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victusinveritas · 7 months

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The Sleeper has Awakened...with moderate back pain.

#dune memes #dune 1984 #the hard times #bifar #dune movie #frank herbert's dune #kyle maclachlan #jurgen prochnow #sean young

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cinemacouture · 6 months

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Terminus (1987, Pierre-William Glenn)

#Terminus #1987 #Pierre-William Glenn #Johnny Hallyday #Karen Allen #Jurgen Prochnow #Enki Bilal #dystopia #scifi #science fiction #trucks #vehicles #French film #French cinema #French scifi

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fdo7 · 1 year

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Das Boot (1981)

Wolfgang Petersen

#das boot #the boat #wolfgang petersen #Jurgen prochnow #movies #film #suspense

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esperwatchesfilms · 2 months

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Dune (1984)

This is my father's favorite movie. Every time I walk into my parents' house, I see the Baron floating around laughing maniacally. I have never watched it in its entirety, and with the new ones out, I wanted to watch this before I moved on to Dune: Part One. I spent an hour of the film being SO confused about what was happening and why. But about an hour in (I know, that's a long time), I realized how super into it I was, and the more I started to understand what was up, the more I enjoyed it. Ultimately, a really good film, and I hope I enjoy the new one as much as I liked this one! And I can't express enough how much I love the pug that made it through the whole damn film. ESE: 150/100 50 +2 for the brown spot in Princess Irulan's otherwise greenish eyes +3 for her soothing voice +5 for 9 bulldogs +10 for Patrick Stewart -10 for the laughably horrible effects they used for the shields -2 for the wild eyebrows on Thufir -3 for marching with Barbie hands +10 for the Duke telling his son that people need new experiences to grow +5 for the Atreides family pug -10 for the gross-ass fucking pain box +10 for Brad Dourif -10 for needles in eyes -10 for super nasty Baron pustules +5 for Sting -5 for the nastiest juice box ever +10 for Lady Jessica's hair +5 for Paul ticking off prophecy boxes +5 for how proud the Duke looks that his son knows how the suit should be worn +10 for Duke Atreides saving the miners and saying "Damn the spice!" showing he cares more for his people than the spice -10 for the Reverend Mother jumpscare +5 for Paul saving Shadout Mapes +10 for Shadout Mapes informing Paul of the traitor in his midst -10 for Yueh being a major shitterton +5 for the pug making a getaway +10 for Gurney saving the pug -10 for Yueh being all sookie-la-la after betraying people who were so good to him -5 for the death of Duncan Idaho +10 for Yueh's death because seriously, what a shitterton -10 for the Harkonnen Mentat guy trying to feel up Lady Jessica +10 for Paul using the Voice -10 for the Duke's death -10 for the Baron being alive -5 for the death of Doctor Kynes +10 for Paul's waking dream +5 for the second thumper +10 for the Fremen +5 for Paul Muad'Dib -5 for eating the cow tongue +5 for Feyd's goofy undies +5 for Thufir's new cat -5 for the weird advancement of Usul and Chani's relationship +5 for the weirding way +5 for worm-riding -10 for the fast-forwarding through Alia's growth and Usul and Chani's love story +10 for Gurney still being alive! +5 for Paul's blue eyes +5 for Chani trusting Paul's judgment and giving him the Water of Life despite being scared to +5 for the Emperor calling the Baron "that floating fat man" +10 for Alia +5 for the pug making it to the end of the film +10 for rain on Arrakis

#movies #films #review #David Lynch #Frank Herbert #Kyle MacLachlan #Virginia Madsen #Francesca Annis #Brad Dourif #Linda Hunt #Freddie Jones #Richard Jordan #Silvana Mangano #Kenneth McMillan #Jurgen Prochnow #Sting #Patrick Stewart #Dune #Dune 1984

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ad-j · 2 months

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WATCHLIST 2023: Dune (1984)

#movie watchlist #dune #dune 1984 #david lynch #kyle maclachlan #patrick stewart #sean young #sting #alicia witt #dean stockwell #jack nance #virginia madsen #jurgen prochnow #brad dourif #linda hunt #jose ferrer #max von sydow #Leonardo Cimino

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zachfett · 21 days

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Das Boot (1981) Directed by Wolfgang Petersen Cinematography by Jost Vacano

#Das Boot #1981 #Wolfgang Petersen #Jost Vacano #Jurgen Prochnow #World War II #WWII #U-96 #German submarine #submarine movie #1990s movies #80s movies #1981 movies #movie photography #movie screenshots #film #movies #cinema #war film

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ratleyland · 6 months

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This movie is a guilty pleasure.

I know it's incredibly flawed and certain scenes looks like an MTV Music Video... but it's such a good watch, the soundtrack is amazing and the cinematography throughout is top-notch.

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andy121019 · 2 months

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My @letterboxd review of Dune (1984).

#film #letterboxd #film review #kyle maclachlan #patrick stewart #max von sydow #jurgen prochnow #david lynch #Alan Smithee

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watching-pictures-move · 2 months

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Jürgen Prochnow and Kyle Maschmeyer on the set of The Fourth War (Frankenheimer, 1990).

