Word: marleen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cast in the "American" style, but darkened by German guilt feelings about the country's recent past, the film becomes a kind of German Vietnam movie. But unlike Fasbinder (in The Marriage of Maria Braun and Lili Marleen), Schloendorff (in The Tin Drum), and Syberberg (in Our Hitler), director Wolfgang Petersen avoids discussing the complexities of the political, psychological, and cultural roots of the "German catastrophe" and presents, instead, a soldier's-eye view of the war. These boys do not see the battle as the culmination of Romanticism and Wagner or as the result of contradictions of the petty...
...LILI MARLEEN...
When she started, in Switzerland in the mid-1930s, she was Just a Gigolette, one of Seven Beauties singing in a Cabaret. Then Lale Andersen stumbled onto a discarded piece of Great War schmaltz, a soldier's love song called Lili Marleen. As German soldiers swarmed over the globe in 1939, they carried this song with them. Lale became a star-for a time, the darling of the Third Reich -and Lili Marleen the song of her life...
...speaking English, which has been dubbed into German and subtitled back into English) and a $5 million budget. Once, churning out more than 30 films before his 30th birthday, Fassbinder was called the movies' Wunderkind. At 35, he is Kind no longer. And, on the evidence of Lili Marleen's empty excesses, it's no wonder. -By Richard Corliss
Quadrivium Spring Concert--Marleen Montgomery directs at First Church in Cmabridge, 11 Garden St., at 8:15 p.m. Tickets $1.50. Call 876-5829 for info...