CC #8 Baal - 1970 - Volker Schlöndorff
Starting with the Volker interview from 2015, i never got around to getting the Criterion Blu-ray of this, i just had a German DVD of it, all the extras weren't with subtitles, so it's such a pleasure to see the supplements to this very very special film to me at last. I might go on a New German Cinema kick thanks to CC, Baal as you might know has my favorite director in the lead role, the not so handsome Rainer Werner Fassbinder, in a Play by Bertolt Brecht, it is such an unusual film, the dialogue is in the form of ballads, medieval style poems being said to each other, and in chapters. Rainer as Baal is a scoundrel, and gets in many a tussle with the people in his life.
Note to self - just type in a revered name in the CC search, and dive right in, the repeated viewings via streaming begin with the gods of cinema, and Germany is my most dearly beloved country for foreign films, mostly the New German Cinema that blossomed in the 70's, hopefully CC will have a collection of Schroeter sometime with GOLDFLOCKEN, one of the films i most want to see before i die.
Note to self - just type in a revered name in the CC search, and dive right in, the repeated viewings via streaming begin with the gods of cinema, and Germany is my most dearly beloved country for foreign films, mostly the New German Cinema that blossomed in the 70's, hopefully CC will have a collection of Schroeter sometime with GOLDFLOCKEN, one of the films i most want to see before i die.
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