DOWNFALL (2004, GERMANY)

My own personal March movie madness. My goal is make 31 posts in 31 days about 31 movies. They all must be non-U. S. films that I haven’t seen before. Why do I make this stipulation? Don’t know exactly, by we all have to have goals, don’t we?

Day five, from the Federal Republic of Germany
Downfall (2004)

All I can say after watching this film about the final days of the Third Reich, is that Bruno Gans is now officially my definitive Hitler (And don’t we all need a definitive Hitler?)

PANDORA'S BOX (1928, GERMANY)

My own personal March movie madness. My goal is make 31 posts in 31 days about 31 movies. They all must be non-U. S. films that I haven’t seen before. Why do I make this stipulation? Don’t know exactly, by we all have to have goals, don’t we?

Day four, from Germany’s Weimar Republic
Pandora’s Box (1928)

G. W. Pabst’s allegorical tale of lust and fate featuring the captivating Louise Brooks and her Moe Howard/Leonard Nimoy/Javier Bardeem in No Country for Old Men haircut. I can’t say it blew me away, but interesting viewing from the late silent era.

TALK TO HER (2002, SPAIN)

My own personal March movie madness. My goal is make 31 posts in 31 days about 31 movies. They all must be non-U. S. films that I haven’t seen before. Why do I make this stipulation? Don’t know exactly, by we all have to have goals, don’t we?

Day three, from the Kingdom of Spain
Talk to Her (2002)

This movie is a good lesson to not read a synopsis of the movie before you watch it (which I didn’t). It went in a direction I totally wasn’t expecting and that’s a good thing. Just let yourself be surprised, that’s my motto. Well, it’s my motto as of now, anyway.

AMELIE (2001, FRANCE)

My own personal March movie madness. My goal is make 31 posts in 31 days about 31 movies. They all must be non-U. S. films that I haven’t seen before. Why do I make this stipulation? Don’t know exactly, by we all have to have goals, don’t we?

Day two, from the French Republic
Amelie, 2001

If you’ve ever found a box full of toys from your childhood that you thought you had lost or think it’s grand to put together a scrapbook made up of taped together pictures taken from a photo booth or you just like lawn gnomes, you might want to see Amelie. A movie I’ve heard about for years and am glad I finally got around to seeing.