1917
	Ein Lichtstrahl im Dunkel Producer,Director,Screenplay
	1917
	Hilde Warren und der Tod Producer,Director
	1917
	Krähen fliegen um den Turm Screenplay,Director,Producer
	1917
	Sein bester Freund Producer,Screenplay,Creative consultant
	1916
	Arme Eva Maria Screenplay,Director,Producer
	1916
	Das rätselhafte Inserat Producer,Screenplay
	1916
	Der Floh-Zirkus Producer
	1916
	Des Vaters letzter Wille Producer,Director
	1916/1917
	Die Silhouette des Teufels Producer,Screenplay
	1916
	Die Stieftöchter Producer
	1916/1917
	Die leere Wasserflasche Producer,Screenplay,Director
	1916
	Ein Blatt Papier Director,Producer,Screenplay
	1916
	Ein einsam Grab Producer,Screenplay,Set design
	1916
	Nebel und Sonne Screenplay,Producer,Director
	1916
	Wie ich Detektiv wurde Producer,Screenplay,Director
	1915
	Charly, der Wunderaffe Director,Screenplay
	1915
	Das Gesetz der Mine Screenplay,Producer,Director
	1915
	Der Geheimsekretär Screenplay,Director,Producer
	1915
	Der ewige Friede. Ein Ausgestoßener. 2. Teil Screenplay
	1915
	Die Gespensteruhr Screenplay,Director,Producer
	1915
	Die Sünde der Helga Arndt Screenplay,Director,Producer
	1915
	In der Nacht... Producer,Screenplay
	1915
	Sein schwierigster Fall Screenplay,Producer,Director
	1915
	Violette Rosen Director
	1914
	Das Panzergewölbe Screenplay,Director,Producer
	1914
	Der Mann im Keller Director
	1914
	Der Spuk im Hause des Professors Director
	1914
	Der geheimnisvolle Nachtschatten Production manager
	1913/1914
	Das Fischermädchen von Manholm Screenplay,Director
	1913
	Das Werk Production manager
	1913
	Das verschleierte Bild von Groß-Kleindorf Production manager,Director
	1913
	Die Mona Lisa von Groß-Kleindorf Production manager,Director
	1913/1914
	Die geheimnisvolle Villa Director
	1913
	Die unheilbringende Perle Production manager,Screenplay,Director
	1913
	Ein Ausgestoßener. 1. Der junge Chef Screenplay,Director
	1913
	Entsagungen Director
	1913
	Geschwister Production manager
	1913
	Heimat und Fremde Screenplay,Director
	1913
	Verhängnis Production manager
	1912
	In der Tiefe des Schachtes Screenplay,Director
	1912
	Iwo der Bucklige. 1. EP: Vorgluten des Balkankrieges Cast,Director
	1912
	Vorgluten des Balkanbrandes Director,Screenplay
	1911
	Die Fahrt nach Hamburg Director

: 23 Mar 2008 18:54 |  Tags: European Film History German Cinema Joe May Joe May Filmography Weimar Cinema |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Fritz Lang (1890–1976)

Fritz Lang (1890-1976)

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Filmography for the Weimar Period

(Listing taken from the Deutsche Film Portal the links are different)

