The Good German
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569736672
Format: AC-3, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 30
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageGermanOriginal LanguageRussianOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchDubbedSpanishDubbed
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 73667
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Running Time: 108 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Editorial Review:Product Description:Who knows what American journalist Jake Geismer (George Clooney) expected to find in postwar Berlin? Peace maybe. Or at least a story. But certainly not Lena (Cate Blanchett) his beautiful embittered one-time love. And not the trail of secrecy and deception that leads from Lena to the scheming young corporal (Tobey Maguire) who's her new lover...and to a murder no one seems interested in solving. Except Jake. Steven Soderbergh directs three of today's top talents in this zigzag thriller that's both an atmospheric homage to 1940s filmmaking and a deft modern film noir. The Good German is "haunting and hypnotic it's pure moviegoing bliss" (Peter Travers Rolling Stone).Running Time: 108 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 012569736672 Manufacturer No: 73667
Amazon.com:Despite its flaws,
The Good German is a welcome gift for every film lover who laments that "they don't make 'em like they used to." Steven Soderbergh's affectionate, knowing tribute to the black-and-white melodramas of Hollywood's golden age may lack the emotional depth and romantic passion of Michael Curtiz's
Casablanca--the 1946 classic it intentionally emulates--but as Soderbergh approximates Curtiz's studio style, he delivers a shimmering, shadowy reminder that movies can be enjoyed for the sheer pleasure of their craftsmanship. Once again serving as his own cinematographer (credited as "Peter Andrews"), Soderbergh went to great lengths to technically and aesthetically re-create the look and feel of a Curtiz production, and Joseph Kanon's source novel (adapted by
Quiz Show screenwriter Paul Attanasio) provides a twisting plot set around the historical Potsdam conference in post-World War II Germany. An American military journalist, Capt. Jake Geismer (George Clooney) is in rubble-strewn Berlin to cover the event, and is quickly drawn into a murder plot involving his appointed driver (Tobey Maguire), an old flame-turned-wartime prostitute (Cate Blanchett) and her missing husband, a scientist who possesses pivotal secrets coveted by Americans and Russians in a pre-Cold War bid for power.
Violence, sexual content, and salty dialogue make it clear that this R-rated drama is a brashly contemporary homage to films of a bygone era, and not a slavish attempt to copy the past. This yields mixed results in terms of the film's overall appeal; it's gorgeous to look at, but the plot and performances exist in a vacuum, and the entire film feels oddly disengaged from any sense of genuine human emotion. It's probably fair to say that Soderbergh had more fun making the film than most people will have watching it. And yet, as Clooney's character is repeatedly beaten and deceived on his path to cynical enlightenment,
The Good German has many qualities that make it recommendable, not the least being the pleasure of following a talented director as he indulges his penchant for bold experimentation.
--Jeff Shannon
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I was disappointed in this film considering the top class actors playing the main roles. I understand the intent in filming in black and white but, as a viewer, I like to be entertained not only by the story but also the scenery, particularly on a widescreen HD TV. This picture doesn't measure up. It would be ok on an old square TV. I thought the film was drawn out.
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Since the days of Hitchcock's Topaz we had not had the chance to enjoy an original proposal around those unsaid and minuscule sins of war that are absent of the great headlines of the History.
"The good German" is a splendid and potent Noir film that focuses exactly the day before the Potsdam conference.
An American General (Clooney) is sent to Germany in 1945 after having performing as journalist in 1939 when he met Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchet), the femme fatale, whom ...
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The movie is stylish but the book is far more thought-provoking, intelligent and entertaining. This movie is so very loosely based on the book that I hardly recognized it.
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Starring George Clooney, Tobey Maguire, and Cate Blanchette, The Good German is set in post-war Berlin. Newspaper reporter Jake Geismer (Clooney) is covering the peace talks, and enterprising young Tully (Maguire, in probably the least sympathetic role I've ever seen him play) is his military-assigned driver during the trip. Who should Jake run into but Lena (Blanchette), his former lover? And Lena now just happens to be involved with Tully. Sound like too much of a coincidence? You bet it is. When ...
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This is a very daring movie to make, i really dont know how the producers tought this would make money, I mean we all love Clooney and Blanchette, but this a hard film to make work. It's shot and lite like an old movie from the forties and the stilted dialogue and acting plays homage to these movies...at times it works, but frankly, mostly it does not. The story is flimsy and the pay off seems trite, it just sort of ends. I really didnt know what to expect, but from the start I was like..a movie ...
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