Christian Petzold's Closet Picks

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  • Опубліковано 9 сер 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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  • @bluefilmsltd
    @bluefilmsltd 11 місяців тому +85

    Wonderful filmmaker. His use of silence and sound is astonishing at times. I'd buy a collection of Christian Petzold film in a heartbeat.

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists 11 місяців тому +7

      Seems like one of the major signs of a great filmmaker... the ability to use silence and sound to enrapture an audience.

    • @bluefilmsltd
      @bluefilmsltd 11 місяців тому

      I completely agree. Artists that can do that have my attention. Bresson was the same.@@Jimmy1982Playlists

    • @katebloggs8243
      @katebloggs8243 7 місяців тому

      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.

  • @maxkromholc6153
    @maxkromholc6153 11 місяців тому +52

    This is one of my favourite closet pick videos yet. He had such an infectious and poetic enthusiasm that I adored

  • @jadedsteelereviews
    @jadedsteelereviews 11 місяців тому +20

    I feel like I could sit with this guy for hours and talk about films, very insightful

  • @munrocrerar
    @munrocrerar 11 місяців тому +114

    Dam, criterion credits trying to play him out the room

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists 11 місяців тому +6

      😂

    • @maxkromholc6153
      @maxkromholc6153 11 місяців тому +7

      Its like when the music starts playing at the oscars lmao

    • @jacobmacdonagh4070
      @jacobmacdonagh4070 11 місяців тому +1

      Like a network show when they are tryna cram the credits in the 22 minutes so play them really fast over the last scene

    • @katebloggs8243
      @katebloggs8243 7 місяців тому +2

      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.

  • @marcjohnson3553
    @marcjohnson3553 11 місяців тому +18

    I want the 30 minute cut, he was very insightful!

    • @katebloggs8243
      @katebloggs8243 7 місяців тому

      Agreed! If ever one of these deserved to have am alternate cut that is unedited, this is it.

  • @63MGB1
    @63MGB1 8 місяців тому +7

    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.

    • @katebloggs8243
      @katebloggs8243 7 місяців тому +1

      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.

  • @Jimmy1982Playlists
    @Jimmy1982Playlists 11 місяців тому +35

    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.

    • @marianoguy
      @marianoguy 11 місяців тому +2

      transit would be his second best, it's amazing

    • @scmkar
      @scmkar 11 місяців тому +2

      Personally I would say Barbara is his best

    • @JackCoxx
      @JackCoxx 10 місяців тому +2

      Nina Hoss is an absolute treasure of an actress.

    • @katebloggs8243
      @katebloggs8243 7 місяців тому +1

      Hehe, don’t forget Undine! And Yella. And and and!

  • @bennoclassico
    @bennoclassico 11 місяців тому +13

    Petzold is reacting exactly how I would, and how I often do about film. Makes sense that I tend to love his work.

  • @tccandler
    @tccandler 11 місяців тому +16

    I love his energy and unique descriptions!

  • @adrianloya167
    @adrianloya167 11 місяців тому +24

    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.

  • @joshualee9540
    @joshualee9540 11 місяців тому +6

    Afire is one of my favorites this year, so props to him.

  • @tbwatch88
    @tbwatch88 8 місяців тому +5

    now THAT'S a director. Barbara is a film you can watch seven times or more.

  • @Michael64425
    @Michael64425 11 місяців тому +23

    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!

    • @Michael64425
      @Michael64425 11 місяців тому +1

      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 😓

  • @ledeyabaklykova
    @ledeyabaklykova 11 місяців тому +7

    My mother, a physician, loved BARBARA ! As did I ! It’s a terribly underseen film of his, but has many fans globally…

  • @kokoloko8423
    @kokoloko8423 11 місяців тому +11

    Love his anecdote about the rubber and wonder.

  • @massi6528
    @massi6528 11 місяців тому +5

    Nice to see Christian here 👍

  • @katebloggs8243
    @katebloggs8243 7 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @PHF28
    @PHF28 11 місяців тому +11

    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.

    • @belaymulat3831
      @belaymulat3831 9 місяців тому +1

      Paula Beer also

    • @JackCoxx
      @JackCoxx 8 місяців тому +1

      We've been doing a retrospective on his films here in Toronto and his introductions to each film are brilliant and somewhat amusing.

    • @bopyranks
      @bopyranks 6 місяців тому

      Looks like he's replaced Nina with Paula!! Maybe we can get a film from him with both of them in it 😊

  • @isaacmartinez6904
    @isaacmartinez6904 11 місяців тому +6

    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.

  • @bopyranks
    @bopyranks 6 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @OttoIncandenza
    @OttoIncandenza 6 місяців тому +2

    Wish you’d kept the video even longer!!

  • @conradpoos2859
    @conradpoos2859 11 місяців тому +4

    This guy is awesome, loved Transit and Jerichow

  • @thevoid99
    @thevoid99 11 місяців тому +9

    someone release a full hour of this as an extra for whatever film he releases from criterion.

  • @kevlow9494
    @kevlow9494 11 місяців тому +3

    Herr Petzold, danke.
    Pheonix is an EXTRAORDINARY film! ❤

  • @Julia_fake
    @Julia_fake 6 місяців тому +1

    loved it. also loved afire and him mentioning rohmer.

  • @davidfraser6950
    @davidfraser6950 11 місяців тому +51

    Says he was in the closet for a half hour? Show the WHOLE video as he gave a lot of information on his picks.

    • @justinkingery2489
      @justinkingery2489 11 місяців тому +6

      These videos are always edited.

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists 11 місяців тому +3

      Ya, you can always tell there's MUCH more to each closet vid...