1932/1933
	Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse Director
	1932/1933
	Le testament du docteur Mabuse Director
	1932/1933
	Siegfrieds Tod Director
	1931
	'M' Director,Screenplay
	1928/1929
	Frau im Mond Producer,Director
	1927/1928
	Spione Director,Producer,Screenplay
	1925/1926
	Metropolis Metropolis the different versions Editing,Director,Screenplay
	1923/1924
	Der Film im Film Participation
	1922-1924
	Die Nibelungen (2 Teile) Director
	1922-1924
	Die Nibelungen. 1. Teil: Siegfried Director
	1922-1924
	Die Nibelungen. 2. Teil: Kriemhilds Rache Director
	1921
	Das indische Grabmal (2 Teile) Screenplay
	1921
	Der Tiger von Eschnapur Screenplay
	1921
	Der müde Tod Editing,Screenplay,Director
	1921
	Die Sendung des Yoghi Screenplay
	1921/1922
	Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler Screenplay,Director
	1920
	Das wandernde Bild Screenplay,Director
	1920/1921
	Kämpfende Herzen Director,Screenplay
	1919
	Der Herr der Liebe Director,Cast
	1919
	Die Frau mit den Orchideen Screenplay
	1919/1920
	Die Herrin der Welt. 8. Teil: Die Rache der Maud Fergusson Screenplay
	1919/1920
	Die Spinnen (2 Teile) Screenplay,Director
	1919
	Die Spinnen. 1. Teil: Der goldene See Screenplay,Director
	1919/1920
	Die Spinnen. 2. Teil: Das Brillantenschiff Screenplay,Director
	1919
	Halbblut Screenplay,Director
	1919
	Harakiri Director
	1919
	Lilith und Ly Screenplay
	1919
	Pest in Florenz Screenplay
	1919
	Totentanz Screenplay
	1919
	Wolkenbau und Flimmerstern Screenplay
	1918/1919
	Bettler-G.m.b.H. Screenplay
	1918
	Die Frauen des Josias Grafenreuth Screenplay
	1918/1919
	Die Rache ist mein Screenplay
	1917
	Die Hochzeit im Excentric-Club Screenplay
	1917
	Hilde Warren und der Tod Screenplay,Cast
	1916
	Die Peitsche Screenplay

Webliography

A useful link to review of Gunning’s biography of Lang. Review by Anton Kaes

Senses of Cinema site Daniel Shaw on Fritz Lang

A useful Select Bibliography on Fritz Lang from the BFI.

: 23 Mar 2008 17:04 |  Tags: European Cultural History Fritz Lang German Cinema Kinoeye Weimar Cinema |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

The Lives of Others

The Lives of Others,2006: Dir Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

A brief report and range of web links on this recently released film in the UK which was hugely successful in Germany and won an Oscar nomination for best foreign film.

This film about the practices of the Stasi, the communist East German secret police, won a "Lola" award for best film as well as in six other categories.

The recent release of The Lives of Others has prompted some interesting reviews on BBC News 24 and a very interesting article by Anna Funder the author of Stasiland (2003) in the May 07  edition of Sight & Sound the British Film institute monthly magazine. 

The purpose of this current posting is just to flag up the film and its importance not only to those interested in Central and Eastern European affairs but also in the possibilities of subversion and change. Funder's article explores the possibilities of whther Donnersmarck's film in allowing for the possibilities of change and redemption is overoptimistic.

In the film a Stasi officer Wiesler who is assigned to surveillance of a playright eventual starts to cover up the indiscretions of the playright. The surveillance is instituted by a jealous bureaucrat who wants the woman back from the playright. In reality the whole situation becomes one of human agents manipulating and  resisting systems of power.

Inevitably there are comparisons with the Holocaust and the role of Schindler. Donnersmarck has apparently claimed that Schindler was partially an inspiration for the film. in an atmosphere where the memories of the hated Stasi are still strong and where many ex-Stasi members according to funder are openly defending their position and aggressively demonstrating against memorial institutions and those investigating the role of the Stasi. in the sight and sound article Funder notes the increasing 'belligerence' of these people and comments about their response on the launch of her book in Leipzig:

... a phalanx of ex-Stasi or Party members placed themselves in the front row, glaring at me during the proceedings, muttering aggressively and taking furious notes. At question time I expected a discussion, but they sidled out  before they could be engaged in debate. (Funder, Sight & Sound May 07 p 19).

Funder notes that the film has gained critics in Germany because they point out that Schindler wasn't part of the Nazi machine as such, he was a private citizen with a business which was forced to use slave labour. There was no Schindler in the real Stasi they say precisely because the Stasi was a state machine with all its members entirely ideologically controlled without a crack. 