#film #behind the scenes #jurgen prochnow #kyle maschmeyer #the fourth war

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annoyingthemesong · 1 year

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SUBLIME CINEMA #632 - DAS BOOT

I love submarine movies, a kind of claustrophobic sub-genre: Run Silent, Run Deep, the Hunt for the Red October, Crimson Tide, the Abyss... I’m well into seeing people trapped in sardine cans, going mad and reckoning with human nature while the pressure outside the hatch threatens to engulf them all.

And especially this German film from Wolfgang Peterson, which is a complete classic and a real nail-biter.

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richardfarnsworths · 11 months

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jürgen prochnow in einer von uns beiden / one or the other of us (1974)

#jürgen prochnow #jurgen prochnow #einer von uns beiden #one or the other of us #wolfgang petersen

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victusinveritas · 2 months

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Jürgen Prochnow starring as 'the Old Man' in "Das Boot" (1981)

#jurgen prochnow #das boot #war movies

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anhed-nia · 2 years

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BLOGTOBER 10/7/2022 - GOLEMANIA! PT 2: THE KEEP (1983)

It's hard to know what to say about Michael Mann's famously benighted World War II fantasy THE KEEP, a film whose tortured production history seems to get more attention than its actual content. At this point nobody needs me to attempt to describe the shooting delays that plagued it, nor the constant re-imagining of the monstrous villain, nor the funds Paramount withheld from its completion, nor their forced elimination of 114 minutes from Michael Mann's lost 210-minute cut. It's hard to say which is a greater loss, that of Mann's total vision, or that of the FX planned for the crippled grand finale, as 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY alum Wally Veevers took those secrets with him to the grave midway through production. The currently available version of the film is marred by bad sound, a mutilated narrative, and some will say cheesy creature design. However, a growing number of others (myself included) will tell you that THE KEEP remains beautiful and hypnotic, perhaps even because of—not in spite of—its dreamy anti-logic.

The plot, such as it is, involves a deployment of Nazi soldiers occupying a mysterious mountain citadel in the Carpathians. When some of these interlopers steal a silver seal out of its walls, they unwittingly unleash a demonic entity who begins to tear through the Nazi ranks. The mystified officers assume this bloodbath is effected by partisan activity in the surrounding village, and the resulting conflict between the humans disguises the existence of the creature, known as Molasar, as it grows in strength. Meanwhile, its activation has awakened an angelic being, Glaeken Trismegestus (Scott Glenn, sporting a pair of violet contacts that remind me of certain Barbie-inspired action figures I had as a kid), who soon arrives to put the monster back in storage before it can escape out into the world at large.

Even were the unnatural gaps in the narrative filled in, THE KEEP might still have the strange problem of lacking a clear hero. The film is populated largely by Nazis, and even the conflicted Jürgen Prochnow isn't much help to the side of good. The other non-Nazis squabble amongst themselves about whether to escape, or wreak a messy vengeance in cooperation with Molasar. (I feel really weird saying this, but the great Ian McKellen as the creature's embittered familiar, half-buried in old age makeup and forcing an "old man" voice, is the worst thing in the film) Molasar bears a tempting resemblance to the Golem, a powerful supernatural protector from Jewish folklore; it is outraged when it learns of the Nazi genocide and uses the words "my people" to describe their victims, although the exact origins of the being itself never become clear. The closest thing we have to a protagonist is Glaeken Trismegestus (whose name presumably refers to the syncretic Hellenic deity Hermes Trismegistus), who is so inhuman that it's hard to relate to him--and let's be honest, it's disappointing when he explains that Molasar is not an avenger who will put a stop to the Holocaust, which it seems genuinely upset about, but a force of abject destruction that must be contained.

When a story is missing a heroic center of gravity, it can be hard to say what it is really about--what are its moral or spiritual motivations. The strongest piece of direction we get here is actually from Jürgen Prochnow, who identifies the Keep as a place that brings primordial emotional material to the surface, defying the training of society and spreading madness. In the same fevered monologue, he further identifies the Nazi scourge in a similar way, as an uncontrolled expression of the worst elements in human nature. I suppose that, along these lines, Molasar is meant to be the embodiment of sinful wrath, a morally inferior, uncivilized response to adversity. It all sounds a little pretentious on paper, but the fact that THE KEEP is more about the conflict between archetypal psychic energies than it is about the trials of individual people may contribute to its unique dreaminess. When the baffled Sturmbannführer (Gabriel Byrne) asks Molasar where it comes from, the creature replies, "I am from you."

But, let us be real, THE KEEP's true motivation is aesthetic, and there it succeeds in spite of the many torments it faced in production. The gauzy shadows, lasers cutting through fog, Tangerine Dream's alien score, and the fabulous Molasar should still hold the attention even of viewers who don't care to deal with its philosophic underpinnings. It is painful to know that Wally Veevers may have intended to give us a 2001-worthy finale, but what remains in its place is not too shabby--certainly nothing worth rejecting the film over. If nothing else, THE KEEP remains a treat for the senses. And it would have given Carl Jung a boner.