#stroszek

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Stroszek (1977) dir. Werner Herzog

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Stroszek (1977) | dir. Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog and Thomas Mauch climbing a truck during the filming of Stroszek (1977)

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Stroszek (1976)

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Favorite films watched for the first time in 2022:

Adoption (1975), dir. Márta Mészáros

An Unmarried Woman (1978), dir. Paul Mazursky

The Red and the White (1967), dir. Miklós Jancsó

Three Sisters (1970), dir. Laurence Olivier

Port of Shadows (1938), dir. Marcel Carné

A Family Submerged (2018), dir. María Alché

Stroszek (1977), dir. Werner Herzog

The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967), dir. Melvin Van Peebles

The Round Up (1966), dir. Miklós Jancsó

The Collection (1976), dir. Laurence Olivier

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Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977)

"Es läuft wie im Kreise." - Bruno Stroszek at the beginning of the film

"We have a 10-80 out here, a truck on fire, we have a man on the lift, we aren't able to find the switch to turn the lift off, can't stop the dancing chicken." - police officer at the end of the film

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Stroszek, directed by Werner Herzog, 1979

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Final Scene from Werner Herzog's Stroszek  

feat. the dancing chicken, drumming duck, et al

Werner Herzog goes to America

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«"Stroszek"(1978)...

Chicago(IL)...

April 28th, 1978...

Cinema Theatre»

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Been watching Werner Herzog films of late, and the following is safe: Grizzly Man; Noserfatu the Vampyre; The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (main character spits out food but nothing triggering at all); Fitzcarraldo; Cave of Forgotten Dreams; Stroszek; Woyzeck.

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huh?

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650 to go

Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (1975, dir. Chantal Akerman): I feel like the worst kind of film snob when I say this is my favorite movie I’ve seen this year but, uh. Yeah. This is possibly my favorite movie I’ve seen this year.

Last Year at Marienbad (1961, dir. Alain Resnais): Resnais frustrates me because I like his films more in theory than in execution. That’s to say that this movie is gorgeous to look at and it contains a lot of interesting ideas but I found it kind of boring.

Stroszek (1977, dir. Werner Herzog): I don’t think I’ve ever felt such profound sympathy for such a flawed bunch of characters. 

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979, dir. Robert Benton): I’d say this movie reminded me of what a great actress Meryl Streep is but I never forgot in the first place. But that kid is great, one of the best child actor performances I’ve seen.

A Question of Silence (1982, dir. Marleen Gorris): This movie is forty years old and somehow more timely than ever.

Taste of Cherry (1997, dir. Abbas Kiarostami): I wish I hadn’t read the summary and gone in completely blind but this was still an incredibly affecting watch. Absolutely emotionally devastating in the most understated way.

Mother and Son (1997, dir. Aleksandr Sokurov): The cinematography is unreal and it elevates an already great movie to a completely unique one.

An Affair to Remember (1957, dir. Leo McCarey): Started off strong, I liked the way their relationship started and progressed, but it lost me in the latter half. 

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Clemens Scheitz and Bruno S. in Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977)

Cast: Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz, Wilhelm von Homburg, Burkhard Driest, Clayton Szalpinski, Ely Rodriguez, Alfred Edel, Scott McKain, Ralph Wade, Vaclav Volta. Screenplay: Werner Herzog. Cinematography: Thomas Mauch. Film editing: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus. Music: Chet Atkins, Sonny Terry.

Stroszek is Franz Kafka meets Mark Twain. Or maybe it's Alice in Wonderland if Alice had been a middle-aged ex-con with a history of institutionalization for mental illness. Or it's The Wizard of Oz with Stroszek/Dorothy accompanied by a sex worker and an elderly man instead of a scarecrow and a tin man. Or Stroszek is Don Quixote, or any other wandering naïf of myth and literature. Those analogues give the adventures of Bruno Stroszek the resonance they need to rise above the gritty absurdity of what happens in Werner Herzog's film. In any case, it's a film that's more than what some would reduce it to: a satire on the American dream. To be sure, Stroszek (Bruno S.) and Eva (Eva Mattes) and Scheitz (Clemens Scheitz) set out for Wisconsin certain that America will offer something better than the bleakness of lower-class Berlin. Scheitz has a nephew there who owns a garage and can offer a job to Stroszek while Eva can leave her abusive pimps -- who also torment Stroszek and Scheitz -- and get a job as a waitress. And for a while all is well, except for the language barrier and Stroszek's companions' belief that they can get a mobile home and a color TV on credit without making payments. As a consequence, Scheitz goes to jail and Eva, resuming her old life, this time as a truck-stop hooker, goes to Vancouver. Stroszek ends up literally going in circles, the tow truck he has stolen madly chasing its tail in a parking lot until it explodes while Stroszek rides a ski lift around and around, up and down the hillside, and a dancing chicken in a "roadside attraction" continues its mindless scratching. Herzog's real forte is documentary, and his precise and even witty choice of locations, plus his ability to employ real people instead of actors -- and to make them remain real instead of just amateurs reading lines -- gives Stroszek its grounding, even as the film's narrative goes wildly loopy. It's a film of richly strange and strangely rich details. 

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Favorite films watched in May 2022:

Brighton 4th (2021), dir. Levan Koguashvili

84 Charing Cross Road (1987), dir. David Jones

Port of Shadows (1938), dir. Marcel Carné

The Plumber (1979), dir. Peter Weir

The Funeral (1984), dir. Juzo Itami

Stroszek (1977), dir. Werner Herzog

The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967), dir. Melvin Van Peebles

All or Nothing (2002), dir. Mike Leigh