FAVORITE RECENT GERMAN FILMS

This is my comment in Girish Shambu’s blog, with some links added:
http://www.girishshambu.com/blog/2007/11/links.html

I also like PINGPONG, GESPENSTER and REQUIEM very much.

Unfortunately the Goethe Institute in Bangkok has stopped showing films regularly since early 2000’s, so I have little knowledge about German films nowadays.

Some of my favorite recent German films may not be available as DVDs yet, but I hope they will be in the near future.

My favorite ones include:

1.THE CHAMPIONS (2003, Christoph Huebner, Documentary)

2.COLD HOMELAND (1995, Volker Koepp, Documentary)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113519/

3.FORGIVENESS (1994, Andreas Hoentsch)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383977/

4.GETTING MY BROTHER LAID (2001, Sven Taddicken)

5.THE HOUSEWIFE’S FLOWERS (1999, Dominik Wessely, Documentary, DVD available)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NKHRM9NJL._SS500_.jpg

6.NIGHTFALL (ABENDLAND) (1999, Fred Kelemen)
Tony McKibbin wrote about this film in an article in Sense of Cinema’s website. The article is called “Cinema of Damnation: Negative Capabilities in Central and Eastern European Film”
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/05/34/cinema_of_damnation.html

7.NO PLACE TO GO (2000, Oskar Roehler, DVD available)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51446TT0XHL._SS500_.jpg

8.OUT OF TIME (1995, Andreas Kleinert)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383977/

9.SCHULTZE GETS THE BLUES (2003, Michael Schorr, DVD available)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412Y111WFHL._SS500_.jpg

10.TIRED COMPANIONS (1997, Zoran Solomun)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119749/

I also would like to add that I love recent German short films and animations very much. My favorite ones include:

1.BASE OF REALITY (1998, Olaf Boehme)

2.CHICAGO (1996, Juergen Reble)
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/04/32/jurgen_reble.html

3.THE DAY THE MILKMAN DIDN’T COME (1998, Anja Langenbacher)
http://www.interfilm.de/verleih/filme.php?film=8

4.LIVING A BEAUTIFUL LIFE (2003, Corinna Schnitt)
http://195.30.253.130/app/nextgeneration/film_view.php?film_id=1266

5.THE NUCLEAR FOOTBALL (2004, Korpys/Loeffler)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/arts/design/19alle.html

6.THE PATCHWORK QUEEN (2001, Lars Henkel)
http://www.ifa.de/kunst/animationsfilm/ekoenigin.htm

7.PERSUADERS (2003, Peter Simon)
http://www.p3c7.de/index13.html

8.SUBURBS OF EMPTINESS (2003, Thomas Koener)
http://www.koener.de/bdv.html

9.THE THIRD WINDOW (1998, Hanna Nordholt + Fritz Steingrobe)
http://asifa.net/festival/reports/99/leipzig99thomas.htm

10.VACANCY (1998, Matthias Mueller)
http://www.mfj-online.org/journalPages/MFJ30,31/MHoolboomScattering.html