The German-Hollywood Connection
http://www.german-way.com/cinema/index.html
A superb resource that includes short essays, bibliographies filmographies, and other information regarding German film classics, German directors and other technical and artistic personnel (both in Germany and Hollywood), and German film stars.
Abundant links to other sites.
Selected Bibliography of Readings on German Film in the UC Berkeley Library
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Germanfilmbib.html
Bibliography of books, articles, and reviews (mostly in English) in the UC Berkeley Library. Includes bibliographies for works on individual directors and individual films.
German Film and Related Topics (Bibliography) (University of Houston)
http://www.uh.edu/academics/de/frieden/germanfilmread.html
A general bibliography of books/articles in English related to German cinema and related topics.
German Women Filmmakers: A Selected Bibliography (Dr. Elaine Martin, University of Alabama)
http://bama.ua.edu/~emartin/gwf/bibliog.htm
Bibliography of DEFA Sources in English & German
http://www.umass.edu/defa/biblio.htm#English
An excellent, extremely useful bibliography of material related to the DEFA studio and East German cinema in general.
Sourcebook for Early German Film
http://www.filmgeschichte.de
A rather oddly arranged site that includes credits, abstracts, and other information concerning silent German film classics.
German Film: A Brief History
http://members.tripod.com/michaelfussell/index.html
A series of essays written and assembled by a Deutsche cinema fan. Longevity of this site, like all such fan and hobbyist sites, is questionable.
CineGraph
(Hamburgisches Centrum für Filmforschung e.V.)
http://www.cinegraph.de/en/index.html
CineGraph is a professional research association based in Hamburg, Germany devoted to supporting the scholarly study of German and other cinemas. The research center is also the editorial office of CineGraph - Lexikon des deutschsprachigen Films. CineGraph has developed an exceptionally useful site (mostly in German), that includes Berliner Film-Ateliers - a small online lexicon of studios in and around Berlin throughout this Century. Extensive links to other German cinema and general film industry and film history sites.
German Film Links (via About.com)
http://worldfilm.about.com/movies/worldfilm/msub-ger.htm?once=true&]
Includes links to sites devoted to individual films, directors, actors/actresses,
Cinema in Weimar Germany (lecture notes, Prof. Walter Metz, Montana State
University-Bozeman)
http://bloopy.kusm.montana.edu/metz/intlfilm/germanexpressionism.htm
Expressionist Film in the Weimar Republic
http://users.deltanet.com/users/lukelin/gerfilm.html
Expressionism and Caligarisme (student essay, University of Texas at Austin)
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Studio/1689/expr_act.html
German Expressionist Cinema 1919 - 1933 (by Fabian Ziesing)
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/73853/gerexp.html
Site developed by a University of Hanover student. Good short essays on various film directors, genres, and eras.
Stichworte zur Geschichte des deutschen Films (Goethe Institute)
http://www.goethe.de/z/wwfilm/stichw/degesch.htm
Helpful overview (in German) of German film history
Kinoeye (via Central Europe Review web site)
http://www.ce-review.org/kinoeye/archive_intro.html
A site devoted to Central and East European cinema. Includes a separate site for Germany. Covered by this resource are both external sites and the archives for the regular Kinoeye column, which appears weekly in Central Europe Review. Includes information organized by theme, country, director, and individual films.
The Fall of the Bibliographic Wall: Libraries and Archives in Unified Germany, by Sem C. Sutter (UC San Diegeo)
http://gort.ucsd.edu/rsonn/fallwall.html
- Fritz Lang: Master of Darkness (British Film Institute)
http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/lang/
- Critical study of Fritz Lang's films by Michael E. Grost, with links to other studies of Expressionist and noir films by the same writer.