At a theoretical level one can be reminded of Foucault's ruminations on power in which the possibility for the reversal of the flow of power is always available. At the theoretical level it allows for the possibility of human agency and the whole debate falls into the classic tension between structure and agency within society. amongst all the thousands of Stasi over the years it is hard to believe that some were not willing to turn a blind eye against infractions for one reason or another whther through greed or a spark of humanity connecting with another person.

Here I'm reminded of an extract from a piece by Primo Levi a survivor of the camps which was part of a literature course I was on many years ago. In the extract a concentration camp guard eyes met those of his intended Jewish victim and in a brief flash of humanity a strange connectivity between the two people the guard neglected his 'duty' and failed to kill the victim. It is a story which which underpins and exonerates the position that Donnersmarck has taken in the film. Perhaps in the course of time we will find out what little acts of mercy slipped through the system.

The film raises all those questions about citizens caught up in an authoritarian strong state regime. Please note I'm avoiding the term totalitarian here for it espouses a certain political philosophical position emanating from people such as Hannah Arendt which is questionable.  Indeed the extent of collaboration and collusion, the possibilities of 'internal exile' where individuals withdraw as much as possible from the activities of the state in which they find themselves as unwilling members are all questions which arise from the film. 

In the UK at least the film gives us the opportunity to raise the issue of whether there are too many security cameras  watching UK citizens. Ironically I suspect that there are either not enough or they are targeted in the wrong places and they are used in a class based sense to protect that which is already well protected which is expensive property in city centres and other places. They aren't generally on motorways stopping the managerial classes speeding around at 120mph. Neither are they protecting the working classes from the lumpen elements within their midst in the housing estates often swarming with badly behaved teenagers who have no idea what to do with themselves and with little respect for themselves or anybody else. Whilst the film has resonances in Britain because of the actual and perceived social issues of public disorder and systems of control it seems more appropriate to keep this issue separate from The Lives of Others. 

After its opening in the UK Lives of Other's was hitting the top spot in the ratings according to Time Out of April 25 2007 on the three day ratings chart. This makes a change from people gormlessly queing for cotton 'free' shopping bags (Sainsburys by Anya Hindmarsh, or 'Kate Moss' clothing presumably designed by others in reality. Ideology is at its strongest when people don't recognise it!)

1

The Lives of Others

20

£125,246

Webliography

Lives of Others

Sight and Sound May 2007 review of Lives of Others

Feature and discussion with Donnersmarck in Time Out 

Guardian Blog on Lives of Others 

From Politics Central review of Lives of Others

Oscar best foreign film nomination report 1

Oscar best foregn film nomination report 2 

Guardian report on Warsaw best European film awards won by Lives of Others

Stasiland 

Extract from the Guardian of Funder's book Stasiland

Granta Stasiland page 

Guardian review of Stasiland 

Interview with Anna Funder in World Press Review 

Talk and Q & A between Funder RMIT journalism students at the Fifth Estate

Funder wins BBC 4 Johnson prize

: 04 May 2007 09:30 |  Tags: European Cinema Florian Von Donnersmarck German Cinema Kinoeye Lives Of Others |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Munchhausen,1943: Dir. Josef von Baky

Munchhausen,1943: Dir. Josef von Baky

Eureka DVD Cover

Notes

This post is currently what I'm describing as a 'phase one' post. A synopsis and contextual and critical comments will be added at a later date. Through the webliography below this post thus serves to act as a resource page. This will allow prospective course members and other visitors to conduct some basic research into the relevant film. For further research you may also consuly the relevant bibliography. Please use the bibliographies tag in the sidebar to access this resource. 

Webliography 

At the time of writing the following sites I consider the best researched academically or else are present because of the quality of their links. This is searched down to page 20+ of Google.

