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A curiosity, for Expressionism completists only.
Robert Wiene repeats the techniques he used in "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" with far less success in "Genuine". His looming architectures and broad swaths of darkness are glaringly at odds with the utterly ridiculous story of the seductress-priestess-wild girl brought to unsuspecting Europe. There are some striking visual effects, such as the jungle of branches where Genuine climbs up and up to escape from her prison, but they don't add up to anything. (I should note that only fragments, adding up to about a half hour, survive of this movie; but I suspect that the parts I didn't see wouldn't have added any deeper meaning.)

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An abstract examination of structure & sound.
A short examination of structure and sound, this film shot in black and white in the location of Venice presents three sections of similar film to us over its duration of six minutes. In the first section a metronome is used to count events in the film. People walk across the frame, sometimes in the foreground, which is accompanied precisely by a different sound. In the second section a male Italian voice can be heard counting through the alphabet. Music by Vivaldi is heard in the third. Shot 26 December 1968 - 8 January 1969. Dubbed 30 October 1973.

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Werner Herzog's Ultra-rare early documentary.

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Dress code for Guinea Pigs.
Just got to see a projection of this (along with Heart of Glass that was made the same year). I was led to believe before seeing this short, that it was another of Herzog's documentaries, but this isn't the case, is quite clearly staged action.

It tells the story of a young boy who is excluded from the rest of his classmates, the underlying reason for which is not made clear to start. He spends his time having to play in the corner of the classroom on his own, excluded from the group. The boy eventually befriends a girl in the class and invites her home to meet his talking pet raven. It is at this point that the boy's exclusion from the school group starts to become clear, as he reveals to his new friend the disruptive and abusive upbringing he has had to suffer at the hands of his parents.

Apart from the apparent underlying message (that there is no such thing as a problem child, only problem parents), what I found interesting about this short was the period of Herzog's cinematic development in which it was made. Having seen a fair number of Herzog's films, I would have assumed from the basic structure and production of this short, that it would have been one of the first shorts he committed to film. However, by 1976 when this was made he had already made a number of feature films (The Wrath of God, Even Dwarfs Started Small etc) and some highly respected documentaries (Land of Silence and Darkness – that I recommended to anyone!). I quite enjoyed this little short, but to anyone interested in Herzog, go and see some of his great documentaries before seeing this.

As for the guinea pigs, I wont ruin that; you'll have to find out for yourself. It's bound to induce a few ‘ahhhhs' in the audience though.

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A surrealistic film in which a strangely assorted group of people come together in the Russian Arctic at the height of the revolution and World War One.

Probably the best of Maddin's films.
This wierd, dreamlike film goes a long way on a limited budget, creating a completely unreal experience about a real historical event in Archangel, Russia during the Russian revolution.

Like all of Maddin's other films, Boles is and anti-hero, his subversive obsession with Veronika could not be interpreted as love or heroic, a brillliant deconstruction of your average war movie.

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Musical mantra derived from machine-gun micro-montage.

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A technicolor fiesta! A sorrowful daughter attempts to drown herself, while her mother fights a wrestling match to save the soul of her departed husband.
Sombra Dolorosa ("Painful Shadow") features a widow wrestling El Muerto for the ghost of her dead husband, a race against an eclipse, and an attempted suicide.

Guy.Maddin.-.Sombre.Dolorosa.(2004).avi

A sleepwalker dreams of sorrowful music. Maria de Medeiros encounters a sleepwalker in the operatic.

Guy.Maddin.-.Trip.to.the.Orphanage.(2004).avi

Arcadia escribió: Ayer estuve pensando que cuando se haga un poco de historia, se verá que esta página han pasado grandes cosas.

Yo tb lo pienso a veces, pero eso pasará el día que tras superar la fase de difundir, nos dediquemos a producir.