http://members.aol.com/MG4273/lang.htm
- Fritz Lang Biography (Dictionary of American Biography)
http://www.jscheuer.com/lang.htm
- Fritz Lang Filmographies
http://www.nwlink.com/~erick/silentera/Lang/flang-f.html
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Lang,+Fritz (Internet Movie Database)
- Fritz Lang Bibliography
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Germanfilmbib.html#Lang (UC Berkeley Library)
- Metropolis: A Bibliography and Checklist of Resource
http://www.uow.edu.au/~morgan/Metroa.html
- Fritz Lang's Metropolis
http://www.persocom.com.br/brasilia/metropo.htm
- Metropolis and Fritz Lang
http://www.persocom.com.br/brasilia/metropo.htm
- Metropolis
http://www3.sympatico.ca/philippe.lemieux2/metropo.htm (in French)
- M
http://www.cyberroach.com/m/m.htm
- Web of Murnau
http://home.earthlink.net/~jakre/murnau/
- Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Begrüßung
http://www.fh-bielefeld.de/fb4/murnau/fwmframe.htm
- Murnau Filmographies
http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/directors/murnaufw.html (via Progressive Silent Film List)
- Murnau page (includes filmography, biography)
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/9384/directors/murnau.htm
- Nosferatu
http://www.silentera.com/VHS/nosferatuVHS.html (via Silent Era web site)
http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/greatmovies/nosferatu.html (Roger Ebert review)
http://tlc.discovery.com/tlcpages/specialeffects/nosferatu.html (Discovery Channel)
http://home.earthlink.net/~jakre/murnau/nosferat.htm (Web of Murnau)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/philippe.lemieux2/nosferat.htm (in French)
http://thesync.com/features/ (QuickTime version of the entire film)
- Sunrise
http://www.robinsonresearch.com/MOVIES/MOVIES/Sunrise.htm (via Robinson Research World of Knowledge)
- Pabst Filmographies
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Pabst,+Georg+Wilhelm (Internet Movie Database)
- Pandora's Box
- http://www.filmunlimited.co.uk/Century_Of_Films/Story/0,4135,67427,00.html (Guardian Observer)
- http://www.pandorasbox.com/ (Louise Brooks Society)
- http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/greatmovies/pandora_box.html (Roger Ebert review)
- http://people.enternet.com.au/~speck/index.htm (Louise Brooks: An Appreciation)
- Official Herzog Home Page
http://www.werner-herzog-film.com/index.htm
- Biography from Baseline Encyclopedia of Film
http://www.1worldfilms.com/werner_herzog.htm
- Interviews
http://www.nsi-canada.ca/nsi/ssheet/herzog.html
http://spielfilm.de/special/1999/Wernerherzog/ (in German)
- The Enigma of Werner Herzog (by Lyall Bush/MovieMaker Magazine)
http://www.moviemaker.com/issues/16/herzog/16_herzog.html
- Filmography (Internet Movie Database)
http://guardian.imdb.com/Name?Herzog,+Werner
- Werner Herzog fan pages
http://vassun.vassar.edu/~cecurran/herzog.html (by Cecilia Curran)
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/6639/Herzog/ (by René Albert)
- Fassbinder Chronology (films and plays)
http://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/music+humanities/m+h/theatre/staff/djbweb/rwfbio.htm
- Fassbinder Filmography (Internet Movie Database)
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Fassbinder,+Rainer+Werner
- Fassbinder biography (with links, filmographies)
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/9384/directors/fassbinder.htm
- Biography from Baseline's Encyclopedia of Film
