2.13.2009

NOW @ LACMA: The Two Germanys on Film

Michael Caine in Funeral in Berlin (1966)

Katzelmacher
Friday, February 13 | 7:30 pm
In this early film based on his own Brechtian play, a Greek guest worker (Fassbinder) living in a Munich suburb provokes the xenophobia and violence of his brutish neighbors when he begins dating a local girl.


Even Dwarfs Started Small (Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen)
Friday, February 13 | 9:10 pm
In Herzog’s shocking allegory, cast entirely with dwarves and midgets and shot on the tropical island of Lanzarote, the inmates of a correctional institute revolt. “The anarchist uprising is a beautiful negation of bourgeois values, sometimes savage, but usually compassionate and amusing.”—
Time Out.

The Third Generation (Die Dritte Generation)
Saturday, February 14 | 7:30 pm
A group of deluded and manipulated losers hole up in a house to plot the overthrow of the state. “A cruel and sometimes very funny comedy about terrorism… and one of the richest looking and sounding films I’ve ever experienced.”—Vincent Canby,
The New York Times.

Not Reconciled (Nicht Versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt wo Gewalt herrscht)
Saturday, February 14 | 9:30 pm
A former assistant to Bresson, Renoir and Rivette, Straub presents a stark and rigorously compressed adaptation of Heinrich Boll’s
Billiards at Half Past Noon. The lives of three generations of the Fähmel family, from the turn of the century through Nazi Germany to the mid-1960s, are intertwined in this influential and austere debut feature.


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