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Berlin Alexanderplatz – VI. Love Has Its Price
Posted on June 7, 2013 | No CommentsAt the end of “A Reaper with the Power of Our Lord,” Franz decided to keep Cilly, knowing of course that this would flout Reinhold’s will. In tonight’s follow-up, “Love Has […] -
Berlin Alexanderplatz – V. A Reaper with the Power of Our Lord
Posted on May 30, 2013 | No CommentsIt is time to meet Reinhold, a womanizer and a shifty seller of “fruit” who is in the money. And tonight, Franz does. If I thought that Meck looked like […] -
Berlin Alexanderplatz – IV. A Handful of People in the Depths of Silence
Posted on May 23, 2013 | No CommentsLittle of consequence happens in this episode – but it is harrowing. In a studio apartment, in another flophouse, Franz binges on beer. Drunk night and day, he will at […] -
Conrad’s View – Berlin Alexanderplatz – II. How is One to Live if One Doesn’t Want to Die?
Posted on May 21, 2013 | No CommentsFranz gets a job. Franz is poor, and needs money. He doesn’t want his girl to work. He sells tie holders. It does not last. He tries to sell homosexual […] -
Berlin Alexanderplatz – III. A Hammer Blow to the Head Can Injure the Soul
Posted on May 18, 2013 | No CommentsThursday, May 16, 2013 Money… We love money. Gotta have money. God, the economy stinks. Sell tie clips. No, dirty books. Newspapers. No, no. Shoelaces. Yes, shoelaces! Have a beer! […] -
Conrad’s View – Berlin Alexanderplatz – I. The Punishment Begins
Posted on May 18, 2013 | No CommentsBefore the punishment of my review/examination begins, an annoyingly autobiographical preface: I’ve had the Berlin Alexanderplatz box set for half a decade. I tried to watch the first episode years […] -
Berlin Alexanderplatz – II. How is One to Live if One Doesn’t Want to Die?
Posted on May 14, 2013 | No CommentsThrown by the first episode of Berlin Alexanderplatz, I settled into this, the second one, quite comfortably. Filling the space between episodes by going about my daily routine, I found that […] -
Berlin Alexanderplatz – I. The Punishment Begins
Posted on May 11, 2013 | No CommentsSo here we are. The first episode of Berlin Alexanderplatz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 15-hour miniseries on “depravity and insanity” in the Weimar Republic. For this episode guide, I will don a […]