  • @MrPandaVegetto
    @MrPandaVegetto 11 місяців тому +13

    Show us the uncut version!

  • @burgesssam
    @burgesssam 11 місяців тому +5

    This enthusiasm!! I love it

  • @melgibsonsjacuzzi
    @melgibsonsjacuzzi 9 місяців тому +2

    I love him, he actually picked a Rohmer box set

  • @samgold7958
    @samgold7958 11 місяців тому +3

    Give us LONGER videos, please!

  • @octaviankelly
    @octaviankelly 11 місяців тому +5

    Release the half hour cut

  • @heliumtrophy
    @heliumtrophy 11 місяців тому +5

    "It's OK, we can go on for another 10 hours."
    That's basically how anyone feels when there

  • @nickykidman
    @nickykidman 9 місяців тому +1

    I love how he compares Soderbergh s movies to a jam session. How right

  • @hellokintu
    @hellokintu 11 місяців тому +1

    Great picks!

  • @Elassyahmed
    @Elassyahmed 5 місяців тому

    Phoenix has been one of my absolute favorite movies since I watched it by complete coincidence

  • @georgerafael
    @georgerafael 11 місяців тому +2

    People on Sunday! YES! YES! YES!

  • @alexbaba3000
    @alexbaba3000 11 місяців тому +2

    afire - film of the year!

  • @letstalkcriterion
    @letstalkcriterion 11 місяців тому +3

    great director

  • @joz3638
    @joz3638 8 місяців тому +2

    dude definitely has adhd and that’s okay cause we love him so much

  • @niklas0000
    @niklas0000 11 місяців тому

    Petzold legend!!

  • @AestheticOfTheImage
    @AestheticOfTheImage 11 місяців тому +2

    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-

    • @a.diaphora9908
      @a.diaphora9908 9 місяців тому +2

      He said Richard Siodmak, but I think he meant Robert Siodmak.

    • @katebloggs8243
      @katebloggs8243 7 місяців тому +1

      People On Sunday is on the Criterion Channel and is extraordinary! Plus another film made by the cinematographer, whose name escapes me.

  • @kphisch
    @kphisch 11 місяців тому +2

    put out a disc of the uncut closet sessions.

    • @katebloggs8243
      @katebloggs8243 7 місяців тому

      Great idea! Or collect them all on the channel, edited and unedited.

  • @uncaringgenius
    @uncaringgenius 11 місяців тому +8

    Man just give me 10 minutes in this closet, thats all i ask.

  • @renataaloise5682
    @renataaloise5682 11 місяців тому +1

    God I love this man

  • @AestheticOfTheImage
    @AestheticOfTheImage 11 місяців тому +2

    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 - ua-cam.com/video/pQ_ftqCspfk/v-deo.html

  • @ablazedark
    @ablazedark 11 місяців тому +3

    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.

  • @maxturgeon89
    @maxturgeon89 11 місяців тому +1

    Christian Petzold and Angela Schanelec are my favourite working German directors

    • @samdembling
      @samdembling 11 місяців тому +2

      Any good starting place for Schanelec? Love Petzold already.

    • @maxturgeon89
      @maxturgeon89 11 місяців тому +1

      @@samdembling my previous comment disappeared 🤔 My entry point was Marseille, and I really liked it!

    • @samdembling
      @samdembling 11 місяців тому

      Thanks!@@maxturgeon89

  • @neilugaddan
    @neilugaddan 11 місяців тому +1

    “They are friends”

  • @De_liebste_un_beste_Mensch
    @De_liebste_un_beste_Mensch 10 місяців тому +2

    Einer der wenigen deutschen Lichtblicke und vielleicht der wichtigste Autorenfilmer seiner Generation.

  • @enkiwizardgodoftheblacksab6187
    @enkiwizardgodoftheblacksab6187 11 місяців тому

    As German, i would say Enthusiasm like he did:D

  • @MacroTiger
    @MacroTiger 11 місяців тому

    nice

  • @gabrielraimundo6411
    @gabrielraimundo6411 6 місяців тому

    Petzold ❤

  • @psychotriafilms5333
    @psychotriafilms5333 11 місяців тому +4

    What happened with the James Gray video? 😢

    • @victormartins7867
      @victormartins7867 10 місяців тому

      was it removed or it just wasn't posted? I only saw the tweet

  • @TiempoFilmico
    @TiempoFilmico 11 місяців тому +4

    A Farocki shoutout, you don't hear that often.

    • @t19040
      @t19040 11 місяців тому +1

      Makes sense. They were very close.

    • @katebloggs8243
      @katebloggs8243 7 місяців тому +1

      I think Petzold was a student of Farocki’s.

    • @katebloggs8243
      @katebloggs8243 7 місяців тому +1

      And several of Petzold’s films are co-written with Farocki.

  • @connornm321
    @connornm321 4 місяці тому

    “Never streaming, always DVDs”, damn right.

  • @stevemuzak8526
    @stevemuzak8526 11 місяців тому

    Release Hideo Kojima episode.

    • @akf2000
      @akf2000 5 місяців тому

      They listened

  • @crohmer
    @crohmer 11 місяців тому

    ROHMER, ROSSELLINI

  • @moldybread1956
    @moldybread1956 7 місяців тому

    Never streaming!! Always DVD!!

  • @thewalkingdunning-krugeref9664
    @thewalkingdunning-krugeref9664 11 місяців тому +1

    Yeah?

  • @gavinkerslake
    @gavinkerslake 2 місяці тому

    ...mmm...feets

  • @joyrooj2050
    @joyrooj2050 11 місяців тому +2

    Am I the first, German Autuer