http://www.1worldfilms.com/rainer_werner_fassbinder.htm
- "Beware a Holy Whore: Remembering Fassbinder
http://www.jimtushinski.com/fassbinder.html
- Fassbinder Page (including essays, interviews, filmographies)
http://castle.uvic.ca/german/439/fassbinder.html (via University of Victoria)
- Fassbinder Fan pages:
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Fassbinder,+Rainer+Werner
- Riefenstahl page via German-Hollywood Connection site) (includes excellent biographical info; links to other sites)
http://www.german-way.com/cinema/rief.html
- Riefenstahl Internet Links
http://www.websteruniv.edu/~barrettb/riefenstahl2.htm
- The Trials and Triumphs of Leni Riefenstahl by David Arduini
http://www.uscolo.edu/ebersole/426/leni.html
- Schlöndorff Fact Sheet (via E!Online)
http://eonline.com/Facts/People/Bio/0,128,41825,00.html
- Schlöndorff Credits (via Internet Movie Database
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Schl%F6ndorff,+Volker
- Hommage an Wolfgang Staudte
http://www.fdk-berlin.de/arsenal/jan99txt.html#staudte
- Wolfgang Staudte: Filmregisseur und Drehbuchautor
http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/StaudteWolfgang/index.html
- The Murderers are Among us
http://www.goethe.de/uk/mon/archiv/emoerder.htm
- Syberberg page (includes filmography, biography)
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/2906/syberberg.html
- Parsifal site
http://home0.c2i.net/w-206240/sybrbrg.htm
- The Josef Von Sternberg Home Page
http://www.pcs.sk.ca/sjk/dietrich/sternber.htm
- Von Sternberg Page (via Silents Majority)
http://www.mdle.com/ClassicFilms/BTC/direct21.htm
- Von Sternberg/ Dietrich Films (via American Film Institute)
http://www.afionline.org/nft/aug96/nft.d.html
- Macao and Last Command (essay)
http://member.aol.com/MG4273/sternb.htm
- Life and Career of Marlene
http://www.ivnet.co.at/streif/biograph.htm
--Dietrich and Sternberg: The Fallen Angels (by Adrian Martin; from ejournal Senses of
Cinema)
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/7/cteq/angels.html
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
http://thesync.com/features/ (QuickTime version of the entire film)
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Studio/7624/Caligari.html (The Incompleat Complete Films of Conrad Veidt by Barbara Peterson)
http://members.aol.com/CVSociety/Caligari.html (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari--a review by Robert Klepper; includes links to credits, other reviews)
http://www.german-way.com/cinema/cveidt1.html (Conrad Veidt page via German-Hollywood Connection site)
- Wenders site (via German-Hollywood Connection)
http://www.german-way.com/cinema/wenders.html
- Wenders site on Italw@y (in large part in Italian)
http://www.italway.it/spettacolo/wenders/index1eng.html
- Wenders site (via University of Victoria)
http://castle.uvic.ca/german/439/wenders.html
- Unofficial Wenders Web Site (in Italian)
http://www.greenteam.it/wenders/default.htm
- Questions & Answers with Wim Wenders (via Roughcut Magazine)
http://www.roughcut.com/main/drive1_97sep4.html
- Short Video Clips of Wenders Interviews
http://www.filmscouts.com/people/wim-wen.asp
See:
http://www.assk.com/affiliates/products/dvd/german-dvds-01.htm
In addition to the above list:
Funny Games (1998)
She Killed in Ecstasy (1970)
Vampire Happening (1971)
Frank Beyer
--Jacob the Liar
Carl Dreyer (a Dane, but this film is in German--go figure!)