Link to Off Screen article which covers the range of cinematic versions of the Munchausen story:

http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/munchausen.html

Link to site page on Erich Kastner the writer of the screenplay:

http://www.filmreference.com/Writers-and-Production-Artists-Ja-Kr/K-stner-Erich.html

The Triumph of Male Will: "Munchhausen" (1943) Eric Rentschler Film Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Spring, 1990), pp. 14-2. This is a Jstor journal article and will need a subscription:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0015-1386(199021)43%3A3%3C14%3ATTOMW%22%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6

Link to German Film Archive:

http://www.german-films.de/app/filmarchive/film_view.php?film_id=797

Deutsche Film Portal on von Baky the director:

http://www.filmportal.de/df/90/Uebersicht,,,,,,,,EF7358B875C18304E03053D50B37578C,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.html

: 30 Mar 2007 16:43 |  Tags: Eureka Video European Cinema German Cinema History Of European Cinema Josef Von Baky Kinoeye Munchhausen Open Studies Summer Term Films 2007 Weimar And Nazi Cinema |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

The Blue Angel, 1930: Dir. Josef von Sternberg

The Blue Angel, 1930: Dir. Josef von Sternberg

Recommended Version

This Eureka version is currently the best version to use. It is recommended by S.S. Prawer in his little BFI monograph on The Blue Angel (pp 74-75): 

Cooperation between the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung, The Filmuseum Berlin, The Universum Film GMBH and Transit Film of Munich has produced an excellent double DVD which contains, besides useful features such as biographies, portrait photos, screentests, trailers of the 1930s and 1960s and a chronicle of the film's gestation, digitally remastered copies of the best available German and English versions of The Blue Angel.  

Notes

This post is currently what I'm describing as a 'phase one' post. A synopsis and contextual and critical comments will be added at a later date. Through the webliography below this post thus serves to act as a resource page. This will allow prospective course members and other visitors to conduct some basic research into the relevant film. For further research you may also consuly the relevant bibliography. Please use the bibliographies tag in the sidebar to access this resource. 

Webliography 

At the time of writing the following sites I consider the best researched academically or else are present because of the quality of their links. This is searched down to page 20 of Google.

Link to Kamera.co.uk review:

http://www.kamera.co.uk/reviews_extra/blueangel.php

Link to Senses of Cinema article on Sternberg and Dietrich 

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/00/7/angels.html

Link to Senses of Cinema article on von Sternberg 

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/19/sternberg.html

Link to POV (Point of View Journal) + Link to Spy & The Cabaret Singer

http://pov.imv.au.dk/Issue_02/POV_2cnt.html

http://pov.imv.au.dk/Issue_02/section_1/artc1A.html

Link to "The Blue Angel": A Reconsideration
Geoffrey Wagner
The Quarterly of Film Radio and Television, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Autumn, 1951), pp. 48-53 this needs a Jstor subscription:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1549-0068(195123)6%3A1%3C48%3A%22BAAR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S

Link to German Film Archive

http://www.german-films.de/app/filmarchive/film_view.php?film_id=601

Link to German flicks.com

http://www.germanflicks.com/blueangel.html

Village Voice Review

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0128,atkinson,26257,20.html

Cornell  University commentary on screening of 6 Dietrich films:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/02/1.31.02/cinema.html

BBC DVD Review:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/09/20/the_blue_angel_1930_dvd_review.shtml

Lee Russell article on Sternberg in New Left Review. Need subscription or must pay for article:

http://newleftreview.org/?view=1335

Bright Lights Review:

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/44/marlene.htm

An honest undergraduate project with lots of images:

http://www.infinetivity.com/~babaloo/blue1.htm

: 30 Mar 2007 16:36 |  Tags: Eureka Video European Cinema German Cinema History Of European Cinema Josef Von Sternberg Kinoeye Marlene Dietrich Open Studies Summer Term Films 2007 The Blue Angel Weimar And Nazi Cinema Weimar Cinema |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Diary of a Lost Girl, 1929 : G.W. Pabst

Diary of a Lost Girl, 1929   : G.W. Pabst

Coming from Eureka Video in early May

Notes

This post is currently what I'm describing as a 'phase one' post. A synopsis and contextual and critical comments will be added at a later date. Through the webliography below this post thus serves to act as a resource page. This will allow prospective course members and other visitors to conduct some basic research into the relevant film. For further research you may also consuly the relevant bibliography. Please use the bibliographies tag in the sidebar to access this resource. 

