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What's your favorite film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst?

Die freudlose Gasse (Joyless Street)
0 (0%)
Geheimnisse einer Seele (Secrets of a Soul)
0 (0%)
The Love of Jeanne Ney
0 (0%)
Pandora's Box
2 (14.3%)
Diary of a Lost Girl
1 (7.1%)
White Hell of Pitz Palu
1 (7.1%)
Westfront 1918
0 (0%)
The 3-Penny Opera
1 (7.1%)
Kameradschaft
2 (14.3%)
Es geschah am 20. Juli (It Happened on July 20th)
0 (0%)
other (specify)
0 (0%)
haven't seen any
7 (50%)
don't like any
0 (0%)

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Pabst, Georg Wilhelm
« on: October 27, 2010, 11:05:33 AM »
1. Diary of a Lost Girl
2. The 3 Penny Opera

3. Pandora's Box
4. Kameradschaft
5. Joyless Street
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Re: Director's Best: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2010, 01:15:31 PM »
1. Kameradschaft
2. Threepenny Opera
3. Pandora's Box
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Re: Director's Best: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2010, 01:40:52 PM »
I think I liked Kameradschaft slightly more than Diary of a Lost Girl and Joyless Street, but the last two are kind of a blur. I really want to see Westfront 1918.

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Re: Director's Best: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2010, 02:02:05 PM »
Haven't see any

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Re: Pabst, Georg Wilhelm - Director's Best
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2014, 08:00:11 PM »
Pandora's Box: 8/10
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Re: Pabst, Georg Wilhelm - Director's Best
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2015, 02:23:56 PM »
Diary of a Lost Girl
White Hell of Pitz Palu
Pandora's Box
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Re: Pabst, Georg Wilhelm
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2017, 10:13:01 PM »
1. The 3 Penny Opera
2. White Hell of Pitz Palu
3. Pandora's Box

4. Diary of a Lost Girl
5. The Joyless Street
6. Westfront 1918
7. Kameradschaft
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Re: Pabst, Georg Wilhelm
« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2017, 10:20:52 PM »
White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
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I don't know if this is the first mountain climbing adventure movie, but it's the earliest one I've seen. This type of story normally bores me because it's always the same checklist of obstacles every time, but being made so long ago there's the extra question of how difficult was it to get this footage. There's also a lot of artistry, especially when filming melting icicles. (The scene where the woman lays under one while it melts across her hand and face is pure poetry.) There are also good psychological reasons for taking the risk. They're not just climbing "cause it's there." The back half suffers from too much attention paid to the arduous process, but this is clearly an influence on similar movies like Cliffhanger and tension-filled adventure like The Descent.

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Re: Pabst, Georg Wilhelm
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2017, 04:08:29 AM »
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Re: Pabst, Georg Wilhelm
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2017, 07:59:47 AM »
White Hell of Pitz Palu was a fun film. Given infinite time, I'd love to dive into German Mountain films(bergfilme). I do think a good bit of the appreciation of these kinds of films is how they got the footage for the film because some of those sequences look intense.


 

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