Christian Petzold's Closet Picks
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- čas přidán 9. 08. 2023
- During a trip to what director Christian Petzold calls our “city of movies,” the director of AFIRE talked about the jazzy qualities of Steven Soderbergh’s films, the inspiration he has taken from Preston Sturges, and an overpoweringly erotic moment in STROMBOLI.
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Wonderful filmmaker. His use of silence and sound is astonishing at times. I'd buy a collection of Christian Petzold film in a heartbeat.
Seems like one of the major signs of a great filmmaker... the ability to use silence and sound to enrapture an audience.
I completely agree. Artists that can do that have my attention. Bresson was the same.@@Jimmy1982Playlists
Me too!!! That is the Criterion box set I have been dreaming about all year. Everything. In chronological order. With two commentary tracks from him for each film.
This is one of my favourite closet pick videos yet. He had such an infectious and poetic enthusiasm that I adored
I feel like I could sit with this guy for hours and talk about films, very insightful
I want the 30 minute cut, he was very insightful!
Agreed! If ever one of these deserved to have am alternate cut that is unedited, this is it.
I love his energy and unique descriptions!
Dam, criterion credits trying to play him out the room
😂
Its like when the music starts playing at the oscars lmao
Like a network show when they are tryna cram the credits in the 22 minutes so play them really fast over the last scene
I took it more as a signifier of how his curiosity and enthusiasm is endless, matched only by his generosity to engage in real dialog, and his awareness that nothing can ever be nailed down in black and white. To have chosen any one moment as the last moment would ring false. You will never get just one thing from him all tied up in a bow.
Petzold is reacting exactly how I would, and how I often do about film. Makes sense that I tend to love his work.
I saw Barbara, Phoenix, and Yella several years ago, loved them, but didn’t realize they were all from the same film maker. Last week saw Afire then finally looked up his filmography. Since then watched Transit, Undine, and Wolfsburg. Needless to say, I'm now a huge fan of his work.
I love that you thought they were all different directors. I think this is he highest possible praise. And the best refutation of auteur theory.
Have only seen _Phoenix_ among his filmography and it's absolutely *masterful!* One of the great endings of any 21st Century film... perhaps any film ever.
Thank you for the CC for putting me on to the film! That was an immediate purchase.
transit would be his second best, it's amazing
Personally I would say Barbara is his best
Nina Hoss is an absolute treasure of an actress.
Hehe, don’t forget Undine! And Yella. And and and!
A true humanistic. Good man with a good soul. He'll talk cinema with anyone who's willing. Come on criterion I need to see the directors cut of his pick.
Afire is one of my favorites this year, so props to him.
now THAT'S a director. Barbara is a film you can watch seven times or more.
Nice to see Christian here 👍
Just discovered Petzold at the beginning of the year .I love his work and in my opinion one of the best directors in the world at the moment.I know he has some detractors but they are wrong 😅
Nice choices too!
Also I live in the UK and you can pick up some of his works on DVD,but no blu ray which is terrible. Never seen his work in the cinema here either,probably in London but elsewhere zero 😓
My mother, a physician, loved BARBARA ! As did I ! It’s a terribly underseen film of his, but has many fans globally…
Love his anecdote about the rubber and wonder.
Wish you’d kept the video even longer!!
I want a Petzold commentary track on all of my discs. Every film. An abstract thinker who feels and for whom everything is contingent and emerging from lived life, a formalist for whom everything is human emotional meaning. Never reductive, always opening outward and expanding. So much love. So much humanity. And so funny.
someone release a full hour of this as an extra for whatever film he releases from criterion.
I remember buying Christian Petzold's film Phoenix from the Criterion Collection years ago. It was an amazing film. Happy to see him in the Criterion Closet.
From his movies I expected Mr. Petzold to be a sadder/darker man. He seems very cheerful. Really liked this. And also really like his movies. And Nina Hoss. Would like to see another film from him with her as the leading actress.
Paula Beer also
We've been doing a retrospective on his films here in Toronto and his introductions to each film are brilliant and somewhat amusing.
Looks like he's replaced Nina with Paula!! Maybe we can get a film from him with both of them in it 😊
Show us the uncut version!
One of my favorite directors. Not shocked he chose Rohmer because I love Rohmer too and see some of his influence in Petzold's work.
This guy is awesome, loved Transit and Jerichow
loved it. also loved afire and him mentioning rohmer.
Herr Petzold, danke.
Pheonix is an EXTRAORDINARY film! ❤
This enthusiasm!! I love it
I love him, he actually picked a Rohmer box set
Says he was in the closet for a half hour? Show the WHOLE video as he gave a lot of information on his picks.
These videos are always edited.
Ya, you can always tell there's MUCH more to each closet vid...
Give us LONGER videos, please!
Release the half hour cut
"It's OK, we can go on for another 10 hours."
That's basically how anyone feels when there
Great picks!
I love how he compares Soderbergh s movies to a jam session. How right
afire - film of the year!
People on Sunday! YES! YES! YES!
Phoenix has been one of my absolute favorite movies since I watched it by complete coincidence
great director
dude definitely has adhd and that’s okay cause we love him so much
As @Jimmy1982Playlists mentions below about Phoenix. "One of the great endings of any 21st Century film... perhaps any film ever." I agree - here is the clip if people are interested. It takes my breath away - czcams.com/video/pQ_ftqCspfk/video.html
Does anyone know what name (director) he says last when talking about 'People on Sunday', after Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann - sounds like 'Richard Ziogmac' phonetically - is he maybe saying Robert Siodmak? 2:53-
He said Richard Siodmak, but I think he meant Robert Siodmak.
People On Sunday is on the Criterion Channel and is extraordinary! Plus another film made by the cinematographer, whose name escapes me.
Petzold legend!!
Man just give me 10 minutes in this closet, thats all i ask.
put out a disc of the uncut closet sessions.
Great idea! Or collect them all on the channel, edited and unedited.
his movies didn't have any effect on me (Yella does not count because it is mostly a remake of Carnival of Souls) but Nina Hoss was always a pleasure to watch.
God I love this man
Christian Petzold and Angela Schanelec are my favourite working German directors
Any good starting place for Schanelec? Love Petzold already.
@@samdembling my previous comment disappeared 🤔 My entry point was Marseille, and I really liked it!
Thanks!@@maxturgeon89
Petzold ❤
“They are friends”
nice
As German, i would say Enthusiasm like he did:D
A Farocki shoutout, you don't hear that often.
Makes sense. They were very close.
I think Petzold was a student of Farocki’s.
And several of Petzold’s films are co-written with Farocki.
What happened with the James Gray video? 😢
was it removed or it just wasn't posted? I only saw the tweet
ROHMER, ROSSELLINI
“Never streaming, always DVDs”, damn right.
Einer der wenigen deutschen Lichtblicke und vielleicht der wichtigste Autorenfilmer seiner Generation.
Never streaming!! Always DVD!!
Release Hideo Kojima episode.
They listened
Yeah?
...mmm...feets
Am I the first, German Autuer