This week on MUBI we celebrate the work of the Swiss auteur Thomas Imbach in our series, Films by Thomas Imbach.
Right from the start, the films of Imbach are conceived as experiments with the reflective potential of cinema as a medium and a constructed reality. “They always came to me in a flash. It’s like being in love; you can’t really explain why,” says Imbach.
Well Done (1994) is an absurdist comedy about the all but uncontrollable flow of data and money through Switzerland. Augusteb “loved it.” In Ghetto (1997), we follow a group of teens through an anarchic class room, a basement disco and into the night. “Allow the film 15 minutes to start sinking into you,” advisesGiammiz, “and then you are going to love it.”
Happiness Is a Warm Gun (2001) offers “variations on a true story,” as the tagline goes, namely, that of Petra Kelly, a cofounder of the German Green Party who, in 1992, was shot dead while she slept by her partner, ex-general and Green politician Gert Bastian. Happiness screened in Berlin, Locarno and also won a Zurich Film Award.
Lenz (2006, image above) tells the story of a filmmaker researching Georg Büchner’s novel fragment Lenz. In August, Tsienni wrote: “Thanks to an empathetic show of sensitivity and personableness, this film manages to weave those little seemingly banal moments from one man’s quaint inner quest into a beautiful visual hymn of veritable life.”
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Posted on 8 December, 2011 at 12:12 pm by Lum26
Nice
i’ll be sure to take a look at his work.
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Posted on 8 December, 2011 at 12:36 pm by sentry-23
Nice. Christmas holidays are coming, which seems like the right time to subscribe again for a month.
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Posted on 8 December, 2011 at 12:43 pm by TheKillerSnowman
where are all the good movies. there are no good movies on mubi.
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Posted on 8 December, 2011 at 1:21 pm by hjm50
8th December 2012? I didn’t think we were in 2012 yet.
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Posted on 9 December, 2011 at 10:33 am by Weasel-Dave
@KillerSnowman. Mubi shows independent and art-house movies, if you want Hollywood blockbusters like Mission Impossible or Transformers, then look elsewhere!
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Posted on 9 December, 2011 at 6:09 pm by adumr82
Yesterday I get an email confirming my purchase of 12 months Playstation Plus. Apparently this is the auto renewal of my subscription. My subscription which isn’t due till March 2012. I call up yesterday and am told the system is down and there is nothing I can do. I email and am told it can only be sorted over the phone. I call today and am told I have to wait 2 working days for someone to call me back and talk about it. I wanted to spend that money on 12 days of Christmas. Absolute thievery and I miss out. If you’re on the fence I don’t recommend using this thieving service.
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Posted on 11 December, 2011 at 9:01 pm by OttoT
Sony needs to put up a good video rental store on the ps3 for the Netherlands (as they prommised in Germany this year).
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