--Vampyr
(audio tracks: German; English subtitled) (Includes The Mascot made in 1934 by Ladislas Starewicz for Gelma-Film, Paris. Starewicz, a Pole, animated his first film in 1909 for the Czar of Russia's offspring)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
--Whity
(Includes commentary by actor-producer Ulli Lommel and cinematographer Michael Ballhaus)
Michael Haneke
--Funny Games (1998) (Includes theatrical trailers)
Werner Herzog
--Aguirre, The Wrath of God (due October 2000)
--Cobra Verde
--Even Dwarfs Started Small (Includes commentary by director Werner Herzog, actor Crispin Glover & Norman Hill)
--Fitzcarraldo (audio tracks include dubbed and subtitled English; commentary by director Werner Herzog, producer Lucki Stipetic and Norman Hill)
--My Best Friend
--Nosferatu the Vampyre (Includes both the German language version of the film with optional English subtitles and the alternate full-length English language of the film (shorter by about 10
minutes; commentary by director Werner Herzog interviewed by Norman Hill) Review of DVD version at: http://www.thecinemalaser.com/dvd_reviews/nosferatu-dvd.htm
--Tannhauser (Opera performance)
Fritz Lang
--M (Criterion)
--Metropolis (silent with English titles)
--Spiders (silent with English titles)
--Spies (silent with English titles)
--The Blue Gardenia (USA, 1953)
--Hangmen Also Die (USA, 1943)
--1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (USA, 1960)
Ulli Lommel (starring R. W. Fassbinder)
--Tenderness of the Wolves (includes commentary by director Ulli Lommel; theatrical trailers)
F.W. Murnau
--Nosferatu (also available as part of Masterworks of German Horror) (silent, with English titles; commentary by German silent film historian Lokke Heiss)
Max Pecas
--Daniella By Night (1961) (French with German audio track; English subtitles)
Wolfgang Petersen
--Das Boot (director's cut) (audio tracks include dubbed and subtitled English; commentary by director Wolfgang Petersen; making-of documentary; behind-the-scenes footage)
Review of DVD version at: http://www.dvdmg.com/dasboot.html
Leni Riefenstahl
--Short 8 (compilation of short films). Includes Riefenstahl's Tag der
Freiheit (1935, 30 mins.), a film of the German army in a performance
intended to show off their readiness and will. This was Riefenstahl's follow-up to
Triumph of the Will.
Monika Treut
--Erotique (USA) (short films by various directors)
Tom Tykwer
--Run Lola Run (audio tracks include dubbed and subtitled English)
Joseph Vilsmaier
--Stalingrad (audio tracks include dubbed and subtitled English) (includes theatrical trailers, TV spots)
Katja von Garnier
--Bandits (1999)
Walter Ruttmann
--Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (silent, w/English titles)
Volker Schlondorff
--The Ogre (audio tracks include dubbed and subtitled English)
--Palmetto (USA) (includes 3 theatrical trailers)
--The Tin Drum (Supplemental video section containing behind-the-scenes photos, storyboards and more. Review of DVD version at: http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue08/reviews/tindrum/text.htm
Josef Von Sternberg
--The Shanghai Gesture (USA)
Robert Wiene
--Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (silent with English titles; commentary by film scholar Mike Budd and an excerpt from Genuine (1920) aka "Genuine: A Tale of a Vampire")
Wim Wenders
--Buena Vista Social Club
--End of Violence (USA) (Includes theatrical trailers)
--Lumiere and Co. (compilation of short films by various directors)
Paul Weneger
--The Golem (only available as part of Masterworks of German Horror)
Bettina Wilhelm
--All of Me
Collections:
--Masterworks of German Horror Collection
Includes: F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922, 84 mins.); Paul Weneger and Carl Boese's The Golem (1920, 85 mins.); and Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919, 90 mins.). In addition to all three features, this DVD package includes extensive liner notes, photo still galleries, original poster art, lobby
cards and more.
Documentaries:
--The Architecture of Doom (features never-before-seen film footage of Hitler and the Nazi regime)
--The Last Days (Includes theatrical trailers; photo gallery; Shoah Foundation featurette; outtakes; additional footage)
--Louise Brooks Looking for Lulu
--Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (audio tracks include dubbed and subtitled English)
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A useful, free e-journal that provides "DVD news, reviews, commentary, and stuff like that." Includes information on DVD (and other media) hardware, software, and commerce, as well as amusing reviews of current releases.
DVD-Laser Disc Newsletter, mo. $35 yr.
Doug Pratt's chatty, amusing, and informative reviews of new DVD and laserdisc releases. Pratt has put an index to the newsletter and many past reviews on his web site: http://www.DVDLaser.com/ (Pratt, a man definitely given to hyperbole, claims that his site is the largest DVD review database on the web)
DVD Review
http://www.dvdreview.com/
Contains news, reviews, release dates, miscellaneous information about DVD technology, downloadable clips, links to related sites.