Webliography 

At the time of writing the following sites I consider the best researched academically or else are present because of the quality of their links. This is searched down to page 10 + of Google.

Link to Senses of Cinema Article:

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/04/32/diary_lost_girl.html

Link to German Film Archive

http://www.german-films.de/app/filmarchive/film_view.php?film_id=316

Link to German Film Archive on Pabst

http://www.german-films.de/app/filmarchive/film_person_view.php?film_person_id=1501

Link to the Louise Brooks Society site:

http://www.pandorasbox.com/biblio/diary-biblio.html

Link to Goethe Institute Toronto 

http://www.goethe.de/ins/ca/tor/kue/flm/en1947127.htm

Link to BFI database entry:

http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/53140

Link to Kansas Historical Society who have collected contemporary newspaper articles about Louise Brooks

http://www.kshs.org/people/brooks_louise.htm

Link to Eric Rentschler article on Pabst in German Quarterly. You will need a library subscription to access it:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0016-8831(199221)65%3A2%3C220%3ATFOGWP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4

Link to Deutsche Film Instiute (in German):

http://www.filminstitut.de/dt2tp0044.htm

Link to a BBC page on Louise Brooks

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2982440

Village Voice Article on Louise Brooks

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0624,hoberman,73515,20.html

New York Times review of a documentary on Pabst "The Other Eye" :

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE6D61338F936A1575AC0A967958260

Also of Interest article from Senses of Cinema on Pabst's Kameradeschaft:

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/04/32/kameradschaft.html

: 30 Mar 2007 16:29 |  Tags: Diary Of A Lost Girl Eureka Video European Cinema G W Pabst German Cinema History Of European Cinema Kinoeye Summer Term Films 2007 Weimar And Nazi Cinema Weimar Cinema |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Spione, 1928: Dir. Fritz Lang

Spione, 1928: Dir. Fritz Lang

Eureka DVD Cover for Spione

Notes

This post is currently what I'm describing as a 'phase one' post. A synopsis and contextual and critical comments will be added at a later date. Through the webliography below this post thus serves to act as a resource page. This will allow prospective course members and other visitors to conduct some basic research into the relevant film. For further research you may also consuly the relevant bibliography. Please use the bibliographies tag in the sidebar to access this resource. 

Webliography 

At the time of writing the following sites I consider the best researched academically or else are present because of the quality of their links. This is searched down to page 30 of Google. Overall it appears as though Spione is very underwritten.

BFI Magic of Lang Link

http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/lang/magic.html

BFI Lang filmography

http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/lang/filmography.html

BFI dtabase entry on Spione

http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/352682?view=credit

BFI Sight & sound Article by Thomas Elsaesser on Lang:

http://secure.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/43/

Senses of Cinema link to Fritz Lang Article by Daniel Shaw

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/lang.html

Link to site about Fritz Arno Wagner  one of the leading Weimar cinematographers who did the cinemaphotogrphy for Spione:

http://www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/wagner.htm

At the time of writing the following sites I consider the best researched academically or else are present because of the quality of their links. This is searched down to page 10 of Google.

: 30 Mar 2007 16:27 |  Tags: European Cinema Film Genres Fritz Lang German Cinema Kinoeye Open Studies Spione Summer Term Films 2007 Weimar And Nazi Cinema Weimar Cinema |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl,1993: Dir. Ray Muller

The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl,1993: Dir. Ray Muller

Eureka DVD Cover

Notes

This post is currently what I'm describing as a 'phase one' post. A synopsis and contextual and critical comments will be added at a later date. Through the webliography below this post thus serves to act as a resource page. This will allow prospective course members and other visitors to conduct some basic research into the relevant film. For further research you ma y also consuly the relevant bibliography. Please use the bibliographies tag in the sidebar to access this resource. 

