ChCh had quite a good arthouse movie scene back in the day. Alice was a great wee niche with lots of foreign muck films. An oasis in a sea of dross Hollywood.
Not really Alice but I saw this in ChCh at one of the feelum festivals back then:
I liked that film back then when I saw it too - stylish but a pretty sick ending.
I enjoyed his previous two films, "Diva" and "Moon in the Gutter" too.
"Diva" has one of the best soundtracks of all time I think (I like the punk who goes around saying "I hate Beethoven" and smashing his busts whenever possible).
All still available to hire at "Alice's"
Back onto football, where else can you hire a film like this:
| The Goalkeeper's Fear Of The Penalty(1971) |  |
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| Wim Wenders. |
"A haunting portrait of alienation, following a professional soccer goalie (Arthur Brauss) who abandons his team and sets out on an odyssey. Stunningly directed, a film you will not soon forget."
"A goalkeeper is sent off during a game for committing a foul. He spends the night with a cinema cashier, whom he afterwards kills. Although a type of detective film, it is more slow moving and contemplative than other films of the genre. It explores the monotony of the murderer's existence and, like many of Wenders' films, the overwhelming cultural influence of America in post-war West Germany."
Them goalies, eh?
"Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty" opening sequence on You Tube:
Man, that goalie was having a bad day...
Better luck for the Phoenix lads tomorrow night, lets hope...
By posting this ultimate nightmare film sequence of all time involving a footballer character, I hope to remove any jinx on the Phoenix tomorrow.
"Viel Glück! Viel Erfolg! Ich wünsche Ihnen Gesundheit und Freude! Die besten Wünsche für die Zukunft!"
