"People are responsible for finding out About the holocaust without ever seeing a movie in their life, Christ! if we can't even do that, what are the schools for what are the parents for, what's it all for? What are we living for, if we need movies to tell us? Movies are there for themselves, to be enjoyed, so that you can laugh, so that you can cry, so that you can think." - Marcel Ophüls in an interview about…
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Ain't Misbehavin 2013
A surprisingly charming film of a man journeying through many a bygone era, old Hollywood, the Nouvelle Vague, the student riots (with anecdotes and appearances of all the familiar faces) and small hints at were we are today. Marcel delights himself in the role of a whimsical figure, the boheme, always in the shadow of his father - but perhaps it was precisely his ingrained theatricality that him such a great documentarian.
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En rachâchant 1982
This one is glorious, somehow it reminds me of my own school days and of a central problem of the school system.
Besides being a fantastic deadpan comedy the film also (seemingly) deals with 2 ancient philosophical concepts. First Plato's idea of learning as remembering (which predicates the impossibility of learning in the conventional sense) and the law of non-contradiction (proposed by Plato and in more pronounced form by Aristotle).
According to Plato learning what you do not know is…
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Siberia 2020
Maybe the most vacuous film I've ever seen. After Ferrara made a film about the end of the world with 4:44 here we're in an obliterated world, post-modernism as a complete dead-end. Dafoe maneuvers through a series of non places that don't hang coherently together. On the way he meets some Nietzsche, some Jung, some death camps, he fucks a couple of women, etc. before running into a fish that yells "Tarifschmierer" at him. Ferrara breaks with every rule of…
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