Bibliography

In addition to the main bibliography here are some links to recent of forthcoming books on Leni Riefenstahl. I haven't read the one in print and the other is forthcoming so no comments here on the quality of the content.

Webliography 

Date of last search 05 April 2007

At the time of writing the following sites I consider the best researched academically or else are present because of the quality of their links. This is searched down to page 10 of Google.

Guardian interview with Reifenstahl on 100th birthday by Christopher Jones and Andrew Pulver
Friday August 23, 2002

http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,779102,00.html

Guardian breaks news of Reifenstahl's death /  Obituary of Leni Riefenstahl

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1038656,00.html

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1038696,00.html

New York Times obituary of Leni Reifenstahl:

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/riefenstahl-obit.html

New York Review of Books essay by Susan Sontag "Fascinating Fascism":

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/33dTexts/SontagFascinFascism75.htm

World Socialist site obituary and commentary on Riefenstahl

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/sep2003/rief-s15.shtml

An odd page from the web which is a serious essay on Reifenstahl The Blue Light and Bela Balazs, which is properly researched and referenced:

http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Philo/LitWiss/MedienWiss/Forsch/Telaviv/Riefenstahl-englisch.html

Link to "German Flicks.com" posting on Leni Reifenstahl with a link to a YouTube upload of Triumph of the Will :

http://www.germanflicks.com/riefenstahl.html

Link to a useful review in Senses of Cinema of  Rainer Rother's Leni Riefenstahl the Seduction of Genius:

http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/reviews/rev0703/eb2br15.html

Link to article by Brigitte Peucker: The Fascist Choreography: Riefenstahl-'s Tableaux
Modernism/modernity - Volume 11, Number 2, April 2004, pp. 279-297. Please note you will need an Athens account to access the full article:

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/modernism-modernity/v011/11.2peucker.html

Link to article on Riefenstahl by Assoc. Professor Judith Keene is the Director of the European Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. One of Judith's specialities is fascism and anti-fascism. She has written several books on the subject of the Spanish Civil War. In one her courses at the University, 'Film and History', she covers the subject of Leni Riefenstahl:

http://www.hyperhistory.org/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=703&op=page#judith

Link to The Problem of Leni Reifenstahl by lloyd Eby:

http://www.worldandi.com/public/1994/february/ar3.cfm

Link to a student research paper by Celia Soudry on Riefenstahl  prepared for web publication by Professor H. Marcuse of  University of California Santa Barbara:

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/133p/133p04papers/CSoudryRiefenstahl045.htm

Link to Reappraising Triumph of the Will by Alan Marcus in Film Studies Journal:

http://journals.mup.man.ac.uk/cgi-bin/pdfdisp//MUPpdf/FSS/V4I0/040075.pdf

Bright Lights review of the documentary:

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/26/riefenstahl.html

BBC Storyville link on the documentary:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/riefenstahl.shtml

BBC Obituary of Reifenstahl:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3093574.stm

Link to an interesting BBC page which reviews  and provides links to the responses of the German press to the death of Leni reifenstahl;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3097018.stm

Below link to a BBc  Nick Higham video on Riefenstahl  

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/39316000/rm/_39316742_riefenstahl13_higham_vi.ram

Review of the documentary from Kamera.co.uk:

http://www.kamera.co.uk/features/leniriefenstahl.html

Link to Jewish Virtual Library:

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/lriefenstahl.html

: 30 Mar 2007 16:21 |  Tags: Eureka Video European Cinema German Cinema Kinoeye Leni Reifenstahl Open Studies Ray Muller Summer Term Films 2007 Weimar And Nazi Cinema Weimar Cinema |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem