![]() ![]() ![]() A Credible Utopia repairs this lacuna in film history, and, in a detailed and intimate reading of Schroeter’s queer ouevre, links all these films together through Schroeter’s desire for a “credible utopia,” despite our shared awareness of disaster, torture, viciousness, and political corruption in the world. It’s just the latest paranoid drama to offer perverse comfort, writes David Jesudason. ![]() When the Museum of Modern Art staged a retrospective of Schroeter’s ouevre in 2012, there was hardly anything in English on his films and only one film available on DVD in the US, such that Schroeter’s work as a director has remained largely invisible in the English-speaking world. Amazon’s new show Utopia tells the story of a plot to depopulate the earth with a pandemic. Valente concludes with an analysis of Nuit de Chien, Schroeter’s final film, a powerful summation of a live devoted to art, music, literature, and film. Utopia is a 2013 documentary film written, produced and presented by John Pilger and directed by Pilger and Alan Lowery, that explores the experiences of Aboriginal Australians in modern Australia. Yet, the OP is wrong about zero utopian movies. The Island (2005) PG-13 136 min Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller 6.8 Rate 50 Metascore A man living in a futuristic sterile colony begins to question his circumscribed existence when his friend is chosen to go to the Island, the last uncontaminated place on earth. But Valente also addresses Schroeter’s early experimental films that don’t get as much attention, such as Aggression, Neurasia, and Argila, all of which are about the struggle between repression and desire, and Deux, a late work that Schroeter considered his masterpiece, a film about the double and the ways in which identity is formed by integrating the abject part of ourselves with the good. But, if a true utopian society did exist, because it was perfect, it would make for a rather boring plot. Many of the films discussed in this book are those upon which Schroeter’s worldwide reputation rests: Der Bomberpilot, an absurdist comedy The Death of Maria Malibran, a film about ecstatic redemption in death Willow Springs, about the complex relationships between men and women Day of the Idiots, a visually baroque, operatic and highly dramatic film about madness The Kingdom of Naples, Schroeter’s visually stunning depiction of Italy in the post-war years and Palermo or Wolfsburg, for which Schroeter won the Golden Bear, an epic film about love, violence, and cultural malaise. 'David Byrnes American Utopia' is currently available to stream on HBO Max and Hulu / HBO Max and for rent and to buy on Apple TV. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 45min. It has a very high rating on IMDb: 8.2 stars out of 10. A Credible Utopia: Essays on Selected Films of Werner Schroeter offers unique and personal insights into Schroeter’s cinematic universe. 'David Byrnes American Utopia' music and documentary movie produced in USA and released in 2020. ![]()
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