Rüdiger Vogler

  • Rudolf Thome – Tarot (1986)

    1981-1990ArthouseDramaGermanyRudolf Thome

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    Set in a country estate beside the river Alz, the focus on this intellectual German drama, an adaptation of a text by Goethe, is on the complex interaction and conversations between four people involved with the film industry. Edouard is a restless filmmaker who is planning to make a film out of his fiancee Charlotte’s upcoming first book. She is an actress and will star in the film. To help with the scripting, Edouard invites screenwriter Otto to stay with them. The last member of the quartet is Charlotte’s pretty niece Ottilie, a classical guitar student. Tensions arise when Charlotte and Otto find each other equally inept as writers. Much of the film centers upon the heavy and frequently aloof discourse that goes on between the foursome as they wrangle their way towards finishing and marketing the script.Read More »

  • Peter Handke – Chronik der laufenden Ereignisse AKA Chronicle of Current Events (1971)

    Peter Handke1971-1980ArthouseGermany

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    Here is a VHS-sourced TVRip of celebrated Austrian novelist and sometimes filmmaker Peter Handke’s super rare first film, Chronik der laufenden Ereignisse (1971), which has never been released on DVD or even VHS. Handke is one of few novelists who has actually made an impact on film. The film stars Rüdiger Vogler, who starred in most of the early films directed by Handke’s longtime collaborator Wim Wenders.Read More »

  • Jean-Claude Biette – Chasse gardée (1992)

    Jean-Claude Biette1991-2000ArthouseFrance
    chasse gardée (1992)
    chasse gardée (1992)

    A “three-person relationship” with a pact involving a terrible past. The pact concerns France, Anne and Pierre.Read More »

  • Nicolas Pariser – Le parfum vert AKA The Green Perfume (2022)

    2021-2030CrimeFranceMysteryNicolas Pariser

    In the middle of a performance at la Comédie-Française, an actor dies on stage, poisoned. Martin, member of the troupe and friend of the victim, becomes the center of everyone’s attention. Suspected by the police, he’s also chased by a mysterious organization, Le Parfum vert, that seems to have ordered the murder.Read More »

  • Wim Wenders – Alice in den Städten AKA Alice in the Cities (1974)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaGermanyWim Wenders

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    The first of the road films that would come to define the career of Wim Wenders, the magnificent Alice in the Cities is an emotionally generous and luminously shot odyssey. A German journalist (Rüdiger Vogler) is driving across the United States to research an article; it’s a disappointing trip, in which he is unable to truly connect with what he sees. Things change, however, when he has no choice but to take a young girl named Alice (Yella Rottländer) with him on his return trip to Germany, after her mother (Lisa Kreuzer)—whom he has just met—leaves the child in his care. Though they initially find themselves at odds, the pair begin to form an unlikely friendship.Read More »

  • Paul Vecchiali – Point d’orgue (1993)

    1991-2000ArthouseFrancePaul Vecchiali

    Plot: Sébastien Fischer (Rüdiger Vogler), a celebrated pianist, takes the advice of his agent and friend Gorgio and decides to take a break and spend some time in a little village in Provence, at the house of Avril Espart (Micheline Presle).Read More »

  • Valie Export – Die Praxis der Liebe AKA The Practice of Love (1985)

    1981-1990ArthouseAustriaValie Export

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    Judith, an investigative journalist, begins to unravel a murder mystery that implicates one of her current lovers. When she checks out a peep-show business on the seedy side of Hamburg as part of the investigation, she runs into a former boyfriend who used to be a psychiatrist but is now an arms dealer. Judith is lured back into his fold, cheating on her current lovers, one of whom is also a shrink. Despite her profession, or perhaps because of it, Judith tends to blend fantasy and reality, so small wonder she is attracted to psychoanalysts. But, two shrinks and a murder prove more than Judith can handle. Nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the 1985 Berlinale.Read More »

  • Margarethe von Trotta – Die bleierne Zeit AKA Marianne & Juliane (1981)

    1981-1990DramaGermanyMargarethe von TrottaThe Female Gaze

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    Two sisters both fight for women’s rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live.Read More »

  • Wim Wenders – Arisha, der Baer und der steinerne Ring AKA Arisha, the Bear and the Stone Ring (1992)

    1991-2000ComedyGermanyShort FilmWim Wenders


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    In 1992, Wenders possibly bewildered a good portion of his fans by making a 30 minute short for children, titled Arisha, the Bear and the Stone Ring. It’s a fable about the Bear leaving Berlin (it’s the city’s emblem), featuring Wim Wenders dressed as Santa Claus…

    SYNOPSIS
    The story description posted on Wenders’ website reads as follows:
    The bear leaves Berlin. He’s fed up. On the way, two Russian ladies – Anna and her daughter, Arisha – hire him as their driver. During the trip, a Santa Claus who cannot stand Christmas, and then a Vietnamese family, join the group whose destination is a spot by the sea. There, on the beach, lies a stone ring, which wants